January 12-25, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
Social and Behavioral Sciences Laboratory Open House
Thursday, January 18, 4:00-5:00 PM, 170 Anderson Hall
The college is pleased to announce the grand opening of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Laboratory (SBSL). Guests can tour our new networked, human subject research laboratory with 44 configurable workstations in 170 Anderson Hall and an eye-tracking device that will be installed in 25 Blegen Hall. Each computer is pre-loaded with E-Prime run-time and the lab can install a variety of other software on request. Most workstations are equipped with LCD displays, headphones, and Psychology Software Tools Serial Response Boxes. Opening remarks by Steven Rosenstone, CLA Dean and John Sullivan, chair, Department of Political Science. For further information, please contact our SBSL staff, Kemal Badur, 612-625-0567, kemal@umn.edu, John Easton, 612-625-1079, easton@umn.edu or visit, http://sbsl.umn.edu. FFI: Sarah Knoblauch, CLA Administration
2007-09 McKnight Land-Grant Professorships
The college is pleased to announce that Kathleen Collins (political science), Karen Ho (anthropology) and Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian) were awarded McKnight Land-Grant Professorships for 2007-09. The University awards a small number of these distinguished awards to outstanding junior faculty every year.
KUDOS
Joyce Bono (psychology) was awarded the 2007 American Psychological Association, Industrial Organization Early Career Award.
Rose Brewer (African American & African studies) was awarded the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for her book, "The Color of Wealth."
Jeffrey Broadbent (sociology) received funding from the Social Science Research Council, "Reciprocity and Negotiation on Diffuse Risks: Climate-Change Policy Networks in Japan, the U.S., Germany and Austria."
Giancarlo Casale (history) received funding from the Institute of Turkish Studies, "Seed Grant for Turkish Instruction."
Malinda Lindquist (history) received funding from NEH, "The Gender of Racial Science: Modern Black Manhood and Its Making."
Matthew Sobek (Minnesota Population Center) received funding from NIH, "American Time Use Survey: Data Access System."
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
For a complete list of CLA events, visit: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/events
January 12, 5:00 PM
Informal Showing: Cowles Artist Will Power, studio 100, Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Dance Program, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
January 16-February 15
Exhibition: "Critical Translations," an exhibition that features art that examines our social world. A public reception is scheduled for Friday, January 26 from 6:00-8:30 p.m., Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. Panel Discussion: A pre-reception panel discussion about art and social change, 3:00-5:30 p.m., In-flux room, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
January 18, 12:00 Noon
University Time Symposium Lunch: "Talk about Time," Carlson School of Management, Private Dining, Ground Floor behind Coffee Corner. For reservations, 612-626-5054. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 20, 8:00 PM
24 Hour Theatre, Stoll Thrust Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
January 21, 4:00 PM
Concert: "Music for Martin." The School of Music and the Office for Equity and Diversity present the 26th annual concert celebrating the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Grammy award-winning group, Sounds of Blackness headlines. Along with local a cappella group 4Given; led by their mother, Kara Miller, the group of four siblings ranging from 9 to 13 years old, has performed across the region. Ted Mann Concert Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music
January 22, 12:00 Noon
Erika Lee (history), "The 'Yellow Peril' in the Americas: A Transnational History of Asian Immigration and Exclusion," 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
January 22, 3:30 PM
Dean Spade (Sylvia Rivera Law Project), "Consolidating the Gendered Citizen: Trans Survival Bureaucratic Power, and the War on Terror," Susan Geiger Conference Room, 400 Ford Hall. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m. FFI: Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
January 25, 4:00 PM
Thursdays at Four: Geraldine Heng (University of Texas at Austin), "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 25
Conference: "Fixing Global Warming: Risk and Response to Global Environmental Change, Lessons from Social Science Research," Leslie King (University of Manitoba; Synthesis Coordinator of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change-IDGEC-of the United Nations) will deliver the keynote address, "Findings from the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Project: A Progress Report and Synthesis," Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
January 25, 7:00 PM
Sue Coe (visiting artist) will discuss her work entitled, "Critical Translations, art that examines our social life" In-Flux space, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art.
January 26
Conference: "Risk and Response to Global Environmental Change, Lessons from Cross-National Social Science Research," Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
January 26, 12:00 Noon
University Time Symposium: "The Baroque Across the Disciplines," 710 Social Sciences. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 26, 7:30 PM
Kenneth Anger (pioneering American avant-garde filmmaker) introduces and discusses the UCLA Film and Television Archives' new 35mm blow-up restorations of his original films Fireworks, Rabbit's Moon, Scorpio Rising, and Kustom Kar Kommandos as well as Invocation of My Demon Brother, a recent gift to the Walker. Moderator: Siobhan Craig (English). Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 27, 3:00 PM
West Bank Winds, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
January 27, 8:00 PM
Gerald Vizenor (University of New Mexico; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley), American Genocide and Justice - program airing on TPT. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 29, 7:30 PM
University Time Symposium: Kathryn Sikkink (political science), "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?," 120 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 30, 12:00 Noon
Workshop: "In-Class Writing: Brief, Low-Stakes, & Potent," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Center for Writing
January 30, 7:30 PM
Samuel Freedman (author)," Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry," Beth El Synagogue. 5224 W. 26th St., St Louis Park. FFI: Center for Jewish Studies
January 31, 12:00 Noon
Keren Braverman (Tel Aviv University), "Searching for Identity through Kawkab Amirka (Star of America; the first Arab language newspaper published in the U.S., in the 1890s)," 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
January 31, 7:30 PM
June Cross (Columbia School of Journalism), Samuel Freedman (Columbia School of Journalism) and Annette Kobak (Kingston University, England), "The Making of Memory," Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 1, 8:30 AM
New Media Research Breakfast, 104 Murphy Hall. FFI: Institute for Media Studies; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
February 1, 4:00 PM
University Time Symposium: June Cross (Columbia School of Journalism), Samuel Freedman (Columbia School of Journalism) and Annette Kobak (Kingston University, England), " The Trouble with Time: Personal and Public Narratives in Memoir and History," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 1, 7:00 PM
Guest Master Class: Barthold Kuijken (flute), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 1, 7:30 PM
June Cross (Columbia School of Journalism), Samuel Freedman (Columbia School of Journalism) and Annette Kobak (Kingston University, England), "The Making of Memory," Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 2, 2:00 PM
Michael Hancher (English), Jani Scandura (English) and Katherine Scheil (English), "The Bzz-ness of Arch-hives," 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
February 2, 2:30 PM
Master Class: Barthold Kuijken (baroque flute), 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 2, 3:30 PM
University Time Symposium: Christine Marran (Asian Languages and Literatures), "Memories of Empire from Space: Empire-building and Masculine Identity in the Work of Numa Shozo," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 2-4, 8:00 PM
"Dance Revolutions." Choreography by faculty artist, Ananya Chatterjea and Cowles guest artist, Pat Graney, Uri Sands, and an Anna Sokolow reconstruction by Lorry May. Whiting Proscenium Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Dance Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
Announcements
Call for Nominations for the 2007 Distinguished Women Scholars Award
The Office of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Office for University Women announce the 2007 Distinguished Women Scholars Awards competition. Established in 2001, the program acknowledges and honors the exceptional accomplishments of women scholars at the U of M. Annual awards are given to two women faculty members, one in the Sciences and Engineering, and one in Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. Winners will receive their awards at the Annual OUW Spring Awards Celebration on April 25, 2007. Each scholar will receive $2,000 to be used for research, scholarly or artistic activities, a personal plaque, as well as a plaque for her college. > Nominations to college deans by Friday, January 19, 2007. Final nominations from college deans to Graduate School by Monday, January 29, 2007. FFI: Graduate School; Office of University Women
University Symposium Awards
The Institute for Advanced Study and the Office of the Vice President for Research invite proposals for collaborative interdisciplinary research projects on the topic of "Time," the subject of the University Symposium. Proposals to be considered in the first round are due January 19 by 4:30 p.m., Institute for Advanced Study, 131 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
New Funding for International Scholarly Activities
The Office of International Programs announces the following new funding programs to promote a global network of scholarship and engagement and encourage interdisciplinary and transnational partnerships. Interdisciplinary International Institutional Partnership Grants, due January 29 by 12:00 noon Interdisciplinary International Research Circle Grants , due January 29 by 12:00 noon. OIP Doctoral Fellowships for International Research and Writing, due March 9 by 12:00 noon. OIP International Pre-Dissertation and Small Grants Competition, due January 29 by 12:00 noon. FFI: Office of International Programs
The deadline for the January 26-February 8, 2007 issue is Monday, January 22, 2007.
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