Join us for IAS Thursday afternoon this spring. A series of public events designed to inspire, inspire and educate.
We’ll kick off the semester with a (rescheduled!) event to celebrate IAS’s longtime Director, Jennifer Gunn, and welcome Bianet Castellanos, IAS’s new Director. Together they will discuss the future of interdisciplinary collaboration and the critical role of public engagement and community partnerships in our work, then join Jennifer in a reception to toast her eight years of leadership Please give me.
The Spring 2023 series will delve deep into the archives, offer new ways of thinking about today’s issues, and provide tactical takeaways we can all use to advance our work on organizational change. To preview just a few, a panel discussion (discussing multiple pioneering and research projects) focused on issues of archive access and absence from the context of indigenous studies, and a new freedom taking place both inside and outside the world A conversation that traces the politics of isms, racism, and gender. WNBA. Introduction to Trans* Ecology (as part of the Queer and Trans* Ecology Symposium). Significant Roundtable on Developing Creative Approaches to Administrative Equity at the University (co-sponsored with Minnesota Transform) as part of a larger effort to establish “the right relationship” between the University and her BIPOC community ).
The event is free and open to the public. All events are available online via Zoom, but most are also offered in a hybrid format. Join Northrop in person at the Best Buy Theater. All events will take place at 3:30 PM (CT) with an audience Q&A. Details for each event, including registration details, can be found at the links below. In addition to this series of major events, we are pleased to co-host a wide range of additional events, supported by research and creative collaborations. A complete schedule of events can be found in the event calendar. Sign up for news/updates/opportunities via the IAS newsletter.
Interdisciplinary Present and Future: A Conversation with Jennifer Gunn and Vianette Castellanos
Thursday, February 2, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Jennifer Gunn: Director of Institute for Advanced Study (2014-2022)
Vianette Castellanos: Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (2022-Present)
Joining the Institute for Advanced Study, we celebrate Jennifer Gunn, who directed the IAS from 2014 to 2022, and welcome our new Director, Vianette Castellanos. How is cross-disciplinary collaboration changing? We look forward to how we can help you build. Then reception.
Register now
Shipping Containers: How Lyric Poetry Enters Commerce and Protects People
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Stephen Bart: Professor of English at Harvard University
Shipping containers represent industry, engineering, and capital, protecting their contents while participating in both the vital exchanges and toxic commerce that create our modern world. It gives useful numbers of how to: how to protect individual content, how to move it around, and, above all, to find means and ends that the original creators could not have foreseen. It’s a way to make moving structures reusable. In partnership with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Minnesota, Edelstein Keller Guest Writer Series.
Register now
Spotlight Series | Bodystorming: Scientific Modeling and Artmaking in Cancer Research
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Karl Frink: Dance Director & Nadine Jette Sween University of Minnesota Dance Professor & Black Label Movement Artistic Director
David Odd: Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Moderated by Michael Corey: Geospatial, technical and data leads, mapping bias
In one of the most unexpected partnerships, the Black Label Movement’s Carl Flink and David Odde’s biomedical engineering lab is using dance to bring deeper insights into patients, caregivers, clinicians, humanity, and cancer research. We have created a method of Bodystorming that brings cooperation. Join Bodystorming to learn about decades of collaboration.
Register now
Aboriginal Stories from the Archives
Thursday, February 23, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Online
Jeremy M. Kearns: University of Central Florida Postdoctoral Fellow
Laura M. Furlan: Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Becca Garken: Morse Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English and Native American Studies, University of Minnesota Morris
Darren Edward Lawn Fight: Member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota (MHA Nation), Assistant Professor of American Studies at Dickinson University
Archives hold countless stories through primary and artificial sources that can reproduce or disrupt the dominant narrative. Archive research must consider issues of access and absence. This is a particularly important consideration in the context of indigenous studies. Speakers will discuss projects focused on US boarding schools, ledgers of the plains, seemingly non-literary texts, and archival revitalization in contemporary indigenous art. Published in partnership with the Mellon Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative.
Register now
Spotlight Series | Visualizing the Human with Data: Cell-to-System Nursing Science
Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Lisiane Pruinelli, PhD, MS, RN, FAMIA: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing and University of Florida School of Medicine
Dr. Mary O. Whipple, RN, PHN: Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Minnesota
Moderated by Michael Corey: Geospatial, technical and data leads, mapping bias
Nursing often conjures up mental images of caring relationships with patients, but nursing practice is also based on a vast amount of empirical evidence. In this discussion, faculty from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing share how collecting patient data can help change the way healthcare is delivered.
Register now
Cross-environment humanities now!
Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Mel Y. Chen: Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Michelle Murphy: Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies; Research Chair of Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice at the University of Toronto and Canada
Moderated by Aren Z. Aizura: Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Join two leading scholars on the cutting edge of environmental humanities to discuss cross-cutting and transnational approaches to ecological work. This introduction to Trans* Ecology encourages us to fight gender, sexuality, race, colonialism and disability as we tackle technology, ecological devastation and the climate crisis. Announced in partnership with A multidisciplinary initiative in queer and trans* ecology as part of the three-day Queer and Trans* Ecology Symposium, March 23-25, 2023.
Register now
Spotlight Series | Big Data and the Human Experience of the Developing Brain
Thursday, April 6, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
Sonri Bus: Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Mark Ficus: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Moderated by Michael Corey: Geospatial, technical and data leads, mapping bias
Professors Saonli Basu and Mark Fiecas, researchers at the Masonic Institute for Brain Development, explore the role of big data in brain research and how to understand the human experience from infancy, through adolescence and into adulthood. in layman’s terms about how big data informs. .
Register now
What to Do When You Can’t: An Innovative Approach to Dealing with Government Fraud
Thursday, April 20, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Hybrid
In this roundtable with Minnesota Transform Faculty Leads and Partners, we discuss creative approaches to developing administrative equity in universities. We believe that the financial system, employment, billing and other day-to-day operations are at the heart of the mistrust, injustice, marginalization and exclusion that universities can create, and that these processes need to be rethought. increase. We discuss challenges, share solutions, and prioritize racial and indigenous justice in community engagement projects (getting the university “on the right track” with his BIPOC community). Consider how you can change the basic system of itself. Announced in partnership with Minnesota Transform as part of the Just Futures Showcase series of events April 17-21, 2023.
Register now
WNBA: Sport as Spectacle and Sports Politics
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 3:30 PM CT | Online
Mary G. McDonald: Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society, ADVANCE Professor, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech
WNBA players have received media attention for their off-court activism, including combating police brutality, institutional racism and gun violence. Going back to the League’s founding in 1997, this dialogue traces neoliberalism, racism, and gender politics at work, revealing contested areas of gender and race relations. Ask how sports can help
Register now
#
