100 Years of Student Drawings Celebrating the reopening of Northrop Hall and the Centennial of the School of Architecture, the exhibition 100 Years of Student Drawings displays drawings from the Beaux-Arts era through the digital age, showing a range of building types, media, and individual expression, including two drawings by two Monuments Men...
From the Underworld to the Summit: Promotion and Reception of 20th Century Archaeological Finds in Mexico's Chapultepec. Chapultepec Forest has long been an important symbolic and material site for Mexico. Many groups have made claims largely based upon natural resources and recreation. Still, the Forest's historical events, with the growing imp...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moerer, Andrea
Created:
2014-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Underworld to the Summit: Promotion and Reception of 20th Century Archaeological Finds in Mexico's Chapultepec. Chapultepec Forest has long been an important symbolic and material site for Mexico. Many groups have made claims largely based upon natural resources and recreation. Still, the Forest's historical events, with the growing imp...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moerer, Andrea
Created:
2014-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Developing a Three-dimensional Body Satisfaction Intervention. The 3-Dimensional Body Satisfaction project developed and tested a body-satisfaction intervention tool for young women. The basic make-up of the tool is a montage of 3-dimensional body scan images of young women with normal BMIs representing a full range of body sizes and shapes. The...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
LaBat, Karen; Peterson, Carol; Ryan, Karen; Sowers, Chad
Created:
2011-02-10
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.
Academic Freedom, the Public Trust, & the Entrepreneurial Univer$ity: Reflections on the AAUP's Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-University Relationships University research, especially in STEM fields, is increasingly oriented toward the market, involving a diverse range of collaborations between academic researchers and industry. The Ame...
Reframing the Access to Medicines Debate: Health as a Global Public Good. In recent decades, the benefits of new medicines and vaccines from pharmaceutical research and development have transformed the health of populations living in developed economies. Yet billions of people living in poverty have not yet benefited from these innovations. Dr. ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sturchio, Jeffrey
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Reframing the Access to Medicines Debate: Health as a Global Public Good. In recent decades, the benefits of new medicines and vaccines from pharmaceutical research and development have transformed the health of populations living in developed economies. Yet billions of people living in poverty have not yet benefited from these innovations. Dr. ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sturchio, Jeffrey
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Love versus Duty: A Conversation about Mark Morris's 'Dido and Aeneas'. Queen Dido of Carthage is forsaken by her love, the Trojan Prince Aeneas, when he is reminded of his duty to establish a new city in Italy. From its origins in Greco-Roman myth, through Virgil's epic poem, to Henry Purcell's opera, the story of Dido and Aeneas, with its them...
Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canada). He specializes in the representations of war, genocide and mass violence, human rights, memory studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and analytic philosophy. At the IAS, Muller spoke on Embodying Empathy: Canadian Settler-Colonial Genocide and the Making ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Muller, Adam
Created:
2015-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Re-Structuring and Re-Visioning Childhood: The (Dis)Advantages of ADHD. In addition to teaching courses on the body, culture, and sexuality in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Hubbard studies the contemporary construction of adult-child relations and the relationship of childhood to the collective psychic, social, p...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hubbard, Kysa
Created:
2014-02-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Re-Structuring and Re-Visioning Childhood: The (Dis)Advantages of ADHD. In addition to teaching courses on the body, culture, and sexuality in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Hubbard studies the contemporary construction of adult-child relations and the relationship of childhood to the collective psychic, social, p...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hubbard, Kysa
Created:
2014-02-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Trigger Warnings: A Generative Dialogue. Trigger warnings are designed to prevent unaware encounters with topics that might elicit strong and damaging emotional responses in some people. Some call them a bandaid; others raise issues of academic freedom. This discussion will focus on how we can reframe and move beyond these debates to address how...
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.
Vital Platforms: Towards A Feminist Theory of Human Media. This talk proposes a feminist theory of forms of human media -- exemplifying the use or actuation of humans as the instruments of other humans' will and expressive agency -- as integral but overlooked component forces in the colonial and postcolonial expansion of global capital. Focusing...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tadiar, Neferti
Created:
2016-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Material Journeys: African Art in Motion. Dr. Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Curator of African Art at the Minneapolis of Institute of Art, speaks about the redesigned African art galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, particularly in the context of a globalizing art market.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk
Created:
2016-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History. Grey Gundaker will present work based on her project, Blackness and the History of Landscape Design. Criticizing garden lovers is like attacking apple pie, but in practice the European and American love affair with the Garden as an ideal has helped shap...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gundaker, Grey
Created:
2012-09-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History. Grey Gundaker will present work based on her project, Blackness and the History of Landscape Design. Criticizing garden lovers is like attacking apple pie, but in practice the European and American love affair with the Garden as an ideal has helped shap...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gundaker, Grey
Created:
2012-09-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
On history, documentary, and well-being: A call and response about the ways African American & Afro-diaspora histories inform contemporary well-being Daniel Pierce Bergin is an award-winning television producer, media educator, and independent filmmaker. He was hired at Twin Cities Public Television right after college, and in the past 15 years ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bergin, Dan; Mayes, Keith; Onishi, Yuichiro
Created:
2014-12-03
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.
The Art and Ambivalence of Afropolitan Patriotism: Making Malian Music in Times of Celebration and Crisis. Ryan Thomas Skinner is an Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. In this talk, Professor Skinner presents from his project, Afropolitan Ethics: Music and Urban Culture in Bamako, Mali, consid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Art and Ambivalence of Afropolitan Patriotism: Making Malian Music in Times of Celebration and Crisis. Ryan Thomas Skinner is an Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. In this talk, Professor Skinner presents from his project, Afropolitan Ethics: Music and Urban Culture in Bamako, Mali, consid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Resisting Western Epistemologies of Gender and Hmong Women's Lives. What does it mean to be a Hmong woman through the 'western gaze' of anthropologists and ethnographers? In this presentation, Leena Her traces the genealogy of how Hmong women's lives have been written, analyzed and theorized by western scholars. This genealogical project began w...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Her, Leena
Created:
2010-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Resisting Western Epistemologies of Gender and Hmong Women's Lives. What does it mean to be a Hmong woman through the 'western gaze' of anthropologists and ethnographers? In this presentation, Leena Her traces the genealogy of how Hmong women's lives have been written, analyzed and theorized by western scholars. This genealogical project began w...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Her, Leena
Created:
2010-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Makes the Miao the Miao? Saturday Session 2B. Yonglin Jiang, East Asian Studies, Bryn Mawr College, and Donald Sutton, History, Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the second Hmong Across Borders conference on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Hosted by The Consortium for Hmong Studies between the University of M...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jiang, Yonglin; Sutton, Donald
Created:
2013-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Makes the Miao the Miao? Saturday Session 2B. Yonglin Jiang, East Asian Studies, Bryn Mawr College, and Donald Sutton, History, Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the second Hmong Across Borders conference on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Hosted by The Consortium for Hmong Studies between the University of M...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jiang, Yonglin; Sutton, Donald
Created:
2013-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
An Argentine Genocide? Individual Accountability and Collective Guilt during the 1976-83 Dictatorship. A talk by Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Anthropology, Utrecht University.The sentencing of Argentine officers for carrying out genocide by disappearing tens of thousands of citizens has opened a public debate about agency and accountability during th...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Robben, Antonius
Created:
2013-11-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
An Argentine Genocide? Individual Accountability and Collective Guilt during the 1976-83 Dictatorship. A talk by Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Anthropology, Utrecht University.The sentencing of Argentine officers for carrying out genocide by disappearing tens of thousands of citizens has opened a public debate about agency and accountability during th...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Robben, Antonius
Created:
2013-11-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal. Very late in the New Deal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated an ambitious program of cooperative land-use planning. It signaled something new in American history: a national network of local organizations that combined representatives of a major economic sector (her...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gilbert, Jess
Created:
2016-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Guantánamo Site of Conscience? Remembering Gitmo long before‚Äîand long after‚Äî9/11.Guantánamo has become an international symbol of torture, detention, national security, and conflict over America's War on Terror. It has divided US society, the US and Cuba, and the US and its international allies. After more than a decade of bitter struggle ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sevcenko, Liz
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Guantánamo Site of Conscience? Remembering Gitmo long before‚Äîand long after‚Äî9/11.Guantánamo has become an international symbol of torture, detention, national security, and conflict over America's War on Terror. It has divided US society, the US and Cuba, and the US and its international allies. After more than a decade of bitter struggle ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sevcenko, Liz
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Air's Substantiations. This talk considers some of the acts and practices through which air has become a meaningful, knowable, and eventful substance in Hong Kong — as a medical fact, as a bodily engagement, as an international index, and as a medium of social difference. Tracking the activities of air as it moves across the edges, distinguish...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Choy, Timothy
Created:
2010-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
INTERTEXTILE: TEXT IN EXILE: Shmata Mash-Up, A Jewette for Two Voices. A performance of poetry/scholarship that investigates the pun shmata (rag)/shma'ata (the text at hand) in the interwoven significance of text and textile throughout Jewish history and culture. Performed by University of Minnesota professor Maria Damon and Adeena Karasick, an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Damon, Maria; Karasick, Adeena
Created:
2013-02-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
INTERTEXTILE: TEXT IN EXILE: Shmata Mash-Up, A Jewette for Two Voices. A performance of poetry/scholarship that investigates the pun shmata (rag)/shma'ata (the text at hand) in the interwoven significance of text and textile throughout Jewish history and culture. Performed by University of Minnesota professor Maria Damon and Adeena Karasick, an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Damon, Maria; Karasick, Adeena
Created:
2013-02-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Alan Sparhawk in Conversation Alan Sparhawk (of Low, Retribution Gospel Choir) reflects on the process of songwriting, recounts his experiences of working as a professional singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer for over twenty years, and discusses selected songs in detail.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sparhawk, Alan
Created:
2014-05-05
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.
American Indian Sovereignty Matters.Presented by the Department of American Indian Studies & the Circle of Indigenous NationsProgram:Jillian Rowan ~ WelcomeCantemaza Neil McKay ~ Blessing, 1862/ Dakota HomelandsProfessor Jean O'Brien ~ Department of American Indian Studies, University of MinnesotaProfessor David Wilkins ~ Sovereignty 101Professo...
American Indian Sovereignty Matters.Presented by the Department of American Indian Studies & the Circle of Indigenous NationsProgram:Jillian Rowan ~ WelcomeCantemaza Neil McKay ~ Blessing, 1862/ Dakota HomelandsProfessor Jean O'Brien ~ Department of American Indian Studies, University of MinnesotaProfessor David Wilkins ~ Sovereignty 101Professo...
From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis and American Teen Girls in Public Recreational Space, 1905-2010. Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group--teenage girls--contributing to a ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Mass Media, Crisis and American Teen Girls in Public Recreational Space, 1905-2010. Shayla Thiel-Stern discusses how the American media historically has used news gathering and reporting techniques that foster moral panic about one historically marginalized and trivialized group--teenage girls--contributing to a ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thiel-Stern, Shayla
Created:
2013-02-07
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.
History Moves. Jennifer Brier will talk about History Moves, a mobile and community-co-curated public history project she leads at the University of Illinois -- Chicago. History Moves began from the idea that people, given the right tools and spaces, can interpret history and produce cultural forms that illuminate the individuals, communities, a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Brier, Jennifer
Created:
2013-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Moving Cell Project Laboratory: They Blinded Me with Science (& Art)!. Biomedical Engineer David Odde and Choreographer Carl Flink explore the creative collision of their science and art as they examine the interior of the living cell. Over the past two years, the Moving Cell Collaborative has developed and deepened a fruitful creative and sci...
A Moving Cell Project Laboratory: They Blinded Me with Science (& Art)!. Biomedical Engineer David Odde and Choreographer Carl Flink explore the creative collision of their science and art as they examine the interior of the living cell. Over the past two years, the Moving Cell Collaborative has developed and deepened a fruitful creative and sci...
To Embrace Failure? A Multi-disciplinary Re-thinking Our point of departure is the productive failure of single authorship and of representation in Bertolt Brecht's theater, which ultimately led to new forms of collectivity and most famously to the Epic Theater. Yet our panel will inquire more broadly into the virtue of failure. What constitutes...
To Embrace Failure? A Multi-disciplinary Re-thinking Our point of departure is the productive failure of single authorship and of representation in Bertolt Brecht's theater, which ultimately led to new forms of collectivity and most famously to the Epic Theater. Yet our panel will inquire more broadly into the virtue of failure. What constitutes...
Northrop Memorial Auditorium -- 1928 -- 2014 An architectural treasure, Northrop is an enduring symbol of the University, the focal point of the Twin Cities campus, and the anchor of the Northrop Mall. Since opening in 1929, Northrop has served as the University's primary gathering place for the performing arts, concerts, academic ceremonies, an...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pflaum, Ann; Summerville, Gary
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Long Shadow of American Slavery: Human Capital, 1850-1910. Richard Steckel, a pioneer in the field of anthropometric history, which uses stature and other anthropometric measures to assess health and nutrition in the past, discusses six linked phenomena observed in Southern black history: a sudden rise in wealth in the late 1800s; extremely ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Steckel, Richard
Created:
2012-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anatomy of a Collaboration The AgriFood Collaborative is a group of faculty, students, and others interested in food and agriculture — we began as a reading group across departments of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, and grew to include a number of members from across the university and many neighbors. We meet regul...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Deutsch, Tracey; Cadieux, Valentine; Muller, Ark
Created:
2014-05-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Panel 2: Beyond the Maya: Case studies of ancient cultures' responses to natural and anthropogenically induced environmental changeClark Erickson (South America), Professor of Anthropology, University of PennsylvaniaRoland Fletcher (Southeast Asia), Professor of Archaeology, University of Sydney, AustraliaJason Ur (Near East), John L. Loeb Assoc...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Erickson, Clark; Fletcher, Roland; Scarborough, Vernon; Ur, Jason
Created:
2013-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Panel 2: Beyond the Maya: Case studies of ancient cultures' responses to natural and anthropogenically induced environmental changeClark Erickson (South America), Professor of Anthropology, University of PennsylvaniaRoland Fletcher (Southeast Asia), Professor of Archaeology, University of Sydney, AustraliaJason Ur (Near East), John L. Loeb Assoc...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Erickson, Clark; Fletcher, Roland; Scarborough, Vernon; Ur, Jason
Created:
2013-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ancient Maya Cave Rituals in Western Belize: Evidence for Human Response to Environmental Change. In Maya cosmology, few locations were (and are) considered more sacred or ritually charged than caves. Representing portals to the underworld and places of origin, these dark subterranean sites were also perceived as the abode for important, powerfu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Awe, Jaime
Created:
2013-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ancient Maya Cave Rituals in Western Belize: Evidence for Human Response to Environmental Change. In Maya cosmology, few locations were (and are) considered more sacred or ritually charged than caves. Representing portals to the underworld and places of origin, these dark subterranean sites were also perceived as the abode for important, powerfu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Awe, Jaime
Created:
2013-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Andreas Eckert is Director of re:work International Research Center, Berlin. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eckert, Andreas
Created:
2014-11-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrea Stanislav talks to Peter Shea about her sculpture and installations, public art, and her collaborative project Dubai, Inc. undertaken with photographer Bill Foley.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stanislav, Andrea
Created:
2009-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Light talks to Peter Shea about his work bridging concrete environmental science and abstract environmental ethics, his belief in restoration ecology, and practical ways to deal with climate change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Pask talks to Peter Shea about his formation as a session mission, performer, and composer, his musical relationship to computers, and his enjoyment of the Spark Festival.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pask, Andrew
Created:
2007-02-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andrew Stone talks to Peter Shea about his research into Soviet orphanages, on the emotional lives of their inhabitants and the educational philosophy of the Soviet state.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Stone, Andrew
Created:
2013-04-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Sturdevant talks to Peter Shea about how the local context of Minneapolis shapes his art practice, and the issue of the economics of being an artist.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sturdevant, Andy
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Andy Wilhide is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, researching the histories of migration and refugee resettlement in Minnesota and focusing on the Somali community and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2014-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel: A Renegade Woman Between Early Modern Venice and Istanbul. During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Beatrice Michiel fled an unhappy marriage in Venice for Istanbul. She converted to Islam, taking the name Fatima, married a high Ottoman official, and because of her access to the imperial harem, she was...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dursteler, Eric
Created:
2011-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel: A Renegade Woman Between Early Modern Venice and Istanbul. During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Beatrice Michiel fled an unhappy marriage in Venice for Istanbul. She converted to Islam, taking the name Fatima, married a high Ottoman official, and because of her access to the imperial harem, she was...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dursteler, Eric
Created:
2011-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Network Grows in the Internet: Feminist Publishing in the Cracks of a Broken System The 2008 market collapse's impact on academic publishing in the US was swift: university presses found their budgets cut and in some cases eliminated; faculty members -- pinched by increases in class sizes and administrative work -- were becoming even more relu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Stabile, Carol
Created:
2014-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Network Grows in the Internet: Feminist Publishing in the Cracks of a Broken System The 2008 market collapse's impact on academic publishing in the US was swift: university presses found their budgets cut and in some cases eliminated; faculty members -- pinched by increases in class sizes and administrative work -- were becoming even more relu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Stabile, Carol
Created:
2014-10-28
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.
Anne Hake talks to Peter Shea about her work in Port-au-Prince for three months with the American Refugee Committee researching opportunities for permanent housing solutions.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hake, Anne
Created:
2011-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Juergens talks to Peter Shea about the ways in which her childhood helped her understand injustice, and the reasons that she chose to come back to Minnesota.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Juergens, Ann
Created:
2012-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Marie Barry talks to Peter Shea about her love of literature, the neurology of visual communication, how they filter into her teaching methods, and the danger of satire.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Barry, Ann Marie
Created:
2009-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Treacy has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has worked extensively with the Internet since 1995. As a former librarian, she is interested in making information accessible to more users -- by improving the pipes that the information travels through as well as improving organization of information. Towards that end, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Ann
Created:
2014-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Waltner and Jacqueline Schwab in Conversation. Ann Waltner discusses creativity and collaboration with Jacqueline Schwab. They will talk about Schwab's collaborations with Ken Burns, her work with the durable (and fabulous) band Bare Necessities, and the ways in which a musician in a dance band thinks about collaboration with the dancers. Ja...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Schwab, Jacqueline; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2017-04-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Waltner talks to Peter Shea about Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci’s Kunyu wanguo quantu, or Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth (1602), the oldest surviving Chinese map to show the Americas.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-07-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Anselm Hollo talks to Peter Shea about how he became a poet and translator, his involvement with Naropa University, and his thoughts about writing and quotation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hollo, Anselm
Created:
2007-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Biofallibility Today: Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History. Antibiotic resistance is discussed here as a practical problem for medicine, agriculture and society that also raises critical theoretical questions about life and history. These examples demonstrate the crossing point of biopower and industrialization: how technologies of b...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Landecker, Hannah
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Biofallibility Today: Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History. Antibiotic resistance is discussed here as a practical problem for medicine, agriculture and society that also raises critical theoretical questions about life and history. These examples demonstrate the crossing point of biopower and industrialization: how technologies of b...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Landecker, Hannah
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Antihumanism: From Tuma√Ø to the Posthuman. This lecture develops a cosmopolitics sustained by an antihumanist perspective. Ecological disasters are not due to anthropocentrism, but rather to anthropo-indemnification. Our main question will be: how to get rid of processes of immunization that are destroying life? Frédéric Neyrat is a philosopher...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Neyrat, Frederic
Created:
2011-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Antihumanism: From Tuma√Ø to the Posthuman. This lecture develops a cosmopolitics sustained by an antihumanist perspective. Ecological disasters are not due to anthropocentrism, but rather to anthropo-indemnification. Our main question will be: how to get rid of processes of immunization that are destroying life? Frédéric Neyrat is a philosopher...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Neyrat, Frederic
Created:
2011-03-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Newes from the Dead': an unnatural moment in the history of Natural Philosophy. In 1650 Oxford is in the midst of the Bloody civil war, in which divine and secular authority are both at issue. A young woman, hanged for infanticide, is given over to the university scholars, for an anatomy lesson. Shockingly she 'comes back to life' on the anatom...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Taylor, Jane
Created:
2016-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Anthropologie,' Rhetorical Therapy, and the Passions. Among the theologians associated with the Westminster Confession, Charles Herle, vicar at Winwick, Lancashire, and Edward Reynolds, later bishop of Norwich, both explored ethics and 'policy,' prudence and the passions, in works published in the mid-seventeenth century. This paper investigate...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pender, Stephen
Created:
2011-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Anthropologie,' Rhetorical Therapy, and the Passions. Among the theologians associated with the Westminster Confession, Charles Herle, vicar at Winwick, Lancashire, and Edward Reynolds, later bishop of Norwich, both explored ethics and 'policy,' prudence and the passions, in works published in the mid-seventeenth century. This paper investigate...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pender, Stephen
Created:
2011-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
