Category: firstsunday

Sunday September 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

Professor at University of Minnesota Duluth, Elizabethada A. Wright has two co-edited books, one book in press on public memory, and has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, Rhetoric Review, College English Association Critic, Studies in the Literary Imagination, as well as in a number of other journals and books.

Why Resist Generative AI?

While many educators are aware of how AI is hindering student learning and thinking, many may not have considered AI’s far-reaching ethical issues. This presentation will outline the argument made by scholars regarding the ethics and why economics tell us AI is not inevitable.

Sunday August 2, 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

Our June 7th program will be presented by Jay Walker, Execute Director, at the Great Lakes Aquarium.

The Great Lakes Aquarium was established in 1998 as an educational showcase of the economic, recreational, biological and aesthetic importance of freshwater resources – with a particular focus on Lake Superior. The Aquarium exists to provide opportunities for community members and visitors to the region to engage with water and wildlife.

Dr. Catherine O’Reilly, Director of the Large Lakes Observatory, Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, will give LSF an overview of current research.

LSF’s Dr. Charles Gessert will present.

“Democracy interfaces with many competing ideologies, including religions. In some cases the ‘competing ideologies’ are at odds with – or hostile to – the principles of democracy. This program will describe some of the religious challenges to democracy in 2026.”