Fall 2008
Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.
August
"Speaking of Home: Immigration to Minnesota" - Conversation with Donna Gabaccia and IBé, 8/12
"Public Art as Conversation Starter ": A talk with Jack Becker and Peter Eleey, 8/26 (video)
September
"Bringing Justice to an Unjustified Past in Korea": A presentation by Judge Park Won Soon, 9/10 (video)
ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World": A presentation by David Milroy, 9/11 (video)
"The Twenty-first-century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory" - discussion with Ananya Roy, 9/15
"In Small Things Discounted: Architecture and World Making" - presentation by Arijit Sen, 9/16 (video)
"Bolatu's Theriac in Early Modern China": A presentation by Carla Nappi, 9/19
"Public Art and Democracy": Keynote address by Suzanne Lacy, 9/26 (video)
"Public Art and Democracy," 9/27 (video)
"Public Art and Democracy": Performance of "Daak: Call to Action," 9/27
Conversations on Body & Knowing, 9/29/2008
October
"Noise in American Horror Films" A talk with Frank Hentschel, 10/2/2008
Roundtable: "Conversations on the Future of Music and Sound Studies," 10/6/2008
"Performance and Social Justice," 10/8/2008 (video)
"Memory, Place, Identity": Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse, 10/9/2008 (video)
"Life on the Upper Mississippi" - Performance by Patricia Hampl with Dan Chouinard, 10/9/2008
"The City, the River, the Bridge" – Conference, 10/10/2008 (video)
"Bombing the Plaza: Current Instability in Mexico": A talk by Pat McNamara, 10/15/2008
"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": with Mitchell Morris, 10/17/2008
"Somali refugees in Europe" a presentation by Abdi Roble and Doug Rutledge, 10/22/2008
James Dillon's 'The Book of Elements' Lecture, 10/28/2008
An Evening with Todd Haynes and Greil Marcus, 10/29/2008
James Dillon's 'The Book of Elements' with Noriko Kawai, piano, 10/29/2008
Two Films by Todd Haynes: "Safe" and "Far from Heaven," 10/30/2008
"The Vagabond Voices of Neorealism": A talk by Jonathan Thomas, 10/31/2008
November
"Gender, Science, and Myths of Merit": A talk by Marlene Zuk 11/5/2008
"Amnesty and Justice in International Law": A presentation by Max Pensky, 11/6/2008 (video)
Spaces of Conflict in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: "Edge of Heaven" and "Distant," 11/6/2008
Ananya Dance Theatre: Pipaashaa (Extreme Thirst), 11/6-7/2008
"Blackface: Then and Now": a presentation by Greil Marcus, 11/10/2008 (video)
The Drives: David Cronenberg's "Crash" and Philippe Grandrieux's "Sombre," 11/11/2008
Robert Polito: Hollywood and God, 11/12/2008
"The Spirit of Leadership: The Time is Now": A presentation by Darlyne Bailey, 11/13/2008 (video)
"Delicious Movement": A workshop with Eiko Otake, 11/14/2008
"Locomotion and Time in West African Cinema": A talk by Charles Sugnet, 11/14/2008
"Man and Animal, Master and Servant": A talk by Brian Price, 11/21/2008
"Magic as Ersatz Experiments": A presentation by Eric Van Duzer, 11/24/2008 (video)
December
Sovereignty: A Minnesota Sesquicentennial Symposium, 12/5/2008 (video)
"Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context": A presentation by Cary Wolfe, 12/9/2008 (video)
"United Nations Hearing on the Desecration of Hmong Graves": A talk with James Anaya, 12/10/2008
"'Animal Studies,' Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities": A workshop with Cary Wolfe, 12/10/2008
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari": Film Screening, 12/11/2008
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a Case of Biocinema": A talk by A. Kiarina Kordela, 12/12/2008