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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.
Poster showing a colorful street in San Juan, Puerto Rico with palm trees and flowers framing a view of the ocean. Overlaid text reads: “ASA 2025: Late Stage Empire. University of Minnesota American Studies. 11.22.2025 San Juan, Puerto Rico.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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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!

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Group photo of five people standing and smiling in front of a soft blue backdrop. Two people are in the front row, three in the back. They are casually dressed and are smiling.
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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...
Promotional flyer for a University of Minnesota summer course titled “AMST 3214: Queer Kinship: undoing the american family,” taught by Khoi Nguyen. The flyer highlights the course as an 8-week online asynchronous class running from June 9 to August 1, 2025. It fulfills requirements in “Diversity and Social Justice in the U.S.” and “Arts/Humanities.” The flyer features an illustration of a suburban house with a rainbow pride flag draped over a mailbox, and a quote: “How is the American family always already queer?” A QR code is shown with the prompt “Scan to Register Today!”
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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
Title page of a book chapter titled "Reimagining Ethnographic Research for Collective Access Through (Crip) Collaboration" by Erin L. Durban and Miranda Joseph. Two people sit on a couch in a cozy living room, smiling and talking. One is lying down under a blanket, and the other sits beside them with a hand on their legs. Two copies of the book The Disabled Anthropologist, edited by Sumi Colligan and Anna Jaysane-Darr, featuring a colorful abstract cover with stylized faces and speech bubbles filled with symbols. A Zoom call on a laptop shows two people smiling at each other.
April 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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2025 David Noble Lecture:
📅: April 3, 2025
⏰: 4:00pm-5:30pm
📍: Best Buy Theater, Northrop & Zoom

Learn more: z.umn.edu/Noble2025
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March 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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In anticipation of this year's Noble Lecture on April 3 with Dr. Mejdulene Shomali, we want to amplify some of the main concepts from her book, *Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives* (@dukepress.bsky.social , 2023).

Register here: z.umn.edu/Mejdulene-Sh...
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March 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Dr. Mejdulene Shomali (Williams College) will deliver the 2025 David Noble Lecture entitled, "Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance."

🗓️: April 3, 2025
⏰: 4:00pm-5:30pm
📍: Best Buy Theater (Northrop) & Zoom

More info: z.umn.edu/Noble2025
The event poster has a light cream-colored background, with large black and maroon text at the top that reads "Department of American Studies / 2025 David Noble Lecture / Dr. Mejdulene Shomali." On the left side in dark maroon text, there is the lecture title "Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance," followed by the lecture abstract. There is a box with date & time info (April 3, 2025; 4:00pm-5:30pm; Best Buy Theater & Zoom; register: z.umn.edu/Noble2025). On the right side, there is a black and white portrait of a smiling person with curly hair, wearing patterned glasses, a ribbed long-sleeve top, and a necklace. Underneath her portrait is a short bio of her work. Near the bottom of the poster, there is text that reads "For disability accommodations, please contact Tamara Hageman (hageman@umn.edu)." At the bottom of the poster, there are logos for co-sponsoring groups.
February 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM