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
Contributor:
Akcam, Taner
Created:
2006-11-29
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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 ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cole, Juan
Created:
2007-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World. For the ancient Greeks, existence and embodiment where virtually indistinguishable, and closely linked to knowledge. These linkages are found at the level where language operated. Special embodiments, like that of the Sirens and Centaurs, implied special knowledge. Greek medicine, though constr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Garrison, Daniel H.
Created:
2009-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World. For the ancient Greeks, existence and embodiment where virtually indistinguishable, and closely linked to knowledge. These linkages are found at the level where language operated. Special embodiments, like that of the Sirens and Centaurs, implied special knowledge. Greek medicine, though constr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Garrison, Daniel H.
Created:
2009-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Betty, Barbara, Joan and Jane: The Gendered Dimensions of Highway Construction in Postwar America. This talk considers the gendered politics of highway construction in postwar America, emphasizing the role of diverse women — as artists, writers and community activists — in the social conflicts sparked by building a national highway infrastru...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Avila, Eric
Created:
2009-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Betty, Barbara, Joan and Jane: The Gendered Dimensions of Highway Construction in Postwar America. This talk considers the gendered politics of highway construction in postwar America, emphasizing the role of diverse women — as artists, writers and community activists — in the social conflicts sparked by building a national highway infrastru...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Avila, Eric
Created:
2009-04-28
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.
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.
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.
The Florida Everglades: an Entangled Landscape. Laura Ogden discusses her research with alligator hunters in the Florida Everglades, in which she maps the entanglement between the natural and human worlds of bodies, geographies, biota and mythologies. Cultural Anthropologist Laura Ogden guides a rich historical and cultural exploration of the Fl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ogden, Laura
Created:
2010-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Florida Everglades: an Entangled Landscape. Laura Ogden discusses her research with alligator hunters in the Florida Everglades, in which she maps the entanglement between the natural and human worlds of bodies, geographies, biota and mythologies. Cultural Anthropologist Laura Ogden guides a rich historical and cultural exploration of the Fl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ogden, Laura
Created:
2010-01-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking 1633: Writing the Life of Galileo after the Trial. In 1633, astronomer and mathematician Galileo was put on trial by the Church for his heliocentric views. In this presentation, historian Paula Findlen discusses how 17th century biographers and Catholic scholars grappled with the controversy of Galileo's trial in their attempts to wri...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Findlen, Paula
Created:
2010-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rethinking 1633: Writing the Life of Galileo after the Trial. In 1633, astronomer and mathematician Galileo was put on trial by the Church for his heliocentric views. In this presentation, historian Paula Findlen discusses how 17th century biographers and Catholic scholars grappled with the controversy of Galileo's trial in their attempts to wri...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Findlen, Paula
Created:
2010-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
World Food Prices Aren't Too High, They're Too Low: How Cheap Food is Destabilizing the Global Economy. The revolution in Tunis during January of 2011 began as a food riot. In recent weeks, markets in Algiers and Cairo have erupted, and malnutrition has reached 17 percent in Agadez, the largest city in the Sahel. Reports from the UN and the Worl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cullather, Nick
Created:
2011-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
World Food Prices Aren't Too High, They're Too Low: How Cheap Food is Destabilizing the Global Economy. The revolution in Tunis during January of 2011 began as a food riot. In recent weeks, markets in Algiers and Cairo have erupted, and malnutrition has reached 17 percent in Agadez, the largest city in the Sahel. Reports from the UN and the Worl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cullather, Nick
Created:
2011-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Race for Empire: Critical Book Discussion with Takashi Fujitani Fujitani's ground-breaking book, Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II (University of California Press, 2011), is a truly transnational work that offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobil...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fujitani, Takashi
Created:
2014-03-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Race for Empire: Critical Book Discussion with Takashi Fujitani Fujitani's ground-breaking book, Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II (University of California Press, 2011), is a truly transnational work that offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobil...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fujitani, Takashi
Created:
2014-03-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Beyond the Modernist Understanding of Consciousness. Roundtable with Matthew Chafee, Neuroscience; Jan Estep, Art; Nicole Scott, Cognitive Science; and Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard, History. Moderated by Apostolos Georgopoulos, Neuroscience and JB Shank, History. Our forum is inspired by the proposition that current thinking about mind, body and c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matthew; Estep, Jan; Georgopoulos, Apostolos; Scott, Nicole; Shank, JB; Smail, Daniel Lord
Created:
2015-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
