Mansfield Dialogues
The Mansfield Dialogues are an annual series of discussions designed to bring speakers on contemporary issues to a wider audience. These critical community discussions are attended by high school and university students and community members across Montana and the world.
The Montana Constitution: The Work Between the Words. The Story of Indian Education for All Across Five Decades
Montana’s 1972 Constitution didn’t happen by accident, and neither did the promises it made to Indian Education. Both were won, and are still being won, by people who kept showing up: tribal educators, elders, and young people who testified in committee rooms, parents and educators who pushed for funding and curriculum, attorneys who fought it out in court, and legislators who carried the bills across the finish line, year after year. Carol Juneau and Denise Juneau, a mother and daughter who’ve spent their careers on opposite ends of that same fight, one in the legislature and one turning law into practice in classrooms across the state, will share the story of how a constitutional promise gets written, and how it only survives because generations of people refuse to let it go unkept.
Thursday, September 10
Reception at 6 pm, Dialogue at 7 pm
UM ALI Auditorium
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Annual Mansfield Lectures
The Annual Mansfield Lecture is the Mansfield Center’s premier yearly lecture, featuring speakers who can bring discussion of critical topics to an audience drawn from throughout western Montana.
First Takes
First Takes is a community education program providing rapid response efforts to educate the public in real time on urgent international or domestic current events that affect our democracy.
Bombing Iran: An Open-Ended War?
