THE STEVEN J. SCHOCHET ENDOWMENT
for GLBT studies is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the creation
of new courses in queer, gender, and sexuality studies, or for significant
enhancement of existing courses in these fields. Applications are due by
Tuesday, May 7. For more information, click here.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Afro Infinity: Creative Resistance in Black Student Life
THE AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDIES is pleased to announce its call for presentations for the student
symposium entitled Afro Infinity: Creative Resistance in Black Student Life on
Friday, September 27 from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM at the University of Minnesota.
This symposium is part of the 50th anniversary celebration.
Submissions are due by Monday, July 1. For more information, click here.
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residency
Faculty,
Staff, and Community Members can Apply for A Hub Residency
Announced
in this week’s From The Dean’s Desk, The Liberal
Arts Engagement Hub
(The Hub) is an outgrowth of the college’s Roadmap and is a vehicle to deepen
our culture of engagement with the community. It will be housed in a newly
renovated Pillsbury Hall, which will open to the public in fall of 2021. In
preparation for the Hub’s launch, CLA is launching a pilot space in Nolte
Center during the 2019-20 academic year. All CLA faculty, staff, and community
members are eligible for the residency and encouraged to apply. Successful
applicants will gain use of a dedicated space in Nolte and can request up to
$15,000 to help implement their initiative. Applications are due by Friday, May
15. Contact Amelious Whyte, CLA Director of
Public Engagement with questions.
Northern Spark - American Indian Culture Corridor Volunteers
NORTHERN SPARK is recruiting
volunteers to assist with their annual late-night arts festival on June 14-15
taking place on the American Indian Cultural Corridor (AICC), The Commons, and
the Rondo neighborhood. Students in the Department of American Indian Studies
are invited to volunteer in the AICC. Please sign up by Monday, May 20. For
more information, click here. To volunteer, click here.
Minnesota Urban Debate League - Spanish Debate Judges
THE MINNESOTA URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE
is looking for Spanish debate judges for Wednesday, May 8 from 3:30 PM – 7:00
PM at Highland Park Senior HS. Judges must be fluent in Spanish, but no
experience in debate or judging is required. For more information and to sign
up to judge, click here.
Universities and the Politics of Memory: A Roundtable Conversation
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT AND THE
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT are hosting Universities and the Politics of
Memory: A Roundtable Conversation on Wednesday, May 8 from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in
Heller Hall, Room 1210. For more information, click here.
Cherríe Moraga
RAIN TAXI is hosting Cherríe
Moraga on Thursday, May 2 at 7:00 PM in the Mission Room at The Hook &
Ladder Theater. For more information, click here.
"Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, and Extractive Nostalgias" - Max Haiven / "Desperate Holdings Real Estate & Landmind Spa"
THE RIGS INITIATIVE is hosting a
2-part series on Debt, Indebtedness, Inequality, and Resistance on
May 1-2. Max Haiven will present
“Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, and Extractive Nostalgias” on
Wednesday, May 1 from 3:30 PM –
5:00 PM in the Carlson School of Management, Room L114. For
more information, click here. There will be an artist talk
with Cassie Thorton on “Desperate Holdings Real
Estate & Landmind Spa” on
Thursday, May 2 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM in Walter Library, Room 402. For more
information, click here.
Christine Bachman-Sanders - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Christine
Bachman-Sanders who received the 2019-2020 University of Minnesota’s Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship!
Scott Hall Research Day
Scott Hall research day is on
Wednesday, May 8 from 9:30 AM – 3:05 PM in Scott Hall 105. For more
information, click here.
RIGS Spring Celebration
THE RIGS INITIATIVE is hosting
their Spring Celebration for their graduating students, the end of the spring
semester, and Karen Ho for her two years as Director on Friday, May 3 from 3:30
PM – 5:00 PM in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Wilkins Room 215. For
more information, click here. To RSVP, click here.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
AMST 8920 Personal narratives in Interdisciplinary Research
THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES is offering AMST 8920 Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Researchthis Fall 2019. This course is taught by Jennifer L. Pierce and will meet on Wednesdays from 1:25 PM to 3;20 PM. This course examines epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions related to research analyzing personal narrative sources such as oral histories, in-depth interviews, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and letters. For more information, see below.
American Studies 8920 (Fall 2019) Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research
Jennifer L. Pierce, Professor of American Studies
Wednesdays, 1:25 to 3:20 p.m.
Course Description: This course examines epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions related to research analyzing personal narrative sources such as oral histories, in-depth interviews, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and letters. As narrative constructions about selves, these sources can provide unique insights into subjectivity, meaning, emotion, and desire that other kinds of social science and historical evidence cannot. The evidence presented in personal narratives is unabashedly subjective and its narrative logic presents a story of an individual subject changing and developing over time. Their analyses can provide important insights into the history of the self and its variations at the same time that they have the potential to enrich theories of human agency and social practices. Analyses of personal narratives can also illuminate historical, cultural, and social dimensions. In this light, personal narratives are never solely individual.
We begin by reading about epistemological, theoretical, and methodological issues related to personal narrative analysis in work by literary scholars, historians, and social scientists. The next section focuses on a number of studies analyzing personal narratives drawing from different kinds of sources such as oral histories, memoir, letters, and diaries in fields such as American studies, feminist studies, ethnic studies, history, anthropology, and sociology. In the final section, we consider hybrid forms of personal narrative analysis, the difficulties researchers encounter when they find “ephemeral traces of subjectivity,” and the politics and ethics of conducting personal narrative research.
Some of the books may include: G. Thomas Couser, Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing; Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Stories: A Carolina Memoir; Saidiya Hartmann, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route; Martin F. Manalansen IV, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora; Sharon Luk, The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity; Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of a Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom; Aren Aizura, Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment; and Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Leslie Schwartz - The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY is hosting Leslie Schwartz on Wednesday, April 24 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM at the Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 2ndFloor for discussion on her book “The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time.” For more information on this event and others, see below.
Hennepin County Library is offering a series of free programs that focus on addiction, criminal justice, and incarceration.
Upcoming programs at the Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 2nd floor, include:
Wednesday, April 24, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Leslie Schwartz, author of The Lost Chapters: Finding Recovery and Renewal One Book at a Time
Register online at https://hclib.bibliocommons.
We also will be offering a criminal justice film series in the fall.
Thursday, October 3, 7-9 p.m.
True Conviction film screening and conversation with Jamie Meltzier and Christopher Scott
Thursday, October 10, 7-9 p.m.
The Stairs film screening and conversation with Hugh Gibson
Thursday, October 17 , 7-9 p.m.
Milwaukee 53206 film screening and conversation with Keith McQuirter and Dennis Walton
Thursday, October 24, 7-9 p.m.
Tribal Justice film screening and conversation with Anne Makepeace and judges Claudette White and Abby Abinanti
Registration for the film series will begin on the library’s website - www.hclib.org - in September.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
3rd Annual Dakhóta Omníčiye - Keep Moving Foward
"On May 4th of 1863, Dakhóta people who had been imprisoned at a concentration camp below Fort Snelling at Bdóte were taken by steamboat and exiled from Mnísota Makhóčhe. To mark our return & assert our continued presence on this sacred land where the rivers meet, we invite all Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Oyáte to return home, unify in peace, and share community knowledge, teachings, and stories with one another."
Phidáuŋyayapi ye/do!
All are welcome to the
3rd annual Dakhóta Omníčiye
May 2nd-4th, 2019
Flyer by Marlena Myles
FAQ's
Why am I being contacted? To mark your calendar! If you wish to present fill out the call for presenters by April 5th, 2019. Please share this with your contacts and listservs.
Cost? Free
Where? Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote: 200 Tower Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55111
Who can participate? Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
When will the daily itinerary be available? ASAP-forthcoming
How can I help? If you would like to volunteer please contact me.
Who is sponsoring this? Minnesota State Historical Society
Are meals provided? Yes on a first come first serve basis
Thank you for all the work you do, and I look forward to seeing you and yours on May 2nd - 5th. I hope you can return this year or come for the first time to support amazing Indigenous people to reflect upon what 'keep moving onward' means to you along with the communities they serve.
Gaye Theresa Johnson - "The Future of Radical History: Democracy, Love and the Metaphor of Two Worlds"
The Department of American Studies would like to invite you to join us for The Annual David Noble Lecture.
David Noble was an American studies professor at the University of Minnesota who retired in 2009 after 50 years of teaching. Noble made substantial contributions to American studies. Each spring, we present the annual David Noble Lecture in his honor, which features a groundbreaking scholar of American studies who offer fresh perspectives on our history and culture.
Our guest speaker this year is University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Alumna, Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson, presenting "The Future of Radical History: Democracy, Love and the Metaphor of Two Worlds."
Assistant Professor Gaye Theresa Johnson, Ph.D. writes and teaches on race and racism, cultural history, spatial politics, and political economy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her first book, "Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles" (University of California Press) is a history of civil rights and spatial struggles among Black and Brown freedom seekers and cultural workers in LA. Johnson’s current work includes an edited volume on "The Futures of Black Radicalism," co-edited with Alex Lubin, and a single-authored book currently titled "These Walls Will Fall: Protest at the Intersection of Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration." In it, she demonstrates how visual and aural protest art constitutes one of the most significant discourses of resistance to 20th and 21st century anti-immigrant and pro-carceral policy and practices, revealing how expressive cultures enact an alternative narrative history about migration, race, and power.
Johnson has also contributed journal articles and book chapters to historical, cultural studies, and ethnic studies volumes. She has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, as well as at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is active with the Los Angeles Community Action Network’s struggle for housing and civil rights on LA’s skid row and is the 2013 recipient of the Freedom Now! Award for her efforts. She is a member of the board of directors for the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and an advisory board member for the Rosenberg Fund for Children.
The event is on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, from 7-9 PM in Walter Library Room 402 and will be live streamed at https://umn.zoom.us/j/
PARKING:
Weisman Art Museum Garage
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN, 55455
East River Road Garage
385 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN, 55455
Church Street Garage
80 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55455
ACCESSIBILITY:
Exterior access via power door west side, and entrance on first floor.
Tunnel access via northeast side in basement connected to Johnston, and southeast side in basement connected to Smith.
Elevator.
Adapted restrooms.
For more information please email American Studies at amstdy@umn.edu
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The Indian System - Film Screening
THE DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES is hosting a film screening of The Indian System followed by a conversation with the producer Sheldon Wolfchild on Thursday, March 28 at 5:30 PM in Rapson Hall Room 100. For more information, click here.
Critical Conversation Series: "Critical Latinx Indigeneities: Understanding Emerging Frameworks of Indigenous Futurity within Latinized Entanglements"
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES are hosting Critical Conversation Series: “Critical Latinx Indigeneities: Understanding Emerging Frameworks of Indigenous Futurity within Latinized Entanglements” with Dr. Luis Urrieta on Monday, March 11 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM in Walter Library Room 402. For more information, click here.
AFRO 50 Teach-In 101: Understanding Our Legacy
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN & AFRICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT is hosting AFRO 50 Black Studies and Protest at the University of Minnesota and Beyond. The year-long reception of this milestone starts with Teach-In 101: Understanding Our Legacy with Dr. Horace Huntley on Monday, February 25 from 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM in the Great Hall of Coffman Memorial Union. For more information, click here.
"No human being is illegal": Polarized Theatre of the Oppressed with Asylum Seekers and Israeli Citizens
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES is hosting “’No human being is illegal”: Polarized Theatre of the Oppressed with Asylum Seekers and Israeli Citizens on Friday, February 22 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM in Northrop Auditorium Room 240 (Ellie and Tom Crosby Seminar Room). For more information, click here.
Critical Conversation Series: "Latina Immigrant Youth Fighting for their Education in Times of Deportation"
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES AND EL COLEGIO HIGH SCHOOL are hosting Critical Conversation Series: “Latina Immigrant Youth Fighting for their Education in Times of Deportation” on Tuesday, February 19 from 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM in Bruininks Hall Room 117. For more information, click here.
Narrative Health: Utilizing Story in Healthcare and Health Professionals Education
THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE STUDIES is hosting Narrative Health: Utilizing Story in Healthcare and Health Professionals Education on Wednesday, February 13 from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Folwell Hall Room 108. For more information, click here.
AFRO 50 Teach-In 101: Understanding Our Legacy
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Join the Department of African American & African Studies (AA&AS) in celebrating its 50th anniversary the past, present and future of Black protest, activism and community uplift. We will kick-off our year-long series of teach-ins with a symposium featuring Dr. Horace Huntley, the catalyst behind the 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover at the University of Minnesota.
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