Community Conversations
First Monday of each month at 6pm
Community Conversations is a monthly program on KUMD dedicated to topics of interest in our community and fostering our community connections.
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Money. Whether we have it or we don’t, it’s a constant in our everyday lives. Its presence – or absence is felt as we go about our business every single…
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It started as a way to grieve … and honor a respected journalist in our community.It’s grown to be a project involving more disparate people and groups…
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Fear of Muslims. Fear of refugees. Fear of immigrants – we’ve heard it all and then some on the news in recent months, with wildly differing ideas of how…
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Jobs in the Northland don't come just from mining, industry or tourism; it turns out there’s good money generated – AND jobs – in the arts and in the…
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Even after an entire semester in Jacki Buffington-Vollum's class on mental illness and crime, many students refuse to believe that anyone could commit…
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Brittany Maynard gained the sympathies of a nation when the 29 year old woman with terminal brain cancer ended her life last fall with drugs prescribed by…
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A recent article in The Atlantic titled “The Coddling of the American Mind” says “in the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly…
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You hear a lot of conversations about "kill" and "no-kill" animal shelters these days. No one likes the idea of a "kill" shelter, but is it really that…
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Since 9/11, extremist Muslims have been using their faith to justify jihad. Other Muslims have protested against what they say is a distortion of Islam.…
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UMD’s 2nd Annual Creativity Conference was organized around the ideas of creativity across disciplines and cultures this year. But as our free-ranging…