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SUMMARY:First Fridays March 2026
DESCRIPTION:Share this article:\nShare on X (Twitter)\nShare on Facebook\nShare on LinkedIn\nShare on EmailFirst Fridays: Sensory Experiences\nJoin us for the 2025-2026 season of First Fridays as we explore the things you can see\, hear\, touch\, taste\, or smell in Archives and Special Collections. This March program in the First Fridays season features presentations by Ellen Engseth\, Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA); Marguerite Ragnow\, Curator\, James Ford Bell Library and Special Collections and Rare Books\, and Anne Good; Assistant Curator\, James Ford Bell Library. \nLight lunch at 11:30 a.m. Presentations begin at noon. A tour of the archival caverns will take place after the event concludes. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events. \nRegister now\nIHRCA + Art\nPresented by Ellen Engseth\, Curator\, Immigration History Research Center Archives\, with special guests\nExplore art in the immigration archives\, including recent work by local Latinx photographers\, and hear from the artists as they share about their work and inspiration. \nInstructions on Taste and Smell: Sensory Experience in the Premodern World\nPresented by Marguerite Ragnow\, Curator\, James Ford Bell Library/Special Collections and Rare Books\, and Anne Good\, Assistant Curator\, James Ford Bell Library\nExotic pineapples that smell like strawberries that taste like wine that mean hospitality and abundance – how did the experience of tasting and smelling intertwine and create meaning in the early modern world? This presentation will draw on travel narratives\, recipes books\, and merchant accounts\, to consider ways that paying attention to the senses enriches our understanding of the past. \n \nAbout the First Fridays series\nFirst Fridays is a series of intellectually stimulating conversations from the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. First Fridays is made possible by a generous gift from Governor Elmer L. Andersen and Mrs. Eleanor Andersen in honor of former University Librarian Dr. Edward B. Stanford. \nEvent details\nWhat: First Fridays: IHRCA + Art and Instructions on Taste and Smell: Sensory Experience in the Premodern World\nWhen: Friday\, March 6\, 2025 | Lunch at 11:30 a.m. | Presentations begin at noon\nWhere: Elmer L. Andersen Library\, room 120 and ONLINE | Parking and directions
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LOCATION:Elmer L. Andersen Library\, Room 120\, 222 21st Ave. S.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55455\, United States
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