Honors-CLA List-Serv April 18,
2008
Before A Departure in Spring
Once more it is April with the
first light sifting
through the young leaves heavy with dew
making the colors
remember who they are the new pink of the cinnamon tree
the gilded lichens of the bamboo the
shadowed bronze
of the kamani and the blue day opening
as the sunlight descends through it all
like the return
of a spirit touching without touch and unable
to believe it is here and here again and
awake
reaching out in silence into the cool breath
of the garden just risen from darkness and
days of rain
it is only a moment the birds fly through it calling
to each other and are gone with their few
notes and the flash
of their flight that had vanished before we ever knew it
we watch without touching any of it and we
can tell ourselves only that this is April this is the morning
this never happened before and we both
remember it
--W. S. Merwin
In this edition:
Honors news
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Experiential event Thursday (last one of the term)
College news
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Reminder: dance technique placement auditions are Tuesday
University news
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Reminder: auditions for women's a capella
group Sunday and Tuesday
*
Tuesday: Community Engagement Day
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Tuesday: Smart Commons workshop--Writing for
presentations
*
End-of-term podcasts from U Counseling & Consulting Services
Hot courses
*
May term course: Tolkien/medieval/modern literature
*
Summer course: Creative writing "short forms" class
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Summer course: Electronic media production on Communication Studies
Learning abroad
*
So where are you going next year?
Research
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NASA-funded study seeks summer research assistants
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Psychology and law research program for undergrads at U of Nebraska-Lincoln
Graduate/Professional programs
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Humphrey Institute info session Thursday
Internships/Jobs
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Job at U Student Parent Help
Center
*
Jobs at Kaplan
*
Internships at the Fringe Festival
Special opportunities
*
Dining out for life is Thursday: be ambassador or just get out and eat
*
Get creative: the Minnesota Cup award for innovative business ideas
Lively links
* Reading Herodotus
Events
*
Now playing: the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
*
BFA/Acting Seniors: still acting (through April 27)
*
Coming up at the Institute for Advanced Study
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At the bookstore this week
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Today: dance faculty discuss "The Aestheticization
of Violence"
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Today/tomorrow: queereographers evening at the Barker
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Saturday: writer Peg Kerr at Rivendell discussion
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Monday: Creativity and medicine talk
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Thursday: Medieval Studies colloquium on 12th century French romance sexuality
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Thursday: free screening of new film, Dark Matter
* Thursday: conversation with women authors writing about their
mothers
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Thursday/next Friday: Center for Bioethics events
*
Thursday/next Sunday: Seeing climate change film/video festival
*
Thursday/next Sunday: Student Dance Coalition presents "Kinetic
Spectrum"
*
Next Friday: Institute for Global Studies Speaker
*
Next Friday: Ivory Tower launch party
*
Next Friday-Sunday: The Galileo Project at Rarig
Honors news
EXPERIENTIAL
EVENT Thursday (LAST ONE OF THE TERM)
Thursday,
4 pm, 125 Nolte "Emergent Difference: How to avoid the nature/nurture trap
while maintaining respect for the sciences of biology, psychology, sociology,
history and anthropology and etcetera" Thursdays at Four presentation by
Anne Fausto-Sterling. For more information about
Honors experiential events, see http://www.cla.umn.edu/honors/expfaq2.htm.
College news
REMINDER:
DANCE TECHNIQUE PLACEMENT AUDITIONS ARE TUESDAY
For
students seeking technique placement to enroll in Modern, Ballet and Jazz
courses for Fall 2008. Additional information online at http://dance.umn.edu/auditions.php
.
University news
REMINDER: AUDITIONS FOR WOMEN'S A
CAPELLA GROUP SUNDAY & TUESDAY
The Enchantments, The U of M's All
Women A Capella group, is
having auditions for the 2008-2009 school year new members! The auditions will
be held on Sunday April 20 (7 pm, 319 Coffman) and Tuesday April 22 (4:30
pm, Terrace Room, Middlebrook Hall). Please come
prepared with a one minute a capella
selection from a contemporary song that shows off your voice. The only
requirement to be in the group is that you are available Thursdays from 6-8
pm and Sundays from 7-9 pm next year for rehearsals. If
you are interested in auditioning but can't come to the audition times or if
you have any other questions contact Kelsey at dahlq048@umn.edu.
TUESDAY: PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT DAY
Tuesday, 8
am- 6 pm (stop by anytime), Coffman Memorial Union Great Hall. Stop by the
U of M's 2nd annual Public Engagement Day! It's a full day of free events, and
you can take part in as many as you'd like. Learn more at http://www.engagement.umn.edu/.
At the end of the day (4- 6 pm), come by the Great
Hall for the Open House Celebration of Community-University Partnerships. It's
sponsored by the Career and Community
Learning Center,
and everyone is welcome to attend.
TUESDAY: SMART COMMONS WORKSHOP, WRITING FOR
PRESENTATIONS
Tuesday, 2-3:30 pm, 81 Magrath Library (St.
Paul campus). This workshop will focus on writing
and preparing for oral presentations. How do you get started? Once you have
collected all relevant information, how do you get organized? How can you most
effectively and efficiently present the information? What about working and presenting
with a group? How does this change the process? What are the characteristics of
a “good” presentation? Visual aids, such as PowerPoint will also be discussed.
Please RSVP to Hannah Julien (julie006@umn.edu) if
you plan to attend.
END OF TERM
PODCASTS FROM U COUNSELING & CONSULTING SERVICES
University Counseling and Consulting Services is
excited to announce a new series of podcasts for students to help effectively
manage end-of-the-semester challenges such as stress and communicating with
professors; as well as, preparations for successful 're-entry' home from
college. Podcasts include: End of Semester "Re-Entry," Mindful
Walking, The Importance of Relaxation, Learning Styles, Assertive
Communication. While looking at these selections, you may also consider
podcasts previously recorded on topics such as Procrastination, Preparing for
Finals, Active Learning strategies, Conflict Resolution, .and more. Take a
minute or two to download some effective tips and strategies at www.osa.umn.edu/podcasts/.
Hot courses
MAY TERM: TOLKIEN &
MEDIEVAL/MODERN LITERATURE
May term course: Engl
3020 (9:05-1:10, Monday-Thursday, May 27-June 12), Sharin
Shroeder, instructor. Description: Tolkien’s
fantastic trilogy has generally been seen in two ways: as a throwback medievalized (and possibly juvenilized)
romance or as the forerunner of modern fantasy. Few critics, however, have
examined Tolkien’s work in light of the Modern literary works written at the
time of The Lord of the Rings’s genesis.
Since Tolkien studied Old and Middle English and claimed a dislike of most
modern literature, this neglect is hardly surprising. When examining the role
of the artist, the purpose of literature, and the response to war, however, surprising
commonalities emerge between Tolkien’s work and canonical Modernist texts. In
this course, we will study Tolkien’s Lord of the
Rings in two contexts: that of Modernism and that of Medievalism. We will note
The Lord of the Rings’s roots in
Beowulf and other Northern mythologies, but we will also examine its points of
comparison with the literary work of T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Virginia
Woolf.
SUMMER: CREATIVE WRITING "SHORT
FORMS" CLASS
June 16-July 11, 3 credits, MTWT
10:10-1:30. Short forms: prose poetry, flash fiction, and brief essay. In this
course students will have the opportunity to write and workshop in three
popular subgenres: prose poetry, flash fiction, and the brief essay. As we
write, we will ask questions like: what is flash fiction? What are the
differences between a prose poem and a brief essay? We will approach the
answers to these questions by trying to determine how short forms satisfy and
subvert the conventions of their genre(s). Drawing on contemporary writing in
short form, as well as articles, interviews, and essays, we will start to shape
our own working definitions of each subgenre. During class, we will experiment
with a number of divergent prompts and exercises to better understand how
various authors generate, edit, and compose shorts. Students will compile a
portfolio of their own creative work as a final project for the course. Questions? Email Thomas Cook at cook0256@umn.edu.
SUMMER: ELECTRONIC MEDIA PRODUCTION
This summer the Communication Studies department is
offering one section of Comm 3201: Electronic Media
Production. This is an in-studio production course that is in high demand
during the regular school year. It's also a prereq
for our advanced production course, Comm 3204.
In this class, you will learn the fundamental techniques of in-studio,
live-on-tape video production, to write as a part of a production team, the
communicative aspects of visual and aural aesthetics, and to write critical
analyses of visual media. It's also a lot of fun! In the coming semesters,
we plan to offer a course on producing for television. This course will
have 3201 and 3204 as a prerequisite. This means if you are interested in
that course, you need to have taken them both by Spring 09, so taking 3201 this
summer and 3204 this fall will have you right on track. There is no
prerequisite for Comm 3201. The class meets 9:05
A.M. to 01:10 P.M. Mon-Thurs, June 16 to July 11. The onestop
registration number is 89636. Enroll now, so you don't miss out!
Learning abroad
SO WHERE ARE YOU GOING NEXT YEAR?
If you have not yet attended a First Step meeting at
the Learning Abroad Center
to plan a trip for study, internship, or volunteer experience, you can still do
so this term. See the schedule of meetings at: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/academic/FirstStepSchedule.html.
Research
NASA-FUNDED
STUDY SEEK SUMMER RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Research
assistants needed for the summer and possibly continuing into Fall semester
2008 to work on a NASA-funded study comparing the effectiveness of different U.
S. and Russian cooling garments worn by astronauts/cosmonauts during space
walks. The psychological focus is on the assessment of subjective
perception of comfort and thermal status while subjects are engaged in
intensive exercise on a treadmill; other activities focus on coding an array of
physiological temperature and other data. Students would have the option of
working as a volunteer or receiving academic credit for Directed
Research. Please check out our lab website at http://physiology.med.umn.edu/hpee. Potential
assistants need to have some background in Excel and other data coding/analysis
programs, and preferably, a background or interest in psychophysiological
processes. For further information, please send an e-mail to Professor Gloria
Leon in the Department of Psychology at leonx003@umn.edu,
briefly indicating your academic background and interest.
PSYCHOLOGY & LAW RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR UNDERGRADS
AT U OF NEBRASKA
Check out this exciting program at
the University of Nebraska/Lincoln for undergraduate psychology
students! This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program brings
8 to 10 undergraduate students to UNL to study law and psychology in our
program for a full year. Students accepted into the REU program at UNL
will have achieved a sophomore standing by the time that they are admitted and
have at least a B average in their undergraduate programs. Students are
provided with room and board for 1 year, along with a stipend for working in
our law and psychology research laboratories. They spend time working with our
joint law and psychology doctoral (JD/PhD and MLS/Ph.D.)
students. Our faculty will mentor these undergraduate students, helping
them gain valuable experience to assist in preparing them for graduate school
in psychology. The program description and application materials are available
on the following website: www.unl.edu/psychlawreu/. As the
website states, we will begin selecting REU students in mid-May. We will
continue accepting applications until all slots are filled. Students who
apply early will have an advantage in this competitive selection process.
Graduate/Professional
programs
THURSDAY: HUMPHREY INSTITUTE GRAD
PROGRAM INFO SESSION
Thursday, noon-1:30 pm, 205 Humphrey.
The Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs offers an information session on its
graduate programs in Public Policy (MPP) and Urban and Regional Planning
(MURP). Beverages and pizza will be served. Faculty and current students will
speak briefly about each of our degree programs and will also be available to
answer questions. Space is limited, so please RSVP to: HHHadmit@umn.edu or via
phone at 612.626.7229. You
can also RSVP online at http://www2.hhh.umn.edu/forms/admissions_infosessions.html.
Internships/Jobs
JOB AT U STUDENT PARENT HELP
CENTER
The Student Parent HELP
Center has an excellent
employment opportunity for a responsible undergraduate student. We would prefer
a student with career interests/major in family social
science/social work, psych or child psychology, sociology, GWSS, or
related field. The SPHC serves undergraduates at the U of M who are
pregnant or currently parenting children through their academic
degree. This is a position that provides fairly high level, professional
experience for those interested in the helping professions or those who want to
work with families. The person hired is the first point of
contact for many students entering our program. There is a great deal of
student contact, some contact with children, and high level office management
skills required. The student will work closely with and be mentored by two
licensed, Master's level social work professionals. The position is posted
on the U of M employment search site. Job Code and Title: 9512 Undergrad Teaching Assistant I.
Contact for Information: Susan Warfield, 612.625.0825 or warfi002@umn.edu.
Students must apply on the on-line U of M job search system; upon review of
applicants posted on the website we will interview select candidates until the
position is filled. Term: We are looking for someone who is looking for a long
term commitment. So please do not apply if you are interested in summer work
only. We hope to fill the position as soon as possible, are interested in
having someone work over the summer term 2008 and all of next academic year. We
would prefer a student who can work at least 2 years before graduating.
JOBS AT KAPLAN
Attention CLA Honors students: Are you looking
for a job? Are you planning to take a course with Kaplan? Come work for
us! Kaplan is now hiring teachers, tutors, and student advisors for our Minneapolis Center, located near the U of M
campus. Job benefits include: competitive pay, flexible hours, paid
training, and discounts on Kaplan courses. Prospective Kaplan teachers must be engaging, dynamic
individuals who have scored in the 90th percentile on the test they
wish to teach. Prospective Kaplan student advisors must be enthusiastic,
compassionate individuals with a strong desire to help students achieve their
educational goals. If you are
interested in applying for a position as a Kaplan teacher or tutor, please
visit www.kaptest.com/teach for more information. If you are interested in
applying for a position as a Kaplan student advisor, please contact leslie.mills@kaplan.com for more information.
INTERNSHIPS
AT THE FRINGE FESTIVAL
Administrative interns or front-of-house for Fringe Festival this summer. Here’s the
link of what we’re in the market for: http://www.fringefestival.org/jobs.php.
There
would also be the possibility of a custom-designed internship, if there is
someone with a particular interest in management, development,
sponsorship, etc.
Special opportunities
DINE OUT FOR LIFE IS THURSDAY: BE AN
AMBASSADOR OR JUST GET OUT AND EAT
Are you ready to Dine Out for Life?
Join KARE 11 Meteorologist Sven Sundgaard and Miss Minnesota Kaylee Unverzagt in Dining Out
for Life! On Thursday, April 24, over 130 restaurants are all donating a
portion of their sales to The Aliveness Project, a local community center for
people living with HIV/AIDS. What a great reason to get a group together
for a meal! Reservations recommended (and do tell them why you're
coming). All you need to donate is your appetite! Want to volunteer? Nearly 400
Volunteer Ambassadors will be representing The Aliveness Project in the
restaurants during breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner mealtimes. Working in
pairs Ambassadors welcome & thank diners, encourage diners to make
additional donations and to enter our raffle, and answer any questions.
Ambassadors also invite all their families and friends out to eat so that
the restaurant is especially packed. Please help us reach our goal of 400
Ambassadors! New Ambassadors will attend a 1 hour training offered
multiple times at The Aliveness Project during April. To register please see
our web sign up on www.aliveness.org
or call 612.824.LIFE ext. 207. Dining Out for Life was voted Lavender
Magazine's "Fabulous Local Fundraiser" of 2007, and the Ambassador
position has been featured as KARE 11's Volunteer Opportunity of the Month.
Come join us for this great one-day event!
GET CREATIVE: THE MINNESOTA CUP AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE BUSINESS
IDEAS
The Prize money has doubled for Minnesota Cup, the annual
contest sponsored by the U and Wells Fargo to find the most innovative business
ideas from Minnesotans. First prize is now $50,000; second is $10,000; and
third is $5,000. The student prize is $5,000. Entry deadline is May 23. To learn more and for entry forms, see 2008 Minnesota Cup.
Lively links
READING
HERODOTUS
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/765
Events
NOW PLAYING: THE MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
See amazing films from throughout the
world at this annual event; films are being screened at St. Anthony Main and
the Oak Street Cinema (festival catalogues are available at both sites). For
details, see http://www.mspfilmfest.org/2008/.
BFA/ACTING SENIORS: STILL ACTING
(THROUGH APRIL 27)
Each year, contemporary playwrights
are invited to write pieces specifically for the senior class in the BFA Acting
program. This year's shows will be on view through April 27 at the Dowling
Studio in the Guthrie Theater. The performers include honors students Duncan
Frost, Samuel Bardwell Gromoll, and Allison Snow. For
full details, see http://www.guthrietheater.org/whats_happening/shows/2008/b_f_a_new_plays.
You can see the shows for free by calling the Guthrie box office, 612.377.2224
and quoting price code "YS."
ACTING ALUMS
KEEP ACTING TOO
Three honors
BFA Acting alums, Jonas Goslow, Valeri
Mudek, and Brandon Weinbrenner
are in the Guthrie's production of A Midsummer
Night's Dream, which opens tonight. For more information, see http://www.guthrietheater.org/whats_happening/shows/2007/a_midsummer_nights_dream.
COMING UP AT
THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Tuesday, 4 pm, 125 Nolte. "The Present Moment": A talk with Rebecca Krinke,
Diane Willow and Henry Emmons on the creation of a contemplative environment
for stress reduction on campus.
Thursday, 4 pm, 125 Nolte "Emergent Difference: How to avoid the
nature/nurture trap while maintaining respect for the sciences of biology,
psychology, sociology, history and anthropology and etcetera" Thursdays at
Four presentation by Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Thursday, 1-5 pm and-next Friday, 9 am-4 pm, Shepherd Room, Weisman
Art Museum. Conference: "Atlantic Worlds: Art and Globalization from Columbus to NAFTA."
Next Friday, April 25, 12:30 pm, 125 Nolte. Conversation
with documentary filmmaker Jian Yi and IAS fellow Leo
Chen.
Next Friday, 3 pm, 125 Nolte. Workshop: "Time and Embodied Cognition.” Details at http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=403200.
Next Saturday, 9:45 am-3:30 pm. "Natural Rhythms and Time: An Exploration of Time
in Nature at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum": information at http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=402890.
Registration is required: call 952.443.1422.
AT THE
BOOKSTORE THIS WEEK
Wednesday, 4
pm, Dr. Leo Furcht and William Hoffman: The Stem Cell Dilemma.
Thursday, 4
pm, Alice Tanghe: The
Minnesota
Homegrown Cookbook.
Next Friday,
4 pm, George Bibel: Beyond the Black Box.
For more
information on these writers and their books, see http://www.bookstore.umn.edu/genref/authors.html.
TODAY: DANCE PANEL ON
"THE AESTHETICIZATION OF VIOLENCE"
Today, 4-5:30 pm, 100 Barker. University
of Minnesota Dance
Faculty Panel Presentation: The Aestheticization of
Violence. Featuring University
of Minnesota Dance
faculty members Ananya Chatterjea,
Cindy García and Diyah Larasati, this panel brings together three papers that
examine aestheticization and violence in different
dance contexts enabled by the migration of bodies. In our presentations, we
attempt to untangle how the processes of globalization naturalize both maskings and reinscriptions of
violence upon bodies. When examining the choreographies within the context of
local and translocal politics, we find that physical
and ideological violences are selectively produced,
staged, practiced, and disavowed. Such strategies of aestheticization,
while attempting to hide the violences which are the
very conditions of their possibility, in fact reinscribe
the performing bodies within layers of violence and silencings.
TONIGHT & TOMORROW:
QUEEREOGRAPHERS EVENING AT THE BARKER
Tonight (7:30 pm) and
tomorrow (5 pm & 8:30 pm), 100 Barker, tickets $10 at the door. Additional information online at http://www.patrickscabaret.org.
Patrick’s Cabaret presents the Second Annual Queereographers’
Evening at the Barbara
Barker Center
for Dance, featuring Joanna Furnans, Justin Leaf, B-Girl Seoul with Maddie Fresh,
Karen Sherman & Morgan Thorson, Arturo Miles & Amy Sacket,
Jerome Lee Barnes, Matteo Kelli Halbesleben,
Tamara Ober. Curated by Morgan Thorson & Matteo Kelli Halbesleben.
SATURDAY: WRITER PEG KERR AT
RIVENDELL DISCUSSION
Saturday,
1:30 pm, Southeast Community Library, Dinkytown. The
Rivendell Group is the local branch of the Mythopoeic
Society, and meets monthly for discussion of books, films, and academic work.
This Saturday's discussion will include presentation of a paper by novelist Peg
Kerr (The Wild Swans), "Heart of Flesh, Heart of Stone," and a
discussion of Robin McKinley's novel Sunshine. For more
information about the group, see www.umn.edu/~d-lena/RIVENDELL.html.
MONDAY: CREATIVITY & MEDICINE
LECTURE
Monday,
4:30-6:30 pm. Dr. Jon Hallberg will dicuss "Creative and Medicine." Dr. Hallberg is a practicing family physician, assistant
professor in the miedical school, and director of the Center for Arts and Medicine.
Light refreshments and registration at 4:30, lecture at 5 pm, reception (with
heavy appetizers) at 6 pm. Free!
THURSDAY: MEDIEVAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM
ON 12TH CENTURY FRENCH ROMANCE SEXUALITY
Thursday, 4 pm, 140 Nolte: the final
installment of the semester in the Colloquia Medievalia
series
presents speaker, Zrinka Stahuljak
(UCLA) who will present a paper entitled “Shameless
Beginnings: Sexuality in Twelfth-Century Old French Romance.” As usual, a
reception follows the question period.
THURSDAY: FREE SCREENING OF NEW FILM,
DARK MATTER
Thursday, 4
pm, CMU Theater (opens for seating at 3:30).
International Student and Scholar Services invites you to a screening and
discussion of the new film, Dark Matter, which is a
fictionalized account of a campus shooting by an international student at the
University of Iowa in 1991. A panel discussion
following the film will explore student mental health, adjustment issues, and
campus safety. The panel will include experts from University Counseling and
Consulting Services, University Police, and International Student and Scholar
Services. The movie is rated R and has some violent content. We
request that if you attend the movie that you stay for the discussion. Free, but limited seating, so arrive early. Check the ISSS
website for more information:
http://www.isss.umn.edu/.
THURSDAY: CONVERSATION WITH WOMEN AUTHORS WRITING
ABOUT THEIR MOTHERS
Thursday, 7 pm, Pohlad
Hall, Minneapolis
Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall. “Riding Shotgun:
Women Write About Their Mothers.” Moderated by MPR's
Midmorning Host Kerri Miller, participating authors will discuss the complexity
of the mother/daughter bond and tackling that topic in their writing.
Participating authors include: Barrie
Jean Borich, Shannon Olson, Wang Ping, Faith
Sullivan, and Anne Ursu.
THURSDAY/NEXT FRIDAY: CENTER FOR BIOETHICS EVENTS
Thursday, 7-9:30 pm, Illusion
Theatre, 528 Hennepin Av (8th floor), Minneapolis.
Friday, April 25, noon-1:30 pm, Mayo Auditorium
Questioning how we look at genetic differences,
disabilities, and diversity, "In the Eye of the Beholder: Celebrating the
Richness of Diversity" features two programs focusing on the unique perspectives and beauty of people with disabilities. Each event will
feature a photography exhibit by Rick Guidotti, founder of the nonprofit arts organization Positive Exposure and internationally-renowned
fashion photographer.
He has made it his
mission to use photography to change the way albinism is
seen in African and genetic differences are seen around the world. The
program at Illusion Theater will
also include excerpts from Illusion Theater’s award-winning play Autistic License, written by the mother of an autistic
son who seeks to capture
the hardships and triumphs
of managing autism.
Registration is encouraged.
Please visit www.bioethics.umn.edu.
THURSDAY/NEXT
SUNDAY: SEEING CLIMATE CHANGE FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL
Seeing Climate Change Film & Video Festival, April 24–27, Bell Museum
of Natural History. The Bell Museum
of Natural History presents
the Seeing Climate Change
Film & Video Festival, a weekend of films,
discussions, workshops, and social gatherings that focus a lens on climate change and global warming.
To volunteer for the Seeing
Climate Change Film & Video
Festival contact Katie Sather, Bell Museum Volunteer Coordinator at 612.624.6878 or sathe095@umn.edu. To see a list of films and programs visit:
http://www.bellmuseum.org/scc2008/filmfestival.html.
THURSDAY/NEXT
SUNDAY: STUDENT DANCE COALITION PRESENTS KINETIC
SPECTRUM
The Student
Dance Coalition presents “Kinetic Spectrum”: Thursday, 8 pm, next Friday, 5:30
pm, next Saturday, 8 pm (post show reception), next Sunday 7 pm. 100 Barker;
tickets: Students $5, General $7. Call 612.651.5112 to make a ticket
reservation. Come see the concert fully produced, choreographed, and danced by
UMN students! The Student Dance Coalition is proud to present Kinetic Spectrum, an evening of
innovative dance works by current students of the University of Minnesota's
acclaimed dance program. In just over an hour, this show will captivate
audience members with its diverse mix of bare feet and tap shoes, small and
large casts, lighthearted expression and thought provoking motion. This show
features a spectrum of moves for every groove.
NEXT FRIDAY
: INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES SPEAKER
Next Friday, 1:30
pm, 246 Social Sciences. The Institute for Global Studies
invites you to hear Phyllis Bennis speak on her book Challenging Empire. Bennis's
book tracks the rise
of U.S. unilateralism and the doctrine of preemptive war, looking particularly at Iraq and Israel/Palestine, and
examines both the potential
and the challenges ahead in reclaiming
the UN as part of the global peace movement. For more info please
contact: Bryan Kuzel, Global Studies
Advisor, 612.624.9353, glosuga@umn.edu.
NEXT FRIDAY: IVORY TOWER LAUNCH PARTY
Next Friday, 7
pm, Andersen Library: Ivory Tower, the Department of English's undergraduate literary and art
magazine, presents its new
issue with a celebratory launch at Andersen Library.
NEXT FRIDAY-SUNDAY: THE GALILEO PROJECT AT RARIG
Next Friday (8
pm), Saturday (8 pm), Sunday (2 pm & 7 pm), Xperimental Theatre, free but sign up on the door of the Rarig box office, call 612.625.4001 or email utheatre@umn.edu
to reserve a seat—space is limited!
Directed by Lisa Channer
and featuring a cast of
multi-talented students, The Galileo Project fuses theatre, music, and literature to
examine science, religion, and truth throughout history. This innovative project incorporates and interrogates a
diverse range of work including
Bertolt Brecht’s play Galileo, Dava Sobel’s book Galileo’s Daughter, and also includes original music composed
and conducted by Garrick Comeaux
and performed by the company,
and sculptures designed by Patrick Vincent. Come experience an inventive performance that’s
sure to get you thinking.