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...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Schwab, Jacqueline; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2017-04-25
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Arab Future Trippings and Algorithmic Vision. Whether studying, designing or using algorithms, researchers need to understand how their questions intersect with the logics of automation and scale underpinning networked, computational platforms. In this lecture, VJ Um Amel presents a hybrid approach to analyzing various procedural algorithms, the...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sakr, Laila Shereen
Created:
2017-05-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Roundtable: Art as Institutional Practice. Eliza Rasheed, Linwood Monroe Arts Plus Upper Campus; Mike Hoyt, Creative Community Liaison, Pillsbury Theatre. Moderator: Karen Brown, ICGC. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-E...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Brown, Karen; Hoyt, Mike; Rasheed, Eliza
Created:
2017-04-28
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Keynote: Self Help Graphics and Art: Art-based world-making in Los Angeles. Karen Mary Davalos, Chicano and Latino Studies. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-East, April 25-May 13, 2017, by American Studies, Chicano & La...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Davalos, Karen Mary
Created:
2017-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Roundtable: A Conversation with Los Angeles Artists I. Luciano Martinez, Ruben Martinez, Rigo Maldonado. Moderator: Jessica Lopez Lyman, Chicano and Latino Studies. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-East, April 25-May 13...
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Roundtable: A Conversation with Los Angeles Artists II. Joey Terrill, Lalo Ugalde, Miguel Reyes. Moderator: Bianet Castellanos, Chicano and Latino Studies. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-East, April 25-May 13, 2017, b...
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Roundtable: A Conversation with Twin Cities Women of Color Artists. Oskar Ly, Junauda Petrus, Maria Cristina Tavera. Moderator: Gabriella Spears-Rico, Chicano and Latino Studies. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-East, A...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ly, Oskar; Petrus, Junauda; Spears-Rico, Gabriela; Tavera, Maria Cristina
Created:
2017-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Utopian World-Making: Art, Social Justice and Communities of Color. Welcome by Karen Brown, ICGC and Bianet Castellanos, Chicano and Latino Studies. Organized in conjunction with the Remembrance Art Exhibit, Quarter Gallery, Regis Art Center-East, April 25-May 13, 2017, by American Studies, Chicano & Latino Studies, the Interdisciplinary Center ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Brown, Karen; Castellanos, Bianet
Created:
2017-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Sense of Where You Are: Water, Place and Community. The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) is located in Dakota homeland, on one of the great rivers of the world, in a national park. Our responsibilities to this location call us to think about heritage and water in a manner that is fully inclusive. Three community-engaged anthropolog...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Little, Barbara; Shackel, Paul; Watkins, Joe
Created:
2017-04-13
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Black Life/Schwarz-Sein. The talk focuses on the complex ways gender and sexuality function in the barring of Black flesh from the category of the human-as-Man by investigating inhabitations of the flesh that bring to light the relational being-in-the-world of Black Life. That is, examples from literature and music that render the constitutive u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Weheliye, Alexander
Created:
2017-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Black Liveness Matters: Karel Čapek meets Blind Tom. In 1920 the Czech writer Karel Čapek experienced an early success with the play R.U.R., which posed interaction and conflict between human capitalists and a new source of labor, the robota, which has come down to us in various languages as robot. Most English-language critics have been conte...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lewis, George
Created:
2017-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Bargaining in Higher Education. What can collective bargaining do for faculty? What can't it do? How does it work alongside faculty governance? This forum is an opportunity for conversation with speakers who have expertise or first-hand experience in collective bargaining and governance. Together we'll examine whether and how collecti...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Garfinkle, Steven; Boris, Monica; Jones, William
Created:
2017-02-22
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Culture and Materiality: A Roundtable on the Environmental Humanities. Discussion of current work in environmental humanities featuring University of Minnesota faculty Susan Jones (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; History of Science, Technology and Medicine), Christine Marran (Asian Languages and Literatures), Stuart McLean (Anthropology), and ...
Dream of the Red Chamber and the evolving shape of women's literary culture in late imperial China. Chinese women's literary culture shows considerable evolution between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Communications grow easier, the sense of political revisionism yields to thoughts of revolution, and women take on new roles. Adding...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Widmer, Ellen
Created:
2017-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Environmental Humanities on the Schuylkill River: From Botanical Garden and Oil Refinery to DataRefuge. Bethany Wiggin is the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her research interests lie in the intersections between the early modern period and contemporary theoretical concerns, including global and transnational ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wiggin, Bethany
Created:
2017-03-09
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
FLUXUS: Manifestations Through Visual and Performing Arts. Fluxus art in the 1960s and 70s championed concepts of time, chance, impermanence, and the banal, blurring life and art. Appearing on the streets and public environs beyond theaters and traditional exhibition spaces, artist collaborations merged the visual and performing arts. Complement...
Improvising Ecosystems. A collaboration among musicians, artists, cultural knowledge keepers, composers, and dancers, Improvising Ecosystems is catalyzed by visits to ecological sites and the related field research of scientists. The Improvising Ecosystems collaborative continues to develop its practice of attuning to these sites through direct ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Willow, Diane; Radovanlija, Maja; Currie, Scott; Duffy, Michael
Created:
2017-02-23
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Political Economy of Becoming. Shona N. Jackson is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She was founding co-editor of the book series in Caribbean Studies at University Press of Mississippi, and is a member of the editorial boards of Voces del Caribe, Praxis, Wadabagei, a member of the...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jackson, Shona
Created:
2017-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matarākau: Reflections on Māori Healing Traditions in Taranaki. This project works to reclaim the stories of the elders of the Taranaki region in regard to traditional healing practices surrounding traditional healing. ‘Matarākau’ is not about knowledge for knowledge sake. It is about knowledge for the betterment of experiences as Māori. It is a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pihama, Leonie
Created:
2017-05-01
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Multispecies Families. A multitude of exotic animals live within homes and jungly backyards of Florida. Flexible strategies for accumulating and selling valuable animals has helped countless Floridians adapt to sweeping changes in political and economic landscapes. Some kinds of valuable critters, like snakes, resist the conditions of their exis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Kirksey, Eben
Created:
2017-01-26
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Public Space Activism and the Actually Existing Commons. From Google bus blockade in San Francisco to Occupy Gezi Park in Istanbul, public space activism has become a worldwide phenomenon. This talk offers a critical view into a different form of activism in East Asia that involves sharing of rooms, resources, and networks of reciprocity in the ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hou, Jeffrey
Created:
2017-03-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Territoriality, Sovereignty, and Water: Panel Discussion on Indian Rights and Law. A panel of Indigenous scholars and practitioners will discuss water and land rights issues, using Indian law and contemporary issues such as Standing Rock and other environmental contestations as a window into broader, long-standing colonial dynamics. They will ad...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Horse Capture, Joe D.; Houska, Tara; St. John, Tamara; Watkins, Joe; Wilkins, David
Created:
2017-04-13
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Tracing Links to Slavery Where We Are: The University of Minnesota and Wealth from Slave Labor. Christopher Lehman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic and Women's Studies at St. Cloud State University. Cosponsored by the IAS Heritage Collaborative, the Well-Being in the Midwest African Diaspora Collective, the Department of African ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lehman, Christopher
Created:
2017-02-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Women Are Coming': Gendered Spaces of Protest. This presentation focuses on the gendered dynamics in February 20th movement of protest in Morocco. Salime will discuss how the movement incorporated gender struggles into a social justice and equality framework while initiating new modalities around which political, gendered, and sexual identit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Salime, Zakia
Created:
2017-04-27
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.
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.
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...
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.
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk
Created:
2016-02-24
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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.
'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.
Barbara Draper’s poems have been or are pending publication in The Talking Stick, The Aurorean, and Passagers where her poem received an honorable mention. She’s a long time Michigander, now living in Minneapolis. For fun she enjoys downhill skiing and playing with her granddaughters.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Draper, Barbara
Created:
2016-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Beyond the Minnesota Miracle -- Supressed Stories & Solutions. In the last few months, many Minnesotans--and people outside of Minnesota--were surprised at the unrest following the police killing of Philando Castile, and the occupation outside the Governor's mansion. A handful of media outlets covered the stark racial disparities in education, h...
Brechtian Legacies: Expanded Theater. Showing has to be shown, Brecht requested from his actors, and it is perhaps possible to define Brechtian theater (if such thing exists) on the whole by reference to this demand. In a lot of Brecht's plays we find theater-within-theater settings (showing the showing-scenes): Polly's Pirate Jenny in the Three...
Brenda Kayzar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include downtown revitalization, housing provision, and environmental justice.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kayzar, Brenda
Created:
2016-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bruce Glymour is Professor and department head of Philosophy at Kansas State University. In his career, he has been a co-instructor with the Seminar in Scientific Ethics for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and a past board member for Kansas Citizens for Science and the Center for Origins at K-State. He is also a past Fellow o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Glymour, Bruce
Created:
2016-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.