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Description:: Enzi Tanner talks about his experiences participating in Soul Force, The Naked Eye, and his experiences being a bisexual of color in different areas of the country. Soul Force is an activist organization that takes a bus load of GLBT activists college to college across the country to bring awareness of GLBT issues and attempts to dialog with sch...
Contributor:: Tanner, Enzie (Guest)
Created:: 2009-04-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-02-18

Description:: Discussion on the Minneapolis Housing Crisis. Ryan Allen, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs speaks on The Unraveling of the American Dream. Jeff Crump, an associate professor in the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel at the University of Minnesota, speaks about Geography, Public ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Allen, Ryan; Crump, Jeff
Created:: 2009-04-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Trouble with Toxics. Toxics trouble health and the environment, established ways of doing science and setting policy, and the way people make everyday decisions about what to eat, drink, wear and drive. This presentation will map an array of reasons why toxics are difficult to recognize and deal with ‚Äî biologically, scientifically, politically...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Kim
Created:: 2009-04-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Trouble with Toxics. Toxics trouble health and the environment, established ways of doing science and setting policy, and the way people make everyday decisions about what to eat, drink, wear and drive. This presentation will map an array of reasons why toxics are difficult to recognize and deal with ‚Äî biologically, scientifically, politically...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Kim
Created:: 2009-04-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Michael
Created:: 2009-04-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy. This presentation uses deCODE Genetics and its operations in Iceland as an index of the science and political economy of genomics, and the international political economy more broadly, from the late 1990s to the present. It tracks deCODE's evolution from incorporation ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Fortun, Michael
Created:: 2009-04-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Eric Avila talks to Peter Shea about the place of the city in the American cultural imagination, its relationship to social identity, the early construction of highways, and the development of urban planning as a science.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Avila, Eric
Created:: 2009-04-14
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: 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.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi. The voluntary death of a person, who -- often due to illness and old age -- requests to die at the hands of close relatives, has traditionally been explained as a form of suicide, resulting from the harsh living conditions in the Siberian North. This paper suggests an ...
Creator:: Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:: Willerslev, Rane
Created:: 2009-04-13
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05