A Sense of Where You Are: Water, Place and Community. The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) is located in Dakota homeland, on one of the great rivers of the world, in a national park. Our responsibilities to this location call us to think about heritage and water in a manner that is fully inclusive. Three community-engaged anthropolog...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Little, Barbara; Shackel, Paul; Watkins, Joe
Created:
2017-04-13
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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...
Memory, Place, Identity: Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse. Thursdays at Four presentation opening the symposium on The City, the River, the Bridge. Yasmeen Arif will be in residence at the IAS in Spring of 2009 in the spring semester as a Quadrant Fellow with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, Afterlife: Recovering Li...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen; Horrigan, Brian; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2008-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Memory, Place, Identity: Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse. Thursdays at Four presentation opening the symposium on The City, the River, the Bridge. Yasmeen Arif will be in residence at the IAS in Spring of 2009 in the spring semester as a Quadrant Fellow with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, Afterlife: Recovering Li...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen; Horrigan, Brian; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2008-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Image as Levee: the Mississippi River before Mark Twain. In the first half of the nineteenth century—decades before Mark Twain's first publications on the topic—the Mississippi River circulated widely in the form of touring paintings, fine art and popular prints, maps, and moving panoramas. These images helped to create expectations about, a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette
Created:
2015-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Image as Levee: the Mississippi River before Mark Twain. In the first half of the nineteenth century—decades before Mark Twain's first publications on the topic—the Mississippi River circulated widely in the form of touring paintings, fine art and popular prints, maps, and moving panoramas. These images helped to create expectations about, a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette
Created:
2015-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Mississippi River Ideas Fair. Come hear about research and teaching on the Mississippi River! Learn about what your colleagues throughout the University of Minnesota are doing in a format that encourages interaction and discussion. Presentations will be five minutes long, and will give a capsule vision of what you are doing, and will end with a ...
More than the Mississippi: the river as 'here'. Keynote address to a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. The Mississippi is a river burdened by its history. The shadows cast by the writings of Mark Twain and celebratory accounts of westward movement obscure many of the narratives a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Day, Sharon; Rock, Jim; Smith, Mona; Messenger,
Created:
2015-04-08
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.
River as Water, or Resilience and Sustainability of the River in an Era of Climate Change. Part of a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. Deb Swackhamer, Program Director, Water Resources Center; Pat Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota; Darlene St. Clair, Multicultural Resource Ce...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hamilton, Patrick; Quick, Kathy; St. Clair, Darlene; Swackhamer, Deborah
Created:
2015-04-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
River as Water, or Resilience and Sustainability of the River in an Era of Climate Change. Part of a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. Deb Swackhamer, Program Director, Water Resources Center; Pat Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota; Darlene St. Clair, Multicultural Resource Ce...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hamilton, Patrick; Quick, Kathy; St. Clair, Darlene; Swackhamer, Deborah
Created:
2015-04-09
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.
Strategies for a Sense of Place: Taking Advantage of Location The University of Minnesota occupies a unique location: on one of the great rivers of the world, and a land grant university in a large metropolitan area. But that sense of place becomes strategic when the University uses it to further its overall mission and goals, as a world-class c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bryson, John; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-09-25
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.
River as Future. Part of a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. John Anfinson, National Park Service; Kat Hayes, Anthropology, University of Minnesota; Pat Nunnally, River Life, University of Minnesota; Kate Brauman, Global Water Initiative, Institute on the Environment, University ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Anfinson, John; Brauman, Kate; Hayes, Kat; Mazack, Jane; Nunnally, Patrick
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Mississippi as Earthquake Country: How the surprising history of past disasters can shape future planning. Keynote to a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. Conevery Valencius, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston, author of The Lost History of the ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Valencius, Conevery
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Mississippi as Earthquake Country: How the surprising history of past disasters can shape future planning. Keynote to a symposium entitled The Once and Future River: Imagining the Mississippi in an Era of Climate Change. Conevery Valencius, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston, author of The Lost History of the ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Valencius, Conevery
Created:
2015-04-10
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.
