December 1-15, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
COLLEGE NEWS
College of Liberal Arts Staff Outstanding Service Award Winners for 2005-06
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the CLA Staff Outstanding Service Award winners for 2005-06. The award ceremony will be held on Wednesday, December 6 at 2:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center.
The recipients of the individual award are:
Karen Bencke (CLA-OIT), LeeAnne Berger (French and Italian), Beatrice Dehler (communication studies), Colleen Donahue (CLA external relations), Kathleen Glasgow (English), Monty Hindman (Minnesota Population Center), Richard Kott (history), Barbara London (ILES), Kathryn Louis (art history), Joan Lund (communication studies), Frances Matos-Schultz (Spanish and Portuguese studies), Nan Nelson (speech-language-hearing sciences), Kelly Nezworski (history), Amy Rosenthal (CLA Student Services), Stanley Rothrock (music), Joel Turbes (CLA-OIT).
The recipients of the Work Group Outstanding Service award are:
1.) CLA-OIT Server Team: Kemal Badur, Joshua Buysse, Thomas Lindsay, Pernu Menheer, Bryan Thoreson, and Peter Walz. 2.) Media Mill Project Team: Colin McFadden and Matthew Nuttall. 3.) National Historical Geographic Information System Developer Team: Kevin Horne and Benjamin Ortega. 4.) Political Science Web Project Team: Karen Bencke, Steven Hanson, Gary Ludwitzke, Rose Miskowiec, Judith Mitchell, Paul Soper and Richard Stachow. 5.) Social Sciences Research Lab Development Group: Kemal Badur and John Easton.
KUDOS
Thomas Rosenberg (String Chamber Music Program; music) is the cellist on the recording of String Trio by Phillip Rhodes (American composer) on the Centaur label.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
For a complete list of CLA events, visit: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/events
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 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 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
December 1, 1:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Margaret Moss (nursing), Rhonda Jones-Webb (epidemiology and community health), Richard Lee (psychology), Colin Campbell (pharmacology) and Nimi Singh (pediatrics and adolescent health), "Race and the Sciences," 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 1, 2:30 PM
Pat McCreless (Yale University), "Elgar and the Theory of Chromaticism," 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 1, 3:00 PM
Translating Translation: Christophe Wall-Romana (French and Italian), "Blanking Out, or, Translation Interminable" and Maria Zavialova (English) will speak about translating Toni Morrison and Alice Walker into Russian, 207A Lind Hall. FFI: Department of English.
December 1, 3:00 PM
Katherine Verdery (CUNY) "Abusive Cadres in a Voracious Party-State: Romanian Collectivization, 1948-1962," 155 Blegen Hall. FFI: Center for German and European Studies
December 1, 3:30 PM
Jon Miller (Queens University), "Comparing Stoic Phantasia with Spinoza's Ideas,"
1-132 Carlson School of Management. FFI: Department of Philosophy
December 1, 3:30 PM
Parama Roy (University of California, Davis), "Alimentary Tracts: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 1, 3:45 PM
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Stanford University), "Teaching Race in the New Genetics: What is at Stake?," 140 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 1, 4:00 PM
Guitar Ensemble, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 1, 7:30 PM
Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and Campus Orchestra perform Britten's St. Nicolas, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
CANCELLED: December 1, 7:30 PM
Percussion Department Showcase Concert, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music.
December 1-2, 8:00 PM
Diverse Voices Staged Reading. Student and faculty directors from the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance will collaborate with students from St. Paul Central High School for two staged readings to explore diversity. Stoll Thrust Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
December 1-2, 8:00 PM
Jazz Faculty Concert, 100 Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: University Dance Theatre; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
December 2, 9:00 AM
Workshop: Kathleen Dimmich (medieval textilist), "Measure for Measure: A Day in a Fifteenth-Century Tailors' Shop," 235 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
December 2-3
Marching Band Indoor Concert. The 302-member marching band under the direction of Tim Diem (director) and Mary Schneider (associate director), Northrop Memorial Auditorium. FFI: School of Music
December 3, 7:30 PM
Faculty Recital: Lydia Artymiw (piano) and the Rosalyra Quartet, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 4, 12:15 PM
Min Zhou (UCLA), "Chinatown, Koreatown, and Beyond: Social Capital Formation in Los Angeles? Immigrant Communities," room 50, 1701 Classroom Building. FFI: Minnesota Population Center
December 4, 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
December 4, 7:30 PM
Jazz Ensembles I and II, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 4, 7:30 PM
African Music Ensemble, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 5, 5:45 PM
Satish Korde (WPP Ford Group), "Global Communication and the Future of Global Commerce," Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center. FFI: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
December 6, 3:45 PM
Open Rehearsal: "Evolving Wreck: Time through the Lens of Embodied Knowing." In a series of open rehearsals that will take place over the course of a year, choreographer Carl Flink (theater arts and dance) and Black Label Movement will use serial viewings and revisions to move towards a first completed draft of a new work, "Wreck." Barbara Barker Center for Dance. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 6, 4:00 PM
McKnight Summer Fellows Presentations: Explorations of research in the arts and humanities. Maki Isaka Morinaga (Asian languages and literatures), "Gender and Onnagata (Actors of Female Impersonation in Kabuki Theater) Chapter One;" Jenny Schmid (art), "Animation and Printmaking: Creating a Multi-media Gender Utopia;" and Richard Graff (rhetoric), "The Styling of Prose in Classical Greece: From Poetry to Styled Prose." Nolte Library, Nolte Center. FFI: Judie Cilcain, Office of Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
December 6, 7:30 PM
Wind Ensemble, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 7, 4:00 PM
Brian Edmiston (Ohio State University) and Patricia Enciso (Ohio State University), "Claiming Space and Time through 'Dramatic Inquiry'," 125 Nolte Center. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 7, 4:00 PM
Matt McGue (psychology), "What is exceptional about exceptional aging?," N639 Elliott Hall. FFI: Center for Cognitive Sciences
December 7, 4:00 PM
Virginia Newes, "Masculine and Feminine Voices in a Pair of Lais by Guillaume de Machaut," 229 Nolte Center. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
December 7, 7:00 PM
DocuLens Asia Film Series. Doctor Zhang by Huang Ruxiang, Chinese with English subtitles. Film screening, Q&A with director and panel discussion, 155 Nicholson Hall. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 7, 7:30 PM
Jazz Combos, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 7-10
"Jacksonville" by Keith Hovis. Keith Hovis and Marie Kleinschmidt (directors). Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center. FFI: University Theatre; Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
December 8
Conference: Kierkegaard and Irony, 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch.
December 8, 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion: "The Middle East and US Foreign Policy: Alternative Voices," Panelists: Hisham Bizri (cultural studies and comparative literature), Martin Sampson (political science) and Carol Hakim (history). FFI: Institute for Global Studies
December 8, 2:30 PM
Gillian Rodger (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Contextualizing Cross-Dressed Performance in Nineteenth-Century Theater: Issues of Gender and Class," 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music.
December 8, 3:30 PM
Roderick Ferguson (American studies), "To Be Fluent in Each Other's Narratives: Surplus Populations and Queer of Color Activism," 710 Social Sciences Building. FFI: Institute for Advanced Study
December 8, 4:00 PM
Piano Ensemble, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 8, 7:30 PM
Early Music Ensemble. The U of M Early Music Ensembles collaborate to present the powerful "Weihnachts-Historie" of Heinrich Schuetz, plus other holiday favorites from the German Baroque.Lloyd. Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 9
Workshop: The Medieval Bookmark. This hands-on workshop will teach printing methods and other techniques, including writing with quill pens. Presenters are Bill Moran, Kent Aldrich and Dennis Ruud. 120 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Center for Medieval Studies
December 9, 7:30 PM
Sounds of the Season: Men's and Women's Chorus in Concert, Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church, 5011 31st Avenue S., Minneapolis. FFI: School of Music
December 10, 1:00 PM
College of Liberal Arts Commencement, Northrop Memorial Auditorium. CLA honors more than 600 graduates during its fall commencement ceremony. The ceremony includes music performed by the U of M Brass Choir and will begin with a faculty procession leading the graduates into NMA and conclude with the presentation of degree candidates. Faculty, graduates and guests will also hear remarks from Steven Rosenstone (CLA dean), a student from the graduating class, as well as a commencement address by the keynote speaker, Jon Butler (dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American History, Yale University). FFI: CLA Student Services
December 10, 4:00 PM
New Music Ensemble. Young-Nam Kim (conductor and violin), Jerry Luckhardt (conductor), Lawrence Weller (baritone), Thomas Bartsch (piano), Michael Cherlin (program annotator). Works by Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Tale 1) and other miniatures, along with Evan Chambers, Elliott Carter, Karel Husa, Charles Ives and Grazina Gacewicz. FFI: School of Music
December 11, 2:30 PM
Jonathan Boyarin (University of Kansas), "Don't Be Strange: Becoming Fictive Berzhaner or, Does the Building Makes the Landsman?," 389 Hubert H. Humphrey Center. FFI: Department of Anthropology
December 11, 3:30 PM
Sonja Kuftinec (theatre arts and dance), "Gay Muslims and Salty Meat Pies: Cornerstone Theatre and the Limits of Performing Community," 400 Ford Hall. Refreshments at 3:15 p.m. FFI: Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
December 11, 7:00 PM
Gospel Choir. Sanford Moore (director), Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 12, 12:00 PM
Katherine Fennelly (HHH Institute), "Determinants of American Attitudes toward Immigration," 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library. FFI: Immigration Research History Center
December 12, 7:30 PM
Symphony Orchestra. Jeffrey Stirling (conductor). "Winter Dreams" featuring music of Weber, Hindemith and Tchaikovsky, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 13, 7:30 PM
Campus Orchestra, Ted Mann Concert Hall. FFI: School of Music
December 15, 2:30 PM
Jessica Payette (Stanford University), "Erwartung's Legacy: Freedom and Entrapment in Monodrama," 280 Ferguson Hall. FFI: School of Music
Announcements
Workshop: The Responsible Conduct for Research (RCR), Part II
Attention PI's and investigators who need to complete RCR part 2. All three topics addressed in RCR Part 2 workshops are now available online:
1. Fiscal Responsibilities Online Workshop
2. Potential Conflicts of Interest – A Course for U of M Researchers
3. Intellectual Property Online Workshop
FFI: Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Continuing Education Hotline, 612-624-0212
Call for Nominations for the 2007 Distinguished Women Scholars Award
The Office of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Office for University Women announce the 2007 Distinguished Women Scholars Awards competition. Established in 2001, the program acknowledges and honors the exceptional accomplishments of women scholars at the U of M. Annual awards are given to two women faculty members, one in the Sciences and Engineering, and one in Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. Winners will receive their awards at the Annual OUW Spring Awards Celebration on April 25, 2007. Each scholar will receive $2,000 to be used for research, scholarly or artistic activities, a personal plaque, as well as a plaque for her college. > Nominations to college deans by Friday, January 19, 2007. Final nominations from college deans to Graduate School by Monday, January 29, 2007. FFI: Graduate School; Office of University Women
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
New Funding for International Scholarly Activities
The Office of International Programs announces the following new funding programs to promote a global network of scholarship and engagement and encourage interdisciplinary and transnational partnerships. Interdisciplinary International Institutional Partnership Grants, due January 29 by 12:00 noon. Interdisciplinary International Research Circle Grants, due January 29 by 12:00 noon. OIP Doctoral Fellowships for International Research and Writing, due March 9 by 12:00 noon. OIP International Pre-Dissertation and Small Grants Competition, due January 29 by 12:00 noon. FFI: Office of International Programs
The deadline for the January 12-25, 2007 issue is Monday, January 8, 2007.
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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