Week #2: excerpts

 Men Engaging Feminism: Standing in Solidarity

Durell Callier, Doctoral Candidate

Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership

Animah:

I walked into this lecture thinking a speaker would give a general talk about men's involvement within feminism. However, I walked into an imitate space and witnessed a gay black male open his talk with a long poem that described his struggles as a black gay male and his up bringing that consisted of being surrounded by strong black women. 

Kelsey:

I've never really explored activist centered feminism, aside from attending the SlutWalk in Milwaukee and being a vocal pro-choice advocate. A lot of my lady friends are bra-burning feminists and we share a lot of dialogue about the subject, but I was curious to hear a male's opinion on what it means to be a feminist......

I'm glad I attended the lecture. I got more out of it than I expected to. 

Eurochannel Short Films Tour: Laugh in Europe

Six Short films

Molly:

It was actually started in Hungary, and the dance "hipi hopi" was a forbidden dance but there is footage of people performing the dance after they worked in the hemp fields harvesting, and were... well... they were high while doing this dance. The makers of this film compared the dance moves of the hipi hopi to hip hop dance moves that are currently being done, and they were basically identical.  They also presented the popular song by Sugar Hill Gang "Rapper's Delight" as the first hip hop song for the US. 

Blake Stimson: Love Anger Depression Abstraction

 
Bill:

So im in this tiny room, with a bunch of people that i think i know, but then think that they could jsut look like people i know because they were dressed so art uniform. (I am sure they were thinking the same about me.) And this weird smell is starting to congrigate with all the people.  Again, i am at an art lecture, on a wet winters day, and in a tiny room.  The room was a mixture of coffee, cigarettes, lentils, and dog... with some smug floating around too.  

"Flirting, Desire, and Masculinity"
Prof. Scott Kiesling, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Allison:
The whole concept of a "bromance" is interesting, 

Alejandra:

Professor Kiesling has spent much of his time researching language and masculinity in a college fraternity (someone mentioned that he has some great writing on the word "dude" that he didn't talk about in this lecture).  
http://www.hulu.com/watch/309560  

 

Google@Illinois - Lightning Tech Talks & Luncheon/Dinner

Wes:  Today I went to the Google Tech Talk. I was given free pens, shirts, and pizza. And I deserve it all and more for sitting through what could only be described as a glorified show and tell of how awesome Google is and why we should all strive to work there.

I'm going to make a greater effort to find events that I really want to go to.

Monica:  At the end of the presentation, I go up to the first presenter, Peter, and talk to him about how he went through art to get to Google,

Elizabeth Ashford (St. Andrews)

limitations and potentiality of institutionalized moral duties

Christian:

The traditional model of general human rights violation identifies a singular agent or perpetrator and victim. A violation to any general positive duty (remember this is a duty that calls for action) can point fingers and place the blame on the perpetrator (that scumbag piece of shit). However, this relies on the premise of general positive duties as perfect (one that is universally acknowledged, as opposed to an imperfect duty which is one that is desired or subjective partially, Kantian duties) but they are not! General positive duties (universally acknowledged duties which a good person should act upon) are imperfect, it is dehumanizing to believe in perfect positive duties as "GENUINE" when a violation to these rights would constitute that one person owed another person anything.

GUEST ARTIST RECITAL: Jeri-Mae Astolfi, piano with electronics

Roshni:  She played 7 sound pieces that incorporated some outside media. Each music piece had different rhythms and exterior sounds. She had an assistant playing the electronic sounds that seemed to be prerecorded from other instances in time. The fixed media included sounds of burning wood, rushing water, colliding bamboo sticks, ribbiting frogs, and rapid rain drops. 
Metro:  It’s so interesting to think that music that sounds so disjointed is very deliberately scored.

Seano:  Video

Numinous flesh
Live electroacoustic music compositions by barry monroe, chris vaisvil

Hugh:

I attended two different electroacoustic concerts this week, thinking it would be interesting to compare these sort of events.

"The Iceman Cometh: Forgotten Pioneers of British Arctic Exploration

Selina:

During his lecture, Gillen Wood briefly mentioned two separate explorers who had histories with polar bears. I took note of their names so that I could look them up later.

Mike b:

Wood outlined how in the 1810's, more specifically 1815-1818, the coldest decade of the past millennium, that mysteriously a large portion of the northern pack ice of the continental ice shelf melted, opening up the prospects of finding the northwest passage.

Sikh Student Association (SSA) invites you to LOHRI NIGHT 2013! 

Puja:  Lohri is dedicated to the end of the winter season, and the ripening of harvested crops such as wheat and barley.

Courtney:  video 

                                         

Maxime Foerster, PhD French University of Michigan 2012: 

                                    "French Romanticism and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract" 

Harrison:  It makes sense that revolution must be intimate, but devastatingly intimate?! The way Maxime talked about it he basically made it sound like you must throw away your life, possibly even die for revolution. I guess it makes sense after more thought but still... is the only way to have revolution by giving your entire self away to the cause?

Alejandra:  The actual lecture was about gender and power in French Romantic writings.  All the writings seemed to view the female mind as inferior, even the women.  Instead of finding power in being a woman, they claimed to have minds of men or have a separate gender which rejects femininity.  This bothered me since it did not come off as an attempt at feminism, but rather just women looking to find power by simply hating other women.  

"Monsters, Marijuana, and Milk" at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

 



Alex

We left feeling better about marijuana, worse about our red bull vodkas, indifferent towards cell phones, and apathetic towards plastic.