Fall 2005: Thursdays at Four
September 15: "Music of Finland and the Finnish-American Experience: Diane Jarvi (www.dianejarvi.com)
Performing Finnish Regional Music, Songs of the Immigrants, and Kantele (Finnish Folk Harp) Tunes"
Co-sponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch.
This event is held in conjunction
with the exhibit "Boundary Crossings: Temporal Dialogues in Finnish Landscape Photography" which is at
the Nash Gallery from August 30 to October 6. For more information on the exhibit, see
http://www.esc.umn.edu/BoundaryCrossings.htm.
September 22: Richard Leppert, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
"Does Hope Sound in Music? (Hearing Utopia)"
(Fesler-Lampert Chair Lecture)
September 29: Judith Banister, Professor Emeritus of Demography, Division of Social Science,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"Gender Issues in China After Mao"
Co-sponsored by the China Center, the Minnesota Population Center and
the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures.
October 6: Andrea Berlin, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota “Jewish Daily
Life in Antiquity: The Archaeological Evidence"
Co-sponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies.
(Fesler-Lampert Professorship Lecture)
October 13: Tapati Guha-Thakurta, History Fellow, Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
"Our Gods, Their Museums: The Contrary Lives of India's Art Objects at Home and Abroad"
Co-sponsored by Departments of Art History, History, and Asian Languages and Literatures.
October 20: Sandra Hindman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
"How the Internet Is Changing the Way People Work with Medieval Manuscripts"
Co-sponsored with Center
for Medieval Studies.
October 27: Lynn Lukkas, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
"The BioSensor Projects @art.body.technology"
November 3: Karen Ashe, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
"Forgetful Mice: Helping us Cure Alzheimer's Disease"
November 10: "Performing Poetry's Public Obligations," A Reading with Jayne Cortez (New York) and Mark
Nowak (Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences, College of St. Catherine), moderated by Maria Damon (Department
of English, University of Minnesota) and Gabrielle Civil (College of St. Catherine)
Co-sponsored by the University Libraries, Voices from the Gap,
Space and Place Studies [Institute of Global Studies], Immigration History Research Center, Department of American Studies, thre Creative Writing Program, Department of Women’s Studies, the College of St. Catherine, and Macalester College
.
November 17: "Understanding Genocides" A discussion with Taner Akcam (Department of History, University
of Minnesota), Bruno Chaouat (Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota), Stephen Feinstein
(Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota), Miriam King (Minnesota Population
Center), Liz Lerman (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange), Michael Oakes (Department of Epidemiology, University of
Minnesota), and Eric Weitz (Department of History, University of Minnesota)
Co-sponsored by the Department
of Dance, Department of History, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Minnesota Population Center,
Department of French and Italian, and Department of Epidemiology.
This session is a part of the 2005-06
University Symposium, "The Politics of Populations."
December 1: Robert McMaster, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota
"Environmental Injustice in the Twin Cities: A Spatial Perspective"
December 8: Peter Gerlich, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna, and IAS Fellow
"Can Europe Learn from America? The U.S. and the EU in a Comparative Perspective"