Recycling Event
February 26th, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. E.S.T
College Mall
2894 East 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
Click here to view our list of accepted items.
There will also be a special line for residents and businesses at the event where you will be able to bring in your old computers and have them DOD wiped. DOD (Department of Defense) wiping is a method of erasing the information on your hard drive per the government's standards and involves passing your hard drive 3 times. The DOD wiping cost is $10 per hard drive. 5R Processors will provide to you a certificate of destruction to prove that your drive was erased before it was sent to be recycled as well as detailed report showing what was DOD wiped & recycled.
Questions? Click here to email Darlene or call 715-322-4382
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Election Results SCMS - Barbara Klinger is New President-Elect
Professor Barbara Klinger has been officially announced as the next President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies--the premier international organization for film and media studies.
The SCMS Election News article may be found here.
The SCMS Election News article may be found here.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Interesting Fellowship Possibilities in Film Preservation
There is a list of interesting fellowships and grants on the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities website.
Among many others are:
National Film Preservation Foundation Avant-Garde Masters Grants
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) fellowship award to support original source dissertation research in the humanities.
Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections and Archives Pre-proposals
Among many others are:
National Film Preservation Foundation Avant-Garde Masters Grants
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) fellowship award to support original source dissertation research in the humanities.
Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections and Archives Pre-proposals
A great opportunity to see how information technology can engage with the arts and humanities . . .
Looking for opportunities to get involved with collaborative projects that join the computer and information sciences with the digital arts and humanities?
Start with the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) and Digital Libraries Program.
IDAH brings together faculty, IT specialists, and support staff in interdisciplinary teams that build collections, tools, and ways to study and analyze collections. Be sure to visit their web site for news, events, and funding opportunities:
http://www.indiana.edu/~idah/
The Digital Libraries Program builds a network of scholars, artists, librarians, and IT experts to produce, deliver, and preserve high-quality, networked scholarly resources. Check out their brown bag series at:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/index.shtml
Start with the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) and Digital Libraries Program.
IDAH brings together faculty, IT specialists, and support staff in interdisciplinary teams that build collections, tools, and ways to study and analyze collections. Be sure to visit their web site for news, events, and funding opportunities:
http://www.indiana.edu/~idah/
The Digital Libraries Program builds a network of scholars, artists, librarians, and IT experts to produce, deliver, and preserve high-quality, networked scholarly resources. Check out their brown bag series at:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/index.shtml
Monday, February 21, 2011
Religion and Power: IUB Religious Studies Department Graduate Student Conference
February 24-25th, 2011
Thursday, Feb. 24th
Woodburn Hall 101
Check-in 5:00
Lecture 5:30 to 6:30
"The Power of the Meta-narrative: Co-authoring a Textbook on Religious History" Sylvester Johnson (IUB), Rachel Wheeler (IUPUI), and Philip Goff (IUPUI)
Friday, Feb. 25th
All panels will take place in Student Building 150
9:00 -10:15 Modernity and Religious Power
Rachel Coleman (IUB), Faraz Sheikh (IUB)
10:15-11:30 Devotional Agency
Jessica Car (IUB), Janine Giordano Drake (U of Illinois), Whitney Johnson (IUB)
12:30-1:45 Power of the English Language and Religion
Matt Kaul (IUB), John Walters (IUB), William Christopher Brown (IUB)
1:45-3:00 Love and Justice
Bharat Ranganathan (IUB), Julia Feder (Notre Dame), Kevin Minister (SMU)
For more info visit http://iugradconf.weebly.com
Thursday, Feb. 24th
Woodburn Hall 101
Check-in 5:00
Lecture 5:30 to 6:30
"The Power of the Meta-narrative: Co-authoring a Textbook on Religious History" Sylvester Johnson (IUB), Rachel Wheeler (IUPUI), and Philip Goff (IUPUI)
Friday, Feb. 25th
All panels will take place in Student Building 150
9:00 -10:15 Modernity and Religious Power
Rachel Coleman (IUB), Faraz Sheikh (IUB)
10:15-11:30 Devotional Agency
Jessica Car (IUB), Janine Giordano Drake (U of Illinois), Whitney Johnson (IUB)
12:30-1:45 Power of the English Language and Religion
Matt Kaul (IUB), John Walters (IUB), William Christopher Brown (IUB)
1:45-3:00 Love and Justice
Bharat Ranganathan (IUB), Julia Feder (Notre Dame), Kevin Minister (SMU)
For more info visit http://iugradconf.weebly.com
Josh Carney Named UGS Student of the Month for February
Josh Carney’s path to graduate school in Communication and Culture at IU is as interesting as his research, and it begins with a trip to Africa.
Read the whole story here.
Read the whole story here.
Chris Eller on 3D-TV this Friday in Dept. of Telecommunications Colloquium
Date: Friday, February 25
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Chris Eller
Title: Developing a 3D Advanced Production Class - What it's Like to Teach on the Bleeding Edge
Abstract:
3D movies have come, once again, into the public eye. Modern 3D technology has overcome many of the shortcomings present in the last Golden Age of Hollywood 3D circa 1955. We are now in a position to develop 3D movies that can stand on the merits of storytelling and cinematic craft without 3D problems hampering the success of the production. The technology of stereoscopic production has come a long way since Sir Charles Wheatstone published his paper concerning stereopsis in 1838.
Now, 173 years later, Hollywood and Indie productions are finding fresh success at the box office while at the same time discovering that precious few people actually know HOW to make a good 3D movie or TV show. T452 was conceived of and designed to address this knowledge gap and equip our students to successfully compete for jobs on 3D productions after graduation.
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Chris Eller
Title: Developing a 3D Advanced Production Class - What it's Like to Teach on the Bleeding Edge
Abstract:
3D movies have come, once again, into the public eye. Modern 3D technology has overcome many of the shortcomings present in the last Golden Age of Hollywood 3D circa 1955. We are now in a position to develop 3D movies that can stand on the merits of storytelling and cinematic craft without 3D problems hampering the success of the production. The technology of stereoscopic production has come a long way since Sir Charles Wheatstone published his paper concerning stereopsis in 1838.
Now, 173 years later, Hollywood and Indie productions are finding fresh success at the box office while at the same time discovering that precious few people actually know HOW to make a good 3D movie or TV show. T452 was conceived of and designed to address this knowledge gap and equip our students to successfully compete for jobs on 3D productions after graduation.
"En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity: A close reading of Kathleen Collins's LOSING GROUND & Sara Gomez's DE CIERTA MANERA"
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies presents:
A Brown Bag Talk by Nzingha Kendall
"En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity: A close reading of Kathleen Collins's LOSING
GROUND & Sara Gomez's DE CIERTA MANERA"
Nzingha Kendall will provide an illuminating analysis of these important films - don't miss it!
Wednesday, February 23nd at 12:00 pm @ The Black Film Center/Archive - Wells 044
A Brown Bag Talk by Nzingha Kendall
"En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity: A close reading of Kathleen Collins's LOSING
GROUND & Sara Gomez's DE CIERTA MANERA"
Nzingha Kendall will provide an illuminating analysis of these important films - don't miss it!
Wednesday, February 23nd at 12:00 pm @ The Black Film Center/Archive - Wells 044
Czech Film Series Spring 2011
"Lovers and Murderers," directed by Viktor Polesný and based on the novel by Vladimir Paral, will be shown on Wednesday February 23 at 7:00 in Woodburn Hall 101.
Woodburn Hall is located at 1100 E. 7th St., near the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU Auditorium.
The film will be introduced by Prof. Bronislava Volkova.
Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested and feel free to contact Matthew Slaboch (mslaboch@indiana.edu) with any questions.
Woodburn Hall is located at 1100 E. 7th St., near the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU Auditorium.
The film will be introduced by Prof. Bronislava Volkova.
Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested and feel free to contact Matthew Slaboch (mslaboch@indiana.edu) with any questions.
The Black Film Center/Archive Special Screening
The Black Film Center/Archive is hosting a special screening of the hit blaxploitation spoof BLACK DYNAMITE, starring Michael Jai White as former CIA agent & superhero extraordinaire, Black Dynamite.
When: Friday, February 25, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Black Film Center/Archive, Wells 044
When: Friday, February 25, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm
Where: Black Film Center/Archive, Wells 044
Barbara Klinger Wins SCMS Award
Barbara Klinger has won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' 2011 Katherine Singer Kovacs essay award for outstanding scholarship in cinema and media studies for her essay, “Contraband Cinema: Piracy, Titanic , and Central Asia” in Cinema Journal 49(2), (Winter 2010), 106-124. Way to keep Titanic Fever going until that 3-D version comes out, Barb! She will receive this honor at the Awards Ceremony at the Society's meeting in New Orleans in March.
Contemporary Political Communication in the United States and Poland.
Lukasz Przybysz, University of Warsaw
Wednesday, February 23, 4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Przybysz is visiting the IU School of Journalism this semester from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He studies methods and techniques of contemporary campaign management, especially the ones performed in the 2008 American presidential campaign. He is comparing strategies from the 2008 American campaign to other countries, especially Poland.
Wednesday, February 23, 4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Przybysz is visiting the IU School of Journalism this semester from the Institute of Journalism at the University of Warsaw. He studies methods and techniques of contemporary campaign management, especially the ones performed in the 2008 American presidential campaign. He is comparing strategies from the 2008 American campaign to other countries, especially Poland.
South Asian Feminist Conference
March 4-5, 2011
CMCL Classroom Building, Room 203, (800 East Third Street)
Friday, March 4
1. 1:00-3:00 pm:
Panel 1: Ghosts, Saints, and Sacrificial Religions
a. Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University, “Reasonable Superstitions: Gendering Science and Belief in Colonial Bengal”
b. Liz Wilson, Miami University of Ohio , “Murderer, Saint and Midwife: Indian Buddhist Accounts of Angulimala, the Converted Killer”
c. Lucinda Ramberg, University of Kentucky, “Devadasi Dedication as Sacrifice”
d. moderator: Paromita Chakrabarty, Fulbright Scholar, Indiana University
2. 3:30-5:30 pm:
Panel 2: Gender and Violence
a. Sana Younis, Indiana University, “Partition and Patriarchy: Representations of Gendered Violence in Pakistani Media”
b. Shahin Kachwala, Indiana University, “The Body of the Nation? Female Suicide Bombers in Indian Cinema”
c. Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky, “Justice Without Lawyers? Mediating Marriage in the Family Courts of Kolkata”
d. moderator: Betsy Jose, Indiana University
3. 7:30 pm:
Screening of Post498A, followed by question-answer with filmmaker, Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Saturday, March 5
4. 1:00-3:00 pm:
Panel 3: Gender, Representation, and Agency
a. Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, “Western women in South Asian cinema: the slut/savior dichotomy”
b. Ranu Samantrai, Indiana University, "The Agency of the Number"
c. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University,“Beauty, Race, and Resistance: Colorism and its Counter Discourses in India”
d. moderator: Brenda Weber, Indiana University
5. 3:15-5:15 pm:
Panel 4: Love, Marriage, and Sexuality
a. Susan Seizer, Indiana University, “5 Generations, a Department Store, and a Wedding: Marital Moves and Middle-class-ness in Madurai”
b. Purnima Bose, Indiana University, “ Love Marriage, Neo-Liberalism, and Indian American Chick Literature”
c. Judith Brown, Indiana University, "Winter in India: Temporal Relations in Amrita Sher-Gil."
d. Moderator: Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for International Programs, the India Studies Program, the English Department, and the Cultural Studies Program.
CMCL Classroom Building, Room 203, (800 East Third Street)
Friday, March 4
1. 1:00-3:00 pm:
Panel 1: Ghosts, Saints, and Sacrificial Religions
a. Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University, “Reasonable Superstitions: Gendering Science and Belief in Colonial Bengal”
b. Liz Wilson, Miami University of Ohio , “Murderer, Saint and Midwife: Indian Buddhist Accounts of Angulimala, the Converted Killer”
c. Lucinda Ramberg, University of Kentucky, “Devadasi Dedication as Sacrifice”
d. moderator: Paromita Chakrabarty, Fulbright Scholar, Indiana University
2. 3:30-5:30 pm:
Panel 2: Gender and Violence
a. Sana Younis, Indiana University, “Partition and Patriarchy: Representations of Gendered Violence in Pakistani Media”
b. Shahin Kachwala, Indiana University, “The Body of the Nation? Female Suicide Bombers in Indian Cinema”
c. Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky, “Justice Without Lawyers? Mediating Marriage in the Family Courts of Kolkata”
d. moderator: Betsy Jose, Indiana University
3. 7:30 pm:
Screening of Post498A, followed by question-answer with filmmaker, Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Saturday, March 5
4. 1:00-3:00 pm:
Panel 3: Gender, Representation, and Agency
a. Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, “Western women in South Asian cinema: the slut/savior dichotomy”
b. Ranu Samantrai, Indiana University, "The Agency of the Number"
c. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University,“Beauty, Race, and Resistance: Colorism and its Counter Discourses in India”
d. moderator: Brenda Weber, Indiana University
5. 3:15-5:15 pm:
Panel 4: Love, Marriage, and Sexuality
a. Susan Seizer, Indiana University, “5 Generations, a Department Store, and a Wedding: Marital Moves and Middle-class-ness in Madurai”
b. Purnima Bose, Indiana University, “ Love Marriage, Neo-Liberalism, and Indian American Chick Literature”
c. Judith Brown, Indiana University, "Winter in India: Temporal Relations in Amrita Sher-Gil."
d. Moderator: Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for International Programs, the India Studies Program, the English Department, and the Cultural Studies Program.
Advice on Publishing Your Work
Thoughts on manuscript reviewing: Some publishing advice for grad students
Ideas presented at the recent Midwest Winter Workshop in Iowa City. The MWW is a fantastic, grad student-organized event held at rotating Big 10 campuses each year. This year the author was asked to join Jeff Bennett and John Lucaites on a panel about publishing. Given that the author reviews a fair number of manuscripts, he decided to talk about issues he frequently encounter as a reviewer, and how he tries to help authors address them.
Ideas presented at the recent Midwest Winter Workshop in Iowa City. The MWW is a fantastic, grad student-organized event held at rotating Big 10 campuses each year. This year the author was asked to join Jeff Bennett and John Lucaites on a panel about publishing. Given that the author reviews a fair number of manuscripts, he decided to talk about issues he frequently encounter as a reviewer, and how he tries to help authors address them.
Communication in Beijing: A Study Abroad program (May15-June 15)
China’s global importance continues to grow exponentially. This is true in terms of economics, but it is also true in other areas, including the environment and culture. As China’s political and cultural capital, Beijing is the best place to experience China’s dizzying transformation and enduring history. This summer program would provide students a rich, multifaceted experience in China. Since this would not be a language-based experience, the program would be open to students not planning on learning Chinese. We are offering two 3 credit courses: Strategic Communication and Media Campaigns. These courses are useful for students interested in environmental campaigns, social media, public relations, advertising, political campaigns, and mass media. Specifically, these courses would be beneficial to majors in Communication, Business, Political Science, Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies. Since China is an economic power, Beijing is awash in strategic communication and media campaigns. By living in Beijing students will be immersed in Beijing’s exciting media environment, which includes Chinese and international public relations/advertising companies and environmental NGOs. Through our contacts in Beijing, we will arrange for students to learn both on-site and in the classroom from strategic communication professionals and environmental activists. The program will be hosted on the beautiful campus of China’s renowned Beijing University.
We will enhance students’ class experience through cultural outings, including visiting the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Beijing Opera, the Olympics Bird’s Nest, the ancient Tanzhe Mountain Temple, and the many parks around Beijing.
The program will be led by Dr. Kevin DeLuca and Dr. Ye Sun and is open to undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation (Cost-$2800). For more information, please click here, or email Kevin.DeLuca@utah.edu
We will enhance students’ class experience through cultural outings, including visiting the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, Beijing Opera, the Olympics Bird’s Nest, the ancient Tanzhe Mountain Temple, and the many parks around Beijing.
The program will be led by Dr. Kevin DeLuca and Dr. Ye Sun and is open to undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation (Cost-$2800). For more information, please click here, or email Kevin.DeLuca@utah.edu
CMCL Brown Bag this Friday: Intersections of Rhetoric and Performance with Stephen Olbrys Gencarella and Pheadra Pezzullo
This Fri, Feb 25th, @12:15-1:30pm in the Brigance Library, there will be a grad student brown bag on the intersections of Rhetoric & Performance hosted by CMCL Alumni Stephen Gencarella & Phaeddra Pezzullo. Out of his experiences as a student in CMCL (primarily working with Bauman, Lucaites & Ivie), Gencarella was inspired to put together a reader on the topic & convinced Pezullo to work with him (since her training from UNC-CH complemented his own).
Readings in Rhetoric & Performance was published last year, including work from scholars you should recognize, such as Bauman, Diana Taylor, Judith Butler, and more. For details on the reader, go to:
http://www.stratapub.com/GP/GP.htm
Graduate students who have or have not read the reader are welcomed to join us for a conversation about doing research across these areas.
Readings in Rhetoric & Performance was published last year, including work from scholars you should recognize, such as Bauman, Diana Taylor, Judith Butler, and more. For details on the reader, go to:
http://www.stratapub.com/GP/GP.htm
Graduate students who have or have not read the reader are welcomed to join us for a conversation about doing research across these areas.
“All We May Wish to See”: Towards Consideration of a New Theater of Cruelty
Professor Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Thursday, February 24
Distiguished Alumni Rm., IMU
4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Cruelty”" is a concept that often goes unexamined; when it is used, it almost invariably carries a negative valence. This understanding of cruelty demonstrates the influence of both liberalism (for which, as Richard Rorty and others have noted, cruelty is the worst thing humans do to one another) and Kenneth Burke, who promoted an "essentially humane" mode of criticism that encourages people to picture disagreeable others "not as vicious, but mistaken." When critics habitually align cruelty with viciousness and inhumanity, however, they overlook potentially positive dimensions of cruelty that have been more productively explored by theater and performance scholars. This presentation will offer a case for the latter type of cruelty—characterized as aa “cruelty of affirmation,” by treating seriously the role of a critic as a social physician whose rhetorical expression operates as what the ancient Greeks called a pharmakon, a poison-medicine.
Professor Gencarella teaches rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. in Folklore and Communication and Culture at Indiana University. His presentation is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture and the Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture. The Public is Welcome.
Thursday, February 24
Distiguished Alumni Rm., IMU
4:00-5:30 p.m.
“Cruelty”" is a concept that often goes unexamined; when it is used, it almost invariably carries a negative valence. This understanding of cruelty demonstrates the influence of both liberalism (for which, as Richard Rorty and others have noted, cruelty is the worst thing humans do to one another) and Kenneth Burke, who promoted an "essentially humane" mode of criticism that encourages people to picture disagreeable others "not as vicious, but mistaken." When critics habitually align cruelty with viciousness and inhumanity, however, they overlook potentially positive dimensions of cruelty that have been more productively explored by theater and performance scholars. This presentation will offer a case for the latter type of cruelty—characterized as aa “cruelty of affirmation,” by treating seriously the role of a critic as a social physician whose rhetorical expression operates as what the ancient Greeks called a pharmakon, a poison-medicine.
Professor Gencarella teaches rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. in Folklore and Communication and Culture at Indiana University. His presentation is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture and the Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture. The Public is Welcome.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
IMAGES AND PUBLIC CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING IMAGES ACROSS THE HUMANITIES
Josh Carney, (Communication and Culture, Indiana University)
THE VALLEY IN TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS:
KURTLAR VADISI AND THE IMAGING OF CONFLICT
Friday February 25th, 2011, 2:00 – 3:30 pm,
at CAHI, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)
Since the start of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in late December of 2008, Turkish/Israeli relations have seen a steep decline. While this trend has much to do with concrete policies and governmental actions on both sides, the Turkish television and film franchise Kurtlar Vardisi (Valley of the Wolves) has played an unusually large role in the conflicts that have emerged. This presentation explores some of the texts from this franchise in light of DeLuca and Peeples' (2002) notion of “imagefare” in the era of the public sphere, suggesting that a central strategy of the imagefare they wage is a unique form of metapicture (WJT Mitchell, 1995) that blends fact and fiction in a particularly potent combination.
Questions: contact Jon Simons, simonsj@indiana.edu
THE VALLEY IN TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS:
KURTLAR VADISI AND THE IMAGING OF CONFLICT
Friday February 25th, 2011, 2:00 – 3:30 pm,
at CAHI, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)
Since the start of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in late December of 2008, Turkish/Israeli relations have seen a steep decline. While this trend has much to do with concrete policies and governmental actions on both sides, the Turkish television and film franchise Kurtlar Vardisi (Valley of the Wolves) has played an unusually large role in the conflicts that have emerged. This presentation explores some of the texts from this franchise in light of DeLuca and Peeples' (2002) notion of “imagefare” in the era of the public sphere, suggesting that a central strategy of the imagefare they wage is a unique form of metapicture (WJT Mitchell, 1995) that blends fact and fiction in a particularly potent combination.
Questions: contact Jon Simons, simonsj@indiana.edu
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East Spring 2011 Public Film Screening Schedule
Each screening begins at 7:30pm in Myers Hall room 130 and will be followed by an open discussion.
February 16
Slingshot Hip Hop
Documentary, 83 minutes
This film braids together the stories of young Palestinians
living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they
discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount
divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
March 9
Occupation 101
Documentary, 90 minutes
Here, a comprehensive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is presented in order to dispel many of its longperceived
myths and misconceptions. The film works through
the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the
1880’s, to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
March 30
To See If I’m Smiling
Documentary, 59 minutes
In this film, former Israeli soliders revisit their tours of duty
in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip
bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. These
women share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, and
power-tripping.
February 16
Slingshot Hip Hop
Documentary, 83 minutes
This film braids together the stories of young Palestinians
living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they
discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount
divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
March 9
Occupation 101
Documentary, 90 minutes
Here, a comprehensive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is presented in order to dispel many of its longperceived
myths and misconceptions. The film works through
the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the
1880’s, to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
March 30
To See If I’m Smiling
Documentary, 59 minutes
In this film, former Israeli soliders revisit their tours of duty
in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip
bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. These
women share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, and
power-tripping.
Public Film Screening: Slingshot Hip Hop
Wednesday February 16
7:30pm in Myers Hall room 130
* open discussion to follow *
Documentary, 83 minutes, English subtitles
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
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
7:30pm in Myers Hall room 130
* open discussion to follow *
Documentary, 83 minutes, English subtitles
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
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
Friday, February 11, 2011
"Creativity and Copyright: the surprising case of the Fashion Industry"
Johanna Blakley, PhD
Deputy Director, The Norman Lear Center at USC
Monday, Feb. 21st, 4:30pm
Whittenberger Auditorium, IMU
Digital technology has enabled new modalities of innovation in every industry, but it has also taken a toll. Industries with strong copyright protection (music, film, TV, publishing) are finding it hard to compete in the digital marketplace: how do you protect your creative output when amateurs can make perfect copies with the click of a button? While it may be tempting to believe that increased copyright protection is the only thing that can save these industries (and the struggling artists within them) the example of the fashion industry suggests otherwise. Blakley presents her research on the fashion industry and several other “low-IP” industries that treat their creative output as a commons - shared resources that can be freely reused, recreated, and recombined.
About the speaker: Johanna Blakley’s work explores how entertainment interacts with our political, commercial, and social habits. She is especially interested in the surprising effect of intellectual property rights on innovation, and has presented these finds at prestigious venues such as TED/USC and TED/Women conferences. She works across a huge variety of media platforms: producing for the web on a large scale, conducting gaming research, coordinating events for film festivals and executing consumer research on entertainment and politics. She also lectures at USC where she helped to develop their masters program in Public Diplomacy.
Sponsored by: The Office of the Provost, the Initiative on the Humanistic Study of Innovation, the Office of the Vice President for Engagement.
Deputy Director, The Norman Lear Center at USC
Monday, Feb. 21st, 4:30pm
Whittenberger Auditorium, IMU
Digital technology has enabled new modalities of innovation in every industry, but it has also taken a toll. Industries with strong copyright protection (music, film, TV, publishing) are finding it hard to compete in the digital marketplace: how do you protect your creative output when amateurs can make perfect copies with the click of a button? While it may be tempting to believe that increased copyright protection is the only thing that can save these industries (and the struggling artists within them) the example of the fashion industry suggests otherwise. Blakley presents her research on the fashion industry and several other “low-IP” industries that treat their creative output as a commons - shared resources that can be freely reused, recreated, and recombined.
About the speaker: Johanna Blakley’s work explores how entertainment interacts with our political, commercial, and social habits. She is especially interested in the surprising effect of intellectual property rights on innovation, and has presented these finds at prestigious venues such as TED/USC and TED/Women conferences. She works across a huge variety of media platforms: producing for the web on a large scale, conducting gaming research, coordinating events for film festivals and executing consumer research on entertainment and politics. She also lectures at USC where she helped to develop their masters program in Public Diplomacy.
Sponsored by: The Office of the Provost, the Initiative on the Humanistic Study of Innovation, the Office of the Vice President for Engagement.
Barbara Cherry today in Department of Telecommunications Colloquium Series
Date: Today
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Barbara A. Cherry
Title: How Elevation of Corporate Free Speech Rights Affects Legality of Network Neutrality
Abstract:
This presentation is based on a research paper written for the 18th Biennial International Telecommunications Conference held in 2010. This paper discusses how consideration of free speech rights form a legal basis in addition to economic rights for establishing baseline obligations on broadband Internet access providers. Importantly, establishing baseline obligations may give rise to conflicting constitutional claims, pitting the economic and free speech rights of individuals against those of corporate interests. Resolving such conflicts further complicates the FCC’s task in both designing and implementing legally sustainable network neutrality rules to govern practices of broadband Internet access service providers.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a century of precedent to hold that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons with regard to political speech. This presentation discusses how Citizens United, by elevating the constitutional free speech rights of corporations, diminishes the federal government’s ability to protect consumer interests with regard to network neutrality.
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Barbara A. Cherry
Title: How Elevation of Corporate Free Speech Rights Affects Legality of Network Neutrality
Abstract:
This presentation is based on a research paper written for the 18th Biennial International Telecommunications Conference held in 2010. This paper discusses how consideration of free speech rights form a legal basis in addition to economic rights for establishing baseline obligations on broadband Internet access providers. Importantly, establishing baseline obligations may give rise to conflicting constitutional claims, pitting the economic and free speech rights of individuals against those of corporate interests. Resolving such conflicts further complicates the FCC’s task in both designing and implementing legally sustainable network neutrality rules to govern practices of broadband Internet access service providers.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a century of precedent to hold that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons with regard to political speech. This presentation discusses how Citizens United, by elevating the constitutional free speech rights of corporations, diminishes the federal government’s ability to protect consumer interests with regard to network neutrality.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Fifth Annual Iris Film Festival
The Fifth Annual Iris Film Festival will be held on April 30, 2011, 7p at the new IU Cinema. The festival showcases innovative, inspired and engaging films and videos in the short format, many of which originate from members of the Bloomington and Indiana University communities. There is a special prize for films completed in Communication and Culture courses, so we hope to see all of you out to support your students, as well as independent filmmakers in the community.
For more information, visit www.irisfilmfest.com or our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246368166.
For more information, visit www.irisfilmfest.com or our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2246368166.
Experience New Learning Environments at Union Street Center
Please join us on February 18th at the Union Street Center, at 10th St. and Union for these offerings:
Room 002 at 1:00 pm Eno Interactive Whiteboard introductions.
Room 002 at 2:00 pm for an informational session on LearnLab.
Room 114 at 3:30pm for a Node classroom introduction.
Take a look around, explore, and interact in these not so typical classroom environments. Have a better understanding of how these classrooms can improve the transfer of knowledge, dramatically enhance collaboration, and engage multiple learning styles.
We will be offering a selection of snacks and beverages during the sessions for your enjoyment! Members from Steelcase Educational Solutions Group and Business Furniture will be on hand to answer your questions. We hope you can attend!
Please RSVP to Judy Ouimet at ouimet@indiana.edu by February 15th.
Room 002 at 1:00 pm Eno Interactive Whiteboard introductions.
Room 002 at 2:00 pm for an informational session on LearnLab.
Room 114 at 3:30pm for a Node classroom introduction.
Take a look around, explore, and interact in these not so typical classroom environments. Have a better understanding of how these classrooms can improve the transfer of knowledge, dramatically enhance collaboration, and engage multiple learning styles.
We will be offering a selection of snacks and beverages during the sessions for your enjoyment! Members from Steelcase Educational Solutions Group and Business Furniture will be on hand to answer your questions. We hope you can attend!
Please RSVP to Judy Ouimet at ouimet@indiana.edu by February 15th.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The IU Bloomington Sawyer Seminar, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects"
Workshop Announcement:
"Transfer, Interrupted: Barriers, Obstructions, and Impediments in Technological Change Processes"
Please join us for our third ALL-DAY workshop SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Kelley School of Business, Room 307. We will have the pleasure of hearing papers by the following specialists in the history and social studies of science and technology:
Michael Adas (History, Rutgers)
Clapperton Mavhunga (Science, Technology, and Society, MIT) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (History, UCSB) Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of Chicago).
The workshop is *open to all.* Feel free to come for the whole day or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Lunch will be served, so *please RSVP* by emailing Eric Harvey (eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
Schedule:
10:00-10:15 Introduction
10:15-11:15 Michael Adas (Rutgers) -- Transfer Proscribed,
Interrupted, Disrupted and Fractured: Metropole Technological Dominance and Colonial Response in the Industrial Age
11:15-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12:30 Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (MIT) -- Prophylactic Mobilities & Immobilizations
12:30-12:45 Discussion
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Gabriela Soto Laveaga (UCSB) -- The Making of "National”
Steroids: Mexican Scientists as Producers of “Foreign” Knowledge
3:00-3:15 Discussion
3:15-4:15 Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago) -- Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case
4:15-4:30 Discussion
4:30-5:00 Wrap-up
This workshop is the third 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
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Speaker biographies and paper abstracts:
Michael Adas (History, Rutgers)
Adas's research has focused on the role of technology in global history. He is the author of several books including _Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance_ (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1989) and _Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission_ Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). His current research is on n World War I and its global impact--including books on A Grave Dug in Flanders: World War I and the Crisis of the European World Order (for the Cambridge University Press); Misbegotten Wars: Trench Stalemate, Vietnam Quagmire and the Decline of British and American Global Power (for Harvard University Press); and a book on War and the Arts in the Twentieth Century.
Adas's paper is titled "Transfer Proscribed, Interrupted, Disrupted and Fractured: Metropole Technological Dominance and Colonial Response in the Industrial Age"
Abstract: Because dominance and subordination are central, relations and exchanges between European metropoles and their overseas colonies – very often including colonial officials and European setters within them – were often strained and contested. Technological transfers were invariably linked to European control over and extraction from colonial possessions, and as a result they were frequently flashpoints of tension and at times open conflict in the history of interaction and exchange. Drawing on case examples from different colonial locales from the early nineteenth century to the First World War, I will explore the ways in which transfers of technology – broadly defined to include the ideas and organization which framed material artifacts – were systematically proscribed, selectively funneled, or interrupted by imperial writ backed by the surveillance and policing of potential agents of delivery and policies enforced by colonial officials. I will also consider the ways in which transfers were blocked, disrupted or fractured due to resistance on the part of colonized peoples, in situations where the colonized themselves sought to protest proscriptions or limits on technological exchange, and in moments of international crises which opened up possibilities of transfers hitherto proscribed or prohibited.
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Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (Science, Technology, and Society, MIT)
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is an STS scholar of Africa and an African scholar of Science, Technology and Society interested in historicizing and theorizing the role mobility plays in everyday life.
He researches and teaches on African Mobilities and Mobility in Africa; Science, Technology and African Societies; Energy, Environment, and African Society; and (African) Indigenous Knowledge Production and Practice. Mavhunga received his BA Honors from the University of Zimbabwe (History, 1996), his MA from University of the Witwatersrand (History and International Relations, 2000), and his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (History/STS, 2008). He taught at the University of Zimbabwe (2000-2005). He is finishing his first book, The Mobile Workshop, which traces the role of mobility in human-nature-technology interactions in Zimbabwean history. He is also co-editor (with Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology) of the Inside Mobility: A Kaleidoscopic Overview volume for MIT Press.
Mavhunga has also published over a dozen articles and book chapters,
including: “A Plundering Tiger with its Deadly Cubs?: The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a ‘Zimbabwean Nation,’ 1945-2009,” in Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War, editor (MIT Press, 2011) and “Vermin Beings: On Pestiferous Animals and Human Game,” Social Text 106 (Spring 2011), an article that anticipates his second book project.
Mavhunga will be presenting a paper on "Prophylactic Mobilities & Immobilizations"
Abstract: The central question of the talk is: "Under what circumstances do mobilities and immobilizations become prophylaxes?"
Its focus is not restricted to the ways in which humans deploy mobility and immobility as weaponry to purvey or interrupt noxious transfers by humans, but also extends towards the deployment of technologies that purvey and intercept, and indeed prophylactics against nonhuman species like plants and animals both micro and macroscopic. At the present moment, the state of my research allows for provisional notes on technological and organic bodies, but the ambition, as the project goes towards completion, is to consider the interruption and promotion of flows and seepages; of liquid, gaseous and solid matter; of sound, light and the visual; of senses of touch and smell; and implications of emotion on e-motion as the uptake of new technologies of mobility grows (including the continuities and changes historically). While starting from a human-centric position, this is one of many starting options; in other work I start from the nonhuman as a way of showing the way other species deploy mobility and immobility as defensive mechanisms against movements detrimental to their existences. Hopefully, this may lead towards a theorization of mobility and inertia.
----------------------
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (History, UCSB)
Soto Laveaga's interests are history of science, knowledge production, and public health in Latin America. Her recent book _Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill_(Duke University Press, 2009) traces the political, economic, and scientific development of the global barbasco industry, focusing primarily on the rural southern region of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where scientists relied on local, indigenous knowledge to cultivate and harvest the plant. She explores how the yams made their way from the jungles of Mexico to domestic and foreign laboratories, and on to the medicine cabinets of millions of women around the world. Soto Laveaga was the winner of the 2010 Robert K. Merton Best Book Award, given each year by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association for the best recent book published in science and technology studies. Her current project is about public health and social movements in Mexico City.
Soto Laveaga will be speaking about "The Making of 'National' Steroids:
Mexican Scientists as Producers of 'Foreign' Knowledge"
Abstract: In May 1951 Fortune magazine reported that “the biggest technological boom ever heard south of the border” was that a Mexican laboratory, Syntex, had derived synthetic cortisone from Mexican wild yams. Months later an even more momentous discovery, the first active oral contraceptive, was also discovered in this Mexico City laboratory with the pivotal participation of another Mexican chemist. The narrative of discovery, however, rarely places Mexico or Mexican chemists at the epicenter of steroid production. In the 1970s Mexico’s president encouraged domestic scientists to emulate the U.S. and Europe and find “a Mexican pill.” Since then Mexican family planning campaigns have lamented the high cost of imported oral contraceptives while complaining of Mexico’s inability to produce science. What happens when the impediment to technology transfer is a nation’s historical amnesia? Is it possible to trace the roots of this interruption?
---------------
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Sunder Rajan was initially trained as a biologist, obtained his PhD in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology, and works on the anthropology of science,technology and medicine. His work has focused on a number of interrelated events and emergences: firstly, the increased corporatization of life science research; secondly, the emergence of new technologies and epistemologies within the life sciences, such as, significantly, genomics; and thirdly, the fact that these technoscientific and market emergences were not simply occurring in the United States, but rather globally. His book, _Biocapital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life_, tries to capture a flavor of these emergences. On the one hand, it is a multi-sited ethnography of emergent genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. On the other hand, it traces the historical emergence of what he calls biocapital in the late 20th century, which asks questions of the nature and manner of the co-production of economic and epistemic value in the life sciences today. In the former register, Sunder Rajan’s work has followed a number of actors – scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and policy makers – involved in genomics research and market development in a range of sites in the US and India (in the US, primarily in the Bay Area; in India, primarily in Delhi, Bombay and Hyderabad). In the latter register, his work engages social theories of epistemology, political economy, ethics, subjectivity, language and value (most directly the analysis of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida), in order to provide ways to think about a current moment in world history that is significantly shaped by techno-scientific capitalism.
Sunder Rajan is currently researching two distinct though inter-related new projects. One focuses on the political economy of pharmaceutical development in India in the context of changes in global capital flows and governance regimes. The second project focuses on the changing nature of the research university in India in the life sciences. The focal point here is the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), a new biomedical research institute being set up as a collaboration between the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Division of Health, Science and Technology
(HST) at MIT.
Sunder Rajan's paper is called "Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case"
Abstract: In this paper, I am interested in tracing how patent regimes drive the re-institutionalization of pharmaceutical development in India today in unsettled and contested ways. Patents are perceived to be a double edged sword – on the one hand, they supposedly provide incentives to innovate by providing inventors with limited monopolies on their inventions; but on the other hand, it is precisely this monopoly that potentially occludes technology transfer, and certainly makes innovative medicines less accessible to those who need it. I wish to trace this in the context of the emergence and interpretation of particular patent regimes. I draw upon an exemplary case surrounding a patent on the anti-cancer drug Gleevec. I am interested in how this case resolves, in an apparent purification, into technical and constitutional components; how the technical components are entirely unsettled; and how the constitutional components open up questions regarding the relationship between biocapital and issues of constitutionalism, rights, and corporate social responsibility. In other words, I am interested in the terrain of the political that gets constituted around questions of innovation, technology transfer and therapeutic access.
"Transfer, Interrupted: Barriers, Obstructions, and Impediments in Technological Change Processes"
Please join us for our third ALL-DAY workshop SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Kelley School of Business, Room 307. We will have the pleasure of hearing papers by the following specialists in the history and social studies of science and technology:
Michael Adas (History, Rutgers)
Clapperton Mavhunga (Science, Technology, and Society, MIT) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (History, UCSB) Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of Chicago).
The workshop is *open to all.* Feel free to come for the whole day or just for the talk(s) that interest you. Lunch will be served, so *please RSVP* by emailing Eric Harvey (eharvey@indiana.edu) if you are planning to attend.
Schedule:
10:00-10:15 Introduction
10:15-11:15 Michael Adas (Rutgers) -- Transfer Proscribed,
Interrupted, Disrupted and Fractured: Metropole Technological Dominance and Colonial Response in the Industrial Age
11:15-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12:30 Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (MIT) -- Prophylactic Mobilities & Immobilizations
12:30-12:45 Discussion
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Gabriela Soto Laveaga (UCSB) -- The Making of "National”
Steroids: Mexican Scientists as Producers of “Foreign” Knowledge
3:00-3:15 Discussion
3:15-4:15 Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago) -- Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case
4:15-4:30 Discussion
4:30-5:00 Wrap-up
This workshop is the third 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
----------------
Speaker biographies and paper abstracts:
Michael Adas (History, Rutgers)
Adas's research has focused on the role of technology in global history. He is the author of several books including _Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance_ (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1989) and _Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission_ Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006). His current research is on n World War I and its global impact--including books on A Grave Dug in Flanders: World War I and the Crisis of the European World Order (for the Cambridge University Press); Misbegotten Wars: Trench Stalemate, Vietnam Quagmire and the Decline of British and American Global Power (for Harvard University Press); and a book on War and the Arts in the Twentieth Century.
Adas's paper is titled "Transfer Proscribed, Interrupted, Disrupted and Fractured: Metropole Technological Dominance and Colonial Response in the Industrial Age"
Abstract: Because dominance and subordination are central, relations and exchanges between European metropoles and their overseas colonies – very often including colonial officials and European setters within them – were often strained and contested. Technological transfers were invariably linked to European control over and extraction from colonial possessions, and as a result they were frequently flashpoints of tension and at times open conflict in the history of interaction and exchange. Drawing on case examples from different colonial locales from the early nineteenth century to the First World War, I will explore the ways in which transfers of technology – broadly defined to include the ideas and organization which framed material artifacts – were systematically proscribed, selectively funneled, or interrupted by imperial writ backed by the surveillance and policing of potential agents of delivery and policies enforced by colonial officials. I will also consider the ways in which transfers were blocked, disrupted or fractured due to resistance on the part of colonized peoples, in situations where the colonized themselves sought to protest proscriptions or limits on technological exchange, and in moments of international crises which opened up possibilities of transfers hitherto proscribed or prohibited.
----------------------
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (Science, Technology, and Society, MIT)
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is an STS scholar of Africa and an African scholar of Science, Technology and Society interested in historicizing and theorizing the role mobility plays in everyday life.
He researches and teaches on African Mobilities and Mobility in Africa; Science, Technology and African Societies; Energy, Environment, and African Society; and (African) Indigenous Knowledge Production and Practice. Mavhunga received his BA Honors from the University of Zimbabwe (History, 1996), his MA from University of the Witwatersrand (History and International Relations, 2000), and his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (History/STS, 2008). He taught at the University of Zimbabwe (2000-2005). He is finishing his first book, The Mobile Workshop, which traces the role of mobility in human-nature-technology interactions in Zimbabwean history. He is also co-editor (with Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology) of the Inside Mobility: A Kaleidoscopic Overview volume for MIT Press.
Mavhunga has also published over a dozen articles and book chapters,
including: “A Plundering Tiger with its Deadly Cubs?: The USSR and China as Weapons in the Engineering of a ‘Zimbabwean Nation,’ 1945-2009,” in Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War, editor (MIT Press, 2011) and “Vermin Beings: On Pestiferous Animals and Human Game,” Social Text 106 (Spring 2011), an article that anticipates his second book project.
Mavhunga will be presenting a paper on "Prophylactic Mobilities & Immobilizations"
Abstract: The central question of the talk is: "Under what circumstances do mobilities and immobilizations become prophylaxes?"
Its focus is not restricted to the ways in which humans deploy mobility and immobility as weaponry to purvey or interrupt noxious transfers by humans, but also extends towards the deployment of technologies that purvey and intercept, and indeed prophylactics against nonhuman species like plants and animals both micro and macroscopic. At the present moment, the state of my research allows for provisional notes on technological and organic bodies, but the ambition, as the project goes towards completion, is to consider the interruption and promotion of flows and seepages; of liquid, gaseous and solid matter; of sound, light and the visual; of senses of touch and smell; and implications of emotion on e-motion as the uptake of new technologies of mobility grows (including the continuities and changes historically). While starting from a human-centric position, this is one of many starting options; in other work I start from the nonhuman as a way of showing the way other species deploy mobility and immobility as defensive mechanisms against movements detrimental to their existences. Hopefully, this may lead towards a theorization of mobility and inertia.
----------------------
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (History, UCSB)
Soto Laveaga's interests are history of science, knowledge production, and public health in Latin America. Her recent book _Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill_(Duke University Press, 2009) traces the political, economic, and scientific development of the global barbasco industry, focusing primarily on the rural southern region of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where scientists relied on local, indigenous knowledge to cultivate and harvest the plant. She explores how the yams made their way from the jungles of Mexico to domestic and foreign laboratories, and on to the medicine cabinets of millions of women around the world. Soto Laveaga was the winner of the 2010 Robert K. Merton Best Book Award, given each year by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association for the best recent book published in science and technology studies. Her current project is about public health and social movements in Mexico City.
Soto Laveaga will be speaking about "The Making of 'National' Steroids:
Mexican Scientists as Producers of 'Foreign' Knowledge"
Abstract: In May 1951 Fortune magazine reported that “the biggest technological boom ever heard south of the border” was that a Mexican laboratory, Syntex, had derived synthetic cortisone from Mexican wild yams. Months later an even more momentous discovery, the first active oral contraceptive, was also discovered in this Mexico City laboratory with the pivotal participation of another Mexican chemist. The narrative of discovery, however, rarely places Mexico or Mexican chemists at the epicenter of steroid production. In the 1970s Mexico’s president encouraged domestic scientists to emulate the U.S. and Europe and find “a Mexican pill.” Since then Mexican family planning campaigns have lamented the high cost of imported oral contraceptives while complaining of Mexico’s inability to produce science. What happens when the impediment to technology transfer is a nation’s historical amnesia? Is it possible to trace the roots of this interruption?
---------------
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Sunder Rajan was initially trained as a biologist, obtained his PhD in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology, and works on the anthropology of science,technology and medicine. His work has focused on a number of interrelated events and emergences: firstly, the increased corporatization of life science research; secondly, the emergence of new technologies and epistemologies within the life sciences, such as, significantly, genomics; and thirdly, the fact that these technoscientific and market emergences were not simply occurring in the United States, but rather globally. His book, _Biocapital: The Constitution of Post-Genomic Life_, tries to capture a flavor of these emergences. On the one hand, it is a multi-sited ethnography of emergent genomic research and drug development marketplaces in the United States and India. On the other hand, it traces the historical emergence of what he calls biocapital in the late 20th century, which asks questions of the nature and manner of the co-production of economic and epistemic value in the life sciences today. In the former register, Sunder Rajan’s work has followed a number of actors – scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and policy makers – involved in genomics research and market development in a range of sites in the US and India (in the US, primarily in the Bay Area; in India, primarily in Delhi, Bombay and Hyderabad). In the latter register, his work engages social theories of epistemology, political economy, ethics, subjectivity, language and value (most directly the analysis of Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida), in order to provide ways to think about a current moment in world history that is significantly shaped by techno-scientific capitalism.
Sunder Rajan is currently researching two distinct though inter-related new projects. One focuses on the political economy of pharmaceutical development in India in the context of changes in global capital flows and governance regimes. The second project focuses on the changing nature of the research university in India in the life sciences. The focal point here is the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), a new biomedical research institute being set up as a collaboration between the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Division of Health, Science and Technology
(HST) at MIT.
Sunder Rajan's paper is called "Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case"
Abstract: In this paper, I am interested in tracing how patent regimes drive the re-institutionalization of pharmaceutical development in India today in unsettled and contested ways. Patents are perceived to be a double edged sword – on the one hand, they supposedly provide incentives to innovate by providing inventors with limited monopolies on their inventions; but on the other hand, it is precisely this monopoly that potentially occludes technology transfer, and certainly makes innovative medicines less accessible to those who need it. I wish to trace this in the context of the emergence and interpretation of particular patent regimes. I draw upon an exemplary case surrounding a patent on the anti-cancer drug Gleevec. I am interested in how this case resolves, in an apparent purification, into technical and constitutional components; how the technical components are entirely unsettled; and how the constitutional components open up questions regarding the relationship between biocapital and issues of constitutionalism, rights, and corporate social responsibility. In other words, I am interested in the terrain of the political that gets constituted around questions of innovation, technology transfer and therapeutic access.
Robert Gunderson Award Nominations
It is time to submit nominations for the Robert G. Gunderson award for the last calendar year (Spring 2010–Fall 2010).
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student prize for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. This formal recognition of outstanding graduate student work is accompanied by a modest honorarium. The criteria used to judge this award are the originality and daring of its interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, and the overall quality of the writing and research.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Karen Bowdre’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 11, 2011. The award will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year (Last year Aleena Chia won the Virginia Gunderson Award and Mack Hagood won the Robert Gunderson Award.)
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student prize for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. This formal recognition of outstanding graduate student work is accompanied by a modest honorarium. The criteria used to judge this award are the originality and daring of its interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, and the overall quality of the writing and research.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Karen Bowdre’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 11, 2011. The award will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year (Last year Aleena Chia won the Virginia Gunderson Award and Mack Hagood won the Robert Gunderson Award.)
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
Virginia Gunderson Award Nominations
It is time to submit nominations for the Virginia Gunderson award for the last calendar year (Spring 2010–Fall 2010)
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated prize for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. This formal recognition of the student’s achievement is accompanied by the sum of $1,000. The recipient will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall 2010 semester.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Karen Bowdre’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 11, 2011. Both awards will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year (Aleena Chia won last year's Virginia Gunderson Award and Mack Hagood won the Robert Gunderson Award.
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
• The American Studies program also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two distinct awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated prize for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. This formal recognition of the student’s achievement is accompanied by the sum of $1,000. The recipient will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall 2010 semester.
What to do: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Karen Bowdre’s mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
1) the name of the award;
2) the name of the student; and
3) the name of the Professor nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written. [There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; awards are judged anonymously.]
WHEN: By 5:00 p.m., March 11, 2011. Both awards will be announced at the Spring Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. in C100.
Note:
• Students can only win one of the two Gunderson awards per year (Aleena Chia won last year's Virginia Gunderson Award and Mack Hagood won the Robert Gunderson Award.
• No student can win the same award two consecutive years
• One paper cannot be submitted for both awards. If a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
• The American Studies program also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two distinct awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.
Robert Gunderson Forum Speaker: Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Professor Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, University of Massachusetts (and CMCL/Folklore PhD 2003) will be visiting the department under the auspices of the Robert Gunderson Forum on February 24-25, 2011. Professor Gencarella will be involved in three activities:
Roundtable discussion on Revising the Classical Tradition in Rhetorical Studies for Late Modern Times
Thursday, February 24, 2011
12:30-2:00
Place: Brigance Library, COB.
Open to CMCL students and faculty.
Public Lecture: “In the Name of Cruelty”
Thursday, February 24, 2011
4-5:30
Place: Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU
Open to the public.
There will be a social hour (Dutch style) following the lecture at The Red Lion.
Graduate Student Brown Bag Discussion on the relationship between rhetoric and performance.
Friday, February, 24, 2011
12:30-2:00
Brigance Library
Open to CMCL graduate students.
If you would like an opportunity to meet with Professor Gencarella to discuss your own work contact Professor Lucaites. There should be time on Friday afternoon after the Brown Bag to do that.
Roundtable discussion on Revising the Classical Tradition in Rhetorical Studies for Late Modern Times
Thursday, February 24, 2011
12:30-2:00
Place: Brigance Library, COB.
Open to CMCL students and faculty.
Public Lecture: “In the Name of Cruelty”
Thursday, February 24, 2011
4-5:30
Place: Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU
Open to the public.
There will be a social hour (Dutch style) following the lecture at The Red Lion.
Graduate Student Brown Bag Discussion on the relationship between rhetoric and performance.
Friday, February, 24, 2011
12:30-2:00
Brigance Library
Open to CMCL graduate students.
If you would like an opportunity to meet with Professor Gencarella to discuss your own work contact Professor Lucaites. There should be time on Friday afternoon after the Brown Bag to do that.
School of Journalism Research Colloquium
"'Plain and Certain Facts:' Four Episodes of Public Affairs Reporting in 18th Century Boston."
Professor David Nord, School of Journalism
Wednesday, February 9, 4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Was there such a thing as serious, systematic news reporting in eighteenth-century America? Not in the newspapers. Journalism historians have often noted that while newspapers of colonial America carried a great deal of local news, the news-gathering work was haphazard. News found its way into the print shop and into the paper, willy-nilly; even the best newspapermen rarely strove to reach out and gather it. But some writers did. This talk is about four episodes of public affairs reporting in Boston in the 1730s and 1740s. These episodes involved painstaking efforts to collect, verify, and publish up-to-date factual information about occurrences of current public importance in New England. The writers were from different professions, but all were major players in the public life of Boston and in the eclectic realm of eighteenth-century publishing. As print entrepreneurs and men of letters, they understood their civic duty to include reporting and publishing information on current public affairs. And they pioneered methods for doing that. Though the chief aim of the talk is to shed light on the history of news reporting, it also might prompt some thought about the condition of journalism today—another era in which news reporting is performed by all sorts of people who don’t fit the traditional definition of “reporter.”
Professor David Nord, School of Journalism
Wednesday, February 9, 4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Was there such a thing as serious, systematic news reporting in eighteenth-century America? Not in the newspapers. Journalism historians have often noted that while newspapers of colonial America carried a great deal of local news, the news-gathering work was haphazard. News found its way into the print shop and into the paper, willy-nilly; even the best newspapermen rarely strove to reach out and gather it. But some writers did. This talk is about four episodes of public affairs reporting in Boston in the 1730s and 1740s. These episodes involved painstaking efforts to collect, verify, and publish up-to-date factual information about occurrences of current public importance in New England. The writers were from different professions, but all were major players in the public life of Boston and in the eclectic realm of eighteenth-century publishing. As print entrepreneurs and men of letters, they understood their civic duty to include reporting and publishing information on current public affairs. And they pioneered methods for doing that. Though the chief aim of the talk is to shed light on the history of news reporting, it also might prompt some thought about the condition of journalism today—another era in which news reporting is performed by all sorts of people who don’t fit the traditional definition of “reporter.”
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society
We are pleased to announce that the 15th Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society will be held at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam from July 4 to July 28, 2011.
Description:
This highly specialised programme is for advanced students, primarily PhD and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working for NGOs. The scientific directors are Prof. Diane di Mauro and Prof. Niko Besnier. This year, Rebecca Jordan-Young and Elizabeth Bernstein will join the faculty. Other modules include Young Sexualities, taught by Deevia Bhana and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Contextualized, taught by Graeme Reid. One module (which include site visits) focuses on the Netherlands. An integral part of the institute is Seminar in Proposal Development for selected students, led by Diane di Mauro.
After receiving your application, the admission committee will make a decision based on your academic background, your commitment to this field of study, and a letter of reference.
Fees:
Tuition fees for non-credit students are EUR 2300 and for students who receive credit are EUR 2700. Fees are to be paid in full before the beginning of classes. The fee includes lunch on class days. The fees do not include housing and travel to and from Amsterdam. However, student apartments are available at approximately EUR 550 for one month.
An application form is available on the Institute’s website.
The application deadline is April 15, 2011. The application fee of EUR 50 will be waived if your application is received before March 1, 2011.
Scholarships
Students from 60 selected countries may apply for the Nuffic Fellowship Programme.
If your university is a member of the Universitas 21 network then you may be eligible for a partial scholarship of EUR 500.
Program Manager
Mirjam Schieveld
Assistant Program Manager
Eva Visscher-Simon
Description:
This highly specialised programme is for advanced students, primarily PhD and MA students in the socio-cultural sciences and professionals working for NGOs. The scientific directors are Prof. Diane di Mauro and Prof. Niko Besnier. This year, Rebecca Jordan-Young and Elizabeth Bernstein will join the faculty. Other modules include Young Sexualities, taught by Deevia Bhana and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Contextualized, taught by Graeme Reid. One module (which include site visits) focuses on the Netherlands. An integral part of the institute is Seminar in Proposal Development for selected students, led by Diane di Mauro.
After receiving your application, the admission committee will make a decision based on your academic background, your commitment to this field of study, and a letter of reference.
Fees:
Tuition fees for non-credit students are EUR 2300 and for students who receive credit are EUR 2700. Fees are to be paid in full before the beginning of classes. The fee includes lunch on class days. The fees do not include housing and travel to and from Amsterdam. However, student apartments are available at approximately EUR 550 for one month.
An application form is available on the Institute’s website.
The application deadline is April 15, 2011. The application fee of EUR 50 will be waived if your application is received before March 1, 2011.
Scholarships
Students from 60 selected countries may apply for the Nuffic Fellowship Programme.
If your university is a member of the Universitas 21 network then you may be eligible for a partial scholarship of EUR 500.
Program Manager
Mirjam Schieveld
Assistant Program Manager
Eva Visscher-Simon
Title: How Elevation of Corporate Free Speech Rights Affects Legality of Network Neutrality
Date: Friday February 11
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Barbara A. Cherry
Title: How Elevation of Corporate Free Speech Rights Affects Legality of Network Neutrality
Abstract:
This presentation is based on a research paper written for the 18th Biennial International Telecommunications Conference held in 2010. This paper discusses how consideration of free speech rights form a legal basis in addition to economic rights for establishing baseline obligations on broadband Internet access providers. Importantly, establishing baseline obligations may give rise to conflicting constitutional claims, pitting the economic and free speech rights of individuals against those of corporate interests. Resolving such conflicts further complicates the FCC’s task in both designing and implementing legally sustainable network neutrality rules to govern practices of broadband Internet access service providers.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a century of precedent to hold that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons with regard to political speech. This presentation discusses how Citizens United, by elevating the constitutional free speech rights of corporations, diminishes the federal government’s ability to protect consumer interests with regard to network neutrality
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: RTV 226.
Speaker: Barbara A. Cherry
Title: How Elevation of Corporate Free Speech Rights Affects Legality of Network Neutrality
Abstract:
This presentation is based on a research paper written for the 18th Biennial International Telecommunications Conference held in 2010. This paper discusses how consideration of free speech rights form a legal basis in addition to economic rights for establishing baseline obligations on broadband Internet access providers. Importantly, establishing baseline obligations may give rise to conflicting constitutional claims, pitting the economic and free speech rights of individuals against those of corporate interests. Resolving such conflicts further complicates the FCC’s task in both designing and implementing legally sustainable network neutrality rules to govern practices of broadband Internet access service providers.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a century of precedent to hold that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons with regard to political speech. This presentation discusses how Citizens United, by elevating the constitutional free speech rights of corporations, diminishes the federal government’s ability to protect consumer interests with regard to network neutrality
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
The non-profit organization Dar Si-Hmad for Development, Education and Culture, based in Ifni, Southwest of Morocco is offering an internship this coming summer to a documentary film-maker. Starting June to mid July 2011 Dar Si-Hmad is launching its fog-collecting project in order to provide drinking water to Amazigh communities living in the Anti-Atlas Mountains and relieving women from an average of 3.5h/d to the chore of fetching water. The intern will film the building of the nets, all the interactions around this event within the villages and especially among the women. Dar Si-Hmad is equally interested in filming all other scheduled activities and events within the organization. The qualified candidate needs to know some Spanish, should have at least a Bachelor’s Degree in anthropology (or equivalent field), preferably with an understanding of indigenous rights, development and gender issues, have experience in documentary film-making, some film-editing, and have various computer skills. The successful candidate needs to be ready for some rough climbing and basic living conditions.
Dar Si-Hmad will pay for an economic round-trip plane ticket, New York—Agadir—New York. Once on the premises in Ifni and the Mountain, the successful candidate will have all of their living expenses paid for: transportation, housing, food, and internet access. Dar Si-Hmad requires that the candidate come with their own Health and Travel insurance. Dar Si-Hmad will provide the candidate with a Sony HD Z-7 Camera (and microphones, headphones) and will work with the steering committee on a detailed work plan with intended results. All the film’s footage is the property of Dar Si-Hmad.
To apply please visit our web-site www.darsihmad.ma, development programs section. Fill application and send along with CV, a one page statement, two names and email addresses for referees to info@darsihmad.ma with “Documentary Application” in the subject area. The deadline for the application is Tuesday 5th of April 2011, 12 am GMT.
Dar Si-Hmad will pay for an economic round-trip plane ticket, New York—Agadir—New York. Once on the premises in Ifni and the Mountain, the successful candidate will have all of their living expenses paid for: transportation, housing, food, and internet access. Dar Si-Hmad requires that the candidate come with their own Health and Travel insurance. Dar Si-Hmad will provide the candidate with a Sony HD Z-7 Camera (and microphones, headphones) and will work with the steering committee on a detailed work plan with intended results. All the film’s footage is the property of Dar Si-Hmad.
To apply please visit our web-site www.darsihmad.ma, development programs section. Fill application and send along with CV, a one page statement, two names and email addresses for referees to info@darsihmad.ma with “Documentary Application” in the subject area. The deadline for the application is Tuesday 5th of April 2011, 12 am GMT.
The Department of Communication and Culture's New Directions in the Ethnographies of Media and Performance Speakers Series
welcomes
Professor LAURA KUNREUTHER
Date: Friday February 11
4-5 p.m.
Classroom Office Building Room 100
800 East 3rd Street
TITLE:
'My Story, My Song': Public Intimacy, Voice, and Writing on FM radio in Nepal
ABSTRACT:
The commercial FM radio was established in 1996 in Nepal, six years
after the reestablishment of democracy, and the media quickly became a
symbol of democratic 'free speech'. The expression of intimate and
personal matters on FM radio broadcasts immediately marked the
commercial radio's distinction from staterun Radio Nepal. This paper
explores expressions of intimacy portrayed on FM radio programs, and
the connection of public intimacy to ideologies of the voice. With a
focus on one program called 'My Story, My Song', I ask how FM
broadcasts of personal and intimate matters relates to political
aspirations of democratic participation and transparency. The answer,
I believe, can be found in exploring the figure of voice that
flourished with democracy and with the establishment of FM radio: that
is, the voice as a metaphor of consciousness, agency, and collective
desire and the voice as a medium of sound that conveys emotion,
immediacy, and presence.
Laura Kunreuther is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard
College. She has been doing research in Nepal since the early 1990s,
and focuses on the relation between ideologies of the voice, mediation,
and subjectivity, particularly since the democracy movement of 1990.
She is currently finishing her book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy
and Mediation in Kathmandu, and has published articles in several
journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology,
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
*This lecture series aims to bring to IU junior scholars whose work,
while strongly informed by an ethnographic perspective, also lies at the
intersection of CMCL's three areas (Performance and Ethnography;
Rhetoric and Public Culture; Film and Media Studies.)*
Professor LAURA KUNREUTHER
Date: Friday February 11
4-5 p.m.
Classroom Office Building Room 100
800 East 3rd Street
TITLE:
'My Story, My Song': Public Intimacy, Voice, and Writing on FM radio in Nepal
ABSTRACT:
The commercial FM radio was established in 1996 in Nepal, six years
after the reestablishment of democracy, and the media quickly became a
symbol of democratic 'free speech'. The expression of intimate and
personal matters on FM radio broadcasts immediately marked the
commercial radio's distinction from staterun Radio Nepal. This paper
explores expressions of intimacy portrayed on FM radio programs, and
the connection of public intimacy to ideologies of the voice. With a
focus on one program called 'My Story, My Song', I ask how FM
broadcasts of personal and intimate matters relates to political
aspirations of democratic participation and transparency. The answer,
I believe, can be found in exploring the figure of voice that
flourished with democracy and with the establishment of FM radio: that
is, the voice as a metaphor of consciousness, agency, and collective
desire and the voice as a medium of sound that conveys emotion,
immediacy, and presence.
Laura Kunreuther is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard
College. She has been doing research in Nepal since the early 1990s,
and focuses on the relation between ideologies of the voice, mediation,
and subjectivity, particularly since the democracy movement of 1990.
She is currently finishing her book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy
and Mediation in Kathmandu, and has published articles in several
journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology,
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
*This lecture series aims to bring to IU junior scholars whose work,
while strongly informed by an ethnographic perspective, also lies at the
intersection of CMCL's three areas (Performance and Ethnography;
Rhetoric and Public Culture; Film and Media Studies.)*
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Traveling Film South Asia 2010
The India Studies Program is delighted to announce its sponsorship of Traveling Film South Asia 2010 with the co-sponsorship of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the Department of Communication and Culture. These twelve outstanding documentaries from South Asia were selected in the competitive documentary film festival held annually in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Please find the film series schedule below. Those films not in English have English subtitles.
Thursday Feb 24, 3-6 pm in the new IU Cinema:
Mayomi (50 minutes)
Sri Lanka, 2008, directed by Carol Salter
Post-tsunami, Mayomi struggles for her family.
The Last Rites (17 minutes)
Bangladesh, 2008, directed by Yasmine Kabir
Where the ships go to die.
Winner of the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film at FSA ’09
The Promised Land (90 minutes)
Bangladesh, 2008, directed by Tanvir Mokammel
Stigma still haunts Biharis in Dhaka.
Joint Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA ’09
Friday, Feb. 25, 3-6 pm in the new IU Cinema:
Afghan Girls Can Kick (50 minutes)
Afghanistan, 2007, directed by Bahareh Hosseini
The girls do kick well.
Out of Thin Air (50 minutes)
India, 2009, directed by Samreen Farooqui & Shabani Hassanwalia
The high energy of Ladaki cinema.
The Battle for Pakistan (40 minutes)
Pakistan, 2009, directed by Maheen Zia
Do extremism and madrassas converge?
Saturday, Feb.26, 1-6 pm in the School of Journalism, EP 220
Come to My Country: Journeys with Kabir and Friends (98 minutes)
India, 2008, directed by Shabnam Virmani
Unlikely bonds in quest for Kabir’s ‘country’.
In Search of the Riyal (86 minutes)
Nepal, 2009, directed by Kesang Tseten
Deep study of Nepali migrants in the Gulf.
The Way of the Road (60 minutes)
Nepal, 2009, directed by Ben Campbell & Cosmo Campbell
The new Nepal-Tibet road and the locals.
Sunday, Feb. 27, 1-6 pm in the School of Journalism, EP 220:
Children of God (89 minutes)
Nepal, 2008, directed by Yi Seung-jun
The kids of the Aryaghat cremation grounds.
Saamam (The Music) (42 minutes)
India, 2009, directed by Ramachandran K
Homage to Carnatic music and M D Ramanathan.
The Salt Stories (84 minutes)
India, 2008, directed by Lalit Vachani
Following Gandhi’s salt march in our time.
Joint Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA ’09
For additional information, please contact Professor Rebecca J. Manring, rmanring@indiana.edu
Please find the film series schedule below. Those films not in English have English subtitles.
Thursday Feb 24, 3-6 pm in the new IU Cinema:
Mayomi (50 minutes)
Sri Lanka, 2008, directed by Carol Salter
Post-tsunami, Mayomi struggles for her family.
The Last Rites (17 minutes)
Bangladesh, 2008, directed by Yasmine Kabir
Where the ships go to die.
Winner of the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film at FSA ’09
The Promised Land (90 minutes)
Bangladesh, 2008, directed by Tanvir Mokammel
Stigma still haunts Biharis in Dhaka.
Joint Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA ’09
Friday, Feb. 25, 3-6 pm in the new IU Cinema:
Afghan Girls Can Kick (50 minutes)
Afghanistan, 2007, directed by Bahareh Hosseini
The girls do kick well.
Out of Thin Air (50 minutes)
India, 2009, directed by Samreen Farooqui & Shabani Hassanwalia
The high energy of Ladaki cinema.
The Battle for Pakistan (40 minutes)
Pakistan, 2009, directed by Maheen Zia
Do extremism and madrassas converge?
Saturday, Feb.26, 1-6 pm in the School of Journalism, EP 220
Come to My Country: Journeys with Kabir and Friends (98 minutes)
India, 2008, directed by Shabnam Virmani
Unlikely bonds in quest for Kabir’s ‘country’.
In Search of the Riyal (86 minutes)
Nepal, 2009, directed by Kesang Tseten
Deep study of Nepali migrants in the Gulf.
The Way of the Road (60 minutes)
Nepal, 2009, directed by Ben Campbell & Cosmo Campbell
The new Nepal-Tibet road and the locals.
Sunday, Feb. 27, 1-6 pm in the School of Journalism, EP 220:
Children of God (89 minutes)
Nepal, 2008, directed by Yi Seung-jun
The kids of the Aryaghat cremation grounds.
Saamam (The Music) (42 minutes)
India, 2009, directed by Ramachandran K
Homage to Carnatic music and M D Ramanathan.
The Salt Stories (84 minutes)
India, 2008, directed by Lalit Vachani
Following Gandhi’s salt march in our time.
Joint Winner of the Second Best Film Award at FSA ’09
For additional information, please contact Professor Rebecca J. Manring, rmanring@indiana.edu
2011-2012 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowships
As in previous years, the GAC will rank the department's dissertation year fellowship applications before faculty write full letters of recommendation. Students who, in consultation with their advisor, decide to apply, should complete the on-line form using the COAS link below, by Monday February 21. Advisors should complete the form that was emailed to them and send it to Kathy, also by Monday February 21. Shortly afterwards the GAC will inform applicants (and their advisors) whether or not they have been ranked in the first three. For successful applicants, advisors and another committee member should submit their letters of recommendation on-line, following the procedure described below.
The Graduate Division of the College of Arts and Sciences invites graduate programs to nominate their most outstanding Ph.D. or M.F.A. candidates for the 2011-2012 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowships. Stipends for the dissertation year fellowships are $18,000 each. These fellowships enable advanced students to engage in focused work leading to the completion of their dissertations or thesis projects. These fellowships do not include fee remission. Fellowship winners are expected to devote full time to research. Please make this information available to interested students as well as notify students of any internal department deadlines or practices regarding the nomination process.
Only Ph.D. candidates and M.F.A. candidates are eligible. Doctoral nominees must be formally advanced to Ph.D. candidacy by the nomination deadline. Nominations must include: the nomination form (submitted by the student online), two letters of recommendation submitted online, and the department’s ranking. All nominations and supporting letters of recommendation must be submitted online February 1-March 1, 2011.
Students begin the nomination process by completing and submitting the online form available here:
https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/DissertationFellowships/ResearchFellowshipNomination.cfm . Students will need their ten digit university student ID number to proceed. Students are responsible for providing their letter of recommendation writers the following link along with their network ID (username not ten digit student ID number) for the online submission of letters of recommendation, https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/DissertationFellowships/SubmitFellowshipRecommLetter.cfm . One of the supporting letters must be written by the director of the dissertation or thesis. The student nomination and letter of recommendation forms are also available by visiting, http://college.indiana.edu/graduate/office/awards.shtml#s4 and selecting College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowships.
Selection criteria include demonstrated academic excellence, proposed use of fellowship funds, and potential for significant research contributions. Awards will be announced in April.
If you have questions concerning the fellowships or the competition, please contact Assistant Director NaShara Mitchell in Kirkwood Hall 207 (856-3687 or coasgrad@indiana.edu).
The Graduate Division of the College of Arts and Sciences invites graduate programs to nominate their most outstanding Ph.D. or M.F.A. candidates for the 2011-2012 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowships. Stipends for the dissertation year fellowships are $18,000 each. These fellowships enable advanced students to engage in focused work leading to the completion of their dissertations or thesis projects. These fellowships do not include fee remission. Fellowship winners are expected to devote full time to research. Please make this information available to interested students as well as notify students of any internal department deadlines or practices regarding the nomination process.
Only Ph.D. candidates and M.F.A. candidates are eligible. Doctoral nominees must be formally advanced to Ph.D. candidacy by the nomination deadline. Nominations must include: the nomination form (submitted by the student online), two letters of recommendation submitted online, and the department’s ranking. All nominations and supporting letters of recommendation must be submitted online February 1-March 1, 2011.
Students begin the nomination process by completing and submitting the online form available here:
https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/DissertationFellowships/ResearchFellowshipNomination.cfm . Students will need their ten digit university student ID number to proceed. Students are responsible for providing their letter of recommendation writers the following link along with their network ID (username not ten digit student ID number) for the online submission of letters of recommendation, https://coas3.coas.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/DissertationFellowships/SubmitFellowshipRecommLetter.cfm . One of the supporting letters must be written by the director of the dissertation or thesis. The student nomination and letter of recommendation forms are also available by visiting, http://college.indiana.edu/graduate/office/awards.shtml#s4 and selecting College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowships.
Selection criteria include demonstrated academic excellence, proposed use of fellowship funds, and potential for significant research contributions. Awards will be announced in April.
If you have questions concerning the fellowships or the competition, please contact Assistant Director NaShara Mitchell in Kirkwood Hall 207 (856-3687 or coasgrad@indiana.edu).
Call for Submissions: Odense International Film Festival
Odense International Film Festival is now open for submissions to the 26th edition of OFF and we are excited to see all of the fantastic short films from near and far.
The submission deadline is April 1st 2011.
OFF is Denmark’s short film festival and is grateful to receive all sorts of films with a maximum running time of 30 minutes. We will yet again be putting together a national and international competition programme, as well as competition programmes for animation films and for children and youth films. We are looking forward to seeing what the filmmakers from all around the world have to offer.
Read more about OFF and submit your film at www.filmfestival.dk
The submission deadline is April 1st 2011.
OFF is Denmark’s short film festival and is grateful to receive all sorts of films with a maximum running time of 30 minutes. We will yet again be putting together a national and international competition programme, as well as competition programmes for animation films and for children and youth films. We are looking forward to seeing what the filmmakers from all around the world have to offer.
Read more about OFF and submit your film at www.filmfestival.dk
16th Annual Preparing Future Faculty Graduate Conference
8:30am-4:30pm Friday, February 18th, 2011
IMU Solarium, with lunch in Alumni Hall
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, led 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 professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions. For more information about the conference, visit the website: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/ There is a free lunch from 12:30-2pm in Alumni Hall. The cost for the conference is free, but you must RSVP for lunch by Friday, February 11th. To RSVP for lunch, email iupffc@gmail.com with your name, email address, department, and year in your program.
IMU Solarium, with lunch in Alumni Hall
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, led 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 professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions. For more information about the conference, visit the website: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/ There is a free lunch from 12:30-2pm in Alumni Hall. The cost for the conference is free, but you must RSVP for lunch by Friday, February 11th. To RSVP for lunch, email iupffc@gmail.com with your name, email address, department, and year in your program.
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