Möbius

Welcome to the website for the Möbius Initiative. Hither we showcase some of the heady projects in which Gustavus faculty and students are collaborating across disciplinary boundaries. The Möbius Initiative takes its name from the Möbius strip, a continuous curve with merely one side; with this name nosotros celebrate the breaking of disciplinary boundaries that characterizes the liberal arts tradition. You tin read more than nigh the initiative in JJ Akin's article. Bring together u.s.a. at the Möbius events listed below, and consider submitting a proposal for your ain Möbius project.

Classics, Biology, and Reproduction: Educational activity and Learning Across the Disciplines: Professors Yurie Hong (Classics) and Margaret Bloch Qazi (Biology) talk near their interdisciplinary collaboration on their innovative course, "Conceiving Reproduction: Nature and Social club in the Ancient and Modern Worlds," which they taught spring semester 2018.

The Changing Agricultural Mural of Southern Minnesota: Farmers' Perspectives: This cursory video offers an introduction to the larger interdisciplinary collaboration between Gustavus Professors Annika Ericksen (Sociology and Anthropology) and Anna Versluis (Geography), forth with their students, on changes in agriculture in southern Minnesota. Their project includes numerous interviews with farmers, a few snippets of which you will encounter hither. It is an interesting, of import, timely, and illuminating study at a fourth dimension when farmers and all of us confront quite enormous challenges of food production in the context of primal and accelerating changes to the agronomical sector and the climate itself.

History, Biology, and Eugenics/Genetics: Teaching and Learning Across the Disciplines: Professors Maddalena Marinari (History) and Laura Burrack (Biology) talk about the challenges and rewards of their innovative collaboration in jump semester 2018 educational activity a form that combined their interdisciplinary perspectives, methods, and pedagogies.

Thursday, Feb 18 at 4pm :: The Courtyard Café

Thought Forms: a fireside chat by Kristen Lowe (Fine art & Art History), Haley Bong 'sixteen (Communications and Fine art Studio) and Scott Bur (Chemical science) exploring the space between forming probabilities (science) and countless possibilities (art ). Prof. Lowe and Haley Bell participated as artis ts-in- residence in Prof. Bur'southward Orga nic and Synthetic Chemistry research. Read almost their unique collaboration and view examples of their piece of workin the following news story.

Haley Bell

 Thursday, March iii at 3pm :: The Dive

Oedipus in Jail: a staged reading by Gustavus students of Oedipus in Jail, a new play by Julian Armitstead and Michael Crowley, two British playwrights whose work in prisons inspires this disquisitional look at the justice system. The playwrights participate via live video link in a talkback later. Directed by Amy Seham (Theatre and Trip the light fantastic) and Eric Dugdale (Classics). Read about the play and the issue in the article by Kim Krulish in the Gustavian Weekly.


Th, March 17 at 7pm :: Three Crowns Room, Jackson Campus Center

The Exorcism of Economism: Addressing Issues of Humanity and Dignity of Life: Kristian Braekkan (Economics) and Brian Konkol (Chaplain'due south Office) talk about their research on dehumanization nether capitalism. In this volume projection, they synthesize theological and Marxist perspectives on the dehumanizing elements of selling ane's labor power while having to consume in order to be considered "productive."

Wed, April 20 at 6pm :: Alumni Hall

Jubilant The Passover Seder: this educational campus-wide Seder offers an opportunity to feel a nearly two-yard-year-old tradition that has deep significance for Jews and many Christians. Organized by Marian Broida (Religion), the Seder incorporates song, readings, a delicious meal, and a traditional game. Casey Elledge (Religion) talks most the significance of Passover in the New Attestation and Christianity, and ways in which some modern Christian denominations have celebrated Passover. Read virtually the event in the article by Megan Eide.

A reflective moment at the Passover Seder

Wednesday, April 12, 12:30pm :: NCAA Room, Lund

Competitive Beliefs in Female Athletes: Bonnie Reimann (Wellness & Practise Science), Hayley Russell (Wellness & Exercise Science), and Sarah Wolter (Communication Studies) present their collaborative research on competitive behavior in female person athletes, examining types of competitive behaviors, contexts in which the behaviors occur, and ways in which players display them.

Forms of Justice in Aeschylus'Eumenides : Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) and Eric Dugdale (Classics) collaborated on an article titled "Forms of Justice in Aeschylus' Eumenides," published inPolis, the journal for ancient Greek political idea (Polis 34:226-250). In this article, they explore the unlike forms of justice presented in Aeschylus'Eumenides and examine the resolution of the conflict in the post-trial phase of the play in the light of principles and practices of modern restorative justice.

In endmost, I would like to acknowledge the support of the Kendall Center, the benefactors of the Hanson-Peterson Chair in Liberal Studies, and the Provost'due south Office.

Greg Kaster, Hanson-Peterson Professor in Liberal Studies