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.
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.
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...
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.
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster. 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 ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Birch, Eugenie
Created:
2008-10-10
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
Created:
2008-10-10
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.
Capstone Comment. 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:
Bruininks, Bob
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The River. 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 in ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anfinson, John; Labovitz, Paul; Nunnally, Pat; Swackhamer, Deb
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The River. 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 in ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anfinson, John; Labovitz, Paul; Nunnally, Pat; Swackhamer, Deb
Created:
2008-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future. Climate change. Population growth. Widespread pollution. Increasing consumption. Fossil fuel depletion. Loss of biodiversity. Degraded land and water…. Complex environmental problems have taken center stage in the early 21st century and will present enormous c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jonathan
Created:
2009-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future. Climate change. Population growth. Widespread pollution. Increasing consumption. Fossil fuel depletion. Loss of biodiversity. Degraded land and water…. Complex environmental problems have taken center stage in the early 21st century and will present enormous c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jonathan
Created:
2009-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge -- Roundtable Discussion. Tucked below the street level and parkways in south Minneapolis and the Highland neighborhood of St. Paul, the Mississippi River Gorge is, literally, often overlooked. Located between the Minnesota/Mississippi River confluence and the Falls of St. Anthony, this reach of the riv...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine; Lenhart, Chris; Nunnally, Pat; Vreeland, Scott
Created:
2009-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. This presentation argues for a conception of trans-corporeality, in which the human body is in constant interchange with the material world--a world of often unpredictable and unknowable agencies. The talk will examine how material memoirs, modes of activism, and popular culture texts,...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Alaimo, Stacy
Created:
2009-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wastelands and Wilderness. The central component of Peter Galison's work involves the exploration of twentieth century microphysics (atomic, nuclear, and particle physics). In particular, he examines physics as a closely interconnected set of scientific subcultures: experimenters, instrument makers, and theorists. In this talk he discusses the s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Galison, Peter
Created:
2009-01-23
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.