Events
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will finish our reading of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. Even if you haven't read any of this book, it is easy…
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Philosophy Study Group (Session 1)
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will be reading chapter 8 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper. This chapter goes into the details of his attempts to define what is meant by…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF members welcome!
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Philosophy Study Group (session 2)
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will be reading chapter 8 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper. This chapter goes into the details of his attempts to define what is meant by…
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From Winnipeg to New Orleans: the route of the Jefferson Highway in Minnesota.
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419Carol Ahlgren is both an architectural historian and historian in the Twin Cities. She received a 2017 Legacy Fellowship from the Minnesota Historical Society to study the highway's history and…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will finish our reading of The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper. Note that there is only one session this time. And while any topic from the book on philosophy…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF members welcome
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe are beginning a new book. Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations (2017) by John Avlon is more than a book about Washington's farewell address. It is a book…
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“Minnesota History Whatever” Conference
American Swedish Institute 2600 Park Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407Another "Whatever" coming your way! Co-sponsored by the American Swedish Institute, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Minnesota Independent Scholars’ Forum Post on Facebook ideas, suggestions what you’d like to…
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The Weight of Silence: Unwed Mothers at the Salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital in Midcentury Minnesota (or, History, My Mother, and Me)
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419In February 1959, the Minneapolis Morning Tribune published a series of articles about the ailing American family, pointing to the “crisis of the unwed mother” as a factor in the…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisOur new book is Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017) by Max Tegmark. This book can be purchased new for around $16 in paperback and for about…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF members welcome
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will finish the book Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations by John Avlon. This book goes into the details of Washington's socio-political views and how his life experiences…
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Minnesota Muslims-Up Close
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419Muslims have been part of Minnesota since the 19th Century so why are we just noticing them now? Examine the diversity and the unity of the Muslim experience in the…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will read chapters 3 and 4 of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. For this meeting we are going to try something different. In…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF Members welcome!
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will be starting the book God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (2005) by Adam Nicolson. This book is available new in paperback or as an ebook for around…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in Minneapolis(Note the Thursday meeting this time.) We are still working on our book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. We will continue our examination of the…
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Annual Virginia Hansen Poetry Day
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419The annual Virginia Hansen poetry day at MISF will begin with a brief introduction on the use of metaphor by poet and teaching artist, Evelyn Klein. It will be followed…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will finish our book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. The last chapters include analyses of goals and consciousness and their relation to artificial…
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Board Meeting
Merriam Park Library, M1831 Marshall Ave, St Paul, MN 55104 (Meeting Room B in basement)MISF Members Welcome!
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will have our concluding session on God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson. This will be considered the making of the discussion of the making of…
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Connections and Corrections: Women in the Criminal Justice System and their Families
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419This presentation is a review of a qualitative study of eighteen women who were in a women’s residential correctional facility. Bowen family systems theory was used as the theoretical base…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe are starting a new book, Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery (2013), by Rupert Sheldrake. This book was originally published in Great Britain in 2012 under the title, The Science…
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Women of Mystery and History
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404Docent Bob Brusic will lead a tour of a dozen or so paintings featuring women, either as subject or artist, in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The tour will begin…
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will start reading Midnight's Furies: the Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (2015) by Nisid Hajari. This book, selected as one of the books of the year by NPR, is available in…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will discuss chapters 4 – 8 of the book, Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake had no defenders in our first session on this book,…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF Members Welcome!
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will conclude our book Midnight's Furies: the Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (2015) by Nisid Hajari. We assure you that there will be no partitioning done at this meeting ...unless, of…
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Annual MISF Picnic in the Park
Cherokee Park Picnic Shelter Chippewa and Winona Streets, St. Paul, MNWe meet at Cherokee Park along the Mississippi River at the small shelter. Bring a dish to share. Help us celebrate summer by socializing and getting to know fellow MISF…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will conclude our discussion of Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake is known for his theory of morphic resonance, which some consider a pseudo-science in…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF Members Welcome!
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisThe book we will start discussing next is 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (2006) by Roger Crowley. This book can be had in…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul on 24 September 1896. Although his family left for Buffalo, New York, before his second birthday, he returned to St. Paul in…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will be starting a new book for this meeting: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (2016) by Peter Singer. This book can be purchased in…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe are reading the book Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer. This is the sort of book you can jump around in, so…
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe are going to finish reading 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley. While we don't expect a war that could be…
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Board Meeting
Highland Park Library, 1974 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116MISF members welcome!
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The Theatrical Experience
Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419Distinguished Guthrie Theater actor Nathanial Fuller will lead an interactive dialogue about his experience as a performing artist as it relates to the experience of the audience. Theater is the shared energy between the…
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Philosophy Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will continue reading Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer. This time we will cover the sections on Animals, Politics, and Global…