A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility. Taner Akcam discusses his new book, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (2006), with Eric Weitz. Taner Akcam was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History during 2006-07 and is currently associate professor in the Departme...
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Akcam, Taner
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2006-11-29
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Genocide Tribunals: Native Human Rights and Survivance. A lecture by author Gerald Vizenor, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who proposes establishing formal tribunals in various states to indict and prosecute alleged perpetrators, in absentia, of crim...
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Vizenor, Gerald
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2006-10-10
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work? Lecture and reception in honor of Kathryn Sikkink, recently named Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota. Since the 1980s, states have been increasingly addressing past human rights violations using multiple transitional justice mechanisms including domestic and international hum...
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Sikkink, Kathryn
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2007-01-29
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Love and Kitsch. Question and Answer session with Dr. Joshua Gunn (University of Texas) at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetoric Colloquium, Oct. 4 2007.
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Gunn, Joshua
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2007-10-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Marion Mahony. Presentation on Women in Architecture by Dr. Elizabeth Birmingham of Northwestern University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Birmingham, Elizabeth
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2007-10-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'. Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. The internet has opened up new ways for intellectuals to interact with the ...
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Cole, Juan
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2007-04-05
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Lyceum and Women. Question and Answer session given by Dr. Angela Ray of Northwestern University's Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Ray, Angela
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2007-10-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Pale Memory originally presented as The Poetry of Time and the Disorientation of Memory. This project uses music and animation to bring to life a poem by the obscure turn-of-the-century author Samuel Greenberg (1893-1917). The artists manipulate the interplay between these mediums in order to disorient the way they are perceived by the viewe...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Merigliano, John; Rubin, Justin
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2007-10-01
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Trivium and New Technologies. Presentation on New Media and Digital Communication by Kevin Brooks of North Dakota State University at the University of Minnesota Duluth's Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Colloquium, Oct. 4, 2007.
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Brooks, Kevin
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2007-10-04
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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...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Silva, Noenoe
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2008-12-05
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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...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Silva, Noenoe
Created:
2008-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Amnesty and Justice in International Law. International criminal justice is a growing force in the dynamic of globalization, promoting a border-crossing regime of accountability for international crimes and challenging the traditional primacy of domestic criminal law systems. At the same time, nations dealing with a difficult transition to democ...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pensky, Max
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2008-11-06
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Amnesty and Justice in International Law. International criminal justice is a growing force in the dynamic of globalization, promoting a border-crossing regime of accountability for international crimes and challenging the traditional primacy of domestic criminal law systems. At the same time, nations dealing with a difficult transition to democ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Pensky, Max
Created:
2008-11-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
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2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context. This presentation explores the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy. Moving from the rights philosophy of Peter Singer and others, to critiques of the rights framework by Co...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolfe, Cary
Created:
2008-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In Small Things Discounted: Architecture and World Making. In this talk Arijit Sen discusses the growth of an immigrant fast food store in Berkeley in order to explore how small inconsequential transformations in the material environment, when cumulatively examined, can provide us a window from which to study larger processes framing world makin...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sen, Arijit
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2008-09-16
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Other Perspectives on White Supremacy in Jena, Louisiana: The Jena Band of Choctaws, State Politics and Federal Policy. Session 3. 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 ...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Klopotek, Brian
Created:
2008-12-05
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Civil Society. 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. Businesses...
Conference wrap-up. 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 F...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dubrow, Gail; Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2008-09-27
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.