Calendar: Spring 2008 Thursdays at Four
January 31
"Medical Complicity with Torture during the War on Terror": A talk with Steven Miles
Steven Miles is a Professor of Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. Cosponsored by the Department of Bioethics.
February 7
"The Moral Subject in Korea Under Japanese Colonialism": A talk with John Treat
John Treat is chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb. Cosponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
February 14
"Making and Knowing: Lived Experience and the Written Word in Early Modern "Europe"": A talk with Pamela Smith
Pamela Smith is a Professor of History at Columbia University. Cosponsored by the Program in the History of Science and Technology and the Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative.
February 28
"Time in the Shadow Universe": A talk with Marvin Marshak
Marvin Marshak is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. This event is also part of the University Symposium on Time. Cosponsored by the School of Physics and Astronomy.
March 6
"One ink-stained wretch's quest for the sweet spot -- between the old journalism and the new -- where civil, substantive discourse can occur, even across the ideological divide": A talk with Eric Black
Eric Black was a journalist for the Star Tribune for three decades and founder of its blog, the Big Question, before setting out on his own in June of 2007. He now runs his own blog at www.ericblackink.com and is a participant in the Center for Independent Media's New Journalism Pilot Program. Cosponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
March 13
"The Digital Reproduction of Inequality": A talk with Eszter Hargittai
Eszter Hargittai is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web-Use Project at www.webuse.northwestern.edu. This talk is organized by the Social Network's Collaborative.
March 27
"Eighteenth-century Jewish Voices on the Stage and in the Home": A talk with Caryl Clark and Barbara Hahn
Caryl Clark is an Associate Professor of History and Culture, Faculty of Music, at the University of Toronto and Barbara Hahn is a Distinguished Professor of German at Vanderbilt University. Cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Department of French and Italian, the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, the Department of History, and the School of Music.
April 3
"Sprawl and its Enemies": A presentation by Robert Bruegmann
Robert Bruegmann is a Professor with appointments in the School of Architecture and the Program in Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cosponsored by the College of Design.
April 10
"Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies - Panel Discussion ": A talk with Mark Huglen, David Beard, and David Gore
David Beard is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of MInnesota Duluth, David Gore is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and Mark Huglen is an associate professor of Communication at the University of Minnesota Crookston. Organized by the Reconfiguring Rhetorical Studies Collaborative.
April 17
"Export Models: Japanese Beauties in the Miss Universe Contest": A talk with Jan Bardsley
Jan Bardsley is an Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cosponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
April 24
"Emergent Difference: How to avoid the nature/nurture trap while maintaining respect for the sciences of biology, psychology, sociology, history and anthropology and etcetera": A talk with Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling is a Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University and author of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.
May 1
"Ritual, Play, and Enlightenment": A talk with Robert Sharf
Robert Sharf is the D.H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California Berkeley and also serves as Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies and Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. Cosponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
May 8
"Theorizing Historical Change: Critical Theory and the Transformations of the Twentieth Century": A talk with Moishe Postone
Moishe Postone is a Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Organized by the Dialectics and Society Workshop.
Wednesday, May 14 (rescheduled from February 21)
"Telling Time": Presentation with Lynn Lukkas
Lynn Lukkas is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota. This event is also part of the University Symposium on Time. Cosponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Department of Art.