Spring 2009

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

"Wastelands and Wilderness": A presentation by Peter Galison, 1/22/09 (video)

Conversations on Music and Sound Studies with Jonathan Sterne. 1/23/09

"Is Music a Thing?": A presentation by Jonathan Sterne, 1/23/09

"A Simple Movement Practice" - workshop with Dana Reitz, 1/26/09

"Multicultural Neoliberalism in Chile": Presentation by Guillaume Boccara, 1/27/09 (video)

Conversations on Body & Knowing, 1/29/09

"Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World" - Presentation by Mark Bee, 1/29/09 (video)

"Modernizing Melodrama": A talk with Carol Donelan, 1/30/09

February

"Anarchy to Art, a brief 30-year Narrative": A presentation by Bill Foley, 2/5/2009 (video)

"The Suicide Collectors": Reading by author David Oppegaard, 2/10/2009 (video)

Open Studio: Artist Andrea Stanislav, 2/11/2009

The Motet and Cantata of the Early Roman Baroque: a lecture/recital by Garrick Comeaux and Consortium Carissimi, with Kelley Harness, 2/12/2009 (video)

"Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold": A presentation by Yasmeen Arif, 2/13/2009 (video)

"Inventing the Englightenment": a talk by Dan Edelstein, 2/13/2009

"Embodiment and Body Knowledge in the Ancient World": A presentation by Daniel H. Garrison, 2/18/2009 (video)

"Gran Torino, Perpetual Warriors and the Performance of Hmong Masculinity" - Presentation by Louisa Schein and Va-Megn Thoj, 2/18/2009

Conversations on Body & Knowing, 2/19/2009

"Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomy and Babylonian Texts": A presentation by Bruce Wells, 2/19/2009 (video)

The "Look" of Freedom: Embodiment and the Nature and Meaning of Black Religion: A lecture by Anthony Pinn, 2/20/2009

Panel discussion of Gran Torino with the Film's Actors, 2/20/2009 (video)

"How Unleashed Capitalism Produces Economic Crises: What is to be done?": A presentation by Robert Pollin, 2/23/2009 (video)

Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT, 2/23/2009 (video)

"(Un)Common Ground: Space and Place in African American and Native American Convergences": A talk by LaRose Davis, 2/24/2009 (video)

"The Sun": Film screening, 2/25/2009

"From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History": A presentation by Susan Buck-Morss, 2/26/2009 (video)

"Sokurov and Lacan: Painting's Luminous Archive and Anamorphic Imaginaries": A presentation by Amy Levine, 2/27/2009

"Explaining Reconciliation: Performances, Mechanisms, and Processes toward Reconciliation": presentation by Mario Fumerton and Lauren Gould, 2/27/2009

March

"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": A talk with Isabelle Peretz, 3/2/2009

"The Nature of Music from a Neurobiological Perspective": A presentation by Isabelle Peretz, 3/2/2009

Open rehearsal of Field Songs, 3/3/2009

"Digital Poetics ": A reading by John Cayley with comment by Rita Raley, 3/5/2009 (video)

"The Devil in the Medieval Theatrical Flesh": A presentation by Jody Enders, 3/6/2009 (video)

"Collaborating with Bertolt Brecht": Talking Dance with David Gordon and Michael Lupu, 3/7/2009

"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": A talk with Regula Qureshi, 3/9/2009

"Three Decades of Financial Dominance and Crisis in the United States: A Talk on the Rise, Social Consequences, and Fall of Wall Street Investment Banks": A presentation by Karen Ho, 3/9/2009 (video)

"Oral Tradition, Media, and Modernity: Experiencing Music in India": A Presentation by Regula Qureshi, 3/9/2009

"Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture": A book talk with Jaap Kooijman, 3/10/2009 (video)

"Understanding Body Image: Sense of Self, Media Imagery, and Visual Culture": A presentation by Ann Marie Barry, 3/11/2009 (video)

Conversations on Body & Knowing, 3/12/2009

"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.": A talk by Tamara Underiner, 3/12/2009 (video)

David Gordon Pick Up Performance Co(S.) presents: "Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht and Eisler," World Premiere, 3/12-3/14/2009

"The making of a viral emergency. Retrovirologists, neoliberalism and the AIDS crisis in Cameroon": A presentation by Guillaume Lachenal, 3/23/2009 (video)

A movement workshop with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 3/23/2009

"Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out": A presentation by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, 3/24/2009 (video)

"Darfur and the Crime of Genocide": A presentation by John Hagan, 3/26/2009

"Minnesota-Mexico: Intersecting Criminal Justice Reforms and the Promotion of Human Rights": A presentation by Barb Frey and Juan Carlos Arjona Estevez, 3/26/2009

"Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future": A Presentation by Jonathan Foley, 3/26/2009 (video)

"Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre": A talk with Patricia Ybarra, 3/27/2009

Panel Discussion on "Uncivil Wars" with David Weissbrodt, Caroline Palmer, and Leslie Van Duser, 3/30/2009 (video)

"How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo, 3/31/2009

April

"The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo, 4/1/2009

"Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944): The Politics of Race in Wartime America": A presentation by Carol Oja, 4/2/2009

"Impersonal Rule: Logistical Power and the Canal du Midi": A presentation by Chandra Mukerji, 4/3/2009

"Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness": A presentation by Mary Poovey, 4/6/2009

"Latinyorks: Insertion, Identity and Transnational Imaginary": A presentation by Juan Carlos Narvaez Gutierrez, 4/7/2009 (video)

Film Screening: Eloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love), 4/8/2009

Conversations on Body & Knowing, 4/9/2009

"A Compass in a Moving World (on genres and genealogies of theory)": A presentation by David Rodowick, 4/9/2009

"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": A talk with George Lewis, 4/10/2009

"Mobilitas Animi: Improvising Technologies, Intending Chance": A Presentation by George Lewis, 4/10/2009

"The Virtual Life of Film": A presentation by D. N. Rodowick, 4/10/2009

Roundtable Discussion on Academic Research and Creative Practice with Rane Willerslev, 4/10/2009

"The Optimal Sacrifice": A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi": A presentation by Rane Willerslev, 4/13/2009 (video)

Global Justice and Human Rights Trials - program airing on TPT, 4/13/2009 (video)

"The Green New Deal": A talk with Melinda Cooper, 4/14/2009 (video)

"Experimenting With the Asthma Files": A presentation with Kim and Mike Fortun, 4/15/2009

"Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy": A presentation by Mike Fortun, 4/16/2009 (video)

"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun, 4/17/2009 (video)

"The Green New Deal": A workshop with Melinda Cooper, 4/17/2009

"Jewish Music and Sacred Sound in Pune, India": Panel discussion with Philip Bohlman, G.H. Sahota, and Anna Schultz, 4/20/2009

"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": A talk with Philip Bohlman, 4/20/2009

"Music Before the Nation and after Nationalism": A presentation by Philip Bohlman, 4/20/2009

Discussion on the Minneapolis Housing Crisis, with Ryan Allen and Jeff Crump, 4/20/2009 (video)

"Algeria and France: Is torture a way to win a war on terror": a lecture by Dr. Raphaelle Branche, 4/21/2009

"Ethics and Climate Change": An Earth Day presentation by Andrew Light, 4/22/2009 (video)

"Environmental Policy Formation: Political Economy and Behavioral Economics": A presentation by Amy Ando, 4/23/2009 (video)

Symposium: "The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert", 4/23 to 4/24/2009

"Beautiful Misperceptions: Illusions in Architecture and Magic": A presentation by Leslie Van Duzer, 4/24/2009

"The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Making of Race in the Modernist City": A workshop with Eric Avila, 4/27/2009

"Transformations and Reinterpretations of American Jazz: An Inside Account of Jazz Performances in Southern Africa, 1960s to Now": A presentation by Gerhard Kubik, 4/27/2009 (video)

"Dancing the Violent Body of Sound": Informal showing and discussion, 4/27/2009

"Betty, Barbara, Joan and Jane: The Gendered Dimensions of Highway Construction in Postwar America": A presentation by Eric Avila, 4/28/2009 (video)

Film Screening: "Platform", 4/29/2009

"Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: Examining the University's Relationship with Mexican Communities", 4/30/2009 (video)

May

"Conversations on Music and Sound Studies": A talk with David Hesmondhalgh, 5/1/2009

"Sex, Music, Pleasure, and Politics": A Presentation by David Hesmondhalgh, 5/1/2009

"Truancy, or Thought from the Provinces": A presentation by Yun Peng, 5/1/2009

Open rehearsal of Field Songs, 5/5/2009

"Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis": A presentation by Dara Strolovitch, 5/7/2009 (video)

"Transitional Justice in Peru: The Trial of Alberto Fujimori": Presentation by Jo-Marie Burt, 5/11/2009

"Critical Moral Judgment in the Study of Religion: The Scholar's Dilemma", 5/14/2009

Open rehearsal of Field Songs, 5/22/2009

Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music and Sound, 5/22-5/23/2009

"Ashesh Barsha, Unending Monsoon" - Ananya Dance Theatre, 5/23/2009

"Creating a Sustainable Public Art Practice": Panel Discussion with Christine Baeumler, Seitu Jones, Nicholas Legeros, and Ralph Nelson, 5/27/2009

"Field Songs": Dance performance by Black Label Movement, 5/29 through 6/7/2009