Wednesday March 31, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 pm
IMU Alumni Hall
Holocaust survivor Eva Kor will speak about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor and remarkable decision to publicly forgive the Nazis. Eva and her twin sister Miriam were separated from their family during World War II and forced to join a large group of other twins at Auschwitz concentration camp under the care of Dr. Josef Mengele, a man known as the "Angel of Death". The lecture is presented by the Indiana Memorial Union Board, Hillel, IU's Office for Women's Affairs, the Departments of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Russian and East European Studies, and Medical Sciences Program.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Patten Lecture - "Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin"
Thursday, April 1, 2010
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Rawles Hall, room 100
W. J. T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, will deliver "Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin" as part of the Patten Lecture Series.
In his lecture on April 1, Mitchell will examine the diagnosis of the return of idolatry and its evil twin, iconoclasm, in contemporary global political culture, and especially in the contemporary tendency to conceive of war in religious, Manichean terms, as a struggle between good and evil. Working through the transvaluations of the idolatry/iconoclasm complex in the philosophy of Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols and Thus Spake Zarathustra) and the paintings of William Blake, the lecture stages a re-reading of Nicholas Poussin's classic scenes of idolatry in "The Adoration of the Golden Calf" (London: National Gallery) and "The Plague at Ashdod" (Paris, The Louvre).
7:30 - 8:30 pm
Rawles Hall, room 100
W. J. T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, will deliver "Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin" as part of the Patten Lecture Series.
In his lecture on April 1, Mitchell will examine the diagnosis of the return of idolatry and its evil twin, iconoclasm, in contemporary global political culture, and especially in the contemporary tendency to conceive of war in religious, Manichean terms, as a struggle between good and evil. Working through the transvaluations of the idolatry/iconoclasm complex in the philosophy of Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols and Thus Spake Zarathustra) and the paintings of William Blake, the lecture stages a re-reading of Nicholas Poussin's classic scenes of idolatry in "The Adoration of the Golden Calf" (London: National Gallery) and "The Plague at Ashdod" (Paris, The Louvre).
Italian Cinema Symposium April 7-11 at IU Bloomington
Italian Cinema Symposium
April 7-11
IU Bloomington
The event, organized by IU's Department of French and Italian, will feature several films, documentaries and shorts and more than 40 presentations. Scholars and film fans from across the country and around the world will discuss many aspects of modern and contemporary Italian production. Giuseppe Piccioni, one of Italy's most respected film directors, will be among the participants in the five-day symposium
For details, click here.
April 7-11
IU Bloomington
The event, organized by IU's Department of French and Italian, will feature several films, documentaries and shorts and more than 40 presentations. Scholars and film fans from across the country and around the world will discuss many aspects of modern and contemporary Italian production. Giuseppe Piccioni, one of Italy's most respected film directors, will be among the participants in the five-day symposium
For details, click here.
Anthropology Spring Reception
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Woodburn House
519 North College Avenue
5:00-8:00PM
Lots of food, fun, and celebration.
The Woodburn House
519 North College Avenue
5:00-8:00PM
Lots of food, fun, and celebration.
Call for Entries: 2010 Heartland Film Festival
Call for entries is open for the 19th annual Heartland Film Festival October 14-23, 2010 in Indianapolis, IN.
Heartland Film Festival presents Crystal Heart Awards and more than $100,000 in cash prizes to the top-judged submissions, including a Grand Prize for Best Dramatic Feature, a Best Documentary Feature Award and a Vision Award for Best Short Film. Awards and cash prizes are given to independently-produced feature length and short film entries in dramatic, documentary and animation. Selected student films will receive Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Awards and cash prizes.
Submissions will be evaluated for their achievement of excellence in filmmaking and promotion of Heartland’s mission. Get more information on submittng your film.
For more information, click here.
Heartland Film Festival presents Crystal Heart Awards and more than $100,000 in cash prizes to the top-judged submissions, including a Grand Prize for Best Dramatic Feature, a Best Documentary Feature Award and a Vision Award for Best Short Film. Awards and cash prizes are given to independently-produced feature length and short film entries in dramatic, documentary and animation. Selected student films will receive Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Awards and cash prizes.
Submissions will be evaluated for their achievement of excellence in filmmaking and promotion of Heartland’s mission. Get more information on submittng your film.
For more information, click here.
New CFP in the Calls for Papers Link List
The Call for Papers Link on the link list is in the process of being repaired, but every link is viewable and all but the titles have been edited. Please be sure to check it out as there are two new calls that may be of interest.
Monday, March 29, 2010
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE
Please join graduate students for
Technology, Society, Politics: The Changing Information Environment* An Informal Research Roundtable with Lance Bennett, University of Washington Thursday, April 8, 2010 10am – 11:30am Rm. LI036 Wells Library (SLIS seminar room)
Co-sponsored by Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Colloquium on Political Communication Research
The roundtable is designed to discuss the “provocative arguments” (Holbert et al., 2010, p. 15) regarding “fundamental changes in society and communication technologies that are affecting the composition of audiences, the delivery of information, and the experience of politics itself...the growing disjuncture between the prevailing research strategies and the sociotechnological context of political communication” (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008, p. 707).
The exchanges between Bennett and Iyengar and Holbert and colleagues are available from the Wells Library database for the Journal of Communication:
• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2008). A new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of political communication. Journal of Communication, 58, 707-731.
• Holbert, R. L., Garrett, R. K., & Gleason, L. S. (2010). A new era of minimal effects? A response to Bennett and Iyengar. Journal of Communication, 60, 15-34.
• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2010). The shifting foundations of political communication: Responding to a defense of the media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 60, 35-39.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 6th if you plan to attend to Alice Robbin (arobbin@indiana.edu) and Erik Bucy (ebucy@indiana.edu)
Refreshments will be served. We have comfortable seating for 15 people at the table and others in chairs around the room.
Technology, Society, Politics: The Changing Information Environment* An Informal Research Roundtable with Lance Bennett, University of Washington Thursday, April 8, 2010 10am – 11:30am Rm. LI036 Wells Library (SLIS seminar room)
Co-sponsored by Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Colloquium on Political Communication Research
The roundtable is designed to discuss the “provocative arguments” (Holbert et al., 2010, p. 15) regarding “fundamental changes in society and communication technologies that are affecting the composition of audiences, the delivery of information, and the experience of politics itself...the growing disjuncture between the prevailing research strategies and the sociotechnological context of political communication” (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008, p. 707).
The exchanges between Bennett and Iyengar and Holbert and colleagues are available from the Wells Library database for the Journal of Communication:
• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2008). A new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of political communication. Journal of Communication, 58, 707-731.
• Holbert, R. L., Garrett, R. K., & Gleason, L. S. (2010). A new era of minimal effects? A response to Bennett and Iyengar. Journal of Communication, 60, 15-34.
• Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2010). The shifting foundations of political communication: Responding to a defense of the media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 60, 35-39.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 6th if you plan to attend to Alice Robbin (arobbin@indiana.edu) and Erik Bucy (ebucy@indiana.edu)
Refreshments will be served. We have comfortable seating for 15 people at the table and others in chairs around the room.
CMCL Colloquiua Series Presents Media Life
*Media Life*
Mark Deuze (with Peter Blank, and Laura Speers) Department of Telecommunications Indiana University
Friday, April 2, 2010
4 PM-5 PM
Classroom Office Building (COB) Room 100
(CMCL offices/800 E. 3rd Street between Woodlawn and Indiana)
Abstract
Research since the early years of the 21st century consistently suggests that more of our time gets spent using media, that being concurrently exposed to media has become a foundational feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Media devices, what people do with them, and how all of this fits in the organization of our everyday life disrupt and unsettle well-established views of the role media play in society. Instead of continuing to wrestle with a distinction between media and society, our project proposes that life is not lived with media, but in media.
History
The media life perspective has been developed in research at the Department of Telecommunications, and in teaching the University Division course T101 Media Life (every semester, 426 students) over the last couple of years. A media life working paper is available at IU ScholarWorks (see URL below). We will present this work in the Philosophy of Communication division of the International Communication Conference in Singapore, June 23-26, 2010. An essay outlining theoretical implications of the project has been accepted for publication in Media Culture & Society (January 2011 issue), and a book with the same title is contracted with Polity Press.
Peter Blank and Laura Speers are graduate students at the Department of Telecommunications, and co-authors of the project working paper.
Media Life (1.0) working paper
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3764
Mark Deuze (with Peter Blank, and Laura Speers) Department of Telecommunications Indiana University
Friday, April 2, 2010
4 PM-5 PM
Classroom Office Building (COB) Room 100
(CMCL offices/800 E. 3rd Street between Woodlawn and Indiana)
Abstract
Research since the early years of the 21st century consistently suggests that more of our time gets spent using media, that being concurrently exposed to media has become a foundational feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Media devices, what people do with them, and how all of this fits in the organization of our everyday life disrupt and unsettle well-established views of the role media play in society. Instead of continuing to wrestle with a distinction between media and society, our project proposes that life is not lived with media, but in media.
History
The media life perspective has been developed in research at the Department of Telecommunications, and in teaching the University Division course T101 Media Life (every semester, 426 students) over the last couple of years. A media life working paper is available at IU ScholarWorks (see URL below). We will present this work in the Philosophy of Communication division of the International Communication Conference in Singapore, June 23-26, 2010. An essay outlining theoretical implications of the project has been accepted for publication in Media Culture & Society (January 2011 issue), and a book with the same title is contracted with Polity Press.
Peter Blank and Laura Speers are graduate students at the Department of Telecommunications, and co-authors of the project working paper.
Media Life (1.0) working paper
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3764
Skomp Distinguished Lecture Series Presents Dr. Meg Conkey
Dr. Meg Conkey
April 2, 2010
Ernie Pyle Auditorium
4:00 pm
Reception to Follow
Marginal Practices: A Feminist Voice From Outside of the Cave
Like most disciplines, archaeology has its core subjects, preferred field locations and privileged practitioners. Thus, there are marginal topics, marginal culture areas, and marginalized practitioners and approaches. This talk attempts to probe "the marginal" and will use, in part, my own experiences in the feminist practice of archaeology as carried out "between the caves" in the caveman archaeology of Ice Age Europe. How do topics and locations become only "marginal" to the grand events and key sites? Why are some methods preferred and why does excavation continue to be the defining practice of archaeology despite sociopolitical and conservationist trends? What does a feminist practice of archaeology actually mean, since it's not just about "finding women" in the past? And why, say many of my colleagues, would anyone want to tramp around the open fields of the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France to see if there are any traces of Paleolithic peoples when the preservation in caves is so much better and there is not likely to be much out there, especially not in intact open air settings like those of the Paris Basin that have been so heralded.
Margaret Conkey is currently the Interim Chair of and the Class of 1960 (endowed) Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught for 23 years. She has served as the Director of the campus-wide Archaeological Research Facility ( 1994-2007), and is currently the President of the 7500 member Society for American Archaeology. She is a past President of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, and of the AAA's Association for Feminist Anthropology. She currently serves on the Board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. She received her BA from Mt Holyoke College, and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She previously taught at San Jose State University and at the Binghamton University of the State University of New York. She has carried out research in the caves, rock shelters and open-air archaeology of the Ice Age in southwestern Europe for many years, and she currently directs a landscape archaeology and survey project in the French Midi-Pyrénées, where her team has been recovering extensive traces of Paleolithic activities in the open air "between the caves". Additionally, she has been centrally involved in bringing a more balanced view to the study and understanding of gender in archaeology and in past human societies, helping to develop an explicitly feminist archaeology. Most recently (2007) she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory with Alison Wylie on Doing Archaeology as a Feminist. Among her awards are numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation, several Distinguished Teaching Awards, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Berkeley Academic Senate Faculty Service Award, the Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence, and an honorary doctorate degree from Mt. Holyoke College.
April 2, 2010
Ernie Pyle Auditorium
4:00 pm
Reception to Follow
Marginal Practices: A Feminist Voice From Outside of the Cave
Like most disciplines, archaeology has its core subjects, preferred field locations and privileged practitioners. Thus, there are marginal topics, marginal culture areas, and marginalized practitioners and approaches. This talk attempts to probe "the marginal" and will use, in part, my own experiences in the feminist practice of archaeology as carried out "between the caves" in the caveman archaeology of Ice Age Europe. How do topics and locations become only "marginal" to the grand events and key sites? Why are some methods preferred and why does excavation continue to be the defining practice of archaeology despite sociopolitical and conservationist trends? What does a feminist practice of archaeology actually mean, since it's not just about "finding women" in the past? And why, say many of my colleagues, would anyone want to tramp around the open fields of the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France to see if there are any traces of Paleolithic peoples when the preservation in caves is so much better and there is not likely to be much out there, especially not in intact open air settings like those of the Paris Basin that have been so heralded.
Margaret Conkey is currently the Interim Chair of and the Class of 1960 (endowed) Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught for 23 years. She has served as the Director of the campus-wide Archaeological Research Facility ( 1994-2007), and is currently the President of the 7500 member Society for American Archaeology. She is a past President of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, and of the AAA's Association for Feminist Anthropology. She currently serves on the Board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. She received her BA from Mt Holyoke College, and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She previously taught at San Jose State University and at the Binghamton University of the State University of New York. She has carried out research in the caves, rock shelters and open-air archaeology of the Ice Age in southwestern Europe for many years, and she currently directs a landscape archaeology and survey project in the French Midi-Pyrénées, where her team has been recovering extensive traces of Paleolithic activities in the open air "between the caves". Additionally, she has been centrally involved in bringing a more balanced view to the study and understanding of gender in archaeology and in past human societies, helping to develop an explicitly feminist archaeology. Most recently (2007) she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory with Alison Wylie on Doing Archaeology as a Feminist. Among her awards are numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation, several Distinguished Teaching Awards, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Berkeley Academic Senate Faculty Service Award, the Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence, and an honorary doctorate degree from Mt. Holyoke College.
Teaching and Learning Technologies Center Presentations and Workshops
Please join TLTC this Friday from 10 to 11:30 AM for a guest presentation about ARTstor's digital image library. Eileen Fry and Nicole Beatty from the School of Fine Arts will show participants how to effectively search the gallery of over one million images, and will also demonstrate how to use ARTstor's suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. To register, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc and follow the link to TIS Workshops.
Interested in delivering learning activities over the web to enhance, supplement, and facilitate learning? On Thursday, April 8 TLTC staff will host a hands-on Creating Online Learning Activities workshop from
2 to 4 PM. To register, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc and follow the link to TIS Workshops.
The next IT Training brown bag presentation is coming up on Friday, April 9th from noon to 1 PM. The topic: Transitioning from Vista to Windows 7. The session will be held in the School of Education, room 2277. To learn more or to sign up for an email reminder, visit http://ittraining.iu.edu/brownbag.
Interested in delivering learning activities over the web to enhance, supplement, and facilitate learning? On Thursday, April 8 TLTC staff will host a hands-on Creating Online Learning Activities workshop from
2 to 4 PM. To register, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc and follow the link to TIS Workshops.
The next IT Training brown bag presentation is coming up on Friday, April 9th from noon to 1 PM. The topic: Transitioning from Vista to Windows 7. The session will be held in the School of Education, room 2277. To learn more or to sign up for an email reminder, visit http://ittraining.iu.edu/brownbag.
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) celebrates National Poetry Month
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University is pleased to present several evenings of poetry, drama, music, and other arts. Several CMLT members (faculty and students) will be performing! Performances will occur in original languages and will be accompanied by English translation.
When: Thursday April 1, April 8, and April 15, 7-9pm
Where: IU Art Museum Mezzanine
April 1st –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 NELC Drama Club (Arabic)
7:25-7:45 Paul Losensky (Persian)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:35 Joseph Hermes & Zeynep Elbasan (Turkish)
8:35 – 9:00 Ihsan Colak (Turkish Music performance)
April 8th –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 Stephen Katz (Hebrew)
7:25-7:45 Sheila Akbar (Persian)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:30 Cigdem Balim (Turkish)
8:30 – 8.50 Waed Athamneh & Talar Kharadjian (Arabic)
8:50 – 9:00 Serdar Abaci (Turkish Musical performance)
April 15th –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 Muhammed Al-Munir Gibrill & Nana Bentil-Mawusi (African languages)
7:25-7:45 Hussain Abulfaraj/Mustafa Binmayaba (Arabic)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:35 Durmus Gokmen (Turkish)
8:35 – 9:00 Nazif Shahrani (Dari)
When: Thursday April 1, April 8, and April 15, 7-9pm
Where: IU Art Museum Mezzanine
April 1st –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 NELC Drama Club (Arabic)
7:25-7:45 Paul Losensky (Persian)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:35 Joseph Hermes & Zeynep Elbasan (Turkish)
8:35 – 9:00 Ihsan Colak (Turkish Music performance)
April 8th –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 Stephen Katz (Hebrew)
7:25-7:45 Sheila Akbar (Persian)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:30 Cigdem Balim (Turkish)
8:30 – 8.50 Waed Athamneh & Talar Kharadjian (Arabic)
8:50 – 9:00 Serdar Abaci (Turkish Musical performance)
April 15th –
6:30 Doors open to the public
7:00-7:20 Muhammed Al-Munir Gibrill & Nana Bentil-Mawusi (African languages)
7:25-7:45 Hussain Abulfaraj/Mustafa Binmayaba (Arabic)
7:45 – 8:10 Gallery Tour
8:15 – 8:35 Durmus Gokmen (Turkish)
8:35 – 9:00 Nazif Shahrani (Dari)
Friday, March 26, 2010
THE HUMANITIES IMAGES FORUM
Images and Public Culture: Understanding Images Across The Humanities
Visit of Dr. Ariella Azoulay as a Branigin Lecturer,
April 5-6th 2010
Monday April 5th
Film Screening, (7:00 pm, Fine Arts 102).
The Angel of History
A Film by Ariella Azoulay, 2000
70 min
The film The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and private arenas like the artist's studio, the arena of murder, the photographic frame, the museum, the body or the cemetery.
The Angel of History offers new perspectives for understanding the complex relations which are spun around the museum space. The movie probes beyond the standard and limited relationships between artist and work or viewer and work, exposing the fragile, troubled and intimate relations between the various protagonists who participate in the becoming-public of the work of art: between a daughter and her mother, between an analyst and his patient, between father and son, between photographer and photographic subject, between a ghost from the past and contemporary figures, and between hangman and victim.
The film was conceived as a “speaking catalogue” for an exhibition of the same name curated by Ariella Azoulay. The film follows the transformation of the body into a museum exhibit and the transformation of the exhibit into a substitute for the body by means of looking inside actual museums (The Yad Vashem Memorial, the Modern Art Museum) as well as virtual museums (the Museum of Women’s Foreskins or the Museum of the Extinct Jewish Race in Prague).
Tuesday April 6th
Public Lecture (Tuesday April 6th, 5:30- 7:00, Student Building room 150)
"The Necessity to Discuss Photographs That Were Not Taken"
Why should one turn to photography when there are no photographs?
This is a question that arises in times of disaster, when the absence of photographs is symptomatic. But the absence of photographs should also be understood as a possibility of photography itself. In order to link these two claims I propose to discuss the ontology of photography, drawing a basic distinction between the event of photography and the photograph which is only one of its products. I will look closely at traces of one particular disaster, the Palestinian Naqba, examining a series of photographs from the period which were part of the exhibition Constituent Violence 1947-1950 that I curated last year (Tel Aviv, March-June 2009). The exhibition consisted of some 200 photographs (most of which were drawn from Zionist archives) and provided a visual genealogy of the transformation of the Palestinian disaster into a "disaster from their point of view".
Visit of Dr. Ariella Azoulay as a Branigin Lecturer,
April 5-6th 2010
Monday April 5th
Film Screening, (7:00 pm, Fine Arts 102).
The Angel of History
A Film by Ariella Azoulay, 2000
70 min
The film The Angel of History deals with the troubling presence of unsolved past events in actual and imagined realities. It takes place in various public and private arenas like the artist's studio, the arena of murder, the photographic frame, the museum, the body or the cemetery.
The Angel of History offers new perspectives for understanding the complex relations which are spun around the museum space. The movie probes beyond the standard and limited relationships between artist and work or viewer and work, exposing the fragile, troubled and intimate relations between the various protagonists who participate in the becoming-public of the work of art: between a daughter and her mother, between an analyst and his patient, between father and son, between photographer and photographic subject, between a ghost from the past and contemporary figures, and between hangman and victim.
The film was conceived as a “speaking catalogue” for an exhibition of the same name curated by Ariella Azoulay. The film follows the transformation of the body into a museum exhibit and the transformation of the exhibit into a substitute for the body by means of looking inside actual museums (The Yad Vashem Memorial, the Modern Art Museum) as well as virtual museums (the Museum of Women’s Foreskins or the Museum of the Extinct Jewish Race in Prague).
Tuesday April 6th
Public Lecture (Tuesday April 6th, 5:30- 7:00, Student Building room 150)
"The Necessity to Discuss Photographs That Were Not Taken"
Why should one turn to photography when there are no photographs?
This is a question that arises in times of disaster, when the absence of photographs is symptomatic. But the absence of photographs should also be understood as a possibility of photography itself. In order to link these two claims I propose to discuss the ontology of photography, drawing a basic distinction between the event of photography and the photograph which is only one of its products. I will look closely at traces of one particular disaster, the Palestinian Naqba, examining a series of photographs from the period which were part of the exhibition Constituent Violence 1947-1950 that I curated last year (Tel Aviv, March-June 2009). The exhibition consisted of some 200 photographs (most of which were drawn from Zionist archives) and provided a visual genealogy of the transformation of the Palestinian disaster into a "disaster from their point of view".
Course Announcment - Telecom
Telecommunications T532
Economics of Media Industries
Section 28388
Prof. David Waterman
Tuesday and Thursday, 1-2:15 pm
RTV 169________________________________________
We apply microeconomic principles to understand how consumer demand, technology, and government policies interact to affect the market structure and business strategies of media firms and organizations—and ultimately, the availability, prices, diversity, and content of media products. A variety of industries are covered, including Internet content providers, print, motion pictures, cable and other multi-channel video distribution systems.
One goal of the course is to provide you with a basis for evaluating public policy issues in the media. Understanding economic incentives and the market process is often critical for determining whether regulations or other government policies toward media are likely to work or not. Another goal is to provide you with a foundation for determining which competitive strategies of media firms and organizations are likely to be most successful
There is no prerequisite for the course. We will develop the economic models and concepts that we need in the class.
For additional information, please contact Prof. David Waterman, Dept. of Telecommunications; 5-6170 or waterman@indiana.edu Webpage: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/faculty/waterman.html.
Economics of Media Industries
Section 28388
Prof. David Waterman
Tuesday and Thursday, 1-2:15 pm
RTV 169________________________________________
We apply microeconomic principles to understand how consumer demand, technology, and government policies interact to affect the market structure and business strategies of media firms and organizations—and ultimately, the availability, prices, diversity, and content of media products. A variety of industries are covered, including Internet content providers, print, motion pictures, cable and other multi-channel video distribution systems.
One goal of the course is to provide you with a basis for evaluating public policy issues in the media. Understanding economic incentives and the market process is often critical for determining whether regulations or other government policies toward media are likely to work or not. Another goal is to provide you with a foundation for determining which competitive strategies of media firms and organizations are likely to be most successful
There is no prerequisite for the course. We will develop the economic models and concepts that we need in the class.
For additional information, please contact Prof. David Waterman, Dept. of Telecommunications; 5-6170 or waterman@indiana.edu Webpage: http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/faculty/waterman.html.
Anthropology of Food Seminar Series
Monday, 29 March
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Meghan Buchanan (Anthropology, IUB)
Fragmentation and Food on the Fringes: Late Mississippian Polities and Politics in the Middle Mississippi River Valley
Monday, 12 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Eduardo Brondizio (Anthropology, IUB) and Andrea Siqueira (CLACS, IUB)
Terroir and Geographic Indication: Local or global labels for Amazon's Acai palm fruit?
Monday, 19 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Anya Royce (Anthropology, IUB)
Food for the Living-Food for the Dead: Juschiteco on food
Monday, 26 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Joelle Bahloul
Food, Migration, and Religion
Contributions of food and drink are appreciated!!
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Meghan Buchanan (Anthropology, IUB)
Fragmentation and Food on the Fringes: Late Mississippian Polities and Politics in the Middle Mississippi River Valley
Monday, 12 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Eduardo Brondizio (Anthropology, IUB) and Andrea Siqueira (CLACS, IUB)
Terroir and Geographic Indication: Local or global labels for Amazon's Acai palm fruit?
Monday, 19 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Anya Royce (Anthropology, IUB)
Food for the Living-Food for the Dead: Juschiteco on food
Monday, 26 April
Student Building, room 159
5-7 pm
Joelle Bahloul
Food, Migration, and Religion
Contributions of food and drink are appreciated!!
City Lights & Underground Film Series
Friday, March 26
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
FREE and open to the public
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Renais, 1959)
Following upon the heels of his holocaust documentary Night and Fog, Alain Renais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour intercuts an affair between a French Actress and a Japanese architect with images of post-atomic bomb Hiroshima and its attendant devastation. Renais’ film offers a highly personal look at the ways in which individuals’ histories and memories are impacted by and create national memory and history. Based on a book by Marguerite Duras. (93 min.)
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
FREE and open to the public
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Renais, 1959)
Following upon the heels of his holocaust documentary Night and Fog, Alain Renais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour intercuts an affair between a French Actress and a Japanese architect with images of post-atomic bomb Hiroshima and its attendant devastation. Renais’ film offers a highly personal look at the ways in which individuals’ histories and memories are impacted by and create national memory and history. Based on a book by Marguerite Duras. (93 min.)
Nineteenth Century Modernities Colloquium Program
An interdisciplinary discussion of modernity
in the global nineteenth century
Friday April 2
University Club of the Indiana Memorial Union
1:00 pm Michael Leja (Art History, University of Pennsylvania), “Problems in Early Mass Visual Culture”
Michael Leja studies the visual arts in various media (painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, illustrations) in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (2004) traces the interactions between the visual arts and the skeptical forms of seeing engendered in modern life in northeastern American cities between 1869 and 1917. It won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize in 2005. He is currently at work on a book exploring changes in pictorial forms and in social relations associated with the industrialization of picture production and the development of a mass market for images in the mid-nineteenth century.
2:45 pm Jan Goldstein (History, University of Chicago), "Political Affiliations of the Flesh in Nineteenth-Century France."
Jan Goldstein’s research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe, especially France, from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Much of her work has concentrated on the psychological sciences and on the ways that socio-political forces unexpectedly shape our understanding and experience of our innermost selves. Her most recent book, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850, examines a literal politics of selfhood, tracing the competition among three psychological theories that all made bids for institutionalization in the French state educational system: sensationalism, phrenology, and the philosophical psychology of Victor Cousin.
4:15 pm Jane Thrailkill (English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina), "Darwin's Children: Henry James, Stephen Crane, and the Art of Immaturity"
Professor Thrailkill works on Nineteenth-Century U.S. and English Literature and Science Studies. Her most recent book, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism, offers a new understanding of American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. She positions herself against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics and takes as her point of departure realist works of medicine, psychology, and literature, arguing that nineteenth-century readers and critics would have taken it for granted that texts engaged both mind and body.
Reception: 5:30-6:30 Faculty Club
Saturday April 3
Walnut Room in the Indiana Memorial Union
9:30 am Ruth Rogaski (History, Vanderbilt University) “The 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi”
Ruth Rogaski is a historian of Qing and modern China, with allied interests in the history of medicine, urban history, women’s and gender history, and social and cultural history in early modern and modern East Asia. She is the author of Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004), which traces how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hygienic Modernity was awarded the Fairbank Prize in East Asian history, the Levenson Prize in Chinese studies, the Welch Medal in the history of medicine, and was co-recipient of the Berkshire Prize.
11:00 am Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), “Mapping a Mobile Land: Landscape and Governance in Colonial India."
Professor Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory.. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of a special issue of PostColonial Studies (Nov 2005) focusing on “the subaltern and the popular’.
1:30 pm Lara Kriegel (History, Florida International University), "’A New Order of Valour’: The Victoria Cross, the Crimean War, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernity”
Professor Kriegel is the author of Grand Designs, a prehistory of the Victoria and Albert Museum and study of the design reform movement of mid-nineteenth century Britain. Working jointly in social and cultural history, she has taught course on, or published work on, topics including museum history, woman’s history, print culture in imperial Britain, and World War I. Her current work concerns the Crimean War, the cultural production and cultural formations around this military action, and its role in shaping popular and academic notions of Victorian character. Her book received Honorable Mention in the 2007 Albion Prize competition for best book in British History since 1800; one of her essays won the 2005 NAVSA Donald Gray Prize for best essay in Victorian Studies. She’ll be joining the IU faculty as a joint appointment in the History and English Departments next year.
3:00-4:00 pm Roundtable with
Sarah Burns (Art History, Indiana University)
Michael Dodson (History, Indiana University)
Rebecca Spang (History, Indiana University)
Sponsored by the College Arts and Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Departments of Art History, English, and History
in the global nineteenth century
Friday April 2
University Club of the Indiana Memorial Union
1:00 pm Michael Leja (Art History, University of Pennsylvania), “Problems in Early Mass Visual Culture”
Michael Leja studies the visual arts in various media (painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, illustrations) in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (2004) traces the interactions between the visual arts and the skeptical forms of seeing engendered in modern life in northeastern American cities between 1869 and 1917. It won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize in 2005. He is currently at work on a book exploring changes in pictorial forms and in social relations associated with the industrialization of picture production and the development of a mass market for images in the mid-nineteenth century.
2:45 pm Jan Goldstein (History, University of Chicago), "Political Affiliations of the Flesh in Nineteenth-Century France."
Jan Goldstein’s research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe, especially France, from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Much of her work has concentrated on the psychological sciences and on the ways that socio-political forces unexpectedly shape our understanding and experience of our innermost selves. Her most recent book, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850, examines a literal politics of selfhood, tracing the competition among three psychological theories that all made bids for institutionalization in the French state educational system: sensationalism, phrenology, and the philosophical psychology of Victor Cousin.
4:15 pm Jane Thrailkill (English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina), "Darwin's Children: Henry James, Stephen Crane, and the Art of Immaturity"
Professor Thrailkill works on Nineteenth-Century U.S. and English Literature and Science Studies. Her most recent book, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism, offers a new understanding of American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. She positions herself against the emotionless interpretations of the New Critics and takes as her point of departure realist works of medicine, psychology, and literature, arguing that nineteenth-century readers and critics would have taken it for granted that texts engaged both mind and body.
Reception: 5:30-6:30 Faculty Club
Saturday April 3
Walnut Room in the Indiana Memorial Union
9:30 am Ruth Rogaski (History, Vanderbilt University) “The 19th Century as a Crisis of Qi”
Ruth Rogaski is a historian of Qing and modern China, with allied interests in the history of medicine, urban history, women’s and gender history, and social and cultural history in early modern and modern East Asia. She is the author of Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004), which traces how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hygienic Modernity was awarded the Fairbank Prize in East Asian history, the Levenson Prize in Chinese studies, the Welch Medal in the history of medicine, and was co-recipient of the Berkshire Prize.
11:00 am Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), “Mapping a Mobile Land: Landscape and Governance in Colonial India."
Professor Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that are capable of enriching post-colonial and critical theory.. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of a special issue of PostColonial Studies (Nov 2005) focusing on “the subaltern and the popular’.
1:30 pm Lara Kriegel (History, Florida International University), "’A New Order of Valour’: The Victoria Cross, the Crimean War, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernity”
Professor Kriegel is the author of Grand Designs, a prehistory of the Victoria and Albert Museum and study of the design reform movement of mid-nineteenth century Britain. Working jointly in social and cultural history, she has taught course on, or published work on, topics including museum history, woman’s history, print culture in imperial Britain, and World War I. Her current work concerns the Crimean War, the cultural production and cultural formations around this military action, and its role in shaping popular and academic notions of Victorian character. Her book received Honorable Mention in the 2007 Albion Prize competition for best book in British History since 1800; one of her essays won the 2005 NAVSA Donald Gray Prize for best essay in Victorian Studies. She’ll be joining the IU faculty as a joint appointment in the History and English Departments next year.
3:00-4:00 pm Roundtable with
Sarah Burns (Art History, Indiana University)
Michael Dodson (History, Indiana University)
Rebecca Spang (History, Indiana University)
Sponsored by the College Arts and Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Departments of Art History, English, and History
Thursday, March 25, 2010
"Tactics of Taste: Food, Alliance, and Resistance in the Early Caribbean"
Julie Kim (English, Fordham)
Thursday, April 1
Dogwood Room, IMU, 4-5:30.
"Tactics of Taste: Food, Alliance, and Resistance in the Early Caribbean"
Food and culinary rituals have played central symbolic roles in imperial ideologies of assimilation and cultural mixing. Nevertheless, descriptions of food in accounts of the colonial Caribbean reveal heated conflicts taking place among Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians over matters of cuisine and consumption. Of course, these groups did have to accommodate each other in order to survive the extreme transformations in daily life and societal structure that characterized emerging plantation regimes. In particular, Africans and Amerindians often had to acquiesce to the appropriation not only of their labor but also of their knowledge of plants, animals, and cuisine. Yet the diverse environments of the Caribbean also provided individuals with modes of resistance—what I am calling tactics of taste—that suggest new ways of understanding and foregrounding the roles played by non-Europeans in the history of the region.
Thursday, April 1
Dogwood Room, IMU, 4-5:30.
"Tactics of Taste: Food, Alliance, and Resistance in the Early Caribbean"
Food and culinary rituals have played central symbolic roles in imperial ideologies of assimilation and cultural mixing. Nevertheless, descriptions of food in accounts of the colonial Caribbean reveal heated conflicts taking place among Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians over matters of cuisine and consumption. Of course, these groups did have to accommodate each other in order to survive the extreme transformations in daily life and societal structure that characterized emerging plantation regimes. In particular, Africans and Amerindians often had to acquiesce to the appropriation not only of their labor but also of their knowledge of plants, animals, and cuisine. Yet the diverse environments of the Caribbean also provided individuals with modes of resistance—what I am calling tactics of taste—that suggest new ways of understanding and foregrounding the roles played by non-Europeans in the history of the region.
GPSO Graduate Appreciation Week, 2010
Graduate Appreciation Week is planned and sponsored by the IUB GPSO. All events will be held in Bloomington, on or near the IUB campus.
Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar - Family Day
WHEN: Saturday (3/27) 11 1m-2 pm
WHERE: Binford Elementary School, 2300 E. 2nd Street
GPSO is delighted to co-sponsor this family-friendly event. The afternoon will include live performances, ares and crafts and other activities perfect for children, families, and graduate students. The even is offered free of charge. For more information, visit www.lotusfest.org.
Graduate Student Roller Skating
WHEN: Wednesday (4/7) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WHERE: Western Skateland, 930 W. 17th street
Meet up with other graduate and professional students for an evening of skating. Kids are welcome!
PRICE: $4/person includes admission and skate rental
Graduate student Conference event: GPSO Travel Award Winner Presentations
WHEN: Friday (4/9) 2 pm - 3:30 pm
WHERE: Herman B. Wells Library, room E174 (Media Room)
Come hear GPSO Travel Award Winners present on their research and provide advice about applying for travel grants. Light refreshments will be served, The University Graduate School Awards Ceremony will follow immediately in the Wells House.
University Graduate School Awards Ceremony
WHEN: Friday (4/9) 4 pm - 6 pm
WHERE: Wells House, 1321 E. 10th Street
Celebrate graduate student achievement at the University graduate School's Annual Awards Ceremony.
GPSO's Annual Bash at Farm-Bloomington
WHEN: Saturday (4/10) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
WHERE: Farm Bloomington, in the Root Cellar and the room above, 108 E. Kirkwood Avenue
IUB graduate and professional students are invited to enjoy an evening of live music, free food, and more! This year GPSO is thrilled to present Grant Street Scandal in this intimate venue. Admission is FREE to IUB graduate and professional students.
For event details, visit GPSO's Facebok page or the GPSO website at www.indiana.edu/~gpso.
Lotus Blossoms World Bazaar - Family Day
WHEN: Saturday (3/27) 11 1m-2 pm
WHERE: Binford Elementary School, 2300 E. 2nd Street
GPSO is delighted to co-sponsor this family-friendly event. The afternoon will include live performances, ares and crafts and other activities perfect for children, families, and graduate students. The even is offered free of charge. For more information, visit www.lotusfest.org.
Graduate Student Roller Skating
WHEN: Wednesday (4/7) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WHERE: Western Skateland, 930 W. 17th street
Meet up with other graduate and professional students for an evening of skating. Kids are welcome!
PRICE: $4/person includes admission and skate rental
Graduate student Conference event: GPSO Travel Award Winner Presentations
WHEN: Friday (4/9) 2 pm - 3:30 pm
WHERE: Herman B. Wells Library, room E174 (Media Room)
Come hear GPSO Travel Award Winners present on their research and provide advice about applying for travel grants. Light refreshments will be served, The University Graduate School Awards Ceremony will follow immediately in the Wells House.
University Graduate School Awards Ceremony
WHEN: Friday (4/9) 4 pm - 6 pm
WHERE: Wells House, 1321 E. 10th Street
Celebrate graduate student achievement at the University graduate School's Annual Awards Ceremony.
GPSO's Annual Bash at Farm-Bloomington
WHEN: Saturday (4/10) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
WHERE: Farm Bloomington, in the Root Cellar and the room above, 108 E. Kirkwood Avenue
IUB graduate and professional students are invited to enjoy an evening of live music, free food, and more! This year GPSO is thrilled to present Grant Street Scandal in this intimate venue. Admission is FREE to IUB graduate and professional students.
For event details, visit GPSO's Facebok page or the GPSO website at www.indiana.edu/~gpso.
J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture
The Department of Communication & Culture
is proud to announce the 2008 J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture will be presented by
Professor MAROUF HASIAN
Professor Department of Communication
University of Utah
March 25, 2010 at 6:00pm in State Room East IMU
a reception will follow at CMCL 2nd floor lobby
“U.S. Foreign Policy, 2lst Century Lawfare, and the Challenges of Humanitarianism Interventionism”
In the wake of 9/11 the foreign policy rhetorics of the U.S. were dramatically altered as empowered decision-makers sought to justify a series of what would be labeled humanitarian interventions, including major campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. What members of the G.W. Bush Administration called the “global war on terrorism” was to be fought on many domestic and international fronts and would involve a plethora of preventive or pre-emptive weapons. This presentation focuses attention on the role that “lawfare,” or the military appropriation of justice, played in the legitimating of the U.S. military appropriation of justice, played in the legitimating of the U.S. military rules of engagement between 2001 and 2008. For many patriotic commentators lawfare is a derogatory term that is used to explain how the forces of Al Qaeda or other enemies take advantage of the benevolence of the U.S. court systems in the wars that are fought for the “hearts and minds” of key audiences. In theory, those who are too solicitous of the rights of detainees who are held in places like Guantanamo or Bagram, or who advocate the usage of tort suits against CIA operatives, are said to be engaging in lawfare that stabs our nation in the back at the time when we need to be rallying around the flag. This presentation uses a rhetorical analysis of the public and military debates that surround the Haditha incident as an entrée point for larger critiques of more general military, diplomatic, and public usages of lawfare during the 21st century.
Marouf A. Hasian, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah,in Salt Lake City. He is on the Editorial Board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse, and author of several books, including In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties. Professor Hasian’s areas of interest include law and rhetoric, postcolonial studies, critical memory studies and securitization studies.
The Department of Communication and Culture is pleased to welcome Professor Hasian to Indiana University. He will be introduced by Melanie Loehwing, a CMCL Ph.D. candidate.
is proud to announce the 2008 J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture will be presented by
Professor MAROUF HASIAN
Professor Department of Communication
University of Utah
March 25, 2010 at 6:00pm in State Room East IMU
a reception will follow at CMCL 2nd floor lobby
“U.S. Foreign Policy, 2lst Century Lawfare, and the Challenges of Humanitarianism Interventionism”
In the wake of 9/11 the foreign policy rhetorics of the U.S. were dramatically altered as empowered decision-makers sought to justify a series of what would be labeled humanitarian interventions, including major campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. What members of the G.W. Bush Administration called the “global war on terrorism” was to be fought on many domestic and international fronts and would involve a plethora of preventive or pre-emptive weapons. This presentation focuses attention on the role that “lawfare,” or the military appropriation of justice, played in the legitimating of the U.S. military appropriation of justice, played in the legitimating of the U.S. military rules of engagement between 2001 and 2008. For many patriotic commentators lawfare is a derogatory term that is used to explain how the forces of Al Qaeda or other enemies take advantage of the benevolence of the U.S. court systems in the wars that are fought for the “hearts and minds” of key audiences. In theory, those who are too solicitous of the rights of detainees who are held in places like Guantanamo or Bagram, or who advocate the usage of tort suits against CIA operatives, are said to be engaging in lawfare that stabs our nation in the back at the time when we need to be rallying around the flag. This presentation uses a rhetorical analysis of the public and military debates that surround the Haditha incident as an entrée point for larger critiques of more general military, diplomatic, and public usages of lawfare during the 21st century.
Marouf A. Hasian, Jr., is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah,in Salt Lake City. He is on the Editorial Board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs, an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse, and author of several books, including In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties. Professor Hasian’s areas of interest include law and rhetoric, postcolonial studies, critical memory studies and securitization studies.
The Department of Communication and Culture is pleased to welcome Professor Hasian to Indiana University. He will be introduced by Melanie Loehwing, a CMCL Ph.D. candidate.
School of Journalism Speaker Series
John F. Burns
7 p.m. March 29
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
John F. Burns
New York Times London Bureau Chief John F. Burns has spent more than 30 years as an international correspondent for the newspaper, covering embattled regions such as South Africa during apartheid, China during the Cultural Revolution, the siege of Sarajevo, and war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Along the way, Burns picked up two Pulitzer Prizes, the first in 1993 for his coverage of the siege and destruction of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, and the second in 1997 for his coverage of the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He twice has won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting.
Burns’ latest assignment caps recent years on the ground reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq. His earlier experience in Afghanistan was an asset after 9/11, when Burns was sent to the region to cover U.S. actions there. Later, he went to Iraq to cover the last six months of Saddam Hussein’s regime, going into hiding at one point to evade capture by Hussein’s secret police. After American troops captured Baghdad, he served as bureau chief there for the newspaper, working with 100 or so other journalists in a secure compound in Baghdad.
Based in London since 2007, Burns continues to report on U.S. wars and issues in those two countries, including regular writing and analysis for the Times’ At War blog. He also appears on news programs such as the PBS NewsHour, Charlie Rose and C-SPAN.
7 p.m. March 29
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
John F. Burns
New York Times London Bureau Chief John F. Burns has spent more than 30 years as an international correspondent for the newspaper, covering embattled regions such as South Africa during apartheid, China during the Cultural Revolution, the siege of Sarajevo, and war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Along the way, Burns picked up two Pulitzer Prizes, the first in 1993 for his coverage of the siege and destruction of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, and the second in 1997 for his coverage of the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He twice has won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting.
Burns’ latest assignment caps recent years on the ground reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq. His earlier experience in Afghanistan was an asset after 9/11, when Burns was sent to the region to cover U.S. actions there. Later, he went to Iraq to cover the last six months of Saddam Hussein’s regime, going into hiding at one point to evade capture by Hussein’s secret police. After American troops captured Baghdad, he served as bureau chief there for the newspaper, working with 100 or so other journalists in a secure compound in Baghdad.
Based in London since 2007, Burns continues to report on U.S. wars and issues in those two countries, including regular writing and analysis for the Times’ At War blog. He also appears on news programs such as the PBS NewsHour, Charlie Rose and C-SPAN.
A Roundtable/Brown Bag Discussion: Ethnography of Science, Technology, New Media
Chris Kelty
Department of Information Studies and the Center for Society and Genetics University of California Los Angeles
Small Folklore and Ethnomusicology Seminar Room 510 North Fess Ave (near the northeast corner of 9th and Fess Ave)
11 am to noon
Friday, March 26, 2010
Graduate students, faculty, and others with a range of interests will be interested in joining professor Chris Kelty for a discussion of his work in the ethnography of science, technology, new media, open access scholarly communication, and open source software. Among other themes, his work speaks to methodological issues in ethnographic research and to the nature and constitution of publics.
He is known for a range of innovative research work, including his 2008 book Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software ( http://twobits.net ). Selections of his published work is available on his website: http://kelty.org
This graduate student-friendly gathering has been organized by Jennifer Terrell (Informatics), Mary Gray (CMCL) and Jason Jackson (Folklore and Ethnomusicology).
Professor Kelty will also present a formal lecture titled: There is no Free Software: Agendas for Researching the Imponderabilia of Actual Life from 1:30 to 2:45 at Wells Library LI001. Details on that talk, organized by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, can be found here: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-spring
Department of Information Studies and the Center for Society and Genetics University of California Los Angeles
Small Folklore and Ethnomusicology Seminar Room 510 North Fess Ave (near the northeast corner of 9th and Fess Ave)
11 am to noon
Friday, March 26, 2010
Graduate students, faculty, and others with a range of interests will be interested in joining professor Chris Kelty for a discussion of his work in the ethnography of science, technology, new media, open access scholarly communication, and open source software. Among other themes, his work speaks to methodological issues in ethnographic research and to the nature and constitution of publics.
He is known for a range of innovative research work, including his 2008 book Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software ( http://twobits.net ). Selections of his published work is available on his website: http://kelty.org
This graduate student-friendly gathering has been organized by Jennifer Terrell (Informatics), Mary Gray (CMCL) and Jason Jackson (Folklore and Ethnomusicology).
Professor Kelty will also present a formal lecture titled: There is no Free Software: Agendas for Researching the Imponderabilia of Actual Life from 1:30 to 2:45 at Wells Library LI001. Details on that talk, organized by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, can be found here: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-spring
Tenure-track Position-University of Akron
The University of Akron School of Communication
Assistant Professor (Electronic Media)
The University of Akron School of Communication seeks qualified applicants specializing in radio/tv writing for tenure-track position to start August 2010. Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.
Duties: Teach assigned courses. Advise students; serve on college and/or university committees; engage in scholarly activities and/or creative endeavors. Where appropriate, participate in
curriculum development and assessment activities; serve on graduate committees; supervise independent study activities; render service to professional and/or lay communities. Graduate teaching possible, depending on qualifications and interests. Excellence in teaching, scholarly publications and/or creative productions, and service to the school and university.
Required qualifications: PhD, EdD, or MFA in media or related field in hand by August 2010. At least two years teaching experience. Demonstrated ability to teach continuity writing, advertising copywriting, narrative and non-narrative script writing.
Preferred qualifications: Ability to teach in one or more of these areas: video production, introduction to mass media, broadcast sales/management, and voice training for media. Professional experience in radio/television writing.
To apply: Submit curriculum vita, cover letter and three letters of reference to Dr. Sylvia White, Search Chair, School of Communication, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-1003.
Electronic submission preferred: sylvia@uakron.edu.
School of Communication: www.uakron.edu/schlcomm. The School of Communication is home to strong undergraduate and graduate programs in media studies and communication studies. Students are taught the central theoretical concepts and practical skills of the profession. Graduates are ready to take their places as knowledgeable, well-trained communication specialists and critical media consumers.
The University of Akron: www.uakron.edu. The University of Akron is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with state and federal laws.
Assistant Professor (Electronic Media)
The University of Akron School of Communication seeks qualified applicants specializing in radio/tv writing for tenure-track position to start August 2010. Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.
Duties: Teach assigned courses. Advise students; serve on college and/or university committees; engage in scholarly activities and/or creative endeavors. Where appropriate, participate in
curriculum development and assessment activities; serve on graduate committees; supervise independent study activities; render service to professional and/or lay communities. Graduate teaching possible, depending on qualifications and interests. Excellence in teaching, scholarly publications and/or creative productions, and service to the school and university.
Required qualifications: PhD, EdD, or MFA in media or related field in hand by August 2010. At least two years teaching experience. Demonstrated ability to teach continuity writing, advertising copywriting, narrative and non-narrative script writing.
Preferred qualifications: Ability to teach in one or more of these areas: video production, introduction to mass media, broadcast sales/management, and voice training for media. Professional experience in radio/television writing.
To apply: Submit curriculum vita, cover letter and three letters of reference to Dr. Sylvia White, Search Chair, School of Communication, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-1003.
Electronic submission preferred: sylvia@uakron.edu.
School of Communication: www.uakron.edu/schlcomm. The School of Communication is home to strong undergraduate and graduate programs in media studies and communication studies. Students are taught the central theoretical concepts and practical skills of the profession. Graduates are ready to take their places as knowledgeable, well-trained communication specialists and critical media consumers.
The University of Akron: www.uakron.edu. The University of Akron is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with state and federal laws.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Early Registration for Summer
Early registration for the 2010 summer term begins today, March 24th.
The class schedules for summer and for fall can be found on the Office of the Registrar’s Web site, along with links to the Summer 2010 and Fall 2010 Enrollment and Student Academic Information bulletins.
http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/scheofclass.shtml
Please remember that students scheduled to receive graduate fellowships in the summer must register for at least 1 credit hour in the 2010 summer term.
The class schedules for summer and for fall can be found on the Office of the Registrar’s Web site, along with links to the Summer 2010 and Fall 2010 Enrollment and Student Academic Information bulletins.
http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/scheofclass.shtml
Please remember that students scheduled to receive graduate fellowships in the summer must register for at least 1 credit hour in the 2010 summer term.
2009-2010 CMCL Spring Travel Grants
Applications are now open for CMCL travel grants for Spring 2010. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday April 2nd, 2010.
Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested and distance travelled.
The Department is running its own competition in the spring, as COAS held only one Travel Award competition in the fall. The GAC will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful then, so if you were listed as an alternate in the fall, you need not re-apply now.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this spring you must complete the form that has been emailed to you. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 2nd.
The GAC ranks the applications and will make 5 awards this semester. We hope to be able to announce the results by Friday, April 9th.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and may thus need your help in grasping the significance of your conference presentation. So, provide a context for your presentation. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested and distance travelled.
The Department is running its own competition in the spring, as COAS held only one Travel Award competition in the fall. The GAC will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful then, so if you were listed as an alternate in the fall, you need not re-apply now.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this spring you must complete the form that has been emailed to you. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 2nd.
The GAC ranks the applications and will make 5 awards this semester. We hope to be able to announce the results by Friday, April 9th.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and may thus need your help in grasping the significance of your conference presentation. So, provide a context for your presentation. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Graduate Exam Applications - PhD
Applications for the May PhD Qualifying Exam are due by noon on Friday, April 9th. Please ask Kathy for an application.
Graduate Exam Applications - MA
Applications for the MA Comprehensive Exam in May are due by noon on Friday, April 9th. Please ask Kathy for an application.
Job for Communication MA
COMMUNICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
American Architectural Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia
At the American Architectural Foundation (AAF), we are currently seeking a full-time Communications and Development Associate. I wanted to bring the position to your attention because it may be of interest to some of your recent graduates.
Founded in 1943 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the American Architectural Foundation is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving lives and transforming communities through leadership development in urban design. Each day, civic and education leaders across the country make key decisions that shape our built environment in fundamental ways. Through its programs, AAF seeks to educate those leaders about the power of architecture to elevate the quality of life in their cities. In 2009, AAF was on the ground in more than fifty cities in the U.S. and abroad, collaborating with elected officials, educators, business leaders, design professionals, and other leading voices in the design process. For more information on AAF’s work, visit www.archfoundation.org.
Status: Exempt Full-time Employee, 37.5 hours/week
Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience. A generous benefits package is provided, including health and dental insurance, a retirement savings plan, and a transit subsidy.
Qualifications:
• Candidate must be an exceptionally strong writer, preferably with professional writing experience.
• Proven track record of writing funding proposals desirable.
• Development research experience desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in journalism, communications, public relations, English, or a related field preferred.
• Editing and proofreading experience.
• Outstanding listening skills.
• Ability to write in line with organizational style guides.
• Ability to create timelines and work plans for assigned projects.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Project management experience desirable.
• Advanced computer proficiency.
• Some travel will be required.
Job Duties:
• Provides research and writing support for communications and development efforts.
• Drafts copy for a variety of print and digital deliverables (reports, whitepapers, articles, press releases, newsletters, etc.).
• Edits and proofreads copy written by AAF colleagues.
• Manages funding partnerships and grant fulfillment as assigned.
• Updates the organization’s website daily through a CMS portal and ensures that all information on the website is current.
• Helps to coordinate information distribution to a variety of constituent and media outlets.
• Monitors newswires for relevant information on the organization, its related industries, and its constituencies.
• Assists with the overall development and implementation of the organization’s strategic communications plan.
• Reports to Director of Strategic Initiatives.
Application Process:
• Please send cover letter, résumé, salary history, and three (3) writing samples to:
American Architectural Foundation
Office of Strategic Initiatives
1799 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
• If selected for interview, three (3) references will be requested.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; however, the final application deadline is April 23, 2010. Interviews may begin before this date, so candidates are encouraged to apply early.
• NO CALLS PLEASE.
American Architectural Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia
At the American Architectural Foundation (AAF), we are currently seeking a full-time Communications and Development Associate. I wanted to bring the position to your attention because it may be of interest to some of your recent graduates.
Founded in 1943 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the American Architectural Foundation is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving lives and transforming communities through leadership development in urban design. Each day, civic and education leaders across the country make key decisions that shape our built environment in fundamental ways. Through its programs, AAF seeks to educate those leaders about the power of architecture to elevate the quality of life in their cities. In 2009, AAF was on the ground in more than fifty cities in the U.S. and abroad, collaborating with elected officials, educators, business leaders, design professionals, and other leading voices in the design process. For more information on AAF’s work, visit www.archfoundation.org.
Status: Exempt Full-time Employee, 37.5 hours/week
Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience. A generous benefits package is provided, including health and dental insurance, a retirement savings plan, and a transit subsidy.
Qualifications:
• Candidate must be an exceptionally strong writer, preferably with professional writing experience.
• Proven track record of writing funding proposals desirable.
• Development research experience desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in journalism, communications, public relations, English, or a related field preferred.
• Editing and proofreading experience.
• Outstanding listening skills.
• Ability to write in line with organizational style guides.
• Ability to create timelines and work plans for assigned projects.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Project management experience desirable.
• Advanced computer proficiency.
• Some travel will be required.
Job Duties:
• Provides research and writing support for communications and development efforts.
• Drafts copy for a variety of print and digital deliverables (reports, whitepapers, articles, press releases, newsletters, etc.).
• Edits and proofreads copy written by AAF colleagues.
• Manages funding partnerships and grant fulfillment as assigned.
• Updates the organization’s website daily through a CMS portal and ensures that all information on the website is current.
• Helps to coordinate information distribution to a variety of constituent and media outlets.
• Monitors newswires for relevant information on the organization, its related industries, and its constituencies.
• Assists with the overall development and implementation of the organization’s strategic communications plan.
• Reports to Director of Strategic Initiatives.
Application Process:
• Please send cover letter, résumé, salary history, and three (3) writing samples to:
American Architectural Foundation
Office of Strategic Initiatives
1799 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
• If selected for interview, three (3) references will be requested.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; however, the final application deadline is April 23, 2010. Interviews may begin before this date, so candidates are encouraged to apply early.
• NO CALLS PLEASE.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Czech Film Series 2009-2010
Thursday, March 25, Lindley Hall 102 at 7 PM
Jan Hřebejk: Cozy Dens
(1999)
A well known comedy-drama Pelíšky is set in the Prague suburbs over two close periods of time, Christmas 1967 and the days leading up to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968. Šebek is a high-ranking military commander who is fiercely loyal to the Communist regime, whilst Kraus, his neighbor, is a veteran of the resistance and a true Czech patriot. In this ironic take on the Czech society during this dramatic period, both are made to look equally ridiculous. In the meantime their teenage kids fall in love, listen to Beatles and do other things foreign to their parents.
Color. In Czech with English subtitles. 115 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Jan Hřebejk: Cozy Dens
(1999)
A well known comedy-drama Pelíšky is set in the Prague suburbs over two close periods of time, Christmas 1967 and the days leading up to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968. Šebek is a high-ranking military commander who is fiercely loyal to the Communist regime, whilst Kraus, his neighbor, is a veteran of the resistance and a true Czech patriot. In this ironic take on the Czech society during this dramatic period, both are made to look equally ridiculous. In the meantime their teenage kids fall in love, listen to Beatles and do other things foreign to their parents.
Color. In Czech with English subtitles. 115 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
THE 6TH ANNUAL BLOOMINGTON TURKISH FILM FESTIVAL
The festival invites you to enjoy four films that tell different stories from the capital of many cultures, Istanbul, between March 26th and April 2nd. This year the festival extends to include a dance party after the screening of the documentary “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul” by Fatih Akin, award winning director at the Cannes Film Festival.
Themed “Istanbul: One city, two continents”, this year’s festival stands out by following the screening of “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul”, a documentary on the music scene in Istanbul, with the Peasant Disco; a unique international dance party in Bloomington focusing on music from the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia including Turkey.
Screenings are at 8 pm in Ballantine Hall, Room 109, on the Indiana University Campus. Films have English subtitles and screenings are free and open to public.
The list of films and the dates for screenings are as follows:
Week 1:
Friday, March 26 -- Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996) -- 119 min.
The film takes place in the 17th century Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. The Sultan resists the domination of his mother, the Valide Kosem Sultan, and tries to enforce strict law and order in the empire. In an oppressive socio-political times, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, whose passion is to explore, researches to understand the mechanisms of bird flight.
Saturday, March 27 -- Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
(2005)* -- 90 min.
The documentary digs deeper into Istanbul's musical and social history. It begins when Alexander Hacke, bassist for German avant-everthing band Einsturzende Neubauten, worked on Head-On's soundtrack and was bewitched by the local sounds. The camera follows him on his return trip as he records every tune he stumbles over. In briskly edited sequences peppered with fascinating found footage, each genre embodied in Istanbul is tightly linked to a neighborhood.
*This screening will be followed by the Peasant Disco in 902’s Nightclub, downtown Bloomington. For details, please check http://www.myspace.com/peasantdisco or email peasantdisco@gmail.com.
Week 2:
Friday, April 2 -- Istanbul My Love (1999) -- 103 min.
Irini, daughter of Greek parents who had to migrate from Turkey long time ago, is a journalist who comes to Istanbul for the first time to visit Ali, her lover, and explore her father's city. One day, Ali mysteriously disappears. Irini ends up looking for Ali in the chaotic atmosphere of Istanbul, where his image and that of her father become interwined. Her search leads to mystery and a revelation.
Saturday, April 3 -- Magic Carpet Ride (2005) -- 106 min.
Asim Noyan and his gang make up a rambling collective, which concerns itself with a range of criminal activity, running from car theft to fraud. An inveterate womaniser, Asim meets the failed comedian Superman impersonator Samet while fleeing from an angry husband. Desperate Samet finds himself unwittingly implicated in the life of Asim's gang.
You can find the film synopses at
http://bloomingtonturkishfilmfestival.blogspot.com
The 6th annual Bloomington Turkish Film Festival is made possible by support from the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the IU Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair, the IU Turkish Student Association, and the Peasant Disco.
Themed “Istanbul: One city, two continents”, this year’s festival stands out by following the screening of “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul”, a documentary on the music scene in Istanbul, with the Peasant Disco; a unique international dance party in Bloomington focusing on music from the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia including Turkey.
Screenings are at 8 pm in Ballantine Hall, Room 109, on the Indiana University Campus. Films have English subtitles and screenings are free and open to public.
The list of films and the dates for screenings are as follows:
Week 1:
Friday, March 26 -- Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996) -- 119 min.
The film takes place in the 17th century Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. The Sultan resists the domination of his mother, the Valide Kosem Sultan, and tries to enforce strict law and order in the empire. In an oppressive socio-political times, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, whose passion is to explore, researches to understand the mechanisms of bird flight.
Saturday, March 27 -- Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
(2005)* -- 90 min.
The documentary digs deeper into Istanbul's musical and social history. It begins when Alexander Hacke, bassist for German avant-everthing band Einsturzende Neubauten, worked on Head-On's soundtrack and was bewitched by the local sounds. The camera follows him on his return trip as he records every tune he stumbles over. In briskly edited sequences peppered with fascinating found footage, each genre embodied in Istanbul is tightly linked to a neighborhood.
*This screening will be followed by the Peasant Disco in 902’s Nightclub, downtown Bloomington. For details, please check http://www.myspace.com/peasantdisco or email peasantdisco@gmail.com.
Week 2:
Friday, April 2 -- Istanbul My Love (1999) -- 103 min.
Irini, daughter of Greek parents who had to migrate from Turkey long time ago, is a journalist who comes to Istanbul for the first time to visit Ali, her lover, and explore her father's city. One day, Ali mysteriously disappears. Irini ends up looking for Ali in the chaotic atmosphere of Istanbul, where his image and that of her father become interwined. Her search leads to mystery and a revelation.
Saturday, April 3 -- Magic Carpet Ride (2005) -- 106 min.
Asim Noyan and his gang make up a rambling collective, which concerns itself with a range of criminal activity, running from car theft to fraud. An inveterate womaniser, Asim meets the failed comedian Superman impersonator Samet while fleeing from an angry husband. Desperate Samet finds himself unwittingly implicated in the life of Asim's gang.
You can find the film synopses at
http://bloomingtonturkishfilmfestival.blogspot.com
The 6th annual Bloomington Turkish Film Festival is made possible by support from the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, the IU Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair, the IU Turkish Student Association, and the Peasant Disco.
CFP-The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 12; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Federica Frabetti (Oxford Brookes University)
The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in processes of digital media production and practice (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’, it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching humanities texts.
Yet just as interesting as what Computer Science has to offer the humanities, surely, is the question of what the humanities have to offer Computer Science; and, beyond that, what the humanities themselves can bring to the understanding of the digital. Do the humanities really need to draw so heavily on Computer Science to develop their sense of what the Digital Humanities might be? Already in 1990 Mark Poster was arguing that ‘the relation to the computer remains one of misrecognition’ in the field of Computer Science, with the computer occupying ‘the position of the imaginary’ and being ‘inscribed with transcendent status’. If so, this has significant implications for any so-called ‘computational turn’ in the humanities. For on this basis Computer Science does not seem all that well-equipped to understand even itself and its own founding object, concepts and concerns, let alone help with those of the humanities.
In this special issue of Culture Machine we are therefore interested in investigating something that may initially appear to be a paradox: to what extent is it possible to envisage Digital Humanities that go beyond the disciplinary objects, affiliations, assumptions and methodological practices of computing and Computer Science?
At the same time the humanities are not without blind-spots and elements of misrecognition of their own. Take the idea of the human. For all the radical interrogation of this concept over the last 100 years or so, not least in relation to technology, doesn’t the mode of research production in the humanities remain very much tied to that of the individualized, human author? (Isn’t this evident in different ways even in the work of such technology-conscious anti-humanist thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Kittler, Latour, Negri, Ranciere and Stiegler?)
So what are the implications and possibilities of ‘the digital beyond computing’ for the humanities and for some of the humanities’ own central or founding concepts, too? The human, and with it the human-ities; but also the subject, the author, the scholar, writing, the text, the book, the discipline, the university...
What would THAT kind of (reconfigured) Digital Humanities look like?
We welcome papers that address the above questions and that suggest a new, somewhat different take on the relationship between the humanities and the digital.
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2010
Please submit your contributions by email to Federica Frabetti: kikka66it@yahoo.it
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
****************************************************
Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE (http://www.culturemachine.net) is a fully refereed, open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. It has published work by established figures such as Mark Amerika, Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Henry Giroux, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but it is also open to publications by up-and-coming writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations.
Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 12; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Federica Frabetti (Oxford Brookes University)
The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in processes of digital media production and practice (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’, it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching humanities texts.
Yet just as interesting as what Computer Science has to offer the humanities, surely, is the question of what the humanities have to offer Computer Science; and, beyond that, what the humanities themselves can bring to the understanding of the digital. Do the humanities really need to draw so heavily on Computer Science to develop their sense of what the Digital Humanities might be? Already in 1990 Mark Poster was arguing that ‘the relation to the computer remains one of misrecognition’ in the field of Computer Science, with the computer occupying ‘the position of the imaginary’ and being ‘inscribed with transcendent status’. If so, this has significant implications for any so-called ‘computational turn’ in the humanities. For on this basis Computer Science does not seem all that well-equipped to understand even itself and its own founding object, concepts and concerns, let alone help with those of the humanities.
In this special issue of Culture Machine we are therefore interested in investigating something that may initially appear to be a paradox: to what extent is it possible to envisage Digital Humanities that go beyond the disciplinary objects, affiliations, assumptions and methodological practices of computing and Computer Science?
At the same time the humanities are not without blind-spots and elements of misrecognition of their own. Take the idea of the human. For all the radical interrogation of this concept over the last 100 years or so, not least in relation to technology, doesn’t the mode of research production in the humanities remain very much tied to that of the individualized, human author? (Isn’t this evident in different ways even in the work of such technology-conscious anti-humanist thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Kittler, Latour, Negri, Ranciere and Stiegler?)
So what are the implications and possibilities of ‘the digital beyond computing’ for the humanities and for some of the humanities’ own central or founding concepts, too? The human, and with it the human-ities; but also the subject, the author, the scholar, writing, the text, the book, the discipline, the university...
What would THAT kind of (reconfigured) Digital Humanities look like?
We welcome papers that address the above questions and that suggest a new, somewhat different take on the relationship between the humanities and the digital.
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2010
Please submit your contributions by email to Federica Frabetti: kikka66it@yahoo.it
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
****************************************************
Established in 1999, CULTURE MACHINE (http://www.culturemachine.net) is a fully refereed, open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. It has published work by established figures such as Mark Amerika, Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Henry Giroux, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, Cathryn Vasseleu and Samuel Weber, but it is also open to publications by up-and-coming writers, from a variety of geopolitical locations.
"The End" English Graduate Conference Student
FRIDAY, MARCH 26th
4:15-5:30pm
Ballantine Hall 310: Keynote Lecture: Dr. Sean O'Sullivan, OSU
http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2470
Areas of interest:
Narrative, especially serial fiction across media; television; film, especially British film; the British novel; fiction and the visual arts.
Research/writing:
Author of Mike Leigh, under contract in the University of Illinois Press series on Contemporary Film Directors.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/series/CFD.html
Published essays on British television drama; Deadwood and Charles Dickens; third seasons; and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Six Feet Under, and Lost.
Forthcoming essays on serial television and poetry; Mad Men; and fifth episodes and "narrative becoming."
4:15-5:30pm
Ballantine Hall 310: Keynote Lecture: Dr. Sean O'Sullivan, OSU
http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=2470
Areas of interest:
Narrative, especially serial fiction across media; television; film, especially British film; the British novel; fiction and the visual arts.
Research/writing:
Author of Mike Leigh, under contract in the University of Illinois Press series on Contemporary Film Directors.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/series/CFD.html
Published essays on British television drama; Deadwood and Charles Dickens; third seasons; and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Six Feet Under, and Lost.
Forthcoming essays on serial television and poetry; Mad Men; and fifth episodes and "narrative becoming."
Monday, March 22, 2010
Communication and Culture “Brown Bag”
Prof. Dana Cloud, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas
Friday, March 26th 2010, 12:15 – 1:45, Room 203, CMCL Building
Prof. Cloud will introduce a discussion about “scholar activism”.
Professor Cloud’s research interests lie in the areas of rhetoric and social movements, critique of representations of race and gender in the mass media, and the defense of historical materialist theory and method in communication studies. Currently she is working on a book about dissident union activists and a project on rhetoric and violence.
She has published Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy (Sage, 1998) and numerous book chapters. With Lee Artz and Steve Macek, she co-edited the volume Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is To Change It (Peter Lang, 2006). Professor Cloud was recently identified by the right-wing pundit David Horowitz as one of the most dangerous 100 professors in the United States, and he has targeted her again in his new book Indoctrination U, prompting her to do a lot of writing about academic freedom.
Friday, March 26th 2010, 12:15 – 1:45, Room 203, CMCL Building
Prof. Cloud will introduce a discussion about “scholar activism”.
Professor Cloud’s research interests lie in the areas of rhetoric and social movements, critique of representations of race and gender in the mass media, and the defense of historical materialist theory and method in communication studies. Currently she is working on a book about dissident union activists and a project on rhetoric and violence.
She has published Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy (Sage, 1998) and numerous book chapters. With Lee Artz and Steve Macek, she co-edited the volume Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is To Change It (Peter Lang, 2006). Professor Cloud was recently identified by the right-wing pundit David Horowitz as one of the most dangerous 100 professors in the United States, and he has targeted her again in his new book Indoctrination U, prompting her to do a lot of writing about academic freedom.
Electronic Waste Collection Days
2010 Location, Dates, and Times
Location (Sponsored by IU Athletics): IU Memorial Stadium, Purple Lot
Institutional Drop Off (businesses, municipalities, and other organizations):
Thursday April 8 and Friday April 9, 2010
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Public Drop Off:
Saturday April 10, 2010
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Background
Electronic Waste Collection Days, a free electronic waste recycling drive sponsored by Indiana University Bloomington will take place in Bloomington at the IU Stadium parking lot April 8-10, 2010. None of the electronics will be processed for resale. Everything that could potentially contain sensitive data, such as cell phones or computers, will be shredded. One hundred percent of the equipment dropped off will be recycled and kept out of landfills. Recycling services are provided by Apple. A list of acceptable items is included at the bottom of this page.
What you can bring:
Loading Recyclables
Computer systems and accessories
* CRT monitors
* LCD displays
* CPUs
* All-in-ones
* Laptops
* Servers
* Switches
* Hubs
* UPS Systems
* Keyboards & Mice
* Speakers
* Hard drives
* Optical drives
* Wires and cables
Monitors being recycled
Handhelds devices
* Cell phones
* Pagers
* PDAs
* Two-way radios
Audio & video equipment
* Televisions
* DVDs
* VCRs
* Stereos
* Radios
* Camcorders
* Cameras
* Games systems
Office Equipment
* Fax machines
* Photo copiers
* Printers
* Scanners
* Surge protectors
* Telephones
* Typewriters
* Adding machines
* Microwaves
Items NOT allowed include:
* Hazardous materials of any type
* Batteries not integral to computer systems
* Contaminated equipment of any type
* Cracked or broken CRT screens
* Light bulbs
* Smoke detectors
* Household appliances
* Hairdryers
* Styrofoam
* Cardboard
* Paper
Location (Sponsored by IU Athletics): IU Memorial Stadium, Purple Lot
Institutional Drop Off (businesses, municipalities, and other organizations):
Thursday April 8 and Friday April 9, 2010
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Public Drop Off:
Saturday April 10, 2010
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Background
Electronic Waste Collection Days, a free electronic waste recycling drive sponsored by Indiana University Bloomington will take place in Bloomington at the IU Stadium parking lot April 8-10, 2010. None of the electronics will be processed for resale. Everything that could potentially contain sensitive data, such as cell phones or computers, will be shredded. One hundred percent of the equipment dropped off will be recycled and kept out of landfills. Recycling services are provided by Apple. A list of acceptable items is included at the bottom of this page.
What you can bring:
Loading Recyclables
Computer systems and accessories
* CRT monitors
* LCD displays
* CPUs
* All-in-ones
* Laptops
* Servers
* Switches
* Hubs
* UPS Systems
* Keyboards & Mice
* Speakers
* Hard drives
* Optical drives
* Wires and cables
Monitors being recycled
Handhelds devices
* Cell phones
* Pagers
* PDAs
* Two-way radios
Audio & video equipment
* Televisions
* DVDs
* VCRs
* Stereos
* Radios
* Camcorders
* Cameras
* Games systems
Office Equipment
* Fax machines
* Photo copiers
* Printers
* Scanners
* Surge protectors
* Telephones
* Typewriters
* Adding machines
* Microwaves
Items NOT allowed include:
* Hazardous materials of any type
* Batteries not integral to computer systems
* Contaminated equipment of any type
* Cracked or broken CRT screens
* Light bulbs
* Smoke detectors
* Household appliances
* Hairdryers
* Styrofoam
* Cardboard
* Paper
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Colloquium Series, spring 2010
WEDNESDAY COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATION
March 24, 2010
Series on "PIASES: Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems")
IAD AND SES DYNAMIC FLOWS: INTRODUCING THE PROGRAM IN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (PIASES) FRAMEWORK
Presented by Professor Elinor Ostrom, Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science; and Professor Michael McGinnis, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Abstract: This paper introduces a framework of analysis for the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES) that is in the process of being established at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. This PIASES framework builds on and extends previous efforts to revise the long-standing IAD (Institutional Analysis and Development) framework to facilitate its application to complex coupled social-ecological systems (SES), specifically by modifying a SES framework originally introduced in an influential PNAS article by Ostrom (2007). The key innovation is that PIASES is explicitly built upon a dynamic understanding of the flows of information and resources within both the social and ecological sides of a SES. This framework is intended to provide the foundation for a common language for potential application to diverse forms of resource governance.
BIOS
Elinor Ostrom is Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009, Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange, the Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. Her books include Governing the Commons (1990); Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994, with Roy Gardner and James Walker); Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (1995, with Robert Keohane); Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2003, with James Walker); The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations (2003, with Nives Dolšak); The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005, with Clark Gibson, Krister Andersson, and Sujai Shivakumar); Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005); Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (2007, with Charlotte Hess); and Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010, with Amy Poteete and Marco Janssen).
Michael D. McGinnis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. In July 2009 he resumed his former position as Co-Director for the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, an inter-disciplinary research group focused on the study of institutions, development, and governance. McGinnis received a B.S. in mathematics from the Ohio State University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1985, and he has worked at IU ever since. He has published several articles in political science and international relations journals, as well as chapters in edited volumes. He is co-author, with John T. Williams, of Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry (University of Michigan Press, 2001) and editor of three volumes of readings on governance issues written by scholars associated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. He was co-editor of International Studies Quarterly (1994-98).
March 24, 2010
Series on "PIASES: Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems")
IAD AND SES DYNAMIC FLOWS: INTRODUCING THE PROGRAM IN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (PIASES) FRAMEWORK
Presented by Professor Elinor Ostrom, Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science; and Professor Michael McGinnis, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Abstract: This paper introduces a framework of analysis for the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES) that is in the process of being established at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University. This PIASES framework builds on and extends previous efforts to revise the long-standing IAD (Institutional Analysis and Development) framework to facilitate its application to complex coupled social-ecological systems (SES), specifically by modifying a SES framework originally introduced in an influential PNAS article by Ostrom (2007). The key innovation is that PIASES is explicitly built upon a dynamic understanding of the flows of information and resources within both the social and ecological sides of a SES. This framework is intended to provide the foundation for a common language for potential application to diverse forms of resource governance.
BIOS
Elinor Ostrom is Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009, Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange, the Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. Her books include Governing the Commons (1990); Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994, with Roy Gardner and James Walker); Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (1995, with Robert Keohane); Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2003, with James Walker); The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations (2003, with Nives Dolšak); The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005, with Clark Gibson, Krister Andersson, and Sujai Shivakumar); Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005); Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (2007, with Charlotte Hess); and Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010, with Amy Poteete and Marco Janssen).
Michael D. McGinnis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. In July 2009 he resumed his former position as Co-Director for the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, an inter-disciplinary research group focused on the study of institutions, development, and governance. McGinnis received a B.S. in mathematics from the Ohio State University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1985, and he has worked at IU ever since. He has published several articles in political science and international relations journals, as well as chapters in edited volumes. He is co-author, with John T. Williams, of Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry (University of Michigan Press, 2001) and editor of three volumes of readings on governance issues written by scholars associated with the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. He was co-editor of International Studies Quarterly (1994-98).
The Indiana University India Studies Program presents
Sacrificed Wife Revisited: A Debate about Women's Religious Roles in Ancient India
Stephanie Jamison
Professor
Department of Asian Cultures and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, April 1
5:30 pm
Lindley Hall
Room 102
ABSTRACT
In her 1996 book, Sacrificed Wife / Sacrificer’s Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India, Professor Jamison investigates at length the ritual role of the “Sacrificer’s Wife,” the chief wife of the man who arranges and funds the elaborate solemn sacrifices of the Middle Vedic period in ancient India. The sacrificer must be married, and his wife must be in attendance at the sacrifices and perform certain crucial tasks. In this paper Professor Jamison examines the scanty evidence for the Sacrificer’s Wife in the earlier Vedic period, especially in the Rig Veda, our earliest Sanskrit text and speculates about the mechanisms of the introduction of the role of Sacrificer’s Wife’s and about the conservative resistance to this introduction among ritualists, on the basis of some enigmatic passages in the text.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
Stephanie Jamison
Professor
Department of Asian Cultures and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, April 1
5:30 pm
Lindley Hall
Room 102
ABSTRACT
In her 1996 book, Sacrificed Wife / Sacrificer’s Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India, Professor Jamison investigates at length the ritual role of the “Sacrificer’s Wife,” the chief wife of the man who arranges and funds the elaborate solemn sacrifices of the Middle Vedic period in ancient India. The sacrificer must be married, and his wife must be in attendance at the sacrifices and perform certain crucial tasks. In this paper Professor Jamison examines the scanty evidence for the Sacrificer’s Wife in the earlier Vedic period, especially in the Rig Veda, our earliest Sanskrit text and speculates about the mechanisms of the introduction of the role of Sacrificer’s Wife’s and about the conservative resistance to this introduction among ritualists, on the basis of some enigmatic passages in the text.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
Colloquium on Political Communication Research
Presentation
When: Monday, March 22
Place: Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union (Mezzanine level)
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Donald Shaw, Kenan Professor of Journalism School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Connecting Community: How Agenda Setting Reflects Social Melding
Biography: Donald Shaw is Kenan Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966. He is one of the co-founders of agenda-setting research with Maxwell McCombs (McCombs & Shaw, 1972), and in 1996 he and Professor McCombs received the Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award of the American Political Science Association in recognition of their 30-year research partnership. Dr. Shaw is also a recipient of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication in 2005. He is author or co-author of 10 books and many scholarly articles and papers, and a former editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
When: Monday, March 22
Place: Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union (Mezzanine level)
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Donald Shaw, Kenan Professor of Journalism School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Connecting Community: How Agenda Setting Reflects Social Melding
Biography: Donald Shaw is Kenan Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966. He is one of the co-founders of agenda-setting research with Maxwell McCombs (McCombs & Shaw, 1972), and in 1996 he and Professor McCombs received the Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award of the American Political Science Association in recognition of their 30-year research partnership. Dr. Shaw is also a recipient of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication in 2005. He is author or co-author of 10 books and many scholarly articles and papers, and a former editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Fulbright Program Info Sessions and Resources - Spring 2010
Gain international experience with a Fulbright Grant!
Over 1500 generous grants available in any discipline provide for long-term immersion in another language and culture.
Learn more at a Fulbright Program information session this semester. Three information sessions during Spring 2010 listed below. Short presentations will be followed by Q & A. Stop by anytime to pick up brochures.
Or contact IU Fulbright Adviser, Paul Fogleman, to make an appointment. Contact info below.
Fulbright Information Sessions in Woodburn 120
FRIDAY March 26, 2010, 10am – 1pm
20 min. presentations at 10, 11 and noon
FRIDAY April 23, 2010, 2-4pm
20 min. presentations at 2 & 3
Fulbright Information Session in Business 219
FRIDAY April 16, 2010, 2-4pm
20 min. presentations at 2 & 3
Resources at IU for more information and help preparing your application:
1) Paul Fogleman, Fulbright Adviser, Office for International Affairs
Tel. (812) 855-3948; Email: pfoglema@indiana.edu
AND
2) The Grad Grants Center in room 651 in the Wells Library
Tel. (812) 855-5281; Email: gradgrnt@indiana.edu; Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/
Resources on the web at: www.us.fulbrightonline.org
Over 1500 generous grants available in any discipline provide for long-term immersion in another language and culture.
Learn more at a Fulbright Program information session this semester. Three information sessions during Spring 2010 listed below. Short presentations will be followed by Q & A. Stop by anytime to pick up brochures.
Or contact IU Fulbright Adviser, Paul Fogleman, to make an appointment. Contact info below.
Fulbright Information Sessions in Woodburn 120
FRIDAY March 26, 2010, 10am – 1pm
20 min. presentations at 10, 11 and noon
FRIDAY April 23, 2010, 2-4pm
20 min. presentations at 2 & 3
Fulbright Information Session in Business 219
FRIDAY April 16, 2010, 2-4pm
20 min. presentations at 2 & 3
Resources at IU for more information and help preparing your application:
1) Paul Fogleman, Fulbright Adviser, Office for International Affairs
Tel. (812) 855-3948; Email: pfoglema@indiana.edu
AND
2) The Grad Grants Center in room 651 in the Wells Library
Tel. (812) 855-5281; Email: gradgrnt@indiana.edu; Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/
Resources on the web at: www.us.fulbrightonline.org
Fall Registration
Registration for the Fall 2010 term begins on April 5, 2010.
Please refer to the Fall 2010 Enrollment and Student Academic Information Bulletin. The enrollment bulletin is now published exclusively in an online format so you may want to bookmark the bulletin home page for easy access.
The Enrollment and Student Academic Information Bulletin contains important information concerning registration, fees, campus services, and campus and university policies and regulations.
Please refer to the Fall 2010 Enrollment and Student Academic Information Bulletin. The enrollment bulletin is now published exclusively in an online format so you may want to bookmark the bulletin home page for easy access.
The Enrollment and Student Academic Information Bulletin contains important information concerning registration, fees, campus services, and campus and university policies and regulations.
Appointment of Advisory Committee
I thought a quick refresher might be in order about how to use the online system to appoint you advisory committee. Also, please remember that your committee must include a minor advisor.
Once you have your committee in place and have received their approval of you plan 0of study, please log in to the COAS Resources for Graduate Students (in the link menu to your right).
On that page, click the Current Students link (on the left), then click Record Changes. This will take you to a page with a bulleted list. The third bullet point is the one you want - it has an Apply Online link next to it. Click there.
You will then log in with your IU username and password. You'll be asked to enter the network IDs (the part before the @indiana.edu) of your committee members. OPnce that's done, your committee members will receive an email asking them to click to confirm their willingness to be on your committee. We'll tkae it frm there.
As always, contact me if you have any questions or run into trouble.
Once you have your committee in place and have received their approval of you plan 0of study, please log in to the COAS Resources for Graduate Students (in the link menu to your right).
On that page, click the Current Students link (on the left), then click Record Changes. This will take you to a page with a bulleted list. The third bullet point is the one you want - it has an Apply Online link next to it. Click there.
You will then log in with your IU username and password. You'll be asked to enter the network IDs (the part before the @indiana.edu) of your committee members. OPnce that's done, your committee members will receive an email asking them to click to confirm their willingness to be on your committee. We'll tkae it frm there.
As always, contact me if you have any questions or run into trouble.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
DEBATE – The Scurvy of Hollywood: International Film Piracy and the Pirate Bay Cases @ Law School Moot Court Room – Tues., April 13 @ noon
Ever wonder how Hollywood fights film piracy through file sharing and torrents? The Federalist Society and Intellectual Property Association co-host this year’s final John Templeton Series Debate on Film Piracy and the Pirate Bay Cases of Sweden. Professor Marshall Leaffer, lecturer in International IP Law, will moderate a debate between guest speaker John Malcolm – fmr. Executive VP and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – and Beth Cate – Counsel for Indiana University – about Hollywood’s policy towards torrents, illegal file sharing and streaming, and international efforts to combat piracy. Location: Maurer Law School Moot Court Room. All are welcome!
FREE lunch: CHIC–FIL –A !!!
FREE lunch: CHIC–FIL –A !!!
American Studies Talks this Spring
This spring, American Studies at IU is sponsoring talks by three outstanding Native Studies scholars, who will be sharing their latest work with us.
Please mark your calendars and encourage your students to come.
1. Nancy Shoemaker (History, UConn), Tuesday, March 23, Walnut Room, IMU, 5-6.
"Indians on the Beach: New England Indians and Oceania in the Nineteenth Century"
Nineteenth-century New England Indian whalemen witnessed cultural encounters and imperial expansion from a different vantage point than their ancestors 200 years earlier. They were on the ships, while people called "Indians" were on the beach. Their experiences expose the contingency of race, the multi-faceted meanings of "Indian," and the ambiguities, contradictions, and ironies inherent in race, nation, and indigeneity as categorizing schemes.
2. Julie Kim (English, Fordham), Thursday, April 1, Dogwood Room, IMU, 4-5:30.
"Tactics of Taste: Food, Alliance, and Resistance in the Early Caribbean"
Food and culinary rituals have played central symbolic roles in imperial ideologies of assimilation and cultural mixing. Nevertheless, descriptions of food in accounts of the colonial Caribbean reveal heated conflicts taking place among Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians over matters of cuisine and consumption. Of course, these groups did have to accommodate each other in order to survive the extreme transformations in daily life and societal structure that characterized emerging plantation regimes. In particular, Africans and Amerindians often had to acquiesce to the appropriation not only of their labor but also of their knowledge of plants, animals, and cuisine. Yet the diverse environments of the Caribbean also provided individuals with modes of resistance—what I am calling tactics of taste—that suggest new ways of understanding and foregrounding the roles played by non-Europeans in the history of the region.
3. Malinda Maynor Lowery (History, UNC), Thursday, April 22, Maple Room, IMU, 5-6:30.
"Indian, Southern, and American: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South"
The Lumbee Indian community of North Carolina resides in the cracks between Indian, southern, and American histories, but doesn't belong there.
Lowery, herself Lumbee, examines Indian identity and federal policy during the Jim Crow era, situating the Lumbee story squarely in the history of the United States.
American and southern identities acquire new layers of meaning when confronted with the Lumbees, whose history and culture illumi-nate the profound ambiguities of race, citizenship, and colonialism.
Please mark your calendars and encourage your students to come.
1. Nancy Shoemaker (History, UConn), Tuesday, March 23, Walnut Room, IMU, 5-6.
"Indians on the Beach: New England Indians and Oceania in the Nineteenth Century"
Nineteenth-century New England Indian whalemen witnessed cultural encounters and imperial expansion from a different vantage point than their ancestors 200 years earlier. They were on the ships, while people called "Indians" were on the beach. Their experiences expose the contingency of race, the multi-faceted meanings of "Indian," and the ambiguities, contradictions, and ironies inherent in race, nation, and indigeneity as categorizing schemes.
2. Julie Kim (English, Fordham), Thursday, April 1, Dogwood Room, IMU, 4-5:30.
"Tactics of Taste: Food, Alliance, and Resistance in the Early Caribbean"
Food and culinary rituals have played central symbolic roles in imperial ideologies of assimilation and cultural mixing. Nevertheless, descriptions of food in accounts of the colonial Caribbean reveal heated conflicts taking place among Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians over matters of cuisine and consumption. Of course, these groups did have to accommodate each other in order to survive the extreme transformations in daily life and societal structure that characterized emerging plantation regimes. In particular, Africans and Amerindians often had to acquiesce to the appropriation not only of their labor but also of their knowledge of plants, animals, and cuisine. Yet the diverse environments of the Caribbean also provided individuals with modes of resistance—what I am calling tactics of taste—that suggest new ways of understanding and foregrounding the roles played by non-Europeans in the history of the region.
3. Malinda Maynor Lowery (History, UNC), Thursday, April 22, Maple Room, IMU, 5-6:30.
"Indian, Southern, and American: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South"
The Lumbee Indian community of North Carolina resides in the cracks between Indian, southern, and American histories, but doesn't belong there.
Lowery, herself Lumbee, examines Indian identity and federal policy during the Jim Crow era, situating the Lumbee story squarely in the history of the United States.
American and southern identities acquire new layers of meaning when confronted with the Lumbees, whose history and culture illumi-nate the profound ambiguities of race, citizenship, and colonialism.
FlowTV.org CFP: The Archive
http://flowtv.org/?page_id=25
Due Date: Friday, May 7, 2010
"Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)." --Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past"
For this special issue, we are soliciting columns that use media archives as sources and explore archives as objects of study in themselves. In particular, Flow seeks to problematize the rhetoric of "new," "digital," "ephemeral," and "interchangeable" with regard to our multifaceted media landscape and ask: In what very real ways do we form, practice, and extract from the archive? How does the archive function as a connection between the past and the present (and an example of the past's place in the present)? How does media function in the archive and as an archive? How can archival study be used to further public knowledge and historical consciousness? Which voices are filtered out, and which gain admission to the archive? What about the "unarchivable" -- affective, unwriteable, experiential?
In a sense, this special issue will itself be an archive: What is the current state of the mass-mediated past?
Some possible subjects include:
Social media as archive
Film preservation
DVR
The actor's, producer's and director's archive
Queer temporalities and media practices
Trauma, public memory, media
News gathering
The Internet as archive and archiving the Internet
DVDs as television archives
Mobile technology as archive
Reproducibility across media
TV networks as archives--TV Land/Nick at Nite, ESPN Classic, AMC, History channel
Popular media in national or official archives
Flow has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable pieces and ample incorporation of images and video. Please send submissions (attached as a Word doc) of between 1000-1500 words to flowtveditor@gmail.com no later than May 7, 2010. Images must be accompanied by a hyperlink to their original source on the web or other image credits.
FlowTV.org is the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film's journal of television and new media.
Due Date: Friday, May 7, 2010
"Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)." --Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Silencing the Past"
For this special issue, we are soliciting columns that use media archives as sources and explore archives as objects of study in themselves. In particular, Flow seeks to problematize the rhetoric of "new," "digital," "ephemeral," and "interchangeable" with regard to our multifaceted media landscape and ask: In what very real ways do we form, practice, and extract from the archive? How does the archive function as a connection between the past and the present (and an example of the past's place in the present)? How does media function in the archive and as an archive? How can archival study be used to further public knowledge and historical consciousness? Which voices are filtered out, and which gain admission to the archive? What about the "unarchivable" -- affective, unwriteable, experiential?
In a sense, this special issue will itself be an archive: What is the current state of the mass-mediated past?
Some possible subjects include:
Social media as archive
Film preservation
DVR
The actor's, producer's and director's archive
Queer temporalities and media practices
Trauma, public memory, media
News gathering
The Internet as archive and archiving the Internet
DVDs as television archives
Mobile technology as archive
Reproducibility across media
TV networks as archives--TV Land/Nick at Nite, ESPN Classic, AMC, History channel
Popular media in national or official archives
Flow has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable pieces and ample incorporation of images and video. Please send submissions (attached as a Word doc) of between 1000-1500 words to flowtveditor@gmail.com no later than May 7, 2010. Images must be accompanied by a hyperlink to their original source on the web or other image credits.
FlowTV.org is the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film's journal of television and new media.
Friday, March 12, 2010
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS AT THE GRADUATE CENTER OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 2010-11 with the possibility of renewal for a second year.
The Center, established in 2000, is interdisciplinary and strives to provide an intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide range of vital contemporary issues. Each academic year, a group of faculty and graduate student fellows from different disciplines explore a specific theme at the Center through a weekly seminar. The Center also hosts prominent national and international scholars and activists who have done significant work related to the theme and invites distinguished outside lecturers to present their work. Over the past three years the Center has also sought to work more closely with urban social movements both in New York City and beyond on the theme of The Right to the City.
Postdoctoral awards are residential and normally run for the academic year September-May. In addition to the stipend of $48,000 and a research space, Fellows have access to all CUNY research facilities. To be eligible, candidates should have their doctoral dissertations in hand and must have completed their dissertations within five years of taking up the Fellowship.
In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows will be expected to attend and contribute to the weekly seminar of the Center and support other initiatives of the Center, such as the promotion of conferences and symposia. The duties of the post-doc will also include active involvement with the Right to the City initiative with a particular eye to developing a Web site and communication links between the university and the social movements. During the year the post-doc will be expected to offer one graduate level course on a topic of their own choosing.
The deadline for applications is April 1st, 2010. Awards will be announced by May 1.
To apply, please send a 500 word letter of interest in relation to the activities of the Center and a 1000 word personal research plan; a curriculum vitae; a representative article or dissertation chapter; and three letters of recommendation to:
David Harvey
Center for Place, Culture and Politics,
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York,
365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10016
Further information on the work of the Center and the theme for next year can be found on the Center's website, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/. CUNY is an equal opportunity employer.
The Center, established in 2000, is interdisciplinary and strives to provide an intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide range of vital contemporary issues. Each academic year, a group of faculty and graduate student fellows from different disciplines explore a specific theme at the Center through a weekly seminar. The Center also hosts prominent national and international scholars and activists who have done significant work related to the theme and invites distinguished outside lecturers to present their work. Over the past three years the Center has also sought to work more closely with urban social movements both in New York City and beyond on the theme of The Right to the City.
Postdoctoral awards are residential and normally run for the academic year September-May. In addition to the stipend of $48,000 and a research space, Fellows have access to all CUNY research facilities. To be eligible, candidates should have their doctoral dissertations in hand and must have completed their dissertations within five years of taking up the Fellowship.
In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows will be expected to attend and contribute to the weekly seminar of the Center and support other initiatives of the Center, such as the promotion of conferences and symposia. The duties of the post-doc will also include active involvement with the Right to the City initiative with a particular eye to developing a Web site and communication links between the university and the social movements. During the year the post-doc will be expected to offer one graduate level course on a topic of their own choosing.
The deadline for applications is April 1st, 2010. Awards will be announced by May 1.
To apply, please send a 500 word letter of interest in relation to the activities of the Center and a 1000 word personal research plan; a curriculum vitae; a representative article or dissertation chapter; and three letters of recommendation to:
David Harvey
Center for Place, Culture and Politics,
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York,
365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10016
Further information on the work of the Center and the theme for next year can be found on the Center's website, http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/. CUNY is an equal opportunity employer.
IUScholarWorks Journals Service Panel Discussion
March 24, 2010, Wells Library E174; 12:00-1:00 pm IUScholarWorks Journals Service Panel Discussion Moderated by Jennifer Laherty Digital Publishing Librarian, IUScholarWorks The IUScholarWorks Journal Service is an open access publishing option for IU scholars who desire local control over their journals. Editors from four IUScholarWorks journals will discuss their experiences working with IUScholarWorks to host their publications. They will focus on these areas:
* Editorial workflow support
* Software training
* Design customization
* Technical processes
* Migrating backfile content
* Bilingual publishing
* Publishing formats: pdf, xml, html
* Copyright consultation
The editors will comment on how the software programs (Open Journal Systems and DSpace) support their needs as publishers, and share their view on the open access business model. They will also provide feedback from their authors and readers. IUScholarWorks is supported by the IU Libraries and the IU Digital Library Program, a collaborative effort of the IU Libraries and University Information Technology Services.
Panel Speakers:
* Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Assistant Professor, Department
of History; Executive Editor The Medieval Review
* Bradley A. U. Levinson, Associate Professor, Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Editor Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy and Carolina Casas, PhD candidate, Managing Editor Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy
* Sarah D. Phillips, Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology; Editor Anthropology of East Europe Review
* Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Editor Museum Anthropology Review
* Editorial workflow support
* Software training
* Design customization
* Technical processes
* Migrating backfile content
* Bilingual publishing
* Publishing formats: pdf, xml, html
* Copyright consultation
The editors will comment on how the software programs (Open Journal Systems and DSpace) support their needs as publishers, and share their view on the open access business model. They will also provide feedback from their authors and readers. IUScholarWorks is supported by the IU Libraries and the IU Digital Library Program, a collaborative effort of the IU Libraries and University Information Technology Services.
Panel Speakers:
* Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Assistant Professor, Department
of History; Executive Editor The Medieval Review
* Bradley A. U. Levinson, Associate Professor, Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Editor Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy and Carolina Casas, PhD candidate, Managing Editor Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy
* Sarah D. Phillips, Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology; Editor Anthropology of East Europe Review
* Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of
Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Editor Museum Anthropology Review
Visit of Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell as a Patten Lecturer, March 29th – April 2nd 2010
Schedule of public events
1) Tuesday March 30th, 2-3:30 pm, IMU Maple Room
A roundtable discussion with Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell on “The Pictorial Turn.”
A panel of Indiana University scholars will open a discussion about the groundbreaking work of Prof. Mitchell in the field of visual culture and image studies, responding to essays in a special journal issue dedicated to his work: Culture, Theory and Critique 50 (2-3), (July- November 2009).
Panelists:
Claude Cookman (Journalism) on Photography
Dan Knudsen (Geography) on Landscape Studies
Chris Peebles (Anthropology) on Images in Science
Dawna Schuld (Art History) on Art History
W.J.T. Mitchell - response
Chair: Jon Simons (Communication and Culture)
2) Tuesday March 30th, 7:30–8:30 pm, Rawles Hall 100.
Patten Public Lecture
Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance
This lecture aims at the convergence of three disciplines: 1) the law, with its entire edifice of judicial practice and political philosophy; 2) migration, as the movement and settlement of living things, especially (but not exclusively) human beings, across the boundaries between distinct habitats; 3) iconology, the theory of images across the media, including verbal and visual images, metaphors and figures of speech as well as visual representations. Examining a range of examples from science fiction narratives of alien species, to stories of conquest, colonization, and ethnic cleansing, to the development of contemporary practices of detention and border policing, the lecture will argue that immigration in our time has ceased to be a merely transitional phase in human life, and threatens to become a permanent condition for growing numbers of people. This poses a radical challenge to liberal notions of universal human equality which depend, paradoxically, on philosophies of exclusion and the policing of borders to protect actually existing liberal polities. The “veil of ignorance” about particular human identities (race, class, gender, ethnicity) that philosopher John Rawls regarded as foundational to liberal notions of justice and equality comes under new kinds of stress in a time when the borders between peoples have become zones of increasing violence and despair.
3) Tuesday March 30th, 8:30 pm, Patten Reception, IMU, Federal Room.
(We are all invited).
4) Wednesday, March 31st, 5–7 pm, CAHI (1211E. Atwater Ave).
Roundtable discussion with Prof. Mitchell about “The Fate of the Disciplines,” based on a recent special issue of the journal Critical Inquiry, 35(4), (2009). Prof. Mitchell is the editor of this highly influential journal and also published an essay in this issue, “Art, Fate, and the Disciplines.”.
A reception follows the roundtable discussion.
5) Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm in Fine Arts 102.
Film Screening
Khaled Jarrar's Journey 110 (2009) (12 minutes) focuses on the 110 meter passageway through a sewage underpass that Palestinians use to go to and from Jerusalem without passing through checkpoints. Since most Palestinians in the West Bank are prohibited from going to Jerusalem, this passageway under a highway that is restricted to Israelis is the only way for many people to visit their relatives or to conduct business. Employing the minimalist techniques of structuralist cinema, Journey 110 offers a perspective on the daily life of Palestinians as seen by a young artist from Ramallah.
Avi Moghrabi's Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Israel, 2005) (100 minutes) documents the perceptions of an Israeli film-maker of conscience who is in dialogue by telephone with an unidentified Palestinian interlocutor, and who is trying to see his country from the Palestinian point of view. The film captures both ordinary and extraordinary scenes of daily life in the occupied territories showing the touristic Masada ritual, the Samson complex, the Settler's festivals, and daily life at checkpoints. An award-winning film that provides one of the best introductions to the moral dilemmas facing Israeli liberals today.
6) Thursday, April 1st, 7:30 8:30 pm, Rawles Hall 100.
Patten Public Lecture
Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
This lecture aims at a diagnosis of the return of idolatry and its “evil twin,” iconoclasm, in contemporary global political culture, and especially in the contemporary tendency to conceive of war in religious, Manichean terms, as a struggle between Good and Evil. Working through the transvaluations of the idolatry/iconoclasm complex in the philosophy of Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols and Thus Spake Zarathustra) and the paintings of William Blake, the lecture stages a re-reading of Nicholas Poussin’s classic “scenes of idolatry” in The Adoration of the Golden Calf (London: National Gallery) and The Plague at Ashdod (Paris, The Louvre). This reading is designed to overturn the canonical view of Poussin as a conventional moralizer whose pictures endorse the brutal iconoclasm mandated by the Second Commandment, and reveal him (as in Blake’s description of John Milton) as “a true poet, and of the devil’s party.” The lecture concludes with a return to contemporary scenarios of ethnic cleansing in the war for possession of the “holy land” of Israel-Palestine.
1) Tuesday March 30th, 2-3:30 pm, IMU Maple Room
A roundtable discussion with Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell on “The Pictorial Turn.”
A panel of Indiana University scholars will open a discussion about the groundbreaking work of Prof. Mitchell in the field of visual culture and image studies, responding to essays in a special journal issue dedicated to his work: Culture, Theory and Critique 50 (2-3), (July- November 2009).
Panelists:
Claude Cookman (Journalism) on Photography
Dan Knudsen (Geography) on Landscape Studies
Chris Peebles (Anthropology) on Images in Science
Dawna Schuld (Art History) on Art History
W.J.T. Mitchell - response
Chair: Jon Simons (Communication and Culture)
2) Tuesday March 30th, 7:30–8:30 pm, Rawles Hall 100.
Patten Public Lecture
Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance
This lecture aims at the convergence of three disciplines: 1) the law, with its entire edifice of judicial practice and political philosophy; 2) migration, as the movement and settlement of living things, especially (but not exclusively) human beings, across the boundaries between distinct habitats; 3) iconology, the theory of images across the media, including verbal and visual images, metaphors and figures of speech as well as visual representations. Examining a range of examples from science fiction narratives of alien species, to stories of conquest, colonization, and ethnic cleansing, to the development of contemporary practices of detention and border policing, the lecture will argue that immigration in our time has ceased to be a merely transitional phase in human life, and threatens to become a permanent condition for growing numbers of people. This poses a radical challenge to liberal notions of universal human equality which depend, paradoxically, on philosophies of exclusion and the policing of borders to protect actually existing liberal polities. The “veil of ignorance” about particular human identities (race, class, gender, ethnicity) that philosopher John Rawls regarded as foundational to liberal notions of justice and equality comes under new kinds of stress in a time when the borders between peoples have become zones of increasing violence and despair.
3) Tuesday March 30th, 8:30 pm, Patten Reception, IMU, Federal Room.
(We are all invited).
4) Wednesday, March 31st, 5–7 pm, CAHI (1211E. Atwater Ave).
Roundtable discussion with Prof. Mitchell about “The Fate of the Disciplines,” based on a recent special issue of the journal Critical Inquiry, 35(4), (2009). Prof. Mitchell is the editor of this highly influential journal and also published an essay in this issue, “Art, Fate, and the Disciplines.”.
A reception follows the roundtable discussion.
5) Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm in Fine Arts 102.
Film Screening
Khaled Jarrar's Journey 110 (2009) (12 minutes) focuses on the 110 meter passageway through a sewage underpass that Palestinians use to go to and from Jerusalem without passing through checkpoints. Since most Palestinians in the West Bank are prohibited from going to Jerusalem, this passageway under a highway that is restricted to Israelis is the only way for many people to visit their relatives or to conduct business. Employing the minimalist techniques of structuralist cinema, Journey 110 offers a perspective on the daily life of Palestinians as seen by a young artist from Ramallah.
Avi Moghrabi's Avenge But One of My Two Eyes (Israel, 2005) (100 minutes) documents the perceptions of an Israeli film-maker of conscience who is in dialogue by telephone with an unidentified Palestinian interlocutor, and who is trying to see his country from the Palestinian point of view. The film captures both ordinary and extraordinary scenes of daily life in the occupied territories showing the touristic Masada ritual, the Samson complex, the Settler's festivals, and daily life at checkpoints. An award-winning film that provides one of the best introductions to the moral dilemmas facing Israeli liberals today.
6) Thursday, April 1st, 7:30 8:30 pm, Rawles Hall 100.
Patten Public Lecture
Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin
This lecture aims at a diagnosis of the return of idolatry and its “evil twin,” iconoclasm, in contemporary global political culture, and especially in the contemporary tendency to conceive of war in religious, Manichean terms, as a struggle between Good and Evil. Working through the transvaluations of the idolatry/iconoclasm complex in the philosophy of Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols and Thus Spake Zarathustra) and the paintings of William Blake, the lecture stages a re-reading of Nicholas Poussin’s classic “scenes of idolatry” in The Adoration of the Golden Calf (London: National Gallery) and The Plague at Ashdod (Paris, The Louvre). This reading is designed to overturn the canonical view of Poussin as a conventional moralizer whose pictures endorse the brutal iconoclasm mandated by the Second Commandment, and reveal him (as in Blake’s description of John Milton) as “a true poet, and of the devil’s party.” The lecture concludes with a return to contemporary scenarios of ethnic cleansing in the war for possession of the “holy land” of Israel-Palestine.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Ethnographic Video Online
Just launched, it's Alexander Street's newest streaming video collection—Ethnographic Video Online.
Quickly growing to include more than 1,000 of the most frequently used films in anthropology courses, Ethnographic Video Online includes classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film, including Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Jean Rouch, and many more—together with contemporary works by innovative filmmakers from around the world.
♦ About the Collection ♦
A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online will contain more than 750 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials. Publishing partners include the leading video content providers in the discipline, including Documentary Educational Resources (DER).
The collection includes many of the classic titles in the discipline, such
as:
* The Ax Fight
* The Hunters
* Dead Birds
* The Nuer
* Jaguar: A Yanomamo Twin Cycle Myth
* Alter of Fire
* A Kalahari Family
* Candles for New Year's
Geographic and cultural group browses allow users to highlight sections of a map to find result sets, and searchable transcripts scroll with the films.
Trial access: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/
Product "Help" page: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/help
Trial ends May 4, 2010
Send comments to Moira Smith (molsmith@indiana.edu) by 15 April
Quickly growing to include more than 1,000 of the most frequently used films in anthropology courses, Ethnographic Video Online includes classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film, including Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Jean Rouch, and many more—together with contemporary works by innovative filmmakers from around the world.
♦ About the Collection ♦
A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online will contain more than 750 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Wherever possible, videos include accompanying field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials. Publishing partners include the leading video content providers in the discipline, including Documentary Educational Resources (DER).
The collection includes many of the classic titles in the discipline, such
as:
* The Ax Fight
* The Hunters
* Dead Birds
* The Nuer
* Jaguar: A Yanomamo Twin Cycle Myth
* Alter of Fire
* A Kalahari Family
* Candles for New Year's
Geographic and cultural group browses allow users to highlight sections of a map to find result sets, and searchable transcripts scroll with the films.
Trial access: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/
Product "Help" page: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/help
Trial ends May 4, 2010
Send comments to Moira Smith (molsmith@indiana.edu) by 15 April
Monday, March 8, 2010
School Journalism Colloquium Series: “The Role of Political Knowledge as a Measure of News Reception in Agenda Setting”
Dr. Jae Kook Lee, School of Journalism assistant professor
Wednesday, March 10, 4:30pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge, 2nd Floor
Ernie Pyle Hall
This study tests two competing hypotheses explaining the role played by political knowledge on media effects, using a conceptualization of political knowledge as a measure of news reception. With a content analysis and 2004 ANES survey data, this study found that knowledge was a positive and better predictor of the magnitude of the agenda-setting effect at an individual level than classic media use items. Further, knowledge was found to mediate effects of interest on agenda setting.
Dr. Lee studied under Prof. Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the originators of the agenda-setting theory.
Wednesday, March 10, 4:30pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge, 2nd Floor
Ernie Pyle Hall
This study tests two competing hypotheses explaining the role played by political knowledge on media effects, using a conceptualization of political knowledge as a measure of news reception. With a content analysis and 2004 ANES survey data, this study found that knowledge was a positive and better predictor of the magnitude of the agenda-setting effect at an individual level than classic media use items. Further, knowledge was found to mediate effects of interest on agenda setting.
Dr. Lee studied under Prof. Maxwell McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the originators of the agenda-setting theory.
The Enigma of Italian National Identity
A talk by Italian journalist Vittorio Zucconi
6:00 pm,
Tuesday, March 23
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union
With the self irony and wit that distinguish Zucconi's work, this talk will explore the enigma of Italian national identity, which is comparable to the Pirandellian drama of characters in search of themselves.
Vittorio Zucconi is an Italian journalist and author. He received a degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Milan and currently serves as director of the online edition of the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica." He is also the US correspondent for the same newspaper. He has previously been a reporter for the Italian daily newspaper "Corriere della Sera" from Moscow, and for "La Stampa" from Brussels and Tokyo.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including Il Giappone tra noi (1986); Si fa presto a dire America (1988); Si fa presto a dire Russia (1992); Stranieri come noi (1993); Gli spiriti non dimenticano: il mistero di Cavallo Pazzo e la tragedia dei sioux (1996); Storie dell'altro mondo: la faccia nascosta dell'America (1997); Il calcio in testa (2003); and George. Vita e miracoli di un uomo fortunato (2004). He has just published Il caratteraccio, Come (non) si diventa italiani (2009). Zucconi is also known for several appearances on TV shows as a commentator.
Zucconi received the highest ranking honor of the Republic of Italy in 2009, the Order of Merit (Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana). Since summer 2007, he has been teaching graduate courses on Italian history and journalism at Middlebury College, in Vermont. He lives in Washington DC.
This talk will be in English, followed by a reception.
Sponsored by:
Department of French & Italian
Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund
Olga Ragusa Fund for the Study of Modern Italian Literature and Culture
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458
6:00 pm,
Tuesday, March 23
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union
With the self irony and wit that distinguish Zucconi's work, this talk will explore the enigma of Italian national identity, which is comparable to the Pirandellian drama of characters in search of themselves.
Vittorio Zucconi is an Italian journalist and author. He received a degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Milan and currently serves as director of the online edition of the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica." He is also the US correspondent for the same newspaper. He has previously been a reporter for the Italian daily newspaper "Corriere della Sera" from Moscow, and for "La Stampa" from Brussels and Tokyo.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including Il Giappone tra noi (1986); Si fa presto a dire America (1988); Si fa presto a dire Russia (1992); Stranieri come noi (1993); Gli spiriti non dimenticano: il mistero di Cavallo Pazzo e la tragedia dei sioux (1996); Storie dell'altro mondo: la faccia nascosta dell'America (1997); Il calcio in testa (2003); and George. Vita e miracoli di un uomo fortunato (2004). He has just published Il caratteraccio, Come (non) si diventa italiani (2009). Zucconi is also known for several appearances on TV shows as a commentator.
Zucconi received the highest ranking honor of the Republic of Italy in 2009, the Order of Merit (Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana). Since summer 2007, he has been teaching graduate courses on Italian history and journalism at Middlebury College, in Vermont. He lives in Washington DC.
This talk will be in English, followed by a reception.
Sponsored by:
Department of French & Italian
Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund
Olga Ragusa Fund for the Study of Modern Italian Literature and Culture
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458
Indiana University India Studies Program Lecture Series
The Bhakti Movement: India’s National Religion and the Shadow of the Raj
by John Stratton Hawley
Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
TODAY
Monday, March 8 at 6:00 pm
Woodburn Hall
Room 007
ABSTRACT
Families have their genealogies and favorite stories; countries have their histories. What history succeeds better for a country than the one capable of molding its citizens into a family? In India, that has been the particular work of a narrative called “the bhakti movement” — bhakti andolan in Hindi. Here bhakti — the religion of the heart, of song and common participation — is seen as a force of history, something like the contagion of America’s Great Awakenings but spanning a millennium. It formed the religious bedrock that would ultimately, in the 20th century, make the nation possible. Or so we have been taught. This lecture will explore the historical contingencies that actually created this received —and largely Hindu — common sense.
For more information, contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798
by John Stratton Hawley
Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
TODAY
Monday, March 8 at 6:00 pm
Woodburn Hall
Room 007
ABSTRACT
Families have their genealogies and favorite stories; countries have their histories. What history succeeds better for a country than the one capable of molding its citizens into a family? In India, that has been the particular work of a narrative called “the bhakti movement” — bhakti andolan in Hindi. Here bhakti — the religion of the heart, of song and common participation — is seen as a force of history, something like the contagion of America’s Great Awakenings but spanning a millennium. It formed the religious bedrock that would ultimately, in the 20th century, make the nation possible. Or so we have been taught. This lecture will explore the historical contingencies that actually created this received —and largely Hindu — common sense.
For more information, contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798
Friday, March 5, 2010
Museum of the Moving Image Summer Internships
Museum of the Moving Image offers full-time, paid summer internships. Under the supervision of department heads, interns have the opportunity to learn about the full range of Museum operations and to work on projects related to the fall 2010 opening of the Museum’s renovated and expanded facility. Undergraduates entering their senior year in fall 2010, college graduates, and graduate students are eligible to apply.
Collection: Interns will assist in researching and cataloging objects to be made accessible online, and participate in the Museum’s open-source, web-based collection management software project.
Development and Special Events: Interns will work with the Museum’s Director on preparations for gala events related to the opening of the expanded facility, and provide support for the Museum’s fundraising efforts.
Digital Imaging/Photography: Interns will assist with the digital photography and scanning of Museum artifacts and the correction and editing of images.
Digital Media: Interns will provide support for updates to interactive exhibits within the core exhibition Behind the Screen, and assist with the implementation of a new design for the Museum’s website.
Film: Interns will work on the planning of film programs. Interns will also assist with content research for the website Moving Image Source, and with the preparation of editorial content for various program and exhibition related projects.
To apply, please submit the following:
1. A cover letter and resume
2. A 300-word statement describing your interest in interning with one of the departments listed above and your reasons for selecting that department
3. A 50-word statement indicating your second-choice department and your reasons for selecting that department
4. One letter of recommendation from a current or past professor
Applications must be received no later than 9 April.
Finalists will be interviewed in person or by phone. Successful applicants will be notified no later than 7 May.
Mail applications to: Internships, Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 36 Street Astoria, NY 11106
E-mail applications to: internships@movingimage.us. Use the PDF format for the required documents.
Collection: Interns will assist in researching and cataloging objects to be made accessible online, and participate in the Museum’s open-source, web-based collection management software project.
Development and Special Events: Interns will work with the Museum’s Director on preparations for gala events related to the opening of the expanded facility, and provide support for the Museum’s fundraising efforts.
Digital Imaging/Photography: Interns will assist with the digital photography and scanning of Museum artifacts and the correction and editing of images.
Digital Media: Interns will provide support for updates to interactive exhibits within the core exhibition Behind the Screen, and assist with the implementation of a new design for the Museum’s website.
Film: Interns will work on the planning of film programs. Interns will also assist with content research for the website Moving Image Source, and with the preparation of editorial content for various program and exhibition related projects.
To apply, please submit the following:
1. A cover letter and resume
2. A 300-word statement describing your interest in interning with one of the departments listed above and your reasons for selecting that department
3. A 50-word statement indicating your second-choice department and your reasons for selecting that department
4. One letter of recommendation from a current or past professor
Applications must be received no later than 9 April.
Finalists will be interviewed in person or by phone. Successful applicants will be notified no later than 7 May.
Mail applications to: Internships, Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 36 Street Astoria, NY 11106
E-mail applications to: internships@movingimage.us. Use the PDF format for the required documents.
CFP - The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) e-Journal
What is the e-Journal
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) e-Journal is designed to seek out exemplary scholarship done by anthropology students and provide a vehicle for students to publish in a supportive, nurturing environment. The first volume of the e-Journal was released at the
2009
American Anthropological Association meetings in Philadelphia, PA.
NASA’s
vision for the e-Journal is to create a forum through which the next generation of anthropologists can share their ideas with the membership of our national organization. The next volume will be released at the 2010 AAAs in New Orleans.
We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide about the application of anthropological theories and methods outside of academia or across disciplines for the purpose of exploring, problematizing, or addressing social problems. These submissions should contain original research. Is there a paper you submitted for a service-learning class where you addressed a social problem using anthropological methods? Have you done fieldwork in a community where you sought to create positive social change in the process of gathering data? Tell us about it! Scholarly articles should be under 4,000 words in length and will be subject to a peer review process.
We also welcome innovative commentary submissions to the e-Journal.
Commentaries are opinion or avant-garde pieces of work that are the original work of the authors. These submissions are to express the next generation of anthropologists’ ideas, goals and beliefs of the direction our discipline should head, be it locally, nationally or globally. Have you worked in an internship, co-op or another job as a student anthropologist and wish to reflect on how you relied on your anthropological training? Perhaps you collaborated with students from other disciplines at a volunteer organization and seek to describe the value you added from an anthropological perspective? We seek a plurality of voices on this issue and intend to raise awareness among fellow students as well as more established anthropologists about the direction our discipline is heading. Commentary submissions might include such mediums as written pieces (approx. 1,000 words in length), photo stories (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTube© clips (10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length)
2010 e-Journal Theme: “Circulation”
Drawing on the theme designated for the 2010 AAA meetings, the e-Journal will speak to the idea of circulation. Submissions that address circulation, as discussed in the 2010 AAA Call for Papers, will be given preference.
“The idea of circulation invites us to consider what triggers, facilitates, constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be for humans and for the environment. It opens up questions about what exactly circu¬lates: signs,
objects or bodies. Do different things circulate in different ways? Do they
change or remain constant? What new phenomena, arrangements and inequalities does circula¬tion produce? How are resources and ways of understanding them identified, made sense of, produced and distributed in the process?
How and why do rates and types of circulation vary across time and space? What crystallizes and what continues to flow and reshape?”
(http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/2010-Annual-Meeting-CFP.pdf)
Submission Guidelines & Deadlines:
All submissions should be sent as attachments and saved in Microsoft Office Word format (.doc or .docx) and conform to AAA style
(http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf).
Submissions should be double spaced and should adhere to the word limits outlined in this CFP (4000 words for scholarly submissions and 1000 words for commentary submissions, excluding notes and references).
Send submissions, as well as any questions, to nasaejournal@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2010.
Reviewers Wanted!
All submissions to the NASA e-Journal are peer-reviewed. If you are interested in reviewing submissions for the e-Journal, please contact the editor, Sarah Taylor, at nasaejournal@gmail.com.
What is NASA?
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) is the student section of the American Anthropological Association founded in 1986 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. NASA is a four-field network of students, which directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs and networking.
Why Join NASA?
§ NASA offers two annual monetary awards to both graduate and undergraduate
members: The NASA Travel Award and the Carrie Hunter-Tate Student Award for academic and professional excellence.
§ NASA receives a large amount of allotted time for students to present at the annual meeting.
§ NASA members elect their peers to serve as officers. These officers represent students within the governance of the larger association, which is a great leadership opportunity.
§ NASA provides a host of resources for students attending the Annual Meetings.
§ NASA members also have the opportunity to publish in the sections’ column in Anthropology News.
How do I join NASA?
Any student member of the AAA may join NASA for $5. Simply fill out the membership form and check the NASA box and mail it to the AAA or call (703)
528-1902 or email members@aaanet.org
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) e-Journal is designed to seek out exemplary scholarship done by anthropology students and provide a vehicle for students to publish in a supportive, nurturing environment. The first volume of the e-Journal was released at the
2009
American Anthropological Association meetings in Philadelphia, PA.
NASA’s
vision for the e-Journal is to create a forum through which the next generation of anthropologists can share their ideas with the membership of our national organization. The next volume will be released at the 2010 AAAs in New Orleans.
We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide about the application of anthropological theories and methods outside of academia or across disciplines for the purpose of exploring, problematizing, or addressing social problems. These submissions should contain original research. Is there a paper you submitted for a service-learning class where you addressed a social problem using anthropological methods? Have you done fieldwork in a community where you sought to create positive social change in the process of gathering data? Tell us about it! Scholarly articles should be under 4,000 words in length and will be subject to a peer review process.
We also welcome innovative commentary submissions to the e-Journal.
Commentaries are opinion or avant-garde pieces of work that are the original work of the authors. These submissions are to express the next generation of anthropologists’ ideas, goals and beliefs of the direction our discipline should head, be it locally, nationally or globally. Have you worked in an internship, co-op or another job as a student anthropologist and wish to reflect on how you relied on your anthropological training? Perhaps you collaborated with students from other disciplines at a volunteer organization and seek to describe the value you added from an anthropological perspective? We seek a plurality of voices on this issue and intend to raise awareness among fellow students as well as more established anthropologists about the direction our discipline is heading. Commentary submissions might include such mediums as written pieces (approx. 1,000 words in length), photo stories (10 photos + 1,000 words of commentary in length) and videos/YouTube© clips (10-minute maximum in duration + 1,000 words of commentary in length)
2010 e-Journal Theme: “Circulation”
Drawing on the theme designated for the 2010 AAA meetings, the e-Journal will speak to the idea of circulation. Submissions that address circulation, as discussed in the 2010 AAA Call for Papers, will be given preference.
“The idea of circulation invites us to consider what triggers, facilitates, constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be for humans and for the environment. It opens up questions about what exactly circu¬lates: signs,
objects or bodies. Do different things circulate in different ways? Do they
change or remain constant? What new phenomena, arrangements and inequalities does circula¬tion produce? How are resources and ways of understanding them identified, made sense of, produced and distributed in the process?
How and why do rates and types of circulation vary across time and space? What crystallizes and what continues to flow and reshape?”
(http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/2010-Annual-Meeting-CFP.pdf)
Submission Guidelines & Deadlines:
All submissions should be sent as attachments and saved in Microsoft Office Word format (.doc or .docx) and conform to AAA style
(http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf).
Submissions should be double spaced and should adhere to the word limits outlined in this CFP (4000 words for scholarly submissions and 1000 words for commentary submissions, excluding notes and references).
Send submissions, as well as any questions, to nasaejournal@gmail.com.
The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2010.
Reviewers Wanted!
All submissions to the NASA e-Journal are peer-reviewed. If you are interested in reviewing submissions for the e-Journal, please contact the editor, Sarah Taylor, at nasaejournal@gmail.com.
What is NASA?
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) is the student section of the American Anthropological Association founded in 1986 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. NASA is a four-field network of students, which directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs and networking.
Why Join NASA?
§ NASA offers two annual monetary awards to both graduate and undergraduate
members: The NASA Travel Award and the Carrie Hunter-Tate Student Award for academic and professional excellence.
§ NASA receives a large amount of allotted time for students to present at the annual meeting.
§ NASA members elect their peers to serve as officers. These officers represent students within the governance of the larger association, which is a great leadership opportunity.
§ NASA provides a host of resources for students attending the Annual Meetings.
§ NASA members also have the opportunity to publish in the sections’ column in Anthropology News.
How do I join NASA?
Any student member of the AAA may join NASA for $5. Simply fill out the membership form and check the NASA box and mail it to the AAA or call (703)
528-1902 or email members@aaanet.org
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