A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility. Taner Akcam discusses his new book, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (2006), with Eric Weitz. Taner Akcam was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History during 2006-07 and is currently associate professor in the Departme...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Akcam, Taner
Created:
2006-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Genocide Tribunals: Native Human Rights and Survivance. A lecture by author Gerald Vizenor, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who proposes establishing formal tribunals in various states to indict and prosecute alleged perpetrators, in absentia, of crim...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Vizenor, Gerald
Created:
2006-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work? Lecture and reception in honor of Kathryn Sikkink, recently named Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota. Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international hum...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sikkink, Kathryn
Created:
2007-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Love and Kitsch. Question and Answer session with Dr. Joshua Gunn (University of Texas) at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetoric Colloquium, Oct. 4 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gunn, Joshua
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marion Mahony. Presentation on Women in Architecture by Dr. Elizabeth Birmingham of Northwestern University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Birmingham, Elizabeth
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'. Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. The internet has opened up new ways for intellectuals to interact with the ...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cole, Juan
Created:
2007-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Lyceum and Women. Question and Answer session given by Dr. Angela Ray of Northwestern University's Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ray, Angela
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Pale Memory originally presented as The Poetry of Time and the Disorientation of Memory. This project uses music and animation to bring to life a poem by the obscure turn-of-the-century author Samuel Greenberg (1893-1917). The artists manipulate the interplay between these mediums in order to disorient the way they are perceived by the viewe...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Merigliano, John; Rubin, Justin
Created:
2007-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Trivium and New Technologies. Presentation on New Media and Digital Communication by Kevin Brooks of North Dakota State University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Brooks, Kevin
Created:
2007-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What 50 Years of Statehood has meant for Kanaka Maoli. Session 5. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notions of statehood, sovereignty, memor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Silva, Noenoe
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What 50 Years of Statehood has meant for Kanaka Maoli. Session 5 Q&A. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notions of statehood, sovereignty, m...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Silva, Noenoe
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Amnesty and Justice in International Law. International criminal justice is a growing force in the dynamic of globalization, promoting a border-crossing regime of accountability for international crimes and challenging the traditional primacy of domestic criminal law systems. At the same time, nations dealing with a difficult transition to democ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pensky, Max
Created:
2008-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Amnesty and Justice in International Law. International criminal justice is a growing force in the dynamic of globalization, promoting a border-crossing regime of accountability for international crimes and challenging the traditional primacy of domestic criminal law systems. At the same time, nations dealing with a difficult transition to democ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pensky, Max
Created:
2008-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
Created:
2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
Created:
2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In Small Things Discounted: Architecture and World Making. In this talk Arijit Sen discusses the growth of an immigrant fast food store in Berkeley in order to explore how small inconsequential transformations in the material environment, when cumulatively examined, can provide us a window from which to study larger processes framing world makin...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sen, Arijit
Created:
2008-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Other Perspectives on White Supremacy in Jena, Louisiana: The Jena Band of Choctaws, State Politics and Federal Policy. Session 3. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Klopotek, Brian
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Civil Society. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Businesses...
Conference wrap-up. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the thirtieth anniversary of F...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dubrow, Gail; Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Memory, Place, Identity: Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse. Thursdays at Four presentation opening the symposium on The City, the River, the Bridge. Yasmeen Arif will be in residence at the IAS in Spring of 2009 in the spring semester as a Quadrant Fellow with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, Afterlife: Recovering Li...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen; Horrigan, Brian; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2008-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Memory, Place, Identity: Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse. Thursdays at Four presentation opening the symposium on The City, the River, the Bridge. Yasmeen Arif will be in residence at the IAS in Spring of 2009 in the spring semester as a Quadrant Fellow with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, Afterlife: Recovering Li...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen; Horrigan, Brian; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2008-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Democracy as a Habit of Mind. Keynote Address. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lacy, Suzanne
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Social Space: Designing for Civic Dialogues. Session 2. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kohn, Margaret; Kuftinec, Sonja; Strolovich, Dara
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Social Space: Designing for Civic Dialogues. Session 2. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Ci...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kohn, Margaret; Kuftinec, Sonja; Strolovich, Dara
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Statehood, Land Allotment, and the Fictions of Liberalism in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Session 4. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chang, David
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Introductory Remarks. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the thirtieth anniversary of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Welcoming Remarks.The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busines...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sullivan, E. Thomas; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Visual Matter: The Materiality of Late Medieval Devotional Images . Caroline Walker Bynum is professor of Western European Middle Ages in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). Her many award-winning books about religion in the Middle Ages include Holy Feast, Holy Fast (1987) and Wonderful Blood (2007)....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Visual Matter: The Materiality of Late Medieval Devotional Images . Caroline Walker Bynum is professor of Western European Middle Ages in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). Her many award-winning books about religion in the Middle Ages include Holy Feast, Holy Fast (1987) and Wonderful Blood (2007)....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Journey Across Our America: Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging. Professor Mendoza shares a multimedia presentation on research he conducted during the summer and fall of 2007 as he bicycled around the perimeter of the United States visiting Latino communities. His research sheds new insight into the current debates on immigratio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mendoza, Louis
Created:
2008-11-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Journey Across Our America: Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging. Professor Mendoza shares a multimedia presentation on research he conducted during the summer and fall of 2007 as he bicycled around the perimeter of the United States visiting Latino communities. His research sheds new insight into the current debates on immigratio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mendoza, Louis
Created:
2008-11-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Combining Art with Science in the High-Tech Intensive Care Unit: The Role of Music Intervention in Patient Care. Linda Chlan is an associate professor in the Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative unit of the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing. Her research interests include testing non-pharmacologic relaxation and anxiety manageme...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chlan, Linda
Created:
2008-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Combining Art with Science in the High-Tech Intensive Care Unit: The Role of Music Intervention in Patient Care. Linda Chlan is an associate professor in the Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative unit of the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing. Her research interests include testing non-pharmacologic relaxation and anxiety manageme...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chlan, Linda
Created:
2008-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Comment by David Wilkins. Session 6. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notions of statehood, sovereignty, memory and homeland from the view ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wilkins, David
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sense and Sensibilities: Exploring the Origins of the Global 'Anti-Biotech' Movement. Rachel Schurman will discuss her research on social activism and genetic engineering. Schurman is a professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. William Munro is a professor of Political Science at Illinois Wesleyan University. Cosponsored by the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Munro, William; Schurman, Rachel
Created:
2008-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sense and Sensibilities: Exploring the Origins of the Global 'Anti-Biotech' Movement. Rachel Schurman will discuss her research on social activism and genetic engineering. Schurman is a professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. William Munro is a professor of Political Science at Illinois Wesleyan University. Cosponsored by the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Munro, William; Schurman, Rachel
Created:
2008-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Pathways to Youth Inclusion in Egypt: Education, Livelihoods, and Family Formation. Ragui Assaad is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community de...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Assaad, Ragui
Created:
2008-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Pathways to Youth Inclusion in Egypt: Education, Livelihoods, and Family Formation. Ragui Assaad is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. His current research projects include studying the effects of economic reform on the Egyptian labor market, female labor supply in Egypt, and community de...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Assaad, Ragui
Created:
2008-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Performance and Social Justice. Ananya Chatterjea (Theatre Arts and Dance), Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (English), and Jigna Desai (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) lead a discussion of how global politics impact on women's bodies and how to make an embodied response.
Performance and Social Justice. Ananya Chatterjea (Theatre Arts and Dance), Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (English), and Jigna Desai (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) lead a discussion of how global politics impact on women's bodies and how to make an embodied response.
Photography in Public. Session 4. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the thirtieth an...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Coyne, Nancy Ann; Huie, Wing Young; Slade, George
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Photography in Public. Session 4. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the thirtieth an...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Coyne, Nancy Ann; Huie, Wing Young; Slade, George
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Privatizing Public Space: Skyways, Malls, and Plazas. Session 1. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in th...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Miller, Kristine; Yoos, Jennifer
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Privatizing Public Space: Skyways, Malls, and Plazas. Session 1. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in th...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Miller, Kristine; James, Vincent; Yoos, Jennifer
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Respect for Sacred Sites: Protecting Indigenous Burial Grounds under International Law. Prof. Anaya has practiced law representing Native American peoples and organizations in matters before United States courts and international institutions and is the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues. Anaya is the author of Indigenous Peoples in Inte...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anaya, S. James
Created:
2008-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Public Art as Activism and the Limits of Free Expression. Session 3. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans i...
Public Art as Activism and the Limits of Free Expression. Session 3. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans i...
Public Art as Conversation Starter. Public art succeeds by stimulating specific dialogue around its situation, and might best be judged by the quality of that dialogue. Hear Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey and Forecast Public Art founder Jack Becker discuss the general condition of public art in the United States, and the challenges facing...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Becker, Jack; Eleey, Peter
Created:
2008-08-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Birch, Eugenie
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking the City. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas; Martin, Judith; Miller, Roger
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking the City. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas; Martin, Judith; Miller, Roger; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking the Sandy Lake Tragedy: Ethnic Cleansing in the Minnesota Territory. Session 1. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notions of stat...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Child, Brenda; Redix, Erik
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
State Recognition and Termination in Nineteenth Century Southern New England. Session 2. Three Twin Cities organizations have joined together to present MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood. Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery and University of Minnesota collaborate on a symposium, artists panel and two exhibitions that examine notions of stateh...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
O'Brien, Jean
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
The Anatomy of a Beethoven Quartet: Performance and Discussion. Tom Rosenberg and a string quartet play the fourth movement (variations) of Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 (opus 131), with commentary by Michael Cherlin. Tom Rosenberg is Coordinator of the String Chamber Music Program, and Michael Cherlin is a professor of Theory and Composition ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cherlin, Michael; Rosenberg, Tom
Created:
2008-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Anatomy of a Beethoven Quartet: Performance and Discussion. Tom Rosenberg and a string quartet play the fourth movement (variations) of Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 (opus 131), with commentary by Michael Cherlin. Tom Rosenberg is Coordinator of the String Chamber Music Program, and Michael Cherlin is a professor of Theory and Composition ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cherlin, Michael; Rosenberg, Tom
Created:
2008-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Capstone Comment. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busines...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruininks, Bob
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Speaking of Home: Artist's Conversation on the Creation of the Twin Cities' First Skyway Art Project.This conversation with Nancy Ann Coyne, Vickie Benson and Ben Heywood will explore the creative forces that led to the construction of the Speaking of Home project. Nancy Ann Coyne is a photographer and public artist. Since 1984, sh...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Benson, Vickie; Coyne, Nancy Ann; Heywood, Ben
Created:
2008-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Remembrance at Five: The Media's Impact on Contemporary American Commemoration. Judith Dupré writes books that bridge the worlds of art, photography, and architecture in ways that delight and educate. She has written several works of illustrated nonfiction that have been translated into ten languages, including Skyscrapers (1996); Bridges (1997)...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dupre, Judith
Created:
2008-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Remembrance at Five: The Media's Impact on Contemporary American Commemoration. Judith Dupré writes books that bridge the worlds of art, photography, and architecture in ways that delight and educate. She has written several works of illustrated nonfiction that have been translated into ten languages, including Skyscrapers (1996); Bridges (1997)...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dupre, Judith
Created:
2008-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The River. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Businesses in ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anfinson, John; Labovitz, Paul; Nunnally, Pat; Swackhamer, Deb
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The River. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Businesses in ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anfinson, John; Labovitz, Paul; Nunnally, Pat; Swackhamer, Deb
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Time Frames: The Past in the Present. How we experience time is the primary interest of this project -- the fictions and narratives of time embodied in architecture. Time Frames is the attempt to provide a view of architecture through the frame of time -- the distance from what the structures were in their own time to Rose's reading now, how tim...
Creator:
Rose, Thomas
Contributor:
Danto, Elizabeth Ann; Goebel, John
Created:
2008-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Spirit of Leadership: The Time is Now. Darlyne Bailey is Assistant to the President and Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is Sustaining our Spirits: Women Leaders Thriving for Today and Tomorrow, written with Kelly McNally Koney, Mary Ellen McNish, Ruthmary Powers, and Katrina Uhly (N...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bailey, Darlyne
Created:
2008-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bringing Justice to an Unjustified Past in Korea. Judge Park Won-soon discusses human rights and transitional justice in Korea. Named by the Citizen Times as the Most Distinguished and Respected Activist in Korea for three years running, Judge Park is the executive director of the Hope Institute and of the Beautiful Foundation and Beautiful Stor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Soon, Park Won
Created:
2008-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bringing Justice to an Unjustified Past in Korea. Judge Park Won-soon discusses human rights and transitional justice in Korea. Named by the Citizen Times as the Most Distinguished and Respected Activist in Korea for three years running, Judge Park is the executive director of the Hope Institute and of the Beautiful Foundation and Beautiful Stor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Soon, Park Won
Created:
2008-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wall Street Corporate Culture: Investment Banking and the Making of Financial Crisis. Karen Ho is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent work is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009).
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wall Street Corporate Culture: Investment Banking and the Making of Financial Crisis. Karen Ho is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent work is Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009).
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ho, Karen
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis is part of a larger project examining the effects of crises on the agendas, strategies, and efficacy of organizations representing marginalized groups in U.S. politics. Combining data from a survey of advocacy organizations with information from interviews, gove...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Strolovitch, Dara
Created:
2009-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis is part of a larger project examining the effects of crises on the agendas, strategies, and efficacy of organizations representing marginalized groups in U.S. politics. Combining data from a survey of advocacy organizations with information from interviews, gove...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Strolovitch, Dara
Created:
2009-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World. Professor Bee discusses recent and ongoing research in his lab that aims to understand how female gray treefrogs perceive male mating calls in the noisy environment of a breeding chorus. There are important health and technological considerations associated...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bee, Mark A.
Created:
2009-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World. Professor Bee discusses recent and ongoing research in his lab that aims to understand how female gray treefrogs perceive male mating calls in the noisy environment of a breeding chorus. There are important health and technological considerations associated...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bee, Mark A.
Created:
2009-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture. American pop culture -- Hollywood cinema, television, pop music -- dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American, or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Abso...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kooijman, Jaap
Created:
2009-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture. American pop culture -- Hollywood cinema, television, pop music -- dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that make everyone a hybridized American, or do these elements find mediation within the other cultures that consume them? Fabricating the Abso...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kooijman, Jaap
Created:
2009-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rhetorical Modernism: Art and the End of Rhetoric. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Buckley, Tyler
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Understanding Body Image: Sense of Self, Media Imagery, and Visual Culture. Where does our sense of self come from? How does our exposure to media images help to create that sense of self? Why is visual culture such a significant part of our sense of being and well-being? This presentation goes behind the seen to explore the role media and neuro...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Barry, Ann Marie
Created:
2009-03-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Understanding Body Image: Sense of Self, Media Imagery, and Visual Culture. Where does our sense of self come from? How does our exposure to media images help to create that sense of self? Why is visual culture such a significant part of our sense of being and well-being? This presentation goes behind the seen to explore the role media and neuro...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Barry, Ann Marie
Created:
2009-03-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World. For the ancient Greeks, existence and embodiment where virtually indistinguishable, and closely linked to knowledge. These linkages are found at the level where language operated. Special embodiments, like that of the Sirens and Centaurs, implied special knowledge. Greek medicine, though constr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Garrison, Daniel H.
Created:
2009-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World. For the ancient Greeks, existence and embodiment where virtually indistinguishable, and closely linked to knowledge. These linkages are found at the level where language operated. Special embodiments, like that of the Sirens and Centaurs, implied special knowledge. Greek medicine, though constr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Garrison, Daniel H.
Created:
2009-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Choreography and the Brain. Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in L...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matt; McGregor, Wayne
Created:
2009-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Choreography and the Brain. Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in L...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matt; McGregor, Wayne
Created:
2009-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold. Understanding catastrophic occurrences, whether they are events of natural disasters, political violence, technological accidents, developmental debacles and so on, appears to be one of the most vexing, if not under-researched questions of contemporary social research. These events, at t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen
Created:
2009-02-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold. Understanding catastrophic occurrences, whether they are events of natural disasters, political violence, technological accidents, developmental debacles and so on, appears to be one of the most vexing, if not under-researched questions of contemporary social research. These events, at t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen
Created:
2009-02-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction. Ananya Chatterjea is a professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota and founder and artistic director of Ananya Dance Theatre, a company of women artists of color, diverse in age, race, nationality, and sexual orientation, but uniformly committed to artistic excellence and passionate articulation of dream...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya
Created:
2009-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction. Ananya Chatterjea is a professor of Dance at the University of Minnesota and founder and artistic director of Ananya Dance Theatre, a company of women artists of color, diverse in age, race, nationality, and sexual orientation, but uniformly committed to artistic excellence and passionate articulation of dream...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya
Created:
2009-09-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Digital Poetics: An Interactive Reading. John Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, and all these activities have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 and is currently a visiting professor at Br...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cayley, John; Raley, Rita
Created:
2009-03-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion with Alan Gross, Marguerite Helmers, Kenneth Marunowski, and Sara Newman. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, spee...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gross, Alan; Helmers, Marguerite; Marunowski, Kenneth; Newman, Sara
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion with John Logie, Debra Hawhee, and Richard Graff. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesc...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Graff, Richard; Hawhee, Debra; Logie, John
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 1 with Joshua Gunn and Michael Pfau. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its own...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gunn, Joshua; Pfau, Michael
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion with Kristi Cole and Elizabeth Nelson. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its o...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cole, Kirsti; Nelson, Elizabeth
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Final Discussion with David Beard, David Gore, William Henderson, and Arthur Walzer. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, spee...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Beard, David; Gore, David; Henderson, William; Walzer, Arthur
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dubai, Inc.. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Bill Foley and Andréa Stanislav, Department of Art, discuss and present images from their recent research trip to Dubai. Their work in progress will be realized as a multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, glo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dubai, Inc.. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Bill Foley and Andréa Stanislav, Department of Art, discuss and present images from their recent research trip to Dubai. Their work in progress will be realized as a multimedia sculptural installation exploring the interconnections and competing/clashing themes of environmental sustainability, glo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Bill; Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eastern European Folk Song Traditions: Performance and Discussion. Mila is a professional women's vocal ensemble committed to the authentic reproduction of vocal traditions from over 30 countries. Mila's nine singers all hail from unique musical backgrounds and have studied with renowned vocalists from Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Nowytski, Natalie
Created:
2009-10-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eastern European Folk Song Traditions: Performance and Discussion. Mila is a professional women's vocal ensemble committed to the authentic reproduction of vocal traditions from over 30 countries. Mila's nine singers all hail from unique musical backgrounds and have studied with renowned vocalists from Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Nowytski, Natalie
Created:
2009-10-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
