January 31, 2013: The Snarge Matrix: Bird Strikes, Whale Strikes, and Road Kill in the Age of Mass Mobility – Quadrant presentation by Gary Kroll
Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:00 p.m. Nolte 125 Gary Kroll is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Plattsburgh State University and he will be in residence at the IAS during spring 2013 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability group of Quadrant. Trained in environmental history and the history of science, Professor Kroll is [...]
February 7, 2013: The Incitements of Infrastructure – A presentation with Nikhil Anand and Hannah Appel
The Incitements of Infrastructure Infrastructures- water pipes, oil rigs, roads, electricity networks- are critical sites that enable the movement of materials necessary for the everyday life of capitalism, the legitimacy of states, and the viability of human bodies in different parts of the word. Yet, as recent disasters such as the BP Deep Water Horizon [...]
February 14, 2013: Mark Russell Smith: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Mark Russell Smith will discuss Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece, The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps), with musical examples performed by University of Minnesota students. The Paris debut of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in May 1913, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, [...]
February 21, 2013: Young women in the ‘Great Divergence’: Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries
A project presentation by Emily Bruce, Hui-han Jin, Kan Li, M.J. Maynes, Eric Roubinek, and Ann Waltner We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual union. We are interested in girls’ household and non-household labor (especially [...]
February 21, 2013: Sites and Sins of Omission: The Perils of Research in Personal Archives – A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:00 p.m. 125 Nolte Center A Roundtable discussion with Eric Colleary, Theatre Arts and Dance, Tracey Deutsch, History, Brian Horrigan, Minnesota Historical Society, and Tulley Long, History of Science and Technology. Regina Kunzel, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, moderator What are the research ethical issues where materials have been deliberately, subjectively [...]
February 28, 2013: The Art of Migration
Since 2003, Kianga Ford has been engaged in research-based projects about locations in the U.S. and abroad that combine historical research and conversations with locals and visitors as the basis for fictional audio tours in the series, “The Story of This Place.” Fictional characters are overlaid atop real urban landscapes in audio recordings complete [...]