Calendar: Spring 2009 Thursdays at Four
Unless otherwise indicated, all events are held in 125 Nolte.
January 22
"Wastelands and Wilderness": Presentation by Peter Galison
Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Among other works, he is the author of How Experiments End (Chicago University Press, 1987), Image and Logic: a Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago University Press, 1997), with C.A. Jones, Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge, 1998), and, with Lorraine Daston, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2007).
Cosponsored by the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative, and the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.
January 29
"Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World": A presentaion by Mark Bee
Mark Bee is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on acoustic communication and auditory perception and he has published widely on his own obseravtions about frog and songbird behavior.
Cosponsored by the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.
February 5
"Anarchy to Art, a brief 30-year Narrative": A presentation by Bill Foley
Bill Foley is a professor of Photography at Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. He has been captivating audiences with his moving and starkly honest photography for over 25 years and has shot, published and lectured in 47 countries around the world, with emphasis on the Middle East.
Organized by the Dubai, Inc. Collaborative
February 12
The Motet and Cantata of the Early Roman Baroque: a lecture/recital by Garrick Comeaux and Consortium Carissimi, with Kelly Harness
Garrick Comeaux is the founder of Consortium Carissimi, a group created in 1996 with the intent of uncovering and bringing to modem day ears the long forgotten ltalian-Roman music of the 16th and especially the 17th century. Kelley Harness is a professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota.
Cosponsored by the School of Music.
February 19
"Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomy and Babylonian Texts": A presentation by Bruce Wells
Bruce Wells is a professor of the Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology at the St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He is recently the author of “The Hated Wife in Deuteronomic Law” (forthcoming), “What Is Biblical Law? A Look at Pentateuchal Rules and Near Eastern Practice” (2008), and “Sex, Lies, and Virginal Rape: The Slandered Bride and False Accusation in Deuteronomy" (2005).
Cosponsored by the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies.
February 26
"From Hegel and Haiti to Universal History": A presentation by Susan Buck-Morss
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.
Cosponsored by the Dialectics and Society Collaborative and the Institute for Global Studies.
March 5
"Digital Poetics": An interactive reading and presentation with John Cayley and Rita Raley
John Cayley is a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. More information about his work can be found at his website. Rita Raley is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book, Tactical Media (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), is a study of new media art in relation to neoliberal globalization.
Cosponsored by the Department of English.
March 12
"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.": A talk by Tamara Underiner
Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film, where she also directs the Ph.D. concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas, and teaches in the general areas of theatre history and culture studies.
Cosponsored by the Rethinking Statehood Collaborative: Sovereignty, Memory and Citizenship in Minnesota 150.
March 26
"Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future": Presentation by Jonathan Foley
Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, where he is also a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.
Cosponosred by the Institute on the Environment.
April 2
"Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944): The Politics of Race in Wartime America": A presentation by Carol Oja
Carol Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Her book, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.
Cosponsored by Minnesota Public Radio and the School of Music.
April 9
"A Compass in a Moving World (on genres and genealogies of theory)": presentation by David Rodowick
David Rodowick is a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of The Virtual Life of Film (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media (Duke University Press, 2001), and his edited collection, The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2009.
Organized by the Transnational Film and Media Studies Collaborative.
April 16
"Icelandic Scandals: deCODE Genetics and Other Tales of Excess and Bankruptcy": A presentation by Mike Fortun
Michael Fortun is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Some of his recent work includes "Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology" (Co-authored with Kim Fortun, 2005), and Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (2008).
Organized by the Health and Society Quadrant.
April 23
"Environmental Policy Formation: Political Economy and Behavioral Economics": A presentation by Amy Ando
Amy Ando is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her recent work includes "Welfare Effects and Unintended Consequences of Ethanol Subsidies" (with Madhu Khanna and Farzad Taheripour, 2008), "The Roles of Ownership, Ecology, and Economics in Public Wetland-Conservation Decisions" (with Michael Getzner, 2006), and "Recycling in multi-family dwellings: Does convenience matter?" (with Anne Gosselin, 2005).
April 30
"Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: Examining the University's Relationship with Mexican Communities": Roundtable Discussion
The discussion will feature Rodrigo Márquez, Consul for community affairs at the Consulate of Mexico in St. Paul, Rodolfo Gutierrez, Executive Director of Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research, Meredith McQuaid, Dean of the Office of International Programs, Louis Mendoza, Associate Provost of the Office of Equity & Diversity, and Judy Swanson, Associate Director, Student Services Outreach. Organized by the Mexico-Minnesota Dialogue Collaborative.
May 7
"Advocacy in Hard Times: Representing Marginalized Groups in Times of National Crisis": A presentation by Dara Strolovitch
Dara Strolovitch is a professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Some of her recent work includes Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (2007), "New Orleans is not the Exception: Re-politicizing the Study of Racial Inequality" (with Paul Frymer and Dorian Warren, 2006), and "Measuring Gay Population Density and the Incidence of Anti-Gay Hate Crime" (with Donald P. Green, Robert Bailey, and Janelle S. Wong, 2001).
Cosponsored by the Department of Political Science.
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