Calendar: Fall 2006 Thursdays at Four
September 14
Who Says Pluto is not a Planet?!
Terry J. Jones, Professor of Astronomy, University of Minnesota
September 21
Songs in an Andalusian Key: Musical Style, Identity Politics, and Andalusian Nostalgia in Pop Music from Spain, North Africa and Israel
Lourdes Alvarez, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America
Cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Medieval Studies,the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Hillel Center.
September 28
Contemporary Stagings of the American Other in China
Claire Conceison, Assistant Professor of Drama, Tufts University
Cosponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
October 5
Bioethics in East Asia: Where Lee Silver Gets it Right ... and Wrong
William LaFleur, E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Cosponsored by the Center for Bioethics
October 12
Wealth, Culture, and Vendetta: The Communal Elites in Italy, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
François Menant, Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Department of History at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris
Cosponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies
October 19
Partnership Networks and the Spread of HIV: Lessons from Uganda, Thailand, and the United States
Martina Morris, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Washington
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Population Center
October 26
The Biocomplexity of Man-eating: Myth Meets Ecology
Craig Packer, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
November 2
Wounded Docs: The Critical Pedagogy of Documentary Filmmaking
Ray Jiing, National Tainan University of the Arts
Cosponsored by the Asian Film Collaborative, the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Asian-American Studies Program
Keynote address in DocuLens Asia Forum November 2-4
November 9
Timescapes and Gamelan: Time Perceptions in Traditional and New Music for Javanese Gamelan
Joko Sutrisno, Artistic Director, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota
Tom Patterson, Doctoral Candidate in Composition, University of Minnesota
This event is part of the 2006-07 University Symposium on Time
November 16
Passing Beyond Passing
Adrian Piper, Philosopher and Artist
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and the Department of Philosophy
November 30
Wars of Position: the Cultural Politics of Left and Right
Timothy Brennan, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and English, University of Minnesota
December 7
Claiming Space and Time through “Dramatic Inquiry”
Patricia Enciso and Brian Edmiston, Associate Professors in the School of Teaching and Learning, Ohio State University
Cosponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction