Check out the new issue of The College to find articles featuring PhD Candidate Robert Clift and faculty members Ilana Gershon and Mary Gray.
http://college.indiana.edu/alumni/office/magazine2010spring.shtml
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Archives of Traditional Music Recital
Noon Recital by Henry Doktorski, Classical Accordionist
Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006, Indiana University
Thursday, April 29th, 12:00 noon
Henry Doktorski, a well-known classical accordionist, will perform a concert of classical accordion music in the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music Hoagy Carmichael Room.
A classical pianist, organist, composer, and accordionist, Prof. Doktorski began his musical studies at a young age with accordion. From there his musical adventures ranged from playing in rock bands (farfisa organ and accordion) to classical studies at the piano in college, eventually leading to an accordion ensemble comprised of musical monks! Serious immersion in being an innovative classical accordionist in addition to his career as a church musician, and performing as a soloist with orchestras and symphonies, and teaching, continue to distinguish his vibrant musical life.
Prof. Doktorski has conducted significant research on the two most-influential piano-accordionists of the early 20th century, the Italian-American brothers Guido and Pietro Deiro and he has published a landmark biography about their lives. For the noontime concert, compositions by both Pietro and Guido Deiro will be performed.
Repertoire by Brahms, Schubert, Strauss, Piazzolla, Monti, and Doktorski will also be featured.
The program promises to be a very special occasion to hear an important artist in the field of accordion and music. Prof. Doktorski will also have his recordings and books available. The public is welcome to this noontime program to listen to great music, to learn more about the depth of the instrument’s capabilities, and to meet a delightful person who contributes to the renaissance of a sublime instrument—the accordion!
http://henrydoktorski.com/
For more information about the concert please contact Sophia Travis, 812-824-7333
Cell: 812-360-5228
Sophia@littlebear.com
Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006, Indiana University
Thursday, April 29th, 12:00 noon
Henry Doktorski, a well-known classical accordionist, will perform a concert of classical accordion music in the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music Hoagy Carmichael Room.
A classical pianist, organist, composer, and accordionist, Prof. Doktorski began his musical studies at a young age with accordion. From there his musical adventures ranged from playing in rock bands (farfisa organ and accordion) to classical studies at the piano in college, eventually leading to an accordion ensemble comprised of musical monks! Serious immersion in being an innovative classical accordionist in addition to his career as a church musician, and performing as a soloist with orchestras and symphonies, and teaching, continue to distinguish his vibrant musical life.
Prof. Doktorski has conducted significant research on the two most-influential piano-accordionists of the early 20th century, the Italian-American brothers Guido and Pietro Deiro and he has published a landmark biography about their lives. For the noontime concert, compositions by both Pietro and Guido Deiro will be performed.
Repertoire by Brahms, Schubert, Strauss, Piazzolla, Monti, and Doktorski will also be featured.
The program promises to be a very special occasion to hear an important artist in the field of accordion and music. Prof. Doktorski will also have his recordings and books available. The public is welcome to this noontime program to listen to great music, to learn more about the depth of the instrument’s capabilities, and to meet a delightful person who contributes to the renaissance of a sublime instrument—the accordion!
http://henrydoktorski.com/
For more information about the concert please contact Sophia Travis, 812-824-7333
Cell: 812-360-5228
Sophia@littlebear.com
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Documentary Final Projects!"
Jennifer Jones invites all to a screening of her CMCL-C435 students' final projects.
Event: Documentary Final Projects!
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Thursday, April 29 at 1:00pm End Time: Thursday, April 29 at 3:00pm
Where: Classroom Office Building Room 100
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110777988958445
Event: Documentary Final Projects!
What: Exhibit
Start Time: Thursday, April 29 at 1:00pm End Time: Thursday, April 29 at 3:00pm
Where: Classroom Office Building Room 100
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110777988958445
Iris Film Festival
Join us Saturday night for Communication and Culture's Fourth Annual Iris Film Festival.
When: Saturday, May 1, at 7:00pm
Where: Indiana University, Fine Arts Building Room 015
What: About 2 hours of the best of short film and video projects from students and local community members
Free admission, free snacks and popcorn, free refreshments
Just show up and have fun. One last break before finals.
There is still time to submit your films: Must be under 7 minutes in
length. See www.irisfilmfest.com for more information.
Deadline for submissions: Friday April 30 at 3pm.
Email arkeeler@indiana.edu with questions.
When: Saturday, May 1, at 7:00pm
Where: Indiana University, Fine Arts Building Room 015
What: About 2 hours of the best of short film and video projects from students and local community members
Free admission, free snacks and popcorn, free refreshments
Just show up and have fun. One last break before finals.
There is still time to submit your films: Must be under 7 minutes in
length. See www.irisfilmfest.com for more information.
Deadline for submissions: Friday April 30 at 3pm.
Email arkeeler@indiana.edu with questions.
Graduate Awards Ceremony
Please join us for the 2010 annual graduate awards ceremony
Friday, April 30
4:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Light refreshments will be served
Friday, April 30
4:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Light refreshments will be served
Friday, April 23, 2010
The School of Advanced Study, University of London is delighted to announce its forthcoming summer school on Memory, Empire and Technology
29 June–3 July 2010
The Memory, Empire and Technology summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred around London as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.
This summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study. The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory also offers an MA in Cultural Memory.
Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from the School of Advanced Study, University London. Participants who wish to receive credit should make their own arrangements with their home institution/tutor to assess written work or other piece of assessable work.
For more details and to register visit
www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html or email CMSS@sas.ac.uk.
Deadline for application: 30 April 2010.
The Memory, Empire and Technology summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred around London as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.
This summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study. The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory also offers an MA in Cultural Memory.
Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from the School of Advanced Study, University London. Participants who wish to receive credit should make their own arrangements with their home institution/tutor to assess written work or other piece of assessable work.
For more details and to register visit
www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html or email CMSS@sas.ac.uk.
Deadline for application: 30 April 2010.
G700 Excellence in Teaching
Graduate students are invited to enroll in G700 Excellence in Teaching during intensive summer session I, May 11-27, 2010.
Designed to provide theoretical and pragmatic foundations for teaching in a variety of educational environments in higher education, this course is open to all graduate students eager to investigate their identities as teachers, understand their students, correlate instructional techniques with tasks, and enrich their teaching abilities and satisfaction.
Course topics include: course preparation, course portfolio, motivation, learning styles and theories, cognitive aspects of concept acquisition, naive misconceptions, teaching devices, multiple-facet assessment techniques, and diversity.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students, meeting daily from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Class projects include several short application papers, discussion exercises, individual and group presentations and micro-teaching.
Designed to provide theoretical and pragmatic foundations for teaching in a variety of educational environments in higher education, this course is open to all graduate students eager to investigate their identities as teachers, understand their students, correlate instructional techniques with tasks, and enrich their teaching abilities and satisfaction.
Course topics include: course preparation, course portfolio, motivation, learning styles and theories, cognitive aspects of concept acquisition, naive misconceptions, teaching devices, multiple-facet assessment techniques, and diversity.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students, meeting daily from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Class projects include several short application papers, discussion exercises, individual and group presentations and micro-teaching.
City Lights & Underground Film Series
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Roberto Rossellini dark masterpiece Rome, Open City is part of his trilogy of films made during and after World War II—with Paisan and Germany Ground Zero. Like other Italian Neo-Realist films, this film features many nonprofessional actors and unorthodox approaches to storytelling. The film tells of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II. Featuring Aldo Fabrizi as the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini and Anna Magnani as Pina, the fiancée of a resistance member. The screenplay, written by Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini was nominated for an Academy Award. (100 min.)
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Roberto Rossellini dark masterpiece Rome, Open City is part of his trilogy of films made during and after World War II—with Paisan and Germany Ground Zero. Like other Italian Neo-Realist films, this film features many nonprofessional actors and unorthodox approaches to storytelling. The film tells of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II. Featuring Aldo Fabrizi as the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini and Anna Magnani as Pina, the fiancée of a resistance member. The screenplay, written by Sergio Amidei and Frederico Fellini was nominated for an Academy Award. (100 min.)
CMCL Colloquiua Series Presents Beverly Stoeltje
Friday, April 23, 2010
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
"Local Identities: The Museum and the Festival"
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
"Local Identities: The Museum and the Festival"
THE 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.
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture
Sponsored by: Horizons of Knowledge, Department of Political Science, Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, Eighteenth-Century Institute, Tocqueville Program, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Professor Jonathan Israel
School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies
Princeton University
Creating Revolutionary Awareness:
"Philosophy" as a Main Cause of the French Revolution (1770-90)
Friday, April 23, 2010
12:00-1:30pm
State Room West, Indiana Memorial Union
Jonathan Israel’s work is concerned with European and European colonial history from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, the Dutch Golden Age (1590–1713), including the Dutch global trade system, seventeenth-century Dutch Jewry and Spinoza, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688–91 in Britain, and Spanish imperial strategy especially in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Low Countries. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (2001); and Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006). His recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza, Bayle, Diderot and the eighteenth century French materialists), and on the Enlightenment and emergence of modern ideas of democracy, equality, toleration, freedom of the press and individual freedom.
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 1972; University of Hull, Assistant Lecturer, 1972–73, Lecturer, 1973–74; University College London, Lecturer, 1974–81, Reader, 1981–85, Professor, 1985–2000; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, 2001–; Fellow, British Academy, 1992; Corresponding Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 1994; University of Amsterdam, Honorary Professor, 2003; Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize in History, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 855-0441 and ask for Gayle Higgins (ghiggins@indiana.edu).
Professor Jonathan Israel
School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies
Princeton University
Creating Revolutionary Awareness:
"Philosophy" as a Main Cause of the French Revolution (1770-90)
Friday, April 23, 2010
12:00-1:30pm
State Room West, Indiana Memorial Union
Jonathan Israel’s work is concerned with European and European colonial history from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, the Dutch Golden Age (1590–1713), including the Dutch global trade system, seventeenth-century Dutch Jewry and Spinoza, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688–91 in Britain, and Spanish imperial strategy especially in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Low Countries. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (2001); and Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006). His recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza, Bayle, Diderot and the eighteenth century French materialists), and on the Enlightenment and emergence of modern ideas of democracy, equality, toleration, freedom of the press and individual freedom.
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 1972; University of Hull, Assistant Lecturer, 1972–73, Lecturer, 1973–74; University College London, Lecturer, 1974–81, Reader, 1981–85, Professor, 1985–2000; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, 2001–; Fellow, British Academy, 1992; Corresponding Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 1994; University of Amsterdam, Honorary Professor, 2003; Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize in History, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 855-0441 and ask for Gayle Higgins (ghiggins@indiana.edu).
FULBRIGHT-HAYS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH ABROAD
Information session about applying for a Fulbright Hays dissertation research grant Friday, April 23th, 4:00-5:30 in Woodburn 120.
Resources at IU for preparing your Fulbright Hays application: Paul Fogleman, Fulbright Adviser, Office for International Affairs Tel. (812) 855-3948; Email: pfoglema@indiana.edu
AND
The Grad Grants Center in room E651 in the Wells Library Tel. (812) 855-5281; Email: gradgrnt@indiana.edu;
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/
Resources and more info on the web at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html
Resources at IU for preparing your Fulbright Hays application: Paul Fogleman, Fulbright Adviser, Office for International Affairs Tel. (812) 855-3948; Email: pfoglema@indiana.edu
AND
The Grad Grants Center in room E651 in the Wells Library Tel. (812) 855-5281; Email: gradgrnt@indiana.edu;
Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/
Resources and more info on the web at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html
The Indiana University India Studies Program
In collaboration with The India Association of Indianapolis - Fine Arts Committee presents
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande : Hindustani Vocal Recital
Accompanists
Seema Shirodkar (Harmonium) and Vishwanath Shirodkar (Tabla)
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7 P.M.
Rawles Hall Room 100
Ashwini Bhide, trained in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, has created her own style to complement the different styles that have influenced her. She has a strong command over three octaves and has created many of her own Bandishes.
Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzAN5zmwpZI
For more information, contact the India Studies Program:
812-855-5798 <> india@indiana.edu
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande : Hindustani Vocal Recital
Accompanists
Seema Shirodkar (Harmonium) and Vishwanath Shirodkar (Tabla)
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7 P.M.
Rawles Hall Room 100
Ashwini Bhide, trained in the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, has created her own style to complement the different styles that have influenced her. She has a strong command over three octaves and has created many of her own Bandishes.
Check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzAN5zmwpZI
For more information, contact the India Studies Program:
812-855-5798 <> india@indiana.edu
IU School of Journalism presents Prof. Maxwell McCombs
When: Monday, April 26
Place: Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union (Mezzanine level)
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Chair in Communications School of Journalism University of Texas at Austin
Future Directions in Agenda-Setting Research:
The Psychology of Agenda-Setting Effects
In the years since the Chapel Hill study, agenda-setting theory has evolved into five theoretical stages, and all five remain vigorous arenas of research today. These contemporary lines of research are characterized by two broad trends. There is a centrifugal trend, the expansion of agenda-setting research into new domains and settings far beyond the original realm of public affairs. The counterpoint is a centripetal trend in which scholars have turned their attention inward to the continuing explication of the theory’s basic concepts. Much of this research concentrates on the psychology of the agenda-setting process. Included in this research are the impact of incidental exposure, elaboration of the relevance component in the concept of need for orientation, exploration of the role of basic values and the role of emotion in the agenda-setting process, and the implications of first and second-level agenda-setting effects for attitudes, opinions and behavior.
David Weaver of has also scheduled an informal roundtable session for interested graduate students and faculty from 10:00-11:00am in the Ernie Pyle Lounge, which is room 203 of Ernie Pyle Hall. This is a chance for some informal discussion with Professor McCombs regarding agenda-setting research or other subjects of interest.
For more information about Professor McCombs' internationally recognized research on the agenda-setting role of mass communication and the influence of media on the focus of public attention, see: http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/maxmccombs.html
Place: Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union (Mezzanine level)
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Chair in Communications School of Journalism University of Texas at Austin
Future Directions in Agenda-Setting Research:
The Psychology of Agenda-Setting Effects
In the years since the Chapel Hill study, agenda-setting theory has evolved into five theoretical stages, and all five remain vigorous arenas of research today. These contemporary lines of research are characterized by two broad trends. There is a centrifugal trend, the expansion of agenda-setting research into new domains and settings far beyond the original realm of public affairs. The counterpoint is a centripetal trend in which scholars have turned their attention inward to the continuing explication of the theory’s basic concepts. Much of this research concentrates on the psychology of the agenda-setting process. Included in this research are the impact of incidental exposure, elaboration of the relevance component in the concept of need for orientation, exploration of the role of basic values and the role of emotion in the agenda-setting process, and the implications of first and second-level agenda-setting effects for attitudes, opinions and behavior.
David Weaver of has also scheduled an informal roundtable session for interested graduate students and faculty from 10:00-11:00am in the Ernie Pyle Lounge, which is room 203 of Ernie Pyle Hall. This is a chance for some informal discussion with Professor McCombs regarding agenda-setting research or other subjects of interest.
For more information about Professor McCombs' internationally recognized research on the agenda-setting role of mass communication and the influence of media on the focus of public attention, see: http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/maxmccombs.html
IU Department of Telecommunications Seminar (T600) Series
Speaker: Mariska Kleemans (IU Telecom/Radboud University, The Netherlands
Title: Arousing content and tabloid packaging in television news: different audiences, different preferences
Time & Place: Friday, April 23, 2010; 12:30-1:45 pm, RTV 226
Abstract: Television news reporting has been criticized over the past decades for the increase in arousing content and tabloid packaging. It is known from earlier research that arousing content and tabloid packaging evoke the automatic allocation of processing resources, which results in attention and arousal responses. Even though viewers automatically pay more attention to news stories containing arousing content and tabloid packaging, this does not obviously mean that they really prefer this kind of news. In this presentation, audience preferences for news stories differing in content and form will therefore be discussed. Focus will be on preferences of viewers that vary in age and gender.
Mariska Kleemans is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Communication at Radboud University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is visiting in our department this semester.
Title: Arousing content and tabloid packaging in television news: different audiences, different preferences
Time & Place: Friday, April 23, 2010; 12:30-1:45 pm, RTV 226
Abstract: Television news reporting has been criticized over the past decades for the increase in arousing content and tabloid packaging. It is known from earlier research that arousing content and tabloid packaging evoke the automatic allocation of processing resources, which results in attention and arousal responses. Even though viewers automatically pay more attention to news stories containing arousing content and tabloid packaging, this does not obviously mean that they really prefer this kind of news. In this presentation, audience preferences for news stories differing in content and form will therefore be discussed. Focus will be on preferences of viewers that vary in age and gender.
Mariska Kleemans is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Communication at Radboud University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and is visiting in our department this semester.
Rob Klinge Center for Social Informatics presents Fred Turner
TALK 1
A Roundtable/Brown Bag Discussion [links to articles for discussion below]
Speaker: Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 11:00 am-12:00pm
Place: Department of Communication and Culture's Room C102 (media
lab), Classroom Office Building (COB)
800 E. 3rd St (between Woodlawn and Indiana)
Discussion articles:
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Burning%20Man%20at%20Google%20NMS.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Romantic%20Automatism%20Journal%20of%20Visual%20Culture.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20This%20is%20for%20Fighting%20in%20Pomerance.pdf
TALK 2
WHAT DO ART WORLDS DO FOR COMPUTERS?
Speaker: Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Topic: What Do Art Worlds Do for Computers?
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: C100 (Classroom Office Building) 800 E. 3rd St
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee,
available at 1:15pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate
students following the talk.
Abstract
Fifty years ago, when C.P. Snow published his canonical essay The Two Cultures, computer science and art might well have belonged to different social worlds. But today that’s no longer true. On line in Second Life, off line at Burning Man, and at state-sponsored art-and-technology research centers across the globe, high art and high technology are melding into one another. This talk will ask why.
It will return to Osaka, Japan and Expo ’70 in order to revisit the “Pepsi Pavilion” – an immersive computational and artistic environment – and explore the ways it brought together military planners, corporate executives, hippie artists and Bell Labs engineers. By doing so, the talk will examine the role computers played in the politics of perception toward the end of the Cold War and may be playing today. It will also analyze the tactics through which art worlds render particular affordances of computing machines culturally legitimate.
Together, it will argue, these approaches can help us explain many of the art-and-technology fusions we see today.
Biographical Sketch
Fred Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University with extensive interdisciplinary affiliations through the university. His research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism, and the roles played by media in American cultural history. His most recent book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, traces the impact of the social upheavals of the 1960s on the technological innovation of the 1990s. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality television to engineering culture at Google. These essays and more information about him can be found at http://fredturner.stanford.edu and at http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/turner/
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is jointly sponsored by the IU School of Informatics, School of Library & Information Science, and Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
A Roundtable/Brown Bag Discussion [links to articles for discussion below]
Speaker: Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 11:00 am-12:00pm
Place: Department of Communication and Culture's Room C102 (media
lab), Classroom Office Building (COB)
800 E. 3rd St (between Woodlawn and Indiana)
Discussion articles:
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Burning%20Man%20at%20Google%20NMS.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20Romantic%20Automatism%20Journal%20of%20Visual%20Culture.pdf
http://www.stanford.edu/~fturner/Turner%20This%20is%20for%20Fighting%20in%20Pomerance.pdf
TALK 2
WHAT DO ART WORLDS DO FOR COMPUTERS?
Speaker: Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Topic: What Do Art Worlds Do for Computers?
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: C100 (Classroom Office Building) 800 E. 3rd St
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee,
available at 1:15pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate
students following the talk.
Abstract
Fifty years ago, when C.P. Snow published his canonical essay The Two Cultures, computer science and art might well have belonged to different social worlds. But today that’s no longer true. On line in Second Life, off line at Burning Man, and at state-sponsored art-and-technology research centers across the globe, high art and high technology are melding into one another. This talk will ask why.
It will return to Osaka, Japan and Expo ’70 in order to revisit the “Pepsi Pavilion” – an immersive computational and artistic environment – and explore the ways it brought together military planners, corporate executives, hippie artists and Bell Labs engineers. By doing so, the talk will examine the role computers played in the politics of perception toward the end of the Cold War and may be playing today. It will also analyze the tactics through which art worlds render particular affordances of computing machines culturally legitimate.
Together, it will argue, these approaches can help us explain many of the art-and-technology fusions we see today.
Biographical Sketch
Fred Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University with extensive interdisciplinary affiliations through the university. His research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism, and the roles played by media in American cultural history. His most recent book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, traces the impact of the social upheavals of the 1960s on the technological innovation of the 1990s. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality television to engineering culture at Google. These essays and more information about him can be found at http://fredturner.stanford.edu and at http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/turner/
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is jointly sponsored by the IU School of Informatics, School of Library & Information Science, and Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Asian Undocumented Students, the Neglected Dreamers
Friday, April 16, 2010
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Hutton Honors College Great Room (811 E. 7th St.)
DREAM IU will lead an interactive discussion focusing on the obstacles that undocumented students particularly Asians face. We will explore the topic through interactive activities, video clips, and live music! Come learn about what you can do to address the unequal educational opportunities for these dreamers, such as supporting the DREAM Act (http://lugar.senate.gov/dream/).
DREAM IU is a new student organization open to working with any individuals interested in advancing the organization’s cause. Contact: DreamIUBloomington@gmail.com
Hosts: DREAM IU, Asian Culture Center, Latino Culture Center, and ARC 2010 Series
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Hutton Honors College Great Room (811 E. 7th St.)
DREAM IU will lead an interactive discussion focusing on the obstacles that undocumented students particularly Asians face. We will explore the topic through interactive activities, video clips, and live music! Come learn about what you can do to address the unequal educational opportunities for these dreamers, such as supporting the DREAM Act (http://lugar.senate.gov/dream/).
DREAM IU is a new student organization open to working with any individuals interested in advancing the organization’s cause. Contact: DreamIUBloomington@gmail.com
Hosts: DREAM IU, Asian Culture Center, Latino Culture Center, and ARC 2010 Series
Asian American Association presents Taste of Asia
Friday, April 16
6:00 pm
IU Auditorium
Free and open to the public
6:00 pm
IU Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Mondays in April at the Asian Cultural Center
Asian Cultures Around Campus featuring Free Henna Lessons 101
Something new to IU! Come to the ACC to learn the ancient Indian art of henna designs. You will have hands on experience, as well as learn basic techniques and designs. Please feel free to bring your friends.
Questions, please email Priyanka Dube at acc@indiana.edu.
Asian Culture Center
Indiana University Bloomington
807 E. 10th Street
Something new to IU! Come to the ACC to learn the ancient Indian art of henna designs. You will have hands on experience, as well as learn basic techniques and designs. Please feel free to bring your friends.
Questions, please email Priyanka Dube at acc@indiana.edu.
Asian Culture Center
Indiana University Bloomington
807 E. 10th Street
Asian Cultures Around Campus featuring Calligraphy Lessons
Tuesdays, April 20th and 27th
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Asian Culture Center
Indiana University Bloomington
807 E. 10th Street
Learn and practice the ancient art of East Asian Calligraphy. Informal class meets every Tuesday to practice. During our meetings, our instructor, Xing Zhou will share some interesting facts about Chinese calligraphy as well as teach you to write in the ancient script. Beginners are welcome and encouraged to attend the meetings. Lessons are free and open to the public.
Time: 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Asian Culture Center
Indiana University Bloomington
807 E. 10th Street
Learn and practice the ancient art of East Asian Calligraphy. Informal class meets every Tuesday to practice. During our meetings, our instructor, Xing Zhou will share some interesting facts about Chinese calligraphy as well as teach you to write in the ancient script. Beginners are welcome and encouraged to attend the meetings. Lessons are free and open to the public.
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) sponsor
"God of War"
Presented by
Professor Michael Sells
University of Chicago
7:30 p.m.
April 20, 2010
Jordan Hall 124
University of Chicago professor Michael Sells will discuss the research involved in his upcoming book, God of War: American Power in a World of Religion.
Sponsored by NELC and SPEA
Presented by
Professor Michael Sells
University of Chicago
7:30 p.m.
April 20, 2010
Jordan Hall 124
University of Chicago professor Michael Sells will discuss the research involved in his upcoming book, God of War: American Power in a World of Religion.
Sponsored by NELC and SPEA
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) presents the Eight Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture
“Qurrat al-ʿAyn: Reflections on Poetry, Mysticism, and Civilization in the Seventh Century Hijra”
Presented by:
Professor Michael Sells
University of Chicago
7:30 p.m.
April 19, 2010
University Club, IMU
Reception to follow
The politically chaotic seventh century witnessed an efflorescence of lyric poetry across the realms of Islamdom and Christendom. Shared currents in poetic taste, mystical theology, and ecstatic utterance appear in the Arabic poetry of Ibn al-Farid, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari; the Persian of Rumi; the Turkish of Yunus Emre; the Dutch of Hadewijch; and the French of Marguerite Porete, to mention but a few examples. Some of the above-mentioned poets would have known of one another—Ibn al-ʿArabi, Ibn al-Farid, and Rumi, for example, may have met—yet they seem to have gone out of their way to avoid explicit mention of one another. In this address, I will read Ibn al-ʿArabi's love lyric with attention to the erotics of cultural difference, particularly as expressed through the categories of ʿArab and ʿAjam (non-Arab or Persian). This poetry not only reflected the coming together of international currents, but placed that intercultural encounter within the lovers' union or wasl.
Presented by:
Professor Michael Sells
University of Chicago
7:30 p.m.
April 19, 2010
University Club, IMU
Reception to follow
The politically chaotic seventh century witnessed an efflorescence of lyric poetry across the realms of Islamdom and Christendom. Shared currents in poetic taste, mystical theology, and ecstatic utterance appear in the Arabic poetry of Ibn al-Farid, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari; the Persian of Rumi; the Turkish of Yunus Emre; the Dutch of Hadewijch; and the French of Marguerite Porete, to mention but a few examples. Some of the above-mentioned poets would have known of one another—Ibn al-ʿArabi, Ibn al-Farid, and Rumi, for example, may have met—yet they seem to have gone out of their way to avoid explicit mention of one another. In this address, I will read Ibn al-ʿArabi's love lyric with attention to the erotics of cultural difference, particularly as expressed through the categories of ʿArab and ʿAjam (non-Arab or Persian). This poetry not only reflected the coming together of international currents, but placed that intercultural encounter within the lovers' union or wasl.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
NEW CFP: Mediated Youth Cultures
Check out the Links list to see calls for Papers or Submissions. For the newest Mediated Youth Cultures CFP, click here.
FASA & Union Board-Canvas Present: A Lecture with Graphic Design Rock Star, Chip Kidd!
Monday, April 19, 2010
7:00 Reception
7:30 Lecture
IU Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 015
Described by USA Today as the “closest thing to a rock-star” in the world of graphic design, Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. Kidd is a writer and graphic designer who lives and works in New York City. Since 1986 his book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. His work has been profiled in such publications as Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Out, and New York magazine. Kidd has written about graphic design and popular culture for McSweeney's, Vogue, Details, Arena, 2WICE, the New York Post, ID, and Print magazines. His books include Batman Collected, Batman Animated, The Cheese Monkeys —perhaps the first successful novel employing graphic design as an integral part of its subject—and Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.
As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon, Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor, and Alex Ross. His designs have been described as “monstrously ugly” by John Updike, “apparently obvious” William Boyd, “faithful flat-earth rendering” by Don DeLillo, “surprisingly elegant” A.S. Mehta, “a distinguished parochial comic balding Episcopal priest” by Allan Gurganus, “two colors plus a sash” by Martin Amis, and “not a piece of hype. My book was lucky” by Robert Hughes. The monograph Chip Kidd: Book One was published in 2005.
7:00 Reception
7:30 Lecture
IU Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 015
Described by USA Today as the “closest thing to a rock-star” in the world of graphic design, Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. Kidd is a writer and graphic designer who lives and works in New York City. Since 1986 his book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. His work has been profiled in such publications as Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Out, and New York magazine. Kidd has written about graphic design and popular culture for McSweeney's, Vogue, Details, Arena, 2WICE, the New York Post, ID, and Print magazines. His books include Batman Collected, Batman Animated, The Cheese Monkeys —perhaps the first successful novel employing graphic design as an integral part of its subject—and Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.
As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon, Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor, and Alex Ross. His designs have been described as “monstrously ugly” by John Updike, “apparently obvious” William Boyd, “faithful flat-earth rendering” by Don DeLillo, “surprisingly elegant” A.S. Mehta, “a distinguished parochial comic balding Episcopal priest” by Allan Gurganus, “two colors plus a sash” by Martin Amis, and “not a piece of hype. My book was lucky” by Robert Hughes. The monograph Chip Kidd: Book One was published in 2005.
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Spring Lecture Series
Fred Turner
What Do Art Worlds Do for Computers? (abstract below)
PLACE: C100 (COB) 800 E. 3rd St
TIME: 1:30pm-2:45pm
DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010
Talk will be followed by an informal gathering with light refreshments available at 2:45pm.
Talk Abstract
Fifty years ago, when C.P. Snow published his canonical essay The Two Cultures, computer science and art might well have belonged to different social worlds. But today that’s no longer true. On line in Second Life, off line at Burning Man, and at state-sponsored art-and-technology research centers across the globe, high art and high technology are melding into one another. This talk will ask why. It will return to Osaka, Japan and Expo ’70 in order to revisit the “Pepsi Pavilion” – an immersive computational and artistic environment – and explore the ways it brought together military planners, corporate executives, hippie artists and Bell Labs engineers. By doing so, the talk will examine the role computers played in the politics of perception toward the end of the Cold War and may be playing today. It will also analyze the tactics through which art worlds render particular affordances of computing machines culturally legitimate. Together, it will argue, these approaches can help us explain many of the art-and-technology fusions we see today.
Biographical Sketch
Fred Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University with extensive interdisciplinary affiliations through the university. His research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism, and the roles played by media in American cultural history. His most recent book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, traces the impact of the social upheavals of the 1960s on the technological innovation of the 1990s. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality television to engineering culture at Google. These essays and more information about him can be found at http://fredturner.stanford.edu and at http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/turner/
FYI: If you are still interested in meeting Prof. Turner over dinner, please contact Mry Gray. For details of this, click here.
What Do Art Worlds Do for Computers? (abstract below)
PLACE: C100 (COB) 800 E. 3rd St
TIME: 1:30pm-2:45pm
DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010
Talk will be followed by an informal gathering with light refreshments available at 2:45pm.
Talk Abstract
Fifty years ago, when C.P. Snow published his canonical essay The Two Cultures, computer science and art might well have belonged to different social worlds. But today that’s no longer true. On line in Second Life, off line at Burning Man, and at state-sponsored art-and-technology research centers across the globe, high art and high technology are melding into one another. This talk will ask why. It will return to Osaka, Japan and Expo ’70 in order to revisit the “Pepsi Pavilion” – an immersive computational and artistic environment – and explore the ways it brought together military planners, corporate executives, hippie artists and Bell Labs engineers. By doing so, the talk will examine the role computers played in the politics of perception toward the end of the Cold War and may be playing today. It will also analyze the tactics through which art worlds render particular affordances of computing machines culturally legitimate. Together, it will argue, these approaches can help us explain many of the art-and-technology fusions we see today.
Biographical Sketch
Fred Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University with extensive interdisciplinary affiliations through the university. His research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism, and the roles played by media in American cultural history. His most recent book From Counterculture to Cyberculture, traces the impact of the social upheavals of the 1960s on the technological innovation of the 1990s. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality television to engineering culture at Google. These essays and more information about him can be found at http://fredturner.stanford.edu and at http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/turner/
FYI: If you are still interested in meeting Prof. Turner over dinner, please contact Mry Gray. For details of this, click here.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Network ID
Just a quick reminder that the Network ID for someone at IU is the part of his or her email address that comes before the @indiana.edu.
SOTL Writing Retreat
Thursday, May 13 and Friday, May 14, 2010
8:30 am–4:00 pm
Devault Alumni Center, 1000 East 17th Street
Application deadline: April 27, 2010
Candidates will be notified by April 30, 2010
Although typically a solitary act, writing is often made easier and more productive by a sense of community. The two-day SOTL Writing Retreat, cosponsored by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Campus Writing Program, and Campus Instructional Consulting, is designed to create time, place, and critical feedback for a teaching and learning project. Consultants will be on hand to answer questions, provide feedback, and otherwise help you make the most of two full days devoted to writing.
The retreat will run Thursday and Friday, May 13 and 14 in the Devault Alumni Center at Indiana University. It will be facilitated by SOTL Director George Rehrey, Campus Writing Program Director Laura Plummer, and CIC Assistant Director Lisa Kurz. Indiana faculty, staff, and graduate students presently working in any phase of a scholarship of teaching-related project are eligible to submit a proposal. Collaborative teams are also encouraged to apply.
Retreat goals
• to help scholars dedicate time for writing and provide them with a supportive community
• to provide scholars with constructive ideas and feedback from their peers
• to make available to participating scholars the latest theory and research in the field
Schedule
The SOTL Writing Retreat is scheduled for two full days, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Participants will be expected to attend the entire retreat and one reunion meeting during the 2010-11 academic year (date TBA). Most of each day during the retreat will be devoted to self-directed writing. Optional peer writing feedback groups and one-on-one project consultations will also be available throughout the day. Lisa Kurz, an assessment specialist with CIC, will be on hand for those working on quantitative projects. Participants should bring their own laptops or other means of writing. A printer will be available, along with books and articles related to SOTL work and writing in general. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Guidelines for proposals
To access the SOTL Writing Retreat 2010 Application form, please click here. If you have any difficulty accessing the form, please submit the information listed below to sotl@indiana.edu.
• your name, department, office address, telephone number, and email address
• the title of the scholarship of teaching and learning project you want to work on during the retreat.
• the type of project you will be working on (e.g., research, grant, essay)
• a brief description of your scholarship of teaching and learning project along with the names of team members or collaborators who will join you at the retreat
• the phase of writing you expect to be in during the retreat (e.g., brainstorming, reflecting, outlining, designing, literature reviewing, analyzing, revising, polishing)
• what you plan to accomplish during the retreat
• how the retreat will help you to move your project toward publication
• any special needs you have.
You may also submit any other documentation you think may be helpful in describing your project as an email attachment to sotl@indiana.edu
If you have any questions about the retreat, please contact Lisa Kurz at 855-9023 or kurz@indiana.edu
8:30 am–4:00 pm
Devault Alumni Center, 1000 East 17th Street
Application deadline: April 27, 2010
Candidates will be notified by April 30, 2010
Although typically a solitary act, writing is often made easier and more productive by a sense of community. The two-day SOTL Writing Retreat, cosponsored by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Campus Writing Program, and Campus Instructional Consulting, is designed to create time, place, and critical feedback for a teaching and learning project. Consultants will be on hand to answer questions, provide feedback, and otherwise help you make the most of two full days devoted to writing.
The retreat will run Thursday and Friday, May 13 and 14 in the Devault Alumni Center at Indiana University. It will be facilitated by SOTL Director George Rehrey, Campus Writing Program Director Laura Plummer, and CIC Assistant Director Lisa Kurz. Indiana faculty, staff, and graduate students presently working in any phase of a scholarship of teaching-related project are eligible to submit a proposal. Collaborative teams are also encouraged to apply.
Retreat goals
• to help scholars dedicate time for writing and provide them with a supportive community
• to provide scholars with constructive ideas and feedback from their peers
• to make available to participating scholars the latest theory and research in the field
Schedule
The SOTL Writing Retreat is scheduled for two full days, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Participants will be expected to attend the entire retreat and one reunion meeting during the 2010-11 academic year (date TBA). Most of each day during the retreat will be devoted to self-directed writing. Optional peer writing feedback groups and one-on-one project consultations will also be available throughout the day. Lisa Kurz, an assessment specialist with CIC, will be on hand for those working on quantitative projects. Participants should bring their own laptops or other means of writing. A printer will be available, along with books and articles related to SOTL work and writing in general. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Guidelines for proposals
To access the SOTL Writing Retreat 2010 Application form, please click here. If you have any difficulty accessing the form, please submit the information listed below to sotl@indiana.edu.
• your name, department, office address, telephone number, and email address
• the title of the scholarship of teaching and learning project you want to work on during the retreat.
• the type of project you will be working on (e.g., research, grant, essay)
• a brief description of your scholarship of teaching and learning project along with the names of team members or collaborators who will join you at the retreat
• the phase of writing you expect to be in during the retreat (e.g., brainstorming, reflecting, outlining, designing, literature reviewing, analyzing, revising, polishing)
• what you plan to accomplish during the retreat
• how the retreat will help you to move your project toward publication
• any special needs you have.
You may also submit any other documentation you think may be helpful in describing your project as an email attachment to sotl@indiana.edu
If you have any questions about the retreat, please contact Lisa Kurz at 855-9023 or kurz@indiana.edu
2010 Roundtable on Post-Communism: “Coping with Uncertainty: Individual Challenges and Institutional Change Twenty Years after the Introduction of Mar
Friday, April 16th
Oak Room - IMU
Public Roundtable: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Follow-up Discussion: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Public Roundtable:
Chair: Regina A. Smyth, Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
Panelists:
Ákos Róna-Tas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Alya Guseva, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University
Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Discussants:
Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
Kelly M. McMann, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Ho-fung Hung, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
Follow-up Discussion:
Chair: Sarah Philips, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
Visit http://www.iub.edu/~reeiweb/events/2010_post_communism.shtml for more information.
Co-Sponsors:
Russian & East European Institute, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, East Asian Studies Center, Center for the Study of Global Change, IU Center for International Business Education & Research, Department of Economics
Persons with disabilities who wish to attend the roundtable should contact the REEI office, (812-855-7309) or reei@indiana.edu for assistance.
Oak Room - IMU
Public Roundtable: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Follow-up Discussion: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Public Roundtable:
Chair: Regina A. Smyth, Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
Panelists:
Ákos Róna-Tas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Alya Guseva, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University
Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Discussants:
Andrew Barnes, Associate Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
Kelly M. McMann, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Ho-fung Hung, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
Follow-up Discussion:
Chair: Sarah Philips, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
Visit http://www.iub.edu/~reeiweb/events/2010_post_communism.shtml for more information.
Co-Sponsors:
Russian & East European Institute, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, East Asian Studies Center, Center for the Study of Global Change, IU Center for International Business Education & Research, Department of Economics
Persons with disabilities who wish to attend the roundtable should contact the REEI office, (812-855-7309) or reei@indiana.edu for assistance.
Ruth N. Halls Lecture by Nobel Laureate in Literature, Poet, Translator, and Essayist
The College Arts & Humanities Institute presents a public reading the
Ruth N. Halls Lecture by Nobel Laureate in Literature, Poet, Translator, and Essayist
Seamus Heaney
5:30 pm, Thursday, April 15, 2010
in the Fine Arts Auditorium, FA 015
Indiana University
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney also won the T.S. Elliot Prize in Britain for his recent collection of poetry, District and Circle (2006). Early in his career, Death of a Naturalist (1966), earned him the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. North (1975) won the E.M. Forster Award and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and Opened Ground (1999) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Heaney has written hundreds of poems, which have been published in collections such as Eleven Poems (1965), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Field Work (1979), Selected Poems and Preoccupations: Selected Prose (1980), Station Island (1983), Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1993) and Electric Light (2001). Heaney has also translated classical works such as Sophocles' Philoctetes, which was produced by Field Day under the title The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1990), and The Burial at Thebes - a Version of Sophocles' Antigone (2004), as well as Beowulf (2000).
“Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Art as the wizardry of style, on the one hand, and art as the personal and public expression, on the other. Not many can fuse the two nowadays, and no one writing in English does so well as Heaney.”
— Los Angeles Times on Beowulf
The Fine Arts Auditorium is located at 1201 E. 7th Street
on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations
can be made to meet most needs. Please call (812) 856-1169.
Ruth N. Halls Lecture by Nobel Laureate in Literature, Poet, Translator, and Essayist
Seamus Heaney
5:30 pm, Thursday, April 15, 2010
in the Fine Arts Auditorium, FA 015
Indiana University
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney also won the T.S. Elliot Prize in Britain for his recent collection of poetry, District and Circle (2006). Early in his career, Death of a Naturalist (1966), earned him the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. North (1975) won the E.M. Forster Award and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and Opened Ground (1999) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Heaney has written hundreds of poems, which have been published in collections such as Eleven Poems (1965), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Field Work (1979), Selected Poems and Preoccupations: Selected Prose (1980), Station Island (1983), Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1993) and Electric Light (2001). Heaney has also translated classical works such as Sophocles' Philoctetes, which was produced by Field Day under the title The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1990), and The Burial at Thebes - a Version of Sophocles' Antigone (2004), as well as Beowulf (2000).
“Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Art as the wizardry of style, on the one hand, and art as the personal and public expression, on the other. Not many can fuse the two nowadays, and no one writing in English does so well as Heaney.”
— Los Angeles Times on Beowulf
The Fine Arts Auditorium is located at 1201 E. 7th Street
on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations
can be made to meet most needs. Please call (812) 856-1169.
Lord Timothy Garden Memorial Lecture
Please join us for the annual
Lord Timothy Garden Memorial Lecture
International Financial Security
with
Lord John Roper
Renowned expert on international policy
Tuesday, April 13
7:30 p.m.
Moot Court Room of the School of Law – Indiana University Bloomington
Lord Timothy Garden Memorial Lecture
International Financial Security
with
Lord John Roper
Renowned expert on international policy
Tuesday, April 13
7:30 p.m.
Moot Court Room of the School of Law – Indiana University Bloomington
Photography Project and Resulting Show Honor the People "Behind the Scenes" at IU
A public opening reception is scheduled for Friday, April 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the IMU Gallery for the 18 photos forming an exhibit titled "IU: Works" that will be on display in the Indiana Memorial Gallery from Wednesday, April 14, to Wednesday, April 28
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
2010 Provost Professors' Distinguished Masters Invited Lecture
You are welcome to attend the 2010 Provost Professors' Distinguished Masters Invited Lecture
How Motion Pictures Became the Movies
by
David Bordwell
Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus in Film Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Moot Court Room
Maurer School of Law
A reception will follow in the Faculty Lounge, Law 310
RSVP: vpfaa@indiana.edu
How Motion Pictures Became the Movies
by
David Bordwell
Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus in Film Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Moot Court Room
Maurer School of Law
A reception will follow in the Faculty Lounge, Law 310
RSVP: vpfaa@indiana.edu
School of Journalism Research Colloquium
Anonymity on the Internet: Free Speech and Shield Laws
Jason Martin, School of Journalism doctoral candidate &
Dr. Anthony Fargo, School of Journalism associate professor
Wednesday, April 14th, 4:30p
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
"Anonymity is a common feature of much online commentary. There is a long tradition of First Amendment protection for anonymous speech in the United States, and that tradition has continued on the Internet with a boost from statutory law. However, when the anonymous speech occurs on a news organization website, some media outlets have turned to shield laws to protect the identities of anonymous commenters from disclosure to civil litigants and law enforcement authorities. Is this development a misuse of the definition of confidential sources, or is it an attempt by both journalists and courts to adapt to a new type of journalism?"
Jason Martin, School of Journalism doctoral candidate &
Dr. Anthony Fargo, School of Journalism associate professor
Wednesday, April 14th, 4:30p
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
"Anonymity is a common feature of much online commentary. There is a long tradition of First Amendment protection for anonymous speech in the United States, and that tradition has continued on the Internet with a boost from statutory law. However, when the anonymous speech occurs on a news organization website, some media outlets have turned to shield laws to protect the identities of anonymous commenters from disclosure to civil litigants and law enforcement authorities. Is this development a misuse of the definition of confidential sources, or is it an attempt by both journalists and courts to adapt to a new type of journalism?"
"Indian, Southern, and American: Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South"
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.
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.
“Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of Medical Electricity: A Founding Father's Forays into the Neurosciences”
Stanley Finger, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~sfinger/
Senior Editor of the "Journal of the History of the Neurosciences"
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0964704X.asp
“Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of Medical Electricity:
A Founding Father's Forays into the Neurosciences”
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 101
Abstract: Benjamin Franklin was deeply involved with science, medicine, and psychology throughout his long life. One of the medical questions that most interested him was whether electricity might have medical utility. He was the leading "electrician" of his day and he was one of the first individuals to conduct "tryals" on people with palsies to see if electrical shocks from machines could restore their normal movement. Franklin recognized that electricity was not the miraculous cure it was hoped to be in this domain, and he presented his findings in 1757 as communication to the Royal Society of London. Although he did not provide names at that time, his letters reveal that he treated several very important colonists after their strokes. He also did experiments to see if electricity might cure deafness, which it did not. But when it came to hysteria, he had success. Perhaps most fascinating of all, he and Dutch physician Jan Ingenhousz suggested that electricity applied to the head may help patients suffering from melancholic madness. Their idea, presented in the 1780s, was quickly confirmed, this being well over a century before electroconvulsive shock therapy was "discovered" in Italy. The rediscoverers of modern electroconvulsive shock therapy believed that a loss of memory was basic to its effectiveness, again not realizing that Franklin was the first to describe shock-induced amnesia. These and other aspects of Franklin's overlooked forays into medicine will be presented in the content of this Founding Father's truly remarkable life.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~sfinger/
Senior Editor of the "Journal of the History of the Neurosciences"
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0964704X.asp
“Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of Medical Electricity:
A Founding Father's Forays into the Neurosciences”
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 101
Abstract: Benjamin Franklin was deeply involved with science, medicine, and psychology throughout his long life. One of the medical questions that most interested him was whether electricity might have medical utility. He was the leading "electrician" of his day and he was one of the first individuals to conduct "tryals" on people with palsies to see if electrical shocks from machines could restore their normal movement. Franklin recognized that electricity was not the miraculous cure it was hoped to be in this domain, and he presented his findings in 1757 as communication to the Royal Society of London. Although he did not provide names at that time, his letters reveal that he treated several very important colonists after their strokes. He also did experiments to see if electricity might cure deafness, which it did not. But when it came to hysteria, he had success. Perhaps most fascinating of all, he and Dutch physician Jan Ingenhousz suggested that electricity applied to the head may help patients suffering from melancholic madness. Their idea, presented in the 1780s, was quickly confirmed, this being well over a century before electroconvulsive shock therapy was "discovered" in Italy. The rediscoverers of modern electroconvulsive shock therapy believed that a loss of memory was basic to its effectiveness, again not realizing that Franklin was the first to describe shock-induced amnesia. These and other aspects of Franklin's overlooked forays into medicine will be presented in the content of this Founding Father's truly remarkable life.
India Studies House end-of-the-year Reception
The Indian Studies Program invites you to an end-of-the-year reception at the India Studies House
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
4:00-6:00 pm.
825 East 8th Street (corner of 8th Street and Woodlawn)
As we enjoy each other’s company, we plan to celebrate our collective accomplishments, so please, when you RSVP, let us know what feathers you’ve added to your cap this year (I.e., did you get selected to participate in a CLS program? Win a dissertation research grant? Publish a book? Organize a conference? Etc. etc.).
Please share this with your students and colleagues who would like to join us. We hope to see all our colleagues – faculty, staff, students, and community members – that afternoon.
Please RSVP to Tim Callahan, Assistant Director (timcalla@indiana.edu) by Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
4:00-6:00 pm.
825 East 8th Street (corner of 8th Street and Woodlawn)
As we enjoy each other’s company, we plan to celebrate our collective accomplishments, so please, when you RSVP, let us know what feathers you’ve added to your cap this year (I.e., did you get selected to participate in a CLS program? Win a dissertation research grant? Publish a book? Organize a conference? Etc. etc.).
Please share this with your students and colleagues who would like to join us. We hope to see all our colleagues – faculty, staff, students, and community members – that afternoon.
Please RSVP to Tim Callahan, Assistant Director (timcalla@indiana.edu) by Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
The Indiana University India Studies Program presents
Early Indian Mathematics
Samir Bose
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, April 21 at 5:30 pm
Indiana Memorial Union
State Room East
ABSTRACT
In this presentation, Professor Bose will review and appraise the contributions of early India to the development of mathematics beginning with arithmetic and ending with differential and integral calculus. The system of enumeration of natural numbers (positive integers) that we use today arose in India. Early advances in mathematics were followed by developments in trigonometry, which emerged out of the requirements of astronomy, eventually leading to Aryabhatta’s (476 CE) work on the sine function. After Bhaskaracharya (1114 CE), mathematical activity came to a halt in India with the exception of an absolutely remarkable development in an obscure and isolated part of the country. At the Kerala School of Mathematics, its founder, Madhava (1340 – 1425 CE), discovered the rules governing differential and integral calculus and used these to develop (among others) infinite power series expressions for sin θ and cos θ (in powers of θ) and one for inverse tangent function (in powers of x). These values would be rediscovered centuries later by Newton (1676 CE) and Gregory (1667 CE).
Thus a program initiated by Aryabhatta almost a thousand years ago comes to a close. Mathematical activity ends with Sankara Varman of the Kerala School and the dark-age finally descends on India. Deliverance would arrive only after contact was reestablished with ‘modern’ European mathematics at the end of the nineteenth century.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
Samir Bose
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, April 21 at 5:30 pm
Indiana Memorial Union
State Room East
ABSTRACT
In this presentation, Professor Bose will review and appraise the contributions of early India to the development of mathematics beginning with arithmetic and ending with differential and integral calculus. The system of enumeration of natural numbers (positive integers) that we use today arose in India. Early advances in mathematics were followed by developments in trigonometry, which emerged out of the requirements of astronomy, eventually leading to Aryabhatta’s (476 CE) work on the sine function. After Bhaskaracharya (1114 CE), mathematical activity came to a halt in India with the exception of an absolutely remarkable development in an obscure and isolated part of the country. At the Kerala School of Mathematics, its founder, Madhava (1340 – 1425 CE), discovered the rules governing differential and integral calculus and used these to develop (among others) infinite power series expressions for sin θ and cos θ (in powers of θ) and one for inverse tangent function (in powers of x). These values would be rediscovered centuries later by Newton (1676 CE) and Gregory (1667 CE).
Thus a program initiated by Aryabhatta almost a thousand years ago comes to a close. Mathematical activity ends with Sankara Varman of the Kerala School and the dark-age finally descends on India. Deliverance would arrive only after contact was reestablished with ‘modern’ European mathematics at the end of the nineteenth century.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
Czech Film Series 2009-2010
Thursday, April 22, Lindley Hall 102 at 7 PM
Ladislav Smoljak: Jára Cimrman, Lying, Sleeping
(1983)
This film is a result of a mystification, which has been lasting since 1967 and is still alive. It is a mockumentary about Cimrman, a universal Czech genius that was active in all branches of science and art in the times before the First World War. Unfortunately, he has never achieved proper recognition for his achievements. There is a specialized theater in his name in Prague developing this idea in quasi-scientific seminars and theatre plays. Jára Cimrman ležící, spící consists mainly of independent sketches, where Cimrman meets various historical personalities of his times and advises them: he is e.g. responsible for A. P. Čechov calling his play Three Sisters, he advises Gustav Eiffel in conceiving the Eiffel Tower etc. The play/film is one of an extensive series representing a particular Czech type of intellectual humor poking fun at any trace of nationalism Czechs might possess.
Color. In Czech with English subtitles. 81 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Ladislav Smoljak: Jára Cimrman, Lying, Sleeping
(1983)
This film is a result of a mystification, which has been lasting since 1967 and is still alive. It is a mockumentary about Cimrman, a universal Czech genius that was active in all branches of science and art in the times before the First World War. Unfortunately, he has never achieved proper recognition for his achievements. There is a specialized theater in his name in Prague developing this idea in quasi-scientific seminars and theatre plays. Jára Cimrman ležící, spící consists mainly of independent sketches, where Cimrman meets various historical personalities of his times and advises them: he is e.g. responsible for A. P. Čechov calling his play Three Sisters, he advises Gustav Eiffel in conceiving the Eiffel Tower etc. The play/film is one of an extensive series representing a particular Czech type of intellectual humor poking fun at any trace of nationalism Czechs might possess.
Color. In Czech with English subtitles. 81 mins.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Contact Mary Gray by April 19th if you'd like to meet Prof. Fred Turner
Visiting Friday April 23, Fred Turner (delivering a talk Friday March 26 from 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM
Location: IU Wells Library, 001
Fred Turner is an associate professor at Stanford University. He has courtesy appointments in the the department of Art and History, American Studies, Modern Thought and Literature, Science, Technology, and Society, and Urban Studies. Fred Turner's research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history. Turner is the author of two books, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (1996; Revised 2nd ed. 2001). His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the role of the Burning Man festival in contemporary new media industries.
If you would like to meet with Fred Turner, please contact Prof. Mary Gray (at mlg@indiana.edu). Prof. Turner will likely have some time to meet before or after his talk. There are also a few spaces for folks to join us for dinner Friday evening at 7PM (we're going dutch so a reasonably priced spot will be chosen). Please let Prof. Gray know if you're interested in meeting Prof. Turner while he's in town.
Location: IU Wells Library, 001
Fred Turner is an associate professor at Stanford University. He has courtesy appointments in the the department of Art and History, American Studies, Modern Thought and Literature, Science, Technology, and Society, and Urban Studies. Fred Turner's research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history. Turner is the author of two books, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (1996; Revised 2nd ed. 2001). His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the role of the Burning Man festival in contemporary new media industries.
If you would like to meet with Fred Turner, please contact Prof. Mary Gray (at mlg@indiana.edu). Prof. Turner will likely have some time to meet before or after his talk. There are also a few spaces for folks to join us for dinner Friday evening at 7PM (we're going dutch so a reasonably priced spot will be chosen). Please let Prof. Gray know if you're interested in meeting Prof. Turner while he's in town.
CMCL Colloquium Series
The Department of Communication & Culture announces a colloquium presentation of the
New Directions in Media and Performance speakers series
Professor Amanda Weidman
Anthropology, Bryn Mawr
“Female Voices in the Public Sphere:
The Changing Sound and Image of Playback Singers in
Kollywood”
April 16, 2010 <> 4:00-5:00 p.m. <> Room 100 <> 800 E. 3rd Street <> IUB
For more information contact sseizer@indiana.edu 812.856.1986
New Directions in Media and Performance speakers series
Professor Amanda Weidman
Anthropology, Bryn Mawr
“Female Voices in the Public Sphere:
The Changing Sound and Image of Playback Singers in
Kollywood”
April 16, 2010 <> 4:00-5:00 p.m. <> Room 100 <> 800 E. 3rd Street <> IUB
For more information contact sseizer@indiana.edu 812.856.1986
Association for India's Development, Bloomington Chapter invites you to Workshop on Energy Saving Cookware
sponsored by:
Asian Cultural Center
Food Studies Concentration in the Anthropology Dept
Date: April 22, 2010
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Venue: Front Lawn, Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: In this workshop, Rama Cousik, IU Doctoral Student and member of Association for India’s Development (AID) Bloomington Chapter, will demonstrate and explain how this unique and energy saving cooking device works. The workshop will also show the potentials of this device and how it can be adapted in everyday cooking.
For more info, please see the link below, in which the person who designed it explains how it was made and how it works.
Here is a brief description of how this cookware works:
1. The outer cover is a wicker/bamboo basket.
2. The inside of the basket and its lid are lined with hay, which is a good insulator.
3. The hay is covered by a lining of jute cloth.
4. Bring any dish that you are cooking, such as rice, vegetables or previously soaked lentils, to boiling point on the stove. Make sure that the dish is covered with a lid.
5. As soon as the food starts to boil, place the container with the lid in the hay cooker.
6. Cover it and leave it for about 40 minutes.
7. The hay helps preserves the heat generated by the initial cooking, which is used to cook the food completely.
8. There is no loss of nutrients as all the moisture is retained within the vessel.
9. There is no further use of electricity or gas after the initial cooking.
Video explaining the original cookware:
http://aidindia.org/main/content/blogcategory/187/333/1/1/
Pictures of the dishes made by Rama Cousik:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ramacousik/HayCooker?feat=directlink
Asian Cultural Center
Food Studies Concentration in the Anthropology Dept
Date: April 22, 2010
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Venue: Front Lawn, Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: In this workshop, Rama Cousik, IU Doctoral Student and member of Association for India’s Development (AID) Bloomington Chapter, will demonstrate and explain how this unique and energy saving cooking device works. The workshop will also show the potentials of this device and how it can be adapted in everyday cooking.
For more info, please see the link below, in which the person who designed it explains how it was made and how it works.
Here is a brief description of how this cookware works:
1. The outer cover is a wicker/bamboo basket.
2. The inside of the basket and its lid are lined with hay, which is a good insulator.
3. The hay is covered by a lining of jute cloth.
4. Bring any dish that you are cooking, such as rice, vegetables or previously soaked lentils, to boiling point on the stove. Make sure that the dish is covered with a lid.
5. As soon as the food starts to boil, place the container with the lid in the hay cooker.
6. Cover it and leave it for about 40 minutes.
7. The hay helps preserves the heat generated by the initial cooking, which is used to cook the food completely.
8. There is no loss of nutrients as all the moisture is retained within the vessel.
9. There is no further use of electricity or gas after the initial cooking.
Video explaining the original cookware:
http://aidindia.org/main/content/blogcategory/187/333/1/1/
Pictures of the dishes made by Rama Cousik:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ramacousik/HayCooker?feat=directlink
Friday, April 9, 2010
School of Journalism Guest Speaker
On Monday, Josh Silver of Free Press will be speaking at Indiana University about the state of public media, journalism and the Internet, and the prospects for reform.
The event is free and open to the public.
What: Guest Speaker: Josh Silver of Free Press
When: Monday, April 12, 2010, 7 p.m. — 9 p.m.
Where: Ernie Pyle Auditorium
Indiana University School of Journalism
940 East Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Click here for more information
The event is free and open to the public.
What: Guest Speaker: Josh Silver of Free Press
When: Monday, April 12, 2010, 7 p.m. — 9 p.m.
Where: Ernie Pyle Auditorium
Indiana University School of Journalism
940 East Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Click here for more information
IN SEARCH OF NETWORKED PUBLIC SPHERES
Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, School of Journalism, and Colloquium for Political Communication Research.
Speaker: Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle
Topic: In Search of Networked Public Spheres
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: Room #120 Woodburn Hall
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and
coffee, available at 1:15pm.
For the abstract and brief biographical sketch, see:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-spring
For more information about the Center,
please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Speaker: Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle
Topic: In Search of Networked Public Spheres
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: Room #120 Woodburn Hall
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and
coffee, available at 1:15pm.
For the abstract and brief biographical sketch, see:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-spring
For more information about the Center,
please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Thursday, April 8, 2010
City Lights & Underground Film Series presents
Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray, 1949)
Friday, April 9, 2010
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Adapted from the novel by Willard Motley, Nicholas Ray’s courtroom noir gave 1950s American youth culture its rebellious and romantic credo: Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. Humphrey Bogart stars as a cynical lawyer from the slums, who reluctantly agrees to defend a teenager (John Derek) off those same streets accused of killing a police officer. Released on the heels of Rays debut They Live by Night (1949), and foreshadowing his classic melodrama of juvenile delinquency Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Knock on Any Door marks an early example of the cult auteur’s preoccupation with victims of society, alienated anti-heroes, and postwar malaise. The film also served as the first project by Bogart’s own Santana
Productions. (100 min.)
Friday, April 9, 2010
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Adapted from the novel by Willard Motley, Nicholas Ray’s courtroom noir gave 1950s American youth culture its rebellious and romantic credo: Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. Humphrey Bogart stars as a cynical lawyer from the slums, who reluctantly agrees to defend a teenager (John Derek) off those same streets accused of killing a police officer. Released on the heels of Rays debut They Live by Night (1949), and foreshadowing his classic melodrama of juvenile delinquency Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Knock on Any Door marks an early example of the cult auteur’s preoccupation with victims of society, alienated anti-heroes, and postwar malaise. The film also served as the first project by Bogart’s own Santana
Productions. (100 min.)
CMCL Colloquium Series
Friday, April 9, 2010
4:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Michael T. Martin,IU AAADS &
David Wall Visiting Lecturer,IU AAADS
"The Dialectics of Race, Space, and Modernity in Ed Bland's The Cry of Jazz"
4:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Michael T. Martin,IU AAADS &
David Wall Visiting Lecturer,IU AAADS
"The Dialectics of Race, Space, and Modernity in Ed Bland's The Cry of Jazz"
O'Bannon Institute at Bloomington Ivy Tech Campus to Host Arianna Huffington
Schedule of Friday events at Ivy Tech’s Bloomington campus (includes listing of panelists)
8:30 a.m. — Registration (Continental Breakfast)
9 a.m. — Welcome Remarks by Chancellor of Ivy Tech’s Bloomington campus John Whikehart & Former Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon
9:40 a.m. — Panel Discussion One — Higher Education Officials
Jo Ann M. Gora, President, Ball State University
Daniel J. Bradley, President, Indiana State University
Don Doucette, Senior Vice President/Provost, Ivy Tech Community College
John Applegate, Vice President for Planning & Policy, Indiana University
Vic Lechtenberg, Vice Provost for Engagement, Purdue University
Moderator: Chuck Carney Director of Communications & Media Relations, School of Education, Indiana University
11 a.m. — Panel Discussion Two — Area Superintendents
Tony Bennett, Indiana Superintendant of Public Instruction
J.T. Coopman, Superintendent, Monroe County Community School Corp.
Steve Kain, Superintendent, Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp.
Ty Mungle, Superintendent, Eastern Greene Schools
Dennis Turner, Superintendent, North Lawrence Community Schools
Moderator: Anne Shane, Ivy Tech Community College State Trustee; Vice President, BioCrossroads
Noon — Lunch Provided
1:15 p.m. — Panel Discussion Three — State Policy Experts
Gerardo González, Dean, School of Education, Indiana University
Scott Jenkins, Governor’s Senior Policy Director for Education
Teresa Lubbers, Commissioner, Indiana Commission for Higher Education
Greg Porter, Chairman of the Indiana House Education Committee
Terry Spradlin, Associate Director for Education Policy, Indiana University
Moderator: Gerry Dick, Host, Inside Indiana Business
2:30 p.m. — Conversation with co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and nationally syndicated columnist, Arianna Huffington, moderated by The Herald-Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg
8:30 a.m. — Registration (Continental Breakfast)
9 a.m. — Welcome Remarks by Chancellor of Ivy Tech’s Bloomington campus John Whikehart & Former Indiana First Lady Judy O’Bannon
9:40 a.m. — Panel Discussion One — Higher Education Officials
Jo Ann M. Gora, President, Ball State University
Daniel J. Bradley, President, Indiana State University
Don Doucette, Senior Vice President/Provost, Ivy Tech Community College
John Applegate, Vice President for Planning & Policy, Indiana University
Vic Lechtenberg, Vice Provost for Engagement, Purdue University
Moderator: Chuck Carney Director of Communications & Media Relations, School of Education, Indiana University
11 a.m. — Panel Discussion Two — Area Superintendents
Tony Bennett, Indiana Superintendant of Public Instruction
J.T. Coopman, Superintendent, Monroe County Community School Corp.
Steve Kain, Superintendent, Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp.
Ty Mungle, Superintendent, Eastern Greene Schools
Dennis Turner, Superintendent, North Lawrence Community Schools
Moderator: Anne Shane, Ivy Tech Community College State Trustee; Vice President, BioCrossroads
Noon — Lunch Provided
1:15 p.m. — Panel Discussion Three — State Policy Experts
Gerardo González, Dean, School of Education, Indiana University
Scott Jenkins, Governor’s Senior Policy Director for Education
Teresa Lubbers, Commissioner, Indiana Commission for Higher Education
Greg Porter, Chairman of the Indiana House Education Committee
Terry Spradlin, Associate Director for Education Policy, Indiana University
Moderator: Gerry Dick, Host, Inside Indiana Business
2:30 p.m. — Conversation with co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and nationally syndicated columnist, Arianna Huffington, moderated by The Herald-Times Editor Bob Zaltsberg
Ryan White's Mother to Speak at IU
WHAT: “AIDS Education: 20 Years After Ryan White,” a commemorative event that honors Ryan White’s influence on AIDS/HIV education and anti-discrimination efforts and offers an update on such efforts in the U.S.
WHO: Speakers are White’s mother, Jeanne White Ginder; Dr. Jill Waibel, childhood friend of White’s and founder of the IU Dance Marathon; and Douglas Kirby, nationally known AIDS/HIV education expert.
WHEN: Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with a reception from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whittenberger Auditorium, in the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington. The reception will be in the University Club at the IMU.
ATTENDANCE: The event is free and open to the public.
SPONSORS: Cosponsored by the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
ABOUT THE DANCE MARATHON: Since its inception, the IU Dance Marathon has raised more than $7 million for children at the Riley Hospital for Children, and has also helped fund the hospital’s Ryan White Infectious Disease Clinic, which takes care of the nation’s sickest children.
ABOUT THE RURAL CENTER FOR AIDS PREVENTION: The Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, which began operations in March, 1994, is headquartered at Indiana University. A joint project of IU, the University of Colorado, and the University of Kentucky, it focuses on the promotion of HIV/STD prevention in rural America, with the goal of reducing HIV/STD incidence.
WHO: Speakers are White’s mother, Jeanne White Ginder; Dr. Jill Waibel, childhood friend of White’s and founder of the IU Dance Marathon; and Douglas Kirby, nationally known AIDS/HIV education expert.
WHEN: Friday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with a reception from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Whittenberger Auditorium, in the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington. The reception will be in the University Club at the IMU.
ATTENDANCE: The event is free and open to the public.
SPONSORS: Cosponsored by the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
ABOUT THE DANCE MARATHON: Since its inception, the IU Dance Marathon has raised more than $7 million for children at the Riley Hospital for Children, and has also helped fund the hospital’s Ryan White Infectious Disease Clinic, which takes care of the nation’s sickest children.
ABOUT THE RURAL CENTER FOR AIDS PREVENTION: The Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention, which began operations in March, 1994, is headquartered at Indiana University. A joint project of IU, the University of Colorado, and the University of Kentucky, it focuses on the promotion of HIV/STD prevention in rural America, with the goal of reducing HIV/STD incidence.
"Cooperatively Building for the Future: Rethinking Paradigms"
Thursday 4/8,
12:30 p.m.,
IMU Georgian Room
Panel for Part 3: "Cooperatively Building for the Future: Rethinking Paradigms"
John Bodnar (History, Institute for Advanced Study); Lillian Casillas (La Casa Latino Cultural Center); Hilary Kahn (Center for the Study of Globasl Change; Global Studies Minor)
Thursday 4/15, 3 p.m., IMU Georgian RoomARC 2010! Speaker for Part 3 Jack Tchen (NYU), "The Urgency of Knowing: building a Cross-Cultural Learning Commons"
Brief bio and description of talk provided below.
The Urgency of Knowing: Building a Cross-Cultural Learning Commons Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
As the U.S. further “globalizes” and we respond to ever-diverse student populations, this nation’s research universities are clearly at a moment in need for more cross-cultural ways of knowing. This is a good time to ask some fundamental questions about our framings and practices. Reflecting on 30 years of work as a public and academic historian, “a curator of brainstorming,” and as a “re-organizer,” Jack Tchen will offer a vision of a cross-cultural learning commons and some thoughts on how we can collaboratively build such spaces at our research universities. The ideas are simple, but doing so does require some foundational reworking of how we do what we do. And this is the hard part. But it can be done and is already happening at our institutions, especially informally in the lives of our undergraduate and graduate students, and younger faculty. But do we recognize it? Do we value it?
Brief biographic profile:
Professor Tchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific /American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University and a co-founder of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. Jack was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (renamed The National Medal of Humanities). He is author of the award-winning books New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 and Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown, 1895-1905. And he is co-principle investigator of “Asian Americas and Pacific Islanders Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight” produced with The College Board.
Professor Tchen has been building research collections of Asians in the Americas. In doing so, he has critically examined practices of collections and archives to make sense of how we come to know what we know, and don’t know.
Professor Tchen is now working on a book about New York City – focusing on the unrecognized tradition of the intermingling of people, creativity and improvisation of everyday residents. He is also editing The ‘Yellow Peril’ Reader: Understanding Xenophobia. He regularly collaborates with filmmakers and media producers, artists and collectors, and through the A/P/A Institute sponsors and produces hundreds of programs and performances. Most recently, he co-curated MoCA’s core exhibition: “With a single step: stories in the making of America” in a new space designed by Maya Lin.
12:30 p.m.,
IMU Georgian Room
Panel for Part 3: "Cooperatively Building for the Future: Rethinking Paradigms"
John Bodnar (History, Institute for Advanced Study); Lillian Casillas (La Casa Latino Cultural Center); Hilary Kahn (Center for the Study of Globasl Change; Global Studies Minor)
Thursday 4/15, 3 p.m., IMU Georgian RoomARC 2010! Speaker for Part 3 Jack Tchen (NYU), "The Urgency of Knowing: building a Cross-Cultural Learning Commons"
Brief bio and description of talk provided below.
The Urgency of Knowing: Building a Cross-Cultural Learning Commons Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
As the U.S. further “globalizes” and we respond to ever-diverse student populations, this nation’s research universities are clearly at a moment in need for more cross-cultural ways of knowing. This is a good time to ask some fundamental questions about our framings and practices. Reflecting on 30 years of work as a public and academic historian, “a curator of brainstorming,” and as a “re-organizer,” Jack Tchen will offer a vision of a cross-cultural learning commons and some thoughts on how we can collaboratively build such spaces at our research universities. The ideas are simple, but doing so does require some foundational reworking of how we do what we do. And this is the hard part. But it can be done and is already happening at our institutions, especially informally in the lives of our undergraduate and graduate students, and younger faculty. But do we recognize it? Do we value it?
Brief biographic profile:
Professor Tchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific /American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University and a co-founder of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. Jack was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (renamed The National Medal of Humanities). He is author of the award-winning books New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 and Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown, 1895-1905. And he is co-principle investigator of “Asian Americas and Pacific Islanders Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight” produced with The College Board.
Professor Tchen has been building research collections of Asians in the Americas. In doing so, he has critically examined practices of collections and archives to make sense of how we come to know what we know, and don’t know.
Professor Tchen is now working on a book about New York City – focusing on the unrecognized tradition of the intermingling of people, creativity and improvisation of everyday residents. He is also editing The ‘Yellow Peril’ Reader: Understanding Xenophobia. He regularly collaborates with filmmakers and media producers, artists and collectors, and through the A/P/A Institute sponsors and produces hundreds of programs and performances. Most recently, he co-curated MoCA’s core exhibition: “With a single step: stories in the making of America” in a new space designed by Maya Lin.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
CMCL Student Wins GPSO Travel Grant
The Graduate and Professional Student Organization has announced that CMCL PhD Candidate Amanda Keeler is a winner of a GPSO Spring Travel Grant!
CMCL Spring Travel Grant Winners Announced
Congratulations to the following CMCL students for winning CMCL Spring 2010 Travel Grants:
Bryan Walsh
Eric Harvey
Mark Benedetti
Justin Rawlins
Shira Segal
Korryn Mozisek
Bryan Walsh
Eric Harvey
Mark Benedetti
Justin Rawlins
Shira Segal
Korryn Mozisek
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures presents
The 101 Nights & The 1001 Nights
Prof. Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi
Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyoto Notre Dame University
Friday, April 9, 2010
4pm
003 Woodburn Hall
The Hundred and One Nights is a collection of stories that was handed down to us through Maghrebi manuscripts. In 1911, a French Orientalist, M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, published Les Cent et une nuits in French translation. In 1979, a Tunisian scholar, Maḥmūd Ṭarshūnah, published the first Arabic edition Mi′at Laylah wa Laylah in Tunis. The Hundred and One Nights contains some stories that are found in the Thousand and One Nights. Moreover, the frame story of the Hundred and One Nights is similar to that of the Thousand and One Nights. The aim of this lecture is to compare the frame story of the Hundred and One Nights with that of the Thousand and One Nights, relying on the Indian tale that some scholars regard as the origin of both frame stories.
The Islamic Context of the 1001 Nights
Prof. Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi
Professor of Arabic Literature, Columbia University
Friday, April 23, 2010
4 pm
003 Woodburn Hall
The tales of the Thousand and One Nights unfold, like any other cultural production, in a mixed climate of Islamic ideology and utopia, but they rarely subscribe to any polarized position or stance. Growing and taking shape in the early Abbasid period, the tales were reciprocal with and opposite to the rising tendency among jurists to establish a codified discourse in order to regulate the emerging urban population in the Islamic center. These jurists’ handbooks and epistles define professions and groups and ways of assessment that administer both economy and morals. The tales convey an awareness of this codification in narratives of professionals, markets, domestic life, but also spaces that fall outside the reach of authority. The frame tale brings together many contending agencies, orders, attitudes, and sites of power, and sets the scene for further complications that also playfully debunk the vocabulary of taboo and blockage. This tension between a regulatory discourse and urban needs creates a disequilibrium that is the power behind the narrative appeal of the tales in an Islamic context.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Global Change, the Medieval Studies Institute, the Center for African Studies, & the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â For accessibility information please call: 812 855 7578
Prof. Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi
Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyoto Notre Dame University
Friday, April 9, 2010
4pm
003 Woodburn Hall
The Hundred and One Nights is a collection of stories that was handed down to us through Maghrebi manuscripts. In 1911, a French Orientalist, M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, published Les Cent et une nuits in French translation. In 1979, a Tunisian scholar, Maḥmūd Ṭarshūnah, published the first Arabic edition Mi′at Laylah wa Laylah in Tunis. The Hundred and One Nights contains some stories that are found in the Thousand and One Nights. Moreover, the frame story of the Hundred and One Nights is similar to that of the Thousand and One Nights. The aim of this lecture is to compare the frame story of the Hundred and One Nights with that of the Thousand and One Nights, relying on the Indian tale that some scholars regard as the origin of both frame stories.
The Islamic Context of the 1001 Nights
Prof. Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi
Professor of Arabic Literature, Columbia University
Friday, April 23, 2010
4 pm
003 Woodburn Hall
The tales of the Thousand and One Nights unfold, like any other cultural production, in a mixed climate of Islamic ideology and utopia, but they rarely subscribe to any polarized position or stance. Growing and taking shape in the early Abbasid period, the tales were reciprocal with and opposite to the rising tendency among jurists to establish a codified discourse in order to regulate the emerging urban population in the Islamic center. These jurists’ handbooks and epistles define professions and groups and ways of assessment that administer both economy and morals. The tales convey an awareness of this codification in narratives of professionals, markets, domestic life, but also spaces that fall outside the reach of authority. The frame tale brings together many contending agencies, orders, attitudes, and sites of power, and sets the scene for further complications that also playfully debunk the vocabulary of taboo and blockage. This tension between a regulatory discourse and urban needs creates a disequilibrium that is the power behind the narrative appeal of the tales in an Islamic context.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Global Change, the Medieval Studies Institute, the Center for African Studies, & the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â For accessibility information please call: 812 855 7578
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE
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.
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.
New CFP in the Calls for Papers Link List
A call for papers for the Graduate Student Conference, Recycling, hosted by the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Department at Stony Brook University has been added to the Call for Papers Link on the menu to the right. For details, click here.
The Indiana University India Studies Program presents Tribal and Folk Musics of India
Lewis Rowell
Professor Emeritus
Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University, Bloomington
Thursday, April 8 at 5:00 pm
Sweeney Lecture Hall
Simon Music Building
Room 015
ABSTRACT
The census of 2001, as authorized by article 342 of India’s Constitution, enumerated a total of 645 “scheduled tribes”--about 8.2% of India’s population. Their music is by definition “folk music,” but what Indians have chosen to call folk music is an entirely different musical world. Drawing upon a rich collection of recordings from the archives of the Sangeet Natak Akademi in New Delhi, Professor Rowell will explore the diverse musical features of audio and video excerpts from India’s various regions.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
Professor Emeritus
Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University, Bloomington
Thursday, April 8 at 5:00 pm
Sweeney Lecture Hall
Simon Music Building
Room 015
ABSTRACT
The census of 2001, as authorized by article 342 of India’s Constitution, enumerated a total of 645 “scheduled tribes”--about 8.2% of India’s population. Their music is by definition “folk music,” but what Indians have chosen to call folk music is an entirely different musical world. Drawing upon a rich collection of recordings from the archives of the Sangeet Natak Akademi in New Delhi, Professor Rowell will explore the diverse musical features of audio and video excerpts from India’s various regions.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798.
The Late Age of Print Open Source Audiobook Project
Ted Striphas has been hinting on his blog for the last few weeks that he had a big announcement brewing. Here are some excerpts from the post and a call for assistance.
"Well, at long last, here it is: together we’re going to make a free, Creative Commons-licensed audiobook of The Late Age of Print! First, some background on what inspired the project, and then a word or two on how you can help."
Listening to Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price on a long car trip got me thinking: why not make an audiobook out of The Late Age of Print? And why not, like Anderson, give the digital recording away for free?
Then it dawned on me: if I’m planning on giving away the audiobook for free, then why not get people who might be interested in hearing Late Age in on it, too? Thus was born the Late Age of Print wiki, the host site for The Late Age of Print open source audiobook project. The plan is for all of us, using the wiki, to create a Creative Commons-licensed text-to-speech version of the book, which will be available for free online.
There’s a good deal of work for us to do, but don’t be daunted! If you choose to donate a large chunk of your time to help out the cause, then that’s just super. But don’t forget that projects like this one also succeed when a large number of people invest tiny amounts of their time as well. Your five or ten minutes of editing, combined with the work of scores of other collaborators, will yield a top-notch product in the end. I’ve posted some guidelines on the wiki site to help get you started."
Thank you in advance for your contributions, whatever they may be. In the meantime, if you have any questions about The Late Age of Print open source audiobook project, don't hesitate to email Prof. Striphas at striphas@indiana.edu.
"Well, at long last, here it is: together we’re going to make a free, Creative Commons-licensed audiobook of The Late Age of Print! First, some background on what inspired the project, and then a word or two on how you can help."
Listening to Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price on a long car trip got me thinking: why not make an audiobook out of The Late Age of Print? And why not, like Anderson, give the digital recording away for free?
Then it dawned on me: if I’m planning on giving away the audiobook for free, then why not get people who might be interested in hearing Late Age in on it, too? Thus was born the Late Age of Print wiki, the host site for The Late Age of Print open source audiobook project. The plan is for all of us, using the wiki, to create a Creative Commons-licensed text-to-speech version of the book, which will be available for free online.
There’s a good deal of work for us to do, but don’t be daunted! If you choose to donate a large chunk of your time to help out the cause, then that’s just super. But don’t forget that projects like this one also succeed when a large number of people invest tiny amounts of their time as well. Your five or ten minutes of editing, combined with the work of scores of other collaborators, will yield a top-notch product in the end. I’ve posted some guidelines on the wiki site to help get you started."
Thank you in advance for your contributions, whatever they may be. In the meantime, if you have any questions about The Late Age of Print open source audiobook project, don't hesitate to email Prof. Striphas at striphas@indiana.edu.
Sociology’s Political, Economic, and Cultural Sociology Workshop
A general announcement/reminder that the Department of Sociology’s Political, Economic, and Cultural Sociology Workshop (PEC) will hold its big event of the year this Friday from 2:00-4:00 in the IMU Dogwood Room (flyer attached). Tak Wing Chan (Oxford), Jennifer Lena (Vanderbilt), and John Levi Martin (Chicago) will be the guests, speaking on “Cultural Sociology/Sociology of Culture: Present and Future.” All are of course invited and encouraged to attend.
A bit of background on our panelists:
Tak Wing Chan is currently Head of Department and University Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford University. He is also Director of the Oxford
Network for Social Inequality Research and a fellow of New College.
Most recently, he is editor of Social Status and Cultural Consumption (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), “Parenting Style and Youth Outcomes in the UK” (forthcoming in the European Sociological Review w/Anita Koo), and “Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance” (American Sociological Review 2007, w/ John Goldthorpe).
Jennifer Lena is currently Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. She is also Affiliated Faculty in the American Studies Program and at the Center for Ethics, and a Faculty Fellow of the Curb Center for Arts, Enterprise, and Public Policy. Most recently, she is author of “Politically-Purposed Music Genres” (forthcoming in the American Behavioral Scientist w/ Richard Peterson), “Valuing Art” (Contexts 2009, w/ Peter Levin), and “Classification as Culture:
Types and Trajectories of Music Genres” (American Sociological Review 2008, w/ Richard Peterson).
John Levi Martin is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Most recently, he is author of Social Structures (Princeton University Press 2009), “Life’s a Beach but You’re an Ant, and Other Unwelcome News for the Sociology of Culture” (forthcoming in Poetics), “Political Position and Social Knowledge” (forthcoming in Sociological Forum, w/ Matt Desmond), and “The Formation and Stabilization of Vertical Hierarchies among Adolescents: Towards a Quantitative Ethology of Dominance among Humans” (Social Psychology Quarterly 2009).
A bit of background on our panelists:
Tak Wing Chan is currently Head of Department and University Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford University. He is also Director of the Oxford
Network for Social Inequality Research and a fellow of New College.
Most recently, he is editor of Social Status and Cultural Consumption (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), “Parenting Style and Youth Outcomes in the UK” (forthcoming in the European Sociological Review w/Anita Koo), and “Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance” (American Sociological Review 2007, w/ John Goldthorpe).
Jennifer Lena is currently Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. She is also Affiliated Faculty in the American Studies Program and at the Center for Ethics, and a Faculty Fellow of the Curb Center for Arts, Enterprise, and Public Policy. Most recently, she is author of “Politically-Purposed Music Genres” (forthcoming in the American Behavioral Scientist w/ Richard Peterson), “Valuing Art” (Contexts 2009, w/ Peter Levin), and “Classification as Culture:
Types and Trajectories of Music Genres” (American Sociological Review 2008, w/ Richard Peterson).
John Levi Martin is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Most recently, he is author of Social Structures (Princeton University Press 2009), “Life’s a Beach but You’re an Ant, and Other Unwelcome News for the Sociology of Culture” (forthcoming in Poetics), “Political Position and Social Knowledge” (forthcoming in Sociological Forum, w/ Matt Desmond), and “The Formation and Stabilization of Vertical Hierarchies among Adolescents: Towards a Quantitative Ethology of Dominance among Humans” (Social Psychology Quarterly 2009).
From the IDS: IU Boasts World's History of Films
“Rosebud.”
It’s not often that the general public has access to film scripts and documents. Far less often is access granted to the first rough draft of “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ legacy in the cinematic world. But here, amidst millions of other documents, the University holds a number of film collections, divided throughout various parts of campus.
There’s the Orson Welles collection, as well as the John Ford collection, housed at the Lilly Library. There’s the David Bradley collection, willed to the University by the filmmaker’s estate, also located at the Lilly Library.
There’s the Black Film Center/Archive, which houses films like “Superfly,” at the Herman B Wells Library. The Wells Library plays host to a collection of historic educational films. Even the Kinsey Institute hosts approximately 8,000 films in its collections.
Jon Vickers, the incoming director of the IU Cinema, said he was drawn to his position at IU because of both the collections housed here and the support for maintaining an active interest in film.
“They’re magnificent collections, with over, I believe, 10,000 film prints between 16 mm and 35 mm here in the holdings on campus that we can dip into to help build the program for the cinema,” Vickers said.
The IU Cinema, slated to open fall 2010, will play host to screening opportunities for a number of films that would normally not receive attention, including those housed within the collections.
“We want this to be a world class facility that is dedicated to the scholarly study of film and the high standards of exhibition in its traditional and modern forms,” Vickers said. “I think for the first time ever, we want to allow public research of these holding. Some of these unique holdings that are on 35 mm or 16 mm, students don’t have great access to them.”
For the full story, click here.
It’s not often that the general public has access to film scripts and documents. Far less often is access granted to the first rough draft of “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ legacy in the cinematic world. But here, amidst millions of other documents, the University holds a number of film collections, divided throughout various parts of campus.
There’s the Orson Welles collection, as well as the John Ford collection, housed at the Lilly Library. There’s the David Bradley collection, willed to the University by the filmmaker’s estate, also located at the Lilly Library.
There’s the Black Film Center/Archive, which houses films like “Superfly,” at the Herman B Wells Library. The Wells Library plays host to a collection of historic educational films. Even the Kinsey Institute hosts approximately 8,000 films in its collections.
Jon Vickers, the incoming director of the IU Cinema, said he was drawn to his position at IU because of both the collections housed here and the support for maintaining an active interest in film.
“They’re magnificent collections, with over, I believe, 10,000 film prints between 16 mm and 35 mm here in the holdings on campus that we can dip into to help build the program for the cinema,” Vickers said.
The IU Cinema, slated to open fall 2010, will play host to screening opportunities for a number of films that would normally not receive attention, including those housed within the collections.
“We want this to be a world class facility that is dedicated to the scholarly study of film and the high standards of exhibition in its traditional and modern forms,” Vickers said. “I think for the first time ever, we want to allow public research of these holding. Some of these unique holdings that are on 35 mm or 16 mm, students don’t have great access to them.”
For the full story, click here.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Global Media and the War on Terror: an international conference
Second call for papers: extended deadline for abstracts 28 May 2010
Global Media and the ﾑWar on Terrorﾒ: an international conference
Organized by Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London, in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London
ﾠ
Dates: Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 September 2010
Conference organizers: Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, and Dr Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London.
As we enter the tenth year after the events of 9/11, it is an appropriate time to evaluate the mediaﾒs relationship to a changed geo-political environment and to pose questions about media performance and influence in relation to this post-9/11 period. Have the media contributed to exacerbating the political, cultural and
religious divides within Western societies and the world at large? Has the digital revolution given voice to a multiplicity of views that have helped to counter hegemonic media discourses? How can media be deployed to enrich not inhibit dialogue and to what extent has the media, in all its forms, questioned, celebrated or simply accepted the unleashing of a ﾑwar on terrorﾒ? This international conference brings
together leading scholars and eminent journalists from across the globe to examine and discuss how the worldﾒs media have been influenced by 9/11 and its aftermath.
Although nearly a decade has passed, the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the persistent phenomenon of terrorism, and the domestic repercussions of the ﾑwar on terrorﾒ (including Islamophobia, a growing surveillance culture and restrictions on civil liberties) still shape media discourses around the world today.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not restricted to, the
following:
ﾕ Rethinking the politics of terrorism ﾖ global and national
perspectives
ﾕ Representations of terrorism in popular culture ﾖ from TV to gaming
ﾕ Public opinion in the post-9/11 era
ﾕ Surveillance, spying and subversion of democracy
ﾕ Comparative studies of global terrorism
ﾕ Cultural contexts of 9/11ﾗdemonization of Islam and the West
ﾕ Spinning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
ﾕ Reporting and conducting the wars online
ﾕ Media strategies of terrorists
ﾕ Frontline forum ﾖ journalistic experiences of covering terrorism
ﾕ Hollywoodization and Bollywoodization of the ﾑwar on terrorﾒ
ﾕ Evaluating the ﾑal-Jazeera effectﾒ
Keynote speakers:
Professor Todd Gitlin (Columbia University, USA)
Professor Tariq Ramadan (University of Oxford, UK)
Professor Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School of Communication, USA)
Other plenary speakers to include Professor Jean Seaton, University of Westminster; Professor Rune Ottosen (Norway); Dahr Jamal (US-based independent journalist); Professor Toby Miller (USA); Professor Stig Arne-Nohrstedt (Sweden); Professor Elena Vartanova (Russia) and Professor Lena Jayyusi (UAE).
Conference fee: ﾣ150, with a concessionary rate of ﾣ50 for students, to cover attendance at all sessions, refreshments and lunches as well as conference documentation. Conference registration will be open to all and not conditional upon presenting a paper.
Abstracts: These should be between 200-350 words and must include the presenterﾒs name, institutional affiliation, email and postal address, together with the title of the paper and a brief biographical note. Two copies of the abstract should be sent, one to Professor Daya Thussu at D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk and another to Helen Cohen, Events Administrator for the Department of Journalism and Mass
Communication at journalism@westminster.ac.uk.
New extended deadline for abstracts: Friday, 28 May 2010.ﾠ The abstracts will be peer reviewed and successful submissions will be notified asap. A selection of the best papers will be published in a book and in a special themed issue of the journal Global Media and Communication, which is supporting the conference.
Global Media and the ﾑWar on Terrorﾒ: an international conference
Organized by Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) of the University of Westminster, London, in collaboration with the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Venue: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London
ﾠ
Dates: Monday 13 - Tuesday 14 September 2010
Conference organizers: Professor Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, and Dr Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London.
As we enter the tenth year after the events of 9/11, it is an appropriate time to evaluate the mediaﾒs relationship to a changed geo-political environment and to pose questions about media performance and influence in relation to this post-9/11 period. Have the media contributed to exacerbating the political, cultural and
religious divides within Western societies and the world at large? Has the digital revolution given voice to a multiplicity of views that have helped to counter hegemonic media discourses? How can media be deployed to enrich not inhibit dialogue and to what extent has the media, in all its forms, questioned, celebrated or simply accepted the unleashing of a ﾑwar on terrorﾒ? This international conference brings
together leading scholars and eminent journalists from across the globe to examine and discuss how the worldﾒs media have been influenced by 9/11 and its aftermath.
Although nearly a decade has passed, the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the persistent phenomenon of terrorism, and the domestic repercussions of the ﾑwar on terrorﾒ (including Islamophobia, a growing surveillance culture and restrictions on civil liberties) still shape media discourses around the world today.
Suggested topics for papers include, but are not restricted to, the
following:
ﾕ Rethinking the politics of terrorism ﾖ global and national
perspectives
ﾕ Representations of terrorism in popular culture ﾖ from TV to gaming
ﾕ Public opinion in the post-9/11 era
ﾕ Surveillance, spying and subversion of democracy
ﾕ Comparative studies of global terrorism
ﾕ Cultural contexts of 9/11ﾗdemonization of Islam and the West
ﾕ Spinning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
ﾕ Reporting and conducting the wars online
ﾕ Media strategies of terrorists
ﾕ Frontline forum ﾖ journalistic experiences of covering terrorism
ﾕ Hollywoodization and Bollywoodization of the ﾑwar on terrorﾒ
ﾕ Evaluating the ﾑal-Jazeera effectﾒ
Keynote speakers:
Professor Todd Gitlin (Columbia University, USA)
Professor Tariq Ramadan (University of Oxford, UK)
Professor Barbie Zelizer (Annenberg School of Communication, USA)
Other plenary speakers to include Professor Jean Seaton, University of Westminster; Professor Rune Ottosen (Norway); Dahr Jamal (US-based independent journalist); Professor Toby Miller (USA); Professor Stig Arne-Nohrstedt (Sweden); Professor Elena Vartanova (Russia) and Professor Lena Jayyusi (UAE).
Conference fee: ﾣ150, with a concessionary rate of ﾣ50 for students, to cover attendance at all sessions, refreshments and lunches as well as conference documentation. Conference registration will be open to all and not conditional upon presenting a paper.
Abstracts: These should be between 200-350 words and must include the presenterﾒs name, institutional affiliation, email and postal address, together with the title of the paper and a brief biographical note. Two copies of the abstract should be sent, one to Professor Daya Thussu at D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk and another to Helen Cohen, Events Administrator for the Department of Journalism and Mass
Communication at journalism@westminster.ac.uk.
New extended deadline for abstracts: Friday, 28 May 2010.ﾠ The abstracts will be peer reviewed and successful submissions will be notified asap. A selection of the best papers will be published in a book and in a special themed issue of the journal Global Media and Communication, which is supporting the conference.
Careers in Community Organizing for Social Justice Available to IU graduating students and alums!
The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on the IU campus on Mon., April 12 @ 7PM in the Career Development Center, 625 N. Jordan Ave to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change.
Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Sunil Joy at sunil@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone #, email address and school.
After years of research into best practices, experimentation, evaluation, and refinement, the Organizers Institute has become THE elite field school in the training of grassroots community organizers in the country.
DART is now accepting applications for the 2010 DART Organizers Institute, the paid, four-month field school for people interested in launching a career in community organizing. Participants will undergo a combined classroom and field training covering such topics as:
• Entering a community
• Identifying and training local leaders
• Strategic planning and issue cutting
• Relationship and community building
• Direct Action on community issues
• Fundraising
The DART Center, has built coalitions throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues including:
• Education reform in low-performing public schools
• Job Training
• Drugs and Violence
• Criminal Recidivism
• Living Wage
• Neighborhood Revitalization
• Predatory Lending
• Affordable Housing, etc.
The DART Organizers Institute combines a 7-day classroom orientation with 15 weeks of infield training at a DART host organization. This is a paid training program that includes: a $7,000 living stipend, transportation to the classroom orientation and host city, and mileage reimbursement during the infield training. Room, board, and tuition will also be paid by DART during the 7-day classroom training. After successful completion of the program, DART will work to place graduates into permanent full time salaried positions ($32-35,000 for Associate Organizers and $35-40,000 for Lead Organizers starting salary + health & benefits). DART is a 501(c)(3) organization, therefore, employees of the DART Network are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness under the recently enacted College Cost Reduction and Access Act. For more information on Public Service Loan Forgiveness, visit www.ibrinfo.org.
Graduates from the four month DART Organizers Institute have gone onto accept Executive Director and Associate Community Organizing positions throughout the country.
The 7-day classroom orientation and 15-week infield training start in July 2010. Training locations will include placements in several states around the country.
Although it may be helpful, no direct experience is necessary. Organizer Trainees (OTs) hired to participate in the DART Organizers Institute must demonstrate a desire to pursue community organizing as a long-term professional career. A master's degree, JD, or similar life experience is preferred though not necessary. Candidates must have a college degree or be graduating prior to July 2010. Also, candidates must display a workmanlike diligence, be driven to produce sustained results, have proven capacity to build relationships of trust, create and execute a plan, act professionally, feel comfortable working with religious institutions, be accountable and willing to hold others accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting. OTs must also have access to a car during their training and be flexible regarding relocation. Fluency in Spanish/English is a plus and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Low and moderate income communities across the country are feeling the bite of recession on issues like healthcare, education, employment, and housing. At the same time, the field of community organizing has obtained more legitimacy and interest than ever before given its recent profile in the 2008 presidential election. Low and moderate income communities are in need of passionate and talented individuals with the dedication and skills necessary to transform communities. Now is the time to stand up for social and economic justice.
To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you to contact: Sunil Joy, DART Network, 820 New York Street Lawrence, KS 66044 or by email: sunil@thedartcenter.org. If you have any questions, please call: (785) 841-2680. Also, you can download applications or view profiles from previous OTs at the DART website: www.thedartcenter.org.
Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Sunil Joy at sunil@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone #, email address and school.
After years of research into best practices, experimentation, evaluation, and refinement, the Organizers Institute has become THE elite field school in the training of grassroots community organizers in the country.
DART is now accepting applications for the 2010 DART Organizers Institute, the paid, four-month field school for people interested in launching a career in community organizing. Participants will undergo a combined classroom and field training covering such topics as:
• Entering a community
• Identifying and training local leaders
• Strategic planning and issue cutting
• Relationship and community building
• Direct Action on community issues
• Fundraising
The DART Center, has built coalitions throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues including:
• Education reform in low-performing public schools
• Job Training
• Drugs and Violence
• Criminal Recidivism
• Living Wage
• Neighborhood Revitalization
• Predatory Lending
• Affordable Housing, etc.
The DART Organizers Institute combines a 7-day classroom orientation with 15 weeks of infield training at a DART host organization. This is a paid training program that includes: a $7,000 living stipend, transportation to the classroom orientation and host city, and mileage reimbursement during the infield training. Room, board, and tuition will also be paid by DART during the 7-day classroom training. After successful completion of the program, DART will work to place graduates into permanent full time salaried positions ($32-35,000 for Associate Organizers and $35-40,000 for Lead Organizers starting salary + health & benefits). DART is a 501(c)(3) organization, therefore, employees of the DART Network are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness under the recently enacted College Cost Reduction and Access Act. For more information on Public Service Loan Forgiveness, visit www.ibrinfo.org.
Graduates from the four month DART Organizers Institute have gone onto accept Executive Director and Associate Community Organizing positions throughout the country.
The 7-day classroom orientation and 15-week infield training start in July 2010. Training locations will include placements in several states around the country.
Although it may be helpful, no direct experience is necessary. Organizer Trainees (OTs) hired to participate in the DART Organizers Institute must demonstrate a desire to pursue community organizing as a long-term professional career. A master's degree, JD, or similar life experience is preferred though not necessary. Candidates must have a college degree or be graduating prior to July 2010. Also, candidates must display a workmanlike diligence, be driven to produce sustained results, have proven capacity to build relationships of trust, create and execute a plan, act professionally, feel comfortable working with religious institutions, be accountable and willing to hold others accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting. OTs must also have access to a car during their training and be flexible regarding relocation. Fluency in Spanish/English is a plus and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Low and moderate income communities across the country are feeling the bite of recession on issues like healthcare, education, employment, and housing. At the same time, the field of community organizing has obtained more legitimacy and interest than ever before given its recent profile in the 2008 presidential election. Low and moderate income communities are in need of passionate and talented individuals with the dedication and skills necessary to transform communities. Now is the time to stand up for social and economic justice.
To find out more about DART or to apply, we encourage you to contact: Sunil Joy, DART Network, 820 New York Street Lawrence, KS 66044 or by email: sunil@thedartcenter.org. If you have any questions, please call: (785) 841-2680. Also, you can download applications or view profiles from previous OTs at the DART website: www.thedartcenter.org.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Social Psychology Seminar Series
Friday, April 9 at 3:30 pm
Psychology Building, Room 128
This week's talk will be given by Nancy Rhodes. Nancy is a member of the Communication Studies Department at IUPUI. She received her PhD at Texas A&M. Nancy's main interests are in the area of persuasion and social influence, especially as they apply to health communications.
She has examined how smokers process anti-smoking messages, how teenage drivers process information about risky driving, and how norms affect drinking in college students. Importantly, Nancy has been involved in research with a former IU Psychology Department PhD, David Roskos-Ewoldsen. Her talk should be of interest not only to various areas within psychology, but also to those with an interest in allied health science and telecommunications. Below you will find the title
and a brief abstract of her talk.
Title: Attitude and norm accessibility and substance use in adolescents.
Abstract: Attitude and norm accessibility have been shown to predict behaviors such as cigarette smoking, and have important implications for the processing of anti-smoking messages among smokers. In this presentation, Dr. Rhodes describes preliminary work leading to an NIH proposal to examine these constructs as they develop longitudinally in adolescents at risk of initiating substance use. She takes a person by environment approach by examining motivation and stress as precursors to the development of accessible attitudes and norms that are favorable to substance use. It is expected that attitudes and norms will mediate the effects of motivation and stress on substance use uptake.
Psychology Building, Room 128
This week's talk will be given by Nancy Rhodes. Nancy is a member of the Communication Studies Department at IUPUI. She received her PhD at Texas A&M. Nancy's main interests are in the area of persuasion and social influence, especially as they apply to health communications.
She has examined how smokers process anti-smoking messages, how teenage drivers process information about risky driving, and how norms affect drinking in college students. Importantly, Nancy has been involved in research with a former IU Psychology Department PhD, David Roskos-Ewoldsen. Her talk should be of interest not only to various areas within psychology, but also to those with an interest in allied health science and telecommunications. Below you will find the title
and a brief abstract of her talk.
Title: Attitude and norm accessibility and substance use in adolescents.
Abstract: Attitude and norm accessibility have been shown to predict behaviors such as cigarette smoking, and have important implications for the processing of anti-smoking messages among smokers. In this presentation, Dr. Rhodes describes preliminary work leading to an NIH proposal to examine these constructs as they develop longitudinally in adolescents at risk of initiating substance use. She takes a person by environment approach by examining motivation and stress as precursors to the development of accessible attitudes and norms that are favorable to substance use. It is expected that attitudes and norms will mediate the effects of motivation and stress on substance use uptake.
COAS Awards CMCL Student a Dissertation Year Fellowship
Suncem Kocer, PhD candidate double major in CMCL and Anthropology has been awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship .
Suncem Kocer's research into the cultural formation of Kurdish transnational ethnic identity has considerable international significance. It has long been understood that nationalist political movements also entail cultural, linguistic movements that legitimate and motivate them. Suncem's work studies such a cultural movement in a 21st century context, in which the cultural-political identity and legitimacy of Turkey's large ethnic Kurdish minority in is in part sanctioned by the transnational norm of the European Union for multicultural policies in current and prospective member states. In addition, the cultural movement constitutes a peaceful alternative to Kurdish armed militancy which has troubled regional stability.
Suncem's research demonstrates that Kurdish cultural-ethnic identity is not a given, but is carefully constructed by social agents who fashion it according to their agendas and through their own lenses. Using the techniques of media ethnography, she carefully observes and analyzes how Kurdish culture is produced, literally, and how it is displayed in documentary and fictional film, cultural centers and festivals, and television.
The significance of her research has already been acknowledged by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which funded her field-work last year. The academic quality and innovative nature of her research was also recognized by the American Anthropological Association, in an award for her paper on documentary film-making, where she studied how a film is first generated from ideas before the actual production process begins.
Suncem Kocer's research into the cultural formation of Kurdish transnational ethnic identity has considerable international significance. It has long been understood that nationalist political movements also entail cultural, linguistic movements that legitimate and motivate them. Suncem's work studies such a cultural movement in a 21st century context, in which the cultural-political identity and legitimacy of Turkey's large ethnic Kurdish minority in is in part sanctioned by the transnational norm of the European Union for multicultural policies in current and prospective member states. In addition, the cultural movement constitutes a peaceful alternative to Kurdish armed militancy which has troubled regional stability.
Suncem's research demonstrates that Kurdish cultural-ethnic identity is not a given, but is carefully constructed by social agents who fashion it according to their agendas and through their own lenses. Using the techniques of media ethnography, she carefully observes and analyzes how Kurdish culture is produced, literally, and how it is displayed in documentary and fictional film, cultural centers and festivals, and television.
The significance of her research has already been acknowledged by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which funded her field-work last year. The academic quality and innovative nature of her research was also recognized by the American Anthropological Association, in an award for her paper on documentary film-making, where she studied how a film is first generated from ideas before the actual production process begins.
Art History Association Used Book Sale
The Art History Association is putting on a used book sale Wednesday and Thursday, April 7th and 8th in the Fine Arts Building lobby. The books are priced between 50 cents and $10, with a few exceptions. Most of the titles are art-related, but some are not. Sounds as if there will be a great selection!
Branigin Lecture and Film by Ariella Azoulay, Director of the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv
Screening
"The Angel of History"
Monday, Apr. 5
7:00 pm
Fine Arts 102
Lecture
"The Necessity to Discuss Photographs That Were Not Taken."
Tuesday, Apr. 6.
5:30 pm
Student Building 150
"The Angel of History"
Monday, Apr. 5
7:00 pm
Fine Arts 102
Lecture
"The Necessity to Discuss Photographs That Were Not Taken."
Tuesday, Apr. 6.
5:30 pm
Student Building 150
University of London Summer Program: Memory, Empire, and Technology
The School of Advanced Study, University of London is delighted to
announce its forthcoming summer school on Memory, Empire and Technology
29 June-3 July 2010.
The Memory, Empire and Technology summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives.
These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred around London as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.
This summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study. The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory also offers an MA in Cultural Memory.
For more details and to register visit
www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.htmlhttp://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html or email
CMSS@sas.ac.uk .
announce its forthcoming summer school on Memory, Empire and Technology
29 June-3 July 2010.
The Memory, Empire and Technology summer school explores the relationship between memory and technology through a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and will range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, from vinyl and swinging London to photography and workshops on digital archives.
These sessions will be complemented by afternoon activities centred around London as technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on a historic Routemaster bus. The summer school welcomes researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.
This summer school is organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies on behalf of the School of Advanced Study. The Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory also offers an MA in Cultural Memory.
For more details and to register visit
www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.htmlhttp://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html or email
CMSS@sas.ac.uk
Teaching and Learning Technologies Center Workshops
Join TLTC April 15th for another installment in the series on Games and Virtual Worlds in Education. Dr. Bob Appleman will teach a hands-on workshop called "Designing a Virtual Learning Environment." This workshop is intended for instructors who are seriously considering a 3D virtual learning environment as a pedagogical alternative for their course(s). Bring your ideas and be ready to put them into practice.
IT Training is offering a new Premier Pro workshop this Thursday, April 8th from 9 AM to noon. Premier Pro is a full-featured video editing application that is part of the Adobe CS4 Production Premium Suite.
This session will complement the Video Basics workshop offered on Wednesday and the After Effects workshop on Friday. Remember, the IT Training registration fee is waived for those registering through TLTC.
To register for these and other sessions, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc and follow the link to TIS Workshops.
IT Training is offering a new Premier Pro workshop this Thursday, April 8th from 9 AM to noon. Premier Pro is a full-featured video editing application that is part of the Adobe CS4 Production Premium Suite.
This session will complement the Video Basics workshop offered on Wednesday and the After Effects workshop on Friday. Remember, the IT Training registration fee is waived for those registering through TLTC.
To register for these and other sessions, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc and follow the link to TIS Workshops.
IN SEARCH OF NETWORKED PUBLIC SPHERES
Co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, School of Journalism, and Colloquium for Political Communication Research.
Speaker: Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle
Topic: In Search of Networked Public Spheres
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: Room #120 Woodburn Hall
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and
coffee, available at 1:15pm.
Absract
Places and spaces where independent public opinion can be formed and expressed require forms of publicity and communication channels to connect them. For this reason scholars of modern society have looked to the mass media as the most encompassing sphere for the expression of points of view that may influence and reflect popular thinking and action. However, these mass media spheres increasingly suffer from audience loss, credibility problems, proliferation of channels, elite domination of content, and relatively few structured opportunities for publics to interact directly with the content being fed to them. Using the European Union as a broad case study, the digital media public sphere project examines how issue advocacy networks connect organizations and individuals to places, spaces and various forms of action both online and off. The lecture examines the case of international trade policy networks with a focus on how discourses and digital communication technologies facilitate public interaction and political action that offers greater opportunities for direct public participation than mainstream media audiences typically experience.
Biographical Sketch
W. Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and Communication and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he directs the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. The focus of his work is on how communication processes affect citizen identification and engagement with politics.
He has received the Ithiel de Sola Pool and Murray Edelman career awards from the American Political Science Association, and the National Communication Association has recognized him as a Distinguished Scholar for lifetime achievement in the study of human communication. He has also been selected as the Olof Palme national professor in Sweden. For more information, see his home page at http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/bennett.html
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is jointly sponsored by the IU School of Informatics, School of Library & Information Science, and Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Speaker: Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle
Topic: In Search of Networked Public Spheres
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010
Time: 1:30pm-2:45pm
Place: Room #120 Woodburn Hall
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and
coffee, available at 1:15pm.
Absract
Places and spaces where independent public opinion can be formed and expressed require forms of publicity and communication channels to connect them. For this reason scholars of modern society have looked to the mass media as the most encompassing sphere for the expression of points of view that may influence and reflect popular thinking and action. However, these mass media spheres increasingly suffer from audience loss, credibility problems, proliferation of channels, elite domination of content, and relatively few structured opportunities for publics to interact directly with the content being fed to them. Using the European Union as a broad case study, the digital media public sphere project examines how issue advocacy networks connect organizations and individuals to places, spaces and various forms of action both online and off. The lecture examines the case of international trade policy networks with a focus on how discourses and digital communication technologies facilitate public interaction and political action that offers greater opportunities for direct public participation than mainstream media audiences typically experience.
Biographical Sketch
W. Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and Communication and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he directs the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. The focus of his work is on how communication processes affect citizen identification and engagement with politics.
He has received the Ithiel de Sola Pool and Murray Edelman career awards from the American Political Science Association, and the National Communication Association has recognized him as a Distinguished Scholar for lifetime achievement in the study of human communication. He has also been selected as the Olof Palme national professor in Sweden. For more information, see his home page at http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/bennett.html
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is jointly sponsored by the IU School of Informatics, School of Library & Information Science, and Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
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Human Rights, Legal Systems, and Customary Cultures Across the Global South
A Symposium co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Maurer School of Law
Location: Conference Room, Maurer School of Law
For full information see: www.law.indiana.edu/globalsouth
APRIL 9, 2010
9:00am
Introduction and Welcome
9:30-11:30am
Panel I: Problems of the Universal and the Particular
Moderator: Christiana Ochoa, Maurer School of Law
“Religion and Human Rights: Is there a Crossroads?”
Kamari Clarke, Yale University
“For the Orphan, Dispossessed, and Illegitimate: Human Rights beyond Republican and Liberal Traditions.”
Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University
“The Application of Customary Law and its Implications for Women’s Rights.”
Muna Ndulo, Cornell University
12:45-3:15pm
Panel II: Claims in Context
Moderator: Bradley Levinson, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
“Gas Geopolitics and Indigenous Self-Determination Rights in Bolivia.”
Bret Gustafson, Washington University
“Maria da Penha Case and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:Contributions to the Debate on Domestic Violence against Women in Brazil.”
Paula Spieler, Fundação Getúlio-Vargas – Rio de Janeiro
“Guilty as Charged: The Trial and Prosecution of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for Human Rights Violations.”
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
“Democracy, Gender Equality, and Customary Law: Constitutionalizing Internal Cultural Disruption.”
Susan Williams, Maurer School of Law
3:15-3:30pm
Break
3:30-5:30pm
Panel III: Law, Struggle, and the Collective
Moderator: Shane Greene, Department of Anthropology
“The Power of Definition: Brazil’s Contribution to Universal Concepts of Indigeneity.”
Jan French, University of Richmond
“’Culture Fatigue’: The State and Minority Rights in Botswana.”
Jacqueline Solway, Trent University
“Between Global Governance and Indigenous Rights: The Right to Prior Consultation and the Proceduralization of Survival.”
César Rodriguez-Garavito, University of the Andes
5:30-6:00pm
Discussant: John Comaroff, University of Chicago
APRIL 10, 2010
9:30-11:30am
Panel IV: Rights Across the Global South
Moderator: Alfred Aman, Maurer School of Law
“Sex Equality in Family Law: Religion, Custom, and the State in Comparative Perspective.”
Mala Htun, The New School, and S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University
“Pluralism, Universality: Putting Rights in Context and South/South Cooperation.”
Erika George, University of Utah
“Community Consultations: The Interplay of Corporations and Communities in the Extractive Industries.”
Patrick Keenan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1:00-3:00pm
Panel V: The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion
Moderator: Beverly Stoeltje, Department of Anthropology
“Ethnographies of Social and Political Exclusion in Western Mexico.”
Guillermo de la Peña, CIESAS-Occidente
“Citizenship, Autochthony and Exclusion: Paradoxes in Present-day Politics of Belonging.”
Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
“The ‘Right’ to be Trafficked.”
Charles Piot, Duke University
3:00-3:30pm
Discussant: Timothy Waters, Maurer School of Law
Location: Conference Room, Maurer School of Law
For full information see: www.law.indiana.edu/globalsouth
APRIL 9, 2010
9:00am
Introduction and Welcome
9:30-11:30am
Panel I: Problems of the Universal and the Particular
Moderator: Christiana Ochoa, Maurer School of Law
“Religion and Human Rights: Is there a Crossroads?”
Kamari Clarke, Yale University
“For the Orphan, Dispossessed, and Illegitimate: Human Rights beyond Republican and Liberal Traditions.”
Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University
“The Application of Customary Law and its Implications for Women’s Rights.”
Muna Ndulo, Cornell University
12:45-3:15pm
Panel II: Claims in Context
Moderator: Bradley Levinson, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
“Gas Geopolitics and Indigenous Self-Determination Rights in Bolivia.”
Bret Gustafson, Washington University
“Maria da Penha Case and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:Contributions to the Debate on Domestic Violence against Women in Brazil.”
Paula Spieler, Fundação Getúlio-Vargas – Rio de Janeiro
“Guilty as Charged: The Trial and Prosecution of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for Human Rights Violations.”
Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
“Democracy, Gender Equality, and Customary Law: Constitutionalizing Internal Cultural Disruption.”
Susan Williams, Maurer School of Law
3:15-3:30pm
Break
3:30-5:30pm
Panel III: Law, Struggle, and the Collective
Moderator: Shane Greene, Department of Anthropology
“The Power of Definition: Brazil’s Contribution to Universal Concepts of Indigeneity.”
Jan French, University of Richmond
“’Culture Fatigue’: The State and Minority Rights in Botswana.”
Jacqueline Solway, Trent University
“Between Global Governance and Indigenous Rights: The Right to Prior Consultation and the Proceduralization of Survival.”
César Rodriguez-Garavito, University of the Andes
5:30-6:00pm
Discussant: John Comaroff, University of Chicago
APRIL 10, 2010
9:30-11:30am
Panel IV: Rights Across the Global South
Moderator: Alfred Aman, Maurer School of Law
“Sex Equality in Family Law: Religion, Custom, and the State in Comparative Perspective.”
Mala Htun, The New School, and S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University
“Pluralism, Universality: Putting Rights in Context and South/South Cooperation.”
Erika George, University of Utah
“Community Consultations: The Interplay of Corporations and Communities in the Extractive Industries.”
Patrick Keenan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1:00-3:00pm
Panel V: The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion
Moderator: Beverly Stoeltje, Department of Anthropology
“Ethnographies of Social and Political Exclusion in Western Mexico.”
Guillermo de la Peña, CIESAS-Occidente
“Citizenship, Autochthony and Exclusion: Paradoxes in Present-day Politics of Belonging.”
Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
“The ‘Right’ to be Trafficked.”
Charles Piot, Duke University
3:00-3:30pm
Discussant: Timothy Waters, Maurer School of Law
Thursday, April 1, 2010
City Lights & Underground Film Series
Friday, April 2, 2010
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
BillBobBillBillBob (Gunvor Nelson, 1971)
Initially scheduled for last Fall, this screening presents Gunvor Nelson’s feature-length experimental documentary Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971, 70m), which she made with her frequent filmmaking partner, Dorothy Wiley. The film is a playful and intitmate portrait of five California-based filmmakers, painters, and sculptors, all close friends of Nelson’s. Bill Wiley, Bob Nelson, Bill Allan, Bill Geis, and Bob Hudson are the title figures, all of whom get loving treatment in this often-overlooked gem. (70 min.)
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
BillBobBillBillBob (Gunvor Nelson, 1971)
Initially scheduled for last Fall, this screening presents Gunvor Nelson’s feature-length experimental documentary Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971, 70m), which she made with her frequent filmmaking partner, Dorothy Wiley. The film is a playful and intitmate portrait of five California-based filmmakers, painters, and sculptors, all close friends of Nelson’s. Bill Wiley, Bob Nelson, Bill Allan, Bill Geis, and Bob Hudson are the title figures, all of whom get loving treatment in this often-overlooked gem. (70 min.)
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