“HMONG ACROSS BORDERS” Conference, Friday, October 4 to Saturday, October 5, 2013
Call for Papers The Consortium for Hmong Studies between the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be hosting our second conference entitled “Hmong Across Borders” on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This will be an interdisciplinary, international conference that will focus on current, innovative research on the [...]
A Conversation with the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative, August 1, 2012
Conveners Juliette Cherbuliez, Michael Gaudio, Matthias Rothe, J.B. Shank talk with Amir Hussain about their work The Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Collaborative began with a desire to create an intellectual and exploratory space that resisted the constraints of discipline-bound and results-oriented inquiries. Ten years in the making (the last five of which have been [...]
September 6-9, 2012: Moreechika: Season of Mirage
September 6 to September 9 Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea recently named “Favorite Minnesota Role Model for Women in the Arts” by the Minnessota Women’s Press, and her company, Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), will present the United States premiere of Moreechika: Season of Mirage. The work will receive its world premiere in July at the “New Waves! 2012″ [...]
Kari Smalkoski, Hmong Studies Fellow, 2010-11
Kari Smalkoski (Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development), Hmong Studies Graduate Fellow Project: “Performing Masculinities: The Impact of Cultural Practices, Racialization and Space on Hmong Male Youth and their Families”
Mary Hermes, Faculty Fellow, Spring 2011
Mary Hermes (Department of Education, College of Education and Human Service Professions, UM-Duluth), Spring 2011 Project: “Community and Collaboration: Ojibwe Language Documentation and Revitalization” Hermes collaborated with Ojibwe language teacher Dennis Jones, implementing the use of multimedia software in his classroom, and with Lucia Bonnaci, who is planning the first Ojibwe immersion camp based on [...]
Joseph Gerteis, Faculty Fellow, Spring 2011
Joseph Gerteis (Department of Sociology, CLA), Spring 2011 Project: “American Nationalism: Boundaries and Identities in Historical Context” Gerteis used the duration of his fellowship to think through key issues of a new project on historical dimensions of exclusion in American national identity. His conversations with other fellows helped him sharpen and define how to approach [...]
Choreography of the Moving Cell – Roundtable Discussion
Over the past year the Moving Cell Collaborative has been developing a working version of a “Cellular Catastrophe Arena” in which movement artists can safely recreate the environment found at the microscopic level of the cell. At this roundtable, collaborative participants present an interim report on the progress of the project that includes video by [...]
Susanna Ferlito, Faculty Fellow, Fall 2010
Susanna Ferlito (Department of French and Italian, CLA), Fall 2010 Project: “Patient‘s Voices: Notes Towards a History of Sensibilities in Medical Languages” Ferlito completed an article, “Hysteria‘s Upheavals: Belgioioso‘s Gendered Politics,” which will be published in Modern Italy in 2012, and a conference paper. As a result of the semester‘s exchanges with her cohort of [...]
Cerise Myers, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow, 2009-10
Cerise Myers (Art History, CLA): “The Visible Posthuman: Envisioning Agency for the Cybernetic Self in Digital Culture” The fellowship gave Myers the time she needed to focus on her dissertation project—reading, outlining, writing, and presenting a conference paper drawn from her research, as well as getting substantive feedback from a variety of scholars outside her [...]
Diane Willow, Faculty Fellow, Spring 2010
Diane Willow (Department of Art, CLA), Spring 2010 Project: “Body Electric” Willow pursued her project in two concurrent areas of creative research within the context of contemporary practices and theories of interactive art: an exploration of the aesthetic implications of divergent cultural perspectives of the body as expressed in the theoretical foundations of traditional Chinese, [...]