March 23-April 5, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
CLA Commencement, Sunday, May 13, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
The CLA Commencement Committee invites you to celebrate the achievement of our undergraduate students at the CLA spring commencement ceremony on May 13 at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The keynote speaker will be John Bul Dau. The ceremonies will be held in Northrop Memorial Auditorium. Commencement is the crowning event for our undergraduate students. The college anticipates that nearly 1,200 students will participate in this spring's commencement. We encourage you to join the celebration. Staff and faculty volunteers are needed for both ceremonies. Faculty participation is an important element of this event and the college welcomes your presence. Any faculty interested in participating may do so by accessing this link, https://mycla.umn.edu/commencement_rsvp.php. The deadline to order regalia is Sunday, April 1. For those faculty who has regalia (or can wear U of MN regalia) is Friday, May 4.
FFI: Staff participation, contact Meghan Thul
FFI: Faculty participation, contact Rebecca Rassier
KUDOS
Donald R. Browne (Communication Studies) was named a 2007 Distinguished Scholar by the Broadcast Education Association.
Christopher Federico (psychology and political science) received the Sigel Award for best paper by a junior scholar from the International Society of Political Psychology for "Race, Education, and Individualism Revisited." Federico also received the Erik Erikson Early Career Award by the International Society of Political Psychology. This award recognizes and celebrates exceptional achievement and is awarded to an individual who is within a decade of receiving their Ph.D.
Bernard Levinson (Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible) has been offered a year-long fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for 2007-08.
Paul Sackett (psychology) received Herbert Heneman Jr. Career Achievement Award for 2007. This award is given by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management to an individual who has distinguished himself/herself in the field of human resource management.
Andrew Staupe (masters of music candidate, piano performance) won fourth prize at the 2007 Corpus Christi National Competition. Staupe studies with Lydia Artymiw (music).
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
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, 3:45 PM
Leonie Huddy (State University of New York at Stony Brook) "On the Distinct Political Effects of Anxiety and Anger," M391 Elliott Hall. FFI: Department of Political Science
March 23, 4:00 PM
Ofelia Zepeda (University of Arizona), "A Journey Against the Grain of English: A Native American Perspective," 5 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Anthropology; 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 deadline was 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 Noon
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 26, 3:30 PM
Sunshine Hillygus (Harvard University), 1450 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Department of Political Science
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, 11:15 AM
Molly Culligan (artist) performs Meridel Le Sueur's one person play, Ripenings, 175 Science Classroom Building. FFI: Department of English
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 27-April 19
Exhibition: "MFA Exhibitions." This exhibition features Master of Fine Arts graduate students, Matt Bakkom, Stephen Eakin, Mary Johnson, Gudrun Lock, Arron Leif Nicholson, Jennifer Rogers, Max Schollett and David Stordal. A public reception is scheduled for Friday, March 30 from 6:00-8:30 p.m., Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
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 28, 3:30 PM
Monika Oebelsberger (Austrian Fulbright visiting professor) will discuss the differences and similiarities in music education programs in the United States and Austria, 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music; Center for Austrian Studies
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 29, 12:00 Noon
David Davies (Hamline University) "Wal-Mao: The discipline of Corporate Culture and Studying Success at Wal-Mart, China," 129 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
March 29, 3:30 PM
Panel Discussion: "Moving North Americans," Panelists: 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), 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, 3:15 PM
Phil Gersmehl (geography), "Neuroscience, NYC Policy, Federal Law, and Test Scores in Harlem," 445 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Geography
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.
March 30, 3:30 PM
Randall Poole (College of St. Scholastica), "Human Dignity and Freedom of Conscience in Russian Philosophy of the Silver Age," Ford room, 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
March 30, 4:00 PM
Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University), "The Role of Arabic in Medieval Studies," 125 Nolte Center: Center for Medieval Studies
March 30, 4:30 PM
Anselm Hollo (award-winning poet and translator) will discuss his work, 128 Folwell Hall. FFI: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
March 31, 3:00 PM
U of M New Music Ensemble, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
March 31, 7:00 PM
Lisa Duggan (New York University), "Beyond Marriage: Building New Alliances Around the Politics of Sexuality," The Loft Literary Center, Suite 200, Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
April 2, 12:15 PM
Mary Hearst (division of epidemiology), "Effect of racial residential segregation on black infant mortality and infant mortality disparities," 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Minnesota Population Center
April 2, 12:30 PM
Talya Chalef (artist), "Space&Place Walk," 207 Lind Hall. FFI: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
April 2, 3:15 PM
Evelyn Chien (English) will discuss her work, 400 Ford Hall. FFI: Department of Women's Studies
April 2, 4:00 PM
Liam Dee (cultural studies and comparative literatures) "The Negative Dialectics of Grindcore," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 2, 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
April 3, 3:00 PM
Clayton Eshleman (professor emeritus, English at Eastern Michigan University),"Translation and Poetics," 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
April 3, 7:30 PM
Percussion Extravaganza, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 4, 12:30 PM
Julia M. H. Smith (University of Glasgow), "The Wife, the Bishop, and the Devil: a Ninth-Century Dilemma," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
April 4, 3:30 PM
Juan Cole (University of Michigan), "The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'," 120 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 4, 3:30 PM
Talya Chalef (artist), Ciraj Rassool (University of Western Cape) and Paul Tapsell (Auckland Museum), "Collaborative Instruction in the Arts and Social Sciences: Reanimating Public Space," Bedlam Theatre. 1501 S. 6th St., Minneapolis. FFI: Department of Geography
April 4, 3:30 PM
Symposium: "River Runs Through All of Us." 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 4, 7:30 PM
Wind Ensemble Chamber Music Concert, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 4, 8:00 PM
"New Works," Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
April 5, 1:15 PM
Arthur Spears(CUNY) will speak on cultural and social aspects of the use of African American English in the United States, 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
April 5, 4:00 PM
Juan Cole (University of Michigan), "The Internet, the Public Intellectual and the 'War on Terror'," 120 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 5, 4:00 PM
Julia M. H. Smith (Univerity of Glasgow), "Gender and Sanctity in the Early Middle Ages," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
April 5-7
"Destinations: Student Dance Coalition Concert," Studio 100, Barbara Barker Center for Dance. $5 for students, $7 for adults. FFI: University Dance Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
April 5, 7:00 PM
Film Series: Jia Zhangke 's Chinese Postsocialist Realism. Presenter: Jason McGrath (Asian languages and literatures), 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 5-7
"Outlying Islands." Written by David Greig and directed by Joanna Zerdy (theatre arts and dance), Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
April 6
Symposium: "Heritage Sites: Performing and Belonging," with presentations by Talya Chalef (artist), Brenda Child (American Indian studies), Ciraj Rassool (University of Western Cape), and Paul Tapsell (Auckland Museum), 1701 Classroom Building. FFI: Department of Geography
April 6, 3:15 PM
Katie Fernholz (Dovetail Partners) and Dennis Becker (forest resources), "Sustainable Forestry and Certification: Impacts and Opportunities," 445 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Geography
April 6, 3:30 PM
Arthur Spears (City College of New York) will discuss his work, " 229 Nolte Center. FFI:
April 9, 12:00 Noon
Thomas Sizgorich (University of New Mexico) will discuss sanctified violence, 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 9, 4:00 PM
Gerald Vizenor (University of New Mexico; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley), "Survivance: Theory and Practice in Native American Narratives," Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 9, 4:00 PM
Jane Webster (University of Newcastle), "Comparative History and the Study of Roman Slavery," 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Anthropology
April 10, 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion: "Alternatives to Teaching, Post-MFA," 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
April 10, 5:00 PM
David Stone (University of Delaware), "Caravaggio, Signature Killer: The Poetics of Blood in the Malta Beheading of St. John," 310 Anderson Hall. FFI: Department of Art History
April 10, 8:00 PM
Xolela Mangcu (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), "Which way South Africa after Thabo Mbeki?," Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 11, 3:30 PM
McKnight Summer Fellows Presentations: Explorations of research in the arts and humanities. Njeri Githire (African American & African studies), "Voices from Ex/Isles: Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women Writers Break Geographical Confines;" Enid Logan (sociology), "Regulating the Family, Claiming the Nation: Sex, Marriage, State and Church in Cuba, 1914-1940," and Natasha Tinsley (English), "Desiring the Blue Lagoon: Sea Crossings and Fluid Identities in Caribbean Literature." FFI: Judie Cilcain, Office of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
April 11, 7:30 PM
E. L. Doctorow (author) will read from and discuss his work, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: Department of English
April 12, 2:00 PM
Panel Discussion: "First Books," Panelists: Alex Lemon (poet; Mosquito), Lauren Fox (novelist; Still Life with Husband), Laurie Lindeen (memoirist; Petal Pusher), Chris Fishbach (Coffee House Press) and Emily Cook (Milkweed Editions). Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library. FFI: Department of English
April 12, 3:30 PM
Tosh Minohara (University of Iowa), "The Clash between East and West: Prewar US-Japan Relations in the Context of the Immigration/Race Problem," 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Department of History
April 12, 4:00 PM
Carrie Jennings (Minnesota Geological Survey), Dan Engstrom (St. Croix Research Station), and Deb Swackhamer (Institute on the Environment), "Mississippi River Over Time: Changing Landscapes of the River," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 12, 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: "Teaching After the MFA in Creating Writing," Panelists: Alex Lemon (Macalester College), Brian Malloy (Emerson College) and Shannon Olson (St. Cloud State), Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library. FFI: Department of English
April 12, 4:00 PM
Jane Webster (University of Newcastle), "The Archeology of Slave Shipping, 1600-1807," 310 Anderson Hall. FFI: Department of Anthropology
April 12, 5:00 PM
Giancarlo Casale (history) "On the Question of Ottoman Curiosity," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 12, 7:00 PM
Guest Master Class: Stephen Hough (piano), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 12, 7:00 PM
Film Series: Roberto Rossellini's, Germania Anno Zoro and Billy Wilder's, A Foreign Affair. Presenter: Siobhan Craig (English), 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 12, 7:00 PM
The Annual David Noble Lecture: Nan Enstad (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "The Jim Crow Cigarette: Tracing Cultures of Transnational Capitalism Before World War II," Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg Blvd W., St. Paul. FFI: Department of American Studies
April 12, 7:30 PM
Illuminating Bolcom: Music for Concert Band. Craig Kirchhoff (conductor), a program of Bolcom's music for concert band, including The Machine, renowned for its intense drive and rock sensibility. Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 12, 7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: "The Art of Vienna 1900 and Its Timeless Appeal." Panelists: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Austrian Cultural Forum, New York), Lyndel King (Weisman Art Museum), and David Ryan (Minneapolis Institute of Arts), Shepherd Seminar Room, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies
April 13, 1:00 PM
Ji-Yeon Yuh (Northwestern University), "Future Legacies: Korean Diaspora in the 20th Century," 120B Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration Research History Center
April 13, 3:00 PM
Walter Lew (University of Miami) "Meaning's Patterned Movement: What the Long History of Korean Intermedia Texts Can Offer Us as New Artists," 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
April 13, 3:15 PM
Daniel Trudeau (Macalester College), Landscapes at the Periphery: Place Making, Boundary-Drawing, and Exclusion in Hugo Minnesota," 445 Blegen Hall. FFI: Department of Geography
April 13, 3:30 PM
Guest Master Class: Sharon Mabry (mezzo-soprano), 90 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 13, 3:30 PM
Jason Stanyek (New York University) will discuss his work, 225 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 13, 3:30 PM
John Lampe (University of Maryland) "Reinterpreting the Modern Balkans: A Long, Euro-centric Twentieth Century," 35 Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
April 13, 3:30 PM
Michael Maratsos (Child Development), "Are Some Subjacency Violations Just Awkward Sentences?," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures
April 13, 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: "Art in the Community." Panelists: Ann Markuson (Hubert Humphrey Institute); Clarence Morgan (art), Renee Cheng (architecture), Mary Rockcastle (Hamline University), Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library. FFI: Department of English
April 13, 7:00 PM
Exhibition: "Still Present Pasts Opening." Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
April 13, 7:00 PM
Celebration: 10th Anniversary of the MFA in Creative Writing: "Writers at Work," Campus Club, 4th floor, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of English
April 13, 7:30 PM
Men's Chorus with the University Symphonic Band, the St. Olaf Viking Chorus and Minnesota Boy's Choir, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
April 13, 8:00 PM
"Wreck," Carl Flink (theatre arts and dance) and Black Label Movement, 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study; University Dance Theatre
Announcements
Travel Grant Opportunities for Faculty
Through Title VI Grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute for Global Studies, European Studies Consortium, and the Consortium for the Study of the Asias are able to help fund travel for faculty members of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus in support of enhancing the internationalization of the University through curriculum and international interdisciplinary research linkages, course development, enhancement of study abroad opportunities or linkages with foreign institutions of higher learning. Travel awards will be made on a competitive basis. Application deadline is April 4, 2007 (for travel in June – Dec 07). FFI: Institute for Global Studies; European Studies Consortium; Consortium for the Study of the Asias
The deadline for the April 6-19, 2007 issue is Monday, April 2, 2007.
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