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February 7, 2024
“Electocracy in America” Conference Schedule Announcement
An event years in the planning, the “Electocracy in America: Elections and their Alternatives” conference will be held on March 15-16 in Columbia, with the bulk of proceedings taking place at the Kinder Institute offices in Jesse Hall. Placing political theorists in conversation with political historians, and scholars of revolutions in conversation with scholars of […]
January 23, 2024
Spring 2024 Kinder Institute Events Calendar Now Live
From Americans abroad during World War II, to old colleagues returning to Mizzou to discuss a collaboration that got started in Columbia in 2016, to a celebration of our inaugural ASH Scholars research team, use the link below to download a copy of the full Kinder Institute events calendar for the Spring 2024 semester. Spring […]
January 16, 2024
Rhian Davies Named Second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow
This summer (2024), we will welcome our second Kinder-BrANCH Fellow to the M.A. in Atlantic History & Politics. Rhian Davies is currently reading History at the University of Cardiff in the U.K. She has volunteered as a Research Assistant at the Glamorgan Archives, served as Student Rep for the Cardiff History Department and as Publicity […]
December 6, 2023
RECAP: “Beyond Jefferson,” 12/1 Colloquium w/ KICD Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide
The 1825 rendering of Monticello with which Kinder Institute Distinguished Research Fellow Christa Dierksheide began her December 1 Friday Colloquium Series presentation framed the talk both because of what it depicted and what it didn’t. A vision of pastoral 19th-century domesticity and whiteness, we see two of Jefferson’s granddaughters strolling the mansion’s front lawn while […]
December 6, 2023
RECAP: “Imagining Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Work of Words,” 11/17 Colloquium w/ UVA Prof. Lawrie Balfour
A term both inspiring and misunderstood, ‘freedom’ holds a particular place in the historical and lexical narrative of the United States, where its meaning is rooted as much in a right to enslave as it is in a defense of liberty. What would it take, UVA James Hart Professor of Politics Lawrie Balfour asked in […]
November 10, 2023
RECAP: “John Locke in America,” 10/20 Colloquium w/ University of Montana Prof. Claire Rydell Arcenas
“I’m gonna tell you everything you need to know about…local government. ‘Life, Liberty, and Property.’ John Locke.” —Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation Though not necessarily the most reliable narrator—at the very least, not the most ideologically neutral one—Ron Swanson does capture Locke’s uniquely central place in American culture and the American political imagination today. His […]