January 26-February 8, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
National Women's Studies Award
The college is pleased to announce that Pamela Butler (American studies), and Ayana Weekley (gender, women and sexuality studies) were awarded The Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies for "Global Chicks: Neoliberalism and Cosmopolitan Travel in 21st Century Feminist Fiction" and "Now That’s a Good Girl: Reading African American HIV/AIDS Discourses," respectively. The Foundation awards a small number of these distinguished awards to outstanding Ph.D. students writing on women's issues in various humanities and social science fields.
KUDOS
Ananya Chatterjea (theatre arts and dance) was named one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century from the Women's e-news, in the category, "Seven Who Will Not Be Stopped."
Carl Malmquist (sociology) was awarded the 2007 American Psychiatric Association's Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for his book "Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective," 2nd ed.
Andrew Scheil (English) received a NEH fellowship for "The Matter of Babylon: Figures of the City in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond."
Elaine Tarone is invited to be a plenary speaker at an international conference, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The theme of the conference is "Social and Cognitive Aspects of Second Language Learning and Teaching." Tarone's talk will focus on theory construction that integrates research on neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
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 26, 12:00 Noon
University Time Symposium: "The Baroque Across the Disciplines," 710 Social Sciences. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
January 26, 3:30 PM
Fred Sherry (cello), performance and discussion of Arnold Schoenberg's magnificent String Trio with Ariana Kim (violin) and Sally Chisholm (viola). Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
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 27, 10:00 PM
"U.S. and German Health Care, 2006," program airing on TPT-channel 17, a co-production between the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), Minnesota Channel. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
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 30, 5:30 PM
Alex Jassen (classical and near eastern studies), "Reading the Prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Use and Application of Prophetic Literature in Qumran Legal Texts," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern 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
January 31, 3:45 PM
Open Rehearsal: "Evolving Wreck: Time through the Lens of Embodied Knowing," 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. 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, 3:00 PM
Workshop: "Engaging Students in Digital Writing," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Center for Writing
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, 5:30 PM
Christopher Baron, "A Stranger in a Strange Land? Timaios in Athens," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
February 1, 7:00 PM
Steven Beller (independent scholar, Washington, D.C), "'To Be or Not to Be': The Ironies and Anomalies of Austrian History," 710 Social Sciences. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies
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, 12:00 Noon
V. V. Chari (economics), "The Economist as Policymaker: How Theory is Shaping Policy," 1-135 Carlson School of Management. Lunch will be served. FFI: Department of Economics
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
February 3, 6:30 PM
Guest Master Class: Barthold Kuijken (flute), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 3, 7:30 PM
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Macalester-Plymouth Church, 658 Lincoln, St. Paul. FFI: School of Music
February 4, 3:00 PM
Guest Recital: Barthold Kuijken (baroque flute), 317 Courtroom, Landmark Center, St. Paul. FFI: School of Music
February 5, 5:30 PM
Emerging Digerati: A showcase of University of Minnesota work in new media, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Institute for New Media Studies; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
February 6, 4:00 PM
University Time Symposium: Naomi Scheman (philosophy), "Democracy, Diversity, and Expertise: On the Need for A Radical Rethinking of the Twenty-First-Century Public Research University" 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 6, 5:30 PM
Jonathan Pratt, "Epideictic Politics and Public Philosophy in Isocrates' Antidosis," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
February 7, 3:00 PM
Workshop: "Devising Effective Writing Assignments," 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Center for Writing
February 7, 3:30 PM
McKnight Summer Fellows Presentations: Explorations of research in the arts and humanities. Tony C. Brown (English), "Indian Mounds in the End-of-the-Lind Mode;" Andrew Scheil (English), "The Matter of Babylon: Power and Politics in the Old English 'Daniel,'" and Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (Design, Housing and Apparel), "Life in a New Architecture—Ojibwe Cultural Identity and Residential Design." FFI: Judie Cilcain, Office of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
February 7, 7:30 PM
Gary Cohen (author),"Centuries in the Heart of Europe: Jews in Golden Prague," Beth Jacob Congregation, 1179 Victoria Curve, Mendota Heights. FFI: Center for Jewish Studies
February 8, 4:00 PM
Thursday at Four: Chen Alon (Tel Aviv University), "Performing Polarities: Activist Theatre in Israel-Palestine," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 8, 5:00 PM
University Time Symposium: Bali Sahota (Asian languages and literatures), "Romanticism's Horizons " 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 8, 5:30 PM
Spencer Cole, "Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
February 9, 12:00 noon
Andrea Robertson (history), "Sex and the Politics of Enslavement in the Pequot War, 1636-1638," 710 Social Sciences. Lunch will be served. FFI: Center for Early Modern History
February 9, 3:00 PM
Barrett Watten (Wayne State University), " On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Negativity for Life," 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
February 9, 6:30 PM
Guest Master Class: Florian Kitt (cello; Austria), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School
February 11, 2:00 PM
Faculty Recital: James Flegel (guitar), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 11, 7:30 PM
Guest Recital: Florian Kitt (cello) and Rita Medjimorec (piano), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 12, 5:30 PM
Yasuko Taoka, "Defining the finis in Seneca's Letters," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
February 12, 7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Florian Kitt (Arts University of Graz), Rita Medjimorec (Arts University of Graz), Roy Close (Artspace, Inc.), Ann Markusen (HHH Institute), Sheila Smith (Minnesota Citizens for the Arts). Moderator: Gary Cohen (Austrian studies), "Supporting the Arts where the Government Won't: Austria and the U.S. in the 21st Century, " 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies.
February 13, 9:45 AM
Panel Discussion: Wang Ping (Macalester College), Mai Neng Moua (author and editor of Bamboo Among the Oaks) and Lorena Duarte (Chicano studies), " Why Write? A Conversation with Immigrant Authors," 120B Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
February 13, 7:30 PM
Wind Ensemble, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 14, 12:00 PM
Literacy & Identity: Cynthia Lewis (curriculum and instruction), "Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power" and Tom Friedrich (curriculum and instruction), "Male Student Writers' Encounters with Limits: An Interview-Based, Phenomenological Study of Their Stories of Writing in High School and College," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Writing
February 14, 7:30 PM
Symphonic Band, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 15, 12:00 PM
Workshop: "Portfolio Grading," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Center for Writing
February 15, 4:00 PM
Thursday at Four: Matthew Collidge (Center for Land Use Interpretation), "Interpreting Anthropogeomorphology: Programs and Projects of the Center for Land Use Interpretation," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 15, 5:30 PM
Brad Crowell, "Assyrian Imperialism and the Transformation of Society," 135 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
February 15, 7:00 PM
Matthew Coolidge (Center for Land Use Interpretation) will discuss his work, In-Flux space, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
February 15, 7:00 PM
Bridge Markland (dance-theater-performance artist) will perform a one-woman show "Faust in the Box," 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
February 16, 3:30 PM
University Time Symposium: Christopher Scott (Macalester College), "Romeo and Jong-il: Queering the Korean Diaspora in Japan," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 16, 7:30 PM
Faculty Master Class: Eugene Rousseau (saxophone) conducts a master class with Will Kelly (soloist), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
Announcements
Legislative Coffee Briefings, January 30, 2007
The University of Minnesota Legislative Network invites you to attend an insider's look at the University's 2007 legislative requests and learn about the easy ways you can support the University. Registration is not necessary; 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m., President's Room, 3rd floor, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Emily Johnston, Office of University Relations
Digital Media Center Faculty Fellowships
The Digital Media Center welcomes applications for the 2007-08 DMC Faculty Fellowships Program. Instructors can receive $20,000 for release time to explore technology/learning/teaching issues, share project outcomes/research findings, and develop leadership/scholarship skills at events and biweekly meetings. Proposals are due Tuesday, February 20, 2007, http://dmc.umn.edu/fellowship. FFI: Kim Wilcox, senior instructional multimedia consultant, DMC, OIT, 612-624-3528, wilco001@umn.edu
CLA Infotech Fees Grant Proposal
The CLA Infotech Fees Committee invite proposals for Instructional Improvement, Improvement of Access to Computing Facilities, and Digital Content. Proposals are due Thursday, March 8, 2007, http://infotechfees.cla.umn.edu. FFI: Jen Mein, director of academic technologies, CLA-OIT, 625-3838, jen@umn.edu
The deadline for the February 9-22, 2007 issue is Monday, February 5, 2007.
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