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Learning From the Past, Fighting for the Future: Tom O’Connell Talks With Shannon Smith, Doug Rossinow, and Jeff Kolnick
December 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST
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The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the final monthly conversation of 2020.
Monday, December 28, 2020, 7pm
This event will premiere on ESFL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Throughout 2020, activist scholar Tom O’Connell has anchored conversations which have sought to envision and shape the future through engagement with the past. These conversations are archived on ESFL’s YouTube channel and we encourage you to revisit them. Now, at the end of this turbulent year, Tom convenes a conversation with three Minnesota-based historians, all of whom use their training and research as ways to guide us through the challenges of the present, with an eye towards a better future.
Shannon Smith is an Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at the College of St. Benedict’s and the College of St. John’s. Her research has focused on the use of military and police organizations to quell rebellions and uprisings. This past summer, Shannon contributed to public discussions of grassroots protests’ challenges to monuments and entrenched power.
Doug Rossinow is a Professor of History at Metropolitan State University and the Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Doug’s research has focused on social movements and political thought, especially the complex roles played by religious ideologies. He recently edited a collection entitled The Religious Left in Modern America.
Jeff Kolnick is a Professor of History at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. His research has focused on social and political movements, from Populist farmers in late 19th century Minnesota to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Jeff helped to found the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi, and he has been a contributor to such Minnesota publications as MinnPost, Minnesota Reformer, and MNOpedia. He has been a leader in the Inter Faculty Organization, the union of Minnesota state university professors.
Join Tom and his panelists as they offer historical perspectives on this past year and encourage us to think about our path to a more just and equitable future in 2021 and beyond.
Free and open to all