Social Justice and Human Rights
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.
"What Can History Do?": A talk by Ruth J. Abram, October 5, 2009
"In Fragile Hope/Dancing Conviction": A talk with Ananya Chatterjea, September 17, 2009
"Ethics and Climate Change": An Earth Day presentation by Andrew Light, April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009 - Andrew Light is a professor of Philosophy and Environmental Policy and Director for the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University.
Discussion on the Minneapolis Housing Crisis, with Ryan Allen and Jeff Crump, April 20, 2009
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.
"The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multicultualism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post-Dictatorship Chile": Presentation by Guillaume Boccara, January 27, 2009
"Respect for Sacred Sites: Protecting Indigenous Burial Grounds under International Law": A talk by James Anaya, December 10, 2008
"Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context": A presentation by Cary Wolfe, December 9, 2008
Sovereignty: A Minnesota Sesquicentennial Symposium, December 5, 2008
"A Journey Across Our America: Meditations on Immigration and Cultural Belonging": A presentation by Louis Mendoza, November 20, 2008
"The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance," November 12, 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
Performance and Social Justice with Ananya Chatterjea, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, and Jigna Desai, October 8, 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.
November 14, 2009uot; - a talk by Judge Park Won Soon at the IAS on September 10, 2008
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.
December, 2007 - Erik Olin Wright is a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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.
Juan Cole: "The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'" - A talk given at the IAS on April 5, 2007
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.
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.