Introducing Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Science, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to exploring how an interdisciplinary understanding of memory and traumatization can illuminate pathways between artistic production and healing. 

Join the IAS for four conversations on environmental stewardship, culminating in our final IAS Thursday event of the semester!

Introducing Emily Mitamura (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, 2020–2021), working on her dissertation, titled “Afterliving Mass Violence: Plot, Justice, and the Cambodian Genocide.” Her research turns to the political economy of contemporary artistic production in transit between Cambodia and the United States, interrogating transnational regimes of knowledge production in film, literature, news media, and aid policy.

Introducing the Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium, which proposes a model of intersecting, interdependent, and flexible leadership to continue to explore and expand capacity for critical disability studies (CDS) at the University of Minnesota.