UMN Institute for Advanced Study #161506

September 6, 2007

"Pipaashaa, Extreme Thirst": a Performance by Ananya Dance Theater at Southern Theater

September 8, 2007

Stories behind "The Mikveh Project": with Leah Lax at Beth El Synagogue

September 8, 2007

"Religious Violence and Jewish Tradition": A talk with Alex Jassen at Beth El Synagogue

September 13, 2007

"Tribal Time, Ceremony, and Public Art": A talk with Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 17, 2007

"Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine": a talk with Omer Bartov about his newly-released book at Nolte Center 120, University of Minnesota

September 17, 2007

Roundtable on Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" with Margaret Mills, William Beeman, and Bali Sahota at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2007

"Where Did Trolls Come From?": A lecture by Anatoli Lieberman at Nolte Center 140, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2007

"American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation": A talk with Matthew Pratt Guterl at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2007

"Jewish Humor and Popular Culture in Fin-de-sicle Budapest": a Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture with Dr. Mary Gluck at McNamara Center, U of M

September 21, 2007

"Queen of Fashion," a lecture on Marie-Antoinette by Professor Caroline Weber at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 24, 2007

"Accountability and Redemption: Cinematic Representation of Atrocity in Taiwan": a film and discussion with Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Ph.D. at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 25, 2007

"Encounter Point": Film screening and discussion at Walter F. Mondale Hall, University of Minnesota

September 26, 2007

"Spatial manifestations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Jerusalem": a talk by Wendy Pullan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 26, 2007

Cherrie Moraga's Works at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 27, 2007

Change in China and its Impact on Higher Education at Weisman Art Museum

September 27, 2007

"Gender and the Historian's Gaze: The Example of a Transvestite in the XIIIth Century" at Nolte Center 140, University of Minnesota

September 27, 2007

"Environmentalism and Modern Democracy: Lessons on Local and Global Governance": A conversation with Shalini Gupta and Cecilia Martinez at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 28, 2007

"Rethinking the Dynamics of Rural Transformation in the Philippines: Experiments with Ethical Economic Practices": A talk by Katherine Gibson at Augsburg College

October 1, 2007

"The Poetry of Time and the Disorientation of Memory": A presentation by Jason Rubin and John Merigliano at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 2, 2007

"City Bridges--Imagined and Real": A talk with Judith Martin and "Dakota Speak of Rivers": A talk with Mona Smith at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 2, 2007

"The Poetry of Time and the Disorientation of Memory": A presentation by Jason Rubin and John Merigliano at Weber Music Hall 206, University of Minnesota Duluth

October 3, 2007

"Performing the Archive, Placing the Past": A performance with Walid Raad and Iris Haussler at Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota

October 4, 2007

"Pre-Logical Poetry Hijinx!": A Reading by poets Steve McCaffery and Edwin Torres at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 4, 2007

Made in China at Weisman Art Museum

October 4, 2007

"Unstable Genes, Cancer, and Aging": A talk with Colin Campbell at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 9, 2007

"Rebuilding Common Ground": A talk with Mayor R.T. Rybak at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 10, 2007

GLBT Colloquium: ALT.SEX.JAPAN, digital media presentation by Daniel Anderson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 11, 2007

"Culture Matters: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in International Adoption": A talk with Richard M. Lee at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 13, 2007

Gathering at the River at Harriet Island Regional Park

October 15, 2007

Hmong Studies Journal Research Panel with Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Linda Gensheimer and Zha Blong Xiong at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 16, 2007

"Crepuscule": A conversation with Douglas Ewart at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 16, 2007

"The Mississippi River as a (National) Park": A talk with Paul Labovitz at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 17, 2007

"The Sound Creates the Space: Time and Place in Aural Art": A performance and discussion with Daniel Givens and Nathaniel Braddock at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 18, 2007

"Why Were the Templars Arrested in 1307?": A lecture by Malcolm Barber at Nolte Center 140, University of Minnesota

October 18, 2007

"The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India": A talk with Dipesh Chakrabarty at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 23, 2007

"Completing Wreck" at Barbara Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota

October 23, 2007

"Where does the Water Actually Go?: The Mississippi River is a Connected Bio-physical System": A talk with Chris Paola on the River as an Ecosystem at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 24, 2007

Conversation on Environment and Communities of Color with Hui N. Wilcox, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and Ananya Chatterjea at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 25, 2007

"What Einstein Did to Time": Conversation between Oliver Pooley and Michel Janssen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 25, 2007

"Early Modern Religious Cartographies in the New World": A talk with Jorge Canizares-Esguerra at James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

October 26, 2007

"Marriage Equality from a Medieval Perspective": A talk with Ruth Mazo Karras at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 26, 2007

"Performing the Archive, Placing the Past": A performance with Walid Raad and Iris Haussler at Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota

October 30, 2007

"'According to the Flesh': Metamorphoses of the Jew in Christian and post-Christian Europe" A lecture by Professor Alain Finkielkraut at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 30, 2007

"Between Prairie and Sea: The Mississippi River as a Continental Transportation System": A talk with Hokan Miller at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 31, 2007

Cherrie Moraga's Works at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 1, 2007

"Is Journalism Dead?: What's Happening to Newspapers, What it Means for Our Democracy, and What Citizens Can Do About It": A talk with Jeremy Iggers at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 1, 2007

"Nour in Concert: Ex Orient Lux" - Ohanessian Lecture and Concert at University of Minnesota - Ted Mann Concert Hall

November 6, 2007

"A Vital Cog in the Regional Network: the New Bridge as a Transportation Link": A talk by John Adams at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

November 8, 2007

"Owning Hiroshima": A talk with Markus Nornes at Weisman Art Museum

November 8, 2007

"Simulations of Time and Life in Medieval Automata: Islamic Symbolism, Teleological Mechanisms, and Ontological Difference": a talk with Ayhan Aytes at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 8, 2007

"Mapping the Determinants of Health and Behavior: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Dietary Behavior" - a presentation by Robert Hornik at Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota

November 9, 2007

"Chang'an: The Cosmopolitan Capital of the Chinese Empire and Terminus of the Silk Road": A talk by Kathleen M. Ryor at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 11, 2007

"The Silk Roads": Concert featuring Gao Hong at Coffman Memorial Hall

November 13, 2007

"Art in the Public Interest: New Artistic Strategies" - a presentation by Suzanne Lacy at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 14, 2007

A Woman for All Seasons: Astrid Lindgren at 100 at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

November 14, 2007

"The Design of a New Bridge": A talk by Tom Fisher at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

November 15, 2007

"Astrid Lindgren at 100: Women's and Children's Literature and Culture, Past and Present": A conversation with Ulla Lundqvist and Eva-Maria Metcalf, moderated by Poul Houe at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 16, 2007

"Diaspora and the Predicament of Origins: Interrogating Hmong Postcolonial History and Identity" - a talk by Gary Yia Lee at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 20, 2007

"Integrated Design: Sustainable Community": Lance Neckar at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

November 26, 2007

"Completing Wreck" at Barbara Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota

November 27, 2007

Korea Seminar Series: Reading women writing space in modern Korean literature, a lecture by Ji-Eun Lee at Walter Library 101, University of Minnesota

November 28, 2007

"Telling Time": Presentation with Lynn Lukkas at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 29, 2007

"Bio-deregulation: Bodies, Jeans, and Justice": A talk with Rosemary Hennessy at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 3, 2007

"Slow Art": A presentation by John Kelly and Arden Reed at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 5, 2007

"Poetry from the Engine Room": A Reading by Renee Gladman and Carla Harryman at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 5, 2007

GLBT Colloquium: Lower-class GLBT Activism in India, a talk with Aniruddha Dutta at Ford Hall 400, University of Minnesota

December 6, 2007

Nicholas Maw's "Sonata" - performance by Jorja Fleezanis at Nolte Center 120, University of Minnesota

December 7, 2007

"Envisioning Real Utopias": A talk with Erik Olin Wright at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 14, 2007

"Sue E. Generous: Notes toward a theory of non-transexuality": A talk with David Valentine at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 5, 2008

"The Dark Side of the Dao: The Lives and Challenges of Medieval Chinese Daoist Nuns, Saints, and Hermits" - a presentation by Suzanne Cahill at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 5, 2008

"Prophecy after The Prophets?: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Prophecy in Judaism": A lecture by Alex Jassen at Temple of Aaron

August 12, 2008

"Speaking of Home: Immigration to Minnesota" - Conversation with Donna Gabaccia and IBé at Macy's Skyroom

September 25, 2008

"Combining Art with Science in the High-Tech Intensive Care Unit: The Role of Music Intervention in Patient Care": A talk with Linda Chlan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 25, 2008

"From the Superorganism to the Gaia Hypothesis: A Brief History of Organicism in Ecology from the Early Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century": A talk with J. Baird Callicott at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 8, 2008

"Performance and Social Justice" at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 9, 2008

"Memory, Place, Identity": Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 9, 2008

"Life on the Upper Mississippi" - Performance by Patricia Hampl with Dan Chouinard at University of Minnesota - Ted Mann Concert Hall

October 10, 2008

"Raumbild as Aporia: The Figure of Netherlandish Pilgrimage Portraits": A presentation by Christopher Heuer at Blegen Hall - University of Minnesota

October 10, 2008

"The City, the River, the Bridge" – Conference at Herbert M Hanson, Jr. Hall - University of Minnesota

October 15, 2008

Pretty Polly and the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Strange fascinations and mysterious bloodshed in the wilderness of folk song at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

October 15, 2008

"Bombing the Plaza: Current Instability in Mexico": A talk by Pat McNamara at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 16, 2008

"Music/Theater/Movement/Visual Art - Unprotected Borders": A roundtable discussion with Michael Cherlin, David Gordon, Ain Gordon, Rebecca Lazier, Clarence Morgan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 17, 2008

"Kunst and Cabala: Anna Zieglerin's Alchemical Secrets": A talk by Tara Nummedal at Tate Laboratory of Physics - University of Minnesota

October 21, 2008

Book Reception for Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

October 22, 2008

"Somali Refugees in Europe" a presentation by Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 23, 2008

"Remembrance at Five: The Media's Impact on Contemporary American Commemoration": A talk by Judith Dupre at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 29, 2008

"Framing Sexuality in the 16th Century: An Ottoman Poet's Vision of Desire and Sexual Conduct": A talk by Selim Kuru at University of Minnesota - Nicholson Hall

October 29, 2008

James Dillon's 'The Book of Elements' with Noriko Kawai, piano at University of Minnesota - Ted Mann Concert Hall

October 30, 2008

Two Films by Todd Haynes: "Safe" and "Far from Heaven" at Bell Museum Auditorium

October 31, 2008

"The Vagabond Voices of Neorealism": A talk by Jonathan Thomas at Nolte Center 120, University of Minnesota

November 3, 2008

"Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the grassroots mobilization in Oaxaca": A talk with Gustavo Vilchis and Melissa Mundt at Walter F. Mondale Hall, University of Minnesota

November 3, 2008

"Wall Street Corporate Culture: Investment Banking and the Making of Financial Crisis": A discussion with Karen Ho at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 5, 2008

"Gender, Science, and Myths of Merit": A talk with Marlene Zuk at 335 Borlaug Hall

November 5, 2008

"The New UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities": Presentation by Arlene Kanter at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 6, 2008

"Amnesty and Justice in International Law": A presentation by Max Pensky at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 6, 2008

Ananya Dance Theatre: "Pipaashaa (Extreme Thirst)" at The O'Shaughnessy Theater at the College of St. Catherine

November 6, 2008

Spaces of Conflict in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: "Edge of Heaven" and "Distant" at Bell Museum Auditorium

November 7, 2008

Ananya Dance Theatre: "Pipaashaa (Extreme Thirst)" at The O'Shaughnessy Theater at the College of St. Catherine

November 10, 2008

"Blackface: Then and Now": a presentation by Greil Marcus at University of Minnesota - Nicholson Hall

November 12, 2008

"The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance" at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 12, 2008

"Hollywood and God": Presentation by Robert Polito, with comment by Greil Marcus at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

November 12, 2008

"Hollywood and God": Presentation by Robert Polito, with comment by Greil Marcus at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

November 13, 2008

"The Spirit of Leadership: The Time is Now": A presentation by Darlyne Bailey at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 14, 2008

"Locomotion and Time in West African Cinema": A talk by Charles Sugnet at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 14, 2008

"Delicious Movement": A workshop with Eiko Otake at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 19, 2008

"Food Technology, Food Psychology: Ancel Keys and the World War II Development of the K Ration": A talk with Sarah W. Tracy at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 20, 2008

"A Journey Across Our America: Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging" - presentation by Louis Mendoza at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 20, 2008

"The Sacred, The Violent, and Fragments": Lecture by Brian Price and screening of "71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance" at Bell Museum Auditorium

November 21, 2008

"Man and Animal, Master and Servant": A talk by Brian Price at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 24, 2008

"Magic as Ersatz Experiments": A presentation by Eric Van Duzer at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 4, 2008

“Anatomy of a Beethoven Quartet”: Performance and discussion with Tom Rosenberg and Michael Cherlin at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 5, 2008

MNdn 150: Mnisota Dakota Home at Form+Content Gallery

December 5, 2008

MNdn 150: States, Dates and Place - American Indian contemporary art exhibit opening at Ancient Traders Gallery

December 5, 2008

MNdn 150: Beyond Statehood - Native American Artists Mark the Minnesota Sesquicentennial at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 9, 2008

""Animal Studies," Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities": A presentation by Cary Wolfe at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 10, 2008

United Nations Hearing on the Desecration of Hmong Graves: with James Anaya at Coffman Memorial Hall

December 11, 2008

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari": Film Screening at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

December 12, 2008

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a Case of Biocinema": A talk by Kiarina Kordela at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 22, 2009

"Wastelands and Wilderness": Presentation by Peter Galison at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 30, 2009

"Modernizing Melodrama": A talk with Carol Donelan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 5, 2009

"Anarchy to Art, a brief 30-year Narrative": A presentation by Bill Foley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 10, 2009

"The Suicide Collectors": Reading by author David Oppegaard at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

February 11, 2009

Open Studio: Artist Andrea Stanislav at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 12, 2009

The Motet and Cantata of the Early Roman Baroque: a lecture/recital by Garrick Comeaux and Consortium Carissimi, with Kelley Harness at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 13, 2009

"Was the Enlightenment French?": A talk by Dan Edelstein at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 13, 2009

"Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold": A presentation by Yasmeen Arif at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 18, 2009

"Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World": A presentation by Daniel H. Garrison at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 19, 2009

"Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomy and Babylonian Texts": A presentation by Bruce Wells at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 20, 2009

Panel discussion of Gran Torino with the Film's Actors at Willey Hall

February 20, 2009

The "Look" of Freedom: Embodiment and the Nature and Meaning of Black Religion: A lecture by Anthony Pinn at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

February 23, 2009

"How Unleashed Capitalism Produces Economic Crises: What is to be done?": A presentation by Robert Pollin at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 24, 2009

"(Un)Common Ground: Space and Place in African American and Native American Convergences": A talk by LaRose Davis at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 25, 2009

"The Sun": Film screening at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

February 26, 2009

"From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History": A presentation by Susan Buck-Morss at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 27, 2009

"Sokurov and Lacan: Painting's Luminous Archive and Anamorphic Imaginaries": A presentation by Amy Levine at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 5, 2009

"Electronic Poetry": A reading by John Cayley with comment by Rita Raley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 6, 2009

"The Devil in the Medieval Theatrical Flesh": A presentation by Jody Enders at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 7, 2009

"Collaborating with Bertolt Brecht": Talking Dance with David Gordon and Michael Lupu at The Lab Theater

March 9, 2009

"Three Decades of Financial Dominance and Crisis in the United States: A Talk on the Rise, Social Consequences, and Fall of Wall Street Investment Banks": A presentation by Karen Ho at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

March 9, 2009

"Oral Tradition, Media, and Modernity: Experiencing Music in India": A presentation by Regula Qureshi at University of Minnesota - Ferguson Hall

March 10, 2009

"Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture": A book talk with Jaap Kooijman at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 11, 2009

"Understanding Body Image: Sense of Self, Media Imagery, and Visual Culture": A Presentation by Ann Marie Barry at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 12, 2009

Conversations on Body & Knowing at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 12, 2009

"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.": A talk by Tamara Underiner at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 13, 2009

David Gordon Pick Up Performance Co: Uncivil Wars at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

March 23, 2009

A movement workshop with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone at Nolte Center 120, University of Minnesota

March 24, 2009

"Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out": A presentation by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 26, 2009

"Darfur and the Crime of Genocide": A presentation by John Hagan at Social Sciences Building - University of Minnesota

March 26, 2009

"Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future": A Presentation by Jonathan Foley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 27, 2009

"Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre": A talk with Patricia Ybarra at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 31, 2009

"How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 1, 2009

"The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 2, 2009

"Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944): The Politics of Race in Wartime America" - presentation by Carol Oja at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 3, 2009

"Impersonal Rule: Logistical Power and the Canal du Midi": A presentation by Chandra Mukerji at Tate Laboratory of Physics - University of Minnesota

April 6, 2009

"Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness": A presentation by Mary Poovey at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 7, 2009

"Latinyorks: Insertion, Identity and Transnational Imaginary": A presentation by Juan Carlos Narvaez Gutierrez at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 9, 2009

Conversations on Body & Knowing at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 9, 2009

"A Compass in a Moving World (on genres and genealogies of theory)": A presentation by David Rodowick at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 10, 2009

"The Virtual Life of Film": A presentation by D. N. Rodowick at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 14, 2009

"The Green New Deal": A talk with Melinda Cooper at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 15, 2009

"Experimenting With the Asthma Files": A presentation with Kim and Mike Fortun at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 16, 2009

"Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy": A presentation by Mike Fortun at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 17, 2009

"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 23, 2009

"Environmental Policy Formation: Political Economy and Behavioral Economics": A presentation by Amy Ando at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 27, 2009

"Transformations and Reinterpretations of American Jazz: An Inside Account of Jazz Performances in Southern Africa, 1960s to Now": A presentation by Gerhard Kubik at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

May 7, 2009

"Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis": A presentation by Dara Strolovitch at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 10, 2009

"Choreography and the Brain": A Conversation with Random Dance Founder Wayne McGregor at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 17, 2009

"In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction": A talk with Ananya Chatterjea at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 24, 2009

"Food From Here, For Here: Rekindling the Intimacy of our Food System": A talk by Margaret Adamek at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 1, 2009

"Two Hearts, Three Eyes, and Four Ears: Sami theater and heritage": A presentation by Harriet Nordlund at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 8, 2009

"Eastern European Folk Traditions": Performance and Discussion with Natalie Nowytski and Mila Ensemble at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 12, 2009

"Body Language: Human Dissection, Professional Identity, and the Aesthetic Grounding of Modern Medicine": A presentation by John Harley Warner at University of Minnesota - Mayo Memorial Auditorium

October 15, 2009

"The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste": A presentation by Simon Gikandi at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 18, 2009

Anne Carson: Possessive Used as Drink (Me) + Bracko at Coffman Memorial Hall

October 22, 2009

"Black Sea Files": A presentation with Ursula Biemann at Weisman Art Museum

October 22, 2009

A talk by Evan Thompson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 28, 2009

"What is it that Makes a Body Whole?": A presentation by Joseph Grigely at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 29, 2009

"On the Making of a Pop Icon: 'Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan' and Contemporary Chinese Art": A talk by Tang Xiaobing at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 3, 2009

"Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self": A presentation by Stacy Alaimo at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 4, 2009

"Music of the Hemispheres": A presentation by Roger Dumas at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 12, 2009

"Writing Constitutions into British History": A talk by Linda Colley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 12, 2009

"Revealing Blind Spots and Circumventing Censorship: Internet Community Projects": A presentation with Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud at Weisman Art Museum

November 12, 2009

Agri-Food Film Series: "Black Gold" at Bell Museum Auditorium

November 13, 2009

"What Is Sexual Difference Now?": A conversation with Elizabeth Grosz and Joan Copjec at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 13, 2009

"Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis." A presentation by Linda Colley at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

November 17, 2009

Adam Hochschild Reading at Weisman Art Museum

November 19, 2009

"Anaesthesia; or, The Chair as Image": A talk by John Harwood at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 30, 2009

"Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount": A presentation by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 3, 2009

"Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge" at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 10, 2009

Agri-Food Film Series: "Big Night" at Bell Museum Auditorium

December 11, 2009

"Embodying Gilgamesh: BIOMECHANICS, the Physical Actor Training Method": A lecture and demonstration by Vladimir Rovinsky at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 25, 2010

The BodyCartography Project: A talk with Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad, and Bryce Beverlin II at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 26, 2010

BodyCartography Workshop at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 28, 2010

Trust Us, This Is All Made Up: Film Screening at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 28, 2010

1/2 Life: Performance by BodyCartography at Southern Theater

January 28, 2010

The Florida Everglades: An Entangled Landscape: A talk by Laura Ogden at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 29, 2010

1/2 Life: Performance by BodyCartography at Southern Theater

January 29, 2010

Exhuming Bodies, Producing Knowledge: Collective Memory, Justice and Restitution in Contemporary Spain at Social Sciences Building - University of Minnesota

January 30, 2010

1/2 Life: Performance by BodyCartography at Southern Theater

February 2, 2010

Constructing Modernism: Hilyard R. Robinson's Life and Legacy - A talk by Kelly Quinn at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 4, 2010

Bone of Contention: Social and Ethical Implications of a Transplant Technology - A talk with Klaus Høyer at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 4, 2010

Homegrown - Agri-food Film Series at Bell Museum Auditorium

February 5, 2010

Simple Movement Practice workshop with Dana Reitz at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 8, 2010

"1507 to 2008: Making A New Literary History of America" with Greil Marcus at Frederick R Weisman Art Museum

February 9, 2010

Mephibosheth in the Middle Ages: Disabilities, Children and the Most Vulnerable of the Vulnerable in Medieval Europe - A talk by Walt Schalick at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 10, 2010

Kallaripayattu: precursor to Yoga and Katakhali Dance - A talk by Gülgün Kayim at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 10, 2010

Mike Bonanno: The Yes Men Fix the World at Carlson School of Management - University of Minnesota

February 11, 2010

Pagodas and Public Housing: Reexamining "Projects" in San Francisco's Chinatown - A talk by Amy Howard at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 16, 2010

History as Culture and Political Critique: The difficulty of writing about a (de)colonized society in Algeria - A talk by Daho Djerbal at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 17, 2010

Violence and the quest for identity in the colonial and postcolonial situation - A talk by Daho Djerbal at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 18, 2010

Minding the Gap: Changing the Clockworks of Work: Phyllis Moen and Erin Kelly at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 19, 2010

Inscription and the Horizon in Melchior Lorck's View of Constantinople - A talk by Bronwen Wilson at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

February 25, 2010

Japan and the Environment - A talk by Brett Walker at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 26, 2010

Pendulum in the Tropics: The Académie des Sciences and the Globalization of Science, c. 1670-1740 - A talk by Nick Dew at Tate Laboratory of Physics - University of Minnesota

March 23, 2010

From the Bottom Up: A Presentation by Margaret Crawford at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 24, 2010

The Virtual Body: Tom Boellstorff at Coffman Memorial Union

March 24, 2010

What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Are They Important?: A talk by Alex Jassen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 25, 2010

Rethinking 1633: Writing the Life of Galileo after the Trial at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 26, 2010

The Judge and the General: Exhuming Bodies, Producing Justice at Social Sciences Building - University of Minnesota

April 1, 2010

Detrimental Reliance and the Ethics of Sustainability: A talk by Randall Curren at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 1, 2010

Agri-Food Film Series: "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" at Bell Museum Auditorium

April 1, 2010

Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 5, 2010

Artistic Thought: Image and Meaning - Juhani Pallasmaa and Leigh Fondakowski at Bell Museum Auditorium

April 7, 2010

Artistic Thought: Novelty and Tradition - Juhani Pallasmaa and Leigh Fondakowski at Weisman Art Museum

April 12, 2010

Artistic Thought: Reality and Fiction - Juhani Pallasmaa and Leigh Fondakowski at Bell Museum Auditorium

April 14, 2010

Artistic Thought: Time and Timelessness - Juhani Pallasmaa and Leigh Fondakowski at Weisman Art Museum

April 15, 2010

Passing through the Door at Carlson School of Management - University of Minnesota

April 15, 2010

Living With the Classical Canon: A talk with Tom Conley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 16, 2010

"La Dama Azul: Spanish Saint or Indian Demon of the Southwest?" by Juliana Barr at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 16, 2010

Frames of Violence Symposium: Opening Night Keynote and Performance at Loft Literary Center

April 16, 2010

Iranian-American Journalist Roxana Saberi at Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota

April 19, 2010

Artistic Thought: Expression and Anonymity: Juhani Pallasmaa & Leigh Fondakowski at Fine Line Music Cafe

April 19, 2010

Clinic or Spa? HIV Positive Gay Men Negotiating Surgery for Facial Lipoatrophy at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 20, 2010

Sumunar presents "Rasinah: The Enchanted Mask" at Coffman Memorial Hall

April 21, 2010

Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 22, 2010

The rise of networked individuals: A talk by Lee Rainie at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

April 22, 2010

Why Scientists Must Dance: A presentation by John Bohannon, The Gonzo Scientist at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 26, 2010

Casa Cushman: An open rehearsal reading of a new play by Leigh Fondakowski at Nolte Center 120, University of Minnesota

April 26, 2010

Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 27, 2010

Marching to Your Own Pianist: A talk by Jacqueline Schwab at University of Minnesota - Ferguson Hall

May 6, 2010

Realism, Wishful Thinking, and Utopia: A talk by Raymond Geuss at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 14, 2010

Reviving Gilgamesh: Making "The Oldest Story in the World" New Again at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 16, 2010

Toxic Archipelago: Industrial Pollution in Japan - A talk by Brett Walker at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 16, 2010

Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth - Opening at Minneapolis Institute of Arts

September 17, 2010

Mapping Meaning: Jesuit Cartographic Visions of ‘All Under Heaven’ - A talk by Florence Hsia at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

September 23, 2010

A Conversation with Tania Pérez-Salas at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 23, 2010

“Transparent Shanghai”: Cityscape, Vertical Montage, and a Left-wing Culture of Glass - Presentation by Weihong Bao at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 24, 2010

"Seaworthy" by Ali Momeni and Minneapolis Art on Wheels at Northrop Auditorium

September 29, 2010

Windmills Not Oil Spills: Turning the Tide on America's Energy Future - A talk by Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

September 30, 2010

The Nature of Gentrification: Urban Environmental Veneers and the Remaking of the Spokane Riverfront - A talk by Jeremy Bryson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 6, 2010

Practicing Plenitude: Finding wealth in an era of scarcity - A talk by Juliet Schor at Rapson Hall 100, University of Minnesota

October 7, 2010

Transnatural Ethics: Rocky Flats and the Queer Ecology of NuClia Waste - Presentation by Shiloh Krupar at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 7, 2010

How Are Moral Conversions Possible? - A talk with David Wong at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 9, 2010

"Seaworthy" by Ali Momeni and MAW (Minneapolis Art on Wheels) at Northrop Auditorium

October 11, 2010

Studying Food: Land Grant Universities and the New Food Movement - A talk by Branden Born at Cargill Building - Microbial and Plant Genomics

October 12, 2010

Quality in Accountable Primary Care Clinics: Should we risk adjust for type of health care insurance? - A talk by Douglas Wholey at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 13, 2010

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System - A talk by Camille Tuason Mata at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 14, 2010

Autism, Meaning and the Bioethical Otherwise: A talk by Matthew Wolf-Meyer at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 15, 2010

‘A way to paradise’: Pious Neoliberalism, Islam and Faith-Based Development in Cairo - A talk by Mona Atia at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 21, 2010

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in conversation with Ananya Chatterjea at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 22, 2010

Trans-Pacific: From China to Mexico in Early Modernity - A talk by Dana Leibsohn at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

October 27, 2010

Exploration and Production of Oil in Deep Water: A talk by Justin Revenaugh at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 28, 2010

Jonnycake versus Escargot: Food, Dining and Identity in Antebellum Urban America - A talk by Kelly Erby at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 18, 2010

Minnesota Fringe Festival: A View from the Inside - A talk with Robin Gillette at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 19, 2010

The Thank-you Bar/THIS IS DISPLACEMENT: Talk w/ Emily Johnson & Carolyn Anderson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 1, 2010

Washed Away? The Invisible Peoples of Louisiana’s Wetlands and the Deepwater Horizon Tragedy - A talk by Don Davis at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 2, 2010

Brain Mechanisms of Cognitive Processing - A talk by Apostolos Georgopoulos at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 10, 2010

Casa Cushman - a new play by Leigh Fondakowski at University of Minnesota

December 11, 2010

Casa Cushman - a new play by Leigh Fondakowski at University of Minnesota

December 13, 2010

Drinking from Your Father’s Skull: A Lombard Prehistory of Renaissance Marriage Diplomacy at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 27, 2011

Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border Zone? Interrogating Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived - A talk by Smadar Levie at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 1, 2011

Youth Movements and Revolution in Egypt - A talk by Ragui Assaad at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 3, 2011

Terrorists or Victims? US-Lao Relations and Hmong Transnational Politics - A talk by Her Vang at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 10, 2011

Developing a Three-dimensional Body Satisfaction Intervention - Roundtable at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 16, 2011

"Ghost Bird" Film Screening at Bell Museum Auditorium

February 17, 2011

The Sami Rights Situation, Lands and Resources: A talk by Magne Ove Varsi at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 17, 2011

"Milking the Rhino" Film Screening at Bell Museum Auditorium

February 18, 2011

World Food Prices Aren’t Too High, They’re Too Low: How Cheap Food is Destabilizing the Global Economy - A talk by Nick Cullather at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 24, 2011

The Perils and Potentials of Microbial Abundance: From Fermented Foods to Astrobiology - A talk by Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 1, 2011

"Queen of the Sun" Film Screening at St. Anthony Main Theatre

March 3, 2011

A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 4, 2011

How We Talk about Feeding the World - An Interdisciplinary Symposium at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 7, 2011

From Player Pianos to iPhones: The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music at University of Minnesota - Ferguson Hall

March 10, 2011

Antihumanism: From Tumaï to the posthuman - A talk by Frédéric Neyrat at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 10, 2011

Nigeria’s Past, Global Futures: Wole Soyinka’s Kaleidoscope of Structurally Adjusted Lives at University of Minnesota - Rarig Center

March 10, 2011

A View from the Provinces: Multiethnic Music-making in Late Ottoman Izmir at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

March 21, 2011

Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 22, 2011

The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America - A talk by Barbara Clark Smith at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 24, 2011

The Origin of Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art - Roundtable Discussion at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 31, 2011

Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel: A Renegade Woman Between Early Modern Venice and Istanbul - A talk by Eric Dursteler at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 1, 2011

Bad Bread and the 'Outrageous Drunkenness of the Turks': Food and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean - A talk by Eric Dursteler at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 5, 2011

Sustainability Film Series 2011 - "The Greenhorns" at St. Anthony Main Theatre

April 5, 2011

Terrorists or Victims? US-Lao Relations and Hmong Transnational Politics at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 7, 2011

Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 7, 2011

Charlemagne’s Mediterranean Empire - A talk by Bernard Bachrach at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 8, 2011

Wounded Attachments and Public Secrets: the Rwandan Genocide on Stage - A talk by Laura Edmondson at Barbara Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota

April 12, 2011

“Hell Hath No Fury: How the Looting of the Iraq Museum Changed the Way Archaeologists Think About Armed Conflict” - A lecture by Cori Wegener at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 17, 2011

Indifferent Nature? From Relational Materiality to Radical Asymmetry - A talk by Nigel Clark at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 19, 2011

A Lager Landscape: The Cultural Economy of Beer in the Southwest - A talk by Paula Lupkin at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 20, 2011

Choreography of the Moving Cell - Roundtable Discussion at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 21, 2011

’Saving Babies for Two Dimes a Day’: The Politics of Hunger and Race in Memphis - A talk by Laurie Green at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 21, 2011

Windfall - Sustainability Film Series at Bell Museum Auditorium

April 28, 2011

Resilient Technologies, Resilient Knowledge Communities, Resilient Cultures at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

May 5, 2011

The Votive Scenario - A presentation by Christopher Wood at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

July 19, 2011

Moja Benefit Concert for North Minneapolis Tornado Relief with KRS-One & Slum Village at First Avenue

September 15, 2011

China Insights—Unsettling Consequences: A presentation by Thomas Rose and Joseph Allen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 15, 2011

Humanist Impulses in Traditional Chinese Thought - A presentation by Kirill Thompson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 19, 2011

The Politics of Famine and Displacement in the Horn of Africa at Social Sciences Building - University of Minnesota

September 20, 2011

Not His Mother’s Son? Genealogy and Elite Identity in Andalusian Historiography - A talk by Denise Filios at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

September 22, 2011

A Moving Cell Project Laboratory: They Blinded Me with Science (& Art!) at Barbara Barker Center for Dance, University of Minnesota

September 22, 2011

An Elusive Subject: The 'Child Consumer' and Recent Social History at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

September 23, 2011

Seeding the Future - Imagining America Keynote address by Rose Brewer and Seitu Jones at Coffman Memorial Hall

September 23, 2011

In the Name of the Child, or is it Childhood? Childhood Studies and the Annoying Necessity of Blurred Boundaries - Childhood Studies conference keynote address by Daniel Cook at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

September 29, 2011

Known Unknowns: The Problem with GMO Research - A talk with Glenn Davis Stone at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 6, 2011

Exceptional Life: Moral Statehood, Subjectivity and the Politics of HIV Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone - A talk by Adia Benton at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 7, 2011

The Civil War of 1812: Citizens, Subjects, Rebels, Slaves, and Allies at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

October 11, 2011

Tribute Payments to Non-Believers in Classical Islamic Law and Diplomacy - A talk by Michael Lower at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

October 13, 2011

What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In — A presentation by Catherine Prendergast at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 14, 2011

From the Frying-Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land and Water in Chennai's Development - A presentation by Karen Coelho at 445 Blegen Hall, University of Minnesota

October 14, 2011

Public Conversation with Amiri Baraka at University of Minnesota - Rarig Center

October 14, 2011

China’s Green Revolution and African Agricultural Development: Dis-Oriented Histories and Misapplied Lessons - A talk by William Moseley at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 17, 2011

Muslim Princes and Catholic Sisters: Missionaries as Migrants in 19th Century North Africa, c. 1830-1881 - Julia Clancy Smith at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 20, 2011

Crossing ‘La Terre Noire’: Refurbishing Roads and Encountering Sacred Space in Post-Colonial Dahomey and Benin at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 21, 2011

The Challenge of Slavery and the the Religious Imagination at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

October 25, 2011

Who Killed Fenrir Wolf and How? - A talk by Anatoly Liberman at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

October 25, 2011

A Guantánamo Site of Conscience? Remembering "Gitmo" long before—and long after—9-11: Presentation by Liz Ševčenko at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 7, 2011

Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sefarad as Tropes of Muslim and Jewish Culture - A talk by Ross Brann at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 10, 2011

Social Networking and Disaster Recovery: a presentation by Peter Kerre at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 16, 2011

John Dewey Center for Democracy & Education - Roundtable Discussion at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 17, 2011

Financialization, Food Pricing, and Speculation - A presentation by Steve Suppan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 21, 2011

Getting to Know the Maghrib from a Distance: Four decades of research among Jews from Libya - A talk by Harvey Goldberg at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 30, 2011

Travel in Spirals - Screening and discussion with filmmakers Tou SaiKo Lee and Justin Schell at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 1, 2011

The Big Spill: A presentation by playwright Leigh Fondakowski at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 26, 2012

Climate Change, Crisis, and Resilience: Perspectives from History - Sam White, Oberlin College at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 26, 2012

Debates in the Digital Humanities: book launch with Matthew K. Gold, editor, and Doug Armato, director, University of Minnesota Press at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

January 27, 2012

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and the First European Colonies in North America - Sam White, Oberlin College at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

January 27, 2012

When Did Physics Begin? - A talk by Francis Everitt, Stanford University at Tate Laboratory of Physics - University of Minnesota

January 27, 2012

Driven to be Creative with Professors Michael Sommers (Theatre Arts and Dance) and Guerino Mazzola (Music) at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 2, 2012

Shan Shui, Ren Qing: Re-envisioning Chinese Cities with Eastern Genius Loci - Presentation by Weiming Lu at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 3, 2012

The Great Convergence: Dissecting the Nature of Japan's Historical Ascendancy - Brett Walker, Montana State University at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

February 7, 2012

Why Does the Past Matter? Towards a Social Science of the Past - A talk by Elizabeth Chilton at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 7, 2012

Seeing is Believing: Rational Responses to Evidence in Medieval England - Professor Lianna Farber, English, University of Minnesota at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

February 9, 2012

Subterranean Scenographies: Time Travel through 'Miraculous' Mexico - Presentation by Luis Castañeda at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 10, 2012

Medieval Hostages, Contract Theory, and the History of International Law - Legal History Workshop with Adam Kosto, Columbia University at Walter F. Mondale Hall, University of Minnesota

February 13, 2012

Questions Without Borders: Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary - Forum led by Myron Gutmann, National Science Foundation at Coffman Memorial Union

February 14, 2012

Thirty Years of War: Warfare in the Plain of the Po 1189-1220 - A talk by John France, Swansea University at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

February 16, 2012

Choreographer Jin Xing in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 17, 2012

Elizabeth I on Rebellion in England and Ireland: semper eadem? - Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

February 21, 2012

Bamboo Carving Workshop at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 21, 2012

Japanese Tea Ceremony Performance at Nolte Center 140, University of Minnesota

February 23, 2012

Reframing the Access to Medicines Debate: Health as a Global Public Good - Presentation by Jeffrey Sturchio at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

February 29, 2012

Kantata Takwa (Indonesia 1992/2008) Introduced by Director Gotot Prakosa with a Q&A following the screening at Nicholson Hall - University of Minnesota

March 1, 2012

Home Sweet Home - Presentation by Richard Altenbaugh at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 2, 2012

Presentation by Indonesian filmaker Gotot Prakosa at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 2, 2012

Keeping and Losing One's Head: Composure and Emotional Outbursts as Political Performance in Late-Colonial Mexico - Andrew Fisher, Carleton College at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 6, 2012

Örvar Odds Saga and Dilemmas of Context - Tom DuBois, University of Wisconsin - Madison at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 8, 2012

Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China - Presentation by Charles Sanft at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 19, 2012

Fénelon's Gods, al-Tahtawi's Jinn: Trans-Mediterranean Fictionalities - A talk by Shaden Tageldin at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 22, 2012

Mapping Water - Pat Nunnally and Mary deLaittre at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 26, 2012

University Seminar - A Conversation with Provost Karen Hanson and Naomi Scheman at Science Teaching and Student Services - University of Minnesota

March 26, 2012

"Why did Roman Catholicism become the First World Religion?" - Simon Ditchfield, University of York at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 27, 2012

"The Boy, the Uncle, the Jews and the Monk: Norwich 1144 and Its Afterlives" - Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 28, 2012

Compose, Design, Advocate: A Dialogue and Roundtable Discussion with Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 28, 2012

Jaap Blonk, Sound Poet - Demo-Workshop at Lind Hall - University of Minnesota

March 28, 2012

Will There be a Heritage Conservation Field in 50 Years? - A talk with Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 29, 2012

La Casa Rosa: Fighting for a Future in a Free Trade World - A presentation by Patricia Ybarra at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

March 29, 2012

Tunisia in the Imperial Mediterranean at the Turn of the 20th Century - Mediterranean Exchanges Workshop Keynote by Mary Lewis, History, Harvard University at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

March 29, 2012

Mediterranean Exchanges Workshop at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

March 29, 2012

Biocultural Diversity, Language, and Environmental Endangerment - Panel discussion with Winona LaDuke, Luisa Maffi, and K. David Harrison at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 2, 2012

Pharmaceutical Crises and Questions of Value: Terrains and Logics of Global Therapeutic Politics - Presentation by Kaushik Sunder Rajan at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 3, 2012

"Romanesque Sculpture, The Senses and Religious Experience" - Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin - Madison at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 5, 2012

The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music - Performance by Consortium Carissimi and discussion with Kelley Harness at Nolte Center 140, University of Minnesota

April 9, 2012

The Mediterranean through Arab Eyes in the Early Modern Period - A talk by Nabil Matar at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 10, 2012

Non-governmental Memory: The Socialist Monument in Post-(Socialist) Yugoslavia at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 12, 2012

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community - Book discussion with Brenda Child at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 13, 2012

Wedded to her Profession? Marie-Suzanne Roslin as Artist and Artist's Wife - Melissa Hyde, University of Florida at Blegen Hall - University of Minnesota

April 16, 2012

The Abundance of the Copy: Generic Medicines and the Politics of Equivalence - A presentation by Cori Hayden at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 16, 2012

Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration - A book talk with award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 19, 2012

The Future of History - A presentation by Dan Cohen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 19, 2012

"On the Mar del Sur: Early Spanish Trade in Pacific South America" - Kris Lane, Tulane University at James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

April 20, 2012

What Yaogun (Chinese Rock) Can Teach Rock & Roll - A talk by Jonathan Campbell, author of Red Rock: The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 24, 2012

"Medieval Kings and Symbolic Landscapes in Western Ireland" - Jimmy Schryver, University of Minnesota - Morris at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 25, 2012

Embodying Abundance and Scarcity in Minnesota, 1830-1930 - A presentation by Evan Roberts at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 26, 2012

Occupy Wall Street - A Presentation by Karen Ho and Hannah Chadeayne Appel at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

April 27, 2012

"Masonry, Memory, and Meaning in Inka Rockwork" - Carolyn Dean, University of California - Santa Cruz at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

April 29, 2012

The Stone of Hope - Lei Lixin, Master Sculptor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial at St Paul Student Center - University of Minnesota

May 1, 2012

"Hasaniya's Treatise: Shi'ism, Popular Narrative, and Public Performance in the Early Safavid Period" - Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota - Duluth at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

May 3, 2012

Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis: Masculinity, Memory, and Spirituality in Postwar America at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 12, 2012

Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past - Rebecca Krinke leads discussion with author Diane Wilson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 13, 2012

Dancer as Driver: SOLO and the 2010 and 2011 McKnight Artist Dance Fellows at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 14, 2012

Conversation about Site and Incitement at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 18, 2012

Re-evaluating Influence: The Interaction of Arab and Northern Spanish Music in Medieval Iberia - Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies, University of California - Santa Barbara at Heller Hall - University of Minnesota

September 18, 2012

The Reconstruction of Medieval Andalusian Music in Modern Performance, Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara) at University of Minnesota - Ferguson Hall

September 19, 2012

Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History - Presentation by Grey Gundaker at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2012

Public Lecture: Yesomi Umolu, Walker Art Center Curatorial Fellow at Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2012

Black Environmental Thought II Conference at Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota

September 20, 2012

The Uses of History in the Biographical Novel: Roundtable with Bruce Duffy, Jay Parini, and Lance Olsen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 24, 2012

Evil Conspiracies and Common Enemies: Mussolini, the Vatican, and the Origins of the Italian Racial Laws at Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota

September 27, 2012

Roundtable on Real Estate Redlining at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

September 28, 2012

Food Stories: Growing, Eating, Thinking about Food in Southwest Minnesota - Discussion with Peter Shea and Valentine Cadieux at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 4, 2012

Composting Past Infrastructure for Today's Future: Reclaiming the Northeast Experimental Station for Regional Food and Agricultural Systems Development - Thursdays at Four Presentation by Randel Hanson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 10, 2012

Food Stories: Growing, Eating, Thinking about Food in Southwest Minnesota - Discussion with Peter Shea and Valentine Cadieux at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 11, 2012

The Art and Ambivalence of Afropolitan Patriotism: Making Malian Music in Times of Celebration and Crisis - Thursdays at Four Presentation by Ryan Skinner at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 11, 2012

Binding Passions and Shielding Virtue in Early Modern Venice - The 50th Annual James Ford Bell Lecture by Joanne M. Ferraro at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota

October 12, 2012

Thought Experiments in the History of Musical Imagery - Presentation by Alan Davison at University of Minnesota - Ferguson Hall

October 18, 2012

The IKEA Project: Coloring in the Rooms - Thursdays at Four presentation by Talya Chalef and Kelly Ryall at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 22, 2012

Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 23, 2012

The World in the Year 1000 - Presentation by Valerie Hansen at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

October 25, 2012

Made to Hear: The Medicalization of Deafness in the age of the Cochlear Implant - Presentation by Laura Mauldin at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 1, 2012

Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous - Thursdays at Four Presentation by Marco Deseriis at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 7, 2012

Sense of Place in Artist Books - A panel discussion with Sarah Bodman, Betty Bright, Jeff Rathermel, and Marianne Coombs at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 15, 2012

Translating Poetry, Or, Versifying with an Accent - Presentation by Anatoly Liberman at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

November 19, 2012

The Ancient Mediterranean - A talk by Andrew Gallia, History, University of Minnesota at Heller Hall, University of Minnesota

November 20, 2012

The Chinese Admiral Zheng He: Uses and Abuses of an Historical Figure - Presentation by Geoffrey Wade at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota

December 4, 2012

Crowdsourcing Ancient Texts: A presentation by Nita Krevans, Philip Sellew, and Lucy Fortson at Nolte Center 125, University of Minnesota