Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness. In this lecture, Poovey describes the current financial crisis and argues that regulators need to identify the heart of the problem before they can devise a workable corrective. She suggests that what caused -- and now prolongs -- the financial crisis is a novel financial inst...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Poovey, Mary
Created:
2009-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness. In this lecture, Poovey describes the current financial crisis and argues that regulators need to identify the heart of the problem before they can devise a workable corrective. She suggests that what caused -- and now prolongs -- the financial crisis is a novel financial inst...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Poovey, Mary
Created:
2009-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste. Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste. Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gikandi, Simon
Created:
2009-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Suicide Collectors. David Oppegaard reads excerpts from his critically acclaimed novel the Suicide Collectors. He also fields questions from the audience.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Oppegaard, David
Created:
2009-02-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
(Un)Common Ground: Space and Place in African American and Native American Convergences. This talk explores the ways that place can function as a facilitator of convergences between African American and Native American communities. While dominant discourses suggest that African Americans and Native Americans occupy fundamentally separate spheres...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Davis, LaRose
Created:
2009-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
(Un)Common Ground: Space and Place in African American and Native American Convergences. This talk explores the ways that place can function as a facilitator of convergences between African American and Native American communities. While dominant discourses suggest that African Americans and Native Americans occupy fundamentally separate spheres...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Davis, LaRose
Created:
2009-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The World According to the Bank: an Analysis of World Bank Reports, 1946-2010 Like the post-world-war-II capitalism which it contributed to reorganize and transform, the World Bank seems to have gone through two fundamental periods: the age of reconstruction and infrastructure -- the Trente Glorieuses from the end of war to the mid-Seventies -- ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moretti, Franco
Created:
2014-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The World According to the Bank: an Analysis of World Bank Reports, 1946-2010 Like the post-world-war-II capitalism which it contributed to reorganize and transform, the World Bank seems to have gone through two fundamental periods: the age of reconstruction and infrastructure -- the Trente Glorieuses from the end of war to the mid-Seventies -- ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moretti, Franco
Created:
2014-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World. David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer. He has won numerous awards in Australia for his work in the theatre. Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Depa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Milroy, David
Created:
2008-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Digital Poetics: An Interactive Reading. John Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, and all these activities have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 and is currently a visiting professor at Br...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cayley, John; Raley, Rita
Created:
2009-03-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.