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...
