315 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Events:
Roundtable on Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" with Marga...
Join us for a roundtable discussion about Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel "The Kite Runner" featuring Margaret Mills, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-09-17 16:00:00
"American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of...
The antebellum Southern "Master Class" was connected - by ship, by overland travel, by print culture, by a sense of singular space, and by the prospect of future conquest - to the ha...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-09-20 16:00:00
"American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of...
The antebellum Southern "Master Class" was connected - by ship, by overland travel, by print culture, by a sense of singular space, and by the prospect of future conquest - to the ha...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-09-20 16:00:00
"Queen of Fashion," a lecture on Marie-Antoinette by Profess...
Caroline Weber is an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her most recent book is QUEEN OF FASHION: WHAT MARIE ANTOINETTE WORE TO THE REVOL...
Category: Education, 17:00:00, 2007-09-21 17:00:00
"Accountability and Redemption: Cinematic Representation of ...
In the heyday of anti-Communist hysteria in Taiwan ruled by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, an estimated twenty thousand people suspected of subverting the government were tried in s...
Category: Media, 19:15:00, 2007-09-24 19:15:00
"Accountability and Redemption: Cinematic Representation of ...
In the heyday of anti-Communist hysteria in Taiwan ruled by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, an estimated twenty thousand people suspected of subverting the government were tried in s...
Category: Media, 19:15:00, 2007-09-24 19:15:00
Cherrie Moraga's Works
The September 26 Colloquium will feature a panel to discuss some works by Cherrie Moraga, author of Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca paso por sus labios and co-editor of This Bridge Called My Bac...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 12:00:00, 2007-09-26 12:00:00
"Spatial manifestations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
This talk will explore the broader question of whether cities that have experienced prolonged and intensive levels of conflict are characterized by particular spatial qualities (including boundaries, ...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-09-26 16:00:00
"Environmentalism and Modern Democracy: Lessons on Local and...
The event will discuss the challenges raised by modern society for a democratic solution to environmental destruction. From the local Not In My Backyard neighborhood concerns to the global problem of ...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-09-27 16:00:00
"Art in the Public Interest: New Artistic Strategies" - a pr...
Join the IAS and the Space and Place collaborative for a presentation by Suzanne Lacy, Chair of the new MFA: Public Practices at Otis College of Art and Design and internationally known artist. One of...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-11-13 16:00:00
"Astrid Lindgren at 100: Women's and Children's Literature a...
Ulla Lundqvist is an author of children's and youth fiction, non-fiction writer, literary critic, children's literature specialist, and storyteller. Eva-Maria Metcalf is director of Ge...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-11-15 16:00:00
"Diaspora and the Predicament of Origins: Interrogating Hmon...
Professor Gary Yia Lee will focus on the origin of the Hmong and re-examine the debate between using "Hmong" or "Miao" as an umbrella term for this ethnic group. He...
Category: Education, 15:00:00, 2007-11-16 15:00:00
"Telling Time": Presentation with Lynn Lukkas
Lynn Lukkas, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota, will show excerpts of her video conversations with participants in the Telling Time project in which artists, musicians, humanis...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-11-28 16:00:00
"Bio-deregulation: Bodies, Jeans, and Justice": A talk with ...
The most recent phase of capitalism has made the cost of life prohibitive. Characterized by the intensified deregulation of the state's role as a check on capital greed, neo-liberalism is depr...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-11-29 16:00:00
"Slow Art": A presentation by John Kelly and Arden Reed
Arden Reed is Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English, Pomona College and his current research examines Tableaux Vivants. John Kelly is a performance and visual artist working in areas o...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 16:00:00, 2007-12-03 16:00:00
"Poetry from the Engine Room": A Reading by Renee Gladman an...
Renee Gladman is an Assistant Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University and author of Arlem, Not Right Now, Juice The Activist and A Picture Feeling. Carla Harryman is an author, playwright and c...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 16:15:00, 2007-12-05 16:15:00
"Envisioning Real Utopias": A talk with Erik Olin Wright
This lecture will explore a range of issues connected to the problem of envisioning radical egalitarian and democratic alternatives to existing structures of power and privilege. I will begin by outli...
Category: Education, 16:00:00, 2007-12-07 16:00:00
"Sue E. Generous: Notes toward a theory of non-transexuality...
Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) is a key element of many transexuals' identities, but also the point at which many progressive people draw the line in "acceptance" of trans-id...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-12-14 20:00:00