Friday, April 3
4-5 pm
Classroom Office Building, room 100
While all of the colloquiums we have had are special in their own way, this week's offering is extra special. Joining us this Friday April 3 will be Academy Award winning documentary video and filmmaker, and Notre Dame professor, Jill Godmillow. Professor Godmillow will screen her film "What Farocki Taught" at 4pm and then be available for a question and answer session immediately after. The screening will take place in Classroom Office Building Room 100.
Later that evening, as part of CMCL's Underground Film Series, Professor Godmillow will screen her award winning film "Far From Poland." This screening will take place in the Radio and Television Building Room 251 at 7pm. Another Q and A session will take place following this screening.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Union Board Presents: CMCL Alumnus Christian Lander
Apr 6, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Whittenberger Auditorium
Lander will speak about the wild ride of starting a blog that went viral and his subsequent best-selling book, “Stuff White People Like”. Lander’s self-deprecating humor examines how a new generation is avoiding the competition of who has the nicest car or biggest house, but is being swept up instead in an ironic competition to see who can be the most unique and hip.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Whittenberger Auditorium
Lander will speak about the wild ride of starting a blog that went viral and his subsequent best-selling book, “Stuff White People Like”. Lander’s self-deprecating humor examines how a new generation is avoiding the competition of who has the nicest car or biggest house, but is being swept up instead in an ironic competition to see who can be the most unique and hip.
IU Department of Telecommunications Seminar (T600) Series
Talking While Driving – An Overview of Driver Electronic Device Use in the United States
Speaker: Jianqiang (Tony) Ye (IU Telecom)
Friday, April 3, 2009
12:30-1:45 pm
RTV226
Abstract:
By June 2008, about 263 million Americans subscribed to such wireless telecommunication devices as cell phones and the wireless penetration has reached 84 percent of the U.S. population. As ownership of cell phones have increased so rapidly, the use of cell phones while driving has become a major concern of the public. This presentation first briefly outlines approaches of current studies on driver electronic device use. I then focus on presenting results from the National Occupants Protection Use Survey (NOPUS): trends and demographics in use of hand-held cell phones, speaking with headsets on and manipulating hand-held devices. Finally, I introduce some state and federal initiatives in addressing this issue.
Speaker: Jianqiang (Tony) Ye (IU Telecom)
Friday, April 3, 2009
12:30-1:45 pm
RTV226
Abstract:
By June 2008, about 263 million Americans subscribed to such wireless telecommunication devices as cell phones and the wireless penetration has reached 84 percent of the U.S. population. As ownership of cell phones have increased so rapidly, the use of cell phones while driving has become a major concern of the public. This presentation first briefly outlines approaches of current studies on driver electronic device use. I then focus on presenting results from the National Occupants Protection Use Survey (NOPUS): trends and demographics in use of hand-held cell phones, speaking with headsets on and manipulating hand-held devices. Finally, I introduce some state and federal initiatives in addressing this issue.
Czech Film Series 2008-2009: Jiří Menzel: I Served the King of England (2006)
Thursday, April 9
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
If you don't know much about the history of the country and its remnants of regal splendor, after watching Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále, this curiously rewarding film according to Bohumil Hrabal’s masterpiece, you will know more. A lot more. The politics. The humour. The cultures. The aspirations. The troubled relations with neighbouring empires. And the incredible resilience of its individuals.
I Served the King of England condenses an epic novel into two hours and squeezes in fancy hotels, bars, brothels, woods, invading armies and more. All are collected in a dizzying montage, as the ambitious yet philosophizing hero reviews the highs and lows of his life oblivious to major historical events surrounding him.
In Czech with English subtitles. 120 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
If you don't know much about the history of the country and its remnants of regal splendor, after watching Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále, this curiously rewarding film according to Bohumil Hrabal’s masterpiece, you will know more. A lot more. The politics. The humour. The cultures. The aspirations. The troubled relations with neighbouring empires. And the incredible resilience of its individuals.
I Served the King of England condenses an epic novel into two hours and squeezes in fancy hotels, bars, brothels, woods, invading armies and more. All are collected in a dizzying montage, as the ambitious yet philosophizing hero reviews the highs and lows of his life oblivious to major historical events surrounding him.
In Czech with English subtitles. 120 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Monday, March 30, 2009
New York Times’ Lee to lecture Thursday
New York Times reporter and author Jennifer 8. Lee will talk about her work covering cultural trends and about her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, when she visits at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium.
The School of Journalism and the Asian Culture Center are co-sponsoring her lecture.
Lee’s book examines the evolution of Chinese cuisine in America, starting with the fact that there are more Chinese restaurants in the U.S. than McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC combined.
This led Lee, 33, to travel the world to find the origins of Chinese food. She found that no one in General Tso’s Chinese hometown had ever heard of the popular dish and that fortune cookies originated in Japan. The book also is part memoir, sharing her own story as a child of immigrants.
At the Times, she has written about poverty, the environment, crime, politics and technology. But she also has written about off-beat topics, such as what straight men talk about when they can’t talk about sports (the Man Date) or trends in baby names.
As for her own name, the figure 8 is her legal middle name. Her parents did not give her a middle name, so she chose “8” because it is connotes “prosperity” in Chinese.
The School of Journalism and the Asian Culture Center are co-sponsoring her lecture.
Lee’s book examines the evolution of Chinese cuisine in America, starting with the fact that there are more Chinese restaurants in the U.S. than McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC combined.
This led Lee, 33, to travel the world to find the origins of Chinese food. She found that no one in General Tso’s Chinese hometown had ever heard of the popular dish and that fortune cookies originated in Japan. The book also is part memoir, sharing her own story as a child of immigrants.
At the Times, she has written about poverty, the environment, crime, politics and technology. But she also has written about off-beat topics, such as what straight men talk about when they can’t talk about sports (the Man Date) or trends in baby names.
As for her own name, the figure 8 is her legal middle name. Her parents did not give her a middle name, so she chose “8” because it is connotes “prosperity” in Chinese.
CBS’ Steve Kroft lectures Tuesday
Veteran broadcaster and Kokomo native Steve Kroft will talk about his long career at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. He is the second guest of the School of Journalism’s spring Speaker Series, a program that brings free lectures to the Bloomington area.
Kroft, 63, has been with CBS News for 28 years, 20 of those spent working at 60 Minutes, the weekly news magazine. Kroft has interviewed President Barack Obama twice since the presidential election, most recently for a 60 Minutes segment March 22.
While he has interviewed many politicians and newsmakers over his career, Kroft also was the first American journalist to report from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. His work has led him to interview eco-terrorist groups, smugglers, international leaders and government bureaucrats. Before joining 60 Minutes, he was an international correspondent based in London who covered hijackings, wars and other conflicts.
Kroft is a recipient of three George Foster Peabody Awards and 11 Emmy awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for his body of work. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Indiana University.
Kroft, 63, has been with CBS News for 28 years, 20 of those spent working at 60 Minutes, the weekly news magazine. Kroft has interviewed President Barack Obama twice since the presidential election, most recently for a 60 Minutes segment March 22.
While he has interviewed many politicians and newsmakers over his career, Kroft also was the first American journalist to report from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. His work has led him to interview eco-terrorist groups, smugglers, international leaders and government bureaucrats. Before joining 60 Minutes, he was an international correspondent based in London who covered hijackings, wars and other conflicts.
Kroft is a recipient of three George Foster Peabody Awards and 11 Emmy awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for his body of work. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Indiana University.
Rob Klinge Center for Social Informatics - Facing the Flood of Information in the Supermarket: Helping Shoppers Make Better Choices
Speaker: Peter M. Todd
Professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington
Topic: Facing the Flood of Information in the Supermarket: Helping Shoppers
Make Better Choices
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Wells Library, Room LI 001
Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 1:15 pm.
ABSTRACT
Traditional views of rational decision making propose that individuals should use all the information they can get their hands on to make fully informed choices. This can be a particularly daunting prospect in modern-day choice settings, such as supermarkets, where options proliferate along with facts about each one. But given that human and animal minds have evolved to be quick and just "good enough" in environments where information could often be costly and difficult to obtain, we should instead expect individuals to draw on an "adaptive toolbox" of simple, fast and frugal heuristics that make good decisions with limited information processing. These heuristics typically ignore most of the available information and rely on only a few important cues. What can we do then if we want people to pay attention to more information when making their purchase choices? How can we help ensure that these new facts won’t simply be ignored like most nutrition labeling is? In this talk, I will cover some of the decision-making psychology behind this problem and present some new ideas for ubiquitous-computing approaches that might help to overcome it. See more at: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2009-spring/182
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Peter M. Todd is a professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington. In 1995, he helped found the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, whose work is captured in the book Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Oxford,
1999) and whose sequel, Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World, covering information-environment structures and their impact on decision making, is nearly finished. The ABC-West lab was set up in 2005. His ongoing research interests span the interactions between and co-evolution of decision making and decision environments, including the ways that people and other animals search for resources, including mates, information, and food, in space and time. More information about Professor Todd is available at: http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/pmtodd.html
Professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University Bloomington
Topic: Facing the Flood of Information in the Supermarket: Helping Shoppers
Make Better Choices
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Wells Library, Room LI 001
Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 1:15 pm.
ABSTRACT
Traditional views of rational decision making propose that individuals should use all the information they can get their hands on to make fully informed choices. This can be a particularly daunting prospect in modern-day choice settings, such as supermarkets, where options proliferate along with facts about each one. But given that human and animal minds have evolved to be quick and just "good enough" in environments where information could often be costly and difficult to obtain, we should instead expect individuals to draw on an "adaptive toolbox" of simple, fast and frugal heuristics that make good decisions with limited information processing. These heuristics typically ignore most of the available information and rely on only a few important cues. What can we do then if we want people to pay attention to more information when making their purchase choices? How can we help ensure that these new facts won’t simply be ignored like most nutrition labeling is? In this talk, I will cover some of the decision-making psychology behind this problem and present some new ideas for ubiquitous-computing approaches that might help to overcome it. See more at: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2009-spring/182
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Peter M. Todd is a professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington. In 1995, he helped found the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, whose work is captured in the book Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Oxford,
1999) and whose sequel, Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World, covering information-environment structures and their impact on decision making, is nearly finished. The ABC-West lab was set up in 2005. His ongoing research interests span the interactions between and co-evolution of decision making and decision environments, including the ways that people and other animals search for resources, including mates, information, and food, in space and time. More information about Professor Todd is available at: http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/pmtodd.html
Friday, March 27, 2009
IL/IN East Asian Summer Seminar: “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia”
May 14-15, 2009 at Indiana University Bloomington
Web site: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml
Application deadline: April 6, 2009
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Title VI East Asia National Resource Center Consortium will hold a two-day summer seminar, “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia,” on May 14-15. All graduate students and advanced undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Midwest are welcome to apply.
The seminar will be led by Rayvon Fouché, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Hakken, Informatics, Indiana University; and Lisa Nakamura, Asian American Studies and Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
The twenty students selected to participate will have their lodging costs and reading materials fully covered, as well as some meals.
For more information and a registration form, go to: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml .
Web site: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml
Application deadline: April 6, 2009
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Title VI East Asia National Resource Center Consortium will hold a two-day summer seminar, “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia,” on May 14-15. All graduate students and advanced undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Midwest are welcome to apply.
The seminar will be led by Rayvon Fouché, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Hakken, Informatics, Indiana University; and Lisa Nakamura, Asian American Studies and Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
The twenty students selected to participate will have their lodging costs and reading materials fully covered, as well as some meals.
For more information and a registration form, go to: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml .
Thursday, March 26, 2009
First Summer Session: T583 Teaching Methods in Electronic Media Production
This course is designed for those interested in teaching video production. The content of the course will allow graduate students an opportunity to review and refine basic production skills and to prepare for teaching positions.
The content of the course includes units in basic video production concepts, techniques and hands-on training, plus units in the process of teaching the above mentioned skills.
For more information contact Ron Osgood (osgoodr@indiana.edu)
The content of the course includes units in basic video production concepts, techniques and hands-on training, plus units in the process of teaching the above mentioned skills.
For more information contact Ron Osgood (osgoodr@indiana.edu)
New Latino Studies Dissertation Year Award
Thanks to the wonderful support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latino Studies Program will launch its new Ph.D. minor along with a new College of Arts and Sciences Latino Studies Dissertation-Year Award. The $18,000 award includes a fellowship stipend and very modest hourly responsibilities as the editor of a newsletter for Latino Studies and assistant in some outreach events.
Completed applications are due by Monday, March 30, 2009. Application materials include a completed application form (available at http://www.indiana.edu/~latino and at Latino Studies), curriculum vitae, transcripts, dissertation prospectus and two letters of recommendation. Some preference will be given to students doing work related to Latino Studies, but any student with a relationship to this subject area is welcome and encouraged to apply. The award is for students who have advanced to candidacy at the IUB College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information please contact: Arlene J. Díaz, Director, Latino Studies Program, Sycamore Hall 046, ardiaz@indiana.edu, 812-856-1795.
Completed applications are due by Monday, March 30, 2009. Application materials include a completed application form (available at http://www.indiana.edu/~latino and at Latino Studies), curriculum vitae, transcripts, dissertation prospectus and two letters of recommendation. Some preference will be given to students doing work related to Latino Studies, but any student with a relationship to this subject area is welcome and encouraged to apply. The award is for students who have advanced to candidacy at the IUB College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information please contact: Arlene J. Díaz, Director, Latino Studies Program, Sycamore Hall 046, ardiaz@indiana.edu, 812-856-1795.
New PhD Minor in Latino Studies
The Latino Studies Program is proud to announce the approval of its new PhD minor. This graduate degree will allow students in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, business, law and education to develop expertise on the historical and contemporary experiences of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans and other Latin Americans who have immigrated to the United States or who have resided in the U.S. for multiple generations. Our courses examine Latino communities and experiences within local, national, transnational, and diasporic contexts.
In the past 30 years, Latino and Chicano Studies scholars have transformed knowledge throughout academia, particularly in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The most important contributions have been in the theoretical foundations of traditional disciplines focusing on racial formation, colonial theory, hybridity theory, border theory, identity politics, racism, immigration and migration theory, and Latina/o Critical Race Theory. The Latino Studies Ph.D. minor will offer an interdisciplinary space for scholars in traditional academic units to address these areas within a coherent intellectual focus of study.
The need for this program is evident in the demographic importance of Latinos, and the rise in nationwide demand. Within the United States, the Midwest has experienced the largest growth in Latino population. Between 2000 and 2005 the Latino population increased 117% in Indiana alone; nationwide by 58%. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050 close to 1 in 3 U.S. residents will be of Latino origin. Those individuals possessing an enhanced understanding of the largest ethnic group in this country will be better qualified for the job market of the future. With the growing Latino population in Indiana and nationwide, IU has a leadership role to take in Latino research, dissemination of knowledge, and training of people about the diversity, history, culture and needs of the largest ethnic minority of the U.S. population.
Students in other departments can minor in Latino Studies by completing twelve (12) credit hours of course work directly related to Latino Studies subject matter. Students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. Minor in Latino Studies should visit their website for information and application materials: http://www.indiana.edu/~latino/
In the past 30 years, Latino and Chicano Studies scholars have transformed knowledge throughout academia, particularly in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The most important contributions have been in the theoretical foundations of traditional disciplines focusing on racial formation, colonial theory, hybridity theory, border theory, identity politics, racism, immigration and migration theory, and Latina/o Critical Race Theory. The Latino Studies Ph.D. minor will offer an interdisciplinary space for scholars in traditional academic units to address these areas within a coherent intellectual focus of study.
The need for this program is evident in the demographic importance of Latinos, and the rise in nationwide demand. Within the United States, the Midwest has experienced the largest growth in Latino population. Between 2000 and 2005 the Latino population increased 117% in Indiana alone; nationwide by 58%. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050 close to 1 in 3 U.S. residents will be of Latino origin. Those individuals possessing an enhanced understanding of the largest ethnic group in this country will be better qualified for the job market of the future. With the growing Latino population in Indiana and nationwide, IU has a leadership role to take in Latino research, dissemination of knowledge, and training of people about the diversity, history, culture and needs of the largest ethnic minority of the U.S. population.
Students in other departments can minor in Latino Studies by completing twelve (12) credit hours of course work directly related to Latino Studies subject matter. Students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. Minor in Latino Studies should visit their website for information and application materials: http://www.indiana.edu/~latino/
Tellecommunication Course for Fall - T560: Business Strategies of Communication Firms
Prof. David Waterman
Tuesday and Thursday: 1-2:15 pm
RTV 169
TEL-T560 - Section 27600
This course is intended to give you a practical understanding of the marketing and competitive strategies of communications firms, especially in the media industries. I usethe case method, mostly with Harvard Business School cases. A main theme of the course is technology--especially how it affects market structure, expectations of future market structure, and thus effective marketing and competitive strategy. Among the cases I tentatively plan to use involve cable television, on-line publishing and entertainment, magazine publishing, Internet search, and media industry mergers and acquisitions. In addition to written and verbal case analyses, a major assignment will be the development and presentation of aspects of a business plan for a new communications industry enterprise, or a detailed critique of an existing firm's strategy. Further information: I can discuss cases, course requirements, or answer other questions if you come by my office (RTV 310), or by phone (5-6170) or e-mail (waterman@indiana.edu.) My webpage: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/faculty/waterman.html
Tuesday and Thursday: 1-2:15 pm
RTV 169
TEL-T560 - Section 27600
This course is intended to give you a practical understanding of the marketing and competitive strategies of communications firms, especially in the media industries. I usethe case method, mostly with Harvard Business School cases. A main theme of the course is technology--especially how it affects market structure, expectations of future market structure, and thus effective marketing and competitive strategy. Among the cases I tentatively plan to use involve cable television, on-line publishing and entertainment, magazine publishing, Internet search, and media industry mergers and acquisitions. In addition to written and verbal case analyses, a major assignment will be the development and presentation of aspects of a business plan for a new communications industry enterprise, or a detailed critique of an existing firm's strategy. Further information: I can discuss cases, course requirements, or answer other questions if you come by my office (RTV 310), or by phone (5-6170) or e-mail (waterman@indiana.edu.) My webpage: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/faculty/waterman.html
The First Indiana Film Preview of Work in Progress
Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez
March 30
7 PM
Schleusser Institute for Social Research Room 100
Followed with Indigenous Gender Dialogue by Fred Martinez Project Member Dr. Wesley Thomas (Navajo), Academic Dean, Divisions of Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences, Dine College
March 30
7 PM
Schleusser Institute for Social Research Room 100
Followed with Indigenous Gender Dialogue by Fred Martinez Project Member Dr. Wesley Thomas (Navajo), Academic Dean, Divisions of Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences, Dine College
Anthropology News - 2009 Roundtable on Post-Communism: "Citizenship and Post-Communism"
Friday, April 3
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/events/roundtable09.shtml
Preparatory Reading Material:
Provocation Statement by Sara Friedman, IU Anthropology, and Padraic Kenney, IU History
Ching Kwan Lee's response (forthcoming)
Jan Kubik's response
Madeleine Reeves's response
Schedule:
Public Roundtable9-12 amIMU Oak Room
Chair: Sara Friedman, IU Anthropology
Discussants:
Nick Cullather, IU History
Tim Waters, IU Law
Ellen Wu, IU History
Follow-up faculty-graduate student seminar (also open to the public)2-4 pmIMU Oak Room
Chair: Padraic Kenney, IU History
Format:
A public roundtable is featured in the morning with a follow-up seminar for faculty and graduate students in the afternoon, also open to the public. The roundtable focuses on a question that is circulated in advance to the roundtable panelists. Each panelist prepares a 1000-word statement in response to a brief (150-200 word) “provocation”—a statement and series of questions. This question and brief initial responses by each panelist are posted in advance, so that all who attend the roundtable are familiar with the core question and the positions of the panelists. At the morning panel, the chair will introduce the themes and questions of the panel, the participants, and will then ask two commentators to speak for 10-15 minutes, after which each panel presenter will have 10 minutes to address the questions posed by the commentator and to comment on other papers on that panel. Our practice is to designate as commentators scholars who can broaden the multidisciplinary and comparative reach of the panel rather than people who replicate the expertise of the three main panelists. After this the floor is open for discussion. To encourage continued discussion of these themes in a more informal fashion, we continue the Roundtable in the afternoon. At this session we will ask one of the organizers to summarize the issues raised that morning and then invite the audience to make comments or ask questions of the panelists, allowing for several sets of questions and comments before returning to the main guests. In the past this format has ensured lively participation by our attendees, and graduate students in particular.
Biographical Information about Speakers:
Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of two award-winning books: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998) and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007). She has also edited or co-edited three volumes on, respectively, ethnographies of labor and the workplace, collective memory in China's reform era, and contemporary social activism. Dr. Lee's current work addresses the politics of rights and changing citizenship regimes in China, with a focus on the effects of three major national laws giving citizens labor rights, land rights, and property rights. She examines how ordinary Chinese mobilize legal and extra-legal resources in struggles for citizen rights and how such efforts potentially create new citizenship regimes in China.
Jan Kubik, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Center for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. His PhD training is in anthropology, from Columbia University. He is the author of two award-winning books: The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland (1994) and Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 (1999; co-authored with Grzegorz Ekiert). His current research includes a comparative study of civil society and protest politics in four post-authoritarian states in Europe and Asia.
Madeleine Reeves, Research Council UK Fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral work in anthropology at Cambridge University focused on the lives of workers in the Ferghana Valley, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Currently, she is researching a project entitled Unbecoming citizens: subjectivity and the negotiation of “law” in a Moscow migrant community, which examines the encounter of Central Asian labor migrants with the residence registration system in contemporary Russia.
http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/events/roundtable09.shtml
Preparatory Reading Material:
Provocation Statement by Sara Friedman, IU Anthropology, and Padraic Kenney, IU History
Ching Kwan Lee's response (forthcoming)
Jan Kubik's response
Madeleine Reeves's response
Schedule:
Public Roundtable9-12 amIMU Oak Room
Chair: Sara Friedman, IU Anthropology
Discussants:
Nick Cullather, IU History
Tim Waters, IU Law
Ellen Wu, IU History
Follow-up faculty-graduate student seminar (also open to the public)2-4 pmIMU Oak Room
Chair: Padraic Kenney, IU History
Format:
A public roundtable is featured in the morning with a follow-up seminar for faculty and graduate students in the afternoon, also open to the public. The roundtable focuses on a question that is circulated in advance to the roundtable panelists. Each panelist prepares a 1000-word statement in response to a brief (150-200 word) “provocation”—a statement and series of questions. This question and brief initial responses by each panelist are posted in advance, so that all who attend the roundtable are familiar with the core question and the positions of the panelists. At the morning panel, the chair will introduce the themes and questions of the panel, the participants, and will then ask two commentators to speak for 10-15 minutes, after which each panel presenter will have 10 minutes to address the questions posed by the commentator and to comment on other papers on that panel. Our practice is to designate as commentators scholars who can broaden the multidisciplinary and comparative reach of the panel rather than people who replicate the expertise of the three main panelists. After this the floor is open for discussion. To encourage continued discussion of these themes in a more informal fashion, we continue the Roundtable in the afternoon. At this session we will ask one of the organizers to summarize the issues raised that morning and then invite the audience to make comments or ask questions of the panelists, allowing for several sets of questions and comments before returning to the main guests. In the past this format has ensured lively participation by our attendees, and graduate students in particular.
Biographical Information about Speakers:
Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of two award-winning books: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998) and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007). She has also edited or co-edited three volumes on, respectively, ethnographies of labor and the workplace, collective memory in China's reform era, and contemporary social activism. Dr. Lee's current work addresses the politics of rights and changing citizenship regimes in China, with a focus on the effects of three major national laws giving citizens labor rights, land rights, and property rights. She examines how ordinary Chinese mobilize legal and extra-legal resources in struggles for citizen rights and how such efforts potentially create new citizenship regimes in China.
Jan Kubik, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Center for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. His PhD training is in anthropology, from Columbia University. He is the author of two award-winning books: The Power of Symbols against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland (1994) and Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993 (1999; co-authored with Grzegorz Ekiert). His current research includes a comparative study of civil society and protest politics in four post-authoritarian states in Europe and Asia.
Madeleine Reeves, Research Council UK Fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral work in anthropology at Cambridge University focused on the lives of workers in the Ferghana Valley, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Currently, she is researching a project entitled Unbecoming citizens: subjectivity and the negotiation of “law” in a Moscow migrant community, which examines the encounter of Central Asian labor migrants with the residence registration system in contemporary Russia.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Old Europe, New Orders: Post-1945 German Thought on War, Peace, and International Law
March 27-28, 2009
Indiana University, Bloomington
The conference revisits the neglected debate among German-speaking scholars – including both those who remained in Germany and those forced into exile – concerning the fundamental roots of twentieth-century warfare as practiced in Europe and the best way to avoid its recurrence. For a number of political and intellectual reasons, this endeavor seems timely today.
First and most important, globalization and recent experiments in extending global governance have reignited significant inquiry about the prospects of novel forms of international order, while the European Union offers one real-life example of a “post-national” form of political and legal order. Because many of the issues central to the ongoing debate were insightfully discussed by German and German-Jewish thinkers between 1945 and 1960, their oftentimes neglected contributions can shed fresh light on that debate.
Second, most scholarship continues to neglect the acute analyses of international politics and law among mid-century German and German-Jewish thinkers. Existing scholarship also tends to downplay the extent to which an intellectual dialogue of sorts often took place between those who remained in Germany and the émigrés. Hans Kelsen, for example, continued to direct much of his ire against Carl Schmitt while other émigrés –such as Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau—remained attuned to intellectual trends in Germany.
Financial support for the conference has been provided by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Arts & Humanities Institute, Indiana University Mauer School of Law, Indiana University New Frontiers Program (funded by the Lilly Endowment), and the Max Kade Institute.
For more information please contact:
William E. Scheuerman (wscheuer@indiana.edu)
Professor of Political Science and West European Studies Indiana University (Bloomington)
wscheuer@indiana.edu
Indiana University, Bloomington
The conference revisits the neglected debate among German-speaking scholars – including both those who remained in Germany and those forced into exile – concerning the fundamental roots of twentieth-century warfare as practiced in Europe and the best way to avoid its recurrence. For a number of political and intellectual reasons, this endeavor seems timely today.
First and most important, globalization and recent experiments in extending global governance have reignited significant inquiry about the prospects of novel forms of international order, while the European Union offers one real-life example of a “post-national” form of political and legal order. Because many of the issues central to the ongoing debate were insightfully discussed by German and German-Jewish thinkers between 1945 and 1960, their oftentimes neglected contributions can shed fresh light on that debate.
Second, most scholarship continues to neglect the acute analyses of international politics and law among mid-century German and German-Jewish thinkers. Existing scholarship also tends to downplay the extent to which an intellectual dialogue of sorts often took place between those who remained in Germany and the émigrés. Hans Kelsen, for example, continued to direct much of his ire against Carl Schmitt while other émigrés –such as Hannah Arendt and Hans Morgenthau—remained attuned to intellectual trends in Germany.
Financial support for the conference has been provided by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Arts & Humanities Institute, Indiana University Mauer School of Law, Indiana University New Frontiers Program (funded by the Lilly Endowment), and the Max Kade Institute.
For more information please contact:
William E. Scheuerman (wscheuer@indiana.edu)
Professor of Political Science and West European Studies Indiana University (Bloomington)
wscheuer@indiana.edu
A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture - "In Excess: Einstein's Mexico"
Maria Salazkina
"In Excess: Einsentein's Mexico"
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4 pm - Woodburn Hall 007
Maria Salazkina is Assistant Professor of Russian and Film & Media Studies at Colgate University. Her recent publications include: "Addressing the Dialectics of Sexual Difference in Eisestein's Que Viva Mexicao!" Screen, vol. 48 no. 1 (Spring 2007); and "Eisenstein in Mexico: Baroque Dialectics or Dialectical Baroque?" in European Film Theory, ed. Temenuga Trifonova, Routledge AFI Film Readers' Series (forthcoming, Spring 2009).
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Communication and Culture, the Department of History, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Russian and East European Institutue
"In Excess: Einsentein's Mexico"
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4 pm - Woodburn Hall 007
Maria Salazkina is Assistant Professor of Russian and Film & Media Studies at Colgate University. Her recent publications include: "Addressing the Dialectics of Sexual Difference in Eisestein's Que Viva Mexicao!" Screen, vol. 48 no. 1 (Spring 2007); and "Eisenstein in Mexico: Baroque Dialectics or Dialectical Baroque?" in European Film Theory, ed. Temenuga Trifonova, Routledge AFI Film Readers' Series (forthcoming, Spring 2009).
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Communication and Culture, the Department of History, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Russian and East European Institutue
IU-OSU Folklore Conference: Public/Private
You are cordially invited to attend Public/Private, a collaborative conference presented by the Indiana University Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations and The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association.
The conference will be held March 27-28, 2009 in the Indiana Memorial Union and will explore the notions of public and private in our research of expressive forms. It provides a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines, focusing on academic and vernacular interpretations of everyday life.
The entire conference program, with abstracts, can be downloaded at http://folksa.wordpress.com/conferences/conference-schedule/. Please see the conference webpage at http://folksa.wordpress.com/conferences/ for more information about the conference.
The conference will be held March 27-28, 2009 in the Indiana Memorial Union and will explore the notions of public and private in our research of expressive forms. It provides a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines, focusing on academic and vernacular interpretations of everyday life.
The entire conference program, with abstracts, can be downloaded at http://folksa.wordpress.com/conferences/conference-schedule/. Please see the conference webpage at http://folksa.wordpress.com/conferences/ for more information about the conference.
RKCSI Roundtable-Social Activism Across New Media
Please join us for a round table discussion regarding social activism across new media. Topics will range from activism within the Egyptian blogosphere to an activist minded musical movement spread via online media. All social activist oriented research or interests are welcome, regardless of developmental stage of the research. The round table discussion will take place Wednesday, April 1 from 1:30 to 3:00 pm in the Informatics West (901 E 10th Street) Room 232.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Recycling Electronics
Check this link for information regarding a free recycling drop off for electronics. All items are kept from the landfills.
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Diversity Day Online Discussion
The Bloomington campus celebrates the inaugural observance of Diversity Day this week. The theme is “Diversity: More than you Think.”
On Wednesday, March 25, IU Bloomington will have a conversation on diversity involving students, staff, faculty and administrators. You are invited to join in an online discussion hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences, from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the following questions:
-Do you think our campus is diverse?
-Why or why not?
-What makes a diverse campus?
-Why does diversity matter?
Events like this will be taking place simultaneously all over campus at 11 a.m. You can log in to this discussion wherever you have internet access. The first 50 student participants will receive a $5 gift certificate from the College. Our online discussion will be the first step in taking us from virtual communication to real dialogue and change.
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009Time: 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Place: http://breeze.iu.edu/diversityday/Log in as a guest.
Connect…. Converse…. Celebrate
India Studies Lecture Series
The India Studies Program
and
The Department of the History of Art
present
When the stones are all that survived: The case for Andhra Buddhism
a lecture by Professor Monika Zin
Department of Indology and Central Asian Science
Buddhist Art and Literature
University of Leipzig
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 P.M.
Woodburn Hall 100
and
The Department of the History of Art
present
When the stones are all that survived: The case for Andhra Buddhism
a lecture by Professor Monika Zin
Department of Indology and Central Asian Science
Buddhist Art and Literature
University of Leipzig
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
4:00 – 5:30 P.M.
Woodburn Hall 100
Accessible University: "Student Perspectives on Accessibility"
"Student Perspectives on Accessibility"
Presented by a Panel of IU Students
Wednesday, March 25th
Noon - 1:00 pm
IU Memorial Union - OAK ROOM
How do IU students with disabilities feel about campus accessibility? Is the physical campus easy to navigate? Are academic accommodations easy and appropriate? Is social life accommodating and welcoming?
This panel presentation will feature several IU students in a moderated discussion sharing their experiences living successfully with disabilities. The panel will be composed of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of majors and disabilities. Panelists will touch on themes of academics and social life, awareness and stigma, attitude and etiquette, and with the audience, will explore the true meaning of accessibility.
Accessible University is a monthly series of presentations sponsored by the IUB Disability Roundtable. The purpose of the series is to educate the university community about accessibility issues and methodologies to create a more accessible university environment fully inclusive of students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities.
The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).
Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, other auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Alice Voigt at the National Center on Accessibility, ajvoigt@indiana.edu, (812) 855-1091 (voice), or (812) 856-4421 (tty).
Presented by a Panel of IU Students
Wednesday, March 25th
Noon - 1:00 pm
IU Memorial Union - OAK ROOM
How do IU students with disabilities feel about campus accessibility? Is the physical campus easy to navigate? Are academic accommodations easy and appropriate? Is social life accommodating and welcoming?
This panel presentation will feature several IU students in a moderated discussion sharing their experiences living successfully with disabilities. The panel will be composed of a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students with a variety of majors and disabilities. Panelists will touch on themes of academics and social life, awareness and stigma, attitude and etiquette, and with the audience, will explore the true meaning of accessibility.
Accessible University is a monthly series of presentations sponsored by the IUB Disability Roundtable. The purpose of the series is to educate the university community about accessibility issues and methodologies to create a more accessible university environment fully inclusive of students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities.
The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).
Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, other auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Alice Voigt at the National Center on Accessibility, ajvoigt@indiana.edu, (812) 855-1091 (voice), or (812) 856-4421 (tty).
Monday, March 23, 2009
PhD Exam Apps
If you plan to take your PhD Exams in May, the application is due by noon on Friday, April 3rd. Please see Kathy for an application.
MA Exams Apps for May
If you plan to take your MA Exams in May, the application is due by noon on Friday, April 3. Please see Kathy for the application.
African Studies Program Sponsored Lecture
“Organizing Around Africa in the Obama Era.”
A Community Lecture with Activist & Educator
Prexy Nesbitt
Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
2120 N. Fee Lane
Bloomington, Indiana
Sponsored by the African Studies Program
Prexy Nesbitt is an activist and educator whose work over the past four decades has been connecting freedom-loving peoples in Africa, Europe and North America to each other, strengthening progressive political and social movements on both continents.
Mr. Nesbitt’s passion and life’s work has been with Africa. He joined the staff of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979, and became part of its highly controversial Program to Combat Racism. In the South African anti-apartheid movement, Mr. Nesbitt played a major role in initiating divestment campaigns on US campuses, while also raising awareness of the issues facing the peoples of Southern Africa. In 1987, he was appointed by the President of Mozambique to act as a special representative to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Born in Chicago and deeply rooted there, Mr. Nesbitt describes his family as “a remarkable and very ‘un-American’ African American family.” Surrounded by educators and activists, his childhood was filled with people engaged in civil rights and union organizing. He has taught at the high school and college level as well as serving as a school administrator.
Mr. Nesbitt has also worked for the Institute for Policy Studies, the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the American Friends Service Committee and Africa Action. He has authored many articles and a book, Apartheid in Our Living Rooms: US Foreign Policy and South Africa. He currently teaches African History at Columbia College in Chicago, co-teaches at the Urban Studies Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and consults regarding African constituency- building for the American Friends Service Committee.
A Community Lecture with Activist & Educator
Prexy Nesbitt
Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
2120 N. Fee Lane
Bloomington, Indiana
Sponsored by the African Studies Program
Prexy Nesbitt is an activist and educator whose work over the past four decades has been connecting freedom-loving peoples in Africa, Europe and North America to each other, strengthening progressive political and social movements on both continents.
Mr. Nesbitt’s passion and life’s work has been with Africa. He joined the staff of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland in 1979, and became part of its highly controversial Program to Combat Racism. In the South African anti-apartheid movement, Mr. Nesbitt played a major role in initiating divestment campaigns on US campuses, while also raising awareness of the issues facing the peoples of Southern Africa. In 1987, he was appointed by the President of Mozambique to act as a special representative to the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Born in Chicago and deeply rooted there, Mr. Nesbitt describes his family as “a remarkable and very ‘un-American’ African American family.” Surrounded by educators and activists, his childhood was filled with people engaged in civil rights and union organizing. He has taught at the high school and college level as well as serving as a school administrator.
Mr. Nesbitt has also worked for the Institute for Policy Studies, the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the American Friends Service Committee and Africa Action. He has authored many articles and a book, Apartheid in Our Living Rooms: US Foreign Policy and South Africa. He currently teaches African History at Columbia College in Chicago, co-teaches at the Urban Studies Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and consults regarding African constituency- building for the American Friends Service Committee.
Rob Klinge Center for Social Informatics
The 1980’s Downloading Crisis:
Why Can We Do What We Do with Bibliographic Citations?
Please join us for the second in the Spring 2009 series of talks sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI). The RKCSI speaker series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to current research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The complete schedule for the Spring 2009 Speaker Series is posted on the web at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2009-spring
Speaker: Kristin Eschenfelder
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: The 1980’s Downloading Crisis: Why Can We Do What We Do with
Bibliographic Citations?
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Informatics East, Room 130
Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 1:15 pm.
ABSTRACT
Controversy about unauthorized downloading or “piracy” of digital materials seems like a recent intellectual property phenomenon, but an earlier “downloading crisis” occurred in the 1980s, when users, newly equipped with personal computers, began to download data from commercial databases. Database vendors initially feared that downloading of citations would undermine their revenues, employing the rhetoric of piracy and economic harm common in today’s intellectual property disputes. But, also similar to today, some users continued to download despite vendor protests. This talk focuses on change in use regimes associated with one type of digital intellectual property, scholarly bibliographical citations, to better understand contemporary debates about what counts as legitimate uses of intellectual and cultural property, the potential effects of access and use restrictions on knowledge and cultural production, and the circumstances important to facilitate change in access and use rules. See more at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2009-spring/178
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Kristin R. Eschenfelder is Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on social, legal and business norms determining use of intellectual and cultural property and how and why these norms change over time. Her research appears in leading library and information science and social informatics journals. More information about her research, teaching, and service can be found at:http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen/
Why Can We Do What We Do with Bibliographic Citations?
Please join us for the second in the Spring 2009 series of talks sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI). The RKCSI speaker series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to current research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The complete schedule for the Spring 2009 Speaker Series is posted on the web at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2009-spring
Speaker: Kristin Eschenfelder
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: The 1980’s Downloading Crisis: Why Can We Do What We Do with
Bibliographic Citations?
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 1:30-2:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Informatics East, Room 130
Refreshments will be available prior to the talk at 1:15 pm.
ABSTRACT
Controversy about unauthorized downloading or “piracy” of digital materials seems like a recent intellectual property phenomenon, but an earlier “downloading crisis” occurred in the 1980s, when users, newly equipped with personal computers, began to download data from commercial databases. Database vendors initially feared that downloading of citations would undermine their revenues, employing the rhetoric of piracy and economic harm common in today’s intellectual property disputes. But, also similar to today, some users continued to download despite vendor protests. This talk focuses on change in use regimes associated with one type of digital intellectual property, scholarly bibliographical citations, to better understand contemporary debates about what counts as legitimate uses of intellectual and cultural property, the potential effects of access and use restrictions on knowledge and cultural production, and the circumstances important to facilitate change in access and use rules. See more at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2009-spring/178
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Kristin R. Eschenfelder is Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on social, legal and business norms determining use of intellectual and cultural property and how and why these norms change over time. Her research appears in leading library and information science and social informatics journals. More information about her research, teaching, and service can be found at:http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen/
Cultural Studies Series: "Images Forum"
IMAGES AND PUBLIC CULTURE:
UNDERSTANDING IMAGES ACROSS THE HUMANITIES
Friday, April 10th, 2- 3:30 pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd floor),
School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall
The next meeting of the “Images Forum” will be a reading-group style discussion of Jacques Rancière’s essay, “The Future of the Image,” taken from his book of essays of the same title, published by Verso Press, 2007.
Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include Hatred of Democracy, On the Shores of Politics, The Politics of Aesthetics, and Disagreement.
The text is available on an Oncourse site set up for the “Images Forum” (under Resources). If you would like access to the site please contact Jon Simons at simonsj@indiana.edu and provide your IU user name.
UNDERSTANDING IMAGES ACROSS THE HUMANITIES
Friday, April 10th, 2- 3:30 pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd floor),
School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall
The next meeting of the “Images Forum” will be a reading-group style discussion of Jacques Rancière’s essay, “The Future of the Image,” taken from his book of essays of the same title, published by Verso Press, 2007.
Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include Hatred of Democracy, On the Shores of Politics, The Politics of Aesthetics, and Disagreement.
The text is available on an Oncourse site set up for the “Images Forum” (under Resources). If you would like access to the site please contact Jon Simons at simonsj@indiana.edu and provide your IU user name.
J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture & Brown Bag
Welcome back from Spring Break. Our lecture and colloquium series kicks back in with an exciting couple of events this week.
On Thursday March 26
5:30-6:30pm
Swain Hall East 105
J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture, one of two of our annual invited lectures for the year. This year's lecture will be delivered by John M. Sloop and is entitled "Making Sense of the Cellular Citizen." There is a reception immediately following the lecture on Thursday evening back at the CMCL offices.
Dr. Sloop will also attend a brown bag luncheon for CMCL students on Friday March 27 from 12-1pm in Classroom Office Building Room 272 to discuss the lecture in a more intimate setting. Please do try to attend these important departmental events.
Here is a bio for Dr. Sloop for those of you looking for more info.
John M. Sloop is Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author and editor of several scholarly essays and books, including Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S.
Culture, for which he was awarded the Winans- Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship. He has also been awarded the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Classroom Teaching, the Karl Wallace Award for scholarship in public address studies, and the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award. Sloop is currently editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Sloop's work investigates cultural discussions about matters of public interest, such as prisoners, immigration issues, and cases of gender transgression. He is currently working on a project involving the intersections of transportation, communication and public regulation.
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon.
Best,
James Paasche
CMCL Grad Rep for the Colloquium Series
On Thursday March 26
5:30-6:30pm
Swain Hall East 105
J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture, one of two of our annual invited lectures for the year. This year's lecture will be delivered by John M. Sloop and is entitled "Making Sense of the Cellular Citizen." There is a reception immediately following the lecture on Thursday evening back at the CMCL offices.
Dr. Sloop will also attend a brown bag luncheon for CMCL students on Friday March 27 from 12-1pm in Classroom Office Building Room 272 to discuss the lecture in a more intimate setting. Please do try to attend these important departmental events.
Here is a bio for Dr. Sloop for those of you looking for more info.
John M. Sloop is Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author and editor of several scholarly essays and books, including Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S.
Culture, for which he was awarded the Winans- Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship. He has also been awarded the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Classroom Teaching, the Karl Wallace Award for scholarship in public address studies, and the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award. Sloop is currently editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Sloop's work investigates cultural discussions about matters of public interest, such as prisoners, immigration issues, and cases of gender transgression. He is currently working on a project involving the intersections of transportation, communication and public regulation.
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon.
Best,
James Paasche
CMCL Grad Rep for the Colloquium Series
Indiana University Credit Union Dissertation Fellowship
Students wishing to be nominated for the IUCU dissertation fellowship should first secure the support of their dissertation director, and then notify Jon Simons of their intention to apply. Jon will write letters of support for whomever has the support of their advisor.
As the department is not being asked to rank or pre-sort the applications, the GAC will not need time to review the applications. However, as Jon also needs to write a letter for each applicant, a copy of your application, including the letter from your advisor must be submitted by April 10th, 2009.
Application details and forms are available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/pdf/IU_Credit_Union_Fellowship.pdf
As the department is not being asked to rank or pre-sort the applications, the GAC will not need time to review the applications. However, as Jon also needs to write a letter for each applicant, a copy of your application, including the letter from your advisor must be submitted by April 10th, 2009.
Application details and forms are available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/pdf/IU_Credit_Union_Fellowship.pdf
2009 Brigance Forum Lecture - Wabash College
Wabash College invites you to hear Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites give the 2009 Brigance Forum Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in room 104 in Hays Hall. The title of their talk is "Boots and Hands: Photojournalism and Democratic Public Culture."
Hariman is in the department of communication studies at Northwestern University and Lucaites is in the department of communication and culture at Indiana University. They are the co-authors of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. It was recently recognized with The Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address award. They also administer the blog No Caption Needed.
The Brigance Forum is an annual public lecture or debate in memory of the late William Norwood Brigance, teacher, scholar and leader in the Speech Association of America. In his 38 years at Wabash College, "Briggie" taught generations of Wabash students how to be more effective when they spoke and, through his textbooks, he taught thousands more in American high schools and colleges. As editor of History and Criticism of American Public Address and as editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, he gave direction to the scholarship of the field. As president of the Speech Association of America, he guided the profession through the expansion of the postwar years. The Brigance family, friends, former students whom he taught, and those who continued the tradition of speech at Wabash after him, have, through their contributions, endowed this program as an ongoing memorial to William Norwood Brigance.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Get directions to Wabash College Hays Hall
Wabash College - P.O.Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 - 765-361-6100 -
webmaster@wabash.edu Copyright © 2009 - Non-Discrimination Policy - Online Privacy Policy
Hariman is in the department of communication studies at Northwestern University and Lucaites is in the department of communication and culture at Indiana University. They are the co-authors of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. It was recently recognized with The Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address award. They also administer the blog No Caption Needed.
The Brigance Forum is an annual public lecture or debate in memory of the late William Norwood Brigance, teacher, scholar and leader in the Speech Association of America. In his 38 years at Wabash College, "Briggie" taught generations of Wabash students how to be more effective when they spoke and, through his textbooks, he taught thousands more in American high schools and colleges. As editor of History and Criticism of American Public Address and as editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, he gave direction to the scholarship of the field. As president of the Speech Association of America, he guided the profession through the expansion of the postwar years. The Brigance family, friends, former students whom he taught, and those who continued the tradition of speech at Wabash after him, have, through their contributions, endowed this program as an ongoing memorial to William Norwood Brigance.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Get directions to Wabash College Hays Hall
Wabash College - P.O.Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 - 765-361-6100 -
webmaster@wabash.edu Copyright © 2009 - Non-Discrimination Policy - Online Privacy Policy
Flow Journal, Vol. 9 Special Issue on Saturday Night Live
The new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.
This issue features columns from Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Alyx Vesey, Bernard M.
Timberg, Evan Elkins, Paul Achter, and David Gurney.
This issue's columns in brief:
"?Using One of its Lifelines?: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?" by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2911)
The role of political satire in "rescuing" Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.
"Who?s Going to Play Michelle Obama?: Saturday Night Live and Its Lack of Women of Color" by Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2984):
A simple dilemma highlights the shows astounding lack of diversity, especially regarding female cast members.
"Pitchforking Andy Samberg?s Hipster Appeal " by Alyx Vesey
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2973):
A look at Andy Samberg?s role as Saturday Night Live?s resident hipster and geek.
"Gilda Rader and ?Jewess Jeans?: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television" by Bernard M. Timberg (http://flowtv.org/?p=2980 ):
Investigating the representation of 'jewishness" on SNL through Gilda Radner.
"Michael O?Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty " by Evan Elkins
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2964 ):
A look at early Saturday Night Live and the comedy of Michael O?Donoghue.
"'Weekend Update' and the tradition of new journalism " by Paul Achter
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2966):
An examination of how the decedents of "Weekend Update" proliferate.
"Give Me That Old Time Virality" by David Gurney (http://flowtv.org/?p=3016) Exploring the intersections of viral video and Saturday Night Live.
Interested in supporting Flow? Click HERE (http://flowtv.org/?page_id=2143).
FlowTV is now on Twitter! Follow Flow's Twitter page at:
http://twitter.com/flowtv .
This issue features columns from Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Alyx Vesey, Bernard M.
Timberg, Evan Elkins, Paul Achter, and David Gurney.
This issue's columns in brief:
"?Using One of its Lifelines?: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?" by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2911)
The role of political satire in "rescuing" Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.
"Who?s Going to Play Michelle Obama?: Saturday Night Live and Its Lack of Women of Color" by Phillip Lamarr Cunningham
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2984):
A simple dilemma highlights the shows astounding lack of diversity, especially regarding female cast members.
"Pitchforking Andy Samberg?s Hipster Appeal " by Alyx Vesey
(http://flowtv.org/?p=2973):
A look at Andy Samberg?s role as Saturday Night Live?s resident hipster and geek.
"Gilda Rader and ?Jewess Jeans?: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television" by Bernard M. Timberg (http://flowtv.org/?p=2980 ):
Investigating the representation of 'jewishness" on SNL through Gilda Radner.
"Michael O?Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty " by Evan Elkins
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A look at early Saturday Night Live and the comedy of Michael O?Donoghue.
"'Weekend Update' and the tradition of new journalism " by Paul Achter
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An examination of how the decedents of "Weekend Update" proliferate.
"Give Me That Old Time Virality" by David Gurney (http://flowtv.org/?p=3016) Exploring the intersections of viral video and Saturday Night Live.
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Art on the Edge - Art History Association Symposium
Art on the Edge: Contested Boundaries in Art and Art History
March 28, 2009
Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts Room 102
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sue Taylor, Professor of Art History, Portland State University
Keynote Address: “Grant Wood, Truth and Lies”
MORNING SESSION
9:40 Opening Remarks
9:45 Nate Harrison
University of California, San Diego
"Steal this Image: The Institutionalization of Appropriation and the Appropriation of Institutions."
10:15 Genevieve Westerby
University of Denver
"Banksy's 'Museum Donations': Breaking the Boundaries of Order and Museum Hegemony"
10:45 Victoria Salinger
University of Chicago
"Art History and Mathematics: The Expanded Field"
11:15 Panel Discussion
Led by Dr. Giles Knox
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 Phoebe Prioleau
Columbia University
"Unknowable Surfaces: The Skin of the Artist's Model in Nineteenth-Century Fiction as a Metaphor for Canvas"
2:00 Nathan Popp
University of Iowa
"Molding Muliebrity: Crafting the Persona of Sweden's Queen"
2:30 Shana Klein
University of New Mexico
"Mining Art History in Kehinde Wiley and Yasumasa Morimura's Portraits"
3:00 Panel Discussion
Led by Dr. Giles Knox
4:00 Keynote Address by Dr. Sue Taylor
Portland State University
“Grant Wood, Truth and Lies”
5:30 Closing Remarks
For more information please contact: ahasympo@indiana.edu
March 28, 2009
Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts Room 102
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sue Taylor, Professor of Art History, Portland State University
Keynote Address: “Grant Wood, Truth and Lies”
MORNING SESSION
9:40 Opening Remarks
9:45 Nate Harrison
University of California, San Diego
"Steal this Image: The Institutionalization of Appropriation and the Appropriation of Institutions."
10:15 Genevieve Westerby
University of Denver
"Banksy's 'Museum Donations': Breaking the Boundaries of Order and Museum Hegemony"
10:45 Victoria Salinger
University of Chicago
"Art History and Mathematics: The Expanded Field"
11:15 Panel Discussion
Led by Dr. Giles Knox
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:30 Phoebe Prioleau
Columbia University
"Unknowable Surfaces: The Skin of the Artist's Model in Nineteenth-Century Fiction as a Metaphor for Canvas"
2:00 Nathan Popp
University of Iowa
"Molding Muliebrity: Crafting the Persona of Sweden's Queen"
2:30 Shana Klein
University of New Mexico
"Mining Art History in Kehinde Wiley and Yasumasa Morimura's Portraits"
3:00 Panel Discussion
Led by Dr. Giles Knox
4:00 Keynote Address by Dr. Sue Taylor
Portland State University
“Grant Wood, Truth and Lies”
5:30 Closing Remarks
For more information please contact: ahasympo@indiana.edu
Lecture by CMCL faculty member Ilana Gershon - Publics
Ilana Gershon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and CultureIndiana University - Bloomington
Monday, March 23, 2009
4:00 pm
Student Building 159
“My Angel Is a Centerfold:
Breaking Up in a Facebook Public”
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and CultureIndiana University - Bloomington
Monday, March 23, 2009
4:00 pm
Student Building 159
“My Angel Is a Centerfold:
Breaking Up in a Facebook Public”
Monday, March 16, 2009
Call for Papers- Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Twilight saga
Edited by Melissa Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz
Proposal deadline: April 10, 2009
The editors seek essays that explore Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight series. We are particularly interested in essays that explore the cultural significance of the Twilight phenomenon and its impact on youth culture. The collection will feature scholarly work from a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including: analyses of the series’ messages, production and marketing processes, and audiences. We welcome work from a wide variety of disciplines, including: communication, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, religious studies, and gender studies.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
--Representations of gender, race, class and sexuality
--Religion, morality, and values
--Feminist and anti-feminist themes in Twilight
--Intended and unintended audiences
--Fans and anti-fans
--Genre and vampire/werewolf folklore
--Relationship models (romantic, friendship, and familial)
--Space and place in Twilight
--Celebrity culture and Stephenie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart
--Translation of the series for the screen
--The Twilight franchise
This collection will be proposed to Peter Lang's "Mediated Youth" series.
Please email a 250-word proposal, short bibliography, brief author’s bio, and
contact information to Melissa Click at clickm@missouri.edu by April 10, 2009.
Notification of accepted proposals will be made by May 15, 2009.
First chapter drafts of 6000 to 8000 words will be due in early fall 2009.
Proposal deadline: April 10, 2009
The editors seek essays that explore Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular Twilight series. We are particularly interested in essays that explore the cultural significance of the Twilight phenomenon and its impact on youth culture. The collection will feature scholarly work from a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including: analyses of the series’ messages, production and marketing processes, and audiences. We welcome work from a wide variety of disciplines, including: communication, sociology, cultural studies, psychology, religious studies, and gender studies.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
--Representations of gender, race, class and sexuality
--Religion, morality, and values
--Feminist and anti-feminist themes in Twilight
--Intended and unintended audiences
--Fans and anti-fans
--Genre and vampire/werewolf folklore
--Relationship models (romantic, friendship, and familial)
--Space and place in Twilight
--Celebrity culture and Stephenie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart
--Translation of the series for the screen
--The Twilight franchise
This collection will be proposed to Peter Lang's "Mediated Youth" series.
Please email a 250-word proposal, short bibliography, brief author’s bio, and
contact information to Melissa Click at clickm@missouri.edu by April 10, 2009.
Notification of accepted proposals will be made by May 15, 2009.
First chapter drafts of 6000 to 8000 words will be due in early fall 2009.
Call for Papers: HYPERMEDIA STUDIES
2009 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 30 - November 01, 2009
Detroit, MI
http://www.mpcaaca.org
Deadline: April 30, 2009
The Hypermedia Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and MidwestAmerican Culture Association is now accepting proposals for itsupcoming Conference in October./November The MPCA/MACA conferencewill be held in Detroit, MI October 30-November 01, 2009.Topics can include, but are not limited to hypermedia and literature,uses of hypermedia, analyses of hypermedia works, and hypermedia andthe future of technology. Case studies are also welcome.
Please send 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of HypermediaStudies to Paul Booth, at pbooth81@gmail.com.
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract.
Friday-Sunday, October 30 - November 01, 2009
Detroit, MI
http://www.mpcaaca.org
Deadline: April 30, 2009
The Hypermedia Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and MidwestAmerican Culture Association is now accepting proposals for itsupcoming Conference in October./November The MPCA/MACA conferencewill be held in Detroit, MI October 30-November 01, 2009.Topics can include, but are not limited to hypermedia and literature,uses of hypermedia, analyses of hypermedia works, and hypermedia andthe future of technology. Case studies are also welcome.
Please send 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of HypermediaStudies to Paul Booth, at pbooth81@gmail.com.
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract.
Call for Papers: FAN STUDIES
2009 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 30 - November 01, 2009
Detroit, MI
http://www.mpcaaca.org
Deadline: April 30, 2009
The Fan Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and MidwestAmerican Culture Association is now accepting proposals for itsupcoming Conference in October./November The MPCA/MACA conferencewill be held in Detroit, MI October 30-November 01, 2009.Topics can include, but are not limited to fan fiction, multi-mediafan production, fan communities, fandom of individual media texts,sports fandom, or the future of fandom. Case studies are alsowelcome.
Please send 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of Fan Studiesto Paul Booth, at pbooth81@gmail.com.
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract
Friday-Sunday, October 30 - November 01, 2009
Detroit, MI
http://www.mpcaaca.org
Deadline: April 30, 2009
The Fan Studies area of the Midwest Popular Culture and MidwestAmerican Culture Association is now accepting proposals for itsupcoming Conference in October./November The MPCA/MACA conferencewill be held in Detroit, MI October 30-November 01, 2009.Topics can include, but are not limited to fan fiction, multi-mediafan production, fan communities, fandom of individual media texts,sports fandom, or the future of fandom. Case studies are alsowelcome.
Please send 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of Fan Studiesto Paul Booth, at pbooth81@gmail.com.
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract
Friday, March 13, 2009
Summer School on Cultural Dimension of Politics in Europe 2009
Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2009!
(CDPE2009)
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
When: July 4-11, 2009
Who: The founder of the European Spring/Summer Institute and the Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology, the Prague's Centre for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP), has teamed up with professors from Poland, USA and UK to launch a Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2009
What is it about: The Summer School "Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe" is a week long academic program bringing together 30 undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds (political science, sociology, media studies, anthropology and cultural studies, behavioural sciences, gender
studies) from all parts of the world to enjoy their summer holidays in the unique academic and cultural environment.
Why: The program is aimed at drawing closer attention to the cultural dimensions of political institutions and processes in Europe (e.g.
policy making, political communication, migration and citizenship in the EU).
We invite you to visit our website http://www.cdpe.cpvp.cz to discover all the details about the CDPE 2009. The website contains updated information about the Summer School, application process and on-line application.
We also suggest students to submit their applications by the Early Bird Application Deadline of April 30, 2009. The Final Deadline is May 15, 2009.
Should you have any questions regarding the Summer School or application process, please do not hesitate to contact us:
CDPE2009
Centrum pro verejnou politiku
Vyjezdova 510
190 11 Prague 9
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 737 679 605
Fax: +420 281 930 584
www: http://www.cdpe.cpvp.cz
E-mail: cdpe@cpvp.cz
(CDPE2009)
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
When: July 4-11, 2009
Who: The founder of the European Spring/Summer Institute and the Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology, the Prague's Centre for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP), has teamed up with professors from Poland, USA and UK to launch a Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2009
What is it about: The Summer School "Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe" is a week long academic program bringing together 30 undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds (political science, sociology, media studies, anthropology and cultural studies, behavioural sciences, gender
studies) from all parts of the world to enjoy their summer holidays in the unique academic and cultural environment.
Why: The program is aimed at drawing closer attention to the cultural dimensions of political institutions and processes in Europe (e.g.
policy making, political communication, migration and citizenship in the EU).
We invite you to visit our website http://www.cdpe.cpvp.cz to discover all the details about the CDPE 2009. The website contains updated information about the Summer School, application process and on-line application.
We also suggest students to submit their applications by the Early Bird Application Deadline of April 30, 2009. The Final Deadline is May 15, 2009.
Should you have any questions regarding the Summer School or application process, please do not hesitate to contact us:
CDPE2009
Centrum pro verejnou politiku
Vyjezdova 510
190 11 Prague 9
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 737 679 605
Fax: +420 281 930 584
www: http://www.cdpe.cpvp.cz
E-mail: cdpe@cpvp.cz
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Writing Successful ISSOTL Conference Proposals Workshop
Writing Successful ISSOTL Conference Proposals
Oak Room
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch will not be provided
• What is the difference between a workshop and a panel presentation at an ISSOTL conference?
• When is the most appropriate time to share my research results in a poster format?
• What type of things will the ISSOTL 09 review committee be looking for in my proposal?
This coming October, the Bloomington campus of Indiana University will host the 2009 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference. This workshop is for faculty, AIs and staff planning to submit proposals for a presentation, workshop or poster session at the 2009 conference.
In this interactive session, George Rehrey (Director, SOTL and Co-Chair of ISSOTL 09) and Carol Hostetter (Social Work and Program Co-Chair of ISSOTL 09) will share with participants what makes a successful proposal and the criteria typically used by the review committee in making their final selections.
Examples of past successful ISSOTL proposals will be provided and there will be time to work with your colleagues on the first draft of your proposal.
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 855-9023.
Oak Room
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch will not be provided
• What is the difference between a workshop and a panel presentation at an ISSOTL conference?
• When is the most appropriate time to share my research results in a poster format?
• What type of things will the ISSOTL 09 review committee be looking for in my proposal?
This coming October, the Bloomington campus of Indiana University will host the 2009 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference. This workshop is for faculty, AIs and staff planning to submit proposals for a presentation, workshop or poster session at the 2009 conference.
In this interactive session, George Rehrey (Director, SOTL and Co-Chair of ISSOTL 09) and Carol Hostetter (Social Work and Program Co-Chair of ISSOTL 09) will share with participants what makes a successful proposal and the criteria typically used by the review committee in making their final selections.
Examples of past successful ISSOTL proposals will be provided and there will be time to work with your colleagues on the first draft of your proposal.
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 855-9023.
IL/IN East Asian Summer Seminar
IL/IN East Asian Summer Seminar: “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia”
May 14-15, 2009 at Indiana University Bloomington
Web site: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml
Application deadline: March 27, 2009
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Title VI East Asia National Resource Center Consortium will hold a two-day summer seminar, “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia,” on May 14-15. All graduate students and advanced undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Midwest are welcome to apply.
The seminar will be led by Rayvon Fouché, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Hakken, Informatics, Indiana University; and Lisa Nakamura, Asian American Studies and Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
The twenty students selected to participate will have their lodging costs and reading materials fully covered, as well as some meals.
For more information and a registration form, go to: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml .
May 14-15, 2009 at Indiana University Bloomington
Web site: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml
Application deadline: March 27, 2009
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Title VI East Asia National Resource Center Consortium will hold a two-day summer seminar, “Interpreting Technology and Race in East Asia,” on May 14-15. All graduate students and advanced undergraduate students at colleges and universities in the Midwest are welcome to apply.
The seminar will be led by Rayvon Fouché, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Hakken, Informatics, Indiana University; and Lisa Nakamura, Asian American Studies and Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
The twenty students selected to participate will have their lodging costs and reading materials fully covered, as well as some meals.
For more information and a registration form, go to: http://www.iu.edu/~easc/programs/technology/index.shtml .
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Teach at the Collins Living-Learning Center
A reminder: The deadline for Collins course proposals is March 23.
Please forward Collins Living-Learning Center's Call for Seminar Proposals for Spring 2010 to instructors and grad students in your department. See below and attached for more details. Thank you!
Teach at the
Collins Living-Learning Center
Is there a course you've always wanted to teach, but never had the opportunity?
Have you designed a multidisciplinary course that doesn't quite fit into your department's curriculum?
Collins Living-Learning Center invites faculty members and advanced graduate students with teaching experience to submit course proposals each semester for the following year. This is an opportunity to teach a unique course in a special setting.
Collins courses carry university credit and are open to all IU undergraduates.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE FOR CLASSES TO BE TAUGHT IN SPRING 2010: MONDAY, MARCH 23 (NOON)
The 3-credit Collins seminars are limited to a maximum of 20 students (15 in the case of fine arts classes) and meet at the Collins Living-Learning Center, which is fully-equipped for multi-media teaching.
Faculty and graduate student instructors receive $5000 for a 3-credit course. In addition, they are given $400 to spend on materials or activities, a parking pass, and meal points for dining with students.
GO TO www.indiana.edu/~llc/ for details. (Click “Instructors.”)
Questions? Call or email Ellen Dwyer: 5-8905, dwyer@indiana.edu
Please forward Collins Living-Learning Center's Call for Seminar Proposals for Spring 2010 to instructors and grad students in your department. See below and attached for more details. Thank you!
Teach at the
Collins Living-Learning Center
Is there a course you've always wanted to teach, but never had the opportunity?
Have you designed a multidisciplinary course that doesn't quite fit into your department's curriculum?
Collins Living-Learning Center invites faculty members and advanced graduate students with teaching experience to submit course proposals each semester for the following year. This is an opportunity to teach a unique course in a special setting.
Collins courses carry university credit and are open to all IU undergraduates.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE FOR CLASSES TO BE TAUGHT IN SPRING 2010: MONDAY, MARCH 23 (NOON)
The 3-credit Collins seminars are limited to a maximum of 20 students (15 in the case of fine arts classes) and meet at the Collins Living-Learning Center, which is fully-equipped for multi-media teaching.
Faculty and graduate student instructors receive $5000 for a 3-credit course. In addition, they are given $400 to spend on materials or activities, a parking pass, and meal points for dining with students.
GO TO www.indiana.edu/~llc/ for details. (Click “Instructors.”)
Questions? Call or email Ellen Dwyer: 5-8905, dwyer@indiana.edu
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Maurer Law School hosts C. Raj Kumar of Jindal Global University
On Tuesday, March 24th and Wednesday, March 25th, the IU Maurer School of Law will be hosting Professor C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor of the Jindal Global University (Haryana). The first school that will be created at the Jindal University will be the Jindal Global Law School, which Professor Kumar has been tapped to lead.
The IU law school is organizing an afternoon tea and coffee meeting with Professor Kumar on Tuesday, March 24th at 3 pm in the law school's Room 310. On Wednesday, March 25th, Professor Kumar will be speaking at the law school at noon in Room 335. He will be discussing the state of legal education in India and the origins of the Jindal Global Law School. Lunch will be served.
Professor Kumar is an Honorary Consultant to the National Human Rights Commission in India. Before moving to the Jindal University, he held a faculty appointment at the City University of Hong Kong, where he taught for many years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School, where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree, and a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at Harvard University. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.
Professor Kumar is the author of numerous, highly-respected scholarly works on legal education, human rights, and the Indian legal system. In addition, he is admitted to the New York state bar. For more information on his background and the Jindal Global Law School, please see: www.jgls.org.
If you would like to attend the Tuesday afternoon meeting and/or the lunchtime talk on Wed., please RSVP to Ms. Nikki Rolf at nrolf@indiana.edu.
The IU law school is organizing an afternoon tea and coffee meeting with Professor Kumar on Tuesday, March 24th at 3 pm in the law school's Room 310. On Wednesday, March 25th, Professor Kumar will be speaking at the law school at noon in Room 335. He will be discussing the state of legal education in India and the origins of the Jindal Global Law School. Lunch will be served.
Professor Kumar is an Honorary Consultant to the National Human Rights Commission in India. Before moving to the Jindal University, he held a faculty appointment at the City University of Hong Kong, where he taught for many years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School, where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree, and a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at Harvard University. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.
Professor Kumar is the author of numerous, highly-respected scholarly works on legal education, human rights, and the Indian legal system. In addition, he is admitted to the New York state bar. For more information on his background and the Jindal Global Law School, please see: www.jgls.org.
If you would like to attend the Tuesday afternoon meeting and/or the lunchtime talk on Wed., please RSVP to Ms. Nikki Rolf at nrolf@indiana.edu.
Roundtable Discussion -"A Year After the March 2008 Protests: Is China Promoting Stability in Tibet?"
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Invites you to a roundtable discussion on
“A Year After the March 2008 Protests:Is China Promoting Stability in Tibet?”
Friday, March 13, 2009
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
One year ago, a wave of protests began in Lhasa and swept across the Tibetan Plateau. At this CECC Roundtable, a panel of experts will discuss conditions in the Tibetan autonomous areas of China. The Chinese government over the past year continued to press policies that have stoked frustration among Tibetans, saying such policies are essential for stability. Have those policies served that objective? Has the dynamic between the Chinese government and Tibetans changed over the last year, and if so, how? What should U.S. policymakers watch for in the days and weeks ahead?
Panelists:
Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Tseten Wangchuk, Senior Research Fellow, Tibet Center, University of Virginia; Senior Editor, Voice of America, Tibetan Language Service
Warren Smith, Writer, Radio Free Asia, Tibetan Service
CECC Roundtables are open to the public and no reservation is required.
Click here to download a copy of the Commission's full 2008 Annual Report.
Visit www.cecc.gov for analysis of recent developments and other resources related to the development of the rule of law and human rights in China.
Invites you to a roundtable discussion on
“A Year After the March 2008 Protests:Is China Promoting Stability in Tibet?”
Friday, March 13, 2009
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
One year ago, a wave of protests began in Lhasa and swept across the Tibetan Plateau. At this CECC Roundtable, a panel of experts will discuss conditions in the Tibetan autonomous areas of China. The Chinese government over the past year continued to press policies that have stoked frustration among Tibetans, saying such policies are essential for stability. Have those policies served that objective? Has the dynamic between the Chinese government and Tibetans changed over the last year, and if so, how? What should U.S. policymakers watch for in the days and weeks ahead?
Panelists:
Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Tseten Wangchuk, Senior Research Fellow, Tibet Center, University of Virginia; Senior Editor, Voice of America, Tibetan Language Service
Warren Smith, Writer, Radio Free Asia, Tibetan Service
CECC Roundtables are open to the public and no reservation is required.
Click here to download a copy of the Commission's full 2008 Annual Report.
Visit www.cecc.gov for analysis of recent developments and other resources related to the development of the rule of law and human rights in China.
Call for Papers - Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
October 30-November 1, 2009
Book Cadillac Westin Hotel
Detroit, Michigan
FILM/LITERATURE ADAPTATION
Proposals for either papers or panels are especially welcome in the area of recent conceptualizations of adaptation. The recent work of Robert Stam, Linda Hutcheon, Kamilla Elliot, and others has dramatically urged a rethinking of the nature of adaptation, its inevitability in culture, the multiplicity of its productions, its range of social and formal implications, as well as the variety of texts engaged by its transactions.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
New models of adaptation/appropriation/imitation/translation
Adapting texts and intertexts
Canonicity and adaptation
Novel and short story to film
Drama to film
Film to film adaptations
Adaptations based on television
Biography and autobiography adaptations
Adaptations of history
Adaptation superstars (Jane Austen, Frank Miller…) Fellowship of the Ring adaptations Graphic novels/comics/video games to film Intermedia adaptations
Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Bob Self at the email or physical address below.
Information about the conference is available at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Submission deadline is April 30, 2009
Book Cadillac Westin Hotel
Detroit, Michigan
FILM/LITERATURE ADAPTATION
Proposals for either papers or panels are especially welcome in the area of recent conceptualizations of adaptation. The recent work of Robert Stam, Linda Hutcheon, Kamilla Elliot, and others has dramatically urged a rethinking of the nature of adaptation, its inevitability in culture, the multiplicity of its productions, its range of social and formal implications, as well as the variety of texts engaged by its transactions.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
New models of adaptation/appropriation/imitation/translation
Adapting texts and intertexts
Canonicity and adaptation
Novel and short story to film
Drama to film
Film to film adaptations
Adaptations based on television
Biography and autobiography adaptations
Adaptations of history
Adaptation superstars (Jane Austen, Frank Miller…) Fellowship of the Ring adaptations Graphic novels/comics/video games to film Intermedia adaptations
Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to Bob Self at the email or physical address below.
Information about the conference is available at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Submission deadline is April 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
IU Department of Telecommunications Seminar (T600) Series
IU Department of Telecommunications Seminar (T600) Series
Speaker: Scott Campbell (Dept. of Communication Studies, U. of Michigan)
Title: Civic engagement in a "mobilized" society: New media, new insights.
Time: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Place: Radio-TV building, room 226
Abstract
Debates over civic engagement have garnered increased concern in recent years, partly due to evidence of its steady decline in American society over the last half century. A key culprit blamed for this trend is the privatization of leisure time through the use of electronic media, particularly television. The uptake of new media such as computer and mobile communication technologies has ushered in a new wave of hopes and fears for civic engagement. This talk reports on a series of empirical studies that explore how old, new, and even newer media may be helping or harming engagement in civic life. Beyond simple exposure to the media, we take into consideration a number of salient factors, such as usage patterns, self-efficacy, and social network characteristics, in an attempt to contextualize this (often over-simplified) debate.
Bio
Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Campbell's research explores the social implications of new media, with an emphasis on mobile telephony. His current projects examine how mobile communication patterns are linked to both the private and public spheres of social life, such as social networking and civic engagement. Several of these projects use a comparative approach to situate the role of mobile communication technology in the larger media landscape.
Speaker: Scott Campbell (Dept. of Communication Studies, U. of Michigan)
Title: Civic engagement in a "mobilized" society: New media, new insights.
Time: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Place: Radio-TV building, room 226
Abstract
Debates over civic engagement have garnered increased concern in recent years, partly due to evidence of its steady decline in American society over the last half century. A key culprit blamed for this trend is the privatization of leisure time through the use of electronic media, particularly television. The uptake of new media such as computer and mobile communication technologies has ushered in a new wave of hopes and fears for civic engagement. This talk reports on a series of empirical studies that explore how old, new, and even newer media may be helping or harming engagement in civic life. Beyond simple exposure to the media, we take into consideration a number of salient factors, such as usage patterns, self-efficacy, and social network characteristics, in an attempt to contextualize this (often over-simplified) debate.
Bio
Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Campbell's research explores the social implications of new media, with an emphasis on mobile telephony. His current projects examine how mobile communication patterns are linked to both the private and public spheres of social life, such as social networking and civic engagement. Several of these projects use a comparative approach to situate the role of mobile communication technology in the larger media landscape.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Alumni Lecture Series: "Sex, Sexism, and the Search for Pleasure in Hip Hop"
Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand Hall
March 4, 2009
4 pm
Ebony A. Utley, Ph.D. was an Indiana University Wells Scholar, who earned a B.A. in Communication and Culture and her PhD from Northwestern, She is and expert on the subject of hip hop and love, and author of the forthcoming book The Gangsta's God: The Quest for respectability in Hip Hop. She is co-editor of the fall 2009 "Hip Hop's Language of Love" a special issue of the journal, Women and Language. Professor Utley teaches courses on hip hop, gender, and rhetorical criticism.
March 4, 2009
4 pm
Ebony A. Utley, Ph.D. was an Indiana University Wells Scholar, who earned a B.A. in Communication and Culture and her PhD from Northwestern, She is and expert on the subject of hip hop and love, and author of the forthcoming book The Gangsta's God: The Quest for respectability in Hip Hop. She is co-editor of the fall 2009 "Hip Hop's Language of Love" a special issue of the journal, Women and Language. Professor Utley teaches courses on hip hop, gender, and rhetorical criticism.
COAS and CMCL Spring 2009 Travel Grants
Applications are now open for simultaneous application for COAS and CMCL travel grants for Spring 2009. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday, March 13th, 2009. This date is different than the deadline given by COAS! The GAC must have time to review these applications, so be sure to adhere to the CMCL date.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Awards are usually in the range of $300. Preference will be given to students who have not previously received a Travel Award. Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250. The Department also gives preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award and to those who are currently on the job market. Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award you must both apply on line to COAS at:
https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/TravelGrants/TravelGrantsApplication.cfm
and complete the departmental application form which Kathy will send in a mass email. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, along with three hardcopies of your COAS application to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 13th.
The GAC ranks the applications and nominates the top three for COAS Travel Awards. The Department has funds for a total of 5 awards this semester, which will be allocated first to whichever of the COAS nominations are unsuccessful, and thereafter to the applications ranked next. This means that between 5 and 8 applications will be awarded funds either through COAS or CMCL. It also means that we have to wait until COAS makes its decision before we know all the applicants who will receive a CMCL award (in addition to the two who are ranked 4th and 5th by the GAC).
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed both by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and, more importantly, by people in the College who don’t necessarily know what NCA, SCMC, or AAA mean or can grasp the significance of your conference presentation without you providing a context. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form you can use the “Anything else that will help us evaluate the importance of your paper” heading to explain why your presentation (and perhaps the whole panel, if relevant) is of scholarly significance (what it contributes to your field, what new information it uncovers, or new perspective, argument, claim it offers) and why it is pertinent to present it at this particular conference, and let us know if you have plans to publish your paper.
On the COAS application form you should use the “Project details” section to include not only the title, dates and location of the conference, as well as your paper title, but also a narrative version of the “tick box” information on your department application form (e.g. “My paper has been selected on the basis of peer review of the full paper for presentation at the National Communication Association annual meeting, which is the primary conference for research in my field.”) You should use the “additional information” section to include not only an abstract but also to frame the abstract as suggested above.
On each form you should provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Awards are usually in the range of $300. Preference will be given to students who have not previously received a Travel Award. Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250. The Department also gives preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award and to those who are currently on the job market. Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award you must both apply on line to COAS at:
https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/TravelGrants/TravelGrantsApplication.cfm
and complete the departmental application form which Kathy will send in a mass email. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, along with three hardcopies of your COAS application to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 13th.
The GAC ranks the applications and nominates the top three for COAS Travel Awards. The Department has funds for a total of 5 awards this semester, which will be allocated first to whichever of the COAS nominations are unsuccessful, and thereafter to the applications ranked next. This means that between 5 and 8 applications will be awarded funds either through COAS or CMCL. It also means that we have to wait until COAS makes its decision before we know all the applicants who will receive a CMCL award (in addition to the two who are ranked 4th and 5th by the GAC).
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed both by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and, more importantly, by people in the College who don’t necessarily know what NCA, SCMC, or AAA mean or can grasp the significance of your conference presentation without you providing a context. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form you can use the “Anything else that will help us evaluate the importance of your paper” heading to explain why your presentation (and perhaps the whole panel, if relevant) is of scholarly significance (what it contributes to your field, what new information it uncovers, or new perspective, argument, claim it offers) and why it is pertinent to present it at this particular conference, and let us know if you have plans to publish your paper.
On the COAS application form you should use the “Project details” section to include not only the title, dates and location of the conference, as well as your paper title, but also a narrative version of the “tick box” information on your department application form (e.g. “My paper has been selected on the basis of peer review of the full paper for presentation at the National Communication Association annual meeting, which is the primary conference for research in my field.”) You should use the “additional information” section to include not only an abstract but also to frame the abstract as suggested above.
On each form you should provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
End User Training: COS Funding Opportunities
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research jointly funds Indiana University’s subscription to COS. COS Funding Opportunities helps locate information from federal agencies, foundations, associations, and corporations for research grants, curriculum development, fellowships, postdoctoral funding, etc. COS Expertise is a database of profiles of more than 500,000 researchers and scholars in the arts, sciences, humanities and other disciplines. The COS Workbench an easy-to-use Web workspace for Expertise profile holders, with many features to help you promote work, manage resumes/CVs, save funding searches and set up alerts for new funding opportunities.
COS is now pleased to offer effective training directly to users in a convenient online medium. This training opportunity is specifically designed for end users such as faculty, post docs, students and staff and is designed to teach the best ways to use COS to find funding opportunities.
End User Training: COS Funding Opportunities (same class offered at three different times)
Wednesday, March 4
Tuesday, March 17
Monday, March 30
All sessions are at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Central on the following three days.
Enroll here: http://www.cos.com/usertraining/
COS is now pleased to offer effective training directly to users in a convenient online medium. This training opportunity is specifically designed for end users such as faculty, post docs, students and staff and is designed to teach the best ways to use COS to find funding opportunities.
End User Training: COS Funding Opportunities (same class offered at three different times)
Wednesday, March 4
Tuesday, March 17
Monday, March 30
All sessions are at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Central on the following three days.
Enroll here: http://www.cos.com/usertraining/
Commencement Participation - PhD
If you have, or will have received your PhD by the end of the semester, and plan to participate in the Commencement Ceremonies this May, you will need to complete the requisite form.
THE DEADLINE FOR THIS IS THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 6th.
I will be out of the office on Friday, so contact me by noon on Thursday if you need this form.
THE DEADLINE FOR THIS IS THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 6th.
I will be out of the office on Friday, so contact me by noon on Thursday if you need this form.
Application to Graduate -MA
Hi All,
If you plan to graduate with your MA this spring, you will need to fill out an Application to Gradaute. Email me for the form.
If you plan to graduate with your MA this spring, you will need to fill out an Application to Gradaute. Email me for the form.
Czech Film Series
Czech Film Series 2008-2009
Thursday, March 12, Lindley Hall 102 at 7 PM
Jan Švankmajer: Little Otik
(2000)
Despite its tortured history, Eastern Europe, and particularly Czechoslovakia, has managed to produce an almost uninterrupted flow of the world’s great animation over the past few decades. This is due to consistent state support for the format, a long folkloric tradition, and individual artists like Jan Švankmajer. Otesánek is based on a Czech fairy tale about a childless couple who adopt a tree stump that looks like a baby. The stump comes to life, grows huge, and starts murdering and eating everybody and everything in its path. A genre-busting masterpiece about the perils of parenthood and what can happen to those who don’t leave well enough alone with the status quo nature has determined. Expert balancing act between the grotesque, the comic, and the pathetic.
In Czech with English subtitles. 2 hours 7 minutes.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Light refreshments served by the students from the Czech Club
Thursday, March 12, Lindley Hall 102 at 7 PM
Jan Švankmajer: Little Otik
(2000)
Despite its tortured history, Eastern Europe, and particularly Czechoslovakia, has managed to produce an almost uninterrupted flow of the world’s great animation over the past few decades. This is due to consistent state support for the format, a long folkloric tradition, and individual artists like Jan Švankmajer. Otesánek is based on a Czech fairy tale about a childless couple who adopt a tree stump that looks like a baby. The stump comes to life, grows huge, and starts murdering and eating everybody and everything in its path. A genre-busting masterpiece about the perils of parenthood and what can happen to those who don’t leave well enough alone with the status quo nature has determined. Expert balancing act between the grotesque, the comic, and the pathetic.
In Czech with English subtitles. 2 hours 7 minutes.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Light refreshments served by the students from the Czech Club
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