Film and Media
November 4, 2009 - Robert Hammel is the Director/Producer of Perimeter Productions, a Minneapolis-based company that creates educational videos and provides creative direction, writing, and design for corporate services.
March 29, 2009 - Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film, where she teaches in the areas of theatre history and culture studies.
March 22, 2009 - Ann Marie Barry is a professor of Communication at Boston College and Associate Director of the College Capstone Program.
Panel discussion of Gran Torino with the Film's Actors, February 20, 2009
February, 2009 - Andréa Stanislav is a professor of Art at the University of Minnesota and practices a multimedia approach to art making, inspired by the language of film, architecture, and pop culture.
"Blackface: Then and Now": a presentation by Greil Marcus, November 10, 2008
April 14, 2008 - Kao Kalia Yang is the author of Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, April 2008). She is a Twin Cities-based writer and film maker, and she is the co-founder of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
November 9, 2007 - Abé Markus Nornes is Professor of Asian Cinema in both the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
November, 2007 - Dan Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and a prominent authority on the law of intellectual property, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology.
February, 2007 - Claudia Robles is an installation and media artist. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she is currently, an artist in residence at the KHM (Academy of Media Arts) in Cologne, Germany, where she is working on a new Interactive performance using a EEG interface.
December, 2006 - Christine Marran is a professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in modern Japanese culture and literature with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture.
November, 2006 - Shohini Ghosh is an award-winning filmmaker and Associate Professor, Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi.