We Are Water: the University and Minnesota's Water Future. Almost reflexively, Minnesotans say they are proud of the state's waters. Visits up to the lake are cherished parts of many lives and the state walleye fishing opener is practically a state holiday. Yet 41% of the state's waters are impaired, and failing water systems will cost billions ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skuta, Glenn; Hellmann, Jessica; Henderson, Anna; Tonko, Jennifer
Created:
2017-02-09
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.
Unnatural Disasters: How Law Hurts, How Law Can Help It's seductively deceptive to call floods and other catastrophes natural. They are anything but. Storms may well be natural phenomenon, but humans have an uncanny ability to exacerbate their own vulnerability to them by shortsighted engineering projects, undue faith in technology, poor decisio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zellmer, Sandra
Created:
2014-10-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Unnatural Disasters: How Law Hurts, How Law Can Help It's seductively deceptive to call floods and other catastrophes natural. They are anything but. Storms may well be natural phenomenon, but humans have an uncanny ability to exacerbate their own vulnerability to them by shortsighted engineering projects, undue faith in technology, poor decisio...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Zellmer, Sandra
Created:
2014-10-09
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.
Concrete Revolution: Cold War Geopolitics and the Proliferation of Large Dams, 1933-1975. The 20th century witnessed a tremendous expansion in the size and number of large dams constructed across the face of the planet, yet historical research on the connections between technology, geopolitics and developmental discourses during this period rema...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sneddon, Christopher
Created:
2010-11-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Concrete Revolution: Cold War Geopolitics and the Proliferation of Large Dams, 1933-1975. The 20th century witnessed a tremendous expansion in the size and number of large dams constructed across the face of the planet, yet historical research on the connections between technology, geopolitics and developmental discourses during this period rema...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sneddon, Christopher
Created:
2010-11-11
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.
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...
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine; Lenhart, Chris; Nunnally, Pat; Smith, Mona; Vreeland, Scott
Created:
2009-12-03
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.
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.
Detrimental Reliance and the Ethics of Sustainability . Ethicist Randall Curren starts his talk by saying, I think sustainability is the defining challenge of our time. He describes the problem of the current over-exploitation of natural resources and presents an argument for how sustainability is an ethical issue that we must address. He frames...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Curren, Randall
Created:
2010-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Detrimental Reliance and the Ethics of Sustainability . Ethicist Randall Curren starts his talk by saying, I think sustainability is the defining challenge of our time. He describes the problem of the current over-exploitation of natural resources and presents an argument for how sustainability is an ethical issue that we must address. He frames...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Curren, Randall
Created:
2010-04-01
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.
Indifferent Nature? From Relational Materiality to Radical Asymmetry. Nigel Clark is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Open University, UK. His research explores the variability and volatility of earth processes and human responses to them. His book, Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet, appears this spring. Prof. Clark has a lo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Nigel
Created:
2011-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Indifferent Nature? From Relational Materiality to Radical Asymmetry. Nigel Clark is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Open University, UK. His research explores the variability and volatility of earth processes and human responses to them. His book, Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet, appears this spring. Prof. Clark has a lo...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Clark, Nigel
Created:
2011-04-22
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.
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.
