Upcoming Events
Annual Picnic
This is our annual summer picnic. MISF will provide the drinks, plasticware, and grills, and St. Paul Parks & Rec the electricity and more grills. You provide a dish to share and your best topics for good conversations.
Philosophy Study Group
We will continue our study of Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein by reading §§134-315, covering rule-making and private languages. And while we encourage our members to participate in our sessions in ways that correspond to what we’re studying, this discussion will not be done in pig latin.
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Surviving a Massacre
A massacre is the killing of several people at one time. Sometimes, these horrendous events follow civil rights movements. Why do massacres happen? What happens to the survivors? How do they recover and live with the trauma? How does a society recover from these horrendous events? In Teresa Ortiz’s presentation, she will share her experience as a survivor of a massacre when she was a young student activist, in Mexico City, in 1968. She will also talk about how in 1997 she listened to and reproduced the testimonials of the survivors of a 1997 massacre of indigenous Maya people in southern Mexico, while she was doing research for a book on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas.
Bulletin Board
New Editor needed for the MISF Journal!
Evelyn Klein, long-serving Board member and Editor of the semi-annual MISF journal, The Minnesota Scholar, is stepping back as journal Editor after nine years of volunteering, and we are sorry to see her go. Anyone having interest in filling this volunteer position (with Evelyn's help and advice), please respond via the "Contact Us" link on the left-hand column of this page.