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Staff and Faculty
Charles B. Strozier, Director
Charles B. Strozier is a professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at TRISP in New York. Much of his work has focused on apocalyptic violence and related issues of terrorism, including his current study of survivors and witnesses of 9/11, Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City (Columbia University Press, August, 2011). He is also the author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (Beacon, 1994, newly issued 2002); The Fundamentalist Mindset: Psychological Essays on Religion, Violence, and History (Oxford, 2010) with Terman, Jones and Boyd; and co-editer (with Michael Flynn) of Genocide, War, and Human Survival(1996); Trauma and Self (1996); and The Year 2,000: Essays on the End (1997). He has also written widely about Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, e.g., Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings (1982, new edition 2001), and aspects of the history of psychoanalysis, e.g. Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001). Strozier teaches a two-course sequence on terrorism that focuses in its first semester on issues of politics and history, and in the second semester on the more psychological aspects of terrorism and apocalyptic violence. Finally, Strozier actively runs the Terrorism Seminar Series that is geared primarily for graduate students in criminal justice and especially those working for the "M.A. Certificate Program in Terrorism."
Michael Flynn, Associate Director
Michael Flynn is an Associate Professor of Psychology at York College and CUNY. He is the co-editor (with Charles B. Strozier) of Genocide, War, and Human Survival (1996); Trauma and Self (1996); and The Year 2,000: Essays on the End (1997). He is the editor of The Second Nuclear Age: Political and Psychocultural Perspectives. His research interests include the psychological and political economy of urban violence; the psychological effects of living in a nuclearized world; literary, autobiographical, and psychohistorical approaches to the self and trauma; and the public and media role of the psychologist. Michael Flynn holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duquesne University and a B.A. from the College of Idaho. Dr. Flynn teaches several of the core terrorism certificate courses including Psychology of Cults, Terrorism and Politics, and Psychology of Terrorism.
Peter Romaniuk, Associate Director
Peter Romaniuk is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, where is also Research Fellow at the Center on Terrorism. He is the author of Mutlilateral Counter-terrorism: The Global Politics of Cooperation and Contestation (Routledge, 2010). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles, chapters and policy reports on counter-terrorism cooperation, terrorist financing and UN sanctions. He also has articles and chapters forthcoming in the Review of International Studies, in Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counter Strategies and Responses (edited by William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny; State University of New York Press) and in the International Studies Compendium (edited by Robert A. Denemark; Wiley-Blackwell). He teaches courses on International Relations, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Andrea Fatica, Executive Director
At the CoT, Andrea oversees research, staffing, curriculum and administration. Andrea has a background in communications and psychology; She received an M.A. in Forensic Psychology in conjunction with the Certificate in Terrorism Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and obtained her B.S. in Communications from Northeastern University. Throughout graduate school she worked primarily with adolescents at an acute psychiatric hospital and was a volunteer court advocate for women in family court. In addition to the study of terrorism, her research experience and interests include motivations for group and interpersonal violence, criminal behavior and forensic psychological evaluation.
Affiliated John Jay College Faculty
Desmond Arias
Avram Bornstein
Shuki Cohen
Glenn Corbett
Maki Haberfeld
Charles Jennings
Dennis Kenney
Amit Kumar
Charles Lieberman
Itai Sneh
Research Fellows
Scott Atran Scott Atran holds multiple positions: Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College, Director of Research in Anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, as well Visiting Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is a leading expert on suicide terrorism and Al Qaeda and author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)Making of Terrorists (Eco, 2010). Atran's broadly interdisciplinary scientific studies have appeared in scientific journals in dozens of countries and his work on religion and terrorism has been featured around the world by Science, and Nature magazines, Scientific American, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times and The Guardian (UK), El Pais and El Mundo (Spain), La Recherche and Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Der Spiegel (Germany), Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy), the BBC National and World Service, CTV (Canada), National Public Radio, ABC, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, and Fox and CNN radio and television. His books include Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science (Cambridge), In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Oxford), and he has co-authored The Native Mind: Cognition and Culture in Human Knowledge of Nature (MIT).
Senior Research Fellows
Alain Bauer Alain W. M. Bauer is a criminologist at the Sorbonne where he was previously Vice President. He also served as Administrator of the national Superior Institute for Defense Studies and is currently President of the French National Crime Council, and President of the "Working Group on Unifying Security and Strategic Think Tanks" for the French Government. He serves as an Administrator of the National Institute for High Security Studies (INHES) and of the Institute for International and Strategic Studies (IRIS). Alain Bauer is widely respected by American police forces and serves as an advisor to both the NYPD and the LASD, and is also a consultant to the Surete du Quebec (Canada). Mr. Bauer is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books including Violence et Insécurité urbaines (1998), l'Amérique, la violence, le crime (2000), (2002), les Polices en France (2002), Deux siècles de débats républicains et Dico rebelle (2004), l'Enigme Al Qaïda (2005) Géographie de la France criminelle (2006), and World Chaos (in English 2007).
James Meredith Day James Meredith Day, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist whose work has contributed to the dialogue between cognitive-developmental and socio-cultural/constructionist paradigms in psychology. He is Professor of Human Development and the Psychology of Religion in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and Psychological Science Research Institute at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,Belgium. His published work has appeared in a broad array of scholarly books and journals, and has been focused on research in the domains of moral development,uses of religious elements in moral decision making, and gender and cultural differences in uses of moral and religious language. Some of his recent research concerns religious elements in developmental pathways toward sympathetic attitudes about terrorist conduct. His co-edited and co-authored books include Le developpement religieux et spiritual: Questions classiques, approaches nouvelles (in preparation/2011), Human development across the lifespan: Educational and psychological applications (2006), and the video: The social construction of morality: Archives of contemporary psychology: Voices in social constructionism (2000). He serves on the editorial and review boards of numerous peer-reviewed journals, is co-founder of the European Society for Research in Adult Development, co-directs the Louvain-Harvard Project in Cognitive Complexity and Religious and Moral Cognition,and is Co-Editor of The Archive for the Psychology of Religion: The Journal of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. Professor Day is a graduate of Oberlin College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University. He has been an invited and visiting lecturer at Braga, Cambridge, Coimbra, Glasgow, London, Lusophone University in Lisbon and Porto, Paris, Porto, Princeton, and other universities. Dr. Day also works as a clinician at PSYGROUP Brussels, and is a priest serving in the Pro-Cathedral of The Holy Trinity, in Brussels, and the Spiritualite et Vie inter-religious dialogue project at the UCLouvain, in the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England, Anglican Communion. Mark S. Hamm Dr. Mark Hamm is a professor of Criminology at Indiana State University. He is the leading scholar of prison radicalization in the United States. In the 1980s and 1990s he wrote widely about White right-wing extremists in this country, as well as subjects as diverse as apocalyptic violence, cop killer violence, ethnography and terror, and the USA Patriot Act. His books include Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond (2007); In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground (2002); Apocalypse in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged (1997); and American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime (1993). Professor Hamm received two major grants from the National Institute of Justice: one to study crimes committed by terrorist groups and the other to study terrorist recruitment in American correctional institutions. He is currently working on a study of terrorist recruitment in U.S. and British prisons and is working to compile a database on the subjects.
James W. Jones James W. Jones, PSY.D, PH.D, TH.D, has earned doctorates in both Religious Studies and Clinical Psychology, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is a distinguished professor of Religion and adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a lecturer in Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York; an adjunct professor of Medical Humanities at Drew University, and a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is the author of eleven books, including Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion (Yale University Press,1991), Religion and Psychology in Transition (Yale University Press, 1996), and Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion (Routledge Press, 2002), over twenty professional papers and book chapters. His books have been published both in the United States and Europe and translated in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Portuguese. He serves on the editorial boards of several publications both here and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and in 1993 at their annual convention, he received an award for his contributions to the psychology of religion. He currently serves on the governing board and as the vice-president of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. For six years he was co-chair of the Religion and Social Sciences Section of the American Academy of Religion. He also maintains a private practice as a clinical psychologist. His recent book is Blood That Cries From the Earth: The Psychological Roots of Religious Terrorism (2008 by Oxford University Press). Dr. Jones has been invited to lecture in Europe and the United States on the psychological roots of religious terrorism.
Robert J. Lifton Robert Jay Lifton is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital and a former distinguished professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Graduate School University Center and director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York. He had previously held the Foundations' Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. He has been particularly interested in the relationship between individual psychology and historical change, and in problems surrounding the extreme historical situations of our era. He has taken an active part in the formation of the new field of psychohistory. Since mid-1995, he has been conducting psychological research on the problem of apocalyptic violence, focusing on Aum Shinrikyo, the extremist Japanese cult which released poison gas in Tokyo subways. His book, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism was published by Metropolitan Books in October, 1999. His writings on Nazi Doctors (on their killing the name of healing) and the problem of genocide; nuclear weapons and their impact on death symbolism; Hiroshima survivors; Chinese thought reform and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; psychological trends in contemporary men and women; and on the Vietnam War experience and Vietnam veterans, have appeared in a variety of professional and popular journals. He has developed a general psychological perspective around the paradigm of death and the continuity of life and a stress upon symbolization and "formative process," and on the malleability of the contemporary self. Recent books include Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial, (Putnam and Avon Books, 1995) (with Greg Mitchell) which explores the impact of Hiroshima on our own country; and The Protean Self; Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, (Basic Books, 1993) which describes the contemporary "protean" self and its expressions of fluidity and change as its possible relationship to species consciousness and a "species self" (related importantly to one's connection to humankind).
Marc Sageman Marc Sageman is an independent researcher on terrorism and the founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. He holds various academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland and national think tanks, like the Foreign Policy Research Institute. After graduating from Harvard, he obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. After a tour as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984. He spent a year on the Afghan Task Force then went to Islamabad from 1987 to 1989, where he ran the U.S. unilateral programs with the Afghan Mujahedin, and New Delhi from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he resigned from the agency to return to medicine. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1994, he has been in the private practice of forensic and clinical psychiatry, and had the opportunity to evaluate about 500 murderers. After 9/11/01, he started collecting biographical material on about 400 al Qaeda terrorists to test the validity of the conventional wisdom on terrorism. This research has been published as Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He may be the only individual to have testified before both the 9/11 Commission in the U.S. and the Beslan Commission in Russia. As an expert on al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations, he has consulted with various branches of the U.S. government, including the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Combatant Commanders, the National Laboratories, the Department of Homeland Security, various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community and various law enforcement agencies. He has lectured at many universities, including Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and John's Hopkins University. He has also consulted with foreign government (France, Australia, Spain, Canada, Germany, Britain) and lectured extensively at foreign universities.
Jessica Stern Jessica Stern an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Fellow at Hoover Institution. She is also a member of Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. Stern taught at Harvard University from 1999-2010. She is the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, selected by the Washington Post as a best book of the year; Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year; The Ultimate Terrorists; and numerous articles on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Erik Erikson Scholarship in 2009, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Artists' Colonies. She served on President Clinton's National Security Council Staff in 1994-95. Stern was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas "will change the world." Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism and has taught courses for government officials. Stern is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. Stern earlier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has a bachelors degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a masters degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy.
Richard Davis Mr. Richard Davis is the President of Davis Energy and the Managing Director of ARTIS Research & Risk Modeling. Davis Energy partners with government and industry to diversify the transportation fuel stock by improving technology in alternative fuels and renewable energies, to increase confidence of the capital markets in alternative fuels, to improve power generation sustainability and efficiencies, and to promote public policy focused on decreasing the nation's dependence upon petroleum. ARTIS Research & Risk Modeling Corporation is a science-based political violence field research company. ARTIS engages in field research to understand political violence, sacred values in political violence and employs sophisticated risk modeling techniques to better define risks from politically motivated violence. ARTIS is a strategic partner of RTI International. In these capacities Mr. Davis has published on Political Violence Research and is currently preparing a risk analysis study on alternative fuels for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to his work in the energy industry, Mr. Davis served President George W. Bush at the White House and at the Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity, he directed policies aimed at long-term prevention of terrorism, radicalization, the smuggling of nuclear materials and other issues related to securing the homeland. Mr. Davis currently serves as a Senior Associate at the Center for the Study of the Presidency – a think tank in Washington, D.C. He has Masters Degrees from Harvard, the Naval War College and Azusa Pacific University. In 2005, Mr. Davis was a Senior Fellow at The George Washington University. He also holds two Baccalaureate Degrees from Hope International University.
Lee Quinby Lee Quinby is holder of the Donald R. Harter '39 Chair for Distinguished Teaching in Humanities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. From 1999-2001, she held the Visiting Gannett Chair on the Millennium at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her areas of teaching and scholarly interest include issues of freedom and citizenship in technology- and fear-driven U.S. society, apocalyptic thought in American culture, and feminist theory. Quinby is the author of three books: Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994) and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991). She is editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1987) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (forthcoming 2004). She has published articles in journals such as American Historical Review, Constellations, and SIGNS and was guest editor of the Women's Studies Quarterly special issue on "Women Confronting the New Technologies" (2001).
Fabiola Fernández Salek Fabiola Fernández Salek is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Humanities and Coordinator of Women's Studies at York College/CUNY. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Gender and Film from Arizona State University. This dual position has provided her a unique opportunity to add a practical approach to her theoretical teaching and research interests, gender and cultural studies. Her research on contemporary Latin-American culture focuses on human rights, immigration, torture and political violence, and the construction of identity and nationality in Latin America. Her most recent articles and presentations have addressed the representation of gender, sexuality, urban life, and feminicide and violence in Latin American film and literature. She currently is co-editing the book, Screening Torture, currently under review by Columbia University Press.
Doctoral Research Assistants
Sarah Bennett Sarah Bennett is currently working on her doctorate in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She earned her MA and BS in Criminal Justice from Arizona State University. Her interests include political violence, fragile states, the evolution of terrorist organizations and national security issues pertaining to energy.
Kathy Boyd Katharine Boyd was awarded the Graduate Assistantship in Homeland Security in March of 2008. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she also completed a Masters in Forensic Psychology and earned the Certificate in Terrorism Studies offered by the Center on Terrorism. Ms. Boyd earned a B.A. in psychology and political science from Ashland University in Ohio. Soon after 9/11 (her freshman year of college), Ms. Boyd became interested in what factors contribute to terrorist motivation. She did research in her undergraduate studies regarding radical Islamic moral development. Her research interests include studying radicalization and terrorist motivations in relation to public policy. Boyd was assistant editor and co-author on three chapters in the book, The Fundamentalist Mindset: On Religion and Violence with Professor Strozier (Director, Center on Terrorism) and did research for History Will Judge: An Examination of Torture through the Ages (forthcoming) with Professor Sneh (History Department).
Graduate Research Assistants
Marina Bontkowski Marina Bontkowski is working to complete an MA in Forensic Mental Health Counseling and Certificate in Terrorism Studies at John Jay College, CUNY. She was awarded the Graduate Assistantship in Homeland Security in June 2011, and the John Jay College Alumni Association Counter-Terrorism Graduate Scholarship in December 2010. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Mind, Brain, and Behavior at Harvard College.
Robert Jay Lifton Fellowships
The Lifton Fellowship Program One of the goals of the Center on Terrorism is to deepen and disseminate knowledge about contemporary weapons of mass destruction and our post-cold war nuclear situation. It is our strong belief that university students must be made aware of the issues associated with nuclear armaments and to grasp the significance of nuclear threat. From the 1950s to the 1970s, growing concerns within universities helped create a generation of activism that peaked in the 1980s. The university, we believe, should be the place where committed scholars and students reflect - and act--on the moral, philosophical, and psychological meanings of nuclear weapons. Therefore, university curriculum must change through the content of specific courses on ultimate threats from almost any point of view, whether political, historical, literacy, scientific, anthropological, sociological, religious, ethical, or philosophical. While the public is deeply afraid of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction after 9/11, few scholars are seriously reflecting on the issue. Many believe we are in a more dangerous situation today than during the first half-century of the nuclear age because of the changing international landscape, notably the shift in U.S. military strategy, new technological developments, globalization, and the threat of international terrorism. The Center continues to head the stipend program as a practical way of carrying out our mission of advocacy into the next generation.
Project Description In 1998, The Center on Terrorism, then known as "The Center on Violence and Human Survival," initiated a Citizens Panel on Ultimate Weapons with a panel of academics, public intellectuals, activists, and journalists including Jonathan Schell, Richard Falk, Carole Gallagher, Kai Erikson, Rolf Ekeus, Karl Meyer, Robert Musil, Merav Datan, and John Burroughs. One of the on-going programs of the Center, the "Lifton Fellowship Program" began in the fall of 2000. The panel extended its' reach by hosting a remarkably effective national conference on the general topic of overcoming existing nuclear complacency and how to reawaken the academy in order to spark a new student and faculty movement. The conference included, besides panel members, other scholars such as Theodore Postol, a distinguished group of university presidents, and a special session with Kofi Annan. Speakers addressed nuclear ethics and citizen responsibility, and brought greater understanding to this set of issues. The Center received funding from the Alton Jones Foundation to implement the central goal of the conference. The grant funded modest fellowships in the amount of $2,500 each, for younger faculty throughout the nation to develop new courses on all aspects of nuclear threat. The fellowship program was later extended two more years by Jennifer Simons, from the Simons Foundation. The population reached through the Clifton Fellowship Program includes university students throughout the nation. Courses on issues of nuclear threat have been taught in universities such as, Juniata College, Mount Holyoke College in Maryland, New Mexico Tech and Arizona State University. Part of the idea of this fellowship program is to foster new courses but also create genuine community among the fellows. We thus searched far and wide to generate interest in our program and solicit applications from an outstanding group of young scholars. Robert Jay Lifton Fellows 2005-2006 Charles Ferguson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University and Fellow of Science & Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations. He taught "Nuclear Technologies and Security", a course that examines the impact of nuclear technologies on national and global security.
2004-2005 Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor of English, St. John's University taught "Fundamentalism, Terrorism, State Violence and the Nuclear Threat", a course that used literature to explore the connections among three related contemporary phenomena: fundamentalist movements; terrorist practices; and varied experiences of state violence. Robert Jensen, Associate Professor, University of Texas taught "The Bomb", a course that explored post-World War II U.S. political culture through the study of various issues surrounding nuclear weapons and the mass-mediated understandings of those weapons. Thomas Reifer, Sociology Department, University of San Diego. Sharon K. Weiner School of Service, American University.
2003-2004 James D. Borgardt taught a challenging course at Juniata College in the spring of 2003. The course consisted of a historical overview, US government policy, social impact, and the physical basis and biological/environmental effects of nuclear weapons. He ended the course with discussion of present concerns over possible terrorist use of nuclear weapons. John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy in New York, the U.S. affiliate of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), taught his nuclear threat course "Legal Controls on Weapons of Mass or Indiscriminate Destruction," at Rutgers Law School, Newark, 2003. Valerie Kuletz, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and author of the award winning book "The Tainted Desert." Kuletz taught "The American Nuclear West: Space, Place, and Power in the American Nuclear West: Confronting a New Nature, Confronting a New Politics." in 2003.This course focused on a variety of historical and contemporary narratives and images of the American West from the mid 19th Century to the 1980s. Laura Reed, Visiting Assistant Professor, International Relations, Mount Holyoke College in MA, Assistant Director, Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College and Visiting Scholar, Security Studies Program, Center for International Studies, MIT, Cambridge. Oversaw production, wrote and edited text of a monthly journal "The Arms Control Reporter," Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. Reed taught "The Significance of Weapons of Mass Destruction in World Politics" in 2003. Scott Zeman from New Mexico Tech.'s Humanities Department, taught "Atomic America: The Cultural History of Nuclear Technology in the United States" which examined the history of nuclear technology in the United States, while exploring the cultural, social, political, and intellectual dimensions of atomic energy, with particular emphasis given to changing images in popular culture. The course included field trips to the Trinity Site and National Atomic and guest lecturers. 2004-2005 Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor of English, St. John's University taught "Fundamentalism, Terrorism, State Violence and the Nuclear Threat", a course that used literature to explore the connections among three related contemporary phenomena: fundamentalist movements; terrorist practices; and varied experiences of state violence.
Robert Jensen, Associate Professor, University of Texas taught "The Bomb", a course that explored post-World War II U.S. political culture through the study of various issues surrounding nuclear weapons and the mass-mediated understandings of those weapons.
Thomas Reifer, Sociology Department, University of San Diego.
Sharon K. Weiner School of Service, American University.
2001-2002 Joshua Cooper, peace activist and lecturer, Maui Community College/ University of Hawaii center at Maui. Cooper was elected to the national board of directors for Peace Action, the largest grass-roots peace and disarmament organization. Cooper taught the course: "International Law and Peace: Genocide, Racial Discrimination, Torture and Nuclear Instruments of Mass Destruction" in fall 2001. Lane Fenrich, Professor, History Department, Northwestern University. He taught the course, "History, Memory and the Atomic Bomb" in 2002. The course examined the clash between "history and memory" as laid bare in the continuing controversy over the united States' use of atomic bombs against Japan in 1945. Michael Flynn, Associate Director, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Professor at York College and John Jay College, CUNY. Randel Hanson, Assistant Professor, School of Justice Studies Arizona State University taught the course "Just Testing: Environmental and Health Legacies of Nuclear Weapons" in 2001. This course explored the history of nuclear weapons technologies from the point of view of their health and environmental dimensions. Sohail Hashmi Mount Holyoke College, taught the course: "Just War and Jihad: The Comparative Ethics of War and Peace" in 2002. Eric Markusen, Southwestern University, taught his course: "The Continuing Nuclear Threat" in 2001. This course explored the social, psychological, historical, political, and other dimensions of the continuing threat posed by nuclear weapons. Joseph Masco, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, taught his course "Ethnographies of the Nuclear Age II: Big Science and the National Security State," in 2001.
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Center on Terrorism 555 West 57th Street, Suite 604b New York, NY 10019
Required Courses CRJ 744 - Terrorism and Politics
Counter-Terrorism Electives CRJ 784 - Organized and Transnational Crime CRJ 819 - Counter-Terrorism CJ PAD 810 - Terrorism Financing
Apocalyptic Violence Electives Not offered this semester
Psychological Dimensions Electives PSY 729 - Psychology of Terrorism
Fall 2012 Seminar Series
September 14– Student meeting 2-3pm, followed by Seminar 3-5pm September 21 – Seminar 3-5pm October 12 – Seminar 3-5pm October 26 – Seminar 3-5pm November 9 – Seminar 3-5pm November 30 – Seminar 3-5pm December 7 – Student meeting 3-4pm, followed by Certificate Awards Party 4-6pm
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Fri, Oct 21, 11 at 18:59
I am applying a decorative iron-on patch to the front of a jacket and the instructions say to set iron to approx. 70/80 degrees. I have no idea if this is low, medium or high. Any suggestions? |
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Fahrenheit or Centigrade? |
@asolo - good question. I can't imagine 70/80F melting any adhesive sufficiently for a good bond. |
- Posted by suburbanmd (My Page) on Sat, Oct 22, 11 at 12:24
Right, Fahrenheit makes no sense, so it must be Celsius. 70-80 degC is the clothes iron setting for wool, based on a quick web search. It so happens that I used an iron-on patch yesterday, and indeed the instructions said to preheat the iron on the wool setting. |
Wool setting sounds about right. That's the first time I've seen a specific temperature given. I couldn't find any charts or equivalents by doing a web search. Thanks for your help. |
Hi, It's best to go with cotton settings. I think it's on medium settings on irons and apply pressure on the patch for about 20-30 seconds. You can find lots of useful information on iron on patches by visiting this site. www.irononpatches.info. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Iron on Patches
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Letters to the Editor
Promising News from Capitol Hill
I was thrilled to hear of President Clinton's allocation of $300 million more to diabetes research. Like you ("My Own Injection" April 1998), I too feel that the battle is only half won (maybe less than half), but for different reasons.
You may not yet know that the diabetes research group that is to decide how these funds are to be allocated is composed of over 50 delegates, including approximately 30 doctors, three parents of diabetics, and 18 representatives from the NIH. However, within this group of advisors there is no representative from the biologic replacement/transplant field - with the exception, perhaps, of Dr. Christopher Newgard, an expert in gene therapy who has some involvement in islet cell transplantation.
It will indeed be interesting to see what percentage of this $300 million will actually be allocated to translational, bench-to-bedside, pre-clinical or clinical trials in the field of transplantation. If this follows the pattern of what has been previously spent and allocated, we may expect less than five percent of this fund to be actually distributed for "cure-related research."
Camillo Ricordi, MD
Professor of Surgery and Medicine
Chief, Division of Cellular Transplantation
Scientific Director and Chief Academic Officer
Diabetes Research Institute
Preventing Pre-lunch Highs
Someone asked what to eat for breakfast to prevent pre-lunch highs in the Q&A section of a recent issue ("High Noon," April 1998). Well, I had high blood sugars after breakfast for 18 years. I got these highs no matter what I ate, or how much insulin I took (unless I managed to bottom out) until Humalog came along.
The questioner didn't say if she takes insulin, but if she does, Humalog might help. Now I can eat cereal or waffles with syrup, or even (gasp!) drink orange juice for breakfast, and three to four units of Humalog will give me a normal reading two hours after breakfast almost every time.
Also, Humalog does not work for me at lunch and supper, so I use Velosulin in my pump and take a shot of Humalog at breakfast. My quality of life has improved tremendously, as have my HbA1cs.
Carol Betzler
Two Cents Worth
I have two comments about the May issue:
- In Scott King's column ("Can Dr. Soon-Shiong Perform Miracles?") he writes of the work of Soon-Shiong and comments that pig islet cell transplants "could be a real cure for diabetes." This, in my opinion, is not true at all. There is no "real cure" until human islet cells are placed back into my body and protected from antibodies without the use of anti-rejection drugs.
- In the Q&A section, a reader asks about orange juice versus soda in the treatment of a low blood sugar ("Settling the Score"). While Dana Arnold correctly replies with the "rule of 15" for treatment, I'd like to add something regarding treating a low blood sugar with orange juice.
In a recent ADA support group meeting that I attended, a nutritionist (CDE) from the Warren Clinic of Tulsa commented that many health care personnel who provide dialysis treatment request that those needing dialysis not treat their low blood sugars with orange juice. Their reason: orange juice throws off the electrolyte levels in the blood and makes it hard to get a proper blood level balance.
Jeffrey Jodoin
Kudos on the Chromium Review
Thank you for publishing a review of Dr. Richard Anderson's study on the effects of chromium on type 2 diabetes. Since Dr. Anderson first presented the results of his study at the ADA convention in June of 1996, I have been recommending chromium picolinate to my patients at the 1000 mcg dose for a trial period of at least one month.
In this past year, four of my patients age 65 and over, have reduced blood glucose levels greater than 100 mg/dl in one month with this dosage. All four were newly diagnosed, not on oral medications and referred for initial diet and diabetes counseling.
One of my male patients, age 65, reduced glucose levels from 310 to 165 in one month with 1000 mcg chromium picolinate. Another 80-year-old patient saw results of 195 to 85 in just two weeks of chromium supplementation. And just last week, another patient, age 92, with one month of 1000 mcg chromium reduced blood glucose from 185 to 100. My younger type 2 patients see results as well, but not as dramatic.
I am also seeing an initial weight loss of two to five kg in my overweight patients that levels off after one month on chromium picolinate. It is becoming clear to me that a chromium deficiency is contributing to the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States. The reason chromium supplements work well in older clients is the increasing potential of chromium deficiency with aging. Not only do I advise chromium supplements, but a full spectrum of vitamin and mineral supplements - especially antioxidants, B vitamins, magnesium and zinc as well.
When I first started recommending chromium supplements, I met with intense opposition from some pharmacists, physicians and dietitians at my facility and, in fact, had to stop recommending chromium supplements. Your article has helped me regain my credibility in this area. Since circulating this article to the staff at the hospital, I now have physicians prescribing chromium supplements. Thank you for your continuing balance and objectivity in your reporting in DIABETES HEALTH.
Joanne Shearer RD, MS, CDE
East Helena, Mont.
The following letters are in response to Scott King's June column "A Brave Soldier: Steven Craig is Gone but not Forgotten."
Your Stephen Craig story was sad and moving. However, it reinforces my conviction that transplants, grafts, etc. are not cures. There is much more to diabetes than replacing parts.
Michel Eytan
I do not believe that just because a person has diabetes that they will commit suicide. I do not believe that just because a person is in poor control (which they can control if they work at it) and has complications that they will commit suicide. But once again, only the individual will know.
Persons with diabetes are not victims, don't treat us as such.
Jeffrey Jodoin
I believe that Mr. Craig should be remembered as someone who helped our case in his own way, not as someone who committed suicide, had marital and financial problems. The latter is none of our business and I believe you lacked judgment in publishing this aspect of the story.
Jacques Masson
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april 2014
The Joyce Foundation recently released this short video from our November 2013 SHORE residency at Studio 206 in Minneapolis. So excited for the SHORE premiere in June!
august 2013
SHORE Preview Party and Benefit
Sunday September 29th, 3 - 7pm
Northrop Plaza, U of MN (outdoors)
Live music, readings, & performance
Silent Auction
Beer, wine, & hors d'oeuvres
SHORE will be equal parts volunteerism, storytelling, performance, and feasting.
To celebrate the making of this work and Catalyst's 15 year anniversary we're throwing a party!
Come celebrate with us on September 29th - get a sneak peek of SHORE, tour the new Northrop Theater, and help us raise funds for this project!
Tickets, more information, and stories from the past 15 years coming soon...
Making SHORE
We'll continue work with an upcoming residency with performers Aretha Aoki and Krista Langberg, composers James Everest and Nona Marie Invie (Dark Dark Dark and Anonymous Choir); some Practice Potlucks; volunteer actions in Minneapolis; and some large cast and choir work down on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Do you have ideas for volunteer actions in your community? Want to host a Practice Potluck? Get in touch! Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Volunteering and dancing at Harbor Park in Grand Marais
Good Things
I feel so lucky when projects like this come along. Last spring one of my favorite bands, the irresistibly irreverent, ALPHA CONSUMER, asked me to choreograph their music video: The Eat. Rock Music. Dancing in Bags. Good People. Yes Please. SPIN Magazine released it last week. Love it like I do?
Directed by the infamous Chuck Statler
Danced by the heavenly cloaked Karen Sherman, Megan Meyer, Jessica Cressey, James Everest, Hannah Kramer, and Emily Johnson
I just returned from an inspiring Creative Capital retreat with current and past grantees and colleagues. The work in the world right now is amazing. I came home energized! You can read about current fellows and our work here on the Creative Capital website and here on Hyperallergic. Thank you, Creative Capital, for funding and support!
Julia Bither, who was our fantastic intern last year and who is now working with us had a goal of jumping into a lake everyday this summer. I'm not sure if she's done it - I'll ask her tomorrow when she comes over for work... But with a gorgeous goal like that, who really cares about the outcome? Thank you Julia, for joining Catalyst!
We need to protect our wild salmon. The proposed Pebble Mine threatens the largest wild sockeye fishery in the world. 10 billion tons of toxic mine waste would devastate this fish, the streams, rivers, wetlands, the thousands- of-years-old harvest and subsistance by my Yup'ik relatives, and the livlihoods of commercial fishers. Help us.
Places to get information and take action:
Did I mention Catalyst is 15 this year? How time has flown and how good it has been making dances for you.
Much love,
May 2013
Niicugni in Alaska and Portland, OR
We are in Alaska, where Niicugni was born. It is good to bring it home! It's also good to share this place I love with Aretha, James, Heidi, Max, and Russ! As I write this to you, they are out on the ocean with my parents, fishing. Eagles perch on the roof of our theater everyday. We've had breakfast with my grandma, spent time with my niece and nephew, walked on a few beaches. How lucky we are! Back in Minneapolis my collaborators and I will begin our new work, SHORE, with summer residencies and work-in-progress showings. |
This is Where we Are This is our theater. Kenai Beach. Grandma's old smokehouse. Heading into Homer. Gull Island. xoxoxo. |
april 2013
This Sunday, April 21 at 7pm
Quyana to everyone in New York, at Keene St., at ASU, and in Miami. We have enjoyed making and performing THIS for you. |
October 2012
The Thank-you Bar wins a 2012 "Bessie" Award!We are so humbled and honored to have been awarded a Bessie Award for The Thank-you Bar for our November 2011 performances at New York Live Arts. Huge, heartfelt thanks to Carla Peterson and all the NYLA staff, to Aretha Aoki, our NYC "secret" dancer, to everyone who has supported this work, and to everyone who attended the shows - we are really blown away. Emily and James attended the awards ceremony at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, and that alone was a huge thrill.
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION (of a work in the expanding field of new art, dance, and performance practice):
"For gently and deftly coaxing an audience into a community, holding them spellbound with stories spoken and unspoken; For seamlessly interweaving Blackfish's music with the magical transformations of paper into ice, and dry leaves into water; For reminding us that we all come from a place unknowable, yet knownA 2012 New York Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding Production goes to Emily Johnson For The Thank-you Bar at New York Live Arts."
Niicugni premieres in Tallahassee!
After over two years of work creating it, Niicugni finally premiered at The Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival in Tallahassee Florida, co-presented by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Such a thrill to finally perform this piece, and have it born into the world. Thank you to all the volunteers and staff who participated and made it all happen. It was a magical night for us all. Niicugni will continue to tour to MassMoCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC), Red Fern Arts Center at Keane State College (NH), and many other venues across the country into 2013. Come see us! (see below)
Niicugni photo by Cameron Wittig
September 21, 2012: Co-Presentation of the Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
November 17, 2012: MassMoca
January 8-12, 2013: Baryshnikov Arts Center and Performance Space 122 as part of the 8th Annual COIL Festival, NYC
February 13, 2013: Co-presented by the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College and Vermont Performance Lab at Redfern Arts Center
March 2, 2013: ASU Gammage, Phoenix, Arizona
March 22 - 23, 2013: Tigertail & Miami Dade County Auditorium, Miami Florida
April 21, 2013: Northrop Dance and The O'Shaughnessy Present Women of Substance at St. Catherine University, St. Paul/Minneapolis
May 24-25, 2013: Bunnell St. Gallery & Pier One Theater, Homer, Alaska
June 8-9, 2013: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art & Bodyvox Studio Theater
June 2012
2012, coming and going
2012 is nearly half done, can you believe it? And I have been meaning to write to you since it began. Woe! My steady friends who purposefully or inadvertently signed up on my mailing list - either way - oh, my friends I meant to write to you in January, then February, March....and maybe it was a good thing you didn't have another email or two in your inbox - I understand how that is - but I have missed you. I make these dances for you and I think of you all the time! Last week someone told me that it'd been two lifetimes since we'd seen one another. Lives within lives. That's how it goes sometimes.
Here's what's been happening...(besides entering my LATE thirties - yes it does feel different, very different - swimming in the Pacific, planting Morning Glories, and stopping traffic to save a turtle who when I picked it up, peed on my leg)...
Our Actions
I make dances for you, yes. I also live in this tired world. Let's make it less tired!
Emily Johnson/Catalyst supports and joins Minnesotans United for All Families and joins TONS OF MINNESOTANS who are against the constitutional amendment to ban marriage for same-sex couples. We will love love and rights in November.
Emily Johnson/Catalyst tours the country via cars and airplanes. While offsetting carbon isn't a cure, it helps. I calculate our carbon and purchase offsets to reduce Catalyst's greenhouse pollution and meet our sustainability goals. Native Energy is the place. They're great and they build projects that create sustainable economic benefits for Native Americans, Alaska Native Villages, family farmers, and rural communities. Last year we were able to offset ALL of our tour initiated carbon which supported the Iowa Farms Wind Project and the Wewoka Biogas Project.
In April I was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts - a place made holy and good-crazy by the practices of so many good-crazy artists: my new friends and colleagues. I made Body, an installation for the land under the one-hundred-year-old-gymnasium-that-was-my-studio. I was trying to lift the ground up through the floor and move through the walls, out to the hills and I needed to undo a little bit of the.....well, we were in an old fort and I was unnerved. Here is what I think: That dancing in/of past, present, and future is a shaking - is a way of transforming this place we are caught up in, this place of concrete knowing (only), of forced worldview, of bunkers on mountains. Are you with me? I also combed through Niicugni and wrote as many monster stories as I could muster and did research for SHORE by volunteering at the Marin Native Plant Nursery -- now one of my favorite places. LOVE to all the Sticky Monkey Flowers of Marin County (and to Alisa, Annette, and Daisy). There was an open house one day - 800 people CAME THROUGH Body and helped wash seedling pots for the nursery, too -- volunteerism as part of performance as part of research for SHORE. Oh, and I made a massive halibut-skin lantern from one of our delicious dinners - thank you to Damon, Brydee, and Harold for help. 26 lanterns done. 24 to go.
Body, with sound design by James Everest
Niicugni (Listen)
Niicugni premieres in September! Do you think I can finish it in time? Can we all close our eyes right now and say......"yes...."..."yes...."yes..."... (quyana, thank you if you did that).
Niicugni is housed within a light/sound installation of hand-made, functional fish lanterns. It equates land with cells that comprise our bodies and calls upon US to remember that land is alive with ancestry, memory, and possibility, and that our bodies also hold these things. Present, Past, and Future together. (Yesterday someone told me that there is no past. I heartily disagree). This is also the work that brought monsters into my life. So many of you have offered your stories and ideas of and about these crazy-bad monsters. Some ideas from you: we should tell them stories, they will take care of themselves, we must acknowledge them, we must make fun of them, we must call them out, we cannot ever call them out, we should ignore them, they are in us, they are outside of us, they spark the fire of protest, they are ever-present, they need to die, they will never die.....I don't know what the answer is. It's been a fascinating conversation.
Upcoming research: visiting the quietest room ON EARTH. My goal is one hour inside utter silence. I will tell you about it if I don't go mad.
Niicugni rehearsals. Emily and Aretha. Photos by Al Hall and Chris Cameron.
Here's where Niicugni will tour to - come see:
September 21, 2012: Co-Presentation of the Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
January, 2013: Performance Space 122 as part of the 8th Annual COIL Festival, NYC
February 13, 2013: Co-presented by the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College and Vermont Performance Lab at Redfern Arts Center
March 2, 2013: ASU Gammage, Phoenix, Arizona
March 22 - 23, 2013: Tigertail, Miami Florida
April 11- 13, 2013: Bunnell St. Gallery, Homer, Alaska
April 21, 2013: Northrop Dance and The O'Shaughnessy Present Women of Substance at St. Catherine University, St. Paul/Minneapolis
June 2013: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Fish-skin Lantern Making Workshop
We're doing another one in Minneapolis. This week. It's really fun. A little messy at first. You learn the whole process, from filleting the fish, to skinning and sewing. We use wild-caught salmon and halibut, have a feast, and your lantern becomes part of the hanging installation for Niicugni. It's free. If you are in Minneapolis and want to come join us, email Max at firstname.lastname@example.com. He'll send you the details. Registration is necessary.
On May 31st at 7pm I was on top of an 8 foot aluminum clad room/box with Minouk Lim inside a dark gallery full of people at the Walker Art Center performing Fireclif 3, a commission from the visual art department at the Walker and a collaboration with Minouk, incorporating her wearable sculptures that make me think of nature and industry and things that have washed up on the beach. A pedestrian styled, highly danced, never ending, never beginning performance with humming, singing, drooling mouths, and stories of whales-John Cage-trees-bones-silence-etching sound-space between-ash-vampires, which at one point bounced to the music and at another moved time backwards. There was also stunning, live infrared video. Thank you to the Walker, to Clara Kim, to Minouk and her team, and to performers Arwen Wilder, Max Wirsing, Ashley Akpaka, Katie Vang, and Paige Collette. NYT. ArtForum.
photo by Cameron Wittig
June: A Super Fun, Large Cast, Celebratory Endurance Dance Based on Walking, Some Running, A Large Spiral, and Singing Names commissioned by the McKnight Foundation in honor of 30 years of artist fellowships.
July: Speaking about The Politics of Place for the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan and painting a wall at Madame for the Arts in Minneapolis as research for SHORE.
Where (we) Live with So Percussion, Ain Gordon, Grey McMurray, and Martin Schmidt. I love this project so much I can barely tell you about it. A few words from rehearsal yesterday: descend, open everything, exaggerate until everything makes sense. We'll be at the Walker Art Center in September, at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena, Montana in October, and at BAM in December.
I'm dancing with Body Cartography Project in Super Nature. A super awesome, weird, lovely, amazing dance you should come see at the Walker Art Center in October, at COIL Festival in January, and in San Diego in February. It's also a really hard dance -- LATE thirties and all...can I do it? We recently bodied an installation at the Walker, dancing one at a time in front of one person at a time. I learned that you cannot fake empathy (did I think you could do that before?). Lightsey Darst wrote about it: empathy
Oh and next time I write to you I'll be able to share a music video. What? Yes. A music video I'm making with one of my favorite bands, Alpha Consumer. Hello friends, we'll be in there, dancing, or something similar.
San Francisco, Vermont, New York, and Now
Much love,
november 2011
The Thank-you Bar in New York
We opened last night with a wonderfully warm crowd here in NYC.
The Thank -you Bar is housed beautifully on the New York Live Arts stage and I am honored to be here. We would love to share it with you!
Please come see the show!
You can get tickets here, or call the NYLA Box Office: 212.924.0077
Shows times:
Tonight (Thursday) 11/10 at 7:30 and 9:30pm
Friday 11/11 at 7:30 and 9:30pm
Saturday 11/12 at 5:00 and 7:30pm, BLACKFISH concert at 9:00pm
Anna Marie Shogren did an interview with me on
Critcal Correspondence:
An excerpt:
Anna: I am curious..working with a physical medium, do the ideas feed into each other? Do you feel like there was a different way of dealing with movement?
Emily: Often I will dance and I will try to put my mind somewhere else, and I will try to be back in Alaska. But, that's too broad. I will find a specific place, or a specific time, or a specific visual landscape to do it in. A physical interaction between past and present, that's obviously only actually present. But, somehow, for me at those times, it merges. It becomes where there isn't that much space between past and present and future. I think that is the truth about our physical body, is that we are all those times at once. Maybe physical action is the only true place that you can find that sublime sense of time where it is all at once. I can be standing in Minneapolis but, I can also at the same time, with intention, be at my grandma's house in Alaska or I could be in New York. Maybe talking about it makes it seem like that can't be true, but it really is.
We're featured on CultureBot
And here's an interview with This Week in New York
While in New York
I've been rehearsing our NEW dance, Niicugni with the Amazing Aretha Aoki. I also spent a day rehearsing with SO PERCUSSION at their studio. We're working together on their new piece, Where We Live, for premiere in 2012.
Rehearsing with SO
BLACKFISH: 8CD Collection
Two weeks ago BLACKFISH (James Everest and Joel Pickard) released a gorgeous limited edition, letter-pressed, 8 CD collection of concert recordings from the past two years. Tallahassee, Homer, Tulsa, Portland, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Houston and Brattleboro. You can listen at the BLACKFISH bandcamp site, or buy it at the new Catalyst Store.
THIS IS DISPLACEMENT: Exhibition Catalogue
We made a book! It's a dream come true! Images from the exhibit, stories and biographies from the artists, a foreword by Heid Erdrich, and ten languages: Ojibwe, Dakota, Lakota, Diné, Otoe, Cherokee, Iñupiaq, Ponca, Eastern Cherokee, English.
You can get your own copy: here.
Quyana-Thank you to EVERYONE who helped to make our fall fundraiser a success. Thank you for joining us, sending us your good wishes and supporting our work with your generous donations!
Love from NY,
September 2011
Emily Johnson/Catalyst Preview Party & Book Launch Benefit
Saturday, Sept 17th at 7pm
Southern Theater
1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis
We're having a benefit to support and preview our new dance installation, Niicugni (Listen), and celebrate the release of our THIS IS DISPLACEMENT exhibition catalogue. Enjoy live music, poetry, and dance performances in the theater, h'ordeuvres and cocktails in the lobby, a crafted silent auction, and DJ Jen Downham's Groove Garden. Please join us!
These are just some of the spectacular artists whose amazing artworks are part of our crafted silent auction:
Maren Kloppmann!
Alec Soth!
Carolyn Lee Anderson!
Jonathan Whitney!
Andrea Carlson!
Jason Jaglo!
I am thrilled. You can also bid on a handmade salmon-skin lantern, a dance created for you by me, good things from Birchbark Books, and a few more hand-picked items....
Fantastic performances featuring:
James Everest and Bethany Lacktorin, performing excerpts from their original Niicugni installation soundscore. Brilliant Duluth singer songwriter, Toby Thomas Churchill. The sublime poet Jay Bad Heart Bull, whose poems are featured in THIS IS DISPLACEMENT. Jeffrey Skemp's dark, quirky poetry with live musical accompaniment, and 11-year old Olivia Vang, who has some brand new tunes for us& (some of you will remember Olivia from our benefit in 2009....).
We'll also be giving you a little peek into our new dance. It's performed by me, Aretha Aoki, James Everest, Bethany Lacktorin, and Heidi Eckwall. You'll get to check out our brand new fish-skin sound installation up close and even work a bit on making one (a fish-skin lantern) if you'd like.
You will love:DJ Jen Downham's Groove Garden
And we will love you.
You will enjoy:
H'ordeuvres by Red Stag Supper Club.
And, of course, there will be:
wine and beer, thanks to ZIPPS.
Hope to see you,
April 2010
The Thank-you Bar in Oklahoma!
In March we were part of the New Genre Festival at Living Arts of Tulsa, along with great friends Art Spot Productions/Mondo Bizarro and Kristina Wong. The audiences in Tulsa were incredible – I can't wait to go back!
It was quite interesting to perform a piece that is so linked to land/identity in Oklahoma - a land ingrained with the lives and deaths of displaced and relocated peoples - the promises of land "as long as the rivers flow and the grass is green" and the reality of sooners, land grabbers, and lies. The Thank-you Bar is not exactly a "political" piece, but here, it felt political. I was conscious of this and questioning of our role and relatively short relationship to this place. Prior to our performances I reached out to friends from or very familial with Oklahoma. I was graced with personal histories, accounts, and a feeling that doing this piece in Oklahoma was the exact right risk to take. I had some of my most ultimately heartfelt connections to audiences in Oklahoma. One audience member told me the show changed her life and I am humbled by her response.
BLACKFISH performed an amazing concert and I believe a new CD is on it's way. Keep an eye out for BLACKFISH 3: Tulsa, it was recorded in a very live room with the sounds of history creaking up off the floors!
THIS IS DISPLACEMENT: Native Artists Consider the Relationship Between Land & Identity existed in Tulsa because of our collaboration with oklaDADA. oklaDADA is a collective of Indian Artists networking and promoting Indigenous perspectives to create opportunities that give voice to Indian cultural identities. Thank you to all of the artists who contributed to this exhibit, especially Richard Ray Whitman who organized much of this collective work. As I rehearsed down the street, artists were pouring into the exhibit space, bringing paintings, photographs, lithographs – work that spoke so clearly and viscerally to the ills of displacement. Many of these works will now tour with This is Displacement. Please see the news page of my friend and co-curator, Carolyn Lee Anderson for a much more in-depth re-telling of this exhibit. Carolyn and I are both honored to be part of a growing, changing, and alive collection of art.
december 2009
The Thank-you Bar premiere!
We enjoyed a wonderful, sold-out premiere tour of The Thank-you Bar in Alaska in October. BLACKFISH performed 4 concerts in conjunction with this tour (a new CD is forthcoming!) and we celebrated the opening of the related exhibit, This is Displacement: Native Artists Consider the Relationship Between Land and Identity. Thank you to all of the artists who were part of this exhibit and to our audiences in Anchorage and Homer!
I am happy we premiered in my home-land.
I am happy my grandma was at opening night.
I am happy we performed for the gutsy, deep-rooted audiences who came
to see us and that the man who I thought was not enjoying the show brought
his granddaughter back to see it the following night.
I am humbled by the listening eyes I saw and the new stories told to me.
I am excited about the strength of the Native artists in Alaska.
I am honored that the land welcomed me back.
Next up for the Thank-you Bar:
We next perform The Thank-you Bar at the New Genre Festival in Tulsa,
Oklahoma March 5 & 6, 2010, along with friends Mondo Bizarro and Kristina Wong! Come to Tulsa!
Exciting news!!
Catalyst was recently awarded a touring grant from the New England Foundation
for the Arts to help support the 2010 - 2011 touring season of The Thank-you
Bar! I am working on setting up the tours now, so if you are interested
in having The Thank-you Bar and its related activities come to your community/city/theater
please contact me NOW as deadlines are approaching.
A new show opens THIS MONTH
This month Terrible Things premieres at PS 122 in New York City. Terrible
Things is a collaboration between Pearldamour and Catalyst's Emily Johnson,
performed by Katie Pearl, Emily Johnson, Karen Sherman, Morgan Thorson,
Adrian Czmielewski and Rudy de la Cruz. Also look for Terrible Things
at the COIL Festival at PS 122 in January, 2010.
Quyana, everyone.
Emily J.
october 2009
Catalyst premieres The Thank-you Bar at Out North, in Anchorage, Alaska October 8 – 11, 2009, along with the accompanying art exhibit THIS IS DISPLACEMENT: Native Artists Consider the Relationship Between Land & Identity (co-curated with Carolyn Anderson) and concerts by BLACKFISH. See our upcoming shows page for more information!
We then tour down to Homer, Alaska for shows October 16 – 18 at Bunnell St. Arts Center.
In December, Terrible Things (created with Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl) premieres at PS122 in NYC. Terrible Things is performed by Katie Pearl, along with Emily Johnson, Karen Sherman, and Morgan Thorson.
Watch for our 2010/11 tour of The Thank-you Bar... dates and locations coming soon!
december 2008
2009 holds many exciting projects...
THE THANK-YOU BAR, which is a new solo I am working on with composers James Everest and Joel Pickard will have its pre-premiere at Franconia Sculpture Park (MN) in September, 2009 and then its official world premiere at OutNorth Contemporary Art House (Anchorage, AK) in October, 2009.
ADY, a play written by Rhianna Yazzie, with scene design by Carolyn Anderson and choreography by me will open in Minneapolis at Pangea World Theater in November, 2009.
And TERRIBLE THINGS, an amazing new project by Lisa D'Amour, Katie Pearl, and myself will open for a two-week run at PS 122 in NYC in December, 2009.
In addition, I am thrilled to be a 2009 Maggie Allesee National Center For Choreography fellow. My time spent at MANCC will include roving performances with the local community, rehearsals for the THE THANK-YOU BAR, and loads of research at the Oral History Library.
I am truly honored to work with so many amazing, inspiring, and incredibly talented collaborators in the coming months. Please check back for updates and come see some shows!
-Emily Johnson
Director, Catalyst
december 2007
2007 is almost to a close and I could list the many performances Catalyst had throughout the year, and give you a heads up on what is to come, and this would probably be the smart thing to do....but, I am not in such a directorial, strategizing mood (I often am not) - and I looked up from my computer and I saw this poem and it seems more important to share than any news I have at the moment.
Who could ever tire of this heart-stopping transition, of this breakthrough shift between seeing and knowing you see, between being and knowing you be? It drives you to a life of concentration, it does, in which effort draws you down so very deep that when you surface you twist up exhilarated with a yelp and a gasp.
Who could ever tire of this radiant transition, this surfacing to awareness and this deliberate plunging to oblivion - the theater curtain rising and falling? Who could tire of it when the sum of those moments at the edge - the conscious life we so dread losing - is all we have, the gift at the moment of opening it
-- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
january 2007
Catalyst enjoyed a fine 2006 with performances at the Rogue Buddha Art Gallery in Minneapolis (thank you RBG,) at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, on the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota, on a farm in Nebraska, along 35W in Iowa and as part of KICK! in Montreal, Quebec.
"Capture!," the dance-film series Catalyst and Firetrunk produce at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis continued with 5 screenings of experimental dance films from around the world.
And, our work was featured in MentalContagion, the Star Tribune and in the November issue of Dance Magazine.
For our next adventure we go to Austin, Texas where we are bring presented by Dance Umbrella with shows at the soon to be demolished site of Gallery Lombardi(January 25-28 @ 8pm , 910 W. 3rd St., Austin TX, www.danceumbrella.com.)
Also in January - Dance Theater Workshop is screening our film Wingspan 5'2" in their video dance series Captured. The film screens the entire month whenever DTW is open.
If you're in Minneapolis, look for the second installment of the experimental dance series, Windfarm at the Rogue Buddha Art Gallery, with special guests in February, March and April.
And - if you're anywhere near Chicago, you're going to want to be at Links Hall every weekend in March as Tramp moves the work of 5 independent choreographing entities (Catalyst, Hijack, Karen Sherman, Morgan Thorson and Laurie Van Wieren)from Minneapolis to Chicago for a month filled with performances, workshops,receptions, post show discussions, informal gatherings of dance professionals and a symposium. Links will post the info soon at www.linkshall.org.
Here's to a happy and healthy 2007...
Emily Johnson
Director, Catalyst
summer 2006
June brings the entire Catalyst dance company to the eastern coast of the U.S.A.; we're performing in New York City for the first time: Heat and Life at Dance Theater Workshop June 28- July 1. We're cooperating with New York's "Citizens Campaign for the Environment," holding post show discussions and conversations on the subject of global warming. They're a great organization that has really helped us get the word out about the show. Find out more info on them at www.cce.org.
For a recent interview about this show see Mental Contagion.
To hear a recent podcast interview go to Great Dance.
And, of course, to buy tickets go to www.dtw.org!!
While in New York, JG Everest - the composer and musician (who also performs with us in Heat and Life) will play a solo show at Tonic with Berlin based "electro-pop-princess" Barbara Morgenstern. It's going to be a very cool show. Check out the details and listen to samples at:
This fall, Catalyst will perform Heat and Life on a farm in Nebraska and in public spaces in South Dakota and Iowa - all part of our goal of bringing Heat and Life to every state in the U.S.A. While on this massive 50-State-Tour we donate to www.gocarbonzero.com - our way of trying to off-set the carbon emissions created for our flights and driving. Try it (or, of course, try driving less!).
New work is on the horizon as well, as we continue to work on "Windfarm." Windfarm is our version of the future... complete with stilt walking. Look for it in 2007.
Capture! the dance series produced by Catalyst at the Bryant Lake Bowl in MInneapolis continues with some exciting fall programming including work by Julyen Hamilton. We're always on the search for new dance films, you can send them (with a SASE if you want it returned) throughout the year (see the Capture! page of our website).
Thanks for your time. Come see some dancing.
Emily Johnson
Director, Catalyst
january 2006
Happy New Year!
Welcome to our newly redesigned website. I've never tried this 'news forum' before, but plan to update it monthly - so check back often.
I'm starting out the new year with an intensive travel schedule, heading to Amsterdam to study with Julyen Hamilton, Brussels to visit the P.A.R.T.S studios, and Berlin - mostly to check out the scene. I hope to return to Minneapolis invigorated and inspired, ready for 2006.
2005 was, in large part, spent in fundraising and administrative mode as I am working to move Catalyst's dance piece "Heat and Life" to all 50 states in the U.S. "Heat and Life" is a work about global warming and this 50-State-Tour will cover enough ground to define the U.S. as a site where art-based work can be seen and be an impetus for change. That, at least - is my hope.
We are on our way toward the 50-state goal with performances scheduled in New York at Dance Theater Workshop June 28-July 1 and Links Hall (Chicago) March 2007. Rogue performances will also happen in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana this year, bringing our state count up to 8.
February in Minneapolis brings Catalyst to the highly hip Rogue Buddha art gallery with 3 performances in a series called "windfarm." I'm excited to bring some new work to this space, the first show includes longtime Catalyst dancers Melissa Kennedy, Vanessa Voskuil, Natasha Hassett and joining us for the first time - dancer Allison Lorenzen and violinist Jess Hayssen. I'm hoping to get a tattoo artist involved in this show, but am not sure I quite have the guts to be the one tattooed.
I wish you the best in 2006. May we all work for peace.
-Emily Johnson
Director, Catalyst


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0VERLAND PARK, KS – The Johnson County Community College men's track team had an impressive two days at the Iowa State Open in Ames, Iowa, over the weekend. The Cavaliers posted national qualifying marks in six individual events and one relay, and one school record was established.
Sophomore thrower Caniggia Raynor of Greater Portmore, Jamaica, broke a 13-year record in the weight throw. He recorded a throw of 58-10, which placed him second and shattered the previous record of 57-3 set by B.J. Linnenbrink in the 2000 indoor season. Raynor also owns the third and fourth best marks recorded in school history.
Johnson County's 4x400 relay team, comprised by Marquel Nickens, Mark Sitek, Hans Pitia and Nickson Baselle, raced to a runner-up finish and posted a NQM with a time of 3:18.59. Sitek also qualified for nationals in the 200-meters, and Nickens recorded NQMs in both the 200-meters and 400-meters. He was seventh overall in the 400 with a time of 49.26.
The final two national qualifiers came in the 1,000-meter run. Freshman Kampo Wiebe placed 15th with a time of 2:34.62, and sophomore Kurt Vukas finished 19th with a time of 2:35-97.
Johnson County will host the annual Cavalier Night Relays on Friday, Jan. 25 in the Fieldhouse. The field events will begin at 4 p.m., and the preliminary round for the 60-meter dash and hurdles is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
JCCC's February schedule includes trips to the University of Central Missouri, the University of Arkansas (qualifiers) and a return trip to Iowa State University before closing out the month at the Region VI/Jayhawk Conference Championships at Kansas State University.


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