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.