Featuring: Samuel Herley, Jayne Swift, and Matt Villenueve

Morgan Adamson: Associate Professor and Chair, Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College
Moderated by Sonali Pahwa: Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota

The fourth meeting of the "Collecting Oral Histories of West Central Minnesota" Collaborative of the Institute for Advanced Study will be a reading group on the practical dimensions of beginning new oral history collection projects. Anyone and everyone interested in telling local stories is welcome! Readings will be available in advance via Briggs Library Electronic Reserve.

HaeRan Shin: Professor, Department of Geography, Seoul National University

Aiden Bettine is an archivist and historian who researches and teaches local history pertaining to race, gender, and sexuality in the Midwest. His community work prioritizes creating generative spaces for LGBTQ people to learn, share, and research our history. Aiden founded the LGBTQ Iowa Archives & Library, a community archives and lending library in Iowa City and served as Community & Student Life Archivist at the University of Iowa.

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception for our 2022-23 IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Media Archives for the Future. Please join us for an introductory discussion of this project to reimagine media archives, emerging from and connecting across our research in cinema studies, digital performance studies, and rhetorical communication.

Refreshments will be served!

Panelists: Emily Winderman (Communication Studies), Lorenzo Fabbri (French & Italian), Maggie Hennefeld (CSCL), Sonali Pahwa (Theatre Arts & Dance).

Are you interested in narrative medicine? Has the pandemic caused uncertainty for you? Explore our collective Covid story in a virtual, small group setting with narrative medicine to share your story and hear other's experiences. Join the Project for Advancing Healthcare Stewardship for our last 2-hour forum of the year!

Stephen Gross, Archivist and associate professor of History: University of Minnesota Morris
Naomi Skulan, Metadata & Technical Services Coordinator: University of Minnesota Morris Library

In the early 20th century, filmmakers were frequently compared to hypnotists, enticing hysterical movie audiences with wild collective hallucinations! In these rarely seen films curated by UMN’s Maggie Hennefeld, a woman is hypnotized by a Svengali, a jealous lover practices tele-hypnosis to defeat his rival, an overworked housemaid has sleeping sickness, a female coach drive can’t believe her eyes, an obsessive inventor gives us a sneak preview of Zoom, and cinematography offers a miraculous cure to hysterical amnesia.