NEXT TUESDAY March 3, 5-6:30pm. Kelly Lytle Hernández will discuss The Whites-Only Immigration Regime 1803 to Now. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/IHRC_Hernandez @ridgs.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social

Univ of MN students, are you studying any aspect of migration? You still have time to apply for IHRC academic year and summer fellowships. More info at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/fellows... @umnengagement.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnanth.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social

Featuring Dr. Khoi Nguyen (AMST Ph.D. '25)! Nguyen is currently the Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (@upenn.edu).

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions? Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Register: z.umn.edu/holding-our-ground #HoldingOurGroundUMN @kimtallbear.bsky.social

Call for proposals: 2026–2027 Hub Residencies ✨ The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub is seeking collaborative, community-based projects in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Residencies run July 2026–June 2027 and include up to $15,000 in support. Learn more: https://ow.ly/5PTk50YckST

Great story about IHRC Director Llana Barber's upcoming edited volume Dark Waters: Centering Black Experiences in US Immigration History. @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social

🎧 "We talk about resistance or resilience; what does that actually look like?" Jessica Lopez Lyman, author of Place-Keepers, with Kristie Soares and Karmen Chávez on the Press podcast. share.transistor.fm/s/97747e66

Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.

Dr. Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University) will deliver the 2026 David Noble Lecture, entitled "Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties." 🗓️: April 9, 2026 ⏰: 6:00pm-7:30pm 📍: Cowles Auditorium (Humphrey School) & Zoom More info: z.umn.edu/auntologies

We're glad to again co-sponsor this annual touring festival of restorations and archival films from Il Cinema Ritrovato, the international fest in Bologna, Italy. Feb 12-15 at the Main Cinema and Walker Art Center:

A not-to-be-missed event featuring AMST alum Dr. Hana Maruyama (Ph.D. '21), with moderation from Dr. David Aiona Chang (UMN History and American Indian Studies). Register here!: umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us for an online discussion of Intersections in Indigenous and Immigration Histories Monday, Feb 23 at 4pm Central. Co-sponsored by the Dept. of American Indian Studies. More info and rsvp: z.umn.edu/IHRCIntersections @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social

“This is about continuity. It’s about linking generations, honoring those who came before us while inspiring the next generation to see themselves as part of a living history” Curator Davu Seru on the U's Givens Collection of African American Literature, celebrating its 40th anniversary

Our community is in peril. Our neighbors need our help in this time of ICE presence and subzero temperatures. Mpls has a shortage of available shelter for residents, and our city govt has not developed adequate resources to humanely house people. Please support MIWRC in this time of emergency.

Once again, Scott Laderman gets to the heart of the matter in explaining how censorship threatens life-saving research at the University of Minnesota.

Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.

IHRC summer fellow Khoi Nguyen's article "Beyond Kinh(ship): The Making of Vietnamese Settler Refugeeism Through Land and Dispossession" was published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Congrats Khoi! @migrationcollab.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social escholarship.org/uc/item/0fs7...

We invite you to join UMN at this year’s ASA conference to celebrate a year of accomplishments and collaborations at our reception on Saturday, November 22, at 6:30 pm. 📅: Saturday, November 22 🕑: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 📍: Terrace & Ballroom Lobby, Puerto Rico Convention Center All are welcome.

This Saturday, Prof Emeritus John Wright and Curator of the Givens Collection Davu Underwood Seru will discuss their paths as interdisciplinary scholars working in academia and in off-campus communities--and within the broader Black Studies tradition:

Join us and the Katherine Nash Gallery for Becoming SotaRicans, a conversation with Puerto Rican community leaders discussing their contributions to the arts and culture of MN. Oct. 8 from 4-6 in Pillsbury Hall. More info at events.tc.umn.edu/event/24867-...

Join us Wed. Oct 1 for a discussion of Vichet Chhuon's new book Cambodian American Youth, Identity and Schooling with remarks by Peuo Tuy More info at z.umn.edu/chhuonbookevent @umnlawschool.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social

Co-signed and co-sponsored. Next Wed hear from the co-editors of the great anthology of essays, poems, and artwork from migrants, refugees, and Dreamers:

Farm Aid and the UMN Departments of History, American Studies & Anthropology Present Collective Power in the Countryside: A Conversation With Sarah Smarsh & Sarah Vogel, Moderated by Sonja Trom Eayrs Thu, Sep 18, 5:00pm Best Buy Theater, Northrup, UMN @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

Join us for a special evening with Reyna Grande and Sonia Guinansaca Sept 24 at 6pm at Best Buy Theater, Northrop in Minneapolis. More info and registration at z.umn.edu/rosales2025 @umncla.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnenglish.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

You still have time to register for our webinar on Birthright Citizenship on Sept 17 with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @skantrow.bsky.social @cnacken1.bsky.social William Jones and Cecilia Marquez. z.umn.edu/BirthrightCitizen @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social

UMN Professor Jimmy Patino published this excellent piece drawing attention to historical parallels. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/before-aboli...

And... our final visiting writer event of this fall will be the author of There's Always This Year, Hanif Abdurraqib! (Winner of the @bookcritics.bsky.social 2025 award for criticism!) Free with registration. Join us Nov 17:

Another fall event: We're excited to bring Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, to Minneapolis October 23! Join us to hear from the MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and his latest novel The Emperor of Gladness. Free with registration: #umnproud

Join us Sept 17 for a timely webinar on Birthright Citizenship and learn from the experts @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @skantrow.bsky.social @cnacken1.bsky.social William Jones and Cecilia Marquez. Register z.umn.edu/BirthrightCitizen @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social

WHAT: 19th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival WHEN: Sept 24–28, 2025 WHERE: The Main Cinema, closing events at the Walker Art Center + special programs across the Twin Cities PASSES: Passes + 4-Packs available now at tcaff25.eventive.org Through Sep 1, passes are $10 off!

Dr. Rose Miron (Ph.D. '18) was featured on the University of Minnesota Press' podcast for her book *Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory.* Dr. Miron's book: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791271...

ACLS is pleased to announce our 2025-26 fellowship and grant competitions. We offer programs that support research across all fields of the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4lI8A3C #humanities #socialsciences #funding

ICYMI: Dr. Nick Estes (UMN American Indian Studies) interviewed Leonard Peltier in the @newyorker.com last week.

Congratulations to our Scott Hall Hub staff on receiving the CLA Outstanding Service Award (Work Group) for Academic Year 2024–25! We are grateful for the work you do to support our department! @umncla.bsky.social

We congratulate Akeem Anderson, third-year AMST PhD student, for their recent publication, "Jazzing Up the Method: Music Therapy, Past & Future," in the Graduate School's SPARK Journal. Read Akeem's publication here: sparkezine.com/2025/05/02/j...

Featuring Dr. Kale Fajardo, Dr. Melanie Abeygunawardana, Dr. Elliott Powell, Dr. Karen Ho, and Dr. Yuichiro Onishi: cla.umn.edu/asianamerica...

The AAUP has two new editorial opportunities for members who want to get more involved with our publications. Stipends are available, and the application deadline is June 1. Read more about each position below: 🧵

Cheers for English Prof Josephine Lee, recipient of Asian American Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award for her role in founding the 20-year-old program as well as for her outstanding academic career and service to the community #UMNProud More on the program's anniversary: cla.umn.edu/asianamerica...

Summer enrollment for AMST 3214: "Queer Kinship: Undoing the American Family" is still open! This online asynchronous course meets the Arts/Humanities and Race, Power, and Justice in the U.S. LEs. Course info: umtc.catalog.prod.coursedog.com/courses/8253...

Congratulations to Richard Lim, a third year American Studies PhD student, for being named a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Innovation Fellow!

A recent New York Times' article celebrating 20 years of Youtube features Adam Nyerere Bahner (M.A. '08), on Youtube as TayZonday. Read the article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

TODAY! A conversation with students at the UMN Disability Student Cultural Center.

Join us virtually this Friday, April 25 at 6:15 PM ET to hear from philosopher Judith Butler! Butler will deliver the 2025 Charles Homer Haskins Lecture, "A Life of Learning," at the #ACLS2025 Annual Meeting. Register here: eepurl.com/ja4_cY #philosophy #humanities

Professors Miranda Joseph and Erin Durban have a new publication about their interdisciplinary research project exploring racialized landownership and the UMN faculty neighborhood of University Grove in the groundbreaking anthology, The Disabled Anthropologist (Routledge). z.umn.edu/dis-anthro

Did you miss our webinar on Asian American Disability: History, Archives, Methods? Now you can watch the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2o5... @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social @jonathanhsy.bsky.social

Join the IHRC and @iehs.bsky.social for The Page Act of 1875: Rethinking its Significance 150 Years Later. Register at z.umn.edu/PageAct150 @migrationcollab.bsky.social @umn-amst.bsky.social @umnpolisci.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social

We stand by the @humanitiesall.bsky.social in their request to prevent funding cuts to this critical agency. We call on the administration and on Congress to uphold our nation’s historic commitment to these cherished values and activities in American communities. nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Next Wed: MFA alum and poet Roy Guzmán will be reading for UMN Libraries' "Celebrating Bilingual Poetry" program! Register for this hybrid event: z.umn.edu/rgg25 #NationalPoetryMonth