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Events

• Public Lecture Series

  Each year, the Kinder Institute invites distinguished scholars of America political thought and history to campus to share their insights into the philosophical foundations and current state of constitutional democracy at home and abroad with members of the MU and Columbia communities.
  

  • Oct 25
    “The Promise and Perils of Populism”: A conversation with Henry Olsen and Michael Kazin

    5:30 PM | Palmer Room (RJI 100)
  • Nov 08
    “A Nation Forged by Crisis”: Prof. Jay Sexton at the Truman Library

    6:00 PM | Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Auditorium, Independence, MO
  • Nov 13
    “The Politics of Abstraction vs. A New Localism”: Lecture with AEI’s Ryan Streeter

    5:30 PM | Jesse Hall 410

• Community Seminars

  The cornerstone of the Kinder Institute’s educational outreach programming, our community seminars provide Columbia residents with a forum for studying the evolution of democratic culture in America alongside Institute faculty and fellows. There are currently no upcoming events

• Academic Workshops

  Committed to supporting innovative research on the nation’s political history and traditions, the Kinder Institute sponsors a number of programs that bring scholars from around the region and nation to Columbia to share their work with members of the MU community.

  • Oct 19
    History Department Homecoming Colloquium with Ben Park and Steven Carl Smith

    3:30 PM | Jesse Hall 410
  • Oct 26
    “Dangerous Ground”: On 19th Century Squatters with new Postdoc John Suval

    3:30 PM | Jesse Hall 410
  • Nov 02
    “To Feed the Empire”: 11/2 MRSEAH with Kinder Institute Prof. Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt

    5:00 PM | Cafe Napoli, Clayton, MO