BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Â鶹ÊÓƵ//College Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:/calendar/export/ical?categories[0]=lectur e X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC UID:46422-74963@gustavus.edu DTSTAMP:20250503T080256Z SUMMARY:Poetry Reading by Sarah Ghazal Ali DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading by Sarah Ghazal Ali.\nSarah Ghazal Ali is a Pa kistani American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Theoph anies (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award an d a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Minnesota Book Award. She has been awarded The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize\, and her poems have been published in journals and outlets such as The American Poetry Review \, The Kenyon Review\, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day seri es. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow\, Sarah is the poetry editor for West B ranch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She liv es and teaches in Saint Paul\, Minnesota.\nhttps://www.sarahgali.com/ LOCATION:Melva Lind Interpretive Center\, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Arboretum CATEGORIES:lecture URL:/calendar/poetry-reading-by-sarah-ghazal-ali ORGANIZER;CN=Matt Rasmussen ’98:MAILTO:mrasmuss@gustavus.edu CONTACT:Matt Rasmussen ’98\, mrasmuss@gustavus.edu\, 507-933-6052 CREATED:20250225T170422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T183526Z STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:5 DTSTART:20250415T000000Z DTEND:20250415T010000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC UID:46516-75386@gustavus.edu DTSTAMP:20250503T080256Z SUMMARY:History of Statistics in the British Isles DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, April 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Olin 103\, Dr. Tyler Geor ge of Cornell College in Iowa will give a talk on the development of modern statistics and a study abroad course in the British Isles that he has deve loped to immerse students in this. This talk will examine the history of st atistics and the people\, places\, and events that motivated the creation o f modern statistics such as government taxation and beer making. A receptio n will follow Dr. George's talk. LOCATION:Olin 103 CATEGORIES:lecture URL:/calendar/history-of-statistics-in-the-british-isle s ORGANIZER;CN=Laura Hildreth:MAILTO:lhildreth@gustavus.edu CONTACT:Laura Hildreth\, lhildreth@gustavus.edu\, 507-933-7481 CREATED:20250404T200606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250404T223129Z STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:5 DTSTART:20250415T203000Z DTEND:20250415T213000Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC UID:46530-75408@gustavus.edu DTSTAMP:20250503T080256Z SUMMARY:"Placing S. M. Swenson and Swedish-Texans in the Plantationocene\," a public lecture by Dr. Lucia Hodgson of Uppsala University in Sweden DESCRIPTION:This paper relocates the study of Swedes who migrated to Texas in the nineteenth century from the familiar scholarly terrain of immigratio n to the Plantationocene. The Plantationocene is a conceptual analytic that allows us to see how plantations have been central to the transatlantic sl ave trade and American chattel slavery\, Indigenous dispossession and genoc ide\, racial capitalism\, and white heteropatriarchy. Placing S. M. Swenson \, the first known Swedish settler colonist in Texas\, and the hundreds of Swedes who followed him in the Plantationocene focuses attention on how the y built their prosperity on Indigenous land appropriation and enslavement o f African-Americans. Drawing on archival materials held in the Briscoe Cent er for American History and the Swedish Emigrant Institute\, I argue that p lantation ownership and management enabled Swenson and other male Swedish-T exans to fashion identities as elite white Texans and Americans and to esta blish their own state and national belonging. In Swenson's correspondence\, we can see how he fashions himself as a citizen of the new country who can confidently tell its history and describe its geography\, agriculture\, in habitants and prospects from the position of one who unquestionably belongs . His correspondence\, I argue\, is written in the generic tradition of wha t Jennifer Greeson terms plantation literature which originated in the late sixteenth-century to attract potential investors and settlers to English c olonial projects in North America. These letters and travel narratives expl ained and justified plantation projects characterized by dispossession of I ndigenous land and enslavement of African people and thus preceded\, necess itated\, and instigated an Enlightenment discourse of individual property r ights and racial difference. The cultural history of Swenson and his fellow Swedes provides a case study for how the racial projects of slavery and di spossession came together in the plantation and through it consolidated whi te male identity in the Republic of Texas.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1 DkbtY6ETKQ6EBm2jmjFgclF0EXjrhzF8/view?usp=drivesdk LOCATION:Confer Hall Room 128 CATEGORIES:lecture URL:/calendar/placing-s-m-swenson-and-swedishtexans-in- the-plantationocene-a-public-lecture-by-dr-lucia-hodgson-of-uppsala-univers ity-in-sweden ORGANIZER;CN=Ursula Lindqvist:MAILTO:ulindqvi@gustavus.edu CONTACT:Ursula Lindqvist\, ulindqvi@gustavus.edu\, 507-933-7422 CREATED:20250423T151935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T151939Z STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:7 DTSTART:20250424T000000Z DTEND:20250424T013000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR