Global Cultures
October 30, 2009 - Ellen Kennedy is the outreach coordinator and interim director at the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.
October 15, 2009 - Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on the relation between slavery and the culture of taste.
"Eastern European Folk Song Traditions": Performance and Discussion with Natalie Nowytski and Mila Ensemble, October 8, 2009
"In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction": A talk with Ananya Chatterjea, September 17, 2009
April 27, 2009 - Eric Avila is a professor of History, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA. He is author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
April 12, 2009 - Guillaume Boccara is a Quadrant fellow, and a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, where he is studying multiculturalism in modern Chile. He is also a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológica y Museo at the Northern Catholic University in Chile.
"From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History": A presentation by Susan Buck-Morss, February 26, 2009
February 24, 2009 - Susan Buck-Morss is a professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government and professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Cornell University.
Panel discussion of Gran Torino with the Film's Actors, February 20, 2009
January 4, 2009 - Science in Japan in the War Years - Hiromi Mizuno is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota.
Sovereignty: A Minnesota Sesquicentennial Symposium, December 5, 2008
"Amnesty and Justice in International Law": A presentation by Max Pensky, November 6, 2008
"Sense and Sensibilities: Exploring the Origins of the Global 'Anti-Biotech' Movement": A presentation by Rachel Schurman and William Munro, October 30, 2008
"Pathways to Youth Inclusion in Egypt: Education, Livelihoods, and Family Formation": A presentation by Ragui Assaad, October 2, 2008
"ORIGINS: First Nations Theatre from around the World": A Thursdays at Four presentation by David Milroy at the IAS on September 11, 2008
September 11, 2008 - Writing Plays About Aboriginal Issues - David Milroy is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara in Western Australia and has been involved in theatre in for a number of years as a musician, director and writer.
May, 2008 - David Chang is a professor of History at the University of Minnesota where he studies race, nationhood, and Native American culture.
May 8, 2008 - Moishe Postone is a Professor of History at the University of Chicago who focuses on the problems of modern anti-Semitism and questions of history, memory, and identity in postwar Germany.
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.
February, 2008 - John Treat is a professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he specializes in modern Japanese fiction.
February 9, 2008 - Suzanne Cahill is a professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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 - Kairn Klieman is a professor of History at the University of Houston where she works with both the pre-colonial history of central Africa and, more recently, the cultural and historical consequencs of the oil industry in post-colonial Africa.
November, 2007 - Susan MacIntosh is a professor of Anthropology at Rice Universiy. Her current research focuses on the emergence of large-scale, complex societies in Africa and the impact of climate and environmental change on human society in the past.
November, 2007 - Geraldine Heng is Director of the Medieval Studies Program and Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Global Middle Ages Project.
March, 2007 - Jeff Halper is the co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions which challenges and resists the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
March, 2007 - Anselm Hollo is a Finnish poet and translator and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics Department at The Naropa Institute.
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.
February, 2007 - Susannah L. Smith is a professor of History specializing in Russia and modern Europe at the University of Minnesota and the managing director of the Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
October, 2006 - William LaFleur is E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan (Princeton University Press 1992), and principal editor of Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research (Indiana University Press, 2007).
May, 2006 - Ann Waltner is a member of both the Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and she is also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.