THE NATURE OF SHOREHAM YARDS is an installation envisioned by artist GUDRUN LOCK featuring the in-process work, research, and explorations of a motley collective of thinkers and makers. The focus of these efforts are the buffers of an active 230-acre train and trucking facility in Northeast Minneapolis, called Shoreham Yards. Both polluted and full of life, the buffers interface in dynamic ways with the neighborhoods surrounding them, and are potent sites of potential transformation. 

Big River Continuum: Cohort Conversations

It is one thing to know about a river, and yet another altogether to consider the river itself as a way of knowing. The Big River Continuum is a Mississippi-long artist residency exchange that amplifies the interconnectedness of cultures, research, water and land through collaboration between the multimedia artist KAREN GOULET (WHITE EARTH OJIBWE) from the Mississippi headwaters

Featuring Monica Kim
Associate Professor & William Appleman Williams Chair in U.S. International and Diplomatic History
University of Wisconsin Madison

The images we see from North Korea often feature men: soldiers, scientists, bureaucrats and of course, Kim Jong Un. Less clear is the role women play in North Korea — at home, in the workplace and on the battlefield. Join the IAS Collaborative, Gender and Violence: Korea and Beyond on Friday, March 25 for a talk with journalist Jean H. Lee on women in everyday life in North Korea, the fog of propaganda, and on the challenges of carrying out research and reporting on the world’s most isolated nation.

Tune in for a conversation with ART FROM THE INSIDE (AFTI) founder ANTONIO ESPINOSA about the transformational power of art, hosted by JUST EDUCATION and the WEISMAN ART MUSEUM.

Cornel Borit (Charles University, Prague/Freie Universität Berlin)
Laura Brody (Charles University, Prague/Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Zoheb Mashiur (Charles University, Prague/University of Kent Brussels)
Moderated by Rituparna Rana (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3/Freie Universität Berlin)

Dr. Melissa Nelson
Professor of Indigenous Sustainability
School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Arizona State University
Proud member of Turtle Mountain Band Chippewa Indians

Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Liang
University of Minnesota Duluth

Dr. Melissa Nelson
Professor of Indigenous Sustainability
School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
Arizona State University
Proud member of Turtle Mountain Band Chippewa Indians

Featuring Vern Northrup
Fond Du Lac Band of Ojibwe

Vern Northrup (Fond Du Lac Band of Ojibwe), artist and retired wildlands firefighter, will present his photographs and teachings that offer Anishinaabe perspectives on the place of humans in the world, the seasons, and more. An audience Q&A will follow.