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.
Provost's Roundtable: Arts, Humanities and Design in the 21st-Century Land-Grant University Karen Hanson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Minnesota. Renée Cheng, Past Chair, Imagine Fund Grant Programs in Arts, Design, & Humanities. Ann Waltner, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. University ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hanson, Karen; Chang, Renee; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
University Symposium on Body & Knowing: What Did We Learn?. In this closing roundtable discussion will once again ask questions about what we know about the body and how we know it, and how people in different times and places have articulated their knowledges about the body. Participants will include Margaret Adamek, Juliette Cherbuliez, Alan L...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Adamek, Margaret; Cherbuliez, Juliette; Love, Alan; Shank, J.B.; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-05-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Casa Cushman: Leigh Fondakowski Discusses Her New Play. Casa Cushman is an ensemble play about the life and work of 19th century American actress Charlotte Cushman. One of the most important actresses of her time, Cushman was famous for her interpretation of the leading MALE roles in Shakespeare. Cushman continually challenged Victorian notions ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-04-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Charlemagne's Mediterranean Empire. Keynote Address by Bernard Bachrach, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, with introduction by Ann Waltner, director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Part of the conference Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today, organized by the Mediterranean Collaborative. Duri...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bachrach, Bernard; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2011-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making the Mississippi: Formulating New Water Narratives for the 21st Century and Beyond. Principal Investigators Kat Hayes, Pat Nunnally and Ann Waltner discuss the 2014-15 Mellon Foundation funded Sawyer Seminar.The IAS will convene an interdisciplinary Sawyer Seminar, Making the Mississippi: Formulating new water narratives for the 21st centu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hayes, Katherine; Nunnally, Pat; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making the Mississippi: Formulating New Water Narratives for the 21st Century and Beyond. Principal Investigators Kat Hayes, Pat Nunnally and Ann Waltner discuss the 2014-15 Mellon Foundation funded Sawyer Seminar.The IAS will convene an interdisciplinary Sawyer Seminar, Making the Mississippi: Formulating new water narratives for the 21st centu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hayes, Katherine; Nunnally, Pat; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Human Rights and 'Uncivil Wars'. This discussion with two attorneys (David Weissbrodt and Caroline Palmer) and one performer (Leslie van Duzer) takes as its starting point the performance of Uncivil Wars, by David Gordon and his Pick Up Company, which will be shown at the Walker Art Center March 12-14. Participants discuss the ways in which huma...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Palmer, Caroline; Van Duzer, Leslie; Waltner, Ann; Weissbrodt, David
Created:
2009-03-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Valentine Cadieux, Tracey Deutsch, and Ann Waltner introduce the Minnesota Futures Symposium How We Talk about Feeding the World. The goal of this symposium is to build on frameworks for discussing the complex and often contentious issues that challenge interdisciplinary attempts to talk about food politics. In five panels and a series of discus...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cadieux, Valentine; Deutsch, Tracey; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2011-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Introductory Remarks. The Conference on Public Art and Democracy is occasioned by the confluence of four important events affecting the Twin Cities: Speaking of Home, artist Nancy Ann Coyne's photographic public artwork exploring the meaning of home, acculturation, and alienation for new Americans in the Twin Cities; the thirtieth anniversary of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Welcoming Remarks.The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busines...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sullivan, E. Thomas; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Discussion 3: Reality and Fiction. Join world-renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa and American playwright Leigh Fondakowski for a series of thought-provoking discussions as they explore their fields, unearthing surprising commonalities. Artistic thinking freely ranges across the philosophical and experiential ground of the arts from poet...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh; Pallasmaa, Juhani; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2010-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Panel Discussion on North Korea Today. How can we make sense out of the news coming out of North Korea today? Come listen to Travis Workman (ALL) and Hangtae Cho (ALL) discuss recent events and provide their insights. Moderated by Ann Waltner, History.Cosponsors: Department of History, Critical Asian Studies Research Collaborative, Asian Languag...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cho, Hangtae; Waltner, Ann; Workman, Travis
Created:
2014-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking the City. The rebuilt I-35W/St. Anthony Falls bridge was completed just a couple of weeks ago, but the tasks of rebuilding after the disaster of August 1, 2007 are not complete. News reports indicate continued debate over issues associated with public infrastructure. Victims and their families continue to deal with the aftermath. Busi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas; Martin, Judith; Miller, Roger; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Site & Incitement and the Bat of Minerva. A discussion with Peter Shea and Danny Robinson Clark, moderated by Ann Waltner.Peter Shea, Danny Clark and Ann Waltner discuss Peter's interview with Danny Robinson Clark — an actor, sort of retired, where he thinks about his craft. The discussion will range freely, from the substance of the interview...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Danny Robinson; Shea, Peter; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-11-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Disruption and Containment: Thinking about Tanyangzi in Comparative Perspective. Religious women are often disruptive: They may violate gender norms by refusing to marry. They may violate social norms by refusal to eat or engaging in other ascetic practices. They may stretch common sense credulity thorough heroic practices. Tanyangzi was a young...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2015-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Disruption and Containment: Thinking about Tanyangzi in Comparative Perspective. Religious women are often disruptive: They may violate gender norms by refusing to marry. They may violate social norms by refusal to eat or engaging in other ascetic practices. They may stretch common sense credulity thorough heroic practices. Tanyangzi was a young...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2015-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chinese Students at the University of Minnesota: The First Ten Years (1914 -- 1924). IAS Director and History Professor Ann Waltner helps the University of Minnesota China Center celebrate 100 years of international exchange. The first Chinese students, Pan Wen Huen, Pan Wen Ping, and Kwong Yih Kum, enrolled at the University in 1914. Today, the...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-10-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chinese Students at the University of Minnesota: The First Ten Years (1914 -- 1924). IAS Director and History Professor Ann Waltner helps the University of Minnesota China Center celebrate 100 years of international exchange. The first Chinese students, Pan Wen Huen, Pan Wen Ping, and Kwong Yih Kum, enrolled at the University in 1914. Today, the...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-10-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.