Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In the search of a good story: Origins and continuities in writing the history of science. Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and Affiliate Assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ragab, Ahmed
Created:
2015-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Moseley talks to Peter Shea about food security issues in Africa, and some of the food policy issues facing African governments, in light of a recent trip to Botswana.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Moseley, William
Created:
2012-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William LaFleur talks to Peter Shea about differences between the beliefs of Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian societies with respect to issues such as abortion and organ donation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LaFleur, William
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
William Cunningham talks to Peter Shea about his experience as a biological and environmental scientist, his authoring of a leading environmental science textbook, globalisation, and accellerating environmental change.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cunningham, William
Created:
2008-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Language learners at Wicoie Nandagikendan immersion pre-school open a Healing Place Collaborative event at the Institute for Advanced Study with song and ceremony.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Created:
2015-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Philosophy Here and Now? Critical and Transformative Challenges to a Conservative Discipline—Decolonial, Feminist, and Critical Race Perspectives. Academic philosophy has been the home of the allegedly generic rational European man, with epistemology at the center of that home. Join in a conversation with two epistemologists who are commit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dotson, Kristie; Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Where is the Human in the Data? This workshop is the launching point for a critical data science study project that is jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study. The workshop will include lightning talks by graduate students, table discussions, and developing 10 Questions for Crit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hiland, Emma; MacKenzie, Lars; Coral, Deniz; Krieg, Katelin; Fink, Alexander; Van Oort, Madison; Hassoun, Amelia; Savigano, Stephen; Swanson, Link
Created:
2016-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What's Next for the Humanities? Amid rising concerns about the possibility of cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the question of who is safeguarding the future of the humanities is more important than ever. Join us for a conversation with Teresa Mangum, Secretary of the National Humanities Alliance, on current NHA ini...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mangum, Teresa
Created:
2017-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What's Modern about Visuals, Gestures, and Technology?. 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...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Newman, Sara
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is/was a book? Some answers from the Romantic period. Nearly two decades ago William Paulson declared that electronically stored and retrieved text, in comparison with its printed predecessor, is almost infinitely malleable and labile; his contrast between the digital text's openness to modification and recontextualization and the stasis of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lynch, Deirdre
Created:
2015-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In. Although it is indisputable that we are now—and will be for the foreseeable future—reading increasingly from digital sources, what is less clear is how we adapt to the shift away from interactions with the familiar and durable media of paper and print. This talk reports on more than 2...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Prendergast, Catherine
Created:
2011-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In. Although it is indisputable that we are now—and will be for the foreseeable future—reading increasingly from digital sources, what is less clear is how we adapt to the shift away from interactions with the familiar and durable media of paper and print. This talk reports on more than 2...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Prendergast, Catherine
Created:
2011-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Are They Important?. Have you ever wondered what the Dead Sea Scrolls are and why there is so much controversy surrounding them? This presentation will provide a general introduction to the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and explore where they come from, when they were composed, why they have become scanda...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jassen, Alex
Created:
2010-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Are They Important?. Have you ever wondered what the Dead Sea Scrolls are and why there is so much controversy surrounding them? This presentation will provide a general introduction to the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and explore where they come from, when they were composed, why they have become scanda...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jassen, Alex
Created:
2010-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Renegotiating Bodies: 'Minnesota Project' and Seoul National University Hospital, 1954-1968 Professor DiMoia considers the second of Korea's massive confrontations with Western biomedicine, occurring during and after the Korean War as Americans and other international actors contributed large amounts of aid to the Korean field of medicine. DiMoi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
DiMoia, John
Created:
2014-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Renegotiating Bodies: 'Minnesota Project' and Seoul National University Hospital, 1954-1968 Professor DiMoia considers the second of Korea's massive confrontations with Western biomedicine, occurring during and after the Korean War as Americans and other international actors contributed large amounts of aid to the Korean field of medicine. DiMoi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
DiMoia, John
Created:
2014-03-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Welcome and Opening Remarks byPaul Martin, Senior Vice President of Science Learning, Science Museum of MinnesotaAnn Waltner, Director of the IAS, University of MinnesotaPhyllis Messenger, Symposium Organizer, IAS, University of MinnesotaDiane Z. Chase, Pegasus Professor of Anthropology and Executive Vice Provost, University of Central Florida. ...
Welcome to the New Northrop Provost Hanson inaugurates Northrop as a multifaceted, state-of-the art cultural and intellectual center—the hearth of the University, reinvented for the 21st century. Now home to three University-wide academic programs, Northrop is poised to be a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, enhanced teaching and learni...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hanson, Karen; Tschida, Christine
Created:
2014-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Welcome to the Hmong Across Borders Conference. Welcome and Opening Remarks by Mai Na M. Lee, History, University of Minnesota; Karen Hanson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Minnesota; Sia Her, Executive Director of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans; Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Yan...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Baird, Ian; Dao, Yang; Hanson, Karen; Her, Sia; Lee, Mai Na M.; Vang, Yang Thai
Created:
2013-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
We Are Water: the University and Minnesota's Water Future. Almost reflexively, Minnesotans say they are proud of the state's waters. Visits up to the lake are cherished parts of many lives and the state walleye fishing opener is practically a state holiday. Yet 41% of the state's waters are impaired, and failing water systems will cost billions ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skuta, Glenn; Hellmann, Jessica; Henderson, Anna; Tonko, Jennifer
Created:
2017-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wastelands and Wilderness. The central component of Peter Galison's work involves the exploration of twentieth century microphysics (atomic, nuclear, and particle physics). In particular, he examines physics as a closely interconnected set of scientific subcultures: experimenters, instrument makers, and theorists. In this talk he discusses the s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Galison, Peter
Created:
2009-01-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Walter Enloe talks to Peter Shea about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, and about his experience as an educator and peace activist in Hiroshima and the Twin Cities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Enloe, Walter
Created:
2011-03-28
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.
Voto Latinx: Organizing Communities and the Upcoming Election. Latinx vote panel discussion and nonpartisan voter registration organized by the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies and Take Action MN. Alondra Cano, Minneapolis Council Member; Henry JimeÃÅnez, Executive Director, Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs; Arianna Genis, Digital Org...
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willerslev, Rane
Created:
2009-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Art of Migration. Since 2003, Kianga Ford has been engaged in research-based projects about locations in the U.S. and abroad that combine historical research and conversations with locals and visitors as the basis for fictional audio tours in the series, The Story of This Place. Fictional characters are overlaid atop real urban landscapes in...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ford, Kianga
Created:
2013-02-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Art of Migration. Since 2003, Kianga Ford has been engaged in research-based projects about locations in the U.S. and abroad that combine historical research and conversations with locals and visitors as the basis for fictional audio tours in the series, The Story of This Place. Fictional characters are overlaid atop real urban landscapes in...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ford, Kianga
Created:
2013-02-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Re-organizing the Sensory World: Violence, politics & Zulu song during South Africa's transition. What happens when artists refute music as a political act yet by force of circumstance are embroiled in political violence, when masculine bravado that produces eloquent art at once can fuel conflict? These questions collide in South Africa today, w...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Meintjes, Louise
Created:
2015-11-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Violence and Health Injustice: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Communities. We are pleased to announce the second event in a three-part series on Violence and Health Injustice focused on the political issues and health outcomes of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented communities in the United states and Canada. Our panels of huma...
Decolonizing the Ear: The Reverberations of Vernacular Musics in the Era of Electrical Recording Prof. Denning will present a study of the dramatic transformations in vernacular musics that take place around the world in the years between 1925 and 1931 in the wake of electrical recording, radio broadcasting and sound film, their place in the wor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Denning, Michael
Created:
2014-04-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Decolonizing the Ear: The Reverberations of Vernacular Musics in the Era of Electrical Recording Prof. Denning will present a study of the dramatic transformations in vernacular musics that take place around the world in the years between 1925 and 1931 in the wake of electrical recording, radio broadcasting and sound film, their place in the wor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Denning, Michael
Created:
2014-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Venetia 1500 ¬°Sacabuche!, an early music ensemble directed by Linda Pearse, explores the world of Venice portrayed in Jacopo di Barbari's map of the city, published in 1500. The winding streets of the map and the polyphony of the music resonate with one another. Texts read by Ann Waltner and John Watkins are pulled from a variety of sixteenth a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann; Watkins, John
Created:
2014-05-08
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Families' Conversations about the Dictatorship: Pedagogies of Private Transmission Why do family conversations matter in processes of intergenerational transmission of traumatic pasts. Family conversations serve as triggers to reconstructions of memory that link self and others connecting past, present and future. Besides passing on information ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Achugar, Mariana
Created:
2014-03-06
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Families' Conversations about the Dictatorship: Pedagogies of Private Transmission Why do family conversations matter in processes of intergenerational transmission of traumatic pasts. Family conversations serve as triggers to reconstructions of memory that link self and others connecting past, present and future. Besides passing on information ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Achugar, Mariana
Created:
2014-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Bottom Up. Investigating three ordinary urban practices; garage sales, street vending and vacant lots made into parks, Margaret Crawford unearths unexpected meaning and significance. Carefully studying these usually overlooked aspects of Los Angeles, she discovers an alternative set of urban principals that can inform urban design and p...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Crawford, Margaret
Created:
2010-03-23
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Bottom Up. Investigating three ordinary urban practices; garage sales, street vending and vacant lots made into parks, Margaret Crawford unearths unexpected meaning and significance. Carefully studying these usually overlooked aspects of Los Angeles, she discovers an alternative set of urban principals that can inform urban design and p...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Crawford, Margaret
Created:
2010-03-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: Examining the University's Relationship with Mexican Communities. For over a year, a group of faculty and graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been working on an international collaboration with colleagues in Mexico on a series of research, teaching, and outreach questions around technology, educatio...
Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: Examining the University's Relationship with Mexican Communities. For over a year, a group of faculty and graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been working on an international collaboration with colleagues in Mexico on a series of research, teaching, and outreach questions around technology, educatio...
Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948 How did self-determination get written into human rights? And by whom? In her lecture, Lydia Liu reopens the story of how the postwar norms of human rights were radically transformed by an unexpected clash with the classical standard of civilization in international law. She a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liu, Lydia
Created:
2014-04-25
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shadows of Universalism: The Untold Story of Human Rights Around 1948 How did self-determination get written into human rights? And by whom? In her lecture, Lydia Liu reopens the story of how the postwar norms of human rights were radically transformed by an unexpected clash with the classical standard of civilization in international law. She a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liu, Lydia
Created:
2014-04-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Unnatural Disasters: How Law Hurts, How Law Can Help It's seductively deceptive to call floods and other catastrophes natural. They are anything but. Storms may well be natural phenomenon, but humans have an uncanny ability to exacerbate their own vulnerability to them by shortsighted engineering projects, undue faith in technology, poor decisio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zellmer, Sandra
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Unnatural Disasters: How Law Hurts, How Law Can Help It's seductively deceptive to call floods and other catastrophes natural. They are anything but. Storms may well be natural phenomenon, but humans have an uncanny ability to exacerbate their own vulnerability to them by shortsighted engineering projects, undue faith in technology, poor decisio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zellmer, Sandra
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
How Unleashed Capitalism Produces Economic Crises: What is to be done?. The collapse of the U.S. financial system, and subsequent severe recession, demonstrate, yet again, the simple point that unleashed capitalism-operating without tight regulations on financial markets, among other public policy interventions-promotes financial instability, ma...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pollin, Robert
Created:
2009-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food. This roundtable discussion investigates how universities have come to be invested in feeding the world. That includes talking about the origins of agricultural schools, the creation of the land grant university, more recent investments in the green r...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Adamek, Margaret; Hinrichs, Clare; Waltner, Ann; Wilk, Richard
Created:
2011-03-03
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food. This roundtable discussion investigates how universities have come to be invested in feeding the world. That includes talking about the origins of agricultural schools, the creation of the land grant university, more recent investments in the green r...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Adamek, Margaret; Hinrichs, Clare; Waltner, Ann; Wilk, Richard
Created:
2011-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Information Observatories as Tools for Networked Policy-Making: the Case of UNICEF Oman's Disability Observatory. David S. Porcaro, Ph.D., is Director of Global Outreach and Education Specialist at Seward Incorporated, and an Instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Tamara Weiss is a Ph.D. candid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Porcaro, David; Weiss, Tamara
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Information Observatories as Tools for Networked Policy-Making: the Case of UNICEF Oman's Disability Observatory. David S. Porcaro, Ph.D., is Director of Global Outreach and Education Specialist at Seward Incorporated, and an Instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Tamara Weiss is a Ph.D. candid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Porcaro, David; Weiss, Tamara
Created:
2014-01-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness. In this lecture, Poovey describes the current financial crisis and argues that regulators need to identify the heart of the problem before they can devise a workable corrective. She suggests that what caused -- and now prolongs -- the financial crisis is a novel financial inst...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Poovey, Mary
Created:
2009-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness. In this lecture, Poovey describes the current financial crisis and argues that regulators need to identify the heart of the problem before they can devise a workable corrective. She suggests that what caused -- and now prolongs -- the financial crisis is a novel financial inst...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Poovey, Mary
Created:
2009-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.