BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Upcoming: Events at Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota PRODID:-//Upcoming.org/Upcoming ICS//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091112T160000 DTEND:20091112T173000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"Writing Constitutions into British History": A talk by Linda Colley DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767721/ ] It has become a commonplace that Britain\, unlike most other states\, does not possess "a written constitution." From the 1700s\, a succession of politicians\, jurists\, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow\, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive preference and genius\, and that - unlike others - the British do not do deliberate constitutional design. Yet there is an important sense in which such arguments are at once selective national mythology and profoundly ahistoric. In this lecture\, Linda Colley discusses why. Linda Colley\, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University\, is an expert on Britain since 1700. She favors cross-disciplinary history\, and in both her writing and her teaching examines Britain's past in a broader European\, imperial\, and global context. Her first book\, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982)\, challenged the dominant view by arguing that the Tory party remained active and potent during their years out of power. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992)\, which won the Wolfson Prize for History\, shows how the inhabitants of England\, Scotland\, and Wales came to see themselves as British over the course of the 18th century. More recently\, Professor Colley researched the experiences of the thousands of Britons who were taken captive in North America\, South Asia\, and the Mediterranean and North Africa between 1600 and 1850 as the British Empire expanded\, resulting in Captives (2002)\, which uses captivity narratives to investigate the vulnerability of the empire\, the complex relations between the imperialists and the societies they sought to invade\, and the flexibility of individual identity. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767721/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767721/ DTSTAMP:20091021T125502 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T125502 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091113T093000 DTEND:20091113T173000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"What Is Sexual Difference Now?": A conversation with Elizabeth Grosz and Joan Copjec DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767735/ ] This event brings two leading theorists together with Minnesota faculty to discuss where the question of sexual difference stands today. Feminist theory has always held that "the body" comes in at least two\, male and female\, but there is productive disagreement as to what conceptual framework is best suited to address this difference. The debate on sexual difference has nonetheless a profound effect on practically all disciplines. From the early 1990s\, Elizabeth Grosz (Women's Studies\, Rutgers University) pioneered the theorization of the body as explicit philosophical theme in feminist theory. In addition to gender and performance studies\, her books have influenced anthropology\, cultural studies\, geography\, and architecture. Interestingly for the symposium\, Grosz gradually moved away from Lacan. She is now engaged in feminist re-readings of Deleuze\, Bergson\, Darwin\, and Nietzsche\, all of which are often placed at odds with Lacan's Kantian and Hegelian background. As director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and editor of many collections on film and psychoanalysis\, Joan Copjec (English and Comparative Literature\, SUNY Buffalo) is a leading psychoanalytical theorist in the United States. In a book of some years ago she provocatively asked to "imagine there is no woman"\, arguing for an ethical interpretation of Lacan through case studies in cinema and art. Copjec has been central to Anglophone cultural and critical theory with psychoanalytic inflections such as October and umbr(a)\, touching on issues from urban planning to war and theology. Sponsored By: Institute for Advanced Study Additional Sponsors: CLA Scholarly Events Fund Department of Anthropology Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department of English Department of Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies Institute for Global Studies Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science Department of German at Macalester College and the Space and Place Research Collaborative. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767735/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767735/ DTSTAMP:20091021T130544 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T130544 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091119T160000 DTEND:20091119T173000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"Anaesthesia\; or\, The Chair as Image": A talk by John Harwood DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767741/ ] The chair is so ubiquitous a symbol of modernity that it often passes unnoticed. Beginning with Marcel Breuer's startling presentation of his own chair designs as a "film\," and moving to a discussion of a series of chairs designed by modernist architects throughout the 20th century\, this talk will address the technical and theoretical bases of chair design. Reaching out to embrace new synthetic disciplines such as art history\, cinema\, economics\, medicine and ergonomics\, these architects engendered an uncanny disappearance--the chair as a figure or form is effaced\, leaving behind instead an after-image of what we now refer to as "the man-machine system." John Harwood is a professor of Art History at Oberlin college\, where he specializes in modern and contemporary architectural history. Harwood's research centers on the relationships between science\, technology\, corporate organization and their architectural articulation. His articles have appeared in Grey Room\, do.co.mo.mo\, and The Ganzfeld. He is co-author\, with Janet Parks\, of The Troubled Search: The Work of Max Abramovitz (2004). His essays also appear in exhibition catalogues for the Venice Biennale Architecture 2008 and the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 (2008). He is currently completing a book - The Redesign of Design: Computer\, Architect\, Corporation - on the spatial and temporal aspects of computing technology\, ergonomics\, and corporate architecture. Prof. Harwood's visit is hosted by the Design\, Architecture\, and Culture Group of Quadrant\, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study. Quadrant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767741/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767741/ DTSTAMP:20091021T131726 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T131726 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091130T173000 DTEND:20091130T190000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount": A presentation by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767745/ ] Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning\, Technion\, Israel Institute of Technology. She studies post-WWII architectural culture\, particularly in Israel and the US\, and focuses her research on cross-cultural contexts in light of recent thought in the fields of nationalism\, Orientalism and post-colonialism. She holds a Ph.D. and an S.M.Arch.S from MIT\, a B.Arch cum laude from the Technion\, and was recently the Mary Davis and the Kress Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery. She was a Lady Davis Fellow at the Technion\, and received grants from the trusts of Arthur Goldreich (Bezalel) William Sandberg (Israel Museum)\, and the Aga Khan Program (MIT and Harvard). Her publications appeared in Architectural History\, Theory and Criticism\, Harvard Design Magazine\, Jama'a\, and Thresholds as well as in edited volumes such as The End of Tradition. She currently works on "Israelizing Jerusalem: the Politics of Architecture and Beauty in a Contested City" and on I.M. Pei's East Building\, the subject of an exhibition she co-curated at the National Gallery. Additional cosponsorship provided by the IAS collaborative Identity in the Mediterranean World: From the Middle Ages to Today. Prof. Nitzan-Shiftan's visit is hosted by the Design\, Architecture\, and Culture Group of Quadrant\, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study. Quadrant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767745/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767745/ DTSTAMP:20091021T132000 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T132000 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091203T160000 DTEND:20091203T173000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge" DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767750/ ] Tucked below the street level and parkways in south Minneapolis and the Highland neighborhood of St. Paul\, the Mississippi River Gorge is\, literally\, often overlooked. Located between the Minnesota/Mississippi River confluence and the Falls of St. Anthony\, this reach of the river lacks the drama and evident historical significance of those spots. But it is beautiful\, a regional recreational asset\, is the only true gorge on the entire Mississippi River\, and may hold the key to a future sustainable relationship with the urban river. Come and hear a panel of scientists\, artists\, historians\, and community advocates speak about how their imagined futures for the gorge speak more broadly to our relationship with the river. Christine Baeumler\, Associate professor\, Department of Art and Art History Mona Smith\, media artist\, Allies: media/art Scott Vreeland\, Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Chris Lenhart\, Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering\, research leader of a McKnight funded study of the potential ecological restoration of the gorge Pat Nunnally\, River Life program\, Institute on the Environment\, speaking as a historian and moderator of the event Organized by The Telling River Stories project\, part of the University of Minnesota's River Life Program. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767750/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767750/ DTSTAMP:20091021T132501 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T132501 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20091211T153000 DTEND:20091211T170000 GEO:-93.2339;44.9772 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:"Embodying Gilgamesh: BIOMECHANICS\, the Physical Actor Training Method": A lecture and demonstration by Vladimir Rovinsky DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767835/ ] Biomechanics is the system of actor training developed by legendary Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s as the study of the body in motion. The method was created by Meyerhold as an alternative to Konstantin Stanislavsky's system\, which was predicated on the style of realism. Meyerhold's directorial style utilized grotesque\, expressionistic models and decidedly non-realistic artistic approaches. Biomechanics was designed by him to train actors for this kind of work\, however\, it works also as a tool for focusing physical energy and thus is useful to an actor preparing for work in any theatrical language. The Embodying Gilgamesh Research Collaborative is studying Biomechanics as well as several other physical approaches to acting as a way of creating new methods for staging "ancientness". The fruits of this study will be applied toward the premiere of a new play based on the epic of Gilgamesh and presented by Theatre Novi Most in September 2010. This public sharing will include a brief lecture about Meyerhold and the method he created\, slides and video of his company from the 20s and 30s in Russia and a live demonstration by Mr. Rovinsky and members of Theatre Novi Most who are training in the method. Mr. Rovinsky trained in Biomechanics with Alexei Levinsky who trained with Nicolai Kustov\, Meyerhold's assistant. He recently directed The Lucky Event by Slawomir Mrozek at The Theatre Commediens in St. Petersburg (2000) and appeared in his own creation\, Jasper Johns with Skewed Vision Theatre in 2008. Vladimir is also co-founder of Theatre Novi Most for which he has directed or performed in four world premieres. He most recently played Mayakovsky in the Theatre Novi Most production\, M2. URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767835/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4767835/ DTSTAMP:20091021T150720 LAST-MODIFIED:20091021T150720 CATEGORIES:Performing/Visual Arts ORGANIZER;CN=UMN Institute for Advanced Study:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/161506/ LOCATION;ALTREP="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/85081/":Nolte Center 125\, University of Minnesota @ 315 Pillsbury Drive SE\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota 55455 US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR