ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORT FROM AIRPORT
There is no shuttle from the airport to the Aloft Hotel at 900 Washington Avenue, where you will be staying. Please take a taxi and keep the receipts. The hotel is about a 7 minute walk from the campus. A map will be included in your welcome packet. The Aloft is very close to the [...]
Iain Biggs, October 2012
Iain Biggs is a professor in the Department of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He talks about the ways in which his personal life (his own dyslexia, his daughter’s illness) has had an impact on his artistic work.Throughout the interview he reflects on what he has [...]
September 21-23, 2012: Black Environmental Thought II Conference
Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Location: Cowles Auditorium Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Cost: $125 for full conference. Single day, student, and community rates available. Filling the deep void in the literature and practice of Black environmental thought. The second national Black Environmental thought and practice conference invites scholars, activists, farmers, artists, gardeners, environmentalists and [...]
Fascinating Rhythms: A Conference on the History and Philosophy of Biological Rhythms Research
From early studies on the timing of plant germination and bird migration to the more recent search for the molecular mechanisms underlying circadian rhythms, the concepts of biological clocks and periodicities have been important to many areas of biology, including ecology, evolutionary biology, zoology, plant physiology, animal behavior, molecular biology, and biomedicine. Indeed, studies of [...]
Tunisia in the Imperial Mediterranean at the Turn of the 20th Century
Mediterranean Exchanges Workshop Keynote by Mary Lewis, History, Harvard University Mary Lewis is a Professor of History at Harvard University where her work focuses on 19th and 20th Century French and European imperialism. Her current research interests center around international and imperial history, the history of rights, and the connections between international relations and everyday [...]
Practicing Science, Technology and Rhetoric: The North-South Divide in an Emerging Global Order
Bernadette Longo (Department of Writing Studies, CLA), Spring 2011 Project: “Risk: The Democratic Republic of Congo Edition” Longo planned and carried out an international colloquium, “Practicing Science, Technology, and Rhetoric: The North-South Divide in an Emerging Global Order.” The colloquium, which took place in April, was in conjunction with the University Symposium on Abundance & [...]
Practicing Science, Technology and Rhetoric: The North-South Divide in an Emerging Global Order Colloquium on Technology, Culture, & Communication
This colloquium will highlight work being done at the University of Minnesota exploring the interdependent and global nature of contemporary science and technology practices. Participants will explore how those who work within institutions of science and/or employ emerging technologies, like (but not limited to) new information and communication technologies (ICTS), frame political, economic, cultural, and [...]
Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today
Thursday to Saturday, April 7-9 Cosponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Early Modern History, and the Institute for Global Studies Schedule Thursday, April 7 4:00 p.m. Keynote by Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota, “Charlemagne’s Mediterranean Empire.” Chair: Ann Waltner, Institute for Advanced Study Audio download (.mp3 [...]
The Origin of Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art
An Interdisciplinary Conference University of Minnesota March 24-25, 2011 Due to the current situation in Japan, Dr. Ikeda and Dr. Shigeno are unable to attend but conference activities will proceed as planned. The IAS and Ryuta Nakajima are planning to bring Dr. Ikeda and Dr. Shigeno to the university next year. Why do we make images, [...]
How We Talk about Feeding the World – Workshop March 3-5, 2011
This workshop was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study’s University Symposium on Abundance and Scarcity 2010-12 in collaboration with colleagues in the College of Food, Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) and College of Liberal Arts (CLA). In five panels and a series of conversations, we will consider the stumbling blocks and dead-ends that [...]