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September Newsletter is online now

Visit the LSF booth at Harvest Fest. this Saturday Sep. 12 at Bayfront Park

• LSF Monthly Social

  

  AUGUST SOCIAL DINNER
  Join us Wednesday, September 16th at 5:30 pm for this month’s LSF Social
  Dinner at Enger Park. Bring your own food and beverage. If the weather’s bad, we’ll move to Crooked Pint, 1402 West Arrowhead Road

• Epistemology

  Sunday October 4, at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link

  Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists study the concepts of belief, truth, and justification to understand the nature of knowledge. To discover how knowledge arises, they investigate sources of justification, such as perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony. — Wikipedia
  (the presentation will be given by a group of LSF members, not Wikipedia)

• The Big One: Pandemics

  Sunday Nov. 1. at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link
  (This speaker is rescheduled from March)

  

  Dr. Osterholm is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Heath, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Council of Foreign Relations. In June 2005 Dr. Osterholm was appointed by Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
  to the newly established National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity. In July 2008, he was named to the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, Aos Academy of Excellence in Health Research. In October 2008, he was appointed to the World Economic Forum Working Group on Pandemics.

• Trending on the Hard Right

  Sunday December 6, at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link

  

  Travis McAdam will discuss the hard-right trends observed by the Southern Poverty Law Center through its monitoring and discuss some of the hate and anti-government groups active in Minnesota.

  Travis McAdam serves as a Manger of Research and Analysis for the Southern Poverty Law Center where he oversees a team monitoring anti-government groups across the country. Before coming to SPLC, he worked at a statewide organization in Montana doing similar work. For more than 25 years, he has researched, written about, and helped communities respond to white nationalists, militias, and other hard-right extremists. In recognition of his efforts, the Gonzaga University Center for the Study of Hate presented him with its 2022 Eva Lassman “Take Action Against Hate” award. 

• LSF’s 2026 Community Partner

  

• Bill van Druten Memorial fund

  

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