Workshops & Events

The Minnesota Humanities Center is dedicated to bringing informative, enlightening, and engaging workshops and events to K-12 educators and the public. Whether you are looking to expand your humanities-based content, or simply want to increase your understanding of the changing world around you, the Humanities Center is committed to providing all Minnesotans with an opportunity to meet, converse, and learn from one-another.

Absent Narratives Approach

The Absent Narratives approach is a relationship-based approach to creating equity within systems and communities. This approach helps people understand that all actions, decisions, and beliefs exist in relationship to others and impacts how we work with and influence our peers and students. By building and strengthening relationships, this approach recognizes the limits of a single story, learns from the multiplicity of voices in the community, and discovers solutions within the community.

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Professional Development Opportunities

Participants prepare digital stories at the
Story as a Teaching Tool in the Classroom
workshop on April 28, 2012.

The Minnesota Humanities Center partners with educators, schools, and cultural organizations to offer professional development. These programs value a collaborative learning process: building and strengthening student-teacher relationships, recognizing the danger of a single story, and finding solutions within the community. These opportunities are available in-person and online.

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Lunch and Learn

Spend your lunch hour learning from a community leader about important issues impacting the state of Minnesota. Following a brief presentation, the speaker will answer questions from the audience. Upcoming topics include The Secret Behind Minnesota’s Thriving Latino Business Centers and Why Treaties Matter: Sovereignty and Treaty Rights as Economic Tools.

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The Healing Series

The Healing Series is comprised of two distinct presentations with renowned speakers whose individual creative talents will prompt participants to engage in tough conversations. Each event will coalesce around a book chosen by the presenter. Conversations will be facilitated by Julie Landsman and Rose McGee.


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An Evening with tpt's MN Original


 An Evening with tpt’s MN Original is a two-part series of events designed to celebrate and learn from Minnesota’s creative community. At each event, participants will have an opportunity to hear from authors and artists featured in the award-winning series, MN Original. In addition, there will be a time of facilitated discussion and reflection on the artist’s work.


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