Panel/Discussion

Location: Elmer L. Andersen Library, Sponsored by University Libraries: Lapham's speech "Mixed Media" will account for the tribulations of the printed word in the wilderness of cyberspace.

Location: 275 Nicholson Hall, Sponsored by Department of English: Robert Hullot-Kentor, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York.

Location: N639 Elliott Hall, Sponsored by Psychology: Communal Relationships: Dr. Margaret Clark

Location: 614 Social Sciences, Sponsored by Global Studies, University Libraries: A talk by Jeffrey Pilcher

Location: Goldstein Museum of Design McNeal Hall, Sponsored by College of Design: Dean Tom Fisher and three top design thinkers discuss questions related to the design process and the ability of design to address the social problems of today’s consumers.

Location: 275 Nicholson Hall, Sponsored by Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Adorno's thinking revolves centrally around the question of barbarism, how it is that social progress in the control of nature leaves an ancient barbarism behind while producing a second barbarism.

Location: Television Broadcast Off Campus, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study, Ohanessian Chair in CLA, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Broadcast of talk given by Taner Akcam and Eric Weitz at the IAS on November 29, 2006, "A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility."

Location: INFLUX Regis Center for Art (West), Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: Laura Trelford runs the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (awarded annually to artists from the MENASA region) & Education for the international contemporary art fair, Art Dubai.

Location: 710 Social Sciences, Sponsored by Consortium for the Study of the Asias, Asian Languages and Literatures: a talk by Pashmina Murthy

Location: Wilder Center - Amherst H. Wilder Auditorium, 451 Lexington Parkway North, St. Paul, MN 55104, Sponsored by School of Public Health: What is the role of fathers in the 21st Century? The media tell us that some fathers are a “problem”: they are absent; they neglect the social and emotional needs of their children.

Location: Coffman Memorial Union U of M Bookstore, Sponsored by U of M Bookstores: Discussing her book "Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance"

Location: Coffman Memorial Union U of M Bookstore, Sponsored by U of M Bookstores: Discussing his new book "A Christmas Blizzard"

Location: 308 Elmer L. Andersen Library, Sponsored by Immigration History Research Center, Global REM, Global Studies, Minnesota Population Center: Johanna Leinonen, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Minnesota will present this session.

Location: Nash Gallery Regis Center for Art (East), Sponsored by Department of Art, Immigration History Research Center, Community Engagement Scholars Program, Career and Community Learning Center, Institute for Advanced Study: What can we offer each other? What does success look like?

Location: 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: 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.

Location: 1314 Social Sciences, Sponsored by Department of Political Science: MIRC Presents Catherine Guisan

Location: 325 Coffman, Sponsored by : Come Here the Word of God

Location: 101 University International Center, Sponsored by Office of International Programs: Info session and presentations on AIDS awareness, in honor of World AIDS Day

Location: Scott Hall, Sponsored by American Studies Department: A discussion with Professor Lisa Park

Location: 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education, Sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology