Spring 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.

January
February
March
April
May

January

Wreck: Dance performance by Black Label Movement Friday to Sunday, 1/11/08 to 1/13/08 and 1/16/08 to 1/20/08

"Construction Zones and Sprawl": A talk with Brenda Kayzar and Tim Peterson, 1/19/08

"Amnesia Curiosa": Performance with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, 1/22/08

Chinese Film Series: "Ermo" Tuesday, 1/22/08

"A Simple Movement Practice" - workshop with Dana Reitz, 1/28/08

Chinese Film Series: "The Goddess," 1/29/08

"It Takes Two to Tango: An Exploration of Argentine Tango through Performance and Analysis" - presentation by Bob Barnes and Emily McManus, 1/30/08

"Medical Complicity with Torture during the War on Terror": A talk with Steven Miles Thursday, 1/31/08

February

"The Rhetorical Tradition Meets the World Wide Web and Contemporary War Images": A Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies event, 2/1/08

The Minnesota Caucuses: Roundtable Discussion, 2/4/08

"The Dark Side of the Dao: The Lives and Challenges of Medieval Chinese Daoist Nuns, Saints, and Hermits" - a presentation by Suzanne Cahill, 2/5/08

"The Moral Subject in Korea Under Japanese Colonialism": A talk with John Treat, 2/7/08

Lunch Discussion: Identity, Hierarchy, and Diversity of Opinion at the University, 2/11/08

Chinese Film Series: "Crows and Sparrows," 2/12/08

"Tragedia Endogonidia": Screening of Romeo Castellucci's Film Cycle, 2/12-2/13/08

"Conversations on Managing the Mortgage Crisis in North Minneapolis", 2/13/08

Conversation with Romeo Castellucci, 2/14/08

"Making and Knowing: Lived Experience and the Written Word in Early Modern "Europe"": A talk with Pamela Smith, 2/14/08

"The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution" - book discussion with Pamela Smith, 2/15/08

Chinese Film Series: "Yellow Earth", 2/19/08

"What Can We Expect Next of Britain's Gordon Brown?": A talk with Gerard Baker, 2/20/08

The Films of Ulrike Ottinger, introduced by the director, 2/22-2/24/08

Chinese Film Series: "Hibiscus Town", 2/26/08

“The Gay Land Rush: Race, Gender, and GLBT identity in the Life of Minneapolis Neighborhoods”: A Presentation by Ryan Murphy, 2/27/08

"Time in the Shadow Universe": A talk with Marvin Marshak, 2/28/08

March

Chinese Film Series: "Farewell My Concubine", 3/4/08

Lunch Discussion on Identity: Students and Hierarchies at the University, 3/6/08

"One ink-stained wretch's quest for the sweet spot -- between the old journalism and the new -- where civil, substantive discourse can occur, even across the ideological divide": A talk with Eric Black, 3/6/08

Author and graphic artist Alison Bechdel will deliver the McNaron Lecture in Arts & Culture, 3/6/08

Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality, 3/10/08

"Time Frames: Past in the Present": a talk on architecture with Thomas Rose, 3/10/08

Chinese Film Series: "Not One Less", 3/11/08

Jewish Musical Identity in the Habsburg Empire: A talk with Philip V. Bohlman and David Brodbeck, 3/11/08

Trial By Knife: Violence, Belonging, and Transsexuality in Exploitation Films, 3/12/08

Musicology/Theory Colloquium series, Philip V. Bohlman - "The Silence of Genocide", 3/12/08

"Reclaiming the Future" - presentation by David Lowenthal, 3/13/08

"The Digital Reproduction of Inequality": A talk with Eszter Hargittai, 3/13/08

"The Pace and Direction of Change in Lowland Maya Civilization": Plenary address by David Freidel, 3/13/08

Humans Through Deep Time: Archaeology and the Pace of Change - A Symposium, 3/13-3/14/08

Chinese Film Series: "Love Eterne", 3/25/08

"The Ethics of Representation": a workshop with Leigh Fondakowski and Sara Evans, 3/26/08

"Shara (Sharasojyu)": Film screening with Naomi Kawase

"Eighteenth-century Jewish Voices on the Stage and in the Home": A talk with Caryl Clark and Barbara Hahn, 3/27/08

"Tarachime (Birth/Mother)": Film screening with Naomi Kawase, 3/27/08

"The Mourning Forest (Mogari no mori)": Film screening with Naomi Kawase, 3/27/08

Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Lunch Seminar with Caryl Clark, 3/28/08

"Sky, Wind, Fire, Earth (Kya Ka Ra Ba A)": Film screening with the director, Naomi Kawase, 3/28/08

April

Chinese Film Series: "A Touch of Zen", 4/1/08

Philosophy Colloquium with Dennis Stampe, 4/1/08

“Gay sounds and models of Gay speech”: A presentation by Ben Munson, 4/2/08

"Sprawl and its enemies": A presentation by Robert Bruegmann, 4/3/08

“Moving Queer Bodies”: A presentation by Brent Radeke, 4/4/08

QM08@MSP, Queer Motions: 1st Bi-Annual Twin Cities Conference on Global/Local Sexualities, 4/5/08

Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege in America, 4/7-4/8/08

Chinese Film Series: "A Chinese Ghost Story", 4/8/08

"Lesbian Spaces in the WNBA": A talk with Tiffany Muller, 4/9/08

"A Universe Full of Nothing: An exploration with Lawrence Rudnick", 4/9/08

"Interdisciplinarity: Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies between Writing Studies, Communication Studies, and English in the Twenty-First Century": A panel discussion with Mark Huglen, David Beard, and David Gore, 4/10/08

"The Social Death of Things"; a talk by Juliet Schor, 4/10/08

"Archives, Scribes, and Information Management in Bronze Age Greece and Beyond": Colloquium with Thomas G. Palaima, 4/11/08

"Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" - Reading and discussion with author Kao Kalia Yang, 4/14/08

Chinese Film Series: "Centre Stage", 4/15/08

“Coming Out Across Borders: Negotiating the GLBT Identity Abroad and Upon Returning Home”: A presentation by Kristi Kremers, 4/16/08

"Export Models: Japanese Beauties in the Miss Universe Contest": A talk with Jan Bardsley, 4/17/08

The Poetix Collaborative: Readings by Gabrielle Civil, Kazim Ali, Kao Kalia Yang, and G. E. Patterson, 4/17/08

The Poetix Collaborative: Mark Nowak in a poetry dialogue with writers from AFSCME 3800, 4/18/08

The Poetix Collaborative: "The Guantanamo Poems" with Mark Falkoff and W. Flagg Miller, 4/18/08

The Poetix Collaborative: "The Collapsible Poetics Theater" with Rodrigo Toscano and reading by Jeff Derksen, 4/18/08

"The Architecture of Emptiness": A Space & Place symposium, 4/18/08

"The Present Moment": A talk with Rebecca Krinke, Diane Willow and Henry Emmons, M.D., 4/22/08

Chinese Film Series: "Chungking Express", 4/22/08

"Be(com)ing Ally Activists of GLBT People: Stories from the Inside-Out": A presentation by Matt Eichler, 4/23/08

The Concept of Time in Sustainability of Northeast Minnesota: A Symposium, 4/22-4/24/08

"Emergent Difference: How to avoid the nature/nurture trap while maintaining respect for the sciences of biology, psychology, sociology, history and anthropology": A talk with Anne Fausto-Sterling, 4/24/08

Atlantic Worlds: Art and Globalization from Columbus to NAFTA, 4/25/08

Conversation with Filmmaker Jian Yi, 4/25/08

Time and Embodied Cognition, 4/25/08

"Natural Rhythms and Time", 4/26/08

"Embodying the Buddha, Authenticating the Dhamma: Ethics and Moral Representation in Cambodia": A lecture by Anne Hansen, 4/28/08

Chinese Film Series: "A Time to Live, A Time to Die", 4/29/08

May 2008

"Ritual, Play, and Enlightenment": A talk with Robert Sharf, 5/1/08

"From 'community food' to the farmers' market: race and the spatiality of food practice in alternative food efforts": A talk by Rachel Slocum, 5/5/08

Chinese Film Series: "Yi Yi", 5/6/08

"Why the Bible is So Confusing and How Scholars Make Sense of it": A lecture by Jeffrey Stackert, 5/6/08

"Theorizing Historical Change: Critical Theory and the Transformations of the Twentieth Century": A talk with Moishe Postone, 5/8/08

"Creating Access to Mental Health Care for Somali and Oromo Refugees": A talk with Mary Bradmiller, 5/9/08

"Telling Time: Short Films about Dreams, Memories, Paradoxes, Rhythms, Conundrums, Lies and the Uncanny": Presentation by Lynn Lukkas, 5/14/08

The Making of Global Cities, 5/15-5/17/08