Fall 2009
Thursdays at Four and Symposium events, along with many other IAS talks are recorded and archived online. These can now be viewed here through our media page.
September
"Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)": Random Dance Open Rehearsal, 9/10
"Choreography and the Brain": A conversation with Wayne McGregor, 9/10 (video)
"In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction": A talk with Ananya Chatterjea, 9/17 (video)
Conversations on Body & Knowing, 9/25
"Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America": A talk by Lisa Uddin, 9/30 (video)
October
TEMS Reading Group: Martin Heidegger's "The Age of the World Picture," 10/1
"What Can History Do?": A talk by Ruth J. Abram, 10/5 (video)
Agri-Food Film Series: "Fresh," 10/8
TEMS Reading Group: Walter Benjamin's "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," 10/9
"Trying Galileo": A presentation by Thomas Mayer, 10/9
How Spiritual Outcasts Nourish the Soul, 10/14
"The Colonial Aesthetic: Slavery and the Culture of Taste": A presentation by Simon Gikandi, 10/15 (video)
American Genocide and Justice - program airing on TPT, 10/17
Anne Carson: Possessive Used as Drink (Me) + Bracko, 10/18
Juan Cole: The Internet and the "War on Terror" - program airing on TPT, 10/20
"Albrecht Durer's Melancholy Mathematician": A lab session with J.B. Shank, 10/22
"Black Sea Files": A presentation with Ursula Biemann, 10/22
Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric, 10/23 (video)
Law and Religion in the Global Middle Ages, 10/24
"Abundance & Scarcity" - University Symposium planning discussions, 10/27
A presentation by Joseph Grigely, 10/28
"On the Making of a Pop Icon: 'Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan' and Contemporary Chinese Art": A talk by Tang Xiaobing, 10/29
Conversations on Body & Knowing, 10/30
November
"Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self": A presentation by Stacy Alaimo, 11/3 (video)
"Music of the Hemispheres": A presentation by Roger Dumas, 11/4
60 Years of China on Film, 11/4-11/16
"Merchant Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean World": A talk by Dominique Valérian, 11/5
"Writing Constitutions into British History": A talk by Linda Colley, 11/12 (video)
Adam Hochschild Reading, 11/17
"Anaesthesia; or, The Chair as Image": A talk by John Harwood, 11/19 (video)
"The Redesign of Design: Computer, Architect, Corporation": A workshop with John Harwood, 11/20
"Network Neutrality: A Two sided vs Auction theory approach" - Jyoti Vig, 11/20
Opening Reception - Talking Suitcases: Gathering Life Stories in a Diverse World, 11/20
The Stories - Talking Suitcases: Gathering Life Stories in a Diverse World, 11/21
Interactive Panels: The Art of Community Partnership, 11/21
"Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount": A presentation by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, 11/30
December
Art Dubai: A presentation by Laura Trelford, 12/1
A workshop with Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, 12/3
Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge, 12/3
Agri-Food Film Series: Big Night, 12/10
Embodying Gilgamesh: BIOMECHANICS, the Physical Actor Training Method, 12/11