Benjamin Smith has been selected as the 2012-13 recipient of the Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Smith will present “The Gift of Language” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Room 103 of the MSUM library. The lecture will address the unique human ability to choose what language we use in a given context based […]
George Holley, Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, will present a lecture at the Becker County Historical Society Museum, Detroit Lakes, on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 12:00 entitled “Technological and Cultural Innovations in the Native American Past.”
By Sarah Bushman, IREX Students at Minnesota State University Moorhead got an unexpected ‘Journey to Pakistan’ this past semester, thanks to a young Pakistani woman, Zahra, who found her public voice after coming to the U.S. Though students had never before enjoyed a program hosted by an international student, Zahra quickly gained followers through what became a popular campus radio […]
Filmmaker Teresa Konechne presents her film, Woven from the Land: Women. Prairie. Culture, in Weld Hall’s Glasrud Auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9th. A panel discussion on land use, women’s experiences in rural culture, and life on the prairie follows the screening. Panelists include Anthony Adah, a faculty member in MSUM’s Film Studies Department, Kandace Creel Falcon, a faculty […]
Dr. Chizuko Shastri will deliver a talk on “The True Meaning of No and Yes (Japanese Culture),” Tuesday, March 30 at 7 p.m. in Jones Science 210 at Concordia College. Shastri will offer a view of Japanese culture as it relates to American traditions. She will address specific distinctions as they relate to group orientation, hierarchy, education, work setting and religion. It’s free and open to the public.