History
"Writing Constitutions into British History": A talk by Linda Colley, November 12, 2009
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.
"What Can History Do?": A talk by Ruth J. Abram, October 5, 2009
September 25, 2009 - Dr. Matt Huber is in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant. He argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction.
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.
April, 2009 - Juliette Cherbuliez is a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Her research is on premodern literature and culture.
"The Devil in the Medieval Theatrical Flesh": A presentation by Jody Enders, March 6, 2009
"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.
February, 2009 - Garrick Comeaux is the founder of Consortium Carissimi, a group created in 1996 with the intent of uncovering and bringing to modern-day ears the long forgotten ltalian-Roman music of the 16th and especially the 17th century.
January 18 and 25, 2009 - The Meaning of Calculus in the 17th Century - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
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
"The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance," November 12, 2008
"Blackface: Then and Now": a presentation by Greil Marcus, November 10, 2008
October 26 and November 2, 2008 - Controversies about Mathematical Knowledge and Leibniz and Newton: Continuity and Controversy - J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota and one of the organizers of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
"Remembrance at Five: The Media's Impact on Contemporary American Commemoration": A talk with Judith Dupre, October 23, 2008
Symposium: "The City, the River, the Bridge," October 10, 2008
"Visual Matter: The Materiality of Late Medieval Devotional Images" - Presentation by Caroline Walker Bynum on September 18, 2008
September 18, 2008 - The Body in the Middle Ages - Caroline Walker Bynum is professor of Western European Middle Ages in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).
"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 9, 2008 - Suzanne Cahill is a professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
November, 2007 - Roger Hart is a professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin where he works in Chinese history and the history of science and mathematics in China.
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.
August, 2007 - Michael Gaudio is a professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and a founding member of the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
March, 2007 - Sara Evans is a McKnight Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in gender analysis, family history, and American women's history.
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.
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.