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Re-located mostly to Zoom, with a few in-person events here and there, the Fall 2020 Kinder Institute events calendar is now live. Use the link below to download a copy. Fall 2020 KICD Events Calendar For all Friday Zoom Colloquia, email Allison Smythe, SmytheA@missouri.edu, the week of the talk for a link to participate.

On Monday, June 29, 2020, the Kinder Institute announced that MU alumna Jean Becker, formerly chief of staff for George H. W. Bush, will join the KICD Advisory Board, effective July 1. Read on here for the full press release detailing Monday’s announcement.

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population. In this pathbreaking account, Billy Coleman uses the history of American music to illuminate the relationship between elite power and the people from the early national period to the Civil War. […]

A wholesale scrapping of all spring events being a fully unsatisfactory prospect, we’ve decided to join the Zoom movement (Zoovement?) and re-locate as many talks as possible to the virtual realm. We’ll be back online starting on June 5, after taking a brief post-semester hiatus to re-group, but for now, you can catch up on […]

In providing a preview of what will be the lead chapter in the forthcoming MU Press/Studies in Constitutional Democracy monograph re-visiting the Missouri Crisis at 200, Penn State University-New Kensington Prof. John Craig Hammond, who will edit that volume along with Kinder Institute Associate Director Jeff Pasley, highlighted how little is actually known about the […]

We are thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Thomas Kane was named a finalist for the 2020 Mick Deaver Memorial Award for Student Relations Excellence! The Mick Deaver award seeks “to honor a staff member who exemplifies Mick Deaver’s concern for fostering good relations with students.” Since he joined the Kinder Institute on […]