THE DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, and SOCIETY is hosting a talk titled "Augmented and Bare Reality: An Art Practice" by Rebecca Krinke in Blegen Hall 445 beginning at 3:30 on Friday, October 31st.
Rebecca Krinke has a multidisciplinary artistic practice that works across sculpture, installation, public art, site design, and social practice. In broad terms, all of her work deals with issues related to place and emotion. For her geography coffee hour talk, she will focus on two of her projects: Unseen/Seen: The Mapping of Joy and Pain and new plans for it to go online; and Unknown/Known, part of "Broadway Augmented", a temporary public art project now on view on Broadway Street in Sacramento.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Legal History Workshop, Jennifer Gunn
A LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP titled "Rural Tuberculosis, Native Americans, and the Patchwork Provision for Public Health in the United States, 1929-1945" by Jennifer Gunn is being offered this Friday, October 31st from 12:15 pm-1:15 pm in Room 339 of the Law School. Click Gunn.doc for more information.
Co-editor Professor Kevin Murphy RHR issue published
The RHR Issue on Queering archives which was co-edited by Professor Kevin Murphy was just published.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Department of Geography, Environment, and Society Coffe Hour
The Department of Geography, Environment, and Society is hosting a coffee hour on Friday, October 24th at 3:30 pm in Blegen Hall 445. The talk will be given by St. Olaf professor Eric Fure-Slocum and titled "Negotiating the City: Labor and Working-Class Politics in 1940s Industrial America".
Abstract
Milwaukee in the 1940s was a labor city. Unions held and exerted power. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) pursued an ambitious agenda, both inside and outside the city's workplaces. This talk focuses on contests over housing and leisure in order to investigate the possibilities and shortcomings, especially regarding race, of the CIO's egalitarian vision for the city. This working-class politics developed in contention with conservatism and an increasingly influential growth politics. The presentation, building on my book Contesting the Postwar City (Cambridge University Press, 2013), poses two questions. First, how did organized labor respond to workers' experiences in the industrial city when crafting a distinctive midcentury working-class political culture? Second, how did the urban perspective of this working-class political culture both foster an expansive midcentury labor movement and then limit labor's ability to adapt to the changing spatial and social conditions of postwar metropolitan America?
Abstract
Milwaukee in the 1940s was a labor city. Unions held and exerted power. The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) pursued an ambitious agenda, both inside and outside the city's workplaces. This talk focuses on contests over housing and leisure in order to investigate the possibilities and shortcomings, especially regarding race, of the CIO's egalitarian vision for the city. This working-class politics developed in contention with conservatism and an increasingly influential growth politics. The presentation, building on my book Contesting the Postwar City (Cambridge University Press, 2013), poses two questions. First, how did organized labor respond to workers' experiences in the industrial city when crafting a distinctive midcentury working-class political culture? Second, how did the urban perspective of this working-class political culture both foster an expansive midcentury labor movement and then limit labor's ability to adapt to the changing spatial and social conditions of postwar metropolitan America?
UC-Irvine Call for Papers for Trans-Scripts
THE UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA- IRVINE is accepting papers for "Trans-Scripts", the interdisciplinary journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at their university with the theme "Race/Gender Revisited." Click Trans-Scripts CFP 2014-15.docx for more information.
UCLA "Thinking Gender 2015" Call for Papers
THE UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA- LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN is accepting proposals for their 25th annual Graduate Student Research Conference "Thinking Gender 2015". Click here for more information
The Center for Jewish Studies Jerome Joss Graduate Student Research Grant
THE CENTER for JEWISH STUDIES is accepting applications for the 2014 Jerome Joss Graduate Student Research Grant. Students must be working in some specific area of academic Jewish Studies. ClickJoss Flier Final.pdf for more information
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