In Small Things Discounted: Architecture and World Making. In this talk Arijit Sen discusses the growth of an immigrant fast food store in Berkeley in order to explore how small inconsequential transformations in the material environment, when cumulatively examined, can provide us a window from which to study larger processes framing world makin...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sen, Arijit
Created:
2008-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Wrapped in Stars and Stripes': The (American) Arctic Narratives of Robert, Josephine, and Marie Peary. Saving the Race: Child Emigration and Domestic Service in the British Metropole and Colonies, c. 1890-1914. The children's books by the Peary family, published at the turn of the last century, focus on and exploit images of a young Marie in or...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Woster, Emily; Dillenburg, Elizabeth
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
'Wrapped in Stars and Stripes': The (American) Arctic Narratives of Robert, Josephine, and Marie Peary. Saving the Race: Child Emigration and Domestic Service in the British Metropole and Colonies, c. 1890-1914. The children's books by the Peary family, published at the turn of the last century, focus on and exploit images of a young Marie in or...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Woster, Emily; Dillenburg, Elizabeth
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethnic Identity Development in a Changing World: New Research Directions & Conversations Across Disciplines What constitutes an ethnic identity and how does it exactly develop? Two leading scholars in the field will discuss a new NSF-funded interdisciplinary collaborative that examines new conceptualizations of ethnic identity and the contexts t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Yip, Tiffany; Seaton, Eleanor; Lee, Rich
Created:
2014-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethnic Identity Development in a Changing World: New Research Directions & Conversations Across Disciplines What constitutes an ethnic identity and how does it exactly develop? Two leading scholars in the field will discuss a new NSF-funded interdisciplinary collaborative that examines new conceptualizations of ethnic identity and the contexts t...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Yip, Tiffany; Seaton, Eleanor; Lee, Rich
Created:
2014-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Global Crisis of Displacement and Undoing Border Imperialism. Presentation and discussion on the global refugee crisis and its implications for North America by reformulating immigrant and refugee rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire. Harsha...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Walia, Harsha
Created:
2016-11-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Terrorists or Victims? US-Lao Relations and Hmong Transnational Politics. Her Vang received his Ph.D in U.S. History from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2010. His dissertation, Dreaming of Home, Dreaming of Land: Hmong Displacements and Transnational Politics is based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research done in Laos, Thai...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Vang, Her
Created:
2011-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Terrorists or Victims? US-Lao Relations and Hmong Transnational Politics. Her Vang received his Ph.D in U.S. History from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2010. His dissertation, Dreaming of Home, Dreaming of Land: Hmong Displacements and Transnational Politics is based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research done in Laos, Thai...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Vang, Her
Created:
2011-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Immigration Law Teach In: Sanctuary and the Rights of Immigrants on Campus. What are the rights of undocumented people on campus? What is a sanctuary campus? What is a sanctuary city? What does it mean that Minneapolis is a sanctuary city? What can local law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) do on and off campus? Presente...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chan, Linus; Wiebe, Virgil
Created:
2016-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Latinyorks: Insertion, Identity and Transnational Imaginary is a study that analyzes the insertion of Latin American youth -- Dominican, Salvadoran and Mexican- in the city of New York, in four basic dimensions: territorial, social, political and cultural. From their experience of insertion as international migrants, the study examines how youth...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Narvaez
Created:
2009-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Latinyorks: insertion, identity and transnational imaginary is a study that analyzes the insertion of Latin American youth -- Dominican, Salvadoran and Mexican- in the city of New York, in four basic dimensions: territorial, social, political and cultural. From their experience of insertion as international migrants, the study examines how youth...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Narvaez
Created:
2009-04-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously. This presentation describes El Parque Eco-Alberto's Caminata Nocturna -- a live simulation in which tourists are offered the experience of crossing the Mexico/U.S border. Taking place in Hidalgo, Mexico, some thousand miles from the real border, the Caminata Nocturna has be...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Underiner, Tamara
Created:
2009-03-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously. This presentation describes El Parque Eco-Alberto's Caminata Nocturna -- a live simulation in which tourists are offered the experience of crossing the Mexico/U.S border. Taking place in Hidalgo, Mexico, some thousand miles from the real border, the Caminata Nocturna has be...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Underiner, Tamara
Created:
2009-03-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Pagodas and Public Housing: Reexamining the Projects in San Francisco's Chinatown. Vertical ghettos, warehouses for the poor, crime dens-these are just a few of the ways scholars and journalists have described public housing in the past fifty years. Despite underfunding, mismanagement, and design flaws, public housing has also served as a commun...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Howard, Amy
Created:
2010-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Pagodas and Public Housing: Reexamining the Projects in San Francisco's Chinatown. Vertical ghettos, warehouses for the poor, crime dens-these are just a few of the ways scholars and journalists have described public housing in the past fifty years. Despite underfunding, mismanagement, and design flaws, public housing has also served as a commun...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Howard, Amy
Created:
2010-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Making of Speaking of Home: Artist's Conversation on the Creation of the Twin Cities' First Skyway Art Project.This conversation with Nancy Ann Coyne, Vickie Benson and Ben Heywood will explore the creative forces that led to the construction of the Speaking of Home project. Nancy Ann Coyne is a photographer and public artist. Since 1984, sh...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Benson, Vickie; Coyne, Nancy Ann; Heywood, Ben
Created:
2008-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
