The University of Minnesota School of Music will host the Chinese Festival “Music for the Soul, Art for Life” to celebrate the vibrant and expanding presence of Chinese art and culture in the Twin Cities, and to showcase the achievements of Chinese and Chinese-American musicians and artists.

Fayola's areas of expertise are environmental planning, climate change, gender, race and ethnicity, urban and regional planning

Nicholas' research examines a history from below by highlighting the local quotidian experiences of borderlanders — indigenous Africans who live(d) in adjacent Honde Valley and Inyanga areas along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border. He brings borderlanders’ everyday lives and local sovereignties to the center of analysis to understand how people’s everyday life goals and desires have changed over time and space, sometimes working in harmony or defiance to nation-state organizing principles and apparatuses of control. He examines how borderlanders’ local ideas of space and mobilities to critique state-centered perspectives to African borderlands.

Prof. Diaz is Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies and Director of The Native Canoe Program. Diaz is a leader in traditional canoe cultural revitalization and study in the Micronesian region of the Pacific Islands and in the development of global and comparative Indigenous Studies.

Automation by Design is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual CBI symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation, to be held Friday through Saturday, February 17 & 18, 2023. Our program will draw from a broad range of fields across the humanities and social sciences.

Meixi's work  focuses on an enduring concern: how can schools contribute to the collective livelihoods and future wellbeing of Indigenous young people, their families, and the lands and waters where they live? The work interweaves comparative education, learning sciences and the study of micro-moments of interaction and trans-Indigenous scholarship in pursuit of this question.

Catherine’s topics of interest include: gender & sexuality, maritime, and commodities.

Isaac's research centers on the intersections between Queer/Trans* Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Marxism, and Indigenous Studies.