Our Bodies Ourselves is seeking up to two dozen women to participate in an online discussion on sexual relationships. Stories and comments may be used anonymously in the next edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves,"
which will be published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster.
We are seeking the experience and wisdom of heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual and queer women. Perspectives from single women are encouraged, and you may define relationship as it applies to you, from monogamy to multiple partners. We are committed to including women of color, women with disabilities, trans women and women of many ages and backgrounds.
In the words of the brilliant anthology "Yes Means Yes," how can we consistently engage in more positive experiences? What issues deserve more attention? And how do we address social inequities and violence against women? These are some of the guiding questions that will help us to update the relationships section in "Our Bodies, Ourselves."
The conversation will start Sunday, Feb. 14 (yes, Valentine's Day) and stay open through Friday, March 12.
Participants will be invited to answer relevant questions
view sample questions<> at Our Bodies, Our Blog
and build on the responses of other participants. We'll use a private Google site to post questions and responses.
Personal stories and reflections are welcomed, along with updated research and media resources. While we intend to use some of the stories and experiences in the book, names will not be published.
We hope the open process* will spark robust discussion. We expect new questions to arise that challenge us to re-work this section even more.
If you would like to participate in this conversation, please e-mail OBOS editorial team member Wendy Sanford:
wsanford@bwhbc.org
In your email, please tell us about yourself and what you would bring to the conversation. We need to hear from you by Feb. 5 and will let you know soon thereafter about participation. Thanks for considering this!
*We have thought a great deal about privacy. If you want to share a story or information, but do not want to participate in the private Google site discussion, please indicate that in your email. We may send you questions that you can answer on your own.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Virginia Gunderson Award Nominations
It is time to submit nominations for the Virginia Gunderson award for the 2009 calendar year (Spring–Fall)
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated prize for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. This formal recognition of the student’s achievement is accompanied by the sum of $1,000. The recipient will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall 2010 semester.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Calloway-Thomas’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 1, 2010. Both awards will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
• The American Studies program also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two distinct awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated prize for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. This formal recognition of the student’s achievement is accompanied by the sum of $1,000. The recipient will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall 2010 semester.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Calloway-Thomas’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 1, 2010. Both awards will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
• The American Studies program also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two distinct awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.
Robert Gunderson Award Nominations
It is time to submit nominations for the Robert G. Gunderson award for the 2009 calendar year (Spring–Fall)
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student prize for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. This formal recognition of outstanding graduate student work is accompanied by a modest honorarium. The criteria used to judge this award are the originality and daring of its interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, and the overall quality of the writing and research.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Calloway-Thomas’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 1, 2010. The award will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student prize for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. This formal recognition of outstanding graduate student work is accompanied by a modest honorarium. The criteria used to judge this award are the originality and daring of its interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, and the overall quality of the writing and research.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Calloway-Thomas’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 1, 2010. The award will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
Preparing Future Faculty Program
If you are interested in participating in Preparing Future Faculty Program activities this semester, please contact Carolyn Calloway-Thomas by Sunday, January 31st.
Midwest Graduate Student Summit on Regional, Population and Health Economics
The Space, Health and Population Economics group (SHaPE) within the Department of Agricul-
tural Economics at Purdue University is hosting the third annual Midwest Graduate Student
Summit on Regional, Population and Health Economics.
The summit will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10, 2010 on the campus of
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Following in the tradition of the last two years, the summit provides an opportunity for students
from a variety of universities to come together and share ideas, seek and provide feedback, and
foster collaboration within the strong network of graduate programs across the region. In previous years, the Midwest Graduate Student Summit has brought together students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, and Purdue University, and this year we hope to expand the list!
Attendees are encouraged to present completed research, research in progress, and research announcements. Previous presentations have covered a diverse range of topics such as:
_ Housing and land use
_ Prosperity and inequality
_ Health and nutrition
_ Climate change
_ Immigration and migration
_ Regional and economic development
_ Modeling and methodology
A call for abstracts is forthcoming and submissions will be due March 1st. More information about the summit, submission requirements, a tentative schedule, and logistics will be available for students and faculty within the next week.
Please mark your calendars for April 9th and 10th. We look forward to seeing you and hosting an invigorating and enriching summit this spring!
tural Economics at Purdue University is hosting the third annual Midwest Graduate Student
Summit on Regional, Population and Health Economics.
The summit will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 9 and 10, 2010 on the campus of
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Following in the tradition of the last two years, the summit provides an opportunity for students
from a variety of universities to come together and share ideas, seek and provide feedback, and
foster collaboration within the strong network of graduate programs across the region. In previous years, the Midwest Graduate Student Summit has brought together students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan State University, Ohio State University, and Purdue University, and this year we hope to expand the list!
Attendees are encouraged to present completed research, research in progress, and research announcements. Previous presentations have covered a diverse range of topics such as:
_ Housing and land use
_ Prosperity and inequality
_ Health and nutrition
_ Climate change
_ Immigration and migration
_ Regional and economic development
_ Modeling and methodology
A call for abstracts is forthcoming and submissions will be due March 1st. More information about the summit, submission requirements, a tentative schedule, and logistics will be available for students and faculty within the next week.
Please mark your calendars for April 9th and 10th. We look forward to seeing you and hosting an invigorating and enriching summit this spring!
Part-Time Position
Garden Supervisor
City of Bloomington Community Garden Program
Description
The City of Bloomington Community Garden Program is looking for a Garden Supervisor for the 2010 season. Responsibilities include: assisting with initial garden preparations, such as marking of garden plots; coordinating composting efforts of gardeners; coordinating groups volunteering at gardens; communicating/enforcing rules and policies with gardeners; maintaining positive relations with gardeners and providing advice when requested; maintaining garden equipment and supplies; and maintaining overall appearance of all Community Garden Program sites.
Experience/Special Skills
Applicants should have extensive experience with gardening/farming, genuine enthusiasm for outdoor activities and physical labor, demonstrated ability to work well with the public, ability to work independently and take direction from the Program Specialist, ability to exercise good judgment and excellent communication skills.
Hours
March – November, 15 hours per week, evenings, holidays and weekends as required.
Salary
$10.20/hour
To apply or for more information, contact Bradley Drake at (812) 349-3704 or drakeb@bloomington.in.gov.
Applications will be accepted through Friday, February 19, 2010.
City of Bloomington Community Garden Program
Description
The City of Bloomington Community Garden Program is looking for a Garden Supervisor for the 2010 season. Responsibilities include: assisting with initial garden preparations, such as marking of garden plots; coordinating composting efforts of gardeners; coordinating groups volunteering at gardens; communicating/enforcing rules and policies with gardeners; maintaining positive relations with gardeners and providing advice when requested; maintaining garden equipment and supplies; and maintaining overall appearance of all Community Garden Program sites.
Experience/Special Skills
Applicants should have extensive experience with gardening/farming, genuine enthusiasm for outdoor activities and physical labor, demonstrated ability to work well with the public, ability to work independently and take direction from the Program Specialist, ability to exercise good judgment and excellent communication skills.
Hours
March – November, 15 hours per week, evenings, holidays and weekends as required.
Salary
$10.20/hour
To apply or for more information, contact Bradley Drake at (812) 349-3704 or drakeb@bloomington.in.gov.
Applications will be accepted through Friday, February 19, 2010.
The Implications and Impact of Interdisciplinary Research and Education Upon Disciplinary Ways of Knowing
10:00 am–11:30 am Frangipani Room, IMU
Lecture by Julie Thompson Klein,–Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne State University
Interdisciplinarity has become a mantra for change in the twenty-first century while at the same time notions of knowledge as a foundation or a linear structure have been disrupted by open source and social networks, the creative commons, and the web in general. The word appears in countless reports from professional associations, educational organizations, and funding agencies. It is also a keyword in strategic plans and echoes through the hallways as we attempt to describe knowledge and education across sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professions. Images of the curriculum follow suit, supplanting fragmentation and segmentation with integrating, connecting, linking, and clustering. In the past, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity were treated as a dichotomy. Changes in research and priorities for education, though, challenge the simple metaphor of opposition.
This presentation explores the implications of these changes and focuses upon how we represent disciplinary knowledge today. State-of-the-art reports from disciplinary professional groups and accrediting bodies document greater complexity, relational pluralism, dynamism, and boundary crossing. Building and sustaining separate interdisciplinary programs and projects remains important. But, discipline-based curricula and program evaluation also need to be taken account of changes in what we know, what students should learn, and how we teach and conduct scholarship on teaching and learning.
Click here to register to attend.
Lecture by Julie Thompson Klein,–Interdisciplinary Studies, Wayne State University
Interdisciplinarity has become a mantra for change in the twenty-first century while at the same time notions of knowledge as a foundation or a linear structure have been disrupted by open source and social networks, the creative commons, and the web in general. The word appears in countless reports from professional associations, educational organizations, and funding agencies. It is also a keyword in strategic plans and echoes through the hallways as we attempt to describe knowledge and education across sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professions. Images of the curriculum follow suit, supplanting fragmentation and segmentation with integrating, connecting, linking, and clustering. In the past, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity were treated as a dichotomy. Changes in research and priorities for education, though, challenge the simple metaphor of opposition.
This presentation explores the implications of these changes and focuses upon how we represent disciplinary knowledge today. State-of-the-art reports from disciplinary professional groups and accrediting bodies document greater complexity, relational pluralism, dynamism, and boundary crossing. Building and sustaining separate interdisciplinary programs and projects remains important. But, discipline-based curricula and program evaluation also need to be taken account of changes in what we know, what students should learn, and how we teach and conduct scholarship on teaching and learning.
Click here to register to attend.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN DOCTORAL DEPARTMENTS
The Center for a Public Anthropology is establishing a Graduate Student Network among the anthropology doctoral departments. If you would like to learn more about the Network so you can decide whether or not you wish to join, please click on this link:
http://www.publicanthropology.org/paca-website/GSN-09.htm
http://www.publicanthropology.org/paca-website/GSN-09.htm
Media @ IU listserv
We've been asked to let you know about a new resource we have started at IU, part of a cross-campus effort to get more visibility for media-related activities of faculty and students at IU.
For about a year now, a project has been up and running called "Media @ IU", which was awarded a Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund last Spring. the project started as an iniative by faculty in three units (Telecommunications, Communication and Culture, and Journalism), with the support of a wide aray of student media organizations (such as the IDS, WIUX, IUSTV, and the BCEC).
The general idea is that one of the (many) strengths of Indiana University is its broad and interdisciplinary study, pedagogy, and practice of media. whether it is media effects, media and society, the media as a cultural industry, the media as a space for creativity, media law and policy, or the management and economics of the media enterprise, someone at IU is doing it.
Of course, most of us are not in the same department, school or unit on our campus. although this diversity is a good thing, it does produce somewhat of a problem: we often do not know about each other's work, particularly each other's talks/events.
The next step of our project is the management of an university-wide listserv, MEDIAIU-L. we hope that you will subscribe to this listserv.
Subscription is easy: send a message to listserv@indiana.edu with the following text in the body of the message (substitute your own name for "firstname lastname"):
SUBSCRIBE MEDIAIU-L firstname lastname
the point of this list is to distribute announcements of:
* guest speakers
* brown-bags
* workshops
* conferences and symposia
and of course any other relevant and open event you and/or your department is organizing that might be relevant to colleagues and students interested in the media.
Please note that we consider "media" in the broadest possible sense of the term, most specifically in the sense of creative industries, including (but not limited to):
* Advertising
* Architecture
* Arts and antique markets
* Crafts
* Design
* Designer Fashion
* Film, video and photography
* Journalism
* Software, video/computer games and electronic publishing
* Music and the visual and performing arts
* Publishing
* Television and radio
(see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_industries).
On a final note: you can either distribute announcements yourself, or forward information about upcoming events (such as the PEC series at Sociology, the T600 speaker series at Telecommunications, the Rob Klinge Center for Social Informatics colloquium series, the School of Journalism Research Colloquium, the CMCL Colloquium Series, and so on) to us for further dissemination.
Please contact Mary Gray (mlg@indiana.edu) or Mark Deuze (mdeuze@indiana.edu) if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
For about a year now, a project has been up and running called "Media @ IU", which was awarded a Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund last Spring. the project started as an iniative by faculty in three units (Telecommunications, Communication and Culture, and Journalism), with the support of a wide aray of student media organizations (such as the IDS, WIUX, IUSTV, and the BCEC).
The general idea is that one of the (many) strengths of Indiana University is its broad and interdisciplinary study, pedagogy, and practice of media. whether it is media effects, media and society, the media as a cultural industry, the media as a space for creativity, media law and policy, or the management and economics of the media enterprise, someone at IU is doing it.
Of course, most of us are not in the same department, school or unit on our campus. although this diversity is a good thing, it does produce somewhat of a problem: we often do not know about each other's work, particularly each other's talks/events.
The next step of our project is the management of an university-wide listserv, MEDIAIU-L. we hope that you will subscribe to this listserv.
Subscription is easy: send a message to listserv@indiana.edu with the following text in the body of the message (substitute your own name for "firstname lastname"):
SUBSCRIBE MEDIAIU-L firstname lastname
the point of this list is to distribute announcements of:
* guest speakers
* brown-bags
* workshops
* conferences and symposia
and of course any other relevant and open event you and/or your department is organizing that might be relevant to colleagues and students interested in the media.
Please note that we consider "media" in the broadest possible sense of the term, most specifically in the sense of creative industries, including (but not limited to):
* Advertising
* Architecture
* Arts and antique markets
* Crafts
* Design
* Designer Fashion
* Film, video and photography
* Journalism
* Software, video/computer games and electronic publishing
* Music and the visual and performing arts
* Publishing
* Television and radio
(see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_industries).
On a final note: you can either distribute announcements yourself, or forward information about upcoming events (such as the PEC series at Sociology, the T600 speaker series at Telecommunications, the Rob Klinge Center for Social Informatics colloquium series, the School of Journalism Research Colloquium, the CMCL Colloquium Series, and so on) to us for further dissemination.
Please contact Mary Gray (mlg@indiana.edu) or Mark Deuze (mdeuze@indiana.edu) if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
CMCL Colloquium Series - Forming a Committee/Making a Plan of Study
Friday, January 29th
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
The CMCL Colloquium Series presents a student panel to discuss the ins-and outs of Forming an Advisory Committee and writing a Plan of Study. PhD students James Paasche, Will Scheibel, and Valerie Wieskamp will share their experiences and lead a Q & A.
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
The CMCL Colloquium Series presents a student panel to discuss the ins-and outs of Forming an Advisory Committee and writing a Plan of Study. PhD students James Paasche, Will Scheibel, and Valerie Wieskamp will share their experiences and lead a Q & A.
City Lights & Underground Film Series
Friday, January 29
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
Preston Sturges’ now acclaimed 1948 film Unfaithfully Yours is the story of Sir Alfred de Carter, (Rex Harrison) a world famous symphony conductor, who through a series of comic misunderstandings, begins to suspect that his young wife has been unfaithful while he’s been away. As Sir Alfred conducts pieces by Rossini, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky, the film takes us inside the eccentric conductor’s rampant imagination, and what follows is a series of darkly comic scenarios in which Sir Alfred imagines how he will confront his wife and her suspected lover. Sturges’ writing is spot-on as usual, securing the film’s place as a classic in the tragicomic canon. (105 min.)
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)
Preston Sturges’ now acclaimed 1948 film Unfaithfully Yours is the story of Sir Alfred de Carter, (Rex Harrison) a world famous symphony conductor, who through a series of comic misunderstandings, begins to suspect that his young wife has been unfaithful while he’s been away. As Sir Alfred conducts pieces by Rossini, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky, the film takes us inside the eccentric conductor’s rampant imagination, and what follows is a series of darkly comic scenarios in which Sir Alfred imagines how he will confront his wife and her suspected lover. Sturges’ writing is spot-on as usual, securing the film’s place as a classic in the tragicomic canon. (105 min.)
IU-Bloomington’s Deemed Top US University Library
A national group says Indiana University’s Bloomington campus has the nation’s best university library.
The award announced Tuesday by the Association of College and Research Libraries recognizes IU’s Bloomington Libraries for the quality of its staff and collection of books and resources.
IU will receive the award during a public reception this spring.
Interim Dean of University Libraries Carolyn Walters says the honor is a testament to the “dedication and hard work” of the campus’ librarians and staff.
The Bloomington campus’ library includes more than 6.6 million books and materials in more than 350 languages, as well as digital content, journals, films and sound recordings.
The award announced Tuesday by the Association of College and Research Libraries recognizes IU’s Bloomington Libraries for the quality of its staff and collection of books and resources.
IU will receive the award during a public reception this spring.
Interim Dean of University Libraries Carolyn Walters says the honor is a testament to the “dedication and hard work” of the campus’ librarians and staff.
The Bloomington campus’ library includes more than 6.6 million books and materials in more than 350 languages, as well as digital content, journals, films and sound recordings.
IU Cultural Studies 2010 Gender and Citizenship Conference
February 26th and 27th
The United Nations has recently identified women as a leading force in the twenty-first century in reshaping communities--social, political, cultural, and economic--across the world. The UN's acknowledgment of women's impact on social life comes after at least a decades discussion by feminist scholars of the gender implications of globalization, citizenship, immigration, and nationalisms.
This year's Cultural Studies Conference (February 26-27, 2010) will engage in three especially salient areas of this discussion: gender and citizenship, international feminisms, and feminism in academia. Within these three areas, the conference raises such questions as:
What does it mean to gender globalization and displacement?
How does an understanding of gender and citizenship travel across cultural and geographic boundaries?
To what extent does feminism enable a multi-tiered conception of citizenship which recognizes that national identifications can be complicated by sub-, cross-, supra-national affiliations?
What would a transnational feminist future look like, and what role should academic feminist play in envisioning and enabling that future?
The conference features a keynote address by Srimati Basu (University of Kentucky) and presentations by Eva Cherniavsky( University of Washington), Susan Dewey (DePauw University), Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), and Robyn Wiegman (Duke University).
Our invited speakers will be joined by IU faculty on three panels devoted to "Gender and Citizenship," "International Feminisms," and "Feminism and the Academy."
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Feb. 26, 2010: Keynote by Srimati Basu
"The Violence of Marriage: Rape and Conjugal Citizenship"
In a dramatic post-show performance in January 2004, Kolkata (India) police stormed the play Phataru and attempted to arrest actor Rudranil Ghosh on charges of rape brought by fellow-actor Oindrila Chakraborty, galvanizing conversations around rape in terms of sexual agency, marriage and fraud. I examine accounts of this hypervisible case against ethnographic data from other legal settings and other appellate cases which evoke and elide rape in the context of marriage. Legal categories for managing divorce, domestic violence and sexual violence have seemingly been negotiated separately through political compromises and feminist formulations, but they have come to shape each other as legal strategies such that rape and marriage come to be mutually constituted. While judicial discourse around rape appears to have moved away from notions of property redress, these recent cases underline continuing constructions of rape in terms of compensation and fraud, and highlight the role of law in buttressing norms of kinship and conjugality over sexual agency. The task for feminists is to engage with ongoing legal constructions, to challenge the erasure of sexual agency and the promotion of marriage as optimal
solutions, and to transform the discourse of power relations encoded in such constructions.
Feb. 27, 2010:
10:00 am -12:00 pm
Panel I: Gender and Citizenship:
1. Susan Williams, (IU Law)
2. Eva Cherniavsky, (English, University of Washington)
3. Sara Friedman, (IU Anthro and GS)
4. Moderator: Purnima Bose
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Panel II: International/Global Feminisms:
1. Lessie Frazier, (IU GS)
2. Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin)
3. Susan Dewey (DePauw)
4. Moderator: Radhika Parameswaran (IU Journalism)
3:15 pm-5:15 pm; Panel III: Feminism and the Academy:
1. Karma Lochrie, (IU GS)
2. Maria Bucur (IU History)
3. Robyn Wiegman (Women's Studies, Duke)
4. Moderator: Jean Robinson
Co-sponsored by Gender Studies and India Studies
The United Nations has recently identified women as a leading force in the twenty-first century in reshaping communities--social, political, cultural, and economic--across the world. The UN's acknowledgment of women's impact on social life comes after at least a decades discussion by feminist scholars of the gender implications of globalization, citizenship, immigration, and nationalisms.
This year's Cultural Studies Conference (February 26-27, 2010) will engage in three especially salient areas of this discussion: gender and citizenship, international feminisms, and feminism in academia. Within these three areas, the conference raises such questions as:
What does it mean to gender globalization and displacement?
How does an understanding of gender and citizenship travel across cultural and geographic boundaries?
To what extent does feminism enable a multi-tiered conception of citizenship which recognizes that national identifications can be complicated by sub-, cross-, supra-national affiliations?
What would a transnational feminist future look like, and what role should academic feminist play in envisioning and enabling that future?
The conference features a keynote address by Srimati Basu (University of Kentucky) and presentations by Eva Cherniavsky( University of Washington), Susan Dewey (DePauw University), Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin College), and Robyn Wiegman (Duke University).
Our invited speakers will be joined by IU faculty on three panels devoted to "Gender and Citizenship," "International Feminisms," and "Feminism and the Academy."
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Feb. 26, 2010: Keynote by Srimati Basu
"The Violence of Marriage: Rape and Conjugal Citizenship"
In a dramatic post-show performance in January 2004, Kolkata (India) police stormed the play Phataru and attempted to arrest actor Rudranil Ghosh on charges of rape brought by fellow-actor Oindrila Chakraborty, galvanizing conversations around rape in terms of sexual agency, marriage and fraud. I examine accounts of this hypervisible case against ethnographic data from other legal settings and other appellate cases which evoke and elide rape in the context of marriage. Legal categories for managing divorce, domestic violence and sexual violence have seemingly been negotiated separately through political compromises and feminist formulations, but they have come to shape each other as legal strategies such that rape and marriage come to be mutually constituted. While judicial discourse around rape appears to have moved away from notions of property redress, these recent cases underline continuing constructions of rape in terms of compensation and fraud, and highlight the role of law in buttressing norms of kinship and conjugality over sexual agency. The task for feminists is to engage with ongoing legal constructions, to challenge the erasure of sexual agency and the promotion of marriage as optimal
solutions, and to transform the discourse of power relations encoded in such constructions.
Feb. 27, 2010:
10:00 am -12:00 pm
Panel I: Gender and Citizenship:
1. Susan Williams, (IU Law)
2. Eva Cherniavsky, (English, University of Washington)
3. Sara Friedman, (IU Anthro and GS)
4. Moderator: Purnima Bose
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Panel II: International/Global Feminisms:
1. Lessie Frazier, (IU GS)
2. Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin)
3. Susan Dewey (DePauw)
4. Moderator: Radhika Parameswaran (IU Journalism)
3:15 pm-5:15 pm; Panel III: Feminism and the Academy:
1. Karma Lochrie, (IU GS)
2. Maria Bucur (IU History)
3. Robyn Wiegman (Women's Studies, Duke)
4. Moderator: Jean Robinson
Co-sponsored by Gender Studies and India Studies
CMCL Fall 2009 Travel Grant Winners
Congratulations to Josh Carney, Amanda Keeler, Ozan Say, Jason Sperb, and Sarah Florini for winning CMCL Fall 2009 Travel Grants.
2009/2010 COAS Travel Grant Winner
Congratulations to Shelley-Jean Bradfield for winning a 2009/2010 Academic Year Travel Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wrapped in Paisley: The Story of the Kashmir Shawl
Curated by collector Joan Hart, this exhibit examines the history of the paisley shawl, from its origins in India to its place in European high fashion. The exhibit will be on display January 26-May 9, 2010, at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.
A special curator's talk and reception will be held Friday, February 5. The event will begin at 5 p.m., and feature a presentation by Joan Hart at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.
Mathers Museum of World Cultures
416 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington
A special curator's talk and reception will be held Friday, February 5. The event will begin at 5 p.m., and feature a presentation by Joan Hart at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.
Mathers Museum of World Cultures
416 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Michael Pollan at the IU Auditorium
Bestselling author and contributor to the movie Food Inc., contemporary thinker Michael Pollan will appear at IU Auditorium on Friday, February 26 at 7:30 p.m., in a signature event of Indiana University’s 26th annual ArtsWeek which is themed “Arts and the Environment.”
Entitled “Out of the Garden and onto the Plate: One Writer's Path,” this autobiographical talk tells the story of the path his writing and thinking has taken since he first planted a vegetable garden under the influence of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Free general admission tickets to this lecture presented by Union Board, ArtsWeek, and IU Auditorium will be issued to IU Bloomington students with a valid student ID beginning this Thursday, January 28 at 10:00 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. Free general admission tickets will be available to non-students beginning on Monday, February 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. There will be a ticket limit of four per person. For more information call (812) 855-1103.
Entitled “Out of the Garden and onto the Plate: One Writer's Path,” this autobiographical talk tells the story of the path his writing and thinking has taken since he first planted a vegetable garden under the influence of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Free general admission tickets to this lecture presented by Union Board, ArtsWeek, and IU Auditorium will be issued to IU Bloomington students with a valid student ID beginning this Thursday, January 28 at 10:00 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. Free general admission tickets will be available to non-students beginning on Monday, February 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. There will be a ticket limit of four per person. For more information call (812) 855-1103.
Media Ethnography: Theory and Practice
Dates: 9-11 June 2010
Course venue: Pappersbruket, Osby, Southern Sweden.
The course will take place at Pappersbruket, Broby, Southern Sweden (see www.pappersbruket.se) Accommodation and Ph.D. seminar will all be at the same venue. Transport by train is estimated to take 1 hour and
45 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station.
Co-directors: Dr. Debra Spitulnik (Emory University) and Dr. Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University)
Course description:
This short course is designed to introduce Ph.D. students to the theory and practice of media ethnography. We explore how media ethnography applies to both media production and media reception, and how it is fundamentally both a theory and a method for investigating everyday practices and lived experiences as they are shaped by culturally-specific ways of being-in-the world. Media to be considered
include: television, film, radio, newspapers, and new media. The course will begin with a brief overview of the history of ethnographic approaches within media studies and cultural studies, which dates back to the mid 1980s. We then engage more recent scholarship within media anthropology, focusing specifically on three dimensions of ethnography:
(a) as fieldwork method;
(b) as anthropological lens, and
(c) as a method of writing and re-presentation.
More info: http://fmkj.dk/?p=1832
Application deadline: Monday 3 May 2010, to the FMKJ Secretary at fmkj@ruc.dk. The application must be accompanied by a 2-page PhD project description.
Participants who want to present a paper must submit this paper by 17 May 2010..
Costs: The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students who are enrolled in the School. Doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own travel, accommodation and meals, while participation in the course is free of charge. Accommodation(hotel) and meals are estimated at app. DKK 3000 (around US $600). A deposit of this amount will be invoiced to non-FMKJ Ph.D. students soon after registration in order to cover the organizers' liability to the course venue.
Course venue: Pappersbruket, Osby, Southern Sweden.
The course will take place at Pappersbruket, Broby, Southern Sweden (see www.pappersbruket.se) Accommodation and Ph.D. seminar will all be at the same venue. Transport by train is estimated to take 1 hour and
45 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station.
Co-directors: Dr. Debra Spitulnik (Emory University) and Dr. Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University)
Course description:
This short course is designed to introduce Ph.D. students to the theory and practice of media ethnography. We explore how media ethnography applies to both media production and media reception, and how it is fundamentally both a theory and a method for investigating everyday practices and lived experiences as they are shaped by culturally-specific ways of being-in-the world. Media to be considered
include: television, film, radio, newspapers, and new media. The course will begin with a brief overview of the history of ethnographic approaches within media studies and cultural studies, which dates back to the mid 1980s. We then engage more recent scholarship within media anthropology, focusing specifically on three dimensions of ethnography:
(a) as fieldwork method;
(b) as anthropological lens, and
(c) as a method of writing and re-presentation.
More info: http://fmkj.dk/?p=1832
Application deadline: Monday 3 May 2010, to the FMKJ Secretary at fmkj@ruc.dk. The application must be accompanied by a 2-page PhD project description.
Participants who want to present a paper must submit this paper by 17 May 2010..
Costs: The Danish Research School FMKJ covers all participation expenses (travel, meals, accommodation) for doctoral students who are enrolled in the School. Doctoral students from other institutions will have to pay their own travel, accommodation and meals, while participation in the course is free of charge. Accommodation(hotel) and meals are estimated at app. DKK 3000 (around US $600). A deposit of this amount will be invoiced to non-FMKJ Ph.D. students soon after registration in order to cover the organizers' liability to the course venue.
International Studies Student Association Discussion Led by Professor Maria Lope
International Studies Student Association, based in the International Studies Department, is open to all students on campus. On February 1, 2010, the ISSA will be hosting a discussion led by Professor Maria Lope of the International Studies department to discuss her experience working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and her time as a lawyer in Spain.
This event will be at 6pm in the Fine Arts Building, Room 102, which is located between the IU Auditorium and IU Art Museum.
The ISSA hopes to have more lectures throughout the spring semester focused on various international topics.
This event will be at 6pm in the Fine Arts Building, Room 102, which is located between the IU Auditorium and IU Art Museum.
The ISSA hopes to have more lectures throughout the spring semester focused on various international topics.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Teaching and Learning Technologies Center News
With the semester underway, TLTC's workshop series will highlight a variety of innovative teaching tools. Join us for one (or all!) of this week's workshops:
--Creating Online Content and Activities --Adobe Connect
Visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc for dates and times, workshop descriptions, and registration.
Also, to receive timely tips and information about Oncourse, consider signing up for the Oncourse Announce List, a listserv specifically for instructors using Oncourse in their teaching. About twice a month you'll receive notices regarding scheduled maintenance times and availability as well as tips and updates on features and functionality.
To join, email tltc@indiana.edu and one of our consultants will add you to the list.
Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers A service of University Information Technology Services Herman B Wells Library 305 West & Ballantine Hall 307
812.855.7829 * http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc/
--Creating Online Content and Activities --Adobe Connect
Visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc for dates and times, workshop descriptions, and registration.
Also, to receive timely tips and information about Oncourse, consider signing up for the Oncourse Announce List, a listserv specifically for instructors using Oncourse in their teaching. About twice a month you'll receive notices regarding scheduled maintenance times and availability as well as tips and updates on features and functionality.
To join, email tltc@indiana.edu and one of our consultants will add you to the list.
Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers A service of University Information Technology Services Herman B Wells Library 305 West & Ballantine Hall 307
812.855.7829 * http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc/
Friday, January 22, 2010
Italian Language Proficiency Exam Time Change
The Italian Language Proficiency reading exam has been scheduled this semester for Friday, February 12, 2010, from 3pm-5pm, in Ballantine Hall Rm. 606. Please note the time has been changed from the previous announcement.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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?
The 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 2011: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17
There will be an optional information session for potential Collins instructors on Feb. 3 in the Collins Coffeehouse (ground floor of Edmondson) at 7 PM.
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
Have you designed a multidisciplinary course that doesn't quite fit into your department's curriculum?
The 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 2011: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17
There will be an optional information session for potential Collins instructors on Feb. 3 in the Collins Coffeehouse (ground floor of Edmondson) at 7 PM.
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
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Indiana Daily Student Housing Fair
Explore your housing options at the IDS Housing Fair
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
IMU Alumni Hall (Next to Starbucks in the Union)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
IMU Alumni Hall (Next to Starbucks in the Union)
TATA STUDY GRANTS 2010
In order to facilitate scholarly excellence among undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing research on contemporary India, the Tata group has provided funds for eligible students at Indiana University, Bloomington. The Tata group today is India’s largest and most respected business group operating internationally across seven business sectors.
Applications are invited from students enrolled full-time at Indiana University, Bloomington for TATA Study Grants for travel, study and research on topics connected to the modern and contemporary issues of India’s role in the world. Language study, group and class projects are not covered under the terms of this grant. Application forms and other details such as eligibility, timeline, etc. are posted at http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/tata.shtml.
Completed applications and evaluation letters are due by January 29, 2010. Awards are expected to be announced by March 1, 2010. All Fellows must complete their travel by September 1, 2010.
Applications are invited from students enrolled full-time at Indiana University, Bloomington for TATA Study Grants for travel, study and research on topics connected to the modern and contemporary issues of India’s role in the world. Language study, group and class projects are not covered under the terms of this grant. Application forms and other details such as eligibility, timeline, etc. are posted at http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/tata.shtml.
Completed applications and evaluation letters are due by January 29, 2010. Awards are expected to be announced by March 1, 2010. All Fellows must complete their travel by September 1, 2010.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
ARSC CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS
Application Deadline: February 12, 2010
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is now accepting applications for ARSC Conference Travel Grants to be awarded in 2010.
The grants are designed to:
-- encourage ARSC members to attend their first ARSC conference
-- reach out to college students and professionals in the early stages of their careers
-- promote mentoring and professional development opportunities
-- advance scholarly research and publication
-- support ARSC members who desire to participate more actively in the association.
Grant recipients are awarded:
-- complimentary registration for the entire ARSC Annual Conference
-- gratis registration for the Pre-Conference Workshop, and
-- reimbursement up to US$750 to defray the expenses of transportation and lodging
(upon approval of valid receipts, to be submitted after the conference).
At the time of application, the applicant must be a member of ARSC in good standing, planning to attend his or her first ARSC conference. The applicant must also be one of the following:
-- a college or university student aspiring to work with sound recordings
-- a recent graduate seeking a professional position involving sound recordings
-- a professional within the first five years of his or her career, who has
demonstrated a dedication to sound recordings
-- a researcher or discographer showing compelling prospects for the publication or
dissemination of his or her scholarly work.
Each applicant must submit:
-- a letter of application describing the applicant's background and current
activities, clearly indicating why the applicant merits consideration for an ARSC
Conference Travel Grant
-- a proposed budget for travel costs
-- an itemization of any non-ARSC funds that the applicant may receive toward ARSC
conference attendance, such as institutional support, etc.
-- a brief resume or curriculum vitae, and
-- two letters of support, sent separately.
The letter of application and supporting materials must be received by February 12, 2010. Send them by mail or e-mail to:
Louise Spear, ARSC Conference Travel Grant Committee American Musical and Dramatic Academy
6305 Yucca Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
LSpear@ucla.edu
For more information, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/grants-committee.html
or e-mail:
LSpear@ucla.edu
Applicants will be notified about the award decisions by March 12, 2010.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals -- everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is now accepting applications for ARSC Conference Travel Grants to be awarded in 2010.
The grants are designed to:
-- encourage ARSC members to attend their first ARSC conference
-- reach out to college students and professionals in the early stages of their careers
-- promote mentoring and professional development opportunities
-- advance scholarly research and publication
-- support ARSC members who desire to participate more actively in the association.
Grant recipients are awarded:
-- complimentary registration for the entire ARSC Annual Conference
-- gratis registration for the Pre-Conference Workshop, and
-- reimbursement up to US$750 to defray the expenses of transportation and lodging
(upon approval of valid receipts, to be submitted after the conference).
At the time of application, the applicant must be a member of ARSC in good standing, planning to attend his or her first ARSC conference. The applicant must also be one of the following:
-- a college or university student aspiring to work with sound recordings
-- a recent graduate seeking a professional position involving sound recordings
-- a professional within the first five years of his or her career, who has
demonstrated a dedication to sound recordings
-- a researcher or discographer showing compelling prospects for the publication or
dissemination of his or her scholarly work.
Each applicant must submit:
-- a letter of application describing the applicant's background and current
activities, clearly indicating why the applicant merits consideration for an ARSC
Conference Travel Grant
-- a proposed budget for travel costs
-- an itemization of any non-ARSC funds that the applicant may receive toward ARSC
conference attendance, such as institutional support, etc.
-- a brief resume or curriculum vitae, and
-- two letters of support, sent separately.
The letter of application and supporting materials must be received by February 12, 2010. Send them by mail or e-mail to:
Louise Spear, ARSC Conference Travel Grant Committee American Musical and Dramatic Academy
6305 Yucca Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
LSpear@ucla.edu
For more information, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/grants-committee.html
or e-mail:
LSpear@ucla.edu
Applicants will be notified about the award decisions by March 12, 2010.
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals -- everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.
Spring 2010 Campus Instructional Consulting Teaching Workshops
Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice
Fri, Jan 22, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
In this workshop for graduate students, Katie Kearns and Tiffani Saunders share strategies for reflecting on teaching as well as information about the qualities of effective statements of teaching philosophy. Participants read and analyze several statements and receive reflection guides for getting started.
Teaching Portfolios: Documenting and Reflecting on Teaching Practice
Fri, Jan 29, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
This workshop for graduate students is a follow-up to the “Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice.” Katie Kearns and Tiffani Saunders share strategies for reflecting on teaching through a teaching portfolio and about how to document, organize, and present evidence of teaching effectiveness. Participants have an opportunity to view sample teaching portfolios during the workshop.
Master Class for Graduate Students
Thurs, Feb 4, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Registration required
Observe graduate student Lauren Miller Griffith as she leads students in small group discussion in her 300-level Laboratory in Ethnographic Methods class of 20 students. Afterwards meet with her to discuss what she did in the classroom and why. Limited space available, registration required: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/
Working Session: Feedback on Teaching Statements and Portfolios
Fri, Feb 5, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
Graduate students work in small peer groups facilitated by writing tutors to receive feedback on their teaching statements and portfolios. Participants should bring two copies of their work to this workshop.
Improving Learning in Lectures through In-class and Out-of-class Activities
Fri, Feb 12, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
In this workshop for faculty and graduate students, Lisa Kurz and Katie Kearns describe results of a survey that examined what academic activities IUB students engage in outside of class and highlight important time-on-task activities for diverse student populations. Participants will share and develop tools for using this information in a strategic way to ensure that students’ time is devoted to activities that will have a significant impact on learning.
From the Trenches: Strategies for Effective Teaching
Tues, Feb 23, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
OWA lounge, Memorial Hall East
The classroom, both real and virtual, is the primary venue professors have in which to share knowledge, encourage ethical behavior, and inspire students to be life-long learners. If you are concerned about the feedback you are getting from your students, panel members Leah Savion (Philosophy), Claudia Johnson (Geology), Kalpana Shankar (Informatics & Computing) and Joan Middendorf (Campus Instructional Consulting) will share strategies and field questions from the audience as well. (Sponsored by the Office of Women’s Affairs)
Experiential Learning: What makes it Authentic?
Fri, Feb 26 1:00-2:30
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
During experience-based learning opportunities, students apply textbook theory to professional-like practices in order to gain “hands-on” knowledge and skills. Joanne Klossner (Kinesiology) and George Rehrey facilitate individual reflections and group discussions as workshop participants develop new ways to incorporate experiential learning into their courses.
Master Class for Faculty
Date TBA
Registration required
Observe Prof. Whitney Schlegel (Biology) use case- and team-based methods in an Integrative Human Physiology class. Afterwards meet with her to discuss what she did in the classroom and why. Limited space available, registration required: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/
Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair
Late March, to be announced
Instructors teaching foreign languages gather each semester to share teaching ideas in an informal and supportive environment and to re-energize for the second half of the semester. Look for announcements at http://www.iub.edu/~celtie/fslfair.html.
Our Services
Departmental Workshops: Our consultants collaborate with many departments to design meetings, retreats, and working group sessions geared toward the needs of the individual department. These can be for faculty and adjunct instructors alike and include working with departmental committees on curriculum planning, teaching evaluation and peer assessments, and facilitating faculty discussions on teaching and student learning.
Teaching Consultations and Conundrums: Have a teaching conundrum, a nagging classroom issue or maybe just a question about the ways your students learn? We provide free and completely confidential individual consultations to support all aspects of teaching and student learning.
Making Your Teaching Visible: Course portfolios, teaching portfolios, online teaching snapshots, and scholarship of teaching and learning presentations and publications capture the intellectual work of teaching so that it can be shared with others. We offer workshops, working groups, and one-on-one consultations to assist faculty members and graduate students as they document their teaching and their students’ learning.
Course Development: Our consultants often meet with individual faculty members and associate instructors to help design new courses or revitalize existing ones. This includes but is not limited to defining course goals, identifying learning objectives, developing class activities, and using appropriate assessment and grading methods.
Assess Student Learning: We work with instructors to design custom learning assessments that help instructors gain feedback about what students are learning. These learning assessments include non–graded, in–class activities (Classroom Assessment Techniques), student self–assessments, and knowledge surveys.
Test Writing: Although valid and reliable tests are never easy to create, when properly written they can be a way to accurately assess student learning while indicating the overall success of your class. But writing fair and equitable tests requires both patience and experience. Our instructional consultants help faculty and adjunct instructors write tests that are based upon course objectives and that are reliable indicators of student learning.
Student Evaluations of Teaching: These evaluations are important tools in improving one’s teaching craft, but they are often difficult to interpret both because of the overwhelming nature of the data, and because of the personal nature of the comments. Our consultants meet with individual faculty members and associate instructors to interpret mid–semester and end–of–semester student evaluations of teaching, to conduct focus groups, or to devise shorter classroom assessment techniques.
Observe Your Class: Scheduling a classroom observation is a way to gather information and gain new insights about how your class is working. Such data augments student evaluations and other classroom assessments. If you would like to schedule a classroom observation, please plan a few weeks ahead of the class you want observed.
Videotape Your Class: Being videotaped during a class is an excellent way to see yourself through the eyes of your students. We suggest that you first meet with one of our consultants to become familiar with the process and to identify some goals. After the class has been videotaped, you will meet again to review the tape, discuss the class and how well you achieved the goals you set out for yourself. The consultant not only serves as a sounding board for your own thoughts, relating those thoughts to the appropriate research on teaching and learning, but also serves to model a beginning learner in your discipline.
Our Teaching Library: Books on teaching and learning are available for reference and loan at our library in Franklin Hall 004. We also have extensive holdings of several leading journals on teaching and learning that may be used for reference, and a selected list of videotapes on topics such as collaborative learning in the sciences, lively classroom discussion, and making large classes work.
Fri, Jan 22, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
In this workshop for graduate students, Katie Kearns and Tiffani Saunders share strategies for reflecting on teaching as well as information about the qualities of effective statements of teaching philosophy. Participants read and analyze several statements and receive reflection guides for getting started.
Teaching Portfolios: Documenting and Reflecting on Teaching Practice
Fri, Jan 29, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
This workshop for graduate students is a follow-up to the “Statements of Teaching Philosophy: Critical Reflection About Teaching Practice.” Katie Kearns and Tiffani Saunders share strategies for reflecting on teaching through a teaching portfolio and about how to document, organize, and present evidence of teaching effectiveness. Participants have an opportunity to view sample teaching portfolios during the workshop.
Master Class for Graduate Students
Thurs, Feb 4, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Registration required
Observe graduate student Lauren Miller Griffith as she leads students in small group discussion in her 300-level Laboratory in Ethnographic Methods class of 20 students. Afterwards meet with her to discuss what she did in the classroom and why. Limited space available, registration required: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/
Working Session: Feedback on Teaching Statements and Portfolios
Fri, Feb 5, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
Graduate students work in small peer groups facilitated by writing tutors to receive feedback on their teaching statements and portfolios. Participants should bring two copies of their work to this workshop.
Improving Learning in Lectures through In-class and Out-of-class Activities
Fri, Feb 12, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Ballantine Hall 228
In this workshop for faculty and graduate students, Lisa Kurz and Katie Kearns describe results of a survey that examined what academic activities IUB students engage in outside of class and highlight important time-on-task activities for diverse student populations. Participants will share and develop tools for using this information in a strategic way to ensure that students’ time is devoted to activities that will have a significant impact on learning.
From the Trenches: Strategies for Effective Teaching
Tues, Feb 23, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
OWA lounge, Memorial Hall East
The classroom, both real and virtual, is the primary venue professors have in which to share knowledge, encourage ethical behavior, and inspire students to be life-long learners. If you are concerned about the feedback you are getting from your students, panel members Leah Savion (Philosophy), Claudia Johnson (Geology), Kalpana Shankar (Informatics & Computing) and Joan Middendorf (Campus Instructional Consulting) will share strategies and field questions from the audience as well. (Sponsored by the Office of Women’s Affairs)
Experiential Learning: What makes it Authentic?
Fri, Feb 26 1:00-2:30
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
During experience-based learning opportunities, students apply textbook theory to professional-like practices in order to gain “hands-on” knowledge and skills. Joanne Klossner (Kinesiology) and George Rehrey facilitate individual reflections and group discussions as workshop participants develop new ways to incorporate experiential learning into their courses.
Master Class for Faculty
Date TBA
Registration required
Observe Prof. Whitney Schlegel (Biology) use case- and team-based methods in an Integrative Human Physiology class. Afterwards meet with her to discuss what she did in the classroom and why. Limited space available, registration required: www.indiana.edu/~teaching/
Foreign Language Teaching Share Fair
Late March, to be announced
Instructors teaching foreign languages gather each semester to share teaching ideas in an informal and supportive environment and to re-energize for the second half of the semester. Look for announcements at http://www.iub.edu/~celtie/fslfair.html.
Our Services
Departmental Workshops: Our consultants collaborate with many departments to design meetings, retreats, and working group sessions geared toward the needs of the individual department. These can be for faculty and adjunct instructors alike and include working with departmental committees on curriculum planning, teaching evaluation and peer assessments, and facilitating faculty discussions on teaching and student learning.
Teaching Consultations and Conundrums: Have a teaching conundrum, a nagging classroom issue or maybe just a question about the ways your students learn? We provide free and completely confidential individual consultations to support all aspects of teaching and student learning.
Making Your Teaching Visible: Course portfolios, teaching portfolios, online teaching snapshots, and scholarship of teaching and learning presentations and publications capture the intellectual work of teaching so that it can be shared with others. We offer workshops, working groups, and one-on-one consultations to assist faculty members and graduate students as they document their teaching and their students’ learning.
Course Development: Our consultants often meet with individual faculty members and associate instructors to help design new courses or revitalize existing ones. This includes but is not limited to defining course goals, identifying learning objectives, developing class activities, and using appropriate assessment and grading methods.
Assess Student Learning: We work with instructors to design custom learning assessments that help instructors gain feedback about what students are learning. These learning assessments include non–graded, in–class activities (Classroom Assessment Techniques), student self–assessments, and knowledge surveys.
Test Writing: Although valid and reliable tests are never easy to create, when properly written they can be a way to accurately assess student learning while indicating the overall success of your class. But writing fair and equitable tests requires both patience and experience. Our instructional consultants help faculty and adjunct instructors write tests that are based upon course objectives and that are reliable indicators of student learning.
Student Evaluations of Teaching: These evaluations are important tools in improving one’s teaching craft, but they are often difficult to interpret both because of the overwhelming nature of the data, and because of the personal nature of the comments. Our consultants meet with individual faculty members and associate instructors to interpret mid–semester and end–of–semester student evaluations of teaching, to conduct focus groups, or to devise shorter classroom assessment techniques.
Observe Your Class: Scheduling a classroom observation is a way to gather information and gain new insights about how your class is working. Such data augments student evaluations and other classroom assessments. If you would like to schedule a classroom observation, please plan a few weeks ahead of the class you want observed.
Videotape Your Class: Being videotaped during a class is an excellent way to see yourself through the eyes of your students. We suggest that you first meet with one of our consultants to become familiar with the process and to identify some goals. After the class has been videotaped, you will meet again to review the tape, discuss the class and how well you achieved the goals you set out for yourself. The consultant not only serves as a sounding board for your own thoughts, relating those thoughts to the appropriate research on teaching and learning, but also serves to model a beginning learner in your discipline.
Our Teaching Library: Books on teaching and learning are available for reference and loan at our library in Franklin Hall 004. We also have extensive holdings of several leading journals on teaching and learning that may be used for reference, and a selected list of videotapes on topics such as collaborative learning in the sciences, lively classroom discussion, and making large classes work.
INPIRG Internship
Looking for an internship opportunity on campus this semester?
Earn course credit, build your resume and learn valuable skills while working to solve some of our nations biggest problems.
INPIRG (Indiana Public Interest Research Group) is a student directed, student funded advocacy organization working to solve real social problems. This semester, students will be planning press events to raise awareness for the benefits of investing in a high speed rail system linking Midwest, raising thousands of dollars for local hunger and homelessness relief efforts, teaching students about the solutions to global warming and starting a new consumer awareness project that will make students here at IU more educated consumers while making decisions like signing a lease and applying for a credit card.
Last semester, one of our interns was able to join a small group of students in a meeting at the White House with key staffers in the fight for clean jobs. We were able to raise nearly $1,000 for local hunger and homelessness relief agencies and participated in many direct service projects. One intern was quoted in an article by MSNBC and wrote a column for a local newspaper regarding unfair credit card and private student loan practices.
Come hear more about our campaigns and internship opportunities.
Visit www.inpirg.org/iu to sign up for an information session today.
Contact Stephanie Gogul at Stephanie@inpirg.org with any questions
Earn course credit, build your resume and learn valuable skills while working to solve some of our nations biggest problems.
INPIRG (Indiana Public Interest Research Group) is a student directed, student funded advocacy organization working to solve real social problems. This semester, students will be planning press events to raise awareness for the benefits of investing in a high speed rail system linking Midwest, raising thousands of dollars for local hunger and homelessness relief efforts, teaching students about the solutions to global warming and starting a new consumer awareness project that will make students here at IU more educated consumers while making decisions like signing a lease and applying for a credit card.
Last semester, one of our interns was able to join a small group of students in a meeting at the White House with key staffers in the fight for clean jobs. We were able to raise nearly $1,000 for local hunger and homelessness relief agencies and participated in many direct service projects. One intern was quoted in an article by MSNBC and wrote a column for a local newspaper regarding unfair credit card and private student loan practices.
Come hear more about our campaigns and internship opportunities.
Visit www.inpirg.org/iu to sign up for an information session today.
Contact Stephanie Gogul at Stephanie@inpirg.org with any questions
IRIS FILM FESTIVAL
Call for Entries
The Department of Communication and Culture’s fourth annual
Iris Film Festival
Bloomington, Indiana
Saturday, May 1, 2010
in Fine Arts 015
Featuring the Brian Friedman Award along with screenwriting, cinematography, and editing awards
Entry formats: DVD or VHS
You may submit projects completed in IU classes, but all entries must have been completed after January 2008
Maximum two(2) entries per participant
Entry Fee: $5 per entry
Project Length: under 7 minutes
Deadline for Submissions:
Friday, April 30th 3pm
For more information, contact us at irisfilmfestival@gmail.com
visit www.irisfilmfest.com or find us on facebook
The Department of Communication and Culture’s fourth annual
Iris Film Festival
Bloomington, Indiana
Saturday, May 1, 2010
in Fine Arts 015
Featuring the Brian Friedman Award along with screenwriting, cinematography, and editing awards
Entry formats: DVD or VHS
You may submit projects completed in IU classes, but all entries must have been completed after January 2008
Maximum two(2) entries per participant
Entry Fee: $5 per entry
Project Length: under 7 minutes
Deadline for Submissions:
Friday, April 30th 3pm
For more information, contact us at irisfilmfestival@gmail.com
visit www.irisfilmfest.com or find us on facebook
The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship
Call for Submissions:
The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship accepts submissions on an ongoing basis. Specifically, we look for scholarship on art and philosophy that takes experimental form or explores non-traditional knowledges and ways of understanding. We want to see pieces that somehow reconfigure how thought is communicated, or who push beyond the systematic and formulaic. Multi-media presentations are especially welcome.
Possibilities include (but are not limited to):
* Verbal or visual collage
* Audio/visual scholarship
* Collaborative essays
* Manifestoes
* Irreverent review essays, interviews or festival/exhibition reports
* Articles whose forms enact alternative points of view
* Incorporations of everyday life
* Short shorts
Please note that we are not an academic journal, per se. Do not send us the kinds of articles you would submit to traditional academic journals or the sorts of papers written in graduate seminars. Rigorous thought need not always follow the same format. We’re also not a lit journal. So while we’re open to exploring the limits of truth, we don’t want your fiction, and we’re not looking for the next Baudelaire or Angelou.
Also, we prefer not to publish material that has been previously published online (such as on personal websites or in another online journal) unless it has undergone extensive revision. If your submission has been previously published (either online or in print), please indicate so in the cover letter and why you seek republication (i.e. it has been revised, is no longer widely available, etc.).
If you think you’ve got what we’re looking for, send submissions and queries to TheWigEditors@gmail.com. Acceptable attachments include .doc or .tiff files. Please query before sending other types of files (e.g. video or audio files).
The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship accepts submissions on an ongoing basis. Specifically, we look for scholarship on art and philosophy that takes experimental form or explores non-traditional knowledges and ways of understanding. We want to see pieces that somehow reconfigure how thought is communicated, or who push beyond the systematic and formulaic. Multi-media presentations are especially welcome.
Possibilities include (but are not limited to):
* Verbal or visual collage
* Audio/visual scholarship
* Collaborative essays
* Manifestoes
* Irreverent review essays, interviews or festival/exhibition reports
* Articles whose forms enact alternative points of view
* Incorporations of everyday life
* Short shorts
Please note that we are not an academic journal, per se. Do not send us the kinds of articles you would submit to traditional academic journals or the sorts of papers written in graduate seminars. Rigorous thought need not always follow the same format. We’re also not a lit journal. So while we’re open to exploring the limits of truth, we don’t want your fiction, and we’re not looking for the next Baudelaire or Angelou.
Also, we prefer not to publish material that has been previously published online (such as on personal websites or in another online journal) unless it has undergone extensive revision. If your submission has been previously published (either online or in print), please indicate so in the cover letter and why you seek republication (i.e. it has been revised, is no longer widely available, etc.).
If you think you’ve got what we’re looking for, send submissions and queries to TheWigEditors@gmail.com. Acceptable attachments include .doc or .tiff files. Please query before sending other types of files (e.g. video or audio files).
Italian Language Proficiency Exam
We would like to inform you that the Italian Language Proficiency reading exam has been scheduled this semester for Friday, February 12, 2010, from 10am-12pm, in Ballantine Hall Rm. 606.
In order to register for the exam, please email me the following information:
- Name
- Department
- Student ID #
If the time of day is completely unavailable to you due to teaching or class conflicts please inform me as soon as possible.
The exam entails the translation from Italian into English of one or two articles from a current newspaper, journal, or reference source.
Please note that Reference materials (Dictionaries, Smart Phones, etc) are NOT allowed at the exam.
You are welcome to stop by the department and ask to check out the texts used in previous years for the purpose of photocopying. These previous exams are available from the Graduate Secretary of the French and Italian Department.
Please contact by email: fritgs@indiana.edu or phone 855-1088.
In order to register for the exam, please email me the following information:
- Name
- Department
- Student ID #
If the time of day is completely unavailable to you due to teaching or class conflicts please inform me as soon as possible.
The exam entails the translation from Italian into English of one or two articles from a current newspaper, journal, or reference source.
Please note that Reference materials (Dictionaries, Smart Phones, etc) are NOT allowed at the exam.
You are welcome to stop by the department and ask to check out the texts used in previous years for the purpose of photocopying. These previous exams are available from the Graduate Secretary of the French and Italian Department.
Please contact by email: fritgs@indiana.edu or phone 855-1088.
First Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Event of 2010
The Implications and Impact of Interdisciplinary Research and Education upon Disciplinary Ways of Knowing
Julie Thompson Klein
Friday, February 5, 10:00 am–11:30 am
Frangipani Room, IMU
Register Here
Interdisciplinarity has become a mantra for change in the twenty-first century while our notions of knowledge as a foundation or a linear structure have been disrupted by open source and social networks, the creative commons, and the web in general. The word appears in countless reports from professional associations, educational organizations, and funding agencies. In the past, disciplinarily and interdisciplinarity were treated as a dichotomy. Changes in research and priorities for education, though, challenge the simple metaphor of opposition.
This presentation explores the implications of these changes and focuses upon how we represent disciplinary knowledge today. State-of-the-art reports from disciplinary professional groups and accrediting bodies document greater complexity, relational pluralism, dynamism, and boundary crossing. Building and sustaining separate interdisciplinary programs and projects remains important. But, discipline-based curricula and program evaluation also need to be taking account of the changes in what we know, what students should learn, how we teach, and how we conduct scholarship on teaching and learning.
About Julie Thompson Klein
Julie Thompson Klein is a Professor of Humanities in Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (USA). She holds a Ph.D. in English (University of Oregon) and is past president of the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) and former editor of the AIS journal, Issues in Integrative Studies.
Her numerous books include Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (l990), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society (coedited, 2001), and Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity (forthcoming). On the international front she represented the United States at an OECD-sponsored international symposium on interdisciplinarity in Sweden and at UNESCO-sponsored symposia on transdisciplinarity in Portugal and in France.
She has been a visiting or invited lecturer to Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and Russia. She was a member of the planning board for the Swiss National Science Foundation’s international conference in 2000 on transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, and in 2003 delivered an inaugural address for a UNESCO Summer School in Uruguay on local development and environmental sustainability in Latin America.
Register Here
Julie Thompson Klein
Friday, February 5, 10:00 am–11:30 am
Frangipani Room, IMU
Register Here
Interdisciplinarity has become a mantra for change in the twenty-first century while our notions of knowledge as a foundation or a linear structure have been disrupted by open source and social networks, the creative commons, and the web in general. The word appears in countless reports from professional associations, educational organizations, and funding agencies. In the past, disciplinarily and interdisciplinarity were treated as a dichotomy. Changes in research and priorities for education, though, challenge the simple metaphor of opposition.
This presentation explores the implications of these changes and focuses upon how we represent disciplinary knowledge today. State-of-the-art reports from disciplinary professional groups and accrediting bodies document greater complexity, relational pluralism, dynamism, and boundary crossing. Building and sustaining separate interdisciplinary programs and projects remains important. But, discipline-based curricula and program evaluation also need to be taking account of the changes in what we know, what students should learn, how we teach, and how we conduct scholarship on teaching and learning.
About Julie Thompson Klein
Julie Thompson Klein is a Professor of Humanities in Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan (USA). She holds a Ph.D. in English (University of Oregon) and is past president of the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) and former editor of the AIS journal, Issues in Integrative Studies.
Her numerous books include Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (l990), Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities (1996), Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society (coedited, 2001), and Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity (forthcoming). On the international front she represented the United States at an OECD-sponsored international symposium on interdisciplinarity in Sweden and at UNESCO-sponsored symposia on transdisciplinarity in Portugal and in France.
She has been a visiting or invited lecturer to Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and Russia. She was a member of the planning board for the Swiss National Science Foundation’s international conference in 2000 on transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability, and in 2003 delivered an inaugural address for a UNESCO Summer School in Uruguay on local development and environmental sustainability in Latin America.
Register Here
Summer Teaching Opportunities
The Institute of Reading Development is seeking candidates for summer 2010 teaching positions. We seek applicants with an undergraduate degree or higher from any discipline. We provide a paid training program and comprehensive on-going support.
Summer teaching positions with the Institute offer the opportunity to:
• Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $525 and $700 per week while teaching.
• Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a
variety of age groups.
• Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become
imaginatively absorbed in books.
The Institute is an educational service provider that teaches developmental reading programs in partnership with the continuing education departments of more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States. Our classes for students of all ages improve their reading skills and teach them to experience absorption in literature.
We hire people who:
• Have strong reading skills and read for pleasure
• Have a Bachelor's Degree in any discipline
• Are responsible and hard working
• Have good communication and organizational skills
• Will be patient and supportive with students
• Have regular access to a reliable car
We welcome you to submit an online application and learn more about teaching for the Institute at our website
Summer teaching positions with the Institute offer the opportunity to:
• Earn more than $6,000 during the summer. Teachers typically earn between $525 and $700 per week while teaching.
• Gain over 500 hours of teacher-training and teaching experience with a
variety of age groups.
• Help students of all ages develop their reading skills and ability to become
imaginatively absorbed in books.
The Institute is an educational service provider that teaches developmental reading programs in partnership with the continuing education departments of more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States. Our classes for students of all ages improve their reading skills and teach them to experience absorption in literature.
We hire people who:
• Have strong reading skills and read for pleasure
• Have a Bachelor's Degree in any discipline
• Are responsible and hard working
• Have good communication and organizational skills
• Will be patient and supportive with students
• Have regular access to a reliable car
We welcome you to submit an online application and learn more about teaching for the Institute at our website
Bloomington Eats Green
“Bloomington Eats Green,” a campus-community food sustainability event, is presenting two talks by leading sustainable food advocates, Gary Nabhan and Joel Salatin. Please circulate the information, and let your classes know. The talks are free and open to the public. Doors open at 5:30.
The talks will be held on Friday, Jan 22 and Saturday, Jan 23, 6:00 – 7:30 in Woodburn Hall 100 on the topics:
Gary Nabhan: “Renewing America’s Food Traditions”
Joel Salatin: “Holy Cows and Hog Heaven”
On Sunday, January 24, 3-5 pm Slow Foods Bloomington will be hosting “Hog Heaven.” Local chefs will each prepare a special dish from one part of a pig (all the pigs for the event have been provided by a local farmer who treats them humanely and feeds them organically) . Tickets are on sale at Bloomingfoods for $20.
Additional information is available on the Bloomingfoods Website
The talks will be held on Friday, Jan 22 and Saturday, Jan 23, 6:00 – 7:30 in Woodburn Hall 100 on the topics:
Gary Nabhan: “Renewing America’s Food Traditions”
Joel Salatin: “Holy Cows and Hog Heaven”
On Sunday, January 24, 3-5 pm Slow Foods Bloomington will be hosting “Hog Heaven.” Local chefs will each prepare a special dish from one part of a pig (all the pigs for the event have been provided by a local farmer who treats them humanely and feeds them organically) . Tickets are on sale at Bloomingfoods for $20.
Additional information is available on the Bloomingfoods Website
City Lights and Underground Film Series
Friday, January 22
Radio-TV Building room 251
7:00 p.m.
Films by Robert Todd
Reprising a screening from last fall, we'll be showing a selection of shorts by renowned filmaker and Emerson college professor Robert Todd. While he has no characteristic style, his work is always diffuse, elliptical, and suggestive, it's effects based on implication rather than explanation. His films are fixtures on the national and international experimental film festival circuit.
(60 minute program)
Radio-TV Building room 251
7:00 p.m.
Films by Robert Todd
Reprising a screening from last fall, we'll be showing a selection of shorts by renowned filmaker and Emerson college professor Robert Todd. While he has no characteristic style, his work is always diffuse, elliptical, and suggestive, it's effects based on implication rather than explanation. His films are fixtures on the national and international experimental film festival circuit.
(60 minute program)
Czech Film Series
presents
Gustav Machaty: Naceradec, King of Kibitzer (1931)
Thursday, January 28
Lindley Hall 102
7:00 pm
A charming “sports” comedy according to the novel by the well-known Czech-Jewish humorist Karel Poláček with the infamous Hugo Haas in the main role. Two men are trying to resolve their personal conflict in court while being represented by their two children.
Black and white. In Czech with English subtitles. 97 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Gustav Machaty: Naceradec, King of Kibitzer (1931)
Thursday, January 28
Lindley Hall 102
7:00 pm
A charming “sports” comedy according to the novel by the well-known Czech-Jewish humorist Karel Poláček with the infamous Hugo Haas in the main role. Two men are trying to resolve their personal conflict in court while being represented by their two children.
Black and white. In Czech with English subtitles. 97 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
India Studies Welcome Back Reception
The India Studies Program and (Acting Director) Rebecca Manring invite you to a welcome-back reception at the India Studies House on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 4:00-6:00 pm. We hope to see all our colleagues - faculty, staff, students, and community members – that afternoon.
India Studies House is located at 825 East 8th Street on the corner of 8th Street and Woodlawn.
Please RSVP to Tim Callahan, Assistant Director (timcalla@indiana.edu).
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
India Studies House is located at 825 East 8th Street on the corner of 8th Street and Woodlawn.
Please RSVP to Tim Callahan, Assistant Director (timcalla@indiana.edu).
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
The Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture
The Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture invites you to a public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Bennett, on “Critical Conditions: Diabetes Discourses and the Tropological Trappings of ‘Management’.” The lecture will take place on Thursday, January 28, 2009, 4-5:30 P.M. in the Walnut Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.
Professor Bennett teaches at the University of Iowa and is the author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance (2009). The lecture is supported by the Department of Communication and Culture. He will conduct a brown bag discussion for graduate students on Friday, January 29, 2009 from 12:15-1:30 P.M. in the Department of Communication and Culture Brigance Library, 800 E. Third St.
Professor Bennett teaches at the University of Iowa and is the author of Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance (2009). The lecture is supported by the Department of Communication and Culture. He will conduct a brown bag discussion for graduate students on Friday, January 29, 2009 from 12:15-1:30 P.M. in the Department of Communication and Culture Brigance Library, 800 E. Third St.
2010 Anthropology Methods Mall Online
The 2010 Anthropology Methods Mall is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology.
1. Now in its sixth year, the SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods) program is for cultural anthropologists who already have the Ph.D. Three five-day courses are offered during summer 2010 at the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina.
Text Analysis (Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) July 19–23, 2010
Methods in Ethnoecology (John Richard Stepp and Justin Nolan) July 26–30, 2010
Geospatial Analysis (Eduardo Brondizio and Tracy Van Holt) August 2–6, 2010
2. Now in its 15th year, the SIRD (Summer Institute on Research Design) is an intensive, three-week course for graduate students in cultural anthropology who are preparing their doctoral research proposals. The 2009 course runs from July 19–August 6 at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. (Instructors: Jeffrey Johnson, Susan Weller, and H. Russell Bernard)
3. In its first year, the SIMA (NSF-Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is a four-week course for graduate students who are preparing for research careers in cultural anthropology and who are interested in using museum collections as a data source. June 28–July 23 at the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. (Instructors: Candace Greene and Nancy Parezo)
4. Now in its seventh year, the SFTM(Summer Field Training in Methods) program in Bolivia is open to graduate students in cultural anthropology. This course involves five weeks of fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon from June 8-July 13. (Instructors: Ricardo Godoy, William Leonard, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Thomas McDade, Clarence Gravlee, and Susan Tanner).
5. The WRMA(Workshops in Research Methods in Anthropology)program offers one-day workshops in conjunction with national meetings of anthropologists. Two workshops will be offered at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March, 2010.
Introduction to Text Analysis(Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) Society for Applied Anthropology, March 24 (all day).
Introduction to Social Network Analysis (Jeffrey Johnson and Christopher McCarty) Society for Applied Anthropology, March 25 (all day).
DETAILS ON ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES LISTED HERE at the Methods Mall
REGISTRATION FOR THE ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS ARE AT THE SfAA WEBSITE
1. Now in its sixth year, the SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods) program is for cultural anthropologists who already have the Ph.D. Three five-day courses are offered during summer 2010 at the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina.
Text Analysis (Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) July 19–23, 2010
Methods in Ethnoecology (John Richard Stepp and Justin Nolan) July 26–30, 2010
Geospatial Analysis (Eduardo Brondizio and Tracy Van Holt) August 2–6, 2010
2. Now in its 15th year, the SIRD (Summer Institute on Research Design) is an intensive, three-week course for graduate students in cultural anthropology who are preparing their doctoral research proposals. The 2009 course runs from July 19–August 6 at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. (Instructors: Jeffrey Johnson, Susan Weller, and H. Russell Bernard)
3. In its first year, the SIMA (NSF-Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is a four-week course for graduate students who are preparing for research careers in cultural anthropology and who are interested in using museum collections as a data source. June 28–July 23 at the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. (Instructors: Candace Greene and Nancy Parezo)
4. Now in its seventh year, the SFTM(Summer Field Training in Methods) program in Bolivia is open to graduate students in cultural anthropology. This course involves five weeks of fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon from June 8-July 13. (Instructors: Ricardo Godoy, William Leonard, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Thomas McDade, Clarence Gravlee, and Susan Tanner).
5. The WRMA(Workshops in Research Methods in Anthropology)program offers one-day workshops in conjunction with national meetings of anthropologists. Two workshops will be offered at the meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March, 2010.
Introduction to Text Analysis(Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) Society for Applied Anthropology, March 24 (all day).
Introduction to Social Network Analysis (Jeffrey Johnson and Christopher McCarty) Society for Applied Anthropology, March 25 (all day).
DETAILS ON ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES LISTED HERE at the Methods Mall
REGISTRATION FOR THE ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS ARE AT THE SfAA WEBSITE
DEFA Project
WENDE FLICKS SERIES and SYMPOSIUM: REMEMBERING 1989-90 THROUGH EAST GERMAN FILMS OF THE TRANSITION
Initiated and organized by Prof. Brigitta Wagner and volunteers of the Indiana University Germanic Studies Department, the DEFA Project will provide a unique opportunity for the university as well as the greater Bloomington community and its surrounding area to engage in a scholarly and educational dialogue about cinema, history, memory, and the politics that shape artistic production. It will begin with FREE public screenings of films from the period of 1989-90 from the former GDR. These screenings will be followed with Q&A sessions led by students and faculty from numerous IU departments. A total of 19 films will be shown between January 17 and April 24. All films are in the original German with English subtitles.
(FARM BLOOMINGTON Restaurant will also be working together with the WENDE FLICKS SERIES on weekly specials.)
Finally, it will culminate in an international symposium, MAKING HISTORY ReVISIBLE: EAST GERMAN CINEMA AFTER REUNIFICATION, on April 22-25. During the symposium, German filmmakers will also present SYMPOSIUM FILM SERIES of five films to the public, which will be followed with Q&A sessions. There will also be a parallel Indiana-wide Student Symposium (April 23-24) led by Outreach Coordinator, Troy Byler.
The first 10 screenings will be held at the BUSKIRK-CHUMLEY THEATER, every Sunday starting at 7pm from January 17-March 28.
The next 3 screenings will be held downstairs in the IU Fine Arts Auditorium (April 4 –18). Please check the schedule for dates and times.
January 17 (BCT): 7pm, The Wall [OPENING RECEPTION]
January 24 (BCT): 7pm, Jana and Jan
January 31 (BCT): 7pm, Coming Out [PRIDE WEEKEND]
February 7 (BCT): 7pm, Whisper & SHOUT
February 14 (BCT): 7pm, Herzsprung
February 21 (BCT): 7pm, Leipzig in the Fall and Eastern Landscape
February 28 (BCT): 7pm, The Tango Player
March 7 (BCT): 6pm, Burning Life
8pm, OSCAR VIEWING PARTY
[SPRING BREAK]
March 21 (BCT): 7pm, The Mistake
March 28 (BCT): 7pm, The Land Beyond the Rainbow
April 4 (FA 015): 7pm, Miraculi
April 11 (FA 015): 7pm, Latest from the Da-Da-R
April 18 (FA 015): 7pm, ddr, ddr [SPECIAL EVENT]
An evening with the filmmaker and video artist Amie Siegel
SYMPOSIUM
April 22 (location tba): 8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
April 23 (location tba): 4pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
April 24 (location tba): 4pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
In addition to all this, numerous special events will be integrated into the program.
This project has been generously sponsored and partnered by:
DEFA Foundation (Berlin); Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago); DEFA Film Library (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Filmland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington); FARM Restaurant (Bloomington); Ryder Magazine (Bloomington); Filmland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Indiana University WEST European Studies; Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Institute; Indiana University Office of the Vice President of International Affairs; Indiana University Libraries; Indiana University Germanic Studies; Indiana University Institute of German Studies; Indiana University Cultural Studies; Indiana University International Studies; Indiana University Gender Studies; Indiana University Russian and East European Institute; Indiana University Communication and Culture; and Indiana University Office of Service-Learning.
For more information go to www.indiana.edu/~germanic/. You can also find regular updates and information about the films on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-IN/IU-DEFA-Project/186185040637.
Initiated and organized by Prof. Brigitta Wagner and volunteers of the Indiana University Germanic Studies Department, the DEFA Project will provide a unique opportunity for the university as well as the greater Bloomington community and its surrounding area to engage in a scholarly and educational dialogue about cinema, history, memory, and the politics that shape artistic production. It will begin with FREE public screenings of films from the period of 1989-90 from the former GDR. These screenings will be followed with Q&A sessions led by students and faculty from numerous IU departments. A total of 19 films will be shown between January 17 and April 24. All films are in the original German with English subtitles.
(FARM BLOOMINGTON Restaurant will also be working together with the WENDE FLICKS SERIES on weekly specials.)
Finally, it will culminate in an international symposium, MAKING HISTORY ReVISIBLE: EAST GERMAN CINEMA AFTER REUNIFICATION, on April 22-25. During the symposium, German filmmakers will also present SYMPOSIUM FILM SERIES of five films to the public, which will be followed with Q&A sessions. There will also be a parallel Indiana-wide Student Symposium (April 23-24) led by Outreach Coordinator, Troy Byler.
The first 10 screenings will be held at the BUSKIRK-CHUMLEY THEATER, every Sunday starting at 7pm from January 17-March 28.
The next 3 screenings will be held downstairs in the IU Fine Arts Auditorium (April 4 –18). Please check the schedule for dates and times.
January 17 (BCT): 7pm, The Wall [OPENING RECEPTION]
January 24 (BCT): 7pm, Jana and Jan
January 31 (BCT): 7pm, Coming Out [PRIDE WEEKEND]
February 7 (BCT): 7pm, Whisper & SHOUT
February 14 (BCT): 7pm, Herzsprung
February 21 (BCT): 7pm, Leipzig in the Fall and Eastern Landscape
February 28 (BCT): 7pm, The Tango Player
March 7 (BCT): 6pm, Burning Life
8pm, OSCAR VIEWING PARTY
[SPRING BREAK]
March 21 (BCT): 7pm, The Mistake
March 28 (BCT): 7pm, The Land Beyond the Rainbow
April 4 (FA 015): 7pm, Miraculi
April 11 (FA 015): 7pm, Latest from the Da-Da-R
April 18 (FA 015): 7pm, ddr, ddr [SPECIAL EVENT]
An evening with the filmmaker and video artist Amie Siegel
SYMPOSIUM
April 22 (location tba): 8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
April 23 (location tba): 4pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
April 24 (location tba): 4pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
8pm, 35 mm screening (film tba)
In addition to all this, numerous special events will be integrated into the program.
This project has been generously sponsored and partnered by:
DEFA Foundation (Berlin); Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago); DEFA Film Library (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Filmland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington); FARM Restaurant (Bloomington); Ryder Magazine (Bloomington); Filmland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Indiana University WEST European Studies; Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Institute; Indiana University Office of the Vice President of International Affairs; Indiana University Libraries; Indiana University Germanic Studies; Indiana University Institute of German Studies; Indiana University Cultural Studies; Indiana University International Studies; Indiana University Gender Studies; Indiana University Russian and East European Institute; Indiana University Communication and Culture; and Indiana University Office of Service-Learning.
For more information go to www.indiana.edu/~germanic/. You can also find regular updates and information about the films on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-IN/IU-DEFA-Project/186185040637.
Friday, January 15, 2010
City Lights And Underground Film Series
Friday, January 15th
7 p.m.
Radio-TV Building, rm 251
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan)
High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist who has just raised money to execute his planned takeover of a shoe manufacturer. He soon learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demand is nearly equivalent to the amount Mifune has raised for his corporate takeover. When it is revealed that Gondo's son is safe he realizes that it is actually his chauffer's son who has been kidnapped. Kurosawa here creates a detective thriller that also explores the class division in Japan, evidenced in the title. Loosely adapted from Ed McBain's novel King's Ransom. (142 minutes)
7 p.m.
Radio-TV Building, rm 251
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan)
High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist who has just raised money to execute his planned takeover of a shoe manufacturer. He soon learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demand is nearly equivalent to the amount Mifune has raised for his corporate takeover. When it is revealed that Gondo's son is safe he realizes that it is actually his chauffer's son who has been kidnapped. Kurosawa here creates a detective thriller that also explores the class division in Japan, evidenced in the title. Loosely adapted from Ed McBain's novel King's Ransom. (142 minutes)
Monday, January 11, 2010
“ROOTS, GERMANIA” (2008, Germany)
Documentary by filmmaker Mo Asumang
January 21 – 22, 2010
Public Screenings and Discussion with the Filmmaker
On January 21 and January 22, 2010, during Martin Luther King week, Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang will visit Indiana University in Indianapolis and Bloomington to screen and discuss her documentary, Roots, Germania, a film addressing multicultural issues in modern Germany. Bloomington and IUPUI will be the first US campuses that Asumang visits with her film.
Born in Kassel, Germany to a white German mother and an African father, ‘Mo’ or Monika Asumang studied visual communication, acting, and singing before becoming German television's second Afro-German moderator on a popular music show and later on a talk show about love and sexuality. Her career as an actress and a recording artist took a dramatic turn in 2001 when the Neo-Nazi rock band “White Aryan Rebels” threatened to kill her and a number of prominent ‘non-Aryan’ Germans and migrants in a song called “This Bullet is For You.” Asumang decided to confront the German society in which she was raised through a film that explores the complexities of 21st-century German and European identity in the face of migration, multiculturalism, and the rise of right-wing youth violence after unification. In the film she ironically answers the ‘advice’ of the rock band to “go back to where you came from” and seeks out her relatives in Ghana. While searching for her own roots, she also analyzes the sources of racial hatred and xenophobia in Germany and attempts to confront her own fears.
Roots, Germania (2008) was nominated for Germany's prestigious Adolf Grimme Award for television productions. Since the film's release, Mo has taken it on a tour through Germany, especially the former East, where Neo-Nazi youth groups flourished after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She addresses school groups, organizations, and film festivals in public dialogues and awareness campaigns.
The German press has referred to Mo Asumang as a sort of "Brunhilde with an Afro-look” and her documentary as a “risky road movie .....esoteric cross-over-trip" (Spiegel). Her film is said to have “much of the unmasking humor of a Michael Moore”(Hessische Allgemeine Zeitung). USA Today has even compared Mo Asumang’s childhood to that of President Barack Obama.
Film Website: http://www.roots-germania.com
The film has English subtitles, and both screenings are FREE. There will be a Q & A period following the film.
Screening at IUPUI:
Th, January 21, 2010
Location: IT 152 (Informatics Bldg.)
535 W. Michigan Street
Time: 6 p.m.
Screening at I.U. Bloomington:
Fr, January 22, 2010
Location: Morrison Hall 007
1165 E. 3rd Street, Bloomington
Time: 4 p.m.
For more information, parking information, and directions contact:
Dr. Claudia Grossmann
World Languages and Cultures, IUPUI cgrossma@iupui.edu
(317) 274-3943
or
Dr. Brigitta Wagner
Germanic Studies, IUB
bbwagner@indiana.edu
(812) 272-9748
Sponsored by:
At IUPUI: Office of International Affairs, Max Kade German-American Center, International Studies Program, Africana Studies Program, German Program, Dept. of World Languages and Cultures.
At IUB: The College of Arts and Sciences, Office for Multicultural Initiatives, WEST European Studies, The Black Cinema Center/Archive, The Americas Series, African Studies, The Institute of German Studies, Communication and Culture.
Additional support comes from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago.
January 21 – 22, 2010
Public Screenings and Discussion with the Filmmaker
On January 21 and January 22, 2010, during Martin Luther King week, Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang will visit Indiana University in Indianapolis and Bloomington to screen and discuss her documentary, Roots, Germania, a film addressing multicultural issues in modern Germany. Bloomington and IUPUI will be the first US campuses that Asumang visits with her film.
Born in Kassel, Germany to a white German mother and an African father, ‘Mo’ or Monika Asumang studied visual communication, acting, and singing before becoming German television's second Afro-German moderator on a popular music show and later on a talk show about love and sexuality. Her career as an actress and a recording artist took a dramatic turn in 2001 when the Neo-Nazi rock band “White Aryan Rebels” threatened to kill her and a number of prominent ‘non-Aryan’ Germans and migrants in a song called “This Bullet is For You.” Asumang decided to confront the German society in which she was raised through a film that explores the complexities of 21st-century German and European identity in the face of migration, multiculturalism, and the rise of right-wing youth violence after unification. In the film she ironically answers the ‘advice’ of the rock band to “go back to where you came from” and seeks out her relatives in Ghana. While searching for her own roots, she also analyzes the sources of racial hatred and xenophobia in Germany and attempts to confront her own fears.
Roots, Germania (2008) was nominated for Germany's prestigious Adolf Grimme Award for television productions. Since the film's release, Mo has taken it on a tour through Germany, especially the former East, where Neo-Nazi youth groups flourished after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She addresses school groups, organizations, and film festivals in public dialogues and awareness campaigns.
The German press has referred to Mo Asumang as a sort of "Brunhilde with an Afro-look” and her documentary as a “risky road movie .....esoteric cross-over-trip" (Spiegel). Her film is said to have “much of the unmasking humor of a Michael Moore”(Hessische Allgemeine Zeitung). USA Today has even compared Mo Asumang’s childhood to that of President Barack Obama.
Film Website: http://www.roots-germania.com
The film has English subtitles, and both screenings are FREE. There will be a Q & A period following the film.
Screening at IUPUI:
Th, January 21, 2010
Location: IT 152 (Informatics Bldg.)
535 W. Michigan Street
Time: 6 p.m.
Screening at I.U. Bloomington:
Fr, January 22, 2010
Location: Morrison Hall 007
1165 E. 3rd Street, Bloomington
Time: 4 p.m.
For more information, parking information, and directions contact:
Dr. Claudia Grossmann
World Languages and Cultures, IUPUI cgrossma@iupui.edu
(317) 274-3943
or
Dr. Brigitta Wagner
Germanic Studies, IUB
bbwagner@indiana.edu
(812) 272-9748
Sponsored by:
At IUPUI: Office of International Affairs, Max Kade German-American Center, International Studies Program, Africana Studies Program, German Program, Dept. of World Languages and Cultures.
At IUB: The College of Arts and Sciences, Office for Multicultural Initiatives, WEST European Studies, The Black Cinema Center/Archive, The Americas Series, African Studies, The Institute of German Studies, Communication and Culture.
Additional support comes from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago.
From the Provost, Karen Hanson
Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,
As the campus begins the new semester, we must acknowledge a terrible loss.
Some of you may just now be returning to campus after the holidays, and I am very sad to inform you that the Indiana University community lost a dear colleague during the semester break.
Don Belton, a faculty member in the English Department, was slain at his home in Bloomington on December 27. (An arrest has been made in the case.)
In his relatively brief time at IUB, Professor Belton earned the admiration and affection of his colleagues and students. He was a gifted writer and a highly-valued member of the faculty of our distinguished Creative Writing Program, in the Department of English. He was very well liked and very well-respected. His death is a loss not just to his family and friends, and our academic community, but also to the extended world of arts and letters and to all who value the humanistic traditions. His absence will be profoundly felt.
The murder of Professor Belton has evoked strong emotions throughout the community and indeed the nation. I trust that all members of our community will exhibit tolerance, compassion, and respect in the wake of the loss of a valued colleague. Let us also show respect for one another and for the many and varied ways in which we express our grief over such a tragedy.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Professor Belton will take place on Friday January 15, at 5 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Fee Lane in Bloomington.
Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Professor Belton's family, friends, and colleagues.
Karen Hanson
Provost and Executive Vice President
As the campus begins the new semester, we must acknowledge a terrible loss.
Some of you may just now be returning to campus after the holidays, and I am very sad to inform you that the Indiana University community lost a dear colleague during the semester break.
Don Belton, a faculty member in the English Department, was slain at his home in Bloomington on December 27. (An arrest has been made in the case.)
In his relatively brief time at IUB, Professor Belton earned the admiration and affection of his colleagues and students. He was a gifted writer and a highly-valued member of the faculty of our distinguished Creative Writing Program, in the Department of English. He was very well liked and very well-respected. His death is a loss not just to his family and friends, and our academic community, but also to the extended world of arts and letters and to all who value the humanistic traditions. His absence will be profoundly felt.
The murder of Professor Belton has evoked strong emotions throughout the community and indeed the nation. I trust that all members of our community will exhibit tolerance, compassion, and respect in the wake of the loss of a valued colleague. Let us also show respect for one another and for the many and varied ways in which we express our grief over such a tragedy.
A memorial service to celebrate the life of Professor Belton will take place on Friday January 15, at 5 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Fee Lane in Bloomington.
Our heartfelt sympathies go out to Professor Belton's family, friends, and colleagues.
Karen Hanson
Provost and Executive Vice President
CMCL Colloquium Series
Friday, January 15, 2010
4 - 5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Seth Friedman, Ph.D. presents:
"The Truth is Out There: Cultural Paranoia, Conspiracy Theorizing, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film."
4 - 5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Seth Friedman, Ph.D. presents:
"The Truth is Out There: Cultural Paranoia, Conspiracy Theorizing, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film."
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Member of the CMCL Family
Welcome to the newest member of the CMCL extended family, born to Phaedra Pezzullo and Ted Striphas.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Jonathan Rossing receives the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
Nine Graduate Students Honored with K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
Students Recognized for Commitment to Academic and Civic Responsibility and Promise as Future Leaders of Higher Education
The Association of American Colleges and Universities announced today the 2010 recipients of the annual K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards. These awards recognize graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. The award is named in honor of K. Patricia Cross, Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley.
The 2010 recipients are:
Netta Avineri, Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Shauna K. Carlisle, Social Welfare, University of Washington
Judith Flores Carmona, Sociology of Education, University of Utah
Elizabeth Hoover, Anthropology, Brown University
Ilana Kramer, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University
Jonathan P. Rossing, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University
Jentery Sayers, English, University of Washington
Wendy Wagner, College Student Personnel Administration, University of Maryland
Holly F. West, Higher and Postsecondary Education, New York University
These individuals were chosen from a pool of more than 200 nominations through a rigorous application process through which they demonstrated their leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, and their strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility.
“The Cross Scholars represent the finest in the new generation of faculty who will be leading higher education in the next decades,” said AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider. “Clearly, higher education is facing today some of its most difficult challenges. It is heartening, indeed, to see in this group of future leaders, a level of commitment, passion, and skill that will serve them well as they help reinvent higher education in the coming years. At a time when things may look bleak, these students give me hope.”
“This is another stellar year for the future of faculty leadership,” said K. Patricia Cross. “Of more than 200 doctoral students nominated by 110 research universities across a wide range of academic disciplines, the nine award recipients include an impressive number of Outstanding Teaching Awards, a wide variety of experiences serving local and worldwide communities, and a demonstrated concern for the development of others. It is heartwarming to see these impressive and dedicated teachers join the faculties of our colleges and universities, and we are so pleased to provide both praise and publicity for their extraordinary contributions.”
“The nine scholars selected for the K. Patricia Cross Award are diverse in disciplines, personal backgrounds, and academic goals, but all share a passionate commitment to effective teaching and learning in practice and as a part of their ongoing scholarship,” said L. Lee Knefelkamp, AAC&U Senior Scholar and a member of the award selection committee. “Every year the selection committee comments on how difficult it is to select only nine from the hundreds of nominees,” she noted. “This year was no different, and we are extraordinarily proud of our choices.”
The 2010 Cross Scholars will be introduced to the AAC&U community at its 2010 Annual Meeting, THE WIT, THE WILL ... AND THE WALLET: Supporting Educational Innovation, Shaping Our Global Futures, to be held in Washington, DC, from January 20-23, 2010. The 2010 Cross Scholars will be honored at the Opening Plenary. They will also be presenters in the session, “Faculty of the Future: Voices from the Next Generation – A Conversation with the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders.” The Cross awardees will participate in other sessions and meetings throughout the conference.
For more information about AAC&U, its annual meeting, or the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, visit www.aacu.org.
About AAC&U
AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career. Founded in 1915, AAC&U now comprises 1,200 member institutions-including accredited public and private colleges and universities of every type and size.
AAC&U functions as a catalyst and facilitator, forging links among presidents, administrators, and faculty members who are engaged in institutional and curricular planning. Its mission is to reinforce the collective commitment to liberal education at both the national and local levels and to help individual institutions keep the quality of student learning at the core of their work as they evolve to meet new economic and social challenges. Information about AAC&U membership, programs, and publications can be found at www.aacu.org.
Students Recognized for Commitment to Academic and Civic Responsibility and Promise as Future Leaders of Higher Education
The Association of American Colleges and Universities announced today the 2010 recipients of the annual K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards. These awards recognize graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. The award is named in honor of K. Patricia Cross, Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley.
The 2010 recipients are:
Netta Avineri, Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Shauna K. Carlisle, Social Welfare, University of Washington
Judith Flores Carmona, Sociology of Education, University of Utah
Elizabeth Hoover, Anthropology, Brown University
Ilana Kramer, Clinical Psychology, Long Island University
Jonathan P. Rossing, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University
Jentery Sayers, English, University of Washington
Wendy Wagner, College Student Personnel Administration, University of Maryland
Holly F. West, Higher and Postsecondary Education, New York University
These individuals were chosen from a pool of more than 200 nominations through a rigorous application process through which they demonstrated their leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, and their strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility.
“The Cross Scholars represent the finest in the new generation of faculty who will be leading higher education in the next decades,” said AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider. “Clearly, higher education is facing today some of its most difficult challenges. It is heartening, indeed, to see in this group of future leaders, a level of commitment, passion, and skill that will serve them well as they help reinvent higher education in the coming years. At a time when things may look bleak, these students give me hope.”
“This is another stellar year for the future of faculty leadership,” said K. Patricia Cross. “Of more than 200 doctoral students nominated by 110 research universities across a wide range of academic disciplines, the nine award recipients include an impressive number of Outstanding Teaching Awards, a wide variety of experiences serving local and worldwide communities, and a demonstrated concern for the development of others. It is heartwarming to see these impressive and dedicated teachers join the faculties of our colleges and universities, and we are so pleased to provide both praise and publicity for their extraordinary contributions.”
“The nine scholars selected for the K. Patricia Cross Award are diverse in disciplines, personal backgrounds, and academic goals, but all share a passionate commitment to effective teaching and learning in practice and as a part of their ongoing scholarship,” said L. Lee Knefelkamp, AAC&U Senior Scholar and a member of the award selection committee. “Every year the selection committee comments on how difficult it is to select only nine from the hundreds of nominees,” she noted. “This year was no different, and we are extraordinarily proud of our choices.”
The 2010 Cross Scholars will be introduced to the AAC&U community at its 2010 Annual Meeting, THE WIT, THE WILL ... AND THE WALLET: Supporting Educational Innovation, Shaping Our Global Futures, to be held in Washington, DC, from January 20-23, 2010. The 2010 Cross Scholars will be honored at the Opening Plenary. They will also be presenters in the session, “Faculty of the Future: Voices from the Next Generation – A Conversation with the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders.” The Cross awardees will participate in other sessions and meetings throughout the conference.
For more information about AAC&U, its annual meeting, or the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, visit www.aacu.org.
About AAC&U
AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Its members are committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career. Founded in 1915, AAC&U now comprises 1,200 member institutions-including accredited public and private colleges and universities of every type and size.
AAC&U functions as a catalyst and facilitator, forging links among presidents, administrators, and faculty members who are engaged in institutional and curricular planning. Its mission is to reinforce the collective commitment to liberal education at both the national and local levels and to help individual institutions keep the quality of student learning at the core of their work as they evolve to meet new economic and social challenges. Information about AAC&U membership, programs, and publications can be found at www.aacu.org.
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