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.
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.
Autism, Meaning and the Bioethical Otherwise. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, specializing in medical anthropology and the social study of science and technology. He is currently work...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew
Created:
2010-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Autism, Meaning and the Bioethical Otherwise. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, specializing in medical anthropology and the social study of science and technology. He is currently work...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew
Created:
2010-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Culture and Materiality: A Roundtable on the Environmental Humanities. Discussion of current work in environmental humanities featuring University of Minnesota faculty Susan Jones (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; History of Science, Technology and Medicine), Christine Marran (Asian Languages and Literatures), Stuart McLean (Anthropology), and ...
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.
From Feminism to Structural Racism and Resistance: What is the Connection? Beryl Satter is Faculty in the Dept. of History and the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers University—Newark. Her first book, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (University of California Press, 1999) e...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Satter, Beryl
Created:
2016-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multicultualism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post-Dictatorship Chile . As he examines the interrelationships of indigenous peoples in Chile, the Chilean government, NGOs, and other multinational organizations, Professor Boccara offers a critical look at governmentality as another form of state violence...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multicultualism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post-Dictatorship Chile . As he examines the interrelationships of indigenous peoples in Chile, the Chilean government, NGOs, and other multinational organizations, Professor Boccara offers a critical look at governmentality as another form of state violence...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Boccara, Guillaume
Created:
2009-01-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Frying-Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land and Water in Chennai's Development. This talk seeks to show how the complex and changing landscapes of urban land and water are closely interwoven with the complex and changing landscapes of slum eviction and relocation in Chennai. On the one hand, this is a story of the making and remaking...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Coelho, Karen
Created:
2011-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From the Frying-Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land and Water in Chennai's Development. This talk seeks to show how the complex and changing landscapes of urban land and water are closely interwoven with the complex and changing landscapes of slum eviction and relocation in Chennai. On the one hand, this is a story of the making and remaking...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Coelho, Karen
Created:
2011-10-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Occupy Wall Street. Karen Ho and Hannah Chadeayne Appel examine the Occupy Wall Street movement. Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, and author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Hannah Appel is an anthropologist, currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia Uni...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Appel, Hannah Chadeayne; Ho, Karen
Created:
2012-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Occupy Wall Street. Karen Ho and Hannah Chadeayne Appel examine the Occupy Wall Street movement. Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, and author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Hannah Appel is an anthropologist, currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia Uni...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Appel, Hannah Chadeayne; Ho, Karen
Created:
2012-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Perils and Potentials of Microbial Abundance: From Fermented Foods to Astrobiology. Microbial life has been much in the news. From outbreaks of E. coli to discussions of the benefits of raw and fermented foods to recent reports of life forms capable of living in arsenic environments, the modest microbe has become a figure for thinking throug...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Helmreich, Stefan; Paxson, Heather
Created:
2011-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Perils and Potentials of Microbial Abundance: From Fermented Foods to Astrobiology. Microbial life has been much in the news. From outbreaks of E. coli to discussions of the benefits of raw and fermented foods to recent reports of life forms capable of living in arsenic environments, the modest microbe has become a figure for thinking throug...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Helmreich, Stefan; Paxson, Heather
Created:
2011-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Law, Life and Humanity: Recovering the Social after Damage How can the question of damaged life, in all its incessant living and dying, be posed as a query of the social? I seek these answers in locations of devastation where a phase of afterlife traces life after damage -- life in its social embedding and its individuated experience; life that ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen
Created:
2014-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Law, Life and Humanity: Recovering the Social after Damage How can the question of damaged life, in all its incessant living and dying, be posed as a query of the social? I seek these answers in locations of devastation where a phase of afterlife traces life after damage -- life in its social embedding and its individuated experience; life that ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Arif, Yasmeen
Created:
2014-03-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Two Hearts, Three Eyes, and Four Ears: Sami Theater and Heritage. Harriet Nordlund is a Sámi playwright and former Artistic Director of Beaivvá≈° Sámi Teáhter -- The Norwegian National Sámi Theatre Company and is currently the head of the Cultural Department within the council of Jokkmokk, Sweden, the center for the native Sámi people of Lule va...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Nordlund, Harriet
Created:
2009-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.