February 23-March 8, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
Dean's Medalist and Scholars of the College Recognition Ceremony, March 6, 2007
Dean Rosenstone is pleased to announce the 2007 Dean's Medalist, David Wilkins (professor, American Indian studies) and the 2007-10 Scholars of the College, John Archer (professor, cultural studies and comparative literature), Michal Kobialka (professor, theatre arts and dance), Candace Kruttschnitt (professor, sociology) and Jennifer Windsor (professor, speech-language-hearing sciences). These five awardees will be honored at the college's Assembly meeting on Tuesday, March 6. A reception will precede and conclude the program. All faculty and staff are invited to attend. President's Room, Coffman Memorial Union. Gathering and refreshments at 3:00 p.m. The program will include an address by Professor Wilkins. Invitation to follow. FFI: Sarah Knoblauch, CLA Administration.
KUDOS
Eva von Dassow (classical and near eastern studies) was awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship.
Songying Fang (political science) was awarded a fellowship at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University for 2007-08.
Kit Hansen (English) and Elaine Tarone (linguistics, ESL and Slavic languages and literatures), along with Bob delMas (educational psychology) and Martha Bigelow (curriculum and instruction) was awarded the national TESOL Award for Distinguished Research for 2007 for "Literacy and the processing of oral recasts in SLA," TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4. The research establishes a link, for the first time, between level of alphabetic print literacy and oral processes affecting second language learning.
Robert B. McMaster (geography) is the new President-Elect of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). The UCGIS is a consortium of sixty research universities that serve as a unified voice for the geographic science community, and promote the informed and responsible use of geographic information.
Joanne Miller (political science) received a $287,000 grant from NSF, "An Experimental Test the Role of Motives in Predicting Political Participation."
Katherine Scheil (English) was awarded a fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America, which supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Scheil also was awarded a fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library for 2007 Institute on Shakespeare in American Education.
Shaden Tageldin (cultural studies and comparative literature) received funding from Wisscenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin, "Post Doctoral Fellowship."
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
February 20-25
2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, featuring Morton Subotnick and Richard Devine. FFI: School of Music
February 22-25
"The Phantom Tollbooth." Written by Norton Juster and adapted and directed by Samantha Johns. Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
February 23, 11:15 AM
Spark Festival Concert 6: Eye and Ear Cinema 2, special performances by, Daniel Blinkhorn, Irene Buckley, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Gary Kendall, Heather Kube, John Lato, Giuseppe Rapisardaand Jacob Reed. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: School of Music
February 23, 3:00 PM
Spark Festival Concert 7: E-music and Dance from Around the World, special performance by Anna Clyne, James Currie, Genevieve Favre, Jason Freeman, Juraj Kojs, Pat O'Keefe, Andrea Reinkemeyer and John Thompson. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis. Free. FFI: School of Music
February 23, 3:00 PM
Kale Fajardo (American studies), "Filipino seafaring, masculinities, and globalization" and April Knutson (French and Italian) will speak on Haiti, 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
February 23, 3:15 PM
Rachel Slocum (St. Cloud State University), "Geographies of race and the food: the Minneapolis Farmers' Market," 445 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Geography
February 23, 3:30 PM
University Time Symposium: Paula Findlen (Stanford University), "Reviving the Cimento: Gender, Patronage, and Knowledge in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy," 131 Tate Laboratory of Physics. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 23, 3:45 PM
Jonathan Mercer (University of Washington), "Deterrence and Emotional Beliefs," 1314 Social Sciences. FFI: Department of Political Science
February 23, 3:00 PM
Spark Festival Concert 7: E-music and Dance from Around the World, special performances by Anna Clyne, James Currie, Genevieve Favre, Jason Freeman, Juraj Kojs, Pat O'Keefe, Andrea Reinkemeyer and John Thompson. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis. Free. FFI: School of Music
February 23, 7:30 PM
Spark Festival Concert 8: Subotnick, E-music and Dance, special performances by Monique Buzzarte, Richard Dudas, Pauline Oliveros, Tommaso Perego, Claudia Robles and Morton Subotnick. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 23, 7:30 PM
Frederique Devaux (Marseille-Aix University, France; Bejaia University, Algeria), "Weaves Images and Sounds into Striking New Personal and Musical Layers." Moderator: Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian). Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets required. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 24, 11:15 AM
Spark Festival Concert 9: E-music from Around the World, special performances by Oded Ben-Tal, Geoffroy Drouin, Jonathan Kirk, Don Malone, Oliver Schneller, Mark Snyder and Asha Srinivasan. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 24, 1:00 PM
Morton Subotnick (composer) will discuss his work. This lecture is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art. 225 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 24, 3:00 PM
Spark Festival Concert 10: Subotnick, TrioMetrik and Current Indiscretion, special performances by Current Indiscretion, Morton Subotnick and TrioMetrik. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis. Free. FFI: School of Music
February 24, 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM
Film screenings with Matthias Muller (filmmaker, photographer and installation artist) and Christoph Girardet (cutting-edge experimental artist). Moderators: Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian) and Rembert Hueser (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch). Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. Tickets required. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 24, 7:30 PM
Spark Festival Concert 11: Subotnick, E-music and Dance, special performances by David Bithell, Suguru Goto, Jamie Jewett, Pamela Madsen, Morton Subotnick, Matthew Peters Warne, Shannon Wettstein, Frances White, Zeitgeist. This concert is part of the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
February 26, 12:00 PM
Jennifer Glancy (LeMoyne College), "Childbirth and Mary: Second and Third Century Sources," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 27, 4:00 PM
University Time Symposium: Allen Omoto (Claremont Graduate University), "Understanding Volunteerism and Social Action: The Role of Psychological Sense of Community," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 27, 6:00 PM
Joe Goode (founder and artist director, Joe Goode Performance Group) will discuss and demonstrate his work, 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: University Dance Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
February 28, 2:30 PM
Workshop: "What's Grammar Got to Do with It?" Facilitator: Pamela Flash (Center for Writing). Faculty Respondent: Leslie Schiff (Microbiology). 101 Walter Library. Registration required. FFI: Center for Writing
February 28, 4:00 PM
David Christian (San Diego State University) and David Fox (geology and geophysics), "Mapping Timescales," the emerging field of "Big History," which combines the evolution of the planet with human history, 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 28, 7:30 PM
Helen Epstein (author of Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History), Michael MacDonald (author of All Souls and Easter Rising) and D. J. Waldie (author of Holy Land) will give a reading, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
February 28, 7:30 PM
Nikki Giovanni (Virginia Tech University), "Truth Telling and the Need for Poetry: From the Harlem Renaissance to Hip-Hop," Ted Mann Concert Hall. Tickets required. FFI: Department of African American & African Studies
March 1, 8:30 AM
New Media Research Breakfast: Jun Rong Myers (journalism and mass communication), "Imagery Elicitation Strategies for Consumer Online Product Evaluation," 104 Murphy Hall. Reservation required. FFI: Institute for Media Studies; School of Journalism and Mass Communication
March 1, 3:30 PM
Monika Oebelsberger (Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor; Mozarteum University, Salzburg), "Girls Sing - Boys Play the Drums: Gender Issues in Music Education," 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 1, 3:30 PM
University Time Symposium: Eithne Luibheid (University of Arizona), "Genealogy, Intimacy, and the Shifting Boundaries Between Legal and Illegal Immigration," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 1, 4:00 PM
Thursday at Four: Michael Cherlin (music), "Uncanny Pulse-streams in Music," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 1, 6:30 PM
Workshop: "Joe Goode Community Workshop." Facilitator: Joe Goode (founder and artist director, Joe Goode Performance Group), 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: University Dance Theatre; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
March 1, 7:00 PM
Film Series:The Films of Ernie Gehr. Presenter: Liz Kotz (cultural studies and comparative literature), curator: Hisham Bizri (cultural studies and comparative literature), 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 1, 7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Helen Epstein (author of Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History), Michael MacDonald (author of All Souls and Easter Rising) and D. J. Waldie (author of Holy Land), "Public Places/Private Spaces," 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 1-9
"The Pope and the Witch." Written by Dario Fo (winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature) and directed by Robert Rosen. Stoll Thrust Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
March 2, 12:00 PM
Carla Rahn Phillips (history), "Do You Know Where Your Sushi Comes From? The Tuna Fisheries of Spain in Early Modern Times," 710 Social Sciences. Lunch will be served. FFI: Center for Early Modern History
March 2, 2:30 PM
Harald Krebs (University of Victoria) will discuss his work, 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 2, 4:00 PM
Robin Stiehm (Cowles Artist), an informal showing of her work, 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: University Dance Theatre; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
March 3, 7:30 PM
Jazz Festival Concert, featuring Bill Carrothers (piano) and Jazz Ensemble, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 4, 2:30 PM
Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus, "Music for a Grand Space," Cathedral of St Paul, 239 Selby Ave, St. Paul. Free. FFI: School of Music
March 4, 3:30 PM
Conversation with writers, Louise Erdrich and Nurruddin Farah, Cowles Auditorium, HHH Center. Farah is author of ten novels about his homeland, Somalia. Erdrich, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award, lives in Minnesota. Free and open to the public. FFI: Department of English.
March 4, 7:00 PM
Faculty Recital: Mark Bjork (violin), Thomas Rosenberg (cello) and Timothy Lovelace (piano). Music from Beethoven's Archduke Trio and Dvorak's Trio in B-flat, Op. 21. Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 5, 12:00 PM
Shelly Matthews (Furman University), "Father, Forgive Them: The Rhetoric of Mercy in the Violence of Supersession," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 5, 12:15 PM
Changhwan Kim (Minnesota Population Center), "Union, Public Sector, and Within-group Wage Dispersion in the U.S.: A Density Function Decomposition Analysis), 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Minnesota Population Center.
March 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
March 5, 7:30 PM
University Band, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 5, 7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: Immanuel Davis (flute), with guest artists, Kathe Jarka (cello) and Inessa Zaretsky (piano), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 6, 7:30 PM
Jazz Ensembles II and III, "Jazz Classics," Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 7, 2:30 PM
Workshop: "Grading Student Writing" Facilitator: Pamela Flash (Center for Writing), Kirsten Jamsen (Center for Writing) and Katie Levin (Center for Writing), 125 Nolte Center. Registration required. FFI: Center for Writing
March 7, 3:30 PM
Nadeem Hasnainm (University of Lucknow; Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, St. Lawrence University), "Dynamics of Shia-Sunni conflict in Lucknow," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
March 7, 3:45 PM
Open Rehearsal: Carl Flink (choregrapher, theater arts and dance) and Black Label Movement, "Evolving Wreck: Time through the Lens of Embodied Knowing," 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 7, 7:30 PM
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) will deliver the 44th Joseph Warren Beach Lecture in Literature, Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of English
March 7 and April 4, 8:00 PM
"New Works," Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
March 8, 12:00 PM
University Time Symposium: Suzanne Lacy (Otis College of Art and Design), "Art in the Public Interest: New Artistic Strategies," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 8, 4:00 PM
Thursday at Four: Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Rwanda and Darfur: A Comparative Analysis," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 8, 5:00 PM
University Time Symposium: Janice Neri (Boise State University), "Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia'," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 8, 7:00 PM
Wangechi Mutu (visiting artist, art) will discuss her work, In-Flux space, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
March 8, 7:00 PM
Film Series: Abderrahmane Sissakho's Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness). Presenter: Charles Sugnet (English), 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 8, 7:30 PM
Guitar Recital: Music faculty, students and local artists perform guitar solo and ensemble music by Loris Chobanian (visiting composer; Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 10, 7:00 PM
Hindustani Vocal Concert, featuring Pooja Goswami (music), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
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