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How Minnesota\u27s Economy Became Above Average: Lessons from History
Get PDFThe Clemens Lecture will be given by Louis Johnston a Professor of Economics at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u27s University. The title of Professor Johnston\u27s lecture is, “How Minnesota’s Economy Became Above Average: Lessons from History.” He earned his B.S. at the University of Minnesota (1983), and his M.A. (1987) and PhD (1990) at the University of California, Berkeley (all in Economics).
Johnston specializes in macroeconomics, economic history, and the connections between economic policy and economic history. His most recent projects focus on analyzing the evolution of Minnesota’s economy and how Minnesota became “above average” since World War II.
Johnston was special contributor to the 4thand 5th editions of Principles of Economicsby Robert H. Frank and Ben S. Bernanke (McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2009, 2012), with responsibility for developing and writing all of the macroeconomics chapters along with the study guides and instructor manuals for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions.
Johnston writes a regular column on economics and the economy for MinnPost and is a regular guest on Minnesota Public Radio and WCCO Radio. He has been interviewed and quoted by the St. Cloud Times, Minneapolis StarTribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Bloomberg News, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Marketplace, CNN, Minnesota News Network, and other media
How a culture of philanthropy impacts all of us
No full textAs our institutions come to grips with the reality of tight budgets, we all face new challenges to our work, teams and pocketbooks. How do two colleges with relatively small endowments compete for talent, attract top students, and maintain our sense of community? Our presentation offers another way of thinking about the roles staff, faculty and students play – one that embraces and encourages philanthropic giving. We will describe why donors say they give to CSB and SJU, how the two Institutional Advancement offices work, and what community members can do to support a culture of donor engagement that helps all areas of campus
The election and impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil\u27s first woman president
Get PDFIn October 2010 Dilma Rousseff broke Brazil highest glass ceiling by becoming the country\u27s first woman president. After her re-election in 2014, her government suffered strong opposition both in Congress and on the streets, culminating in her 2016 impeachment. In this talk, I discuss the role gender played in the election of Dilma Rousseff, how being a woman influenced the nomination of cabinet members and policymaking, and the ways in which her gender affected the 2016 impeachment process. By comparing Dilma Rousseff’s presidency with her predecessor and successor, I elaborate on how Brazilian formal political institutions are gendered in a way that benefits men in the electoral process, how women’s leadership is often undermined by the masculine spaces where policymaking is discussed, and how the Brazilian political system undermines the proposal and implementation of feminist and women-centered policies
Transient transmission oscillations in doped and undoped lithium niobate induced by near-infrared femtosecond pulses
Get PDFTransient transmission oscillations in X-cut and Z-cut congruent, iron-doped, and magnesium-doped lithium niobate samples were measured using 50 fs, 800 nm, 0.5 nJ pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser in an optical pump–probe system. Several Raman-active oscillation modes excited by these pulses were observed as changes in the transmitted probe intensity versus time delay between the pump and probe pulses. The samples were rotated to determine how the incident polarization of the pump pulses affects the mode excitations. The observed Raman-active oscillations correspond to previously reported symmetry modes measured with traditional, continuous-wave, Raman spectroscopy using the same scattering geometry. In addition, a polariton mode and other, previously unreported, lower-frequency modes were observed in each of the samples. The transmission intensity data for each sample were fit successfully to a superposition of sinusoidal functions with exponentially decaying amplitudes
Global Engagement at the United Nations: Lessons from Ancient Greece for our Modern Times
Get PDFThe present political moment in America is rife with irony. One example, revealing a battle for America’s soul, involves two speeches recently delivered at the opening of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly
Viking Myths of Minnesota\u27s Kensington Rune Stone: And What They Reveal about the (Mis)Shaping of Identity in the Face of the Religious and Racial Other
No full textIn 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a Minnesota field. The inscription told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus’s exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale’s credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. For Scandinavian immigrants, the Kensington Rune Stone yielded evidence that they had deep historical roots in their new American home. However, this “homemaking myth” also cast Minnesota’s first residents as “pagans” and “savages” who deserved to be removed to make way for a white, Christian society. In this lecture, Dr. Krueger will discuss what Minnesota’s Viking myths reveal about anxieties related to religious and racial diversity that persist to the present day.
David M. Krueger, Ph.D., is a storyteller, scholar, author, and educator who is passionate about public history and social justice. His areas of expertise include American religious history, violence, myths, and popular culture. Dr. Krueger is a sought-after lecturer and speaker and has frequently served as an on-camera scholarly contributor with the Travel Channel and the Science Channel. He received a Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion from Temple University. The author of Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), Dr. Krueger is a versatile and seasoned educator who has taught at several colleges and universities and community-based settings. He works as a media and education consultant for The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and provides scholarly direction for a U.S. State Department program on religious pluralism run by the Dialogue Institute at Temple University. Although he grew up as a farm kid in Minnesota, he has come to love Philadelphia and its fascinating history since moving there in 1995. Articles and essays he has written have appeared in several media outlets including the Religion Dispatches, the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (forthcoming), and Marginalia: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel. He is certified by the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides to offer guided tours of religious and historical sites in the city
Form from Form
No full text“Was it a crater or a sinkhole?” asks a voice in one of the mysterious, wonderstruck poems in Christopher Bolin’s Form from Form, whose cadences modulate with the energies of form-making, deformation, and elusive reformation. Natural forms and forms of human manufacture, forms of absence and those of urgent desire construct and deconstruct each other in Bolin’s singular music, which blends unnerving plainness and obliqueness, the childlike and the alien.
As their sites drift from workers’ camps to city squares, isolated coasts to windswept plains, the poems in Form from Form trace a map of a fragmented ecology, dense with physical detail of altered landscapes and displaced populations. In tones of austere beauty and harsh discordance, these poems provide a “field guide to luminescent things,” a visionary fretwork of the possibilities and impossibilities of faith in the present moment.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/english_books/1008/thumbnail.jp
