In April of 2001 the University of Minnesota Foundation and Elizabeth S. Blake announced the establishment of a University of Minnesota Morris Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Liberal Arts. The purposes of the Visiting Professorship are: to underscore the commitment of the Morris campus of the University of Minnesota to a program of undergraduate liberal arts; to enhance the already rich intellectual life of the campus; and to increase the national and international visibility of the UMN Morris baccalaureate program.
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Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop: Notes on Pattern and Variation
Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, most recently Proceed to Check Out. He has also written memoirs, essays, and he is a translator. He has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, he has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and he is a Guggenheim fellow. He's a lively, intuitive, and engaging speaker.
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Original Local
Heid Erdrich
Author Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe/Turtle Mountain Band) presents the high and low points of her research while creating an indigenous foods book. Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, includes recipes for indigenous foods from 28 Native communities. Erdrich also included photos, documents, poems, and family stories from contributors. Her writings on her family's food traditions resulted in a trans-disciplinary hybrid form, the memoir-in-recipes.
