Jul 2021
Why I Am a Freethinker
A panel discussion presented by the Lake Superior Freethinkers. Social time begins at 9:30 a.m. Presentation at 10 a.m.
Find out more »Professional Development Series: Exploring Workplace Culture and Climate
Barb Bengtson, consulting psychologist and creator of Perception Coaching, shares strategies. This session will also explore ways to leverage the power of leadership to enhance perceptions and combat inherent biases. Attendees can find new ways to create a productive and inclusive culture. The 2021 Professional Development Series is brought to Chamber members and their employees free of charge.
Find out more »Aug 2021
Professional Development Series: Your Authentic Self at Work
What does it really mean to be authentic at work? Is there a dark side to authenticity? Will bringing more authenticity to your work help your career? Explore all these questions and more, plus uncover a few exercises that will help unpack one's own authenticity. Presented by Dawn Johnson, Senior Analyst in ALLETE’s Learning and Organization Development area and the owner of On the Rise Development, LLC.
Find out more »Sep 2021
Professional Development Series: Practical Cybersecurity for a Virtual Workforce
Presented by David J. Vosen, DCS, The College of St. Scholastica. The talk will discuss the current trends and challenges in cybersecurity and make recommendations for overcoming those challenges.
Find out more »Becoming Hearing: Understanding Your Loss, Limitations and Barriers as a Hearing Person
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium this September features faculty member Monica Marciniak, who asks: what limitations, barriers and losses have you experienced because of your hearingness? Is it hearing loss, or is it Deaf gain? The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. This free event will take place in the Library North Reading Room at The College of St. Scholastica. Join online via Zoom.
Find out more »Oct 2021
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Dewe’igan Feast
The College of St. Scholastica is recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the first time in its 110 year history. The day’s festivities include a reading of the institution’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day proclamation, an Honor Song performed by Jeremy Wilson and Brian Kingfisher, and a traditional fall Dewe’igan feast. The feast begins at 5 p.m. in the Benedictine Commons and is free and open to all members of the St. Scholastica community.
Find out more »Culture Diversity, Language and Identity
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium features faculty member Brian Kingfisher, who will give a talk and lead a Q&A. Kingfisher explores how understanding culture, language and diversity entails understanding our selves (our identity). Kingfisher teaches Ojibwe Language and Culture not only for communicative purposes, but as a means of creating awareness of the self. This free event will take place in the Library North Reading Room at the College of St. Scholastica. People…
Find out more »Nov 2021
Dialoguing with Classics: The Religious Classic in Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium for November features Dr. Kevin Vaughan examining the role of “religious classics” in Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. He will uncover the concept of a "classic" used by Francis, and explore the implications for the church’s dialogue on the environment. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. This free event will take place in the Library North…
Find out more »Feb 2022
The Pilgrim’s Way to Canterbury: Chaucer’s Audience and His Imagined Journey to Thomas Becket’s Shrine
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium features faculty member Dr. Bill Hodapp, professor of English and coordinator of medieval and Renaissance studies. Join him on a journey to the late medieval world of English pilgrimage, St. Thomas Becket, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. This event will take place in the Library North Reading Room.
Find out more »Mar 2022
Simone Weil on Suffering and Evil
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium this March features faculty member Dr. Megan Fritts. An enduring philosophical question is the “problem of evil”: if God exists, why is there evil in the world? In this talk, Megan Fritts will present the ideas of Simone Weil, who argued for two counterintuitive theses: that suffering is "to be loved," and that evil is an illusion. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. This free…
Find out more »Apr 2022
Feminism, Fatness and Fame: The Rise of Lizzo
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium this April features faculty member Kelly Mullan. CSS says that "through a lens of feminist scholarship, Mullan examines Lizzo’s message of body positivity, contrasting it with the realities that exist for fat women as a social-identity group in the United States, today."
Find out more »Sep 2022
Rob Larson: Event-Based Vocational Research
The College of St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium this September features faculty member Dr. Rob Larson. Larson shares research from a recent journey to Oviedo, Spain for the rare, public display of the Sudarium of Oviedo. He discusses research methods for purposes of vocation, and to encourage those with "impostor syndrome," or who struggle to formalize (and embrace) their own research endeavors. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. This free event will take…
Find out more »Jan 2023
Curating the Anne of Green Gables Manuscript
A digital facsimile of the manuscript of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is now launched in an exhibit curated by Dr. Emily Woster, who will share an exclusive look at the exhibit, how it was created, and what Anne's origins tell us about Montgomery and her legacy. This event takes place in the Library North Reading Room. L.M. Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables is beloved the world over. It has been translated into dozens of languages and adapted…
Find out more »Feb 2023
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Tartuffe
One event on Feb 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
One event on Feb 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm
One event on Feb 9, 2023 at 7:30 pm
One event on Feb 10, 2023 at 7:30 pm
One event on Feb 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
One event on Feb 12, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Insecure and wealthy Orgon is taken in by con man Tartuffe in this classic comedy by the masterful playwright Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur. Come along as Tartuffe moves into the household, pulls the strings on his Orgon-shaped puppet and wreaks havoc on the entire family.
Find out more »Tartuffe (ASL Interpreted Performance)
Insecure and wealthy Orgon is taken in by con man Tartuffe in this classic comedy by the masterful playwright Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur. Come along as Tartuffe moves into the household, pulls the strings on his Orgon-shaped puppet and wreaks havoc on the entire family.
Find out more »Religious Pluralism as Political Resistance
Do all religions have a common essence? Is pluralistic discourse empowering or oppressive for marginalized communities? CSS Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Andrew Taylor will explore how Tibetan Buddhist luminaries have engaged these questions by examining the political projects of Jamgön Kongtrül the Great and the present Dalai Lama. This event will take place in the Library North Reading Room.
Find out more »Apr 2023
#emBODYgram with Kelly Mullan
Kelly Mullan discusses her successfully completed doctoral dissertation research, whose qualitative analysis considered the "impact of absence" of fat bodies on social media from the perspective of young women, aged 14–18, in Duluth, MN. Mullan explores how such "absence" ensures that young women lack exposure to bodies that represent demographics seen in everyday life, thereby skewing the practice of social comparison.
Find out more »Sep 2023
Oct 2023
Diferencias
Featuring Mina Kaiser, Edward Martin and Phillip Rukavina. This program of Spanish Renaissance music features the works of Ortiz, Cabezon, Escobar, Encina (and the ubiquitous Anonymous) arranged for vihuela trio and performed with variations (or “diferencias”) created by Mina Kaiser. While none of these pieces were originally published in this particular instrumentation, the practice of arranging and performing on the vihuela works intended for other instruments was widely accepted at the time. The concert will be held in Tower Hall…
Find out more »Nov 2023
Eastern Chipmunks in the Northern Forest
Pam Freeman is visiting St. Scholastica to discuss the behavior of eastern chipmunks. She will also answer the common campus question, “What are they doing out there in the forest?” Freeman uses the friendly chipmunk system to introduce undergraduate students to research and get them hooked on science!
Find out more »Benedictine Boogie
The St. Scholastica Jazz Band and the North Shore Big Band present an evening of swing dancing in the Benedictine Commons. Instructors from North Shore Ballroom will provide lessons for the first half hour, then the dance floor will be open until 9 p.m. Come and dance the night away! Tickets are $7 for general admission and free for students pre-K to college.
Find out more »Jan 2024
Saturday Morning at the Races: St. Scholastica
The Young Athletes Foundation is again partnering with Duluth-area colleges to present three Saturday Morning at the Races events, providing opportunities for children to practice healthy living during the colder months by participating in running races. Schedule Jan. 6 – Burns Wellness Commons at the College of St. Scholastica Jan. 20 – Ward Wells Fieldhouse at the University of Minnesota Duluth Feb. 3 – Marcovich Wellness Center at the University of Wisconsin-Superior The series is free and open to all…
Find out more »Feb 2024
Cultivating Anti-Racism in Childhood
Racism influences the development of all children, including white children. In this talk, Dr. Taylor Hazelbaker will discuss what children know about race, how they learn about race at home, at school and in the media and how we can teach them to challenge racism and embrace anti-racism.
Find out more »Mar 2024
Meeting at the Crossroads: Holding Space at the Intersection of Disability and Membership in a Marginalized Group, A Qualitative Study
Sharon Obst will present a snapshot of her dissertation research on the intersection of students with disability and membership in a historically marginalized group. She will describe her researcher positionality and the needs for her research. This event is a School of Arts and Sciences Colloquium and will take place in the North Reading Room of the St. Scholastica Library.
Find out more »Apr 2024
Singing Community and Creation: The Jewish Practice of Avodat Lev
Ethnomusicologist Dr. Elyse Carter Vosen explores the sounds, spiritual purposes and social force of Avodat Lev (roughly translated as "work of the heart"). Avodat Lev is a recently-developed form of intimate, imaginative and contemplative Jewish prayer service made up of song, chant, meditation and poetry as an outgrowth of the Jewish farming movement.
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