March 9-22, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
Distinguished McKnight University Professorship
Eric Weitz (history) was awarded the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship for 2007 for his significant accomplishments at the University of Minnesota. Weitz will hold the title "Distinguished McKnight University Professor" for as long as he remains at the University of Minnesota. This award honors and rewards the highest-achieving faculty at the University of Minnesota who has attained full professor status.
Distinguished Teaching Award
Maria Damon (English) received the University of Minnesota Distinguished Teaching Award for Outstanding Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education for 2006-07. This award recognizes faculty members for excellence in instruction, instructional program development, intellectual distinction, advising and mentoring, and involvement of students in research, scholarship, and professional development.
Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award
Joel Samaha (sociology) received the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education for 2006-07. This award recognizes excellence in contributing directly and indirectly to student learning through teaching, research, and creative activities; advising; academic program development; and educational leadership.
John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
Mary Moga (CLA Honors) received the John Tate Award for 2006-07. This award recognizes high-quality academic advising for undergraduate students.
KUDOS
Don Browne (communication studies) was awarded the 2007 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Broadcast Education Association.
Harlan Chambers (BFA senior, theatre arts and dance) was awarded the Sullivan Scholarship to continue his actor training in France.
Chris Federico (psychology) was awarded the 2007 Sigel Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for the best conference paper by a young scholar.
Andrew Oxenham (psychology) received funding from the NIH Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Diseases', "Complex Pitch Perception in Complex Environments."
Paul Sackett (psychology) was awarded the Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for Career Achievement from the Academy of Management for his distinguished work in the field of human resource management.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
February 20-March 22
Exhibition: "Quiet Time/Love's Labour," an exhibition considering time, labor, and the creative process. Curator: Diane Katsiaficas (art). FFI: Department of Art
March 9, 1:30 PM
Damon Sather (geography), "Using a Digital Elevation Model and Ground Truth Points in a GIS to Generalize Suitable Channel Gradient for Lake Sturgeon Spawning," 110 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Geography
March 9, 3:30 PM
Hangtae Cho (Asian languages and literatures) "Implications of Old English Syllable Structure and Consonant Phonotactics for Phonological theory," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Linguistics, ESL, and Slavic Languages and Literatures
March 10, 7:00 PM
Hindustani Vocal Concert, featuring Pooja Goswami (vocals), A Pavan (tabla, an Indian percussion instrument) and Ravi Prasad (harmonium), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music; Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
March 20, 12:00 PM
Jeffrey Peck (Georgetown University), "Being Jewish in the New Germany," Ford Room, 710 Social Sciences. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
March 20, 4:00 PM
Workshop: "Media, Diaspora, and Method." Facilitator: Louisa Schein (Rutgers University). 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 21, 11:30 AM
Jack Janes (Johns Hopkins University), "German and U.S. Approaches to the Middle East," Lippincott Room, 1314 Social Sciences. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 21, 3:30 PM
Anant Maringanti (geography), "Clean cities, messy politics: Geographies of evictions in India," 710 Social Sciences. FFI: Department of Asian Languages and Literatures; Institute for Global Studies
March 21, 4:00 PM
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University) and John Henderson (Louisiana State University), "Cosmologies: Perceptions of Time in China and South Asia," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 21, 6:00 PM
Film Series: Zeb and Sua, followed by discussion with Thai Khang (filmmaker) and Louisa Schein (Rutgers University), 100 Rapson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 22, 12:00 PM
Doug Hartmann (sociology), "What's New about Neo-Assimilation Theory?, 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
March 22, 4:00 PM
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University), "Philosophy and Kabbalah on the Pursuit of Happiness," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 22, 4:00 PM
James Ault (award-winning documentary filmmaker and author,), will screen pieces of his series in progress on African Christianity and Immigrant Life, 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
March 22, 5:00 PM
Christopher Minkowski (Oxford University), "Exact Sciences in Sanskrit in Early Modern India," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 22, 7:00 PM
Rembert Hueser (German, Scandinavian and Dutch), "Jean-Pierre Gorin's 'Routine Pleasures'," 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 22, 7:00 PM
A reception for The Honorable Francisco Viqueira (Consul General of Spain), Heritage Room, McNamara Alumni Center. Reservations required. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
March 22, 7:30 PM
Deborah Keenan (Edelstein-Keller Minnesota Writer of Distinction) will discuss her work, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Department of English
March 22, 7:30 PM
University Symphony Orchestra and members of the Minnesota Orchestra will perform Rautavaara's Manhattan Trilogy, Jon Leifs' Geysir, and Brahms' Symphony No. 2. Osmo Vanska (conductor; MN Orchestra music director). Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis. $2.50; free for U of M students with valid student I.D. FFI: School of Music
March 23, 8:00 AM
Robert Zischg (Austrian Consul-General in Chicago) and Franz Roessler (Austrian Trade Commissioner in Chicago), "Investment and Trade Opportunities in the New Europe: Austria, the Expanding EU, and the Balkans," 2-260T Carlson School of Management. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies
March 23, 1:30 PM
The Honorable Francisco Viqueira (Consul General of Spain), "Political Transition in Spain," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
March 23, 2:30 PM
Fred Lerdahl (Columbia University) will discuss his work, 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 23, 3:30 PM
Brian Leiter (University of Texas at Austin), "Nietzsche's Theory of the Will," 1-132 Carlson School of Management. FFI: Department of Philosophy
March 23, 4:00 PM
Ofelia Zepeda (University of Arizona), will discuss her research on the Tohono O'odham language (formerly known as Papago), 5 Blegen Hall. FFI: Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures
March 23, 7:00 PM
Kamau Brathwaite (New York University), "Searching for Palmares," The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 23-24
Conference: "Art As Knowing: A Public Conversation about Art, Ideas, and Practice," E-110 Regis Center for Art. FFI: Center for Advanced Study
March 23-25
Symposium: "UJIVE Graduate Student Symposium." Janika Vandervelde (composer) will deliver the keynote address on March 23. On March 24, Melissa Russell (Carleton College) will deliver the keynote address. 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 24, 6:00 PM
David Gordon, Dana Reitz, Ann Carlson, and Valda Setterfield, "The Creation and Gestation of The Center for Creative Research: A Live Documentary," Suite 100, Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 24-27
Symposium: "Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World," Coffman Memorial Union and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. Registration is required by Monday, March 12. FFI: Department of English; Institute for Advanced Study; Department of American Studies, and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
March 25, 2:00 PM
Matthew Dorn (guitar), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 26, 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 26, 3:30 PM
Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley), "Porous Sovereignty/Walled Democracy," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Department of American Studies
March 27, 9:45 AM
David Roediger (University of Illinois), "Looking at 'The House I Live In': Race, the New Immigrant and the Popular Front," 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. The lecture will follow with an informal discussion with interested graduate students, 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
March 27, 4:00 PM
Neil Lazarus (Warwick University), "A Figure Glimpsed in a Rear-View Mirror': The Question of Representation in 'Postcolonial' Fiction," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 28, 4:00 PM
Jeff Halper (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions), "Countdown to Apartheid in Israel/Palestine," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 28, 3:30 PM
McKnight Summer Fellows Presentations: Explorations of research in the arts and humanities. Carol Hakim (history), "The Origins of the Lebanese National Idea, 1840-1920;" Kathy Forde (journalism and mass communication), "The 'Wayward Press' and the Public Sphere: Toward a Theory of Press Criticism," and Bianet Castellanos (American studies), "Fantasmas of Transnational Spaces: Migration, Tourism, and the Reconfiguration of Maya Life in Modern Mexico". FFI: Judie Cilcain, Office of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
March 29, 3:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Robert H. McLaughlin (University of California San Diego), Bruno Ramirez (Universite of Montreal), Henry Yu (University of California, Los Angeles), Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp (Sonoma State University). Commentator: Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto), "Moving North Americans," 120B Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
March 29, 4:00 PM
Anatoly Liberman (German, Scandinavian and Dutch), "Time and Language," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 29, 4:00 PM
Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University), "The Holy Land: Its Early Muslim Character, 7th-11th Centuries. The crusades Before the Crusades," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
March 29, 7:00 PM
Film Series: Le Tempestaire [The Storm-Tamer]; Le Sang des bites [Blood of the Beasts]; and Le Souvenir d'un avenir [Memories of the Future]. Presenter: Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian), 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
March 30, 12:00 PM
Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University), "The Role of Arabic in Medieval Studies, "125 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
March 30, 3:30 PM
Michiko Buchanan (linguistics, ELS, and Slavic languages and literatures), "VP Ellipsis in Japanese," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Department of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
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