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DOORS OPEN for Forum Seating 11 AM
MUSIC 11:30 AM | André Rodriguez
FORUM 12 NOON
A free public reception will immediately follow the program.
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A citizen asked Benjamin Franklin what form of government the Constitutional delegates had created. He replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The words remain true today, with New York Times best-selling author Timothy Snyder challenging us to act on the responsibilities before us if democracy is to not only persist but flourish.
Snyder is the Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the University of Toronto and the author of Our Malady, On Tyranny, On Freedom, Black Earth, The Road to Unfreedom, and Bloodlands. His works have been published in 40 languages and have received high-level recognition, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
He has made numerous podcast, radio, and television appearances, including on Amanpour & Company and MS NOW’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” special “We the People.”
Snyder earned his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his doctorate in modern history at the University of Oxford and is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is renowned for his extensive academic research and prolific public intellectual writing.
The session’s moderator will be The Rev. Dr. Jessica Patchett who is senior pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis and was previously senior pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wisconsin. She holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry in Gospel and Culture from Columbia Theological Seminary.
Sponsored in part by the Minneapolis Foundation. Media Sponsors include Minnesota Public Radio, MinnPost, and Sahan Journal.
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