September 22-October 5, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
CLA's 2006-07 Executive Committee is now in place.
The committee is comprised of the following faculty members:
Sarah Chambers (associate professor, history) Chair of Assembly
Elizabeth Boyle (associate professor, sociology), Vice Chair of Assembly
Ross Macmillan (associate professor), Chair of Budget Advisory Committee
Riv-Ellen Prell (professor, American studies), Chair of Council of Chairs
Katherine Klink (associate professor, geography), Chair of Curriculum, Instruction
and Advising Committee
Steven Rosenstone, Dean
KUDOS
Joseph Allen (Asian languages and literatures) received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for "National Resource Center for Study of the Asias."
Edward Farmer (history) received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for "National Resource Center for International Studies."
Carol Klee (Spanish and Portuguese studies) received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for "National Resource Center for Western European Studies."
Bryan Shuman (geography) received funding from NSF for "Collaborative Research: Sub-Millennial Hydroclimatic Variability in the Northeastern United States During the Holocene."
The American Political Science Association, in partnership with Blackwell Publishers, announced the creation of the John Sullivan Award (Regents professor, political science) to honor the best paper published annually in the interdisciplinary journal, Political Behavior.
Shaden M. Tageldin (cultural studies and comparative literature) was awarded a 2006-07 postdoctoral fellowship from the Berlin-based "Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe" research program, co-sponsored by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
August 29-October 5
Exhibition: "New Photography: McKnight Fellows 2005/2006." This exhibition features work by Richard Copley, Todd Deutsch, Natasha D'Schommer and Meg Ojala. Public reception, Friday, September 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. Free. FFI: Department of Art.
August 29-October 5
Exhibition: "The Sur-Rational Paintings" by Fritz Hirschberger. Public reception, Friday, September 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. Free. FFI: Department of Art.
September 22
Jerold Frakes (State University of New York in Buffalo), "A Literature of Their Own: Early Yiddish Literature in an International Context," 2:00 p.m., Gerhard Weiss Library, 128 Folwell Hall. FFI: Center for German and European Studies.
Robert Richards (University of Chicago)," Did Ernst Haeckel Fraudulently Misrepresent His Embryo Illustrations? And Why Do the Creationists Care?," 3:30 p.m., 131 Physics Building. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m., 216 Physics Building. FFI: Studies of Science and Technology.
Film: "Ballets Russes," followed by discussion with the film's directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, 7:00 p.m., 155 Nicholson Hall. Free. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study, Dance Program.
September 24
Faculty recital: Jeffrey Van (music; guitar), performance, 2:00 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
September 26
Barbara Frey (director, Human Rights Program), "Education and advocacy on the rights of non-citizens in the Midwest"12:00 noon, 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center.
Interdisciplinary Arts Candidate Lecture Series: Ebon Fisher (visiting artist, Stevens Institute of Technology; director, www.nervepool.net), "THE NERVEPOOL: How Collective Media Rituals in Brooklyn evolved into a Transmedia Santuary for Multi-Species Communion" at 12:15 p.m., In-Flux space, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research.
Film: "The Time is Right for Mee," a documentary about Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua's successful 2002 campaign. Film screening and discussion with director Foung Heu and Senator Moua, 7:00 p.m., 100 Rapson Hall. Free. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
September 27
Hisham Bizri (cultural studies and comparative literature) and Carol Hakim (history) will lead a roundtable discussion on the current events in Lebanon, 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Poets Claudia Rankine (University of Houston) and Juliana Spahr (Mills College), reading and book signing, 7:30 p.m., Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: The Creative Writing Program; Department of English.
September 28
Interdisciplinary Arts Candidate Lecture Series: Mark Nowak (College of St. Catherine), "Public Poetics in the Era of 'Accumulation by Dispossession'" at 12:15 p.m., In-Flux space, E-110 Regis Center for Art. FFI: Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research.
John Wright (African American & African Studies), "Shadowing Ralph Ellison," 2:00 p.m., U of M Bookstore, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of African American & African Studies.
Thursdays at Four Series: Claire Conceison (Tufts University), "Contemporary Stagings of the American Other in China," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Film: "Tian Feng and His Institute," a documentary by Liu Xiaojin, about China's first private institute to preserve traditional ethnic minority cultures, 7:00 p.m., 155 Nicholson Hall. Free. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
September 29
Paul Hoyningen-Huene (University of Hannover),"Systematicity: On the Nature of Science," 3:30 p.m., 131 Physics Building. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m., 216 Physics Building. FFI: Studies of Science and Technology; Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
Injoo Whang (artist), "Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the 'Forgotten War'," 7:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
September 30
Livewire Electronic Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
October 2
Paul Hoyningen-Huene (University of Hannover),"A Closer Look at the Nature of Science," 10:00 a.m., 737 Heller Hall. FFI: Studies of Science and Technology; Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
October 3
Interdisciplinary Arts Candidate Lecture Series: Christopher Ho (Rhode Island School of Design), "Independent Curating, Installation Art" at 12:15 p.m., In-Flux space, E-110 Regis Center for Art. FFI: Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research.
October 4
Paulina Chiziane (author), "Niketche: A Story of Polygamy," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
October 5
Paulina Chiziane (Mozambican author), "Writers: Messengers of Memory," 1:15 p.m., Shepherd Room, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. English translation will be provided. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
Thursday at Four Series: William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania), "Bioethics in East Asia: Where Lee Silver Gets It Right… and Wrong," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Esther Dischereit (German-Jewish writer, poet, essayist), a reading and discussion of her collection of autobiographical essays, 5:00 p.m., 101 Walter Library. FFI: Center for German and European Studies.
Roberto Reis Memorial Lecture: Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), "'They Don't Want to Work, So They Don't Speak': Language, Slavery and Culture in Brazil and Angola," 6:00 p.m., James Ford Bell Library, Wilson Library. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
October 5-7
5th International Conference: "Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures and Portuguese language and linguistics." Sessions: literature, culture, and comparative studies of Portugal, Brazil, Africa, and diaspora communities, as well as Portuguese language and linguistics. The conference also hosts a colloquium on "Lusophone Africa, Globalization, and Postcolonialism." Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum and Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
October 5-14
"The Master and Margarita" based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by Michael Sommers and Luverne Seifert. Presented outdoors in the West Bank Arts Quarter; check in at the Rarig Center lobby. Free, no ticket required. FFI: Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
October 6
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Universidade de Coimbra/University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Portugal: At the Crossroads of Different Historical Times," 11:30 a.m., Shepherd Room, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. FFI: Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
Tony Brown (English), Natasha Tinsley (English) and Arun Saldanha (geography), speaking on the theme of islands, oceans, cultural fluxes and cruxes, 3:00 p.m., 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English.
October 9
Samantha King (Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario), "Pink Ribbons, Inc. - Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture: Herwig Wolfram (professor emeritus, Vienna University), "Austria before Austria. The Medieval Past of Polities to Come," 4:00 p.m., 215 Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies.
October 10
Gerald Vizenor (University of New Mexico), "Genocide Tribunals: Native Human Rights and Survivance," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Tracy Kidder (author) will read from his latest book, "My Detachment," 7:30 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Department of English.
Wind Ensemble, performance, 7:30 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
October 11
Karsten Voigt (the German government's coordinator of German-American Cooperation), "Politics and Religion," 3:30 p.m., 1314 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Center for German and European Studies.
Faculty and Guest Recital: Timothy Lovelace (music; piano) and Matthew McCright (guest artist; piano), plays Holst's The Planets, 7:30 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
October 11-12
The John M. Dolan Symposium: "Truth, Peace and Ethics." Professor Peterson, the first Dolan chair, will be a guest speaker, along with distinguished professors from across the country (including Professor Dolan's daughter, Elizabeth Dolan). Symposium sessions: Peace Movement and Public Citizenship; Philosophy, Logic and Linguistics; Medical Ethics; Evening of Music, Memories and Poetry. Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Department of Philosophy.
October 12
François Menant (École Normale Supérieure of Paris), "Wealth, Culture, and Vendetta: The Communal Elites in Italy, 13th-14th Centuries," 4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Film: "Repatriation," directed by Kim Dong-won, 7:00 p.m., 155 Nicholson Hall. Free. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
October 13
Faculty Master Class: Eugene Rousseau (music; saxophone), 8:00 a.m., 90 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music.
Alan Rocke (Case Western Reserve University),"Imagining the Molecular World," 3:30 p.m., 131 Physics Building. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m., 216 Physics Building. FFI: Studies of Science and Technology.
West Bank Arts Quarter Crawl, a sampling of the hundreds of events that happen every year in the West Bank Arts Quarter. Events include an open dance rehearsal, reception and exhibition at the Nash Gallery, School of Music Alumna recital and an outdoor production of The Master and Margarita. 5:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Free. FFI: http://www.artsquarter.umn.edu; University Theatre, 612-625-4001.
Guest recital: Anna Marie Wytko (saxophone), 7:00 p.m., Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. Free. FFI: School of Music.
Announcements
Scholarly Events Fund
Applications for Scholarly Events Funding are due in the Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research no later than Monday, October 16, 2006. Application instructions, an application form, and review criteria are found on the Scholarly Events Fund page of the Faculty and Research Web site, http://www2.cla.umn.edu/admin/research/ScholarlyEventsFund.htm).
FFI: Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, 612-624-9839.
Residential Faculty Fellowships and Research/Creative
Collaboratives for 2007-08.
The Institute for Advanced Study seeks applications and nominations for 2007-08 for Faculty Fellows and Research/Creative Collaboratives. Faculty Fellows applications are due Friday, October 13, 2006, http://www.ias.umn.edu/fellowsapply.php. Research/Creative Collaboratives applications are due Friday, January 19, 2007, http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabapply.php.
FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
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