BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//About - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.winona.edu/about X-WR-CALDESC:Events for About REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250327T200000 DTSTAMP:20250905T142642Z CREATED:20250304T171042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250905T142642Z UID:10000742-1743102000-1743105600@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:"Where Rivers Part" Book Talk with Author Kao Kalia Yang DESCRIPTION:On March 27\, spend the evening with Kao Kalia Yang\, author of the recently published “Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life.” Yang will deliver a keynote and read from her book\, as part of the John S. Lucas Great River Reading Series. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by WSU’s departments of English; Global Studies & World Languages; Music; Social Work; and Women\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies. This event is also sponsored by WSU’s Office of Equity & Inclusive Excellence and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. \n\n\n\n Learn More about the Great River Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer\, filmmaker\, and teacher. \n\n\n\nHer work crosses audiences and genres and has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and has garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. She was also named the Minnesota Tribune Artist of the Year in 2024. \n\n\n\nKalia was born in the refugee camps of Thailand to a family that escaped the genocide of the Secret War in Laos. She came to America at the age of 6\, and her first book\, “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\,” reflects upon this move. A review by Publishers Weekly praises Kalia\, “Yang tells her family’s story with grace; she narrates their struggles\, beautifully weaving in Hmong folklore and culture.” “The Latehomecomer” was the winner of 2 Minnesota Book Awards\, a finalist for the PEN USA Award\, and earned a NEA Big Read title. It is the first Hmong-authored book to gain national distribution from a literary press. \n\n\n\nKalia is the author of “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father\,” which won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award\, and it was a finalist for the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, and the PEN USA Award. Commissioned by the Minnesota Opera\, Kalia was also a librettist for The Song Poet Opera. \n\n\n\nShe is also the author of “Somewhere in the Unknown World\,” and her latest\, “Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life.” \n\n\n\nKalia is the author of the children’s books “A Map into the World\,” “The Most Beautiful Thing\,” “The Shared Room\,” “Yang Warriors\,” “From the Tops of the Trees\,” and “The Rock in My Throat\,” which center around Hmong children who live in our world\, who dream and hurt and hope in it. \n\n\n\nLastly\, she is the co-editor of a ground-breaking collection titled “What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color.” For her work\, Kalia has been the recipient of McKnight\, Soros\, and Guggenheim Fellowships. \n\n\n\nWhen she’s not in front of an audience inspiring social change and awareness\, Kalia raises twin sons that keep her and her husband busy at their home in Minneapolis. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/where-rivers-part-book-talk-with-author-kao-kalia-yang/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Events & Traditions,Speakers & Educational Series,Student Life ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/Kao-Kalia-Yang-feature-horizontal.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ann-Marie Dunbar":MAILTO:adunbar@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250327T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250327T153000 DTSTAMP:20250304T171909Z CREATED:20250304T171710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T171909Z UID:10000743-1743085800-1743089400@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:Discussion Panel on Collaboration & Community with Author Kao Kalia Yang DESCRIPTION:On March 27\, join guest author Kao Kalia Yang for a moderated panel discussion on collaboration and community. This conversation will focus on artistic collaboration as a means of fostering community. \n\n\n\nShe will be joined by WSU faculty and representatives of area arts organizations. \n\n\n\n Learn More about Kao Kalia Yang\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/discussion-panel-on-collaboration-community-with-author-kao-kalia-yang/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Speakers & Educational Series,Student Life ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/11/WSU-students-attending-presentation-feature-2020-02-24.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Ann-Marie Dunbar":MAILTO:adunbar@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250318T210000 DTSTAMP:20250206T160116Z CREATED:20250206T160115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250206T160116Z UID:10000556-1742324400-1742331600@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:"Roll Red Roll" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:On March 18\, join us for a screening of “Roll Red Roll\,” a film that engages some of the same critical questions as this year’s Common Book “Why We Act.” \n\n\n\nThis film explores a high school and town that failed to act when members of the football team committed sexual assault. \n\n\n\n Learn More about “Roll Red Roll”\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/roll-red-roll-film-screening/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Common Book,Speakers & Educational Series,Student Life,Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/12/WSU-empty-auditorium-chairs-feature-2016-03-30.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Higl":MAILTO:ahigl@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250226T190000 DTSTAMP:20250905T142728Z CREATED:20250213T204453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250905T142728Z UID:10000565-1740592800-1740596400@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:"Disability Aesthetics\, Digital Art & Generative AI" Presentation by Dr. Talan Memmott DESCRIPTION:On Feb. 26\, join us for Dr. Talan Memmott’s presentation\, “Cripistemology and Creative Practice: Disability Aesthetics\, Digital Art\, and Generative AI.” \n\n\n\nDr. Memmott’s presentation will showcase “Introducing Lary”—an ongoing AI project that explores the re-invention of the self following life-changing cancer surgery and treatment. \n\n\n\nThis talk also profiles Dr. Memmott’s experience with a laryngeal cancer diagnosis and the medical interventions that follow. \n\n\n\nUsing a variety of AI platforms for video and image production as well as journal entries and medical reports as text prompts\, the resulting work is a set of distinctive media that range\, in Dr. Memmott’s words\, “from the mythic to the horrific; the historical to the speculative.” \n\n\n\nThis presentation is through the Consortium for Liberal Arts & Sciences Promotion (CLASP) series. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome to attend in person\, and there is a Zoom room available (no password required). \n\n\n\n Join Zoom Room\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/disability-aesthetics-digital-art-generative-ai-presentation-by-dr-talan-memmott/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Events & Traditions,Mass Communication Department,Speakers & Educational Series,Student Life ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/11/WSU-students-attending-presentation-feature-2020-02-24.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Adam Gaffey":MAILTO:agaffey@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241209T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241209T193000 DTSTAMP:20250105T224907Z CREATED:20250105T224906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250105T224907Z UID:10000289-1733769000-1733772600@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:Introductory Filmmaking Mini-Documentary Screening DESCRIPTION:Check out an end-of-semester exhibition from FILM 250: Introductory Filmmaking on Dec. 9. \n\n\n\nStudents will screen 3 collaborative mini-documentaries and their individual film genre trailers\, followed by a Q&A session. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/introductory-filmmaking-mini-documentary-screening/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,English Department ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/12/WSU-empty-auditorium-chairs-feature-2016-03-30.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Danielle Schwartz":MAILTO:danielle.schwartz@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T200000 DTSTAMP:20250108T214303Z CREATED:20241231T155647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T214303Z UID:10000298-1729191600-1729195200@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:Common Book Author Keynote DESCRIPTION:On Oct. 17\, Winona State University welcomes “Why We Act” author Catherine Sanderson to campus through the Common Book. \n\n\n\nEntering the final days before the 2024 election\, along with news reports of bullying online and bystanders in all sorts of situations not acting\, Sanderson’s book proves to be especially timely. \n\n\n\nThe Harvard University Press blurb raises the critical question the book seeks to answer: “Why do so few of us intervene when we’re needed—and what would it take to make us step up?” \n\n\n\n Learn More about This Year’s Common Book\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/common-book-author-keynote/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Common Book,Speakers & Educational Series,Student Life ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/WSU_Student-Bookstore-2019-01-24_123849.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Higl":MAILTO:ahigl@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241010T180000 DTSTAMP:20241231T151611Z CREATED:20241231T151610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241231T151611Z UID:10000101-1728579600-1728583200@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:"Journey from Chemistry Major to Software Company President" Alumni Spotlight DESCRIPTION:On Oct. 10\, join us in SLC 120 to learn how Dr. Larry Elvebak ’87 took advantage of his WSU Chemistry major and Computer Science minor to become the president of two companies that provide software solutions for drug discovery and FDA-regulated biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. \n\n\n\nIn 1994\, he earned his PhD in Biological Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral work focused on carbohydrate structural analysis and involved an equal mix of analytical and synthetic chemistry. \n\n\n\n\n\n Learn More about WSU’s Chemistry Program\n\n\n\n\n\n Learn More about WSU’s Computer Science Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/journey-from-chemistry-major-to-software-company-president-alumni-spotlight/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,College of Science & Engineering,Colleges ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/11/WSU-student-chemistry-beakers-feature-2019-02-01.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Blandine Berthelot":MAILTO:bberthelot@winona.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240924T200000 DTSTAMP:20241230T222220Z CREATED:20241230T222219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T222220Z UID:10000277-1727200800-1727208000@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:"Preconceived" Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free film Screening of “Preconceived” with Gender Justice\, followed by a discussion of actions to take for reproductive justice. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/preconceived-film-screening/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Arts & Entertainment,College of Liberal Arts,Colleges,Student Life,Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/12/WSU-empty-auditorium-chairs-feature-2016-03-30.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240917T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240917T190000 DTSTAMP:20250108T213451Z CREATED:20241230T210659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T213451Z UID:10000266-1726596000-1726599600@www.winona.edu SUMMARY:Pre-Professional Healthcare Panel DESCRIPTION:On Sept. 17\, connect with professionals as they share their educational and career journeys in medicine\, pharmacology\, research\, and veterinary medicine. \n\n\n\nAn open reception with refreshments will follow the 60-minute panel. Students are encouraged to speak with the panelists and pre-professional advisors who attend. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all WSU students–whether you plan to pursue advanced degrees in medicine\, want to explore careers in health care\, or are just curious to hear what the panelists share. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by WSU Career Services\, WSU Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club\, WSU Pre-Medical Club\, WSU Pre-Dental Club\, and WSU Pre-Physicians Assistant Club. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\n\n\nContact URL:https://www.winona.edu/about/event/pre-professional-healthcare-panel/ LOCATION:SLC 120\, 400 Winona St\, Winona\, MN\, 55987\, United States CATEGORIES:Academics,Career Services,Clubs & Activities,Clubs & Organizations,College of Nursing & Health Sciences,College of Science & Engineering,Colleges,Student Life,Support & Services,Warrior Success Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.winona.edu/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/11/WSU-student-athletic-trainer-athlete-feature-2016-11-02.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="DeAnna Goddard":MAILTO:dgoddard@winona.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR