Carleton students are invited to attend the University of Minnesota’s IAS Thursdays presentation series this fall semester at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study. These talks are all free and open to the public and happen most Thursday afternoons at 3:30, usually in Northrop Auditorium. The next talk will be:
With Nancy Gertner, Harvard Law, Retired Federal Judge and Lecia Brooks, Outreach Director, Southern Poverty Law Center, in conversation with Elaine Tyler May, History, UMNThis panel discussion will bring Gertner and Brooks into a moderated conversation to discuss issues of race and justice in America. The two will discuss the roles of the justice system and advocacy, and why the history of the late 1960s is so relevant to issues of violence and race today. The audience will be invited to participate in the conversation with these two distinguished speakers, to address the fraught topic of race and justice in America.
Students are encouraged to check out their calendar which the whole roster of IAS Thursdays and other events.