April 27th 4pm join us for a discussion between Professor Vivian Choi and Professor Sugi Ganeshananthan about Professor Choi's book Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025). Info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
Prof V V Ganeshananthan, novelist Celeste Ng, and novelist/screenwriter Attica Locke, seated at booksigning table, all smiling
Prof V V Ganeshananthan and authors Attica Locke and Celeste Ng seated on stage at Northrop, Locke speaking and gesturing, the others looking at her. Screen behind with photo of building and live captioning
Thank you to authors @atticalocke.bsky.social and @pronounced-ing.bsky.social for the warm, insightful, and occasionally unprintable (!) conversation with Prof @sugi.bsky.social Tues night. It was a marvelous way to celebrate 25 years of the Freier Literary Series. And thanks to all who attended!
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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction Retired astronaut and novelist Chris Hadfield joins co-hosts…
April 27th 4pm join us for a discussion between Professor Vivian Choi and Professor Sugi Ganeshananthan about Professor Choi's book Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka (Duke University Press, 2025). Info cla.umn.edu/anthropology...
hugely illuminating and fun
This free talk on the 14th is going to be epic—and many many thanks to @pronounced-ing.bsky.social and @sugi.bsky.social and @atticalocke.bsky.social for doing it! And additional thanks to Ng for spilling the beans on her secret life as a true Minnesotan!
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Opinion | The U of M is ailing. If only we had a doctor.
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NEW EPISODE: Writer @motherslug.bsky.social joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to talk about her recent article for @currentaffairs.bsky.social “Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming.”
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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With English Prof @sugi.bsky.social author of the novel Brotherless Night:
I'm so excited to come talk in Minneapolis next week! See you then, @sugi.bsky.social and @atticalocke.bsky.social!
NEW EPISODE: Psychologist, behavioral geneticist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden joins co-hosts @maritza4770.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE: Author Ellie Roscher joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and @maritza4770.bsky.social to talk about her recent book, Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
lithub.com/ellie-rosche...
NEW EPISODE: Novelist Jeff Boyd joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new work of literary crime fiction, Hard Times, which is set in Chicago, where he lived previously.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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So excited to see this year's Carol Shields Prize Longlist!
Don't miss this timely episode!
I'm excited to be in conversation with the brilliant @ninamcconigley.bsky.social about her latest book, "How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder," at Plymouth Library on March 7th. Register here!
hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/69657...
NEW EPISODE: Novelist, essayist, and educator Brian Platzer joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss his new novel, The Optimists, which follows private school teacher Mr. Keating over three decades.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE: Writer and editor Yi-Ling Liu joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about state-controlled censorship and what it means to build community online despite surveillance and suppression.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE: Novelist Eleanor Shearer joins co-hosts @sugi.bsky.social and Whitney Terrell to discuss her new novel, Fireflies in Winter, about the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica—a free Black community—who came to Nova Scotia in the late 1700s.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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ICE/CBP have taken at least 3 Columbia Heights students and 25 families(it’s a small suburb) and they’re staging *in the school parking lot* www.kare11.com/article/news...
Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti
—from human rights scholars affiliated with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts.
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Honoring the Memory of Alex Pretti
—from human rights scholars affiliated with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts.
cla.umn.edu/human-rights...
“Please get the truth out about our son.”
Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.
"Two of them are high-schoolers.
"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.
For the record, the small example I chose:
My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
NEW EPISODE: Performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar Jessica Lopez Lyman @uminnpress.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to talk about Minnesota’s history with state violence and local resistance.
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin
The UMN Twin Cities AAUP calls on the university to reduce operations on Friday, January 23rd to allow members of the university community the time and space to exercise their fundamental right to free speech on a day of deep importance to our community.
www.umn-tc-aaup.org/day-of-truth...
Noticing even in work meetings that, while most people might end the meeting with "Have a good one" or "See you soon," people in Minneapolis reflexively stay, "Stay safe"
While many of you are likely yelling "GO INDIANA!" or "GO MIAMI!" I'm yelling "GO AAUP and academic freedom!"