November 3-16, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
CLA Commencement, Sunday, December 10, 2006
The CLA Commencement Committee invites you to celebrate the achievement of our undergraduate students at the CLA fall commencement ceremony on December 10 at 1:00 p.m., Northrop Memorial Auditorium. Commencement is the crowning event for our undergraduate students. The college anticipates that nearly 650 students will participate in this fall's commencement. We encourage you to join the celebration.
Staff-Volunteers are needed from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Faculty-Volunteers are needed from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Any faculty interested in participating may do so by accessing this link, https://mycla.umn.edu/commencement_rsvp.php. The RSVP deadline to order regalia is Wednesday, November 15.
FFI: Staff participation, contact Kendra Knudsen
FFI: Faculty participation, contact Rebecca Rassier
College of Liberal Arts Staff Appreciation Day! Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Please join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 2:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center to celebrate and acknowledge the many outstanding contributions of CLA's staff. The program will feature recognition of winners of the CLA Staff Outstanding Service Award for 2005-06. The winners will be announced soon.
FFI: Angie Plambeck, CLA Administration.
KUDOS
Patrick Bajari (economics) received funding from NSF for "Dynamic General Equilibrium of Community Formation: Theory and Empirical Analysis."
Jane Blocker (art history) received funding from Columbia University for "Visiting Classics Scholar, Columbia University Department of Classics."
Mary Kennedy (speech-language-hearing sciences) has been elected President of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. ANCDS is an organization of researchers and practitioners who are committed to the highest quality of life for adults and children with neurologic communication disorders.
Jeanne Kilde (Institute for Advanced Study) received the American Society of Church History Jane Dempsey-Douglass Prize for best essay published in 2005 in the area of women in the history of Christianity for "Material Expression and Maternalism in Mary Baker Eddy's Boston Churches: How Architecture and Gender Compromised Mind." Her essay appeared in the July 2005 issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief.
Paul Sackett (psychology) received funding from the College Board for "Differentiating in the Upper Tail: On Selecting Among High-Scoring Applicants."
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
For a complete list of CLA events, visit: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/events
October 9-December 1
Exhibition: "Mediations," Works by Diane Katsiaficas (art). W-121 Gailon Roen Room, Boynton Health Service. A public reception is scheduled for Monday, November 6 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. FFI: Department of Art
October 18-November 9
Exhibition: "The Fifth Minnesota National Print Biennial," Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. 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
November 2-December 7
DocuLens Asia Film Series. Film screenings, Q&A with directors and panel discussions. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 3, 10:30 AM
Panel Discussion: "Chinese Documentary: Its Histories and Forms," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
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, 2:30 PM
Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley), "Photography by Other Means," 100 Rapson Hall. FFI: Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
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-December 20
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 Johns 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, 12:15 PM
Ahmed Samatar (Macalaster College), "Muslims and the West in the Age of Globalization," President's Room, 2nd Floor, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
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," 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, 12:00 PM
"Talk About Time," Minnesota Commons, 1st Floor, St. Paul Student Center. Reservation required. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
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
November 11, 2:00 PM
David Kertzer (Brown University) will discuss his 1997 book "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" that has been made into the play entitled, "Edgardo Mine" by Alfred Uhry, which opens at the Guthrie Theater on November 10. 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 13, 12:15 PM
Steve Manson (geography), "Agriculture on the Edge: Scenarios of Population, Technology, and Institutions on Mexico's New Frontier," 50 Willey Hall. FFI: Minnesota Population Center
November 13, 3:30 PM
Sara Puotinen (gender, women, and sexuality studies), "How Do We Make Ourselves into Allies? Developing a Feminist Virtue Ethic of Difference and Dissensus," 400 Ford Hall. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m. FFI: Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
November 14, 11:15 AM
Raymond Baker (Center for International Policy), "Global Capitalism's Greatest Challenge," 180 Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Institute for Global Studies
November 14, 7:30 PM
Guest Master Class: Pamela Frank (violin), Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 14-December 15
Exhibition: "Praxis/Practice." A public reception is scheduled for Friday, December 1 from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art. FFI: Department of Art
November 15, 3:30 PM
Gloria Raheja (anthropology) and Bali Sahota (Asian languages and literatures) will lead a group reading on "Empire after Liberalism: Rereading Eric Stokes," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 15, 3:35 PM
Adrian Piper (Wellesley College), "The Ideal of Agent Integrity," 830 Heller Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 16, 3:30 PM
Philip Dawid (University College London), "Interpreting DNA Profile Evidence in Complex Disputed Paternity Cases: Bayesian Networks to the Rescue," 210 Physics Building. Reception to follow, 300 Ford Hall. FFI: School of Statistics
November 16, 4:00 PM
Adrian Piper (Wellesley College), "Passing beyond Passing," 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 16, 4:00 PM
Maria Sera (child development), "More on Language Differences and Cognitive Development," N639 Elliott Hall. FFI: Center for Cognitive Sciences
November 16, 7:00 PM
Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor and co-founder of TIKKUN magazine) "The Spiritual Transformation of American Society," Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
November 16-19
"Hamletmachine." Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
November 17, 4:00 PM
Informal Showing: Ananya Chatterjea (theatre arts and dance) and Uri Sands (theatre arts and dance), Studio 100, Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Dance Program; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
November 17, 7:00 PM
English Now presents a HOWL celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem. Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union. FFI: Department of English
November 17, 7:00 PM
2nd Annual Department of Art MFA Open Studios Night, Regis Center for Art. For one night only, forty-one graduate student's from the Department of Art will open their studios for the public. FFI: Department of Art
November 18, 8:00 PM
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, along with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Basilica of St. Mary, 17th and Hennepin, Minneapolis. FFI: School of Music
November 19, 5:00 PM
Guest Master Class: Nebojsa Zivkovic (percussion). Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music.
November 19, 7:30 PM
Low Brass Ensembles, 225 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 20, 3:00 PM
Mark Hannis (Genocide Intervention Network), "When Genocide is Identified and Intervention Fails," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
November 20, 3:30 PM
Christina Klein (Boston College), "Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema," 101 Walter Library. FFI: Department of American Studies
November 21, 7:30 PM
Wind Ensemble, featuring Patrick O'Keefe (guest bass clarinet). Craig Kirchhoff (conductor). Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
November 24-December 17
"Inspecting Carol" - "A Christmas Carol" meets "The Government Inspector" meets "Noises Off" meets "Waiting for Guffman" in this hilarious hit commissioned by Seattle Rep. A man who asks to audition at a small theatre is mistaken for an evaluator from the National Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor as he is given a role in the production, "A Christmas Carol". Main Theatre, Minnesota Centennial Showboat, Harriet Island. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
Announcements
University Symposium Awards
The Institute for Advanced Study and the Office for the Vice President for Research invite proposals for collaborative interdisciplinary research projects on the topic of "Time," the subject of the University Symposium for the two-year period beginning in the fall of 2006. Proposals to be considered in the first round are due January 19 by 4:30 p.m., Institute for Advanced Study, 131 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study.
The deadline for the November 17-30, 2006 issue is Monday, November 13, 2006.
Please send Kudos and Announcements items to Sarah Knoblauch, reporter@cla.umn.edu.
The information from the Events, Conferences, and Lectures section is now obtained from the U of M Events Calendar. To submit your event, conference or lecture, visit http://events.tc.umn.edu.
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