College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota
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215 Johnston Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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CLA Events Calendar

  • Fall Commencement Ceremony

    CLA graduate at commencementThe College of Liberal Arts will honor more than 600 graduates during its fall commencement ceremonies on Sunday, December 7. Learn more

Upcoming Events

  • East Asia Seminar Series: In the Eye of the Storm: Japanese Manga in the West
    • 12/2/2008 3:30 PM
    • Location: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 120B As the interest in Japanese manga has expanded globally, along with its highly influential and innovative art and remarkable narratives, it brings an array of controversial texts and practices that have begun to challenge western notions of gender, sexuality, censorship and pornography. Recent l... more
  • Bjorn Weiler Colloquium: "Crown-giving and king-making in the Latin West, c.1000 - c.1200"
    • 12/2/2008 4:00 PM
    • Location: Nolte Center for Continuing Education, 140 Medieval Studies Colloquium with Bjorn Weiler, Aberystwyth University, "Crown-giving and king-making in the Latin West, c. 1000- c.1200."
  • Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs info session
    • 12/2/2008 5:30 PM
    • Location: Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 205 Undergraduate: Faculty, staff and current Humphrey students will provide information and answer questions about these degree programs, as well as our dual degree programs with the schools of Business, Law, Social Work, Public Health, Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering. People with interests such ... more
  • Wind Ensemble Chamber Music
    • 12/2/2008 7:30 PM
    • Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall For more information, download the concert or recital program here.
  • Global REM Seminar Series: Transnationalism and Gender Dynamics in a Minnesota Context; a lecture by Cawo Abdi
    • 12/3/2008 3:30 PM
    • Location: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 120 B and C New economic and socio-political institutions migrants encounter in their new settlements often trigger contestation in normative gender arrangements. The literature indicates that the diminished economic position for migrant men within the family might decrease their authority and that might ex... more
  • South Asia Seminar: "The Realism of the Unreal: Amar Chitra Katha"; a talk by Nandini Chandra
    • 12/3/2008 3:30 PM
    • Location: Social Sciences Building, 710 (Ford Room) Nandini Chandra is Professor of English at Delhi University.This presentation will look at Amar Chitra Katha comics' evocation of Ravi Varma style realism. Even as the comics unveil a Hindu lineage family album from Ram to Rana Pratap, they do not necessarily adhere to a strict photoreal... more

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