IFC's Conversations for Open Minds
“Conversations for Open Minds” is presented by the St Olaf College Institute for Freedom and Community, a space for free inquiry and meaningful debate of important political and social issues. Hosted by Edmund Santurri, Morrison Family Director and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at St. Olaf College.
Episodes
April 25, 2022 • 91 mins
The #1619Project is still one of the most controversial and important documents of our time. Edmund Santurri, director of the St. Olaf IFC, leads a conversation between Leslie M. Harris and Phillip W. Magness who present very different perspectives.
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April 4, 2022 • 53 mins
Michael Fitzgerald specializes in southern history, African American history, and the Civil War era including slavery, civil rights, and related topics. His most recent book is “Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South.” His current project is a full-scale history of the Reconstruction era in Alabama.
In this podcast Edmund Santurri interviews Michael Fitzgerald following the IFC sponsored conversation between ...
In this podcast Edmund Santurri interviews Michael Fitzgerald following the IFC sponsored conversation between ...
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March 3, 2022 • 49 mins
Artyom Tonoyan, a scholar of the South Caucasus with family ties to Armenia and Ukraine, talks about the Russian invasion of Ukraine against the background of regional and international politics.
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December 21, 2021 • 43 mins
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on labor, capitalism, and politics. She has written about those topics in op-eds, academic articles, and scholarly books, including Sunbelt Capitalism (2013) and The Right and Labor, a 2012 edited collection done with Nelson Lichtenstein, and a 2013 edited collection on Barry Goldwater. Harvard University Press publi...
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December 21, 2021 • 49 mins
Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and editor emeritus of Dissent magazine. He is the author of six books and the editor of three. His most recent book is War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918, published in January, 2017 by Simon and Schuster. It won the best book prize from the Peace History Society. His other books include American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2011); A ...
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December 21, 2021 • 49 mins
Eugene McCarraher is professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He has also taught at the University of Delaware and Princeton. In addition to publishing scholarly articles, he has also written many essays and book reviews for the Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Commonweal, Dissent, the Nation, In These Times, the Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. He has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and t...
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October 13, 2021 • 54 mins
Virgil Storr is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, George Mason University, and the Don C. Lavoie Senior Fellow in the F.A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. He is the author (or co-author) of several books including Understanding the Culture of Markets, Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster, and Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?.
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September 28, 2021 • 40 mins
Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial reporter in the Investigations unit at NBC News, a position she assumed in December 2019.
Previously, Ms. Morgenson spent two years as an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal and almost 20 years as assistant business and financial editor and columnist at The New York Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street in The Times.
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Previously, Ms. Morgenson spent two years as an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal and almost 20 years as assistant business and financial editor and columnist at The New York Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street in The Times.
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September 13, 2021 • 45 mins
Irshad Manji is the founder of Moral Courage College, which teaches people how to engage on polarizing issues without shaming or “cancelling” each other. A professor of leadership at New York University for many years, Irshad now lectures with Oxford University’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights.
Her books are bestsellers in some countries and are banned in others. No wonder Oprah has given Irshad the Chutzpah Award f...
Her books are bestsellers in some countries and are banned in others. No wonder Oprah has given Irshad the Chutzpah Award f...
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