The public is invited to hear selections from those oral histories on May 1st from 12:45-1:20 p.m. in room 120, Anderson Library. Refreshments will be served.

*Study Overview and Methods
*ORR Data and National Trends
*Vignettes of Refugee Experiences
*Interviews with Refugees and Key Informants
*Conclusions
*Recommendations
*Questions and Answers

The IHRC presentation is included among other poetry selections from the Andersen caverns, and the presentation will be held in Room 120. Refreshments are provided.

Regular hours will resume on Monday, March 24.

Long-time supporters as well as new faces can meet and greet those whose efforts make the IHRC both an internationally-known research archives and a vibrant multi-ethnic community. If you aren't a volunteer, come to learn more about the Center.

RSVP to Haven Hawley at 612-625-0553 or ehh@umn.edu if you would like to attend; responses before Feb. 22 appreciated!

Professor Martinez’s talk kicks off the speaker series “Global Media - Diasporic Cultures,” which is co-sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and other University partners. Courting multicultural, often nomadic, audiences, 21st-century media makers seek to acquire, shape, and re-shape cultural materials in order to transmit products that draw upon and market to different racial, cultural, and national identities. The speakers in this series have produced cutting-edge research that sheds light on genres, styles, and stars of this multinational media era, as well as the cultural, social, political, and economic phenomena that drive trends in this media landscape.

Members of the university community, as well as communities within the Twin Cities, who attend these talks will be able to engage with the speakers about specific cases of media products and persona that reflect upon global media cultures, and discuss the often problematic deployment of race, ethnicity, gender, and national identities represented in many media trends. For more information, visit the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

January, 2008

This position is located at the Immigration History Research Center, 311 Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S., West Bank Campus. Student will assist curatorial staff of the IHRC and faculty in the Asian American Studies Program in conceptualizing and designing a digital exhibit focusing on Southeast Asian refugee migration to Minnesota that will be used for research and teaching purposes. Other research for the project may involve the development of K-12 curriculum projects around the digital exhibit.

Students can sign up for the internship through AAS 3993 Directed Study for variable credit. (2-4 credits; 6-10 hours per week). Internship would require meeting weekly or as needed with faculty advisor and IHRC supervisor.

Duties: research archival and other materials relating to the themes of the digital exhibit, work with IHRC staff on design and production of digital exhibit.

Qualifications: advanced undergraduate standing; interest in Asian American and migration studies; curriculum development; public outreach. Intern should be self-directed and work well collaboratively. Technical expertise is not a requirement.

Terms: Begins after January 22, 2008 up to 10 hours/week, flexible schedule to be arranged M-F between 8:00-4:30, to May 17, 2008

Academic goals and professional skills relating to the internship:
Intern will learn about Southeast Asian American history; explore how knowledge and histories about refugee and immigrant populations are produced, collected, and disseminated. Students will have an opportunity to develop digital technology skills.

The Immigrant Heritage Recipe Collection was compiled and edited by Mary Ann Novak, Cindy Herring, and Judy Rosenblatt. The IHRC staff thanks the Friends of the IHRC for co-sponsoring the cookbook and CLA External Relations for providing design assistance.

More than four decades later, that tradition still defines the IHRC. As we face the space limitations of having two caverns under Andersen Library rather than the three initially proposed, the IHRC continues to work toward increasing our available space and ensuring optimal care for the materials entrusted to us. Our initial hope to locate affordable off-site storage with archival conditions has not been realized. Although a third cavern remains a goal, working out the funding and necessary partnerships with a fiscally responsible plan are years away. Like the leaders of the IHRC in the past, we realize the opportunity that lies within this challenge.

The IHRC has been at – and even over – capacity for some time, and we must work to compact the collections in order to make room for future acquisitions. This will require a short-term moratorium on acquisitions, creation of a collections policy to guide the IHRC in communicating with potential donors, and placing an emphasis on processing materials. In upcoming blogs, I will be writing more about each of these issues. Acquisitions and processing always overlap in an archival institution's operations, and it is common for an archives to go through periods where processing must take priority. The IHRC will continue acquisitions after achieving a balance between these two areas.

Acknowledging the limits of the IHRC’s current capacity allows the staff to process collections at hand, produce more detailed finding aids and to increase digital access. We will be able to create space by compacting collections in order to sustain their preservation. Researchers will gain greater access to collections as staff write fuller descriptions and better organize materials.

A recess from acquisition will provide a different kind of space, one that will refresh the relationship of the IHRC to communities, scholars, and our supporters. Staff will better understand how materials across the IHRC’s collections relate to each other, helping us to promote ethnic and migration studies to emerging scholarly trends. Processing materials allows staff members to undertake the research that recovers stories our collections have not yet told.

We will do a much better job of appreciating the uniqueness and shared values of each of the communities and individuals who have entrusted us with their valuable historical materials. Iron Range communities, displaced persons after World War II, and today’s immigrants have so many stories yet to be told through the IHRC’s collections. And there are many more stories that the IHRC must make room for. I hope that you will be a partner with the IHRC as we fulfill our commitment to preserve and to help future generations hear those stories.

Also presenting are Anita Gonzalez, who wrote an essay for the book and Tara Huie, who wrote a travelogue. Anita cocurated the exhibit Nine Months in America: An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. She teaches liberal studies at the University of Minnesota. Tara and Wing were newly married when they embarked on their 9-month journey. Her observations catalog the serendipity and humor of life on the road.

This event is free and open to the public.

For further information:http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/huie_looking.html

In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young Huie--the only member of his family not born in China--traveled with his wife, Tara, through nearly forty states to explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian American and American cultures. "Looking for Asian America" illustrates their rich and surprising journey across the United States.

Through Huie's eyes, keenly aware of his own Midwestern roots and perspective, we witness such images as a Vietnamese Elvis, Miss Congeniality on her cell phone in San Francisco's Chinatown, a Hmong street sign in rural North Carolina, a meditating Falun Gong protestor in Washington, D.C., a bubble tea Valley Girl, and a Chinese
theme park in Orlando. Huie's camera captures ABCs (American-born Chinese), FOBs (fresh off the boat), and a self-described "redneck Chinese restaurant owner" near the Okefenokee Swamp. Taken together the photographs reveal a complex portrait of the U.S. cultural landscape, and their dignified elegance invites a closer, deeper look.

Accompanied by the personal reflections of both Wing and Tara Huie, the nearly one hundred spectacular photographs tell a story that both mirrors and contradicts stereotypes of Asian Americans, ultimately questioning what it means to be ethnic and American in the twenty-first century.

"Looking for Asian America shows real people engaged in the full range of human activity. This is no small accomplishment for the photographer or his subjects. For Asian Americans, both the newcomers and the native born, it is extraordinary to be merely ordinary. To others even if not themselves, Asian Americans appear to be
contradictions of identity--a Chinese Yankee is a knock-off."--Frank H. Wu, from the foreword.

Wing Young Huie documents the socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural realities of his home state, Minnesota. His photographs have been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and he is a recipient of the Bush Artist and McKnight fellowships. He is the author of
Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood and Lake Street USA.

Extended Thursday hours will be especially valuable to researchers visiting from out of town and independent scholars who cannot visit Andersen Library during daytime hours.

Researchers seeking to work with IHRC holdings need to request materials in advance. They also can continue using a collection already in the Reading Room. IHRC staff will not be able to send items to the Reading Room after 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Please contact IHRC collections staff to arrange for materials to be delivered for Thursday evening hours.

The IHRC offers many scholarships and fellowships to support research in its collections, with deadlines throughout the year for applications. For information about applying for a Karni Scholarship or for other funding through the IHRC, visit Grants and Fellowships.

Location: Room 710 (Ford Room), Social Sciences Building, Minneapolis Campus

Event Notice

Sponsored By: Center for German and European Studies
Additional Sponsors: Austrian Studies, Ctr for Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History

A haunting and atmospheric experience of the music that resonated through these ancient cities. With soaring soprano lines, powerful harmonies and deep, sonorous textures, this concert mingles tales of folk heroes and saints with stunning 12-part motets from the Russian Orthodox tradition, magnificent double-choir works from the Polish Renaissance, and the mysterious chant of medieval Bohemia. Hailed by critics as "ethereal and captivating" with a "supernatural" vocal range and blend, The Rose Ensemble has presented this program to capacity crowds across the United States and Europe. Don't miss this showcase of the signature Rose sound before the group brings Slavic Wonders to Spain to represent the United States in an international choral competition.

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:00pm
Pre-concert presentation at 7:00pm
Basilica of St. Mary
88 North 17th Street, Minneapolis
Purchase Tickets ($35, $25, and $17, reserved seating)

Sunday, October 21, 2007, 4:00pm
Pre-concert presentation at 3:00pm
Church of the Assumption
51 West 7th Street, St. Paul
Purchase Tickets ($35, $25, and $17, reserved seating)
POST-CONCERT WINE & CHEESE

Join us and socialize with friends and performers at a complimentary wine and cheese reception following the show.

Wine generously provided by: The Wine Thief

CLA has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching excellence on race, ethnicity, and migration (REM). The U of M was the birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s, and it was an early innovator in interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate education through its American Studies Program. The Immigrant Archives and Center for Immigration Studies (later joined as the Immigration History Research Center, IHRC) again put Minnesota on the scholarly map in the 1970s.

A formal REM initiative resulted from funding from the Graduate School between 1999 and 2001. REM distinguished itself by linking the study of ethnic “whiteness” and racialized minorities. A REM-inspired cluster of Americanist faculty has sustained itself through institutional linkages among CLA centers, departments, and programs (African and African-American Studies, American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian-American Studies Chicano Studies, GWSS, IHRC, etc.) As a result of recent hires, conversations in the Institute for Advanced Study around the Politics of Population symposium and collaborative, and the institutionalization of programs in the Institute for Global Studies, REM is now positioned to become an equally innovative initiative we will call “Global REM.”

Continue reading the outline for this initiative.

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Snacks are provided at the talk.
For more information on our Spring 2007 Seminar Series, please visit the following URL: http://www.pop.umn.edu/seminar/seminar.shtml

Exhibit runs: March 28 – April 22, 2007

For more information call Vanca Schrunk at 612-788-3328 or 612-419-7470. For directions, please visit www.northrupkingbuilding.com.

Minnesota had long been a stronghold of New Deal liberalism and progressive politics as illustrated by the careers
of Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale. Campaigning on the themes of “law and order,” resentment against so-called student and black militants, Christian values, and fiscal conservatism, Stenvig was elected
for three separate terms as mayor.

Law and Order: The Career and Legacy of Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig, an exhibit on display at the University’s Andersen Library Gallery, explores not only Stenvig’s local impact but also his connection to a burgeoning national movement. Jeff Manuel and Andy Urban, PhD candidates in History at the University of Minnesota and the exhibit’s curators, began looking at Stenvig’s career during a graduate seminar in public history that encouraged students to research topics of local interest. Using video footage, historical photographs, campaign memorabilia, audio clips, and oral histories, the exhibit examines Stenvig’s relationship to the anti-war movement, affirmative action and busing, crime, moral values, and masculinity.

See also related Star Tribune news article: Nick Coleman:" Charlie Stenvig:We're still trying to figure him out"

"A Mighty Fortress, Far from Lake Wobegone," highlights 16 immigrant Lutheran congregations in the Twin Cities. The churches span three synods and offer a melting pot of origin, style and language.

Directions and parking for Elmer L. Andersen Library.

Find out more about the artists and U of M co-sponsors of the exhibit.

MPR's feature on the exhibit including some of the recordings.

"Lutherans, yes -- Typical, no" St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/21/06.

For more information contact:

Wing Young Huie Photography & Gallery
2525 Franklin Ave E, Suite 100
Mpls, MN 55406
612-375-0191

www.wingyounghuie.com
Open by appointment.

Due to limited space, donations can only be accepted on these days. Please contact Emily if you have questions: ewoodall@iimn.org, 651-647-0191 x336

Getting Some Perspective on Immigration will provide a context to the immigration debate by exploring immigration myths, for example that the United States' immigration challenge is unique in the world, and that America has always been a nation welcoming of immigrants. Facilitated break-out sessions will build on this contextual information and allow conference participants an opportunity to articulate a set of common values that should undergird immigration policy. Their observations and recommendations will be presented to a panel of state and local officials, including St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak (invited).

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance

Cooperating organizations: Chicano Studies Department, University of Minnesota; Citizens League; and League of Women Voters Minnesota

This conference was made possible in part by a contribution from the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center

Registration is $25 (due October 25). The conference agenda is online at www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg.
Contact Lisa Thalacker at 612-624-8842 or cspg@umn.edu for more information.

The purpose of this research seminar is to give students in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to undertake carefully focused research projects while developing cross-disciplinary conversations about their methodological, theoretical or interpretive choices, about their sources, texts, or data, and about the scholarly genres preferred by differing disciplines for interpreting, writing and communicating about research. Students who are developing research projects about any aspect of mobility will be welcome, regardless of geographical or chronological expertise, and whether focused on mobile people or mobile ideas or cultures. Possible research topics might include (but are not limited to) tourists or tourism, travelers or travelers’ writings; merchants or pilgrims; human rights, cosmopolitanism or internationalism; im/em/migrants; nomadism; transnational families, ideas or networks; empires or border-crossing; slave trades or trafficking; merchants, businessmen, and trade; diasporas, ideo-scapes or ethno-scapes; globalization, past or present; everyday mobility or residential choice; transportation; refugees, asylum, banishment or exile.

If you would like to learn more about the Humphrey Fellows Program and the Cross-cultural Host Program, please get in touch with Sharon Anderson.

See the Hubert H. Humphrey International Fellowship programs Web page for further information about the program itself.