Fall 2005

Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.

September
October
November
December

September

Institute for Advanced Study Opening Celebration, 9/9/05

Music of Finland and the Finnish-American Experience: Diane Jarvi Performing Finnish Regional Music, Songs of the Immigrants, and Kantele (Finnish Folk Harp) Tunes, 9/15/05

Building on Hmong Women's Assets: Past, Present and Future, 9/16/05

"Does Hope Sound in Music? (Hearing Utopia)" A Lecture by Richard Leppert, 9/22/05

"Woman Pretending to Be a Man Pretending to Be a Woman: Women Actors in the All Male Kabuki Theater": A talk by Maki Morinaga, 9/22/05

"Gender Issues in China after Mao": A Lecture by Judith Bannister, 9/29/05

October

"Jewish Daily Life in Antiquity: The Archaeological Evidence": A talk by Andrea Belin, 10/6/05

Lecture and booksigning by Shawn Wong, author of American Knees, 10/7/05

"The Historic Istanbul Conference on the Fate of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire": A talk with Taner Akcam, 10/10/05

"Spirits in the Material World: The New Migrants": A talk with Ruben Martinez, 10/11/05

"Space, Marginalization, and Inclusion": Panel discussion with Gail Dubrow and Erika Lee; moderated by Ann Forsyth, 10/12/05

Teach In: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina with Donna Bauer, Huy Pham and August Nimtz, 10/13/05

"Our Gods, Their Museums: The Contrary Lives of India's Art Objects at Home and Abroad": A Lecture by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, 10/13/05

"Writing Travels: Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario and the Historical Geography of Dutch Identity, 1596-2002": A TEMS workshop featuring Arun Saldanha, 10/13/05

"Dirty Laundry": Film screening and lecture by Amitava Kumar and Sanjeev Chaterjee, 10/14/05

Film Screening of "Dream Girls" about Japan's Famous Takarazuka, 10/18/05

"How the Internet Is Changing the Way People Work with Medieval Manuscripts": A Lecture by Sandra Hindman, 10/20/05

Asian/Asian American Bodies in Performance Research Collaborative: "Robot Revue: Anthropometry as Performance in the Takarazuka Revue": A Workshop with Jennifer Robertson, 10/20/05

Asian/Asian American Bodies in Performance Research Collaborative: "Robots and Reproduction: The Eugenics of Japanese Modernity": A Lecture by Jennifer Robertson, 10/20/05

"What Was Secularization Theory, and What Comes Next? Themes for a History of Religion in 19th- and 20th-century Germany": A talk with Dagmar Herzog, 10/21/05

"The BioSensor Projects @art.body.technology": A Lecture by Lynn Lukkas, 10/27/05

"A Philosopher Looks at Genocide": Fourth Annual Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture, presented by Professor Paul Boghossian, 10/27/05

"Poverty, Statistics, and Development in Africa": A Lecture by Ben Kiregyera, 10/28/05

MPR-midmorning radio show: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide--History and Present-day Politics, 10/25/05

November

"Forgetful Mice: Helping us Cure Alzheimer's Disease": A Lecture by Karen Ashe, 11/3/05

"The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China" - a Brown-Bag Lecture by Ellen Widmer, 11/7/2005

"Performing Poetry's Public Obligations": A Reading with Jayne Cortez and Mark Nowak, 11/10/05

Jayne Cortez Performs with the Firespitters Band, 11/10/05

"The Fate of Orthodox Art in the Early Soviet Era": A talk with Wendy Salmond, 11/11/05

"Bioarchaeology of New York City's African Burial Ground": A talk with Michael Blakey, 11/14/05

"Defining the Vienna Paradox: Some Aporias of Secular Judaism": A talk with Marjorie Perloff, 11/15/05

"Small Dances About Big Ideas: Comprehending Genocide with an Artmaking Experience": A Workshop with Liz Lerman, 11/17/05

"Understanding Genocide: The Extremes of Population Politics": A Panel Discussion, 11/17/05

TEMS Workshop: "Kant's Tattooed New Zealanders": Presented by Tony C. Brown, 11/17/05