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.
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...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matthew; Estep, Jan; Georgopoulos, Apostolos; Scott, Nicole; Shank, JB; Smail, Daniel Lord
Created:
2015-02-26
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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.
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.
Backwater Blues: Environmental Disaster and African American Experiences. Panel with Saje Mathieu, History; David Pellow, Sociology; Elliott Powell, American Studies; and Richard Mizelle, History, University of Houston. What can studies of environment tell us about African American experiences? In his recent book, Backwater Blues, Richard Mizell...
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.
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.
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.
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.