Doctor X (Michael Curtiz, 1932)
Friday, October 29
7pm
RTV 251
Parking is free and admission is open to the public.
Wise-cracking reporter Lee Taylor (Lee Tracy) is investigating a series of murders taking place on the streets of New York under the light of the full moon in Michael Curtiz’s 1932 horror-thriller, Doctor X. Dubbed the “Moon Killer” by newspapers, the killer leaves a trail of strangled, surgically incised, and cannibalized victims – leading Taylor to the Academy of Surgical Research, run by the mysterious Dr. X and his team of suspicious colleagues. Help us kick-off the countdown to Halloween with this macabre pre-code gem! (77 minutes)
Friday, October 29, 2010
Travel Grants - COAS and CMCL
2010-2011 COAS Travel Grants,
Applications open on November 1st, for simultaneous application for COAS and CMCL travel grants for Fall 2010. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday, November 19th, 2010. This date is different than the deadline given by COAS! The GAC must have time to review these applications, so be sure to adhere to the CMCL date.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Awards are usually in the range of $300. Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested.
This year COAS is running only one Travel Award competition, so there will not be one is Spring, but the Department will run its own competition in the spring, when we will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this Fall you must both apply on line to COAS
and
complete the departmental application form (sent to your IU email account). Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, along with three hardcopies of your COAS application to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 19th.
(Please note that the COAS link will not go live until November 1. If you try to access it before then, you will likely get an error message.)
The GAC ranks the applications and nominates the top three for COAS Travel Awards. The Department has funds for approximately 5 awards this semester, which will be allocated first to whichever of the COAS nominations are unsuccessful, and thereafter to the applications ranked next. This means that between about 5-8 applications will be awarded funds either through COAS or CMCL. It also means that we have to wait until COAS make their decision before we know all the applicants who will receive a CMCL award.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed both by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and, more importantly, by people in the College who don’t necessarily know what NCA, SCMS, or AAA mean or can grasp the significance of your conference presentation without you providing a context. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested.
On the COAS application form you should use the “Project details” section to include not only the title, dates and location of the conference, as well as your paper title, but also a version of the information on your department application form. You should use the “additional information” section to include not only an abstract but also to frame the abstract as suggested above.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. You do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Applications open on November 1st, for simultaneous application for COAS and CMCL travel grants for Fall 2010. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday, November 19th, 2010. This date is different than the deadline given by COAS! The GAC must have time to review these applications, so be sure to adhere to the CMCL date.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Awards are usually in the range of $300. Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested.
This year COAS is running only one Travel Award competition, so there will not be one is Spring, but the Department will run its own competition in the spring, when we will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this Fall you must both apply on line to COAS
and
complete the departmental application form (sent to your IU email account). Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, along with three hardcopies of your COAS application to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 19th.
(Please note that the COAS link will not go live until November 1. If you try to access it before then, you will likely get an error message.)
The GAC ranks the applications and nominates the top three for COAS Travel Awards. The Department has funds for approximately 5 awards this semester, which will be allocated first to whichever of the COAS nominations are unsuccessful, and thereafter to the applications ranked next. This means that between about 5-8 applications will be awarded funds either through COAS or CMCL. It also means that we have to wait until COAS make their decision before we know all the applicants who will receive a CMCL award.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed both by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and, more importantly, by people in the College who don’t necessarily know what NCA, SCMS, or AAA mean or can grasp the significance of your conference presentation without you providing a context. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested.
On the COAS application form you should use the “Project details” section to include not only the title, dates and location of the conference, as well as your paper title, but also a version of the information on your department application form. You should use the “additional information” section to include not only an abstract but also to frame the abstract as suggested above.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. You do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States
Please join us for the third in the fall semester series of talks co-sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Department of Telecommunications.
Speaker: Jeff Hart, Department of Political Science, IUB
Topic: The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Time: 12:30pm-1:45pm
Place: Radio/TV Building, Rm 226
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee,
available at 12:15pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate
students following the talk.
For the abstract and brief biographical sketch, see:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-fall
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to current research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Center is jointly sponsored by the IU Schools of Informatics and Library & Information Science, and the Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Speaker: Jeff Hart, Department of Political Science, IUB
Topic: The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Time: 12:30pm-1:45pm
Place: Radio/TV Building, Rm 226
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee,
available at 12:15pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate
students following the talk.
For the abstract and brief biographical sketch, see:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2010-fall
This series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to current research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The Center is jointly sponsored by the IU Schools of Informatics and Library & Information Science, and the Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
The Indiana University India Studies Program presents
Jain Satire and Religious Identity in Tamil-Speaking Literary Culture
Anne Monius
Professor of South Asian Religions
Harvard University
Thursday, November 11 at 7:00 pm
Myers Hall
Room 130
ABSTRACT
Even a quick survey of pre-colonial Tamiḻ literature reveals Jain monastic poets to be the masters of the satirical. The Nīlakē ci and the Civakacintā maṇ i, the Peruṅ katai and the Cū ḷ ā maṇ i, the Yacō tarakā viyam and the Utayaṇ an̰ katai--all sparkle not only with poetic elegance and narrative complexity, but with biting wit aimed at king and court, Hindu and Buddhist, glutton and hedonist. While the anti-Jain Śaiva invectives of early bhakti literature have been studied at length, this Jain (more specifi cally, Jain monastic) propensity for satire has been little examined. Why would Jain monks compose lengthy poetic narratives on the classical Tamiḻ themes of love and war, most often retelling stories well-known from Sanskrit and Prā krit sources in a new key? What role might the composition and consumption of lengthy poetic satire have played in Jain monastic discipline? What historical circumstances might have given rise to these many Tamiḻ Jain satirical pieces? This paper will explore the questions above, arguing that Jain satire shaped pre-modern Tamiḻ literary culture in numerous ways.
For more information, contact the India Studies Program:
812-855-5798, india@indiana.edu, or http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/
Anne Monius
Professor of South Asian Religions
Harvard University
Thursday, November 11 at 7:00 pm
Myers Hall
Room 130
ABSTRACT
Even a quick survey of pre-colonial Tamiḻ literature reveals Jain monastic poets to be the masters of the satirical. The Nīlakē ci and the Civakacintā maṇ i, the Peruṅ katai and the Cū ḷ ā maṇ i, the Yacō tarakā viyam and the Utayaṇ an̰ katai--all sparkle not only with poetic elegance and narrative complexity, but with biting wit aimed at king and court, Hindu and Buddhist, glutton and hedonist. While the anti-Jain Śaiva invectives of early bhakti literature have been studied at length, this Jain (more specifi cally, Jain monastic) propensity for satire has been little examined. Why would Jain monks compose lengthy poetic narratives on the classical Tamiḻ themes of love and war, most often retelling stories well-known from Sanskrit and Prā krit sources in a new key? What role might the composition and consumption of lengthy poetic satire have played in Jain monastic discipline? What historical circumstances might have given rise to these many Tamiḻ Jain satirical pieces? This paper will explore the questions above, arguing that Jain satire shaped pre-modern Tamiḻ literary culture in numerous ways.
For more information, contact the India Studies Program:
812-855-5798, india@indiana.edu, or http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The Images Forum Lecture Series: Images of War, Conflict, and Peace
Friday, November 5, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
at CAHI (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)
Christiane Gruber (Art History, Indiana University)
"Strategic Strikes:
War and Disaster in Mural Arts from Iran to America"
Contact Jon Simons with your questions (simonsj@indiana.edu)
at CAHI (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)
Christiane Gruber (Art History, Indiana University)
"Strategic Strikes:
War and Disaster in Mural Arts from Iran to America"
Contact Jon Simons with your questions (simonsj@indiana.edu)
CJUS-P670
CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
Graduate Proseminar P670, Section 28145
Dr. Stephanie Kane Spring 2011
Class Wednesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in SYC 146 Phone: 5-0896, 5-9325
Office hours in SYC 305: email: stkane
Tues 4-5 PM, Wed 4-5 PM CultureX website:
and by appointment www.indiana.edu/~culturex
Course description:
In this course we will read across continents and disciplines, participating in the invention and development of the emerging subfield of cultural criminology. We will draw on theories and methods at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, art history, law and criminology. Our cultural crossings will take us to North, Central and South America, Europe, Near East, Asia, and Africa. As we immerse ourselves in different social worlds and modes of representation, crime and justice emerge as multifaceted concepts, as diverse in their interpretation and relevance as they are universal in their appearance. Struggles over their meaning are the quintessential cultural enterprise, one that digs deeply into the material forces that shape survival, celebration, and moral and legal judgment.
Required Reading List (in order of syllabus):
Ferrell, Jeff, Keith Hayward and Jock Young. 2008. Cultural Criminology. Los Angeles: Sage.
Cultural Criminology: An Invitation(Paperback)
by Jeff Ferrell, Dr Keith Hayward
http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Criminology-Invitation-Jeff-Ferrell/dp/1412931274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288040414&sr=1-1#_
Jelin, Elizabeth. 2003. State Repression and the Labors of Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [ISBN 0-8166-4284-2]
Parnell Philip C. and Stephanie C. Kane. 2003. Crime’s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnog…(Paperback)
by Philip C. Parnell, Stephanie C. Kane
http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Power-Anthropologists-Ethnography-Crime/dp/1403961808/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040631&sr=1-10#_
Young, Alison. 2005. Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law. Routledge.
Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law (Transform…(Paperback)
by Alison Young
http://www.amazon.com/Judging-Image-Art-Value-Transformations/dp/041530184X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288040823&sr=1-1#reader_041530184X
Eyerman, Ron. 2008. The Assassination of Theo Van Gogh: from Social Drama to Cultural Trauma. Duke.
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Soci…(Paperback)
by Ron Eyerman, Julia Adams
http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Theo-van-Gogh-Cultural/dp/0822344068/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040882&sr=1-8#reader_0822344068
Nordstrom, Carolyn. 2007. Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World. University of California Press.
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in th…(Paperback)
by Carolyn Nordstrom
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Outlaws-Contemporary-California-Anthropology/dp/0520250966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040944&sr=1-1#reader_0520250966
[Note: All books will be available at the Media Reserve Desk of the main library.]
=================================================================
Requirements: (note: this may be revised slightly)
Weekly assignments:
You are required to write 9 one page papers, which allows you to skip writing about any 3 weeks of readings. Think of each paper as a crystallization of the idea that you find most interesting or useful in the assigned readings, a departure point for scholarly discussion. This idea may correspond to one or more of the authors’ theses; it may arise out of something one or more of the author’s touched on lightly in passing; or it may arise out of a contrast between or among different authors. The point is to write succinctly about something that you think is worth exploring. Papers will not be accepted after class. Always keep copies of all your papers.
Final project (7-8 pp):
You are required to develop a major project to be presented in oral and written form in the last phase of the course. The first task is to identify a culture area or discursive terrain in and through which you will test the usefulness of the ideas presented in the readings. I am interested in the way the frameworks of analysis and issues of representation we confront in class reshape your ongoing research interests or create new ones. I expect papers to be written coherently and concisely with in-text and bibliographic citations in the standard style of your choice. Papers are due on the date of your class presentation.
In-class presentation of final project: You will present your final project in our cross-cultural mini-conference at the end of the semester. Papers will be organized into 2 panels, each with a volunteer discussant who will present the cross-cutting themes in the papers and suggest future directions. The content of the discussant’s presentation will be developed by the panel as a group beforehand. This will require that everyone be prepared with a draft a week before panel date and to make time to meet at least once outside of class.
All written papers must be typed in at least 11 point type, double spaced, and include page numbers in the footer, and name and date in the header. Always keep an extra copy.
Participation:
In addition to taking an active part in in-depth class discussion, participation grades will be based on one special activity:
Interdisciplinary practicum: Each student is responsible for participating in at least one scholarly event in another disciplinary arena and presenting a 5 minute report to the class on the topic and/or style of the event. For example, consider going to a lecture or readings group sponsored by an area studies program, or by Cultural Studies, Folklore, Anthropology or Culture and Communication. Remember, even disciplines as distant as physics or medicine can be approached as a culture!
Grade Calculation:
Weekly assignment:
9 one-page papers - 36%
Final project:
One 7 - 8 page paper - 38%
Participation:
General participation in class discussion and attendance – 20%
Interdisciplinary practicum – 6%
Volunteer discussants – extra credit
==============================================================================
Graduate Proseminar P670, Section 28145
Dr. Stephanie Kane Spring 2011
Class Wednesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in SYC 146 Phone: 5-0896, 5-9325
Office hours in SYC 305: email: stkane
Tues 4-5 PM, Wed 4-5 PM CultureX website:
and by appointment www.indiana.edu/~culturex
Course description:
In this course we will read across continents and disciplines, participating in the invention and development of the emerging subfield of cultural criminology. We will draw on theories and methods at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, art history, law and criminology. Our cultural crossings will take us to North, Central and South America, Europe, Near East, Asia, and Africa. As we immerse ourselves in different social worlds and modes of representation, crime and justice emerge as multifaceted concepts, as diverse in their interpretation and relevance as they are universal in their appearance. Struggles over their meaning are the quintessential cultural enterprise, one that digs deeply into the material forces that shape survival, celebration, and moral and legal judgment.
Required Reading List (in order of syllabus):
Ferrell, Jeff, Keith Hayward and Jock Young. 2008. Cultural Criminology. Los Angeles: Sage.
Cultural Criminology: An Invitation(Paperback)
by Jeff Ferrell, Dr Keith Hayward
http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Criminology-Invitation-Jeff-Ferrell/dp/1412931274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288040414&sr=1-1#_
Jelin, Elizabeth. 2003. State Repression and the Labors of Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [ISBN 0-8166-4284-2]
Parnell Philip C. and Stephanie C. Kane. 2003. Crime’s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnog…(Paperback)
by Philip C. Parnell, Stephanie C. Kane
http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Power-Anthropologists-Ethnography-Crime/dp/1403961808/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040631&sr=1-10#_
Young, Alison. 2005. Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law. Routledge.
Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law (Transform…(Paperback)
by Alison Young
http://www.amazon.com/Judging-Image-Art-Value-Transformations/dp/041530184X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288040823&sr=1-1#reader_041530184X
Eyerman, Ron. 2008. The Assassination of Theo Van Gogh: from Social Drama to Cultural Trauma. Duke.
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Soci…(Paperback)
by Ron Eyerman, Julia Adams
http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Theo-van-Gogh-Cultural/dp/0822344068/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040882&sr=1-8#reader_0822344068
Nordstrom, Carolyn. 2007. Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World. University of California Press.
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in th…(Paperback)
by Carolyn Nordstrom
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Outlaws-Contemporary-California-Anthropology/dp/0520250966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288040944&sr=1-1#reader_0520250966
[Note: All books will be available at the Media Reserve Desk of the main library.]
=================================================================
Requirements: (note: this may be revised slightly)
Weekly assignments:
You are required to write 9 one page papers, which allows you to skip writing about any 3 weeks of readings. Think of each paper as a crystallization of the idea that you find most interesting or useful in the assigned readings, a departure point for scholarly discussion. This idea may correspond to one or more of the authors’ theses; it may arise out of something one or more of the author’s touched on lightly in passing; or it may arise out of a contrast between or among different authors. The point is to write succinctly about something that you think is worth exploring. Papers will not be accepted after class. Always keep copies of all your papers.
Final project (7-8 pp):
You are required to develop a major project to be presented in oral and written form in the last phase of the course. The first task is to identify a culture area or discursive terrain in and through which you will test the usefulness of the ideas presented in the readings. I am interested in the way the frameworks of analysis and issues of representation we confront in class reshape your ongoing research interests or create new ones. I expect papers to be written coherently and concisely with in-text and bibliographic citations in the standard style of your choice. Papers are due on the date of your class presentation.
In-class presentation of final project: You will present your final project in our cross-cultural mini-conference at the end of the semester. Papers will be organized into 2 panels, each with a volunteer discussant who will present the cross-cutting themes in the papers and suggest future directions. The content of the discussant’s presentation will be developed by the panel as a group beforehand. This will require that everyone be prepared with a draft a week before panel date and to make time to meet at least once outside of class.
All written papers must be typed in at least 11 point type, double spaced, and include page numbers in the footer, and name and date in the header. Always keep an extra copy.
Participation:
In addition to taking an active part in in-depth class discussion, participation grades will be based on one special activity:
Interdisciplinary practicum: Each student is responsible for participating in at least one scholarly event in another disciplinary arena and presenting a 5 minute report to the class on the topic and/or style of the event. For example, consider going to a lecture or readings group sponsored by an area studies program, or by Cultural Studies, Folklore, Anthropology or Culture and Communication. Remember, even disciplines as distant as physics or medicine can be approached as a culture!
Grade Calculation:
Weekly assignment:
9 one-page papers - 36%
Final project:
One 7 - 8 page paper - 38%
Participation:
General participation in class discussion and attendance – 20%
Interdisciplinary practicum – 6%
Volunteer discussants – extra credit
==============================================================================
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East Film Screening and Discussion
Film: I know I'm not Alone: A Musician’s Search for the Human Cost of War
Directed By Michael Franti
Tuesday November 2 @ 7pm
Ballentine Hall Room 003
Open discussion to follow screening.
Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights
worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human
cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his
guitar. With a compelling soundtrack, visual and musical
montages, this 2005 film offers audiences a sense of intimate
travel in active war zones.
This screening is sponsored by Hoosiers For Peace in the Middle East.
For more information, find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127296737300981
Or contact us via email: hoosiersforpeace@gmail.com
Directed By Michael Franti
Tuesday November 2 @ 7pm
Ballentine Hall Room 003
Open discussion to follow screening.
Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights
worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human
cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his
guitar. With a compelling soundtrack, visual and musical
montages, this 2005 film offers audiences a sense of intimate
travel in active war zones.
This screening is sponsored by Hoosiers For Peace in the Middle East.
For more information, find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127296737300981
Or contact us via email: hoosiersforpeace@gmail.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
CFP: LANDSCAPE, SPACE, AND PLACE (LSP) GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2011
5th ANNUAL LANDSCAPE, SPACE, AND PLACE (LSP) GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES
24-26 March 2011
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
http://iuconference.com/landscape2011/
Indiana University's Department of Geography and Landscape Studies Program is hosting its fifth annual Landscape, Space and Place Graduate Student Conference. Graduate students from all disciplines and stages of research are invited to participate by presenting their landscape-related work. In addition to paper sessions, there will be a landscape architecture poster/model session. We welcome all levels of graduate study and strive to create a dynamic, interactive atmosphere in which to foster discussion and academic growth.
Landscape studies is multidisciplinary, and landscape's far-reaching academic connections give the field its strength. The goal of the LSP Conference is to bring together graduate students from various disciplinary backgrounds in order to find common ground. We also hope to foster a more cohesive and dynamic framework upon which to build the future of the field.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Landscape ecology
Landscape architecture
Cultural landscape
Symbolic landscape
Sense of place
Historical landscape
Landscape and the arts
Landscape-related pedagogy
Landscape methology
Paper session presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions. Poster session presenters will also be asked to give a very brief (approx. 5-minute) introduction to their projects to begin the exhibit.
Abstracts of 250 words maximum are due 17 January 2011, and can be submitted via the conference website: http://iuconference.com/landscape2011/
Any questions may be directed to Jillian Rickly-Boyd at jrickly@indiana.edu.
24-26 March 2011
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
http://iuconference.com/landscape2011/
Indiana University's Department of Geography and Landscape Studies Program is hosting its fifth annual Landscape, Space and Place Graduate Student Conference. Graduate students from all disciplines and stages of research are invited to participate by presenting their landscape-related work. In addition to paper sessions, there will be a landscape architecture poster/model session. We welcome all levels of graduate study and strive to create a dynamic, interactive atmosphere in which to foster discussion and academic growth.
Landscape studies is multidisciplinary, and landscape's far-reaching academic connections give the field its strength. The goal of the LSP Conference is to bring together graduate students from various disciplinary backgrounds in order to find common ground. We also hope to foster a more cohesive and dynamic framework upon which to build the future of the field.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Landscape ecology
Landscape architecture
Cultural landscape
Symbolic landscape
Sense of place
Historical landscape
Landscape and the arts
Landscape-related pedagogy
Landscape methology
Paper session presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions. Poster session presenters will also be asked to give a very brief (approx. 5-minute) introduction to their projects to begin the exhibit.
Abstracts of 250 words maximum are due 17 January 2011, and can be submitted via the conference website: http://iuconference.com/landscape2011/
Any questions may be directed to Jillian Rickly-Boyd at jrickly@indiana.edu.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
CPF: Piracy as Activism
Online journal Re-public invites contributions for its upcoming special issue titled “Piracy as activism”. In spite of its long and intense presence in the popular imagery, piracy is a concept that has only scarcely and timidly been linked to forms of political activism. Mostly seen through the lens of criminalisation and policing (including also the transgression of the existing order by the heroic pirates) piracy has rarely been analysed in relation to its influence in shaping the everyday life of contemporary communities.
For more information, click here.
For more information, click here.
Tulane University: Mellon Postdoctoral Felllows in the Humanities
The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a two-year contract, renewable annually, as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities beginning in August 2011. We expect to appoint two or three fellows for AY 2011-2012. Candidates must have received the Ph.D. by June 30, 2011 and not before September 1, 2007.
Application Deadline: December 1, 2010.
For more information, click here.
Application Deadline: December 1, 2010.
For more information, click here.
Oct. 27 EASC Special Event: Paola Voci "Chinese Portable Movies: Redefining Film Spaces and Theories”
PRESENTER: Paola Voci (Senior lecturer, Chinese Program, University of Otago, New Zealand)
TOPIC: Chinese Portable Movies: Redefining Film Spaces and Theories
DATE: Wednesday, October 27
TIME: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
LOCATION: IMU, Maple Room
In China, as elsewhere, the moving image has expanded to a multiplicity of screening experiences, filtering outside the regulated channels of both commercial and artistic practices to land— quite literally— in the hands of its makers and viewers. These portable movies are generally freely-circulating (i.e., shared rather than purchased) and almost exclusively targeting transient—online or on-phone—audiences. The implications of such a shift are wide-ranging. Via a necessarily limited analysis of Chinese portable movies, we can uncover important lines of continuity between the old cinematic experience and this new digital video development. The early cinema of attraction, the tradition of narrative cinema, and the documentary idea have relocated in screens that viewers, who have also become makers, literally own in their own hands. In this new location, the moving image has continued to hold a privileged role as both witness and interpreter of our times, just like film was “the eye” (Casetti, 2008) of the last century. Both the Chinese video activist and the auteur/amateur not only have carried cinema out of the movie theaters, but also have re-appropriated it in the private—and still relatively free from the state’s regulation or censorship—space of individually-defined and mediatically interconnected, rather than mass-mediated, subjectivities.
Paola Voci is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. Her research focuses on Chinese cinemas and, in particular, documentary videomaking. She has published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Senses of Cinema, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, and contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Chinese Cinema. Her work appears in several edited collections of essays. She has just published China on Video (Routledge, 2010), a book that analyzes movies made and viewed on smaller screens (i.e., the DV camera, the computer monitor—and, within it, the Internet window—and the cellphone display)
For more information about any upcoming event, please contact:
East Asian Studies Center
Indiana University
Memorial Hall West 207
1021 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
Tel: (812) 855-3765
Toll free: (800) 441-3272
Fax: (812) 855-7762
E-mail: easc@indiana.edu
URL: http://www.iu.edu/~easc
Persons with disabilities interested in attending our events who may require assistance, please contact (812) 855-3765 in advance.
TOPIC: Chinese Portable Movies: Redefining Film Spaces and Theories
DATE: Wednesday, October 27
TIME: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
LOCATION: IMU, Maple Room
In China, as elsewhere, the moving image has expanded to a multiplicity of screening experiences, filtering outside the regulated channels of both commercial and artistic practices to land— quite literally— in the hands of its makers and viewers. These portable movies are generally freely-circulating (i.e., shared rather than purchased) and almost exclusively targeting transient—online or on-phone—audiences. The implications of such a shift are wide-ranging. Via a necessarily limited analysis of Chinese portable movies, we can uncover important lines of continuity between the old cinematic experience and this new digital video development. The early cinema of attraction, the tradition of narrative cinema, and the documentary idea have relocated in screens that viewers, who have also become makers, literally own in their own hands. In this new location, the moving image has continued to hold a privileged role as both witness and interpreter of our times, just like film was “the eye” (Casetti, 2008) of the last century. Both the Chinese video activist and the auteur/amateur not only have carried cinema out of the movie theaters, but also have re-appropriated it in the private—and still relatively free from the state’s regulation or censorship—space of individually-defined and mediatically interconnected, rather than mass-mediated, subjectivities.
Paola Voci is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. Her research focuses on Chinese cinemas and, in particular, documentary videomaking. She has published in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Senses of Cinema, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, and contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Chinese Cinema. Her work appears in several edited collections of essays. She has just published China on Video (Routledge, 2010), a book that analyzes movies made and viewed on smaller screens (i.e., the DV camera, the computer monitor—and, within it, the Internet window—and the cellphone display)
For more information about any upcoming event, please contact:
East Asian Studies Center
Indiana University
Memorial Hall West 207
1021 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
Tel: (812) 855-3765
Toll free: (800) 441-3272
Fax: (812) 855-7762
E-mail: easc@indiana.edu
URL: http://www.iu.edu/~easc
Persons with disabilities interested in attending our events who may require assistance, please contact (812) 855-3765 in advance.
CMCL-C511 Situations
Please alert Robert Terrill if either of the following two situations pertain to you:
1. You have C511 (Pre-Modern Rhetorical Theory) on your Plan of Study for Spring 2011, and you are scheduled to take your Comprehensive Exams in August 2011.
2. You have C511 on your Plan of Study for Fall 2011.
1. You have C511 (Pre-Modern Rhetorical Theory) on your Plan of Study for Spring 2011, and you are scheduled to take your Comprehensive Exams in August 2011.
2. You have C511 on your Plan of Study for Fall 2011.
Friday, October 22, 2010
'Contested Commons' and the Demand for Group Property Rights
Prakash Kashwan - PhD Candidate (Joint) Friday, October 22nd, 2010 3:00 PM
Venue: Seminar Room; Workshop (513 N. Park Avenue) ============================================================================
This presentation, structured in the form of a job talk, is based on a part of my dissertation research on the politics of institutional change in India's forests. In this presentation, I analyze the variation in community claims to collective forest rights as part of a new forest property reform initiative. Through a carefully constructed comparative research design, I conducted 90 community level surveys, and conducted over a hundred interviews and discussion with actors involved in policy implementation in the western Indian state of Gujarat. I employ a mixed methods approach to analyze this data.
Statistical analyses reveal that a history of effective forest conservation institutions and representation of leaders associated with these institutions on the committees elected for the implementation of the new reform is each associated with increased probability of a community making a collective claim. Heterogeneity of private landholding affects these probabilities negatively. Local 'forest leaders' attenuate the effect of land heterogeneity and seem to promote collective action, but do not support community claims to access forest produce. Closer analyses reveal that local leaders end up working in the interests of the forest officials, even at the cost of the interests of community members that they claim to represent. In the light of these findings, I reflect upon Mancur Olson's suggestions about importance of strong leaders for collective action.
Venue: Seminar Room; Workshop (513 N. Park Avenue) ============================================================================
This presentation, structured in the form of a job talk, is based on a part of my dissertation research on the politics of institutional change in India's forests. In this presentation, I analyze the variation in community claims to collective forest rights as part of a new forest property reform initiative. Through a carefully constructed comparative research design, I conducted 90 community level surveys, and conducted over a hundred interviews and discussion with actors involved in policy implementation in the western Indian state of Gujarat. I employ a mixed methods approach to analyze this data.
Statistical analyses reveal that a history of effective forest conservation institutions and representation of leaders associated with these institutions on the committees elected for the implementation of the new reform is each associated with increased probability of a community making a collective claim. Heterogeneity of private landholding affects these probabilities negatively. Local 'forest leaders' attenuate the effect of land heterogeneity and seem to promote collective action, but do not support community claims to access forest produce. Closer analyses reveal that local leaders end up working in the interests of the forest officials, even at the cost of the interests of community members that they claim to represent. In the light of these findings, I reflect upon Mancur Olson's suggestions about importance of strong leaders for collective action.
City Lights and Underground Film Series presents
Barbara Hammer Night
Friday, October 22
7 PM
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Tonight we will screen several films by avant-garde stalwart Barbara Hammer, whose career has lasted over 40 years. Best known for her work on sexuality, she has been an important influence on whole schools of experimental filmmaking. Hammer’s work is predicated on “revealing, showing, expressing, uncovering that which has not been seen before,” and this screening will present a varied selection of such revelations, including Optic Nerve (1985), Jane Brakhage (1974), and Parisian Blinds (1984).
Friday, October 22
7 PM
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Tonight we will screen several films by avant-garde stalwart Barbara Hammer, whose career has lasted over 40 years. Best known for her work on sexuality, she has been an important influence on whole schools of experimental filmmaking. Hammer’s work is predicated on “revealing, showing, expressing, uncovering that which has not been seen before,” and this screening will present a varied selection of such revelations, including Optic Nerve (1985), Jane Brakhage (1974), and Parisian Blinds (1984).
GPSO Graduate Student Social Hour-
DATE: Friday, October 22
WHEN: 7-9pm, tonight (Fri)
WHERE: FARM, in the Root Cellar (108 E. Kirkwood Ave)
The Graduate and Professional Student Organozation invites IU graduate students to GPSO's the social hour tonight at FARM in the Root Cellar.
Free appetizers, courtesy of GPSO
WHEN: 7-9pm, tonight (Fri)
WHERE: FARM, in the Root Cellar (108 E. Kirkwood Ave)
The Graduate and Professional Student Organozation invites IU graduate students to GPSO's the social hour tonight at FARM in the Root Cellar.
Free appetizers, courtesy of GPSO
International Perspectives Politics/Journalism discussion - Mon 10/25
On Monday afternoon, October 25th, the Indiana University Schooe of Journalism invites all for a discussion on international perspectives on global issues with two veteran broadcast journalists from Germany who are here on campus as part of the RIAS Journalist Exchange Program.
International Perspectives on Elections and the Economy Matthias Veit, WDR Maren Beuscher, DSF & 3SAT Monday, October 25, 4pm Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
International Perspectives on Elections and the Economy Matthias Veit, WDR Maren Beuscher, DSF & 3SAT Monday, October 25, 4pm Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
The Indiana University India Studies Program presents a
Kathak Performance
by
Pallabi Chakravorty
Assistant Professor
Department of Music and Dance
Swarthmore College
Saturday, October 23 at 8:30 pm
Merrill Hall (Old Music Building)
1201 East 3rd Street
Recital Hall
Pallabi Chakravorty teaches Kathak dance and academic courses related to the anthropology of performance in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble Courtyard Dancers, she is an anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, and cultural worker. Professor Chakravorty studied Kathak and other classical and folk dance styles in Kolkata under renowned gurus, primarily Bandana Sen. She received her doctoral degree in Visual Anthropology from Temple University, Philadelphia. For her performance here at IU, Professor Chakravorty has selected some choreographic works from her dance repertoire to demonstrate how she integrates theory and practice in her creative work. This performance will help us explore how we can think about Indian dance, culture, history within a performative framework.
Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dance. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers, who specialized in recounting mythological and moral tales through dance. From the 16th century onwards the Mughal courts patronized the art form, which had by then absorbed features from Persia and Central Asia.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798
by
Pallabi Chakravorty
Assistant Professor
Department of Music and Dance
Swarthmore College
Saturday, October 23 at 8:30 pm
Merrill Hall (Old Music Building)
1201 East 3rd Street
Recital Hall
Pallabi Chakravorty teaches Kathak dance and academic courses related to the anthropology of performance in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble Courtyard Dancers, she is an anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, and cultural worker. Professor Chakravorty studied Kathak and other classical and folk dance styles in Kolkata under renowned gurus, primarily Bandana Sen. She received her doctoral degree in Visual Anthropology from Temple University, Philadelphia. For her performance here at IU, Professor Chakravorty has selected some choreographic works from her dance repertoire to demonstrate how she integrates theory and practice in her creative work. This performance will help us explore how we can think about Indian dance, culture, history within a performative framework.
Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dance. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers, who specialized in recounting mythological and moral tales through dance. From the 16th century onwards the Mughal courts patronized the art form, which had by then absorbed features from Persia and Central Asia.
For more information regarding this and other India Studies events, please contact the India Studies Program at india@indiana.edu or 812-855-5798
Free Screening of the Ground-breaking Film "My Suicide" Today!
Ed Schwartzmann, the man who brought the movie "My Suicide" to Bloomington, will host a free screening for student filmmakers
Friday, October 22
4pm
TV245
The movie will go till about 5:30 and then afterward the lead actor, who's a few years older than most students, will take questions. He's in just about every shot, and holds the camera as much as the DP or Director do throughout the film. He's traveled all around, lived primarily out on the west coast, and will provide some very valuable insight to student filmmakers.
Beyond all of that though and more importantly is the message of the film. The IU Dean of Students recently announced suicide rates are higher this semester than ever before. If nothing else, this film helps get the conversation started. For more information, see below.
My Suicide is a darkly comic, uncensored look at teen life in the 21st Century as seen through the eyes of a lonely high school student who becomes an instant community celebrity when he announces plans for his own suicide. Starring David Carradine (in his last film), Joe Mantegna, Mariel Hemingway, and Nora Dunn, this groundbreaking feature film has won over 21 major international film festival awards, including the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
My Suicide also marks the theatrical feature debut of an extraordinary young actor - Gabriel Sunday (Now You See It) of Petaluma, California – who at 20 is already an experienced actor, stand-up comic, gifted impressionist, world-class magician and experienced filmmaker. It is Sunday who becomes Archie Williams, a latter-day Howard Beale of Network fame – ranting about issues that affect increasingly disconnected teens in today’s media saturated society.
“When I read [the]script, I knew I had to be in it,” said the late David Carradine. “This film is about the ability to remake yourself and about killing the person in you that you don’t care for, which is something I’ve done personally three or four different times.
Can My Suicide save lives too? That’s the hope of writer/director Miller, who hopes the film will change attitudes toward suicide and simultaneously illuminate one of this country’s silent killers.
“No one talks about teen suicide, and yet it’s one of the deadliest killers of young people every year. The kids aren’t talking about suicide, the parents are afraid to talk about it and professionals appear to be powerless. So how do you reach the teens? Through a kick-ass film."
Friday, October 22
4pm
TV245
The movie will go till about 5:30 and then afterward the lead actor, who's a few years older than most students, will take questions. He's in just about every shot, and holds the camera as much as the DP or Director do throughout the film. He's traveled all around, lived primarily out on the west coast, and will provide some very valuable insight to student filmmakers.
Beyond all of that though and more importantly is the message of the film. The IU Dean of Students recently announced suicide rates are higher this semester than ever before. If nothing else, this film helps get the conversation started. For more information, see below.
My Suicide is a darkly comic, uncensored look at teen life in the 21st Century as seen through the eyes of a lonely high school student who becomes an instant community celebrity when he announces plans for his own suicide. Starring David Carradine (in his last film), Joe Mantegna, Mariel Hemingway, and Nora Dunn, this groundbreaking feature film has won over 21 major international film festival awards, including the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
My Suicide also marks the theatrical feature debut of an extraordinary young actor - Gabriel Sunday (Now You See It) of Petaluma, California – who at 20 is already an experienced actor, stand-up comic, gifted impressionist, world-class magician and experienced filmmaker. It is Sunday who becomes Archie Williams, a latter-day Howard Beale of Network fame – ranting about issues that affect increasingly disconnected teens in today’s media saturated society.
“When I read [the]script, I knew I had to be in it,” said the late David Carradine. “This film is about the ability to remake yourself and about killing the person in you that you don’t care for, which is something I’ve done personally three or four different times.
Can My Suicide save lives too? That’s the hope of writer/director Miller, who hopes the film will change attitudes toward suicide and simultaneously illuminate one of this country’s silent killers.
“No one talks about teen suicide, and yet it’s one of the deadliest killers of young people every year. The kids aren’t talking about suicide, the parents are afraid to talk about it and professionals appear to be powerless. So how do you reach the teens? Through a kick-ass film."
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Asian Cultural Center Luncheon Meeting
Luncheon Meeting with Sandra Park, Asian American author of "If you Live in A Small House: A Story of 1950's Hawaii"
Date: Fri, Oct 22
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E 10th St.
Set in 1950s Hawaii, during the Korean War and before statehood, Sandra Park's novella, IF YOU LIVE IN A SMALL HOUSE, is a multigenerational family story, a re-examination of optimism, patriotism, and the American Dream. More about Sandra Park and her writing on http://www.sandratpark.com/main/Home_.html
Light lunch will be served. RSVP by emailing acc@indiana.edu.
Hosted by IU Asian American Studies Program, Creative Writing Program, and Asian Culture Center
Date: Fri, Oct 22
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E 10th St.
Set in 1950s Hawaii, during the Korean War and before statehood, Sandra Park's novella, IF YOU LIVE IN A SMALL HOUSE, is a multigenerational family story, a re-examination of optimism, patriotism, and the American Dream. More about Sandra Park and her writing on http://www.sandratpark.com/main/Home_.html
Light lunch will be served. RSVP by emailing acc@indiana.edu.
Hosted by IU Asian American Studies Program, Creative Writing Program, and Asian Culture Center
L750 28236 CRUZ (#5) Research in Race & Ethnicities
2:30p – 5:30p T
TOPIC: BEYOND THE WOMAN WARRIOR: NATIONALIST AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS IN ASIAN/AMERICAN FICTION
DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED
This seminar focuses on the intersections of femininity, feminism, the transnational, and the nation in Asian/American fiction. In studies of Asian/American literature such entwinings have been especially fraught on both the textual and disciplinary level. These tensions are perhaps best illustrated by what has become known in Asian/American literary studies as the Frank Chin versus Maxine Hong Kingston debate, a critical controversy that pitted the interests of male-coded cultural nationalism versus feminism in literary works. Such divisions have been complicated by geographical and chronological boundaries, as the contours of the field were shaped in ways that viewed early twentieth-century literature as predominantly focused on the development of male cultural nationalism (in works like Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart or John Okada’s No No Boy) while the later twentieth-century presumably turned to transnational feminist work (emblematized by Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters).
This seminar complicates such divisions. Because we often associate transnational feminism with postcolonial and global frameworks, it is not surprising that we usually think of “transnational” in a contemporary context. While we will study Asian/American novels published in the last thirty years, we will also examine texts from the first half of the twentieth century. I’ve included these works so that we will have the opportunity to theorize transnational feminisms not only in present and future iterations, but also past manifestations. Some of the questions we will consider include: How do these Asian/American texts imagine crossings among the nation, femininity, feminism, and the transnational? Is there a conflict between the interests of nationalism and feminism? Do these texts attempt to resolve this conflict? If so, how? If not, why not? How does transnational feminism change for different cultural and historical contexts? Is it even possible to identify similar strategies in earlier versus more contemporary texts? How do some authors queer transnational feminism? How do they play with literary form in order to underscore their conceptualization of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation?
To aid our understanding of the texts, we will read selections from theoretical works and secondary criticism by Lisa Lowe, Laura Kang, Kandice Chuh, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Lee, and others. The beginning and end of the course will focus on key critical questions that have shaped (and continue to develop) the field. But remember, these texts are not the key that magically unlocks some secret argument in the fiction. Rather, ideally, our work will be to analyze the ways in which the theoretical and secondary texts are conversant with the fictional works. What issues are covered? What has been ignored? What are the problems with these theoretical texts and how can we address them in our own studies?
The course will culminate in your own research paper (article length), which will allow you to address the intersections of nation, nationalism, transnationalism, femininities, and feminisms through course readings or through other texts. The final weeks of the class will give you additional time to do your independent research (which you should, by the way, ideally begin well before the final weeks of the semester), to read other critical voices, and to incorporate this research into your own arguments and analyses. In this independent project, you may expand outward from analyzing literature to examining other forms of Asian American feminisms in other cultural productions – film, art, music, or the work of community-based organizations. To build towards this final essay, other assignments include two formal presentations, one presentation write-up (conference length, which may be used as a foundation for the final paper), a course blog, and an annotated bibliography and abstract for the final paper.
For more information, contact Bev Hankins at bhankins@indiana.edu
TOPIC: BEYOND THE WOMAN WARRIOR: NATIONALIST AND TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS IN ASIAN/AMERICAN FICTION
DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED
This seminar focuses on the intersections of femininity, feminism, the transnational, and the nation in Asian/American fiction. In studies of Asian/American literature such entwinings have been especially fraught on both the textual and disciplinary level. These tensions are perhaps best illustrated by what has become known in Asian/American literary studies as the Frank Chin versus Maxine Hong Kingston debate, a critical controversy that pitted the interests of male-coded cultural nationalism versus feminism in literary works. Such divisions have been complicated by geographical and chronological boundaries, as the contours of the field were shaped in ways that viewed early twentieth-century literature as predominantly focused on the development of male cultural nationalism (in works like Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart or John Okada’s No No Boy) while the later twentieth-century presumably turned to transnational feminist work (emblematized by Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters).
This seminar complicates such divisions. Because we often associate transnational feminism with postcolonial and global frameworks, it is not surprising that we usually think of “transnational” in a contemporary context. While we will study Asian/American novels published in the last thirty years, we will also examine texts from the first half of the twentieth century. I’ve included these works so that we will have the opportunity to theorize transnational feminisms not only in present and future iterations, but also past manifestations. Some of the questions we will consider include: How do these Asian/American texts imagine crossings among the nation, femininity, feminism, and the transnational? Is there a conflict between the interests of nationalism and feminism? Do these texts attempt to resolve this conflict? If so, how? If not, why not? How does transnational feminism change for different cultural and historical contexts? Is it even possible to identify similar strategies in earlier versus more contemporary texts? How do some authors queer transnational feminism? How do they play with literary form in order to underscore their conceptualization of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation?
To aid our understanding of the texts, we will read selections from theoretical works and secondary criticism by Lisa Lowe, Laura Kang, Kandice Chuh, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rachel Lee, and others. The beginning and end of the course will focus on key critical questions that have shaped (and continue to develop) the field. But remember, these texts are not the key that magically unlocks some secret argument in the fiction. Rather, ideally, our work will be to analyze the ways in which the theoretical and secondary texts are conversant with the fictional works. What issues are covered? What has been ignored? What are the problems with these theoretical texts and how can we address them in our own studies?
The course will culminate in your own research paper (article length), which will allow you to address the intersections of nation, nationalism, transnationalism, femininities, and feminisms through course readings or through other texts. The final weeks of the class will give you additional time to do your independent research (which you should, by the way, ideally begin well before the final weeks of the semester), to read other critical voices, and to incorporate this research into your own arguments and analyses. In this independent project, you may expand outward from analyzing literature to examining other forms of Asian American feminisms in other cultural productions – film, art, music, or the work of community-based organizations. To build towards this final essay, other assignments include two formal presentations, one presentation write-up (conference length, which may be used as a foundation for the final paper), a course blog, and an annotated bibliography and abstract for the final paper.
For more information, contact Bev Hankins at bhankins@indiana.edu
CFP: NEW GEOGRAPHIES OF POSTCOLONIALITY AND GLOBALIZATION
Name of Organization: The University of the West Indies, Trinidad
Co-organized by The Department Of Liberal Arts & The Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS)
Location: Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.
Contact Information: postcolandglobal@gmail.com
Deadline for Submission: December 1st, 2010
Of Abstracts
With a conviction to articulate alternative directions for postcolonial studies within a globalised world, we invite paper proposals on a wide range of topics related to postcolonial theory and globalization studies. One of the aims of this conference is a rigorous scrutiny of what it may mean to ‘re-think’ the ongoing ‘critiques of postcolonialism’. Postcolonial studies has been steadily and rapidly energized by cross-disciplinary investigations thereby re-configuring critical paradigms of thought and contributing to contemporary understandings of the world as being dominated by transnational capital flows, rapid and extensive globalisation and an unprecedented surge of technology and information. At the conference, we propose to work with a more flexible understanding of postcolonial studies that can reveal new perspectives on the ideological, political and socio-cultural dimensions of the contemporary world order. Given the context and geographical locality of the conference, we are very keen to receive paper proposals that move beyond the West/ non-West structure which inevitably involve a critique of Eurocentric thought. We thus invite proposals that are historically and geographically extensive and that seek to problematize facile divisions in an increasingly mobile and interconnected world. Within this context we are particularly interested in situating postcolonial studies and globalisation with the Caribbean context.
We particularly invite submissions dealing with new geographies including power relations within the Global South. We are also interested in debates about whether or not we have reached the decisive end of postcolonialism or/and the juncture where postcolonial theory and studies should be pushed beyond its current parameters and if so, what this might imply.
We are pleased to announce that the opening keynote address for this conference will be delivered by Prof. Arjun Appadurai. We are also delighted to have Guy DesLauriers at the conference and to screen his film followed by a post-screening Q & A session with the filmmaker himself.
Papers can be submitted in both; English and French. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume.
Possible areas of interest for paper presentations may include but are not restricted to:
• New Geographies of power: how can postcolonial theory account for the multiple heterogeneity and the various, contested voices and positions that make up the global South?
• Travelling cultures: postcolonial take on mobility and transnational connections
• The politics of radicalization in the globalizing world of the 21st century
• Thinking beyond binaries (self/other, colonial/postcolonial, silence/voice and so on.)
• Agency, cultural representation and communicative practices
• The relationship between the notion of history and the term ‘postcolonial’
• Technology , digital divides and Globalisation; globalization and localization of technologies within old and emerging configurations of power
• Identity and Eurocentric discourse
• Sex, sexualities and the rise of religion in the 21st century
• Ethnicity , class and conflict
• Environment, postcolonialism and the Globalised World
Please send abstracts (of 250 words or less) to postcolandglobal@gmail.com. Inquiries and panel suggestions are welcome via email. Deadline for submission is Dec 1, 2010. Please include full contact information--including affiliation, and a brief 50 word biography with your abstract submission.
Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) will be provided shortly.
Co-organized by The Department Of Liberal Arts & The Institute of Gender and Development Studies (IGDS)
Location: Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.
Contact Information: postcolandglobal@gmail.com
Deadline for Submission: December 1st, 2010
Of Abstracts
With a conviction to articulate alternative directions for postcolonial studies within a globalised world, we invite paper proposals on a wide range of topics related to postcolonial theory and globalization studies. One of the aims of this conference is a rigorous scrutiny of what it may mean to ‘re-think’ the ongoing ‘critiques of postcolonialism’. Postcolonial studies has been steadily and rapidly energized by cross-disciplinary investigations thereby re-configuring critical paradigms of thought and contributing to contemporary understandings of the world as being dominated by transnational capital flows, rapid and extensive globalisation and an unprecedented surge of technology and information. At the conference, we propose to work with a more flexible understanding of postcolonial studies that can reveal new perspectives on the ideological, political and socio-cultural dimensions of the contemporary world order. Given the context and geographical locality of the conference, we are very keen to receive paper proposals that move beyond the West/ non-West structure which inevitably involve a critique of Eurocentric thought. We thus invite proposals that are historically and geographically extensive and that seek to problematize facile divisions in an increasingly mobile and interconnected world. Within this context we are particularly interested in situating postcolonial studies and globalisation with the Caribbean context.
We particularly invite submissions dealing with new geographies including power relations within the Global South. We are also interested in debates about whether or not we have reached the decisive end of postcolonialism or/and the juncture where postcolonial theory and studies should be pushed beyond its current parameters and if so, what this might imply.
We are pleased to announce that the opening keynote address for this conference will be delivered by Prof. Arjun Appadurai. We are also delighted to have Guy DesLauriers at the conference and to screen his film followed by a post-screening Q & A session with the filmmaker himself.
Papers can be submitted in both; English and French. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume.
Possible areas of interest for paper presentations may include but are not restricted to:
• New Geographies of power: how can postcolonial theory account for the multiple heterogeneity and the various, contested voices and positions that make up the global South?
• Travelling cultures: postcolonial take on mobility and transnational connections
• The politics of radicalization in the globalizing world of the 21st century
• Thinking beyond binaries (self/other, colonial/postcolonial, silence/voice and so on.)
• Agency, cultural representation and communicative practices
• The relationship between the notion of history and the term ‘postcolonial’
• Technology , digital divides and Globalisation; globalization and localization of technologies within old and emerging configurations of power
• Identity and Eurocentric discourse
• Sex, sexualities and the rise of religion in the 21st century
• Ethnicity , class and conflict
• Environment, postcolonialism and the Globalised World
Please send abstracts (of 250 words or less) to postcolandglobal@gmail.com. Inquiries and panel suggestions are welcome via email. Deadline for submission is Dec 1, 2010. Please include full contact information--including affiliation, and a brief 50 word biography with your abstract submission.
Further details regarding the conference (listing of all areas, hotel, registration, tours, etc.) will be provided shortly.
Dennis James Hosts Halloween
IU Alumnus Dennis James returns to Bloomington for his annual performance of Dennis James Hosts Halloween, featuring Roland West’s classic silent film, “The Bat” on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the IU Auditorium.
Help us kick off the Halloween festivities by joining us for a hauntingly fun evening. Here are some opportunities you will want to take part in:
• Post your most creative costume on our Facebook page and you could win a gift certificate to Campus Costume and 2 free tickets to the show! Check out our Facebook fan page for more details.
• Wear your costume to the show and enter the B97 Costume Contest. B97 will be on location the night of the show!
• IU Cinema director Jon Vickers will present a pre-show talk in Neal-Marshall Bridgewater Lounge before the performance at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $8-$16 for students with a valid student ID. Bursar billing is also available! Tickets can also be purchased at IUauditorium.com or at the Auditorium box office, open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Help us kick off the Halloween festivities by joining us for a hauntingly fun evening. Here are some opportunities you will want to take part in:
• Post your most creative costume on our Facebook page and you could win a gift certificate to Campus Costume and 2 free tickets to the show! Check out our Facebook fan page for more details.
• Wear your costume to the show and enter the B97 Costume Contest. B97 will be on location the night of the show!
• IU Cinema director Jon Vickers will present a pre-show talk in Neal-Marshall Bridgewater Lounge before the performance at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $8-$16 for students with a valid student ID. Bursar billing is also available! Tickets can also be purchased at IUauditorium.com or at the Auditorium box office, open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Social Media Discussion Group Announcement
The Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing is pleased to announce a new interdisciplinary reading and discussion group covering topics relating to the intersection of social media, politics, journalism and the spread of ideas through networked information spaces. We hope to create a casual, stimulating environment where students from a variety of disciplines (Journalism, Informatics, Telecommunications, etc.) can turn a critical eye on interesting classic and contemporary work relating to questions like:
• Do customized content and the structure of our social networking systems lead to rich information spaces with a multiplicity of competing views, or do these factors lead to increasingly insular, polarized online communities? [1]
• Do the low barriers to entry characteristic of social media actually lead to increased levels of activism and participation, or do they simply enable the formation of ‘weak ties’ that effect little real-world change? [2]
• How do varied patterns of technological adoption and use between the political left and right produce distinct effects on democracy and the public sphere? [3]
• How can social media platforms facilitate organization and opposition to authoritarian regimes? How can these same platforms be used by police states to sew disinformation and target influential agitators? What do case studies from Iran, Belarus, and China tell us about the limits of our understanding with respect to these kinds of questions? [4]
There are a ton of interesting issues and literature out there, but we don’t envision that this group will be limited just to weekly articles or book chapters. We’ve found dozens of thought-provoking video lectures from venues like the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, TED Talks, and the MIT Media Lab, and there’s no reason these shouldn’t be discussion fodder right alongside more traditional scholarship.
We plan to meet weekly, ideally near campus and optimally at a venue with a good beer selection. Moreover, we welcome any students or faculty with an interest in these issues, regardless of the academic silo they call home. In fact, one of the principle reasons for forming this group is to create a space where participants can engage with ideas and perspectives they wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to during their usual course of work and study. Quoting Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From:
“We like to think our great ideas are state-of-the-art technology, but more often than not they're cobbled together from whatever parts happen to be around nearby. We take ideas from other people, from people we've learned from, from people we run into in the coffee shop, and we stitch them together into new forms, and we create something new.”
This can be just such an environment, a chance for us to take a broader view and stake a position. I really hope you can join us. If you’d like to be involved, or for more information, please contact socialmedia.iub@gmail.com.
[1] McPherson, M. Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology, August 2001.
[2] Gladwell, Malcolm. Small Change. The New Yorker, October 4 2010. [link]
[3] Shaw, A., Benkler, Y. A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices of the Left and Right. Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, April 27 2010.
[4] Aday S., Zuckerman E., et al. Blogs & Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics. United States Institute of Peace, July 8 2010.
• Do customized content and the structure of our social networking systems lead to rich information spaces with a multiplicity of competing views, or do these factors lead to increasingly insular, polarized online communities? [1]
• Do the low barriers to entry characteristic of social media actually lead to increased levels of activism and participation, or do they simply enable the formation of ‘weak ties’ that effect little real-world change? [2]
• How do varied patterns of technological adoption and use between the political left and right produce distinct effects on democracy and the public sphere? [3]
• How can social media platforms facilitate organization and opposition to authoritarian regimes? How can these same platforms be used by police states to sew disinformation and target influential agitators? What do case studies from Iran, Belarus, and China tell us about the limits of our understanding with respect to these kinds of questions? [4]
There are a ton of interesting issues and literature out there, but we don’t envision that this group will be limited just to weekly articles or book chapters. We’ve found dozens of thought-provoking video lectures from venues like the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, TED Talks, and the MIT Media Lab, and there’s no reason these shouldn’t be discussion fodder right alongside more traditional scholarship.
We plan to meet weekly, ideally near campus and optimally at a venue with a good beer selection. Moreover, we welcome any students or faculty with an interest in these issues, regardless of the academic silo they call home. In fact, one of the principle reasons for forming this group is to create a space where participants can engage with ideas and perspectives they wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to during their usual course of work and study. Quoting Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From:
“We like to think our great ideas are state-of-the-art technology, but more often than not they're cobbled together from whatever parts happen to be around nearby. We take ideas from other people, from people we've learned from, from people we run into in the coffee shop, and we stitch them together into new forms, and we create something new.”
This can be just such an environment, a chance for us to take a broader view and stake a position. I really hope you can join us. If you’d like to be involved, or for more information, please contact socialmedia.iub@gmail.com.
[1] McPherson, M. Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology, August 2001.
[2] Gladwell, Malcolm. Small Change. The New Yorker, October 4 2010. [link]
[3] Shaw, A., Benkler, Y. A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices of the Left and Right. Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, April 27 2010.
[4] Aday S., Zuckerman E., et al. Blogs & Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics. United States Institute of Peace, July 8 2010.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
J552/J460: Reporting the Arts
Course for Graduate and Upper Class Students with an Interest in Arts Reporting and Reviewing
The School of Journalism offers students a course designed to develop knowledge of and skills in reporting and reviewing the arts.
Students with such an interest – with journalism major and/or background in a creative or performing arts area and/or a background in arts administration – are welcome. Class is limited to 18.
** NOTE: Journalism no longer requires course permissions, so students may directly register in the course.
JOUR – J 552 /J 460 – Reporting the Arts – Course provides students with training in the coverage of the arts. Writing assignments range from feature articles to news to criticism for the journalistic media. Course includes coverage of issues revolving around the arts and society. Of value also to those who plan to write about the arts for promotion or development purposes. Close attention is given to information gathering and writing. Good opportunity for a student to sharpen writing skills in an area of special interest.
The course is scheduled for Monday and Wednesday:
JOUR-J 552, Class Number 15656 / JOUR-J 460, Class 13285, Reporting the Arts – Monday and Wednesday 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Ernie Pyle Hall, room 207.
For further information, please contact Professor Emeritus Peter Jacobi at 856-1935 or 334-0063 or via e-mail, peter.jacobi@comcast.net
The School of Journalism offers students a course designed to develop knowledge of and skills in reporting and reviewing the arts.
Students with such an interest – with journalism major and/or background in a creative or performing arts area and/or a background in arts administration – are welcome. Class is limited to 18.
** NOTE: Journalism no longer requires course permissions, so students may directly register in the course.
JOUR – J 552 /J 460 – Reporting the Arts – Course provides students with training in the coverage of the arts. Writing assignments range from feature articles to news to criticism for the journalistic media. Course includes coverage of issues revolving around the arts and society. Of value also to those who plan to write about the arts for promotion or development purposes. Close attention is given to information gathering and writing. Good opportunity for a student to sharpen writing skills in an area of special interest.
The course is scheduled for Monday and Wednesday:
JOUR-J 552, Class Number 15656 / JOUR-J 460, Class 13285, Reporting the Arts – Monday and Wednesday 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Ernie Pyle Hall, room 207.
For further information, please contact Professor Emeritus Peter Jacobi at 856-1935 or 334-0063 or via e-mail, peter.jacobi@comcast.net
"Globalization as Professionalization: A Participant-Observation Study at a Shanghai Metropolitan Newspaper"
Li Shi, School of Journalism doctoral student
Wednesday, October 20th, 4:30pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
The study examines how globalization is affecting photojournalism's progression toward professionalism in China as it is being challenged all at once by a variety of regional and larger forces and trends. The data was collected while I served as a participant-observer at the visual department of a metropolitan newspaper in Shanghai during Expo 2010.
Wednesday, October 20th, 4:30pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
The study examines how globalization is affecting photojournalism's progression toward professionalism in China as it is being challenged all at once by a variety of regional and larger forces and trends. The data was collected while I served as a participant-observer at the visual department of a metropolitan newspaper in Shanghai during Expo 2010.
I651: Ethnography of Information
Spring Semester
Wed 4-6:45,
Informatics West (901 E. 10th Street)
Introduces ethnography as a social science methodology and way of knowing with which to study information and its social contexts. Places ethnography in relation to other research methodologies relevant to the production of the Informatics knowledge base. Trains students in the use of a broad range of ethnographic techniques relevant to study of automated information technology in use. Designed to be open to students from other programs with sufficient methodological and substantive background.
Wed 4-6:45,
Informatics West (901 E. 10th Street)
Introduces ethnography as a social science methodology and way of knowing with which to study information and its social contexts. Places ethnography in relation to other research methodologies relevant to the production of the Informatics knowledge base. Trains students in the use of a broad range of ethnographic techniques relevant to study of automated information technology in use. Designed to be open to students from other programs with sufficient methodological and substantive background.
The Young Lords: A Reader by CMCL Alumnus
The Young Lords: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2010) is officially out on November 3rd. The book collects written, spoken, and visual materials from the Young Lords, which was the topic of CMCL Alumnus Darrell Enck-Wanzer's dissertation (directed by John Lucaites). It is the first scholarly book on the radical, Nuyorican organization and should serve as a helpful resource for those teaching social movement rhetoric, Latina/o studies, etc. The book includes an introduction to the Young Lords, a foreword written by two former Young Lords, many primary texts organized topically (with brief chapter introductions), a comprehensive index, and a comprehensive bibliography.
More information about the book on NYU Press's website at: http://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Young_Lords-products_id-11374.html. It can also be acquired at Amazon, BN.com, and elsewhere for 20-30% less than retail.
More information about the book on NYU Press's website at: http://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Young_Lords-products_id-11374.html. It can also be acquired at Amazon, BN.com, and elsewhere for 20-30% less than retail.
Call for Participants: NCA Practice
On October 29th, the CMCL Colloquium Series is planning the annual Mock NCA presentations. If you are planning to attend NCA this year and will be presenting at the conference, this gives you a chance to hone your delivery before a group of friendly faces.
If you are interested in participating in this annual practice, please contact Cole McGuffey at jmcguffe@indiana.edu. You may also contact me (Kteige@indiana.edu) and I'll pass your interest along to Cole.
If you are interested in participating in this annual practice, please contact Cole McGuffey at jmcguffe@indiana.edu. You may also contact me (Kteige@indiana.edu) and I'll pass your interest along to Cole.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Course Permisisons for Spring
Please remember to request enrollment permissions for spring classes.
For CMCL-C700, CMCL-C810, or CMCL-G901 permissions, please contact Kathy.
For production course permissions, please contact Deb.
For CMCL-C700, CMCL-C810, or CMCL-G901 permissions, please contact Kathy.
For production course permissions, please contact Deb.
Vision Fest This Weekend
Coming up this Friday and Saturday is VisionFest at IUPUI. This event showcases student work in 3D animation, comics (sequential art to some), games and more.
For a full schedule of events, click here.
For a full schedule of events, click here.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Public Film Screening
Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos
A film by Anna Baltzer
Wednesday, October 20th
7:00pm
Ballantine Hall room 146
Open discussion to follow screening
Anna is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights.
Her film, Life in Occupied Palestine, provides an excellent introduction—in a down-to-earth, non-alienating way—to the occupation in Palestine and the nonviolent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land.
This screening is sponsored by Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East. For more information, find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127296737300981
Or contact via e-mail: hoosiersforpeace@gmail.com
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East is a relatively new student organization on campus, consisting mainly of CMCL grad students (but welcoming others to join!). The group plans to address topics centered on the history and current status of conflicts in the Middle East, as well as the U.S. presence in said conflicts.
This is the first of the events that this group will sponsor, with another film screening to follow during Advocacy Week in early November. As a fledgling organization, Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East would really like to increase its visibility on campus and (hopefully) increase group membership.
Please feel free to distribute widely information about this screening.
A film by Anna Baltzer
Wednesday, October 20th
7:00pm
Ballantine Hall room 146
Open discussion to follow screening
Anna is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights.
Her film, Life in Occupied Palestine, provides an excellent introduction—in a down-to-earth, non-alienating way—to the occupation in Palestine and the nonviolent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land.
This screening is sponsored by Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East. For more information, find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127296737300981
Or contact via e-mail: hoosiersforpeace@gmail.com
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East is a relatively new student organization on campus, consisting mainly of CMCL grad students (but welcoming others to join!). The group plans to address topics centered on the history and current status of conflicts in the Middle East, as well as the U.S. presence in said conflicts.
This is the first of the events that this group will sponsor, with another film screening to follow during Advocacy Week in early November. As a fledgling organization, Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East would really like to increase its visibility on campus and (hopefully) increase group membership.
Please feel free to distribute widely information about this screening.
USC's Annenberg School for Communication Seeks Postdoc
USC's Annenberg School for Communication is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join its Media, Activism, Participatory Politics (MAPP) Case Studies Project.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will assume significant responsibility in conducting case study based research for the Project. This research will investigate the continuities between participatory culture and civic engagement. As such, qualified candidates should be aware of current research trends in fan studies, civics, globalization and/or media studies and should be ready to apply that knowledge to the case study research.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will have earned an advanced degree and/or conducted previous qualitative research in one or more of the above listed areas. Successful candidates must be able to work independently and apply knowledge of domestic and international participatory cultures and civic action to the development of innovative models of civic learning and identity. Fluency in one foreign language, especially Spanish, is strongly preferred. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will report to the Project's Research Director.
The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is located in the heart of downtown L.A. and is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. As an employee of USC, you will be a part of a world-class research university and a member of the "Trojan Family," which is comprised of the faculty, students and staff that make the university what it is.
Job Accountabilities:
-Serves as a research trainee for the purpose of enhancing and developing research competencies. Participates in planning, designing and conducting highly technical and complex research projects under the direction of a supervisor. May or may not work independently.
-Identifies, researches, compiles and evaluates data sources, background information and/or technology related to area of specialization.
-Analyzes and evaluates research data utilizing computers and provides interpretations requiring significant knowledge of a specialized area of research. -Searches literature, utilizing all available resources including electronic, regarding new methodology and designs experiments accordingly.
-Contributes to the development of research documentation for publication and/or prepares technical reports, papers and/or records.
-Performs other related duties as assigned or requested. The University reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
The University of Southern California values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment.
more information about posted position and application details:
https://jobs.usc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1286951354059
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will assume significant responsibility in conducting case study based research for the Project. This research will investigate the continuities between participatory culture and civic engagement. As such, qualified candidates should be aware of current research trends in fan studies, civics, globalization and/or media studies and should be ready to apply that knowledge to the case study research.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will have earned an advanced degree and/or conducted previous qualitative research in one or more of the above listed areas. Successful candidates must be able to work independently and apply knowledge of domestic and international participatory cultures and civic action to the development of innovative models of civic learning and identity. Fluency in one foreign language, especially Spanish, is strongly preferred. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will report to the Project's Research Director.
The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is located in the heart of downtown L.A. and is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. As an employee of USC, you will be a part of a world-class research university and a member of the "Trojan Family," which is comprised of the faculty, students and staff that make the university what it is.
Job Accountabilities:
-Serves as a research trainee for the purpose of enhancing and developing research competencies. Participates in planning, designing and conducting highly technical and complex research projects under the direction of a supervisor. May or may not work independently.
-Identifies, researches, compiles and evaluates data sources, background information and/or technology related to area of specialization.
-Analyzes and evaluates research data utilizing computers and provides interpretations requiring significant knowledge of a specialized area of research. -Searches literature, utilizing all available resources including electronic, regarding new methodology and designs experiments accordingly.
-Contributes to the development of research documentation for publication and/or prepares technical reports, papers and/or records.
-Performs other related duties as assigned or requested. The University reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
The University of Southern California values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment.
more information about posted position and application details:
https://jobs.usc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1286951354059
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
City Lights and Underground Film Series presents
Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2009)
Friday, October 15
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Called “possibly the greatest film yet made about rock and roll” by the London Times, Anvil: The Story of the Anvil is an affectionate documentary about the almost-made-it heavy metal band and their 30+ years of struggle in the rock and roll wilderness. A surprisingly inspiring tale, Anvil brings to light the heartaches and unusual triumphs of the thousands of bands that keep playing regardless of commercial success. (80 minutes)
For a full schedule, click here.
Friday, October 15
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
Called “possibly the greatest film yet made about rock and roll” by the London Times, Anvil: The Story of the Anvil is an affectionate documentary about the almost-made-it heavy metal band and their 30+ years of struggle in the rock and roll wilderness. A surprisingly inspiring tale, Anvil brings to light the heartaches and unusual triumphs of the thousands of bands that keep playing regardless of commercial success. (80 minutes)
For a full schedule, click here.
Reminder: HOME MOVIE DAY is this Sunday
"Home Movie Day is an international event celebrating the power and wonder of amateur moving image production. Home Movie Day is a bring-your-own movie experience, where members of the community bring in their home movies, travel films or amateur footage to share with other like-minded members of the community. There will be opportunities to screen 16mm, 8mm, Super 8, VHS, and DVD footage. Home Movie Day is in Room 251 of the Radio-TV Building on the Indiana University Campus from 3-5pm on Sunday October 17. The event is free and open to all members of the public. For more information contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu."
J650: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE MEDIA
David Nord, instructor
School of Journalism
This is a colloquium on the social history of American print media, with the emphasis on journalism. The main theme is the role of public communication in the community life of America, from 1630 to about 1920. The course deals with a variety of community types‹New England towns, revolutionary coalitions, voluntary associations, frontier villages, industrial cities, consumer communities, and even "the nation" as a whole. And the course explores a variety of communications media‹sermons, tracts, books, lectures, magazines, newspapers, and radio. In general, the aim is to locate mediated communication, especially journalism, in the political, social, and cultural life of the American people. J650 is a readings course, with much of the reading coming from recent American social and intellectual history as well as from the history of journalism and mass media. The main assignment will be a series of critical review papers.
David Nord, the instructor, is a professor in Journalism and adjunct professor in History and American Studies. His research interests lie in the history of American journalism, American religious publishing, and the history of readers and reading. He is author of _Communities of Journalism:
A History of American Newspapers and their Readers_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001) and _Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America_ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
He is also co-editor of _The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America_, a volume in _A History of the Book in America_ (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has served as interim editor and associate editor of the Journal of American History, and he is currently editor of the History News Service.
Meets Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:005:15, Ernie Pyle Hall, Room 207. For further information, call 855-0655 or e-mail: nord@indiana.edu.
School of Journalism
This is a colloquium on the social history of American print media, with the emphasis on journalism. The main theme is the role of public communication in the community life of America, from 1630 to about 1920. The course deals with a variety of community types‹New England towns, revolutionary coalitions, voluntary associations, frontier villages, industrial cities, consumer communities, and even "the nation" as a whole. And the course explores a variety of communications media‹sermons, tracts, books, lectures, magazines, newspapers, and radio. In general, the aim is to locate mediated communication, especially journalism, in the political, social, and cultural life of the American people. J650 is a readings course, with much of the reading coming from recent American social and intellectual history as well as from the history of journalism and mass media. The main assignment will be a series of critical review papers.
David Nord, the instructor, is a professor in Journalism and adjunct professor in History and American Studies. His research interests lie in the history of American journalism, American religious publishing, and the history of readers and reading. He is author of _Communities of Journalism:
A History of American Newspapers and their Readers_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001) and _Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America_ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
He is also co-editor of _The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America_, a volume in _A History of the Book in America_ (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has served as interim editor and associate editor of the Journal of American History, and he is currently editor of the History News Service.
Meets Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:005:15, Ernie Pyle Hall, Room 207. For further information, call 855-0655 or e-mail: nord@indiana.edu.
ARIT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR 2011-2012
ARIT directly supports and administers a variety of programs of fellowships for scholarly research and for language study in Turkey. Programs for U.S. based scholars and graduate students include the ARIT, Kenan T. Erim, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the ARIT-Princeton Summer Language Program at Bogazici University in Istanbul. ARIT Fellows come from all regions of the country and represent many fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT fellowships support individual research projects in ancient, historical, and modern times in all fields of the humanities and social sciences that must be carried out in Turkey.
Opportunities for Turkish students and scholars include the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships for advanced research in archaeology, the Coulson-Cross Aegean Exchange, and the Turkish Fellowship program.
For more information please visit:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html
Opportunities for Turkish students and scholars include the Hanfmann and Mellink Fellowships for advanced research in archaeology, the Coulson-Cross Aegean Exchange, and the Turkish Fellowship program.
For more information please visit:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html
A French Perspective on Classic Issues in Anthropology
Four Seminars by
Emmanuel Désveaux (École des hautes études, Paris)
All seminars are scheduled for 11:30-1:00
Student Building 159
Monday, October 18
George Catlin and the American Indian Horseman: A European Political Metaphor
Wednesday, October 20
Four National Traditions of Anthropology in the Twentieth Century: French, English, German, American
Monday, October 25
Looking back on Australia: Three Clusters of Human Knowledge on Human Reproduction
Wednesday October 27
Odd Resurgencies of Lévi-Straussian Transformations in the French Alps: Toward a Cognitive Mega-culturalism
For information contact Raymond DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu; 812 855-4086)
Emmanuel Désveaux (École des hautes études, Paris)
All seminars are scheduled for 11:30-1:00
Student Building 159
Monday, October 18
George Catlin and the American Indian Horseman: A European Political Metaphor
Wednesday, October 20
Four National Traditions of Anthropology in the Twentieth Century: French, English, German, American
Monday, October 25
Looking back on Australia: Three Clusters of Human Knowledge on Human Reproduction
Wednesday October 27
Odd Resurgencies of Lévi-Straussian Transformations in the French Alps: Toward a Cognitive Mega-culturalism
For information contact Raymond DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu; 812 855-4086)
After 100: The Legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Work in 21st Century Arts and Humanities
A Cross Disciplinary Symposium
Indiana University
October 22-23, 2010
Law School Room 122
All sessions will be open to the public
Friday, 10/22 (Law School Room 122)
Session 1. Beyond Structure, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
James A. Boon, Princeton University - “Lévi-Strauss' Last Laugh: Encore, Encore”
Emmanuel Désveaux, E.H.E.S.S. - “Farewell to Primitivism: How Lévi-Strauss Read Ethnography”
Raymond J. DeMallie, Indiana University - “Pensée Sauvage in the Great Plains”
Session 2. Lévi-Strauss in the Arts and Humanities, 2:30-5:00 p.m.
Marie Mauzé, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, C.N.R.S. – “Lévi-Strauss and Northwest Coast Ethno-Aesthetics”
Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University -“Anthropology at the Académie Française”
Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - “Transformation: Lévi-Strauss in the Rabbis’ Academy”
Film showing “À Propos de Tristes Tropiques” by Patrick Menget, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10/23 (Law School Room 122)
Session 3. Mythology Studies, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Anthony Seeger, UCLA - “Performing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Fugue of the Five Senses: Myths, Aromas, Tastes, Feelings and Music in the Brazilian Amazon”
Gregory A. Schrempp, Indiana University -“Scientific Fire Myths: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of Four Variants”
Jeffrey D. Anderson, Colby College - “Lévi-Strauss and the Mysteries of the Arapaho Porcupine Redaction Myth”
Session 4. Anthropology and History, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Cesar Gordon, Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro - “L'Apothéose d'Auguste: Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Despair and Hopefulness”
Allen R. Douglas, Indiana University, - “Space and Time: The Philosophy of History in Tristes Tropiques”
Christopher S. Peebles, Indiana University - “Lévi-Strauss among the Archeologists: From Structuralism to Logicism”
Session 5. Lévi-Strauss in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable Summation, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
For questions or additional information,
contact Joëlle Bahloul (bahloul@indiana.edu) or Raymond J. DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu)
To see the flyer follow the link below:
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/LSflyer.pdf
Indiana University
October 22-23, 2010
Law School Room 122
All sessions will be open to the public
Friday, 10/22 (Law School Room 122)
Session 1. Beyond Structure, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
James A. Boon, Princeton University - “Lévi-Strauss' Last Laugh: Encore, Encore”
Emmanuel Désveaux, E.H.E.S.S. - “Farewell to Primitivism: How Lévi-Strauss Read Ethnography”
Raymond J. DeMallie, Indiana University - “Pensée Sauvage in the Great Plains”
Session 2. Lévi-Strauss in the Arts and Humanities, 2:30-5:00 p.m.
Marie Mauzé, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, C.N.R.S. – “Lévi-Strauss and Northwest Coast Ethno-Aesthetics”
Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University -“Anthropology at the Académie Française”
Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - “Transformation: Lévi-Strauss in the Rabbis’ Academy”
Film showing “À Propos de Tristes Tropiques” by Patrick Menget, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, 10/23 (Law School Room 122)
Session 3. Mythology Studies, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Anthony Seeger, UCLA - “Performing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Fugue of the Five Senses: Myths, Aromas, Tastes, Feelings and Music in the Brazilian Amazon”
Gregory A. Schrempp, Indiana University -“Scientific Fire Myths: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of Four Variants”
Jeffrey D. Anderson, Colby College - “Lévi-Strauss and the Mysteries of the Arapaho Porcupine Redaction Myth”
Session 4. Anthropology and History, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Cesar Gordon, Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro - “L'Apothéose d'Auguste: Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Despair and Hopefulness”
Allen R. Douglas, Indiana University, - “Space and Time: The Philosophy of History in Tristes Tropiques”
Christopher S. Peebles, Indiana University - “Lévi-Strauss among the Archeologists: From Structuralism to Logicism”
Session 5. Lévi-Strauss in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable Summation, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
For questions or additional information,
contact Joëlle Bahloul (bahloul@indiana.edu) or Raymond J. DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu)
To see the flyer follow the link below:
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/LSflyer.pdf
Rutgers University The Center for Cultural Analysis announces External Fellowships for 2011-12
Public Knowledge: Institutions, Networks, Collectives
What, today, is public knowledge? What forms have shared, openly accessible bodies of knowledge taken historically, and what are the prospects for collective inquiry in the 21st century? For its 25th Anniversary year, the Center for Cultural Analysis invites projects that investigate the creation and transmission of knowledge by and for a variety of publics, semi-publics, and counter-publics. We are particularly interested in institutions such as universities, museums, and libraries that are explicitly dedicated to the transmission of knowledge across generations. But we will also take up other social practices and cultural forms that serve the public good or the public interest, such as journalism, government reports, learned societies, watchdog agencies, non-governmental organizations, and free and open source software projects. Are there problems that can only be addressed through a collaborative, collective mode of inquiry? How does knowledge become institutionalized, and how do institutions account for themselves? What are the historical precedents for the informal knowledge networks made possible by new media? Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to the history and prospects of the university and other learned societies; public knowledge and social media; the institutional landscape of the public sphere, including corporations and laboratories; the public domain; intellectual property and the privatization of public goods; limits to or restrictions on public knowledge. Proposals are invited from the many disciplines concerned with this topic.
In 2011-12, CCA will sponsor two external fellowships with awards of $45,000. CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center's resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year. Applications must be postmarked by January 7, 2011.
Applications can be downloaded at http://cca.rutgers.edu
Center for Cultural Analysis - Rutgers University
8 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-8426 Email: info@cca.rutgers.edu Web: http://cca.rutgers.edu
What, today, is public knowledge? What forms have shared, openly accessible bodies of knowledge taken historically, and what are the prospects for collective inquiry in the 21st century? For its 25th Anniversary year, the Center for Cultural Analysis invites projects that investigate the creation and transmission of knowledge by and for a variety of publics, semi-publics, and counter-publics. We are particularly interested in institutions such as universities, museums, and libraries that are explicitly dedicated to the transmission of knowledge across generations. But we will also take up other social practices and cultural forms that serve the public good or the public interest, such as journalism, government reports, learned societies, watchdog agencies, non-governmental organizations, and free and open source software projects. Are there problems that can only be addressed through a collaborative, collective mode of inquiry? How does knowledge become institutionalized, and how do institutions account for themselves? What are the historical precedents for the informal knowledge networks made possible by new media? Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to the history and prospects of the university and other learned societies; public knowledge and social media; the institutional landscape of the public sphere, including corporations and laboratories; the public domain; intellectual property and the privatization of public goods; limits to or restrictions on public knowledge. Proposals are invited from the many disciplines concerned with this topic.
In 2011-12, CCA will sponsor two external fellowships with awards of $45,000. CCA also awards non-funded associate fellowships. All fellows will have access to the Center's resources during the tenure of the fellowship and will be expected to participate in and to present their work to the Center seminars, which meet regularly throughout the academic year. Applications must be postmarked by January 7, 2011.
Applications can be downloaded at http://cca.rutgers.edu
Center for Cultural Analysis - Rutgers University
8 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-8426 Email: info@cca.rutgers.edu Web: http://cca.rutgers.edu
CFP: The Critical Blot: Opacity and Meaning in German Language, Literature, and Culture, Bloomington
Eighth Biennial Graduate Student Conference
Department of Germanic Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
February 25-27, 2011
The Critical Blot: Opacity and Meaning in German Language, Literature, and Culture
Keynote Address: Benjamin Bennett (University of Virginia)
Plenary Address: Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin)
„Diesem Willen zum Schein, zur Vereinfachung, zur Maske, zum Mantel, kurz zur Oberfläche – denn jede Oberfläche ist ein Mantel – wirkt jener sublime Hang des Erkennenden entgegen, der die Dinge tief, vielfach, gründlich nimmt und nehmen will.“ Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Over the centuries, writers, philosophers, linguists, historians, artists, musicians, and filmmakers have attempted to wrestle with the façades that Nietzsche describes. Obscurity, indecipherability, pregnant silences, faulty light – these masks of opacity resist being known when they are all that can be known. Can the methods that begin by trying to punch through them in the end only caress them? While the surface, i.e., what we actually see and hear of language and art, is
relatively easy to observe (as long as the observer is sensitive to its structure), that which lies behind (the surface) has driven analyses and entire theories and has led to the development of myriad scholastic methods and empirical instruments.
This conference wishes to open up avenues of investigation into the shadowy underworld of opacity: how has it been theorized and deployed within literature, linguistics, art, philosophy, history, and music – and how can we theorize it today? Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:
– Opaque regions in literature and film: Leerstelle, psychologically inaccessible characters, seemingly unmotivated actions
– Suturing of the camera/audience in film and the invisibility of the gaze
– Philosophy/Thing theory: Bill Brown, Luhmann’s blind spot, Heidegger’s art work – how are things made visible?
– Performance: interplay of text and staging, text and music, voice and music, possible disjunctions and counter-narratives
– Contrast of transparency and opacity in literature, i.e., in German Romantic texts from Tieck to Kleist
– Goethe: mirroring and mirroring of mirroring, Translation and Weltliteratur from the 18th century to Benjamin and beyond
– Syntax: Transformation/Movement (with and without traces); barriers to movement
– Second Language Acquisition: learnability problems; over/undergeneralization; positive & negative evidence
– Historical Linguistics: comparative method/reconstruction; limitations of manuscript/inscription evidence; gaps in the data and their implications; principles and models of historical change
– Phonology/Morphology: underlying representations; derivations; opacity phenomena (overapplication and underapplication); rules of (supposed) absolute neutralization
Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2010.
Please send a 1-2 page anonymous abstract, with a separate cover sheet indicating the author’s name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address to: germconf@indiana.edu
For more information: http://www.indiana.edu/~germconf/
Department of Germanic Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
February 25-27, 2011
The Critical Blot: Opacity and Meaning in German Language, Literature, and Culture
Keynote Address: Benjamin Bennett (University of Virginia)
Plenary Address: Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin)
„Diesem Willen zum Schein, zur Vereinfachung, zur Maske, zum Mantel, kurz zur Oberfläche – denn jede Oberfläche ist ein Mantel – wirkt jener sublime Hang des Erkennenden entgegen, der die Dinge tief, vielfach, gründlich nimmt und nehmen will.“ Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Over the centuries, writers, philosophers, linguists, historians, artists, musicians, and filmmakers have attempted to wrestle with the façades that Nietzsche describes. Obscurity, indecipherability, pregnant silences, faulty light – these masks of opacity resist being known when they are all that can be known. Can the methods that begin by trying to punch through them in the end only caress them? While the surface, i.e., what we actually see and hear of language and art, is
relatively easy to observe (as long as the observer is sensitive to its structure), that which lies behind (the surface) has driven analyses and entire theories and has led to the development of myriad scholastic methods and empirical instruments.
This conference wishes to open up avenues of investigation into the shadowy underworld of opacity: how has it been theorized and deployed within literature, linguistics, art, philosophy, history, and music – and how can we theorize it today? Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of inquiry:
– Opaque regions in literature and film: Leerstelle, psychologically inaccessible characters, seemingly unmotivated actions
– Suturing of the camera/audience in film and the invisibility of the gaze
– Philosophy/Thing theory: Bill Brown, Luhmann’s blind spot, Heidegger’s art work – how are things made visible?
– Performance: interplay of text and staging, text and music, voice and music, possible disjunctions and counter-narratives
– Contrast of transparency and opacity in literature, i.e., in German Romantic texts from Tieck to Kleist
– Goethe: mirroring and mirroring of mirroring, Translation and Weltliteratur from the 18th century to Benjamin and beyond
– Syntax: Transformation/Movement (with and without traces); barriers to movement
– Second Language Acquisition: learnability problems; over/undergeneralization; positive & negative evidence
– Historical Linguistics: comparative method/reconstruction; limitations of manuscript/inscription evidence; gaps in the data and their implications; principles and models of historical change
– Phonology/Morphology: underlying representations; derivations; opacity phenomena (overapplication and underapplication); rules of (supposed) absolute neutralization
Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2010.
Please send a 1-2 page anonymous abstract, with a separate cover sheet indicating the author’s name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address to: germconf@indiana.edu
For more information: http://www.indiana.edu/~germconf/
CFP: 2011 SWTX Popular Culture/American Culture
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Joint Conference
April 20 – 23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
20-minute presentations ranging from critical essays to analyses employing recognized research methodologies are sought.
“Films have been made for many purposes, embodying the values (or disvalues) and ideas of many cultures, classes, and geographical latitudes, so their interpretations must be as free, deep, and wide-ranging as possible.” (Constantine Santos, in Responding to Film)
Those interested should submit a proposal with the following items:
• 100-250 word abstract, including paper/presentation title
• current curriculum vitae
• working bibliography for your paper
• contact information: name, address, and email.
Send to:
Dick Crew
Film (General) Area Chair
Dick.crew@gmail.com
Joint Conference
April 20 – 23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
http://www.swtxpca.org
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010
20-minute presentations ranging from critical essays to analyses employing recognized research methodologies are sought.
“Films have been made for many purposes, embodying the values (or disvalues) and ideas of many cultures, classes, and geographical latitudes, so their interpretations must be as free, deep, and wide-ranging as possible.” (Constantine Santos, in Responding to Film)
Those interested should submit a proposal with the following items:
• 100-250 word abstract, including paper/presentation title
• current curriculum vitae
• working bibliography for your paper
• contact information: name, address, and email.
Send to:
Dick Crew
Film (General) Area Chair
Dick.crew@gmail.com
Critical Language Scholarships
The State Department is accepting applications for its summer 2011 Critical Language Scholarship program for overseas intensive institutes in 13 critical need foreign languages, including several South Asian languages.
The programs provide fully-funded (including travel from the U.S., room and board) group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for 7-10 weeks.
U.S. citizens who are current undergraduate and graduate students in any field are eligible.
The deadline is November 15, 2010.
More information is available at: clscholarship.org.
THIS PROGRAM MAY HELP FULFILL YOUR PHD LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
The programs provide fully-funded (including travel from the U.S., room and board) group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for 7-10 weeks.
U.S. citizens who are current undergraduate and graduate students in any field are eligible.
The deadline is November 15, 2010.
More information is available at: clscholarship.org.
THIS PROGRAM MAY HELP FULFILL YOUR PHD LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
CFS: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Final Deadline Approaching for 2011 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Final Deadline - POSTMARKED by October 15, 2010 SPECIAL EXTENDED DEADLINE (withoutabox entry only) October 29, 2010
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the premier venue for nonfiction film in the American West, is seeking submissions for its eighth annual event. From February 11-20, 2011 the festival will screen 100+ films, including world and U.S. premieres, classics, rare and experimental works on Montana's largest screen at the historic Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula, Montana. In addition to ten days of screenings, the event will feature many public and VIP events including panel discussions, galas, receptions and networking round-tables.
The competitive event is open to non-fiction films and videos of all genres, subject matter, lengths and production dates. Awards and cash prizes will be given for Best Documentary Feature (over 50 minutes), Best Documentary Short (15-50 minutes), Best Mini-Doc (under 15
minutes) and best documentary about the American West (the Big Sky Award).
Finished films, rough cuts and works-in-progress are all accepted for this final deadline, provided that the completed film will be available for exhibition by February 11, 2011.
DVD (NTSC/PAL), VHS (NTSC/PAL), DVCAM (NTSC/PAL), HDV (NTSC), and miniDV (NTSC/PAL) accepted for preview.
Enter via Withoutabox.com at - http://www.withoutabox.com/login/3969
or download entry form in pdf format at -
If you would like an entry form emailed to you in pdf format, send a request to callforentries@bigskyfilmfest.org.
For more information visit http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org
Final Deadline - POSTMARKED by October 15, 2010 SPECIAL EXTENDED DEADLINE (withoutabox entry only) October 29, 2010
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the premier venue for nonfiction film in the American West, is seeking submissions for its eighth annual event. From February 11-20, 2011 the festival will screen 100+ films, including world and U.S. premieres, classics, rare and experimental works on Montana's largest screen at the historic Wilma Theater in downtown Missoula, Montana. In addition to ten days of screenings, the event will feature many public and VIP events including panel discussions, galas, receptions and networking round-tables.
The competitive event is open to non-fiction films and videos of all genres, subject matter, lengths and production dates. Awards and cash prizes will be given for Best Documentary Feature (over 50 minutes), Best Documentary Short (15-50 minutes), Best Mini-Doc (under 15
minutes) and best documentary about the American West (the Big Sky Award).
Finished films, rough cuts and works-in-progress are all accepted for this final deadline, provided that the completed film will be available for exhibition by February 11, 2011.
DVD (NTSC/PAL), VHS (NTSC/PAL), DVCAM (NTSC/PAL), HDV (NTSC), and miniDV (NTSC/PAL) accepted for preview.
Enter via Withoutabox.com at - http://www.withoutabox.com/login/3969
or download entry form in pdf format at -
If you would like an entry form emailed to you in pdf format, send a request to callforentries@bigskyfilmfest.org.
For more information visit http://www.bigskyfilmfest.org
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Talk by Peking University Professor of Folklore Yongchao Chen
“Changing Fortunes in a Chinese Folk Village: Ideology, Policy, Value, and Practice in the Folk Arts”
Wednesday, October 20th
4:30-6:00 PM
501 N. Park Ave.
The topic of Prof. Chen’s lecture is transformations in the folk culture of a Chinese village in Jiangsu province over the last sixty years. He will discuss changing values and government policies that have impacted the village’s folk arts and everyday life. After the early 1950s—when the folk arts were elevated as a representation of the artistry of the peasants and working people—they were then promoted as a revolutionary art form, later declined, and more recently have been revalued and promoted as examples of China’s rich cultural and intangible heritage. The talk will be accompanied by audio-visual materials.
Questions: tuohys@indiana.edu
Wednesday, October 20th
4:30-6:00 PM
501 N. Park Ave.
The topic of Prof. Chen’s lecture is transformations in the folk culture of a Chinese village in Jiangsu province over the last sixty years. He will discuss changing values and government policies that have impacted the village’s folk arts and everyday life. After the early 1950s—when the folk arts were elevated as a representation of the artistry of the peasants and working people—they were then promoted as a revolutionary art form, later declined, and more recently have been revalued and promoted as examples of China’s rich cultural and intangible heritage. The talk will be accompanied by audio-visual materials.
Questions: tuohys@indiana.edu
Distinguished archaeology lecture
Who: Dr. Lawrence Straus, Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico; Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research.
When: Thursday, October 14th at 7:00 pm.
Where: Glenn Black Laboratory lecture room, 423 N. Fess.
Topic: “From the Old Stone Age to the Bronze Age: El Miron Cave, a long cultural sequence in the Cantabrian Cordillera of Northern Spain”.
Lawrence Straus is one of the foremost authorities on the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe, and has excavated in Spain and France for over three decades. As editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research (Ray DeMallie serves as an Associate Editor), he is always looking for interesting and stimulating contributions for the journal.
Stone Age Institute
When: Thursday, October 14th at 7:00 pm.
Where: Glenn Black Laboratory lecture room, 423 N. Fess.
Topic: “From the Old Stone Age to the Bronze Age: El Miron Cave, a long cultural sequence in the Cantabrian Cordillera of Northern Spain”.
Lawrence Straus is one of the foremost authorities on the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe, and has excavated in Spain and France for over three decades. As editor of the Journal of Anthropological Research (Ray DeMallie serves as an Associate Editor), he is always looking for interesting and stimulating contributions for the journal.
Stone Age Institute
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Tues, Oct. 19
@ 7:15pm,
JH A100:
Food, Inc. (2008). Dir. by Robert Kenner. Prod. by Participant Media and River Road Entertainment. 94 minutes.
There will be a panel discussion afterwards with:
Marti Crouch (former IU Biology Professor, expert witness and researcher of bioengineering)
Aaron Harmon (CMCL Graduate Student, intern at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard)
Vanessa Caruso (Alumni, former Sustainability Food Intern, & Stranger’s Hill Organic Farm worker)
Steve Stroup (Bloomingfoods)
Hosted by Prof. Phaedra C. Pezzullo (email if you have any questions: pezzullo@indiana.edu). Sponsored by the Department of Communication & Culture.
@ 7:15pm,
JH A100:
Food, Inc. (2008). Dir. by Robert Kenner. Prod. by Participant Media and River Road Entertainment. 94 minutes.
There will be a panel discussion afterwards with:
Marti Crouch (former IU Biology Professor, expert witness and researcher of bioengineering)
Aaron Harmon (CMCL Graduate Student, intern at Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard)
Vanessa Caruso (Alumni, former Sustainability Food Intern, & Stranger’s Hill Organic Farm worker)
Steve Stroup (Bloomingfoods)
Hosted by Prof. Phaedra C. Pezzullo (email if you have any questions: pezzullo@indiana.edu). Sponsored by the Department of Communication & Culture.
Studio Cypher: How to Make Games for a Living
Tuesday October 12
7pm - 8pm
RTV Room 245
In this talk, IU alums Will Emigh and Nathan Mishler will share their experience in launching an independent game company. Priceless information for anyone interested in careers in interactive media.
The event is also an opportunity to network with others on campus who are interested in making games and building a portfolio of completed games. Portfolio is far and away the most important part of a job application in interactive media. Students with professional interests in this area should be working on games now.
7pm - 8pm
RTV Room 245
In this talk, IU alums Will Emigh and Nathan Mishler will share their experience in launching an independent game company. Priceless information for anyone interested in careers in interactive media.
The event is also an opportunity to network with others on campus who are interested in making games and building a portfolio of completed games. Portfolio is far and away the most important part of a job application in interactive media. Students with professional interests in this area should be working on games now.
CFS: Harmony International Short Film Festival
HIFF seeks entries for its 2010 edition on the theme of reconciliation.
The festival accepts short films under ten minutes from all categories including, drama, documentaries, comedy, experimental, music video, digital media and animation. All genres are accepted, except for films that include offensive language, nudity, sex scenes or violence. For more details and all conditions of entry please visit our entry page.
The aim of the festival is to create and propagate dialogue and discussion on the notions of unity and harmony. The 2010 theme has been chosen to present a discourse on the topic of reconciliation which is a fundamental principle of social harmony.
The festival accepts short films under ten minutes from all categories including, drama, documentaries, comedy, experimental, music video, digital media and animation. All genres are accepted, except for films that include offensive language, nudity, sex scenes or violence. For more details and all conditions of entry please visit our entry page.
The aim of the festival is to create and propagate dialogue and discussion on the notions of unity and harmony. The 2010 theme has been chosen to present a discourse on the topic of reconciliation which is a fundamental principle of social harmony.
CFP: Ubiquitous Learning Conference
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities which are now pervasively part of our everyday lives’ from laptops to mobile phones, games, digital music players, personal digital assistants and cameras. The Conference explores the possibilities of new forms of learning using these devices not only in the classroom, but in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education. Ubiquitous Learning is made possible in part by the affordances of the new, digital media. What’s new about it? What’s not-so-new? What are the main challenges of access to these new learning opportunities? These are the key themes and scope and concerns of the Conference and its companion Journal.
CFP: 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE - Animation on the Fly
2011 SPECIAL ISSUE - Animation on the Fly: Animation and Video Games Guest Edited Issue of Animation Journal
Editor: Kara Lynn Andersen
The look and feel of video game animation is rooted in cinematic and televisual animation principles, however, to date, most scholarship on video games has neglected the visual design of games in favor of the experience of playing a game or the effects of game violence on players. Scholarship on animation, on the other hand, has concentrated on animation distributed through film, television, or the Internet.
Thus, with the exception of a growing body of work on machinima, the animated images of video games remain underexplored. This special issue of Animation Journal will focus on the stylistic and aesthetic intersections between traditional animation and video games.
Scholarly articles on any aspect of the relationship between of animated film/television productions and video games are sought for this special issue of Animation Journal. Possible topics include:
• Machinima
• Transmedia storytelling involving games and animation • The work of a particular game animation artist • The use of "cartoon aesthetics" in video games • Issues in adaptation from games to animated films/cartoons or vice versa • Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of game animation software or production techniques • The construction of identity through animated game avatars • The relationship between manga, anime and Japanese game design • Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of animation rendered on the fly
Timeline:
Currently reading proposals
Paper submission deadline – January 7, 2011 Refereeing – January-February 2011 Revisions/Editing – March-June 2011 Journal Publication – October 2011
Authors are encouraged to send proposals to the editor for feedback prior to the paper submission deadline of January 7.
Papers should be approximately 4,000-7,000 words, formatted in Chicago style. Papers are blind refereed, so the author's name should not appear in the body of the manuscript but only on an attached cover sheet. E-mail a copy of the paper to the editor as a Microsoft Word file or as an RTF document.
Submissions and inquiries should be directed to guest editor Kara Andersen at klandersen@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
Editor: Kara Lynn Andersen
The look and feel of video game animation is rooted in cinematic and televisual animation principles, however, to date, most scholarship on video games has neglected the visual design of games in favor of the experience of playing a game or the effects of game violence on players. Scholarship on animation, on the other hand, has concentrated on animation distributed through film, television, or the Internet.
Thus, with the exception of a growing body of work on machinima, the animated images of video games remain underexplored. This special issue of Animation Journal will focus on the stylistic and aesthetic intersections between traditional animation and video games.
Scholarly articles on any aspect of the relationship between of animated film/television productions and video games are sought for this special issue of Animation Journal. Possible topics include:
• Machinima
• Transmedia storytelling involving games and animation • The work of a particular game animation artist • The use of "cartoon aesthetics" in video games • Issues in adaptation from games to animated films/cartoons or vice versa • Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of game animation software or production techniques • The construction of identity through animated game avatars • The relationship between manga, anime and Japanese game design • Explorations of the aesthetic consequences of animation rendered on the fly
Timeline:
Currently reading proposals
Paper submission deadline – January 7, 2011 Refereeing – January-February 2011 Revisions/Editing – March-June 2011 Journal Publication – October 2011
Authors are encouraged to send proposals to the editor for feedback prior to the paper submission deadline of January 7.
Papers should be approximately 4,000-7,000 words, formatted in Chicago style. Papers are blind refereed, so the author's name should not appear in the body of the manuscript but only on an attached cover sheet. E-mail a copy of the paper to the editor as a Microsoft Word file or as an RTF document.
Submissions and inquiries should be directed to guest editor Kara Andersen at klandersen@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Home Movie Day
Home Movie Day returns to Bloomington on Sunday October 17 from 3-5pm in Room 251 of the Radio-TV Building on the Indiana University campus. Co-presented by the Department of Communication and Culture and IU Cinema, Home Movie Day is an international event celebrating the power of amateur moving images. We ask any and all of you to bring in your home movies and share them with the community. Vacation shots, wedding videos, crazy kids, or the small events of everyday life are all
welcome.
We will be able to screen 8mm, 16mm, Super 8, VHS and DVD films. There will also be discussions and information about preservation and the study of home movies as well. This year we will feature some films from the IU Archives along with whatever you and yours bring in.
Please come support amateur media and participate in this fun and educational event. Anyone who brings a movie to show will also receive a fun Home Movie Day t-shirt!
For more information contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu.
welcome.
We will be able to screen 8mm, 16mm, Super 8, VHS and DVD films. There will also be discussions and information about preservation and the study of home movies as well. This year we will feature some films from the IU Archives along with whatever you and yours bring in.
Please come support amateur media and participate in this fun and educational event. Anyone who brings a movie to show will also receive a fun Home Movie Day t-shirt!
For more information contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu.
Volunteers Sought for PFF Conference
Jill Waity is a fifth year graduate student in the sociology department at Indiana University. As the PFF fellow, she is coordinating the 16th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference. In addition to the event, which is February 18th, she is seeking volunteers to help plan the conference. The first planning meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, October 20th from 4-5pm in room 201 of the Schuessler Institute for Social Research (1022 E. Third Street).
Interested graduate students should contact her by email at jwaity@indiana.edu
Interested graduate students should contact her by email at jwaity@indiana.edu
Preparing Future Faculty Conference
Save the Date!
Title: Preparing Future Faculty Conference
Time: 8:30-4:30 Friday, February 18th, 2011
Location: IMU Solarium
Contact: Jill Waity
Url: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/
Description: Indiana University’s 16th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference is a one-day event designed to provide graduate students, of all disciplines and at all phases of their educations, with important information about preparing for their future academic careers. The conference consists of four sessions addressing such graduate student concerns as progression toward the Ph.D., building a professional record, navigating the job market, acclimating to a new faculty position, and professional opportunities within and outside of academia. Each year the conference is organized by a committee of graduate students, lead by a PFF fellow appointed and funded by the Sociology department and the College of Arts and Sciences. Funding for the conference is provided by the Graduate School and various participating departments. Panelists are typically professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions.
Contact Email: iupffc@gmail.com
Cost: Free, (RSVP for free lunch with name, department, and year in program to iupffc@gmail.com )
Title: Preparing Future Faculty Conference
Time: 8:30-4:30 Friday, February 18th, 2011
Location: IMU Solarium
Contact: Jill Waity
Url: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/
Description: Indiana University’s 16th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference is a one-day event designed to provide graduate students, of all disciplines and at all phases of their educations, with important information about preparing for their future academic careers. The conference consists of four sessions addressing such graduate student concerns as progression toward the Ph.D., building a professional record, navigating the job market, acclimating to a new faculty position, and professional opportunities within and outside of academia. Each year the conference is organized by a committee of graduate students, lead by a PFF fellow appointed and funded by the Sociology department and the College of Arts and Sciences. Funding for the conference is provided by the Graduate School and various participating departments. Panelists are typically professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions.
Contact Email: iupffc@gmail.com
Cost: Free, (RSVP for free lunch with name, department, and year in program to iupffc@gmail.com )
George P. Smith Visitor-C. Raj Kumar
Beginning this Thursday, October 7th, Professor C. Raj Kumar of the Jindal Global University-India (www.jgu.edu.in) will be serving as the George P. Smith Visiting Professor at the law school. Professor Kumar has a distinguished record as an academic, human rights lawyer, and now lead administrator and head of the Jindal University.
In addition to his keen desire to meet with members of the IU community, both one-on-one and in small groups, there will be two public events related to Professor Kumar's visit. The major gathering will be next Tuesday, October 12th, at noon in the Moot Court Room, where he will give the Smith Lecture entitled, “Globalization of Legal Education and Institution Building: India’s Challenges for Establishing a Greater Rule of Law Society in the 21st Century.”
In addition, the day before, Monday, October 11th, there will be a noon-time discussion with the six students who interned in India this past summer in the Faculty Conference Room. They will be providing an overview of their experiences, and Professor Kumar, who helped facilitate their accommodations while they were in Delhi, will be in attendance and will be participating as well. Lunch will be provided.
In addition to his keen desire to meet with members of the IU community, both one-on-one and in small groups, there will be two public events related to Professor Kumar's visit. The major gathering will be next Tuesday, October 12th, at noon in the Moot Court Room, where he will give the Smith Lecture entitled, “Globalization of Legal Education and Institution Building: India’s Challenges for Establishing a Greater Rule of Law Society in the 21st Century.”
In addition, the day before, Monday, October 11th, there will be a noon-time discussion with the six students who interned in India this past summer in the Faculty Conference Room. They will be providing an overview of their experiences, and Professor Kumar, who helped facilitate their accommodations while they were in Delhi, will be in attendance and will be participating as well. Lunch will be provided.
City Lights & Underground Film Series presents
Yojimbo (1961)
Friday, October 8
7 pm
RTV building, room 251.
Admission is free and open to the public, and parking in the library lot is free with a City Lights program displayed in your dashboard.
The inimitable Toshiro Mifune stars in one of his most memorable roles, as a nameless ronin samurai who saves a besieged town from warring crime lords using only his wit and his sword in Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Remade twice by both Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, 1967) and Walter Hill (Last Man Standing, 1996), and nominated for an Academy Award, Kurosawa’s visually stunning film still stands as one of the most exhilarating classics in the cinematic canon. (110 minutes)
Friday, October 8
7 pm
RTV building, room 251.
Admission is free and open to the public, and parking in the library lot is free with a City Lights program displayed in your dashboard.
The inimitable Toshiro Mifune stars in one of his most memorable roles, as a nameless ronin samurai who saves a besieged town from warring crime lords using only his wit and his sword in Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Remade twice by both Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars, 1967) and Walter Hill (Last Man Standing, 1996), and nominated for an Academy Award, Kurosawa’s visually stunning film still stands as one of the most exhilarating classics in the cinematic canon. (110 minutes)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
The Images Forum Lecture Series: Images of War, Conflict, and Peace
Jon Simons
Communication and Culture, Indiana University
“Peace Now and Never: Images of peace in the Israeli peace movement”
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 2:00 – 3:30 pm
College of Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI)
1211 E. Atwater Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
Form more information, Please contact Jon Simons at simonsj@indiana.edu
Communication and Culture, Indiana University
“Peace Now and Never: Images of peace in the Israeli peace movement”
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 2:00 – 3:30 pm
College of Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI)
1211 E. Atwater Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
Form more information, Please contact Jon Simons at simonsj@indiana.edu
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
CMCL Colloquium Series: Writing the Prospectus Panel
Friday, October 8, 2010
4 - 5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 203
Writing the Dissertation Prospectus sounds straightforward enough, but the period between finishing the PhD quals and getting to the Prospectus seems to be a place where many students falter.
Join us this Friday for a discussion of the prospectus process in its myriad forms. Your questions will be welcomed.
Panelists include;
Jane Goodman, Barbara Klinger, Robert Terrill, Mark Hain, and Jennifer Heusel
4 - 5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 203
Writing the Dissertation Prospectus sounds straightforward enough, but the period between finishing the PhD quals and getting to the Prospectus seems to be a place where many students falter.
Join us this Friday for a discussion of the prospectus process in its myriad forms. Your questions will be welcomed.
Panelists include;
Jane Goodman, Barbara Klinger, Robert Terrill, Mark Hain, and Jennifer Heusel
Plans of Study Deadline October 15th
Second year PhD students must hold their Plan of Study interviews and file their Plans of Study with Kathy by October 15th. Details are available in the online CMCL Graduate Handbook.
To access the relevant webpage, click here.
To access the relevant webpage, click here.
Mediating and Mitigating the Impact of the Belo Monte Dam: The Role of Community Activism in Amazon Town and Beyond
Organized by ACT and the Department of Anthropology
Featuring Professor Richard Pace of Middle Tennessee State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Thursday, Oct 7, Noon-1:30
Student Building 159
Abstract: Once completed, the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River of the Brazilian Amazon will be the third largest dam complex on the planet. The social, economic, political, and environmental impact of the dam will be massive and will extend throughout the region. Downstream from the dam, one agro-extractivist community is preparing to mediate and mitigate the negative impact of the dam and protect its extractive reserves, quilombos, and bioreserves. Gurupá (Charles Wagley’s Amazon Town) is counting on its community organization and eco-political activism to defend its way of life against “development”. Will it, or can it, possibly succeed?
Bio: Professor Richard Pace earned his BA in Anthropology from Indiana University and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida. His research focuses on political ecology and television studies in the Brazilian Amazon. He is the author of The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited (1998) and most recently “Television’s Interpellation: Heeding, Missing, Ignoring, and Resisting the Call for Pan-National Identity in the Brazilian Amazon” – American Anthropologists 2009.
http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/2010MAC/ober
Featuring Professor Richard Pace of Middle Tennessee State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Thursday, Oct 7, Noon-1:30
Student Building 159
Abstract: Once completed, the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River of the Brazilian Amazon will be the third largest dam complex on the planet. The social, economic, political, and environmental impact of the dam will be massive and will extend throughout the region. Downstream from the dam, one agro-extractivist community is preparing to mediate and mitigate the negative impact of the dam and protect its extractive reserves, quilombos, and bioreserves. Gurupá (Charles Wagley’s Amazon Town) is counting on its community organization and eco-political activism to defend its way of life against “development”. Will it, or can it, possibly succeed?
Bio: Professor Richard Pace earned his BA in Anthropology from Indiana University and his MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida. His research focuses on political ecology and television studies in the Brazilian Amazon. He is the author of The Struggle for Amazon Town: Gurupá Revisited (1998) and most recently “Television’s Interpellation: Heeding, Missing, Ignoring, and Resisting the Call for Pan-National Identity in the Brazilian Amazon” – American Anthropologists 2009.
http://www.gbl.indiana.edu/2010MAC/ober
The IU Bloomington Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects"
Workshop Announcement:
"Anything Going Wrong? Error and Failure in Scientific Practice"
Please join us for our first ALL-DAY workshop
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Maurer School of Law, Room 335 (Faculty Conference Room)
This first workshop of the 2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar will take up the theme of error and failure in scientific practice. The papers will explore how reports on experimental failures and dead ends are circulated, what processes prevent them from being communicated, and to what extent failures and dead ends may be regarded as productive forces in knowledge generation.
Speakers will include:
Peter Dear (Cornell)
Kevin Elliott (University of South Carolina) Eric Meslin (Indiana University Center for Bioethics/School of Medicine) Scott Hyslop (Indiana University, Bloomington) Laura Seger (Indiana University, Bloomington)
For a full workshop schedule please visit:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/anything_going_wrong.html
The workshop is open to all. Feel free to come for the whole day or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Please email CMCL PhD Candidate Eric Harvey (eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
This workshop is the first in a series of four organized by the 2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects." For more information please visit our website:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/index.html
"Anything Going Wrong? Error and Failure in Scientific Practice"
Please join us for our first ALL-DAY workshop
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Maurer School of Law, Room 335 (Faculty Conference Room)
This first workshop of the 2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar will take up the theme of error and failure in scientific practice. The papers will explore how reports on experimental failures and dead ends are circulated, what processes prevent them from being communicated, and to what extent failures and dead ends may be regarded as productive forces in knowledge generation.
Speakers will include:
Peter Dear (Cornell)
Kevin Elliott (University of South Carolina) Eric Meslin (Indiana University Center for Bioethics/School of Medicine) Scott Hyslop (Indiana University, Bloomington) Laura Seger (Indiana University, Bloomington)
For a full workshop schedule please visit:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/anything_going_wrong.html
The workshop is open to all. Feel free to come for the whole day or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Please email CMCL PhD Candidate Eric Harvey (eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
This workshop is the first in a series of four organized by the 2010-2011 Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects." For more information please visit our website:
http://sawyer.indiana.edu/index.html
Sage Candlelight Vigil: In Memoriam
Monday, October 11th
Dunn Meadow
7:30--8:30pm
Over the past two weeks, media attention has been focused on the issue of youth suicides resultant from harassment and bullying for being LGBT or being perceived as LGBT. This phenomenon certainly is not new, but this recent media attention has brought it to the awareness of the general American public. Though these tragedies may sound distant, many among us have had our lives altered by LGBT suicides. There has been an outpouring of requests for a public observance from the IU community.
Sage will be putting on a candlight vigil in Dunn Meadow on October 11th. You are welcome to assemble with us at 7:00 pm. We will begin by 7:30 with a brief statement followed by a moment of respectful silence. Afterward, members of the community are encouraged to shaer their thoughts and experiences with those assembled.
Sage is also seeking other organizations who may wish to sponsor this event. Sponsors are asked to bring a small number of candles, and to advertise the event to their membership. Partnered organizations will be included in a list of groups committed to seeing an end to the kind of hostility which drives so many to end their lives. If your group or organization is interested in sponsoring this vigil, please email us at SAGEqual@gmail.com.
It is our hope that this vigil will stand as a testament to the love that can be found in this world for those who feel isolated by their LGBT identity, and also as a tribute to the memories of those we have lost.
CMCL is a co-sponsor of this event. Other co-sponsors include
Indiana University College Democrats
Women's Student Association
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Student Support Services
illuMENate
Dunn Meadow
7:30--8:30pm
Over the past two weeks, media attention has been focused on the issue of youth suicides resultant from harassment and bullying for being LGBT or being perceived as LGBT. This phenomenon certainly is not new, but this recent media attention has brought it to the awareness of the general American public. Though these tragedies may sound distant, many among us have had our lives altered by LGBT suicides. There has been an outpouring of requests for a public observance from the IU community.
Sage will be putting on a candlight vigil in Dunn Meadow on October 11th. You are welcome to assemble with us at 7:00 pm. We will begin by 7:30 with a brief statement followed by a moment of respectful silence. Afterward, members of the community are encouraged to shaer their thoughts and experiences with those assembled.
Sage is also seeking other organizations who may wish to sponsor this event. Sponsors are asked to bring a small number of candles, and to advertise the event to their membership. Partnered organizations will be included in a list of groups committed to seeing an end to the kind of hostility which drives so many to end their lives. If your group or organization is interested in sponsoring this vigil, please email us at SAGEqual@gmail.com.
It is our hope that this vigil will stand as a testament to the love that can be found in this world for those who feel isolated by their LGBT identity, and also as a tribute to the memories of those we have lost.
CMCL is a co-sponsor of this event. Other co-sponsors include
Indiana University College Democrats
Women's Student Association
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Student Support Services
illuMENate
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Tourist Studies Workshop Listserv
If you are interested in Tourist Studies, email Prof. Dan Knudsen to join the Tourist Studies Workshop list serv: knudsen@indiana.edu
Also, this Friday is a speaker of interest to tourist studies and geography:
Friday, October 8
Brunch meeting with interested graduate students, Village Deli 9am-noon
Participation in comprehensive examination, noon-3pm
Preparation for talk, 3-4pm Dallen Timothy's Talk "Tourism and Political Boundaries in the Modern World" in Student Building 150, 4-5pm
Refreshments, 5-7pm
Dinner with the willing and able, Fourth Street, 7-9pm
More information about him may be found at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dtimoth/.
Also, this Friday is a speaker of interest to tourist studies and geography:
Friday, October 8
Brunch meeting with interested graduate students, Village Deli 9am-noon
Participation in comprehensive examination, noon-3pm
Preparation for talk, 3-4pm Dallen Timothy's Talk "Tourism and Political Boundaries in the Modern World" in Student Building 150, 4-5pm
Refreshments, 5-7pm
Dinner with the willing and able, Fourth Street, 7-9pm
More information about him may be found at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dtimoth/.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Art and Sustainability: Outdoor film screenings at the Indiana University Art Museum Sculpture Terrace, second floor
RIVERS AND TIDES (2001) 90 min.
Wednesday October 6, 8-9:30 pm
Wildly praised by the nation's top critics, the smash theatrical hit RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing, poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, RIVERS AND TIDES is an intoxicating study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature.
“Sensitive and stimulating documentary.”
–Ed Halter, Village Voice
“Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again. “
- Desson Thomson, Washington Post
“As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.”
–Stephen Holden, New York Times
FREE ADMISSION
Angles Café will be open for refreshments. Sponsored by the IU Art Museum, Ryder, and the IU Office of Sustainability
Wednesday October 6, 8-9:30 pm
Wildly praised by the nation's top critics, the smash theatrical hit RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing, poetic and curiously contemplative portrait of revered Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, whose long-winding rock walls, icicle assemblages and other intricate, druidic masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in the wild. Gorgeously shot and edited by director Thomas Riedelsheimer, RIVERS AND TIDES is an intoxicating study of the fragile relationship between man, art and nature.
“Sensitive and stimulating documentary.”
–Ed Halter, Village Voice
“Watch this film. You may never look at nature indifferently again. “
- Desson Thomson, Washington Post
“As the film's images accumulate, the movie becomes a sustained and ultimately refreshing meditation on surrender to the idea of temporality.”
–Stephen Holden, New York Times
FREE ADMISSION
Angles Café will be open for refreshments. Sponsored by the IU Art Museum, Ryder, and the IU Office of Sustainability
School of Journalism Research Colloquium
"Three Bullets"
Michael Robert Evans
School of Journalism Associate Dean and Associate Professor
Wednesday, October 6,
4:30p
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
The American Indian Movement holds lofty goals—improved education, health care, and other services for American Indians nationwide—but its trajectory has been at times oppressive, self-serving, and deadly.
This exploration focuses on AIM and a Native newspaper editor who dared to stand up to them.
Michael Robert Evans
School of Journalism Associate Dean and Associate Professor
Wednesday, October 6,
4:30p
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
The American Indian Movement holds lofty goals—improved education, health care, and other services for American Indians nationwide—but its trajectory has been at times oppressive, self-serving, and deadly.
This exploration focuses on AIM and a Native newspaper editor who dared to stand up to them.
Friday, October 1, 2010
City Lights and Underground Film Series Presents:
An evening of short documentaries about music
White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug (Travis Senger, 2010) is the story of Junebug's double-life as a DJ and drug dealer. Recalling the Bronx in the early 1980s, this documentary explores the old-school days of hip-hop and the dangerous underworld at the legendary Disco Fever. Never-before-seen footage and interviews with Kurtis Blow, DJ Hollywood and Sal Abbatiello tell the tragic story of one of the greatest DJ's ever.
Jacob Young’s Dancing Outlaw (1991) is probably the best film ever made in West Virginia and that rare PBS documentary to become a cult classic. The film follows Jesco White, a singer/dancer/Elvis-impersonator/drug addict from rural Boone County, as he pontificates on life, family, and culture. (60 minute program)
Friday, October 1
Radio-TV Building, room 251
7:00 pm
.
Parking for City Lights/underground patrons is FREE in the Visitors Parking Lot on the corner of Jordan Ave. and 7th Street, behind the Main Library.
Please note that to avoid getting a ticket you must place a City Lights or underground flyer visibly on the dashboard on your car.
White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug (Travis Senger, 2010) is the story of Junebug's double-life as a DJ and drug dealer. Recalling the Bronx in the early 1980s, this documentary explores the old-school days of hip-hop and the dangerous underworld at the legendary Disco Fever. Never-before-seen footage and interviews with Kurtis Blow, DJ Hollywood and Sal Abbatiello tell the tragic story of one of the greatest DJ's ever.
Jacob Young’s Dancing Outlaw (1991) is probably the best film ever made in West Virginia and that rare PBS documentary to become a cult classic. The film follows Jesco White, a singer/dancer/Elvis-impersonator/drug addict from rural Boone County, as he pontificates on life, family, and culture. (60 minute program)
Friday, October 1
Radio-TV Building, room 251
7:00 pm
.
Parking for City Lights/underground patrons is FREE in the Visitors Parking Lot on the corner of Jordan Ave. and 7th Street, behind the Main Library.
Please note that to avoid getting a ticket you must place a City Lights or underground flyer visibly on the dashboard on your car.
IT Training and Education - Get More Out of Your Video!
Get More Out of Your Video!
________________________________________
Today, anyone with a camcorder and a computer can create a video and share it with millions of viewers via the Internet.
• Learn the fundamentals of video production in our STEPS workshop Video Basics: An Overview of Tools & Resources. Three stages of video production will be explored: what to consider in recording your videos, how to edit them, and how to publish your videos. Once you are comfortable with the basics, you'll be ready to learn more!
• Continue your video education by taking Premiere Pro CS4: The Basics, which will teach you how to do sophisticated video editing and rendering using a professional video production application.
• Next, take After Effects CS4: Video Effects & Text Animation Basics to learn how you can combine video and animations and text you create into a single project. For a preview of what After Effects can do, see our Tip of the Month for October; note too that we are offering a special IT Training Live! session on After Effects in late October – see details below.
• Finish off your video education by learning how to remove unwanted sounds or add sounds to your video in Soundbooth CS5: The Basics.
To learn more about these workshops and to register for the right workshops for you, visit the Video group on the IT Training web site.
lynda.com Offers Additional Video Training
________________________________________
Lynda.com offers additional video training in Soundbooth, Premiere Pro, and After Effects as well as in applications like iMovie, Final Cut, Avid and others. Remember that faculty, staff and students can access lynda.com 24/7 at no charge from http://ittraining.iu.edu/lynda. Once you log in, you can view lynda's list of Video workshops to find the training that works best for you!
Learn New Skills in InDesign, Dreamweaver and After Effects
________________________________________
Take IT Training Live! sessions in October and grow you skills in Adobe applications in the comfort of your home or office. Simply go to the IT Training Live! page at the time designated for the session and click on the URL link to participate. You can also visit the IT Training Live! page before the session to read descriptions and sign up for an email reminder for the sessions you want to attend.
Topics for October are:
• InDesign CS5: Creating a Poster on Wednesday, October 6th, from 1:30-3 pm
• Dreamweaver: Standardizing Your Web Site with Templates on Tuesday, October 26th, from 10:30-noon
• After Effects CS5: Exploring Effects on Friday, October 29th, from 10:30-noon
If you can't make it at the time listed, all these sessions will be recorded and archived on the IT Training Live! page for listening at your convenience.
Get Started using Picasa and Camtasia!
________________________________________
This month, IT Training will be offering two Brown Bag sessions to introduce you to Picasa – Google's free graphic editing program – and Camtasia, a powerful application for creating screencasts. Brown Bags are free, and give you the opportunity to see cutting edge technologies and new applications presented by experienced IT Training staff.
The October Brown Bag schedule is:
• Picasa: Google's Free Graphic Application on Wednesday, October 13, from noon-1 pm on the IUPUI campus in the Library, Room 1116.
• Creating Screencasts with Camtasia Studio on Tuesday, October 26th, from noon-1 pm on the Bloomington campus in the Wells Library, room IC103.
Visit http://ittraining.iu.edu/brownbag to learn more and sign up for an email reminder, then bring your lunch with you and eat while you learn! October 2010
In this issue
• Get More Out of Your Video!
• lynda.com Offers Additional Video Training
• Learn New Skills in InDesign, Dreamweaver & After Effects
• Get Started using Picasa and Camtasia!
Tip of the Month
IT Training’s Tip of the Month podcast series presents After Effects: Using the Write-On Effect in October.
IT Training Tips - What's New
Here are the IT Training Tips blog latest articles:
1. Access: Queries for "Preferred" Data Given Multiple Choices
2. Select hair and edge details in Photoshop CS5
3. Excel: Trimming Cell Entries
4. Twelve Tips for Safe Social Networking
5. Illustrator CS5: Using the Shape Builder
To read more, go to: http//ittrainingtips.iu.edu
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________________________________________
Today, anyone with a camcorder and a computer can create a video and share it with millions of viewers via the Internet.
• Learn the fundamentals of video production in our STEPS workshop Video Basics: An Overview of Tools & Resources. Three stages of video production will be explored: what to consider in recording your videos, how to edit them, and how to publish your videos. Once you are comfortable with the basics, you'll be ready to learn more!
• Continue your video education by taking Premiere Pro CS4: The Basics, which will teach you how to do sophisticated video editing and rendering using a professional video production application.
• Next, take After Effects CS4: Video Effects & Text Animation Basics to learn how you can combine video and animations and text you create into a single project. For a preview of what After Effects can do, see our Tip of the Month for October; note too that we are offering a special IT Training Live! session on After Effects in late October – see details below.
• Finish off your video education by learning how to remove unwanted sounds or add sounds to your video in Soundbooth CS5: The Basics.
To learn more about these workshops and to register for the right workshops for you, visit the Video group on the IT Training web site.
lynda.com Offers Additional Video Training
________________________________________
Lynda.com offers additional video training in Soundbooth, Premiere Pro, and After Effects as well as in applications like iMovie, Final Cut, Avid and others. Remember that faculty, staff and students can access lynda.com 24/7 at no charge from http://ittraining.iu.edu/lynda. Once you log in, you can view lynda's list of Video workshops to find the training that works best for you!
Learn New Skills in InDesign, Dreamweaver and After Effects
________________________________________
Take IT Training Live! sessions in October and grow you skills in Adobe applications in the comfort of your home or office. Simply go to the IT Training Live! page at the time designated for the session and click on the URL link to participate. You can also visit the IT Training Live! page before the session to read descriptions and sign up for an email reminder for the sessions you want to attend.
Topics for October are:
• InDesign CS5: Creating a Poster on Wednesday, October 6th, from 1:30-3 pm
• Dreamweaver: Standardizing Your Web Site with Templates on Tuesday, October 26th, from 10:30-noon
• After Effects CS5: Exploring Effects on Friday, October 29th, from 10:30-noon
If you can't make it at the time listed, all these sessions will be recorded and archived on the IT Training Live! page for listening at your convenience.
Get Started using Picasa and Camtasia!
________________________________________
This month, IT Training will be offering two Brown Bag sessions to introduce you to Picasa – Google's free graphic editing program – and Camtasia, a powerful application for creating screencasts. Brown Bags are free, and give you the opportunity to see cutting edge technologies and new applications presented by experienced IT Training staff.
The October Brown Bag schedule is:
• Picasa: Google's Free Graphic Application on Wednesday, October 13, from noon-1 pm on the IUPUI campus in the Library, Room 1116.
• Creating Screencasts with Camtasia Studio on Tuesday, October 26th, from noon-1 pm on the Bloomington campus in the Wells Library, room IC103.
Visit http://ittraining.iu.edu/brownbag to learn more and sign up for an email reminder, then bring your lunch with you and eat while you learn! October 2010
In this issue
• Get More Out of Your Video!
• lynda.com Offers Additional Video Training
• Learn New Skills in InDesign, Dreamweaver & After Effects
• Get Started using Picasa and Camtasia!
Tip of the Month
IT Training’s Tip of the Month podcast series presents After Effects: Using the Write-On Effect in October.
IT Training Tips - What's New
Here are the IT Training Tips blog latest articles:
1. Access: Queries for "Preferred" Data Given Multiple Choices
2. Select hair and edge details in Photoshop CS5
3. Excel: Trimming Cell Entries
4. Twelve Tips for Safe Social Networking
5. Illustrator CS5: Using the Shape Builder
To read more, go to: http//ittrainingtips.iu.edu
Stay in Touch
Keep track of the training you need! Subscribe to our blog or follow us in Twitter or Facebook. See the Stay in Touch section at the bottom of the navigation bar on our website.
Subscription Info
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Questions? Contact Us!
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