Quadrant Program Calendar of Events, 2008-09
Tuesday, September 16
"In Small Things Discounted: Architecture and World Making" - presentation by Arijit Sen
In this talk Arijit Sen discusses the growth of an immigrant fast food store in Berkeley in order to explore how small inconsequential transformations in the material environment, when cumulatively examined, can provide us a window from which to study larger processes framing world making. Sen is a visiting Quadrant Fellow in Design, Architecture, and Culture in Fall 2008. He is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture Quadrant.
4:00 - 5:30 p.m, 125 Nolte Center
Tuesday, December 9 and Wednesday, December 10
"Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context" and "'Animal Studies,' Disciplinarity, and the (Post)Humanities": Presentation and workshop with Cary Wolfe
In Wolfe's public talk, he will explore the questions of law, justice, and animals (both human and non-human) by recontextualizing current legal doctrine in the framework of biopolitics and biophilosophy, especially in light of two current animal rights issues: the recent decision by the Spanish Parliament to grant basic rights to Great Apes, and the treatment of animals in factory farming. The workshop explores the relationship between (trans)disciplinarity and anthropocentrism by revisiting the question of discplinarity as understood by Foucault and others, and by lingering over some of the assumptions around the template of "cultural studies" that looms in the background of "animal studies" (and all of the "fill-in-the-blank" studies). A reading is available in advance of the talk, please contact Anne Carter at cart0227@umn.edu for password information. Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. Organized by the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
Presentation, Tuesday, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Workshop, Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Thursday, January 27
"Multicultural Neoliberalism in Chile": A presentation by Guillaume Boccara
Guillaume Boccara received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he is a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He is also a professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológica y Museo at the Northern Catholic University in Chile. This Spring, Dr. Boccara's current project is called "The Making of Indigenous Culture: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Ethnogovernmentality in Post- Dictatorship Chile."
Organized by the Global Cultures Quadrant.
4:00 - 5:30 p.m, 125 Nolte Center
Friday, February 13
"Catastrophe-Afterlife: Constituting Life at the Threshold": A presentation by Yasmeen Arif
Yasmeen Arif was in residence at the University of Minnesota last year as a Sawyer Post-doctoral Fellow on Humanitarianisms and World Orders and as a visiting lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi, India. Her current project is "Afterlife: Recovering Life After Catastrophe."
Organized by the Global Cultures Quadrant.
3:30 - 5:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Tuesday, March 31
"How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo
Wednesday, April 1
"The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian": A presentation by Professor Keith Wailoo
Professor Wailoo is Martin Luther King Jr., Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he is jointly appointed in the Department of History and in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. He is also founding Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers.
Organized by the Health and Society Quadrant.
Tuesday, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Tuesday, April 14
"The Green New Deal": A presentation by Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2001. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College, London. She is the author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (Washington University Press, 2008) and is currently working on two new book ideas - one on the project of the green new deal or green economy, the second (in collaboration with Catherine Waldby) called "Clinical Labour: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy," which reconfigures tissue donation and human subject experimentation as forms of labour.
Organized by the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant..
3:30 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Wednesday, April 15
"Experimenting With the Asthma Files": A workshop with Kim and Mike Fortun
Thursday, April 16
"Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy": A presentation by Mike Fortun
Kim and Michael Fortun are professors of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Kim is the co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology, while Michael has been at the forefront of the genomics debate in Iceland. Some of their recent work includes Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (2001), "Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology" (Co-authored, 2005), and Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (2008).
Organized by the Health and Society Quadrant.
Wednesday workshop at 12:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday talk, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, April 17
"The Green New Deal": Workshop with Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College, London. To get some idea of the Green New Deal agenda, Professor Cooper would recommend workshop participants visit the following websites: The New Economics Foundation, The UN Green Economy Initiative, and The PERI Green Recovery Program.
Organized by the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
12:00 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Friday, April 17
"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun
Kim Fortun is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology and some of her recent publications include Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (2001), "Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology" (co-authored with Mike Fortun, 2005), and "Figuring Out Ethnography," The Ends of Fieldwork (edited by George Marcus, forthcoming).
Organized by the Health and Society Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Monday, April 27
"The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Making of Race in the Modernist City": Workshop with Eric Avila
Tuesday, April 28
"Betty, Barbara, Joan and Jane: The Gendered Dimensions of Highway Construction in Postwar America": Presentation with Eric Avila
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). His research and teaching interests focus upon the historical interplay of social identity, cultural expression and urban space. In the workshop and talk for this visit, Professor Avila will deliver pieces from his next book project, tentatively titled, The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Politics of Identity in the Modernist City.
Participants in the Monday workshop are asked to read the following papers: East Side Stories and Turning Structures. Email ias@umn.edu for password information.
Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture Quadrant.
Monday workshop at 12:00 p.m., 235 Nolte Center
Tuesday talk, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
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