Livingston Lord Library is offering trial access to Kanopy a website of streaming academic documentaries and films. Films included here are produced by firms such as PBS, Green Planet, Media Education Foundation, Kino Lorber, California Newsreel, and more. This trial runs until December 7th, 2014. Keep tabs on all current library database trials at the library’s online Database List.
Film Professor, Filmmaker is MSUM’s 11th CASE Professor of the Year View an interview with Kyja here. The art of filmmaking balances the big picture against the small picture details, said Minnesota State University Moorhead film studies Professor Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson. That harmony is also central to the teaching and learning process, a balance Kristjansson-Nelson manages with sharp perspective and fluid […]
By Grace Lyden on Nov 19, 2014 at 11:47 p.m. MOORHEAD, Minn. – A film professor at Minnesota State University Moorhead became the school’s 11th Minnesota Professor of the Year on Thursday. Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, 35, has been on MSUM’s faculty since 2006 and will receive the award today in Washington, D.C. The Professors of the Year program recognizes excellence in […]
Kandace Creel Falcón, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies presented her research at the National Women’s Studies Association meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico November 13-16. She presented a paper titled, “Railway Visions and Chicana Lives: Realizing the Chicana Feminist Interdisciplinary Archive.” Her work was one of over 500 presentations at the largest attended NWSA conference with over 1500 attendees.
Season of Light explores the reasons humans are so fascinated with lighting up our lives during the December holiday season. It’s an exploration of the astronomical meanings behind seasonal traditions, including the “Star over Bethlehem.” December 4-22: Thursdays at 7 p.m.; Saturdays at 7 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Mondays at 7 p.m. MSUM Planetarium-Bridges 167 mnstate.edu/planetarium