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Engaged Reading, a collaborative series at the University of Kansas that offers a platform for idea exchange across experiences and knowledge, will resume Sept. 11. Each session features conversation facilitators whose KU research and work spans academic disciplines and broader systems of knowledge.
Educate & Act at the University of Kansas returns in its sixth year to host discussions with scholars, practitioners, students and the community about topics relevant to current events and active engagement with governing systems.
The Commons at the University of Kansas will host nonfiction writer Margaret Renkl for the Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture in conversation with Megan Kaminski, poet and professor of environmental studies, on Nov. 3. A second event that day will offer attendees a chance to visit Akin Prairie with Renkl, Kaminski and area land stewards.
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Author Margaret Renkl to give fall 2025 Spencer Lecture
The Commons at the University of Kansas will host nonfiction writer Margaret Renkl for the Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture in conversation with Megan Kaminski, poet and professor of environmental studies, on Nov. 3. A second event that day will offer attendees a chance to visit Akin Prairie with Renkl, Kaminski and area land stewards.
Engaged Reading series opens with ‘On Freedom’ on Sept. 11
Engaged Reading, a collaborative series at the University of Kansas that offers a platform for idea exchange across experiences and knowledge, will resume Sept. 11. Each session features conversation facilitators whose KU research and work spans academic disciplines and broader systems of knowledge.
Educate & Act series will address journalistic accountability, voting rights, role of higher education in democracy
Educate & Act at the University of Kansas returns in its sixth year to host discussions with scholars, practitioners, students and the community about topics relevant to current events and active engagement with governing systems.
Award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya, creator of ‘Coded Bias’ and ‘TikTok, Boom,’ to offer virtual event
The Commons and the Institute for Information Sciences (I2s) will host a virtual talk April 30 by filmmaker Shalini Kantayya as a keynote talk in the Navigating Our Worlds Series. This event is presented in collaboration with University Honors Program and its Common Cause initiative.