Join the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota to learn about CSI’s recent publication "The Climate Action Almanac." Joey Eschrich, co-editor of the "Almanac," and contributors Anna Pigott and Benjamin Ong will facilitate discussions on climate emotions, guerilla gardening, learning with nature to reclaim spaces for community and joy, and pedagogical practices for engaging diverse and non-Western learners.

When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are bad: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a signal that the problem is so vast, so complex, that it’s out of our control. That narrative is compelling for some, but leaves others feeling helpless and disillusioned. Even the most ardent champions of climate action sometimes focus more on sounding the alarm than on imagining and mapping out what success might look like.

India, the world’s largest democracy, is holding general elections, which will wrap up in June. How will the election shape U.S.-India relations at a time when growing global tensions have put a spotlight on how India will navigate its international relationships and concerns about authoritarian trends in India have simultaneously grown. In her book A Matter of Trust: India-U.S.

The Guardian describes the extraordinary footage in this documentary of capacity crowds and euphoric atmosphere in the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico as an "alt-reality hallucination" of what might have been had the ruling bodies of the world's default sport not been so hostile to the women's game for most of the 20th Century.

During the Cold War, the United States ratcheted up efforts to send prominent cultural figures, including successful Black athletes, on overseas tours to showcase and promote the “American Dream” and counter a powerful Soviet claim: That Black Americans were oppressed in a system of racial apartheid. Meanwhile, Black athletes themselves were transformed through their experiences on these trips, returning home further inspired to hold their nation accountable to its founding principles.

In his new book, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat provides a history of the major international agreements that have defined today’s world. Eizenstat examines cases from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord.

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