We welcome you to the Institute for Advanced Study

1. We welcome you to the Institute for Advanced Study

2. The IAS is located in the Nolte Center, near the center of the Minneapolis campus

3. Nolte Center: Now and Then

4. President's Initiative President Bruininks established the Institute for Advanced Study in 2005 as an incubator of new ideas and as a venue for interdisciplinary collaboration, exploration, and research that encourages breakthrough discoveries that will advance the frontiers of knowledge. Through its faculty fellows program, research and creative collaboratives, University symposium, and Thursdays at Four series, this University-wide Institute supports collaborative research among scientists, scholars and artists and provides opportunities for sharing that work with the broader community. The Institute has become a place where faculty and students from across the University take intellectual risks, challenge theoretical assumptions, integrate different forms of knowledge, and take on important questions aimed at reshaping our fundamental understanding of the human condition.

5. The IAS is a venue for interdisciplinary collaboration Left to right: Lee Gohlike(Outing Lodge/Seven Pines), Harvey Brown (Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford), Katherine Brading(Philosophy, Notre Dame University),Serge Rudaz (Physics, University of Minnesota), Charles Midwinter (Graduate Student and Science Fiction Author). October 25-27, 2007 Symposium on Time and Relativity

6. The IAS brings together researchers from across the University Karen Ho (Anthropology), Keith Mayes (African American and African Studies), Rose Brewer (African American and African Studies), Tom Romero (Hamline University School of Law), and Richard Martinez (Chicano Studies). November 30-December 1, 2006;Workshop on Race and Pedagogy

7. The IAS is a community of scholars Back: Ritu Bhatt (Architecture), Yu-JuChien (Sociology), Nancy Luxon (Political Science), Mark Pedelty (Journalism), Matt Huber (Quadrant), Heidi Stark (UMD-American Indian Studies), Jenny Schmidt (Art). Front: Juliana HuPegues (American Studies), Ann Waltner (IAS), Leena Her (Hmong Studies), Lisa Uddin (Quadrant), Jean Langford (Anthropology), Alisia Tran (Psychology), Teresa Gowan (Sociology). IAS Residential Fellows, Fall 2009

8. IAS Faculty Fellowships provide time and space for research and new ideas

9. Residential Faculty Fellows University of Minnesota faculty spend a semester in residence at the Nolte Center. Fellows devote their full energies to create work, research, and writing. Fellows meet weekly to discuss, critique, and support their colleagues’ work. Fall 2008 Faculty Fellows Hiromi Mizuno (History) and Giancarlo Casale (History) discuss their work with Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows Tom Walton and OzanKaraman, and IAS Research Assistant Jeff Hartman.

10. Faculty, students and community members take intellectual risks together “Natural Rhythms and Time” An Exploration of Time in Nature at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum took place on April 26, 2008, despite freezing temperatures and a driving snowstorm.

11. The IAS offers public programming Thursdays at Four lecture series University Symposium events Presentations, roundtables, and discussions

12. Thursdays at Four The range of events in our weekly series is deliberately eclectic. We feature people from all disciplines and areas who talk about their work and, in some cases, perform it. We aim to put ideas in unexpected juxtaposition with one another and to lure you to come hear talks or performances which might lie just a bit out of your ordinary range of interests and expertise, to be stimulated and challenged to think about new topics or to think about old topics in new ways. Presentations in Fall 2009 include: “Food From Here, For Here: Rekindling the Intimacy of our Food System” - Talk by RandelHanson September 29

13. Thursdays at Four The range of events in our weekly series is deliberately eclectic. We feature people from all disciplines and areas who talk about their work and, in some cases, perform it. We aim to put ideas in unexpected juxtaposition with one another and to lure you to come hear talks or performances which might lie just a bit out of your ordinary range of interests and expertise, to be stimulated and challenged to think about new topics or to think about old topics in new ways. Presentations in Fall 2009 include: “Two Hearts, Three Eyes, and Four Ears: Sami theater and heritage” - Presentation by Harriet Nordlund October 1

14. Thursdays at Four The range of events in our weekly series is deliberately eclectic. We feature people from all disciplines and areas who talk about their work and, in some cases, perform it. We aim to put ideas in unexpected juxtaposition with one another and to lure you to come hear talks or performances which might lie just a bit out of your ordinary range of interests and expertise, to be stimulated and challenged to think about new topics or to think about old topics in new ways. Presentations in Fall 2009 include: “On the Making of a Pop Icon: Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuanand Contemporary Chinese Art” - Lecture by Tang Xiaobing October 29

15. Thursdays at Four The range of events in our weekly series is deliberately eclectic. We feature people from all disciplines and areas who talk about their work and, in some cases, perform it. We aim to put ideas in unexpected juxtaposition with one another and to lure you to come hear talks or performances which might lie just a bit out of your ordinary range of interests and expertise, to be stimulated and challenged to think about new topics or to think about old topics in new ways. Presentations in Fall 2009 include: “Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Have We Gone too Far, and Who Should Pay?” Anita Allen in conversation with Michele Goodwin December 10

16. University Symposium Each year the Institute for Advanced Study offers the University Symposium, a series of connected events which explore a critical issue from a variety of vantage points. Public discussions on urgent concerns ranging from immigration policy to preparing for the next pandemic to the tragedy of genocide, came together under the broad theme of The Politics of Populations in 2005-06. Time, explored in 2006-08, lies at the center of existence itself; it is a foundational element in the universe. Yet how we perceive time, how we construct our consciousness of time, and how we ascribe meaning to it varies widely by culture, by society, and, within the academy, by discipline. Our experience of the world begins with our bodies, and our bodies and those of others are a source of endless fascination to us. Body & Knowing (2008-10) asks questions about what we know about the body and how we know it, and how people in different times and places have articulated their knowledges about the body.

17. University Symposium 2005-06The Politics of Population Survey of avian flu patterns in a talk by Stephen Morse of Columbia University on global surveillance and early warning systems for epidemic diseases, particularly influenza.

18. University Symposium 2006-08Time With the support of a symposium research award, David Odde (Biomedical Engineering) led a group of chemical and biomedical engineers, artists, and film scholars to look at the catastrophic interactions of nanotubules and of popular imagery.

19. University Symposium 2008-10Body & Knowing “Body Language: Human Dissection, Professional Identity, and the Aesthetic Grounding of Modern Medicine” Presentation by John Harley Warner October 12, 2009 “What Is Sexual Difference Now?” Symposium and conversation with Elizabeth Grosz and Joan Copjec November 13, 2009

20. University Symposium 2010-12Abundance & Scarcity This topic, initially motivated by the financial crisis that emerged in 2008, leads us to pose questions that will have deep and ongoing interest. The University Symposium framework will allow us to explore issues of scarcity and abundance in a number of realms and dimensions, taking a long-term and multi-disciplinary view. We anticipate that discussion will focus on four main areas: 1) Human responses to abundance and scarcity, 2) Food and water, 3) Energy and environment, and 4) Choices and balances: What is “enough?” What does sustainability mean? Add your ideas to our display!

21. Quadrant A joint program of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Quadrant provides research residencies or other opportunities for collaborative interaction to scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study and supports publication of the resulting work by the University of Minnesota Press. Focusing on emerging areas of groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship, Quadrant has created four groups: Design, Architecture, and Culture Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Global Cultures Health and Society

22. Quadrant: Design, Architecture, and Culture A joint program of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Eric Avila, Quadrant visiting scholar spring 2009, presented “The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Making of Race in the Modernist City.” AlonaNitzan-Shiftan, Quadrant visiting scholar fall 2009, presents “Spatializing Histories and Nationhood: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie at the Foot of Temple Mount.”

23. Quadrant: Environment, Culture, and Sustainability A joint program of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lisa Uddin, residential fellow in fall 2009, is developing her project “Breeding Grounds: Race and Renewal in American Zoos.” Matt Huber,residential fellow in fall 2009, is developing his project “Energizing Neoliberalism: Oil and the Cultural Politics of Price.”

24. Quadrant: Health and Society A joint program of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kim Fortun, Quadrant visiting scholar spring 2009, presented “Trouble with Toxics.”

25. Quadrant: Global Cultures A joint program of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. YasmeenArif, in residence spring 2009, developed the project “Afterlife: Recovering Life after Catastrophe.”

26. Research and creative collaboratives explore issues from new angles

27. Research and Creative Collaboratives Each year the IAS supports collaboratives of scholars and artists who work on innovative interdisciplinary projects. Recent collaboratives have included: Music and Sound Studies How are new technologies and research interests changing the way we understand the category “music”?How should the institutional study of music at U of M respond to the emerging interdisciplinary field of “sound studies,” which brings together researchers who focus on sound from such perspectives as media; linguistics; speech and language; space, environment and architecture; sensory perception; physics, etc.?

28. Research and Creative Collaboratives Each year the IAS supports collaboratives of scholars and artists who work on innovative interdisciplinary projects. Recent collaboratives have included: Dubai, Inc.How can the visual arts be used to raise critical questions about identity, economics, and sustainability with respect to the rapid growth of this global mega-city?How can art help communities to understand the benefits and consequences of rapid growth?

29. Research and Creative Collaboratives Each year the IAS supports collaboratives of scholars and artists who work on innovative interdisciplinary projects. Recent collaboratives have included: Performance and Social JusticeHow can artistic performance developed through community/university collaborations advance the struggle against racial and environmental injustice around the world?

30. The IAS hosts visiting scholars and fellows from around the world Salman Rushdie poses with IAS staff and fellows. From left to right: Ann Waltner (IAS), Angie Hoffman-Walter (IAS), Karen Kinoshita (IAS), Chris Isett (History), Susannah Smith (IAS), Timothy Brennan (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature). and BiljanaObradovic (Xavier University of Louisiana). April 19, 2006: “Step Across This Line” Lecture by Salman Rushdie.

31. More information: Please visit the IAS website at www.ias.umn.edu for more information. If you would like to be added to our listserv for weekly updates about events and opportunities, please sign up today!