October 20-November 2, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
KUDOS
Peggy Nelson (speech-language-hearing-sciences) has been elected to the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and will serve in this capacity until 2009. Some of her research interests focus on hearing loss detection and the effects of classroom noise on children's learning.
Gary Oehlert (statistics) received funding from the Minnesota Department of Transportation for "Statistics for Mn/Model."
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
For a complete list of CLA events, visit: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/events
October 18-November 9
Exhibition: "The Fifth Minnesota National Print Biennial," Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
October 19-22
"Cripple of Inishmaan," Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
October 20, 12:00 PM
Joseph Hall (Bates College), "Creating White Hearts: Muskogean Efforts to Survive the Indian Slave Trade," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Center for Early Modern History
October 20, 3:30 PM
Pete Sigal (Duke University), "Did the Aztecs Have Sex?," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
October 21, 7:30 PM
Collage Concert, featuring performances by more than 300 students and faculty musicians on one stage, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 22, 3:00 PM
Plato's "The Apology of Socrates" presented by the Hellenic Student Assocation, Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of Philosophy
October 22-November 18
Exhibition: 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 50-year Anniversary, Elmer L. Andersen Library, Atrium. A public "October 23" commemorative celebration program, Sunday, October 22 at 3:00 p.m. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
October 23, 7:30 PM
University Band and Campus Band, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 24, 4:00 PM
Joe Gerteis and Trina Smith (sociology), "Experiencing Difference in American Neighborhoods," 1114 Social Sciences. FFI: Department of Sociology.
October 24, 7:30 PM
Jazz Ensembles II and III, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 24, 7:30 PM
Jeffrey Gurock, (Yeshiva University), "American Judaism's Contemporary Scorecard," Temple Israel, 2324 Emerson Avenue S. Minneapolis. FFI: Center for Jewish Studies
October 25, 3:30 PM
Fionnuala Ni Aolain (U of M Law School; University of Ulster, Belfast), "The European Legal System Responds to Terrorism: Balancing Human Rights and Security," Cowles Auditorium Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies
October 25, 7:00 PM
Joseph Margulies (Northwestern University), "Separation of Powers in the Long War: Guantanamo and the Rule of Law," 25 Walter F. Mondale Hall. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
October 25, 7:30 PM
Campus Orchestra, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 26, 11:00 AM
Bill Fick (visiting artist), "T-Shirt Making Event," W182 Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
October 26, 12:00 PM
Donna Gabaccia (Immigration History Research Center), "Immigration Key Words: Digitizing the History of Ideas," 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
October 26-28
Conference: "Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World," Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Center for European Studies
October 26, 2:30 PM
Workshop: "Grading Student Writing," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Center for Writing
October 26, 3:30 PM
Guest Master Class: Nina Gordon (cello, Illinois Wesleyan University), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall in Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 26, 4:00 PM
Craig Packer (ecology, evolution, and behavior), "The Biocomplexity of Man-Eating: Myth Meets Ecology," 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
October 26, 4:00 PM
Derek Isaacowitz (Brandeis University), "Aging and Motivated Gaze: The View from the Gazer," N639 Elliott Hall. FFI: Center for Cognitive Sciences
October 26, 7:00 PM
Film: "A," directed by Tatsuya Mori, 155 Nicholson Hall. Japanese with English subtitles. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
October 26, 7:00 PM
Bill Fick (visiting artist; printmaker) will discuss his work, Regis Center for Art, In-Flux space. FFI: Department of Art
October 26-November 11, in rotation
"A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Steve Cardamone and Daisy Walker, Stoll Thrust Theatre, Rarig Center, FFI: Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
October 27, 2:00 PM
Halloween and Costume Party, Lobby of the Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
Cancelled -- Rescheduled for December 1, 3:00 PM
October 27, 3:00 PM
Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian) and Maria Zavialova (English), "Translating Translation," 207 Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
October 27, 4:00 PM
Cornelia Wunsch (School for Oriental and African Studies, London), "Children Wanted and Unwanted: On Infant Exposure, Foundlings and Adoption in Neo-Babylonian Society (6th Century BCE)," 275 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
October 29, 3:00 PM
Faculty Recital: Paul Shaw (piano, music), in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
October 30, 12:15 PM
Robert Town (health services research and policy), "The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers," 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Minnesota Population Center
October 30, 4:30 PM
Pamela Mordecai (poet and short story writer) presents a reading, 150 Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English
October 31, 2:30 PM
Demetrios Papademetriou (Migration Policy Institute), "International Perspectives on Migration Policy: What Can the U.S. Learn from the Successes and Failures of Migration Policies in Other Countries?," 155 Blegen Hall. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
October 31, 7:30 PM
Guest Recital: Per Hannevold (bassoon) with Timothy Lovelace (piano), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 1, 12:00 PM
Ziad Amra (attorney, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), "Dispossession, Occupation and Resistance: Reports from a Recent Visit to Palestine," 235 Blegen Hall. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
November 1, 12:30 PM
Workshop: David Benson (University of Connecticut), "Using Piers Plowman," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
November 1, 3:30 PM
Qadri Ismail (English), "Colonialism and Culture: On the Emergence of the Concept of Anthropology," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 1, 3:45 PM
Guest Recital: Nobuya Sugawa (saxophone), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 1, 4:00 PM
Nan Alamilla Boyd (Sonoma State University), "Who Is the Subject? Queer Theory Meets Oral History," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 1, 7:00 PM
Judith Martin (Urban Studies Program), "A River-Front Development Story," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 1, 7:30 PM
Ben Marcus and Heidi Julavits (authors) presents a reading, McNamara Alumni Center. FFI: Department of English
November 2, 9:30 AM
Workshop: "Numbers, Narratives and More: Towards an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Migrant Gender Ratios," 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center.
November 2, 4:00 PM
Ray Jiing (documentary filmmaker), "Wounded Docs: The Critical Pedagogy of Documentary Filmmaking," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 2, 4:00 PM
David Benson (University of Connecticut), "Rome and London in Chaucer and Langland," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
November 2, 7:30 PM
Percussion Extravaganza, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 3, 12:00 PM
Walter Andrews (Washington University), "Love, Gender, Poetry and Politics during the Ottoman (and European) Renaissance," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Institute for Linguistics, ESL and Slavic Languages and Literatures
November 3, 4:00 PM
Cynthia Damon (Amherst College), "Truth or Truth-Like?: Rhetoric and Roman Historiography," 275 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
November 3, 4:30 PM
Panel Discussion: "International Migrations and Cold War Politics," 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
November 3, 7:30 PM
Bharati Mukherjee (University of California-Berkeley) will discuss her work, McNamara Alumni Center. FFI: Department of English
November 3, 7:30 PM
Women's Chorus in collaboration with two instrumental chamber ensembles, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 5, 7:30 PM
U of M Early Music Ensembles present an evening of medieval music, in collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies. Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 6, 8:00 AM
Exhibition: "A Mighty Fortress" Far from Lake Wobegon: 21st Century Lutherans at the Confluence of Religion and Ethnicity," Atrium Gallery, Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration History Research Center
November 6, 12:00 PM
Rami G. Khouri (The Daily Star Lebanon), "Making Sense of the Middle East: An Insider's Critical Analysis," 235 Blegen Hall. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
November 6, 4:00 PM
Hanes Walton, Jr. (University of Michigan), "Crossover Voting in African American Senate Elections," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 7, 2:00 PM
Patricia Hampl (English) discusses her new book "Blue Arabesque," U of M Bookstore, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of English
November 8, 8:00 PM
Charles Gati (The John Hopkins University), "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Assessments and Testimony," commentaries by Robert Fisch (Medical School) and László Fülöp (Minnesota Hungarians), Auditorium of the Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul. FFI: Center for Austrian Studies
November 9, 3:30 PM
Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford), "What Makes Me Me? A Defense of Substance Dualism," 1-132 Carlson School of Management. FFI: Department of Philosophy
November 9, 4:00 PM
Joko Sutrisno (Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota) and Tom Patterson (music), "Timescapes and Gamelan: Time Perceptions in Traditional and New Music for Javanese Gamelan," 120 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 9, 4:00 PM
Ofer Tchernichovski (City College of New York), "Developmental Song Learning in the Zebra Finch: In Search for the Error Signal," N639 1701 Classroom Building. FFI: Center for Cognitive Sciences
November 9, 7:00 PM
Richard Tsao (visiting artist) will discuss his work. In-Flux Space, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
November 9-10
Conference: "Never Again, All Over Again," A MnSCU conference on genocide. Metro State University, Saint Paul. FFI: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
November 9-12
University Opera Theatre, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 10, 12:00 PM
Interdisciplinary Conference: "Gender, Genre, and Political Transformations," 101 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
November 10, 3:30 PM
Jurij Fikfak (Institute of Slovenian Studies in Ljubljana), "Morals, Ethics, and Business in the former Yugoslavia: The Conduct of Managers before and after Socialism," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
November 10, 7:00 PM
Rita Felski (University of Virginia), "The Aesthetics and Politics of Recognition," Library and Lounge in Nolte Center. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
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