Fall 2007

Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.

September
October
November
December

September

"Pipaashaa, Extreme Thirst": a Performance by Ananya Dance Theater, 9/6 – 9/9

Coffee Hour: Gerry Kearns "Geopolitics and Empire", 9/7

Bergman Tribute: 'Wild Strawberries' - With an Introduction by Hisham Bizri, 9/7

"'Burning Down the House': Race, Media, and the Burning of Churches in the U.S., 1996-2001": Presentation by Doug McAdam, Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, 9/11

"Tribal Time, Ceremony, and Public Art": Discussion with Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, 9/13

U.S. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to deliver Public Policy lecture, 9/15

Roundtable on Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" with Margaret Mills, William Beeman, and Bali Sahota, 9/17

"Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine": a talk with Omer Bartov about his newly-released book, 9/17

Time Symposium Lunch, 9/20

"American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation": A talk with Matthew Pratt Guterl, 9/20

"Queen of Fashion," a lecture on Marie-Antoinette by Professor Caroline Weber, 9/21

"From the South of France to the Global South: the Meaning of Josephine Baker's Argentinean Idyll" - discussion with Matthew Pratt Guterl, 9/21

"Accountability and Redemption: Cinematic Representation of Atrocity in Taiwan": Film and discussion with Prof. Sylvia Li-chun Lin, 9/24

"Encounter Point": Film screening organized by the Space & Place collaborative: Discussion to follow with film makers Ronit Avni and Nahanni Rous, 9/25

"Spatial manifestations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Jerusalem": a talk by Wendy Pullan, 9/26

“Change in China and its Impact on Higher Education”: With Yongwei Zhang, Director of the China Center, 9/27

"Environmentalism and Modern Democracy: Lessons on Local and Global Governance": A conversation on Environment and Communities of Color": A talk with Shalini Gupta and Cecilia Martinez, 9/27

"Rethinking the Dynamics of Rural Transformation in the Philippines: Experiments with Ethical Economic Practices": with Katherine Gibson, Professor of Human Geography, Australia National University, 9/28

October

"The Poetry of Time and the Disorientation of Memory": A presentation by Jason Rubin and John Merigliano, 10/1/07

"City Bridges--Imagined and Real": A talk with Judith Martin and "Dakota Speak of Rivers": A talk with Mona Smith, 10/2/07

“Made in China”: Discussion with Seth Werner, 10/4/07

"Unstable Genes, Cancer, and Aging": A talk with Colin Campbell, 10/4/07

"Pre-Logical Poetry Hijinx!": A reading by poets Steve McCaffery and Edwin Torres, 10/4/07

Sanctified Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Religions: Discourse, Ritual, Community, 10/6-10/8/07

"Rebuilding Common Ground": A talk with Mayor R.T. Rybak, 10/9/07

GLBT Colloquium: ALT.SEX.JAPAN, 10/10/07

"Culture Matters: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in International Adoption": A talk with Richard M. Lee, 10/11/07

Gathering at the River, 10/13/07

Hmong Studies Journal Research Panel with Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Linda Gensheimer and Zha Blong Xiong, 10/15/07

"Crepuscule": A conversation with Douglas Ewart, 10/16/07

"The Mississippi River as a (National) Park": A talk with Paul Labovitz, 10/16/07

"The Sound Creates the Space: Time and Place in Aural Art": A performance and discussion with Daniel Givens and Nathaniel Braddock, 10/17/07

“Women in Modern China: From Golden Lotus to Iron Maiden to Supermodel”: A talk with Wang Ping, Associate Professor of English at Macalester College, 10/18/07

Time Symposium Lunch, 10/18/07

"The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India": A talk with Dipesh Chakrabarty, 10/18/07

Cherrie Moraga: A Chicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, 10/18/07

First Asian American Studies "Happy Hour", 10/19/07

Open rehearsal of Wreck, 10/23/07

"Where does the Water Actually Go?: The Mississippi River is a Connected Bio-physical System": A talk with Chris Paola, 10/23/07

"Staging Thirst: Environmental (in)justice and dancing unrest": A conversation with Hui N. Wilcox, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and Ananya Chatterjea, 10/24/07

"What Einstein Did to Time": Conversation between Oliver Pooley and Michel Janssen, 10/25/07

"Kinematics versus dynamics: putting Einstein's 1905 relativity paper in historical context": Symposium on Time and Relativity Plenary Address by Harvey Brown, 10/25/07

"Early Modern Religious Cartographies in the New World": A talk with Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, University of Texas, 10/25/07

"Performing the Archive, Placing the Past": A performance with Walid Raad and Iris Haussler, 10/26/07

"Marriage Equality from a Medieval Perspective": A talk with Ruth Mazo Karras, 10/26/07

Symposium on Time and Relativity, 10/26-10/27/07

"Between Prairie and Sea: The Mississippi River as a Continental Transportation System": A talk with Hokan Miller, 10/30/07

GLBT Colloquium: Cherrie Moraga's Works, 10/31/07

"Eyewitness Iran, US and Iran: the Real Story" - a talk by Reese Erlich, 10/31/07

November

"Nour in Concert: Ex Orient Lux" - Ohanessian Lecture and Concert, November 1

“Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Spotlight”: A talk with Doryun Chong, Walker Art Center curator, November 1

"Is Journalism Dead?: What's Happening to Newspapers, What it Means for Our Democracy, and What Citizens Can Do About It": A talk with Jeremy Iggers, November 1

"The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something": A Discussion with the author, Richard Scholar, November 1

Discussion on "Sexuality and Time" centering on the work of Elizabeth Adams and Lee Edelman, November 2

"A Vital Cog in the Regional Network: the New Bridge as a Transportation Link": A talk by John Adams, November 6

“Documenting Shanghai as an Insider and Outsider: A Personal Scrapbook”: A talk with Jameson Chen, November 8

"Simulations of Time and Life in Medieval Automata: Islamic Symbolism, Teleological Mechanisms, and Ontological Difference": a talk with Ayhan Aytes, November 8

"Owning Hiroshima": a lecture and screening with Markus Nornes on the film, “The Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki," November 8

East Asia Seminar Series: Subtitling Abusively: The Case of 'Memories of Agano' -- a talk and screening with Markus Nornes, November 9

“Chang’an: The Cosmopolitan Capital of the Chinese Empire and Terminus of the Silk Road” A talk by Kathleen M. Ryor, November 9

The Silk Roads Concert, featuring Gao Hong, November 11

Time Symposium Lunch, November 12

"Art in the Public Interest: New Artistic Strategies" - a presentation by Suzanne Lacy, November 13

"The Design of a New Bridge": A talk by Tom Fisher, November 14

A Woman for All Seasons: Astrid Lindgren at 100, Symposium and Exhibition, November 14

"Astrid Lindgren at 100: Women's and Children's Literature and Culture, Past and Present": A conversation with Ulla Lundqvist and Eva-Maria Metcalf, moderated by Paul Houe, November 15

"The Ineffable God of the Hindus through British Eyes": A work in progress session with Anna Clark and Justin Biel, November 15

"Diaspora and the Predicament of Origins: Interrogating Hmong Postcolonial History and Identity" - a talk by Gary Yia Lee, November 16

"Integrated Design: Sustainable Community": A talk with Lance Neckar, November 20

Open rehearsal of Wreck, November 26

Korea Seminar Series: Reading women, writing space in modern Korean literature: A lecture by Ji-Eun Lee, November 27

"Telling Time": Presentation with Lynn Lukkas, November 28

"Bio-deregulation: Bodies, Jeans, and Justice": A talk with Rosemary Hennessy, November 29

December

"Slow Art": A presentation by John Kelly and Arden Reed, 12/3/07

GLBT Colloquium: Aniruddha Dutta discusses lower-class GLBT activism in India, 12/5/07

"Delicious Movement": A workshop with Eiko Otake, 12/5/07

"Poetry from the Engine Room": A Reading by Renee Gladman and Carla Harryman, 12/5/07

Nicholas Maw's "Sonata" - Performance by Jorja Fleezanis, 12/6/07

"Communication and Obesity: Where to Expect Effects" - a presentation by Robert Hornick, 12/6/07

"Vulnerable Arguments: Secret Histories and the Recovery of Women's History": A workshop with Judy Dorn, 12/6/07

"Envisioning Real Utopias": A talk with Erik Olin Wright, 12/7/07

"Definition and Ideology in the New Rhetoric: I.A. Richards, Richard Weaver and Current Research on Definition": A talk with David Beard, 12/13/07

"Sue E. Generous: toward a theory of non-transexuality": A talk with David Valentine, 12/14/07