Just a quick reminder about the Stanley Nelson events tomorrow Friday April 1:
--9:30 am, Room 203 Stanley Nelson will meet with CMCL students. Please remind your students and feel free to join us. We will be offer coffee and bagels for some refreshment.
--3pm IU Cinema Stanley Nelson will give a public lecture at the IU Cinema and discuss his newest documentary The Freedom Riders.
--7pm IU Cinema screening of The Freedom Riders.
Stanley Nelson will be joined on stage by one of the original riders, Catherine Burks-Brooks, for both the the afternoon lecture and evening screening.
These events are co-sponsored by WTIU. If you would like tickets for the 7pm screening, please let me know right away (sschwibs@indiana.edu), as WTIU has a block of tickets left. I believe the show shows "sold out" at the box office.
The Freedom Riders is about a group of young civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the South in the early 1960s. The documentary was made for PBS American Experience. For more information look here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Stanley Nelson is an award winning filmmaker who has done a number of documentaries for PBS, among them Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till and Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice. He has won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, Peabody Award, Primetime Emmy, an IDA Award, and a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
IUB Libraries Humanities Research Skills Clinic: "Locating and Using Film Stills for Teaching and Research"
Fri Apr 1, 2011
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Wells Library, Room W302 (West Tower, 3rd floor)
To sign up for this workshop, just go to the following URL.
http://www.indiana.edu/~library/seminars/
Also, if you don't have time to come to the workshop, the material is covered in the following blog:
http://filmstillsresources.blog.com
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Wells Library, Room W302 (West Tower, 3rd floor)
To sign up for this workshop, just go to the following URL.
http://www.indiana.edu/~library/seminars/
Also, if you don't have time to come to the workshop, the material is covered in the following blog:
http://filmstillsresources.blog.com
The Powers of Display: Cinemas of Investigation, Demonstration, and Illusion Department of Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Conference, April 1 and 2, 2011
The Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago presents a two-day graduate conference on the subject of cinema's enduring struggle with truth and fakery, spectacle and deception. The Powers of Display: Cinemas of Investigation, Demonstration and Illusion will engage cinema’s enduring affinity for certain genres, subjects, and aesthetics that are dominated by the idea of display, particularly as this idea informs modes of spectatorship that pivot on curiosity, skepticism, detection, and a will to know how things work.
In light of the persistence of “display” as both a recurrent mode and subject in cinema and moving image media, this conference seeks to extend lines of thinking about cinema’s showing power by hosting presentations which explore the aesthetic surfaces of information, investigation and knowledge, and also deception, illusion and spectacle. The topics covered will range from (early) non-fiction and animation to special effects, perception and psychology in science films and techniques of investigation, and aesthetics of revelation; they will also raise questions about what kinds of knowledge and structures of belief the cinema can produce in its capacity as a technology of investigation, deception and demonstration. What kinds of cinema encourage curiosity or skepticism? What constitutes evidence on screen? What constitutes illusion? How have the visual conventions of cinematic “showing” evolved? What defines genres that have appealed to investigatory or incredulous spectators? How can cinema teach? How does it misinform? By organizing an array of historical and theoretical questions around cinema’s power to display, this conference aims to both distinguish cinema’s specificity, as well as account for the ways that cinematic aesthetics have been informed by and integrated into other forms of media and visual culture. Attached is a conference program. Complete details available at the conference blog: powersofdisplay.wordpress.com
Keynote speaker Alison Griffiths (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) will give a talk on “Edison, Houdini, and the Electric Chair.” Griffiths is the author of Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn of the Century Visual Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
Day one of the conference will conclude with an April Fools Day screening of Orson Welles’ F for Fake (1973, 35mm, 89 min).
Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Film Studies Center, the Mass Culture Workshop, and the New Media Workshop.
For more information please email: Nathan Holmes (nholmes@uchicago.edu) or Colin Williamson (cwilliamson@uchicago.edu)
In light of the persistence of “display” as both a recurrent mode and subject in cinema and moving image media, this conference seeks to extend lines of thinking about cinema’s showing power by hosting presentations which explore the aesthetic surfaces of information, investigation and knowledge, and also deception, illusion and spectacle. The topics covered will range from (early) non-fiction and animation to special effects, perception and psychology in science films and techniques of investigation, and aesthetics of revelation; they will also raise questions about what kinds of knowledge and structures of belief the cinema can produce in its capacity as a technology of investigation, deception and demonstration. What kinds of cinema encourage curiosity or skepticism? What constitutes evidence on screen? What constitutes illusion? How have the visual conventions of cinematic “showing” evolved? What defines genres that have appealed to investigatory or incredulous spectators? How can cinema teach? How does it misinform? By organizing an array of historical and theoretical questions around cinema’s power to display, this conference aims to both distinguish cinema’s specificity, as well as account for the ways that cinematic aesthetics have been informed by and integrated into other forms of media and visual culture. Attached is a conference program. Complete details available at the conference blog: powersofdisplay.wordpress.com
Keynote speaker Alison Griffiths (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) will give a talk on “Edison, Houdini, and the Electric Chair.” Griffiths is the author of Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn of the Century Visual Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
Day one of the conference will conclude with an April Fools Day screening of Orson Welles’ F for Fake (1973, 35mm, 89 min).
Co-sponsored by the Franke Institute, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Film Studies Center, the Mass Culture Workshop, and the New Media Workshop.
For more information please email: Nathan Holmes (nholmes@uchicago.edu) or Colin Williamson (cwilliamson@uchicago.edu)
The IU Dhar India Studies Program presents The Savitaben Kantilal Trivedi Memorial Lecture
Unarmed Pathans: History or Future?
Mukulika Banerjee
Reader in Social Anthropology
London School of Economics
Friday, April 1 5:30 pm
Oak Room
Indiana Memorial Union
A book signing will follow immediately after the lecture.
ABSTRACT
The Pashtun (Pathan) of the North-West Frontier have often been regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai khidmatgar (“Servants of God”), which drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of non-violence dedicated to Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism. Virtually erased from the national historiography of post-Partition Pakistan, where they resided, the aging veterans lived to the tale of their extraordinary politics. This lecture considers the significance of this story for contemporary global politics: how notoriously violent Pashtuns converted to an ethic of non-violence while remaining true to Islam and ideals of honor.
Mukulika Banerjee
Reader in Social Anthropology
London School of Economics
Friday, April 1 5:30 pm
Oak Room
Indiana Memorial Union
A book signing will follow immediately after the lecture.
ABSTRACT
The Pashtun (Pathan) of the North-West Frontier have often been regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai khidmatgar (“Servants of God”), which drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of non-violence dedicated to Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism. Virtually erased from the national historiography of post-Partition Pakistan, where they resided, the aging veterans lived to the tale of their extraordinary politics. This lecture considers the significance of this story for contemporary global politics: how notoriously violent Pashtuns converted to an ethic of non-violence while remaining true to Islam and ideals of honor.
The IU Dhar India Studies Program presents The Hrishikesh and Sailabala Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture
Aesthetics, Education and the Religion of Man
Ananda Lal
Director of the Tagore Studies Centre
Professor of English
Jadavpur University, Calcutta
Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 pm
State Room East
Indiana Memorial Union
ABSTRACT
For Rabindranath Tagore, the arts and education—his two creative passions—formed the means through which the human race could achieve the idealistic goals that he believed would lead to the establishment of a “religion of man.” But Tagore did not merely philosophize on this subject; he put his thoughts into practice. This lecture presents the theory and praxis of Tagore’s vision.
Ananda Lal
Director of the Tagore Studies Centre
Professor of English
Jadavpur University, Calcutta
Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 pm
State Room East
Indiana Memorial Union
ABSTRACT
For Rabindranath Tagore, the arts and education—his two creative passions—formed the means through which the human race could achieve the idealistic goals that he believed would lead to the establishment of a “religion of man.” But Tagore did not merely philosophize on this subject; he put his thoughts into practice. This lecture presents the theory and praxis of Tagore’s vision.
The Psychological & Brain Sciences’ Department Colloquium Committee presents
Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Aging, Emotion and Motivation
April 1, 2011 (Friday)
3:30 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 101
Laura L. Carstensen, PhD is Professor of Psychology and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. For more than twenty years her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging; in 2005 she was honored with a MERIT award which extends this support another decade. She is best known for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation. With her students and colleagues, she has published more than 100 articles and chapters on life-span development. Her most current empirical research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence cognitive processing. Her honors include Stanford University's Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Richard Kalish Award for Innovative Research. In 2003, she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow and received funding for her research on "Extended life expectancy in the 21st century." In 2006 she received the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Sciences Section). She received her B.S. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University. Dr. Carstensen served on the IU faculty in the Department of Psychology 1983-1987.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Stanford University
Aging, Emotion and Motivation
April 1, 2011 (Friday)
3:30 p.m.
Psychology Building, Room 101
Laura L. Carstensen, PhD is Professor of Psychology and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. For more than twenty years her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging; in 2005 she was honored with a MERIT award which extends this support another decade. She is best known for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation. With her students and colleagues, she has published more than 100 articles and chapters on life-span development. Her most current empirical research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence cognitive processing. Her honors include Stanford University's Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Richard Kalish Award for Innovative Research. In 2003, she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow and received funding for her research on "Extended life expectancy in the 21st century." In 2006 she received the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America (Behavioral and Social Sciences Section). She received her B.S. from the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from West Virginia University. Dr. Carstensen served on the IU faculty in the Department of Psychology 1983-1987.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Richard M. Dorson Memorial Lecture: Roger Abrahams
"The Zoot Suit Kid Goes Global: From Tango to Hip Hop"
Tuesday, April 5th
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Wells House, 1321 E. 10th St.
This lecture series is named for Richard M. Dorson, who is credited with establishing folklore studies as an academic discipline in the United States through his many years directing the IU Folklore Institute, beginning in 1956. He later chaired the Folklore Department, until his death in 1981. For these efforts, he has been called the "father of American Folklore."
In this lecture, Roger Abrahams brings into focus the development throughout the post-emancipation era of high-flash street-corner groups that have emerged in virtually every port of call in the commercial Atlantic world. Abrahams argues that there is a pattern linking these manifestations, though they are commonly regarded as being unique to one metropolitan area or another. Each has founding legends, stories of the great song-makers, dancers, stick-fighters, and so on. This research tests the argument between those who have argued for the retention of African cultural traits and those who have argued for culture-loss under enslavement conditions. The West Indian performers with whom Abrahams has worked maintain that their repertoires are played not only for enjoyment but more importantly, as embodiments of the history and the strength of ties within the community. The burden of the argument, at last, is that doing folklore involves both extensive live-there field work and comparative study to situate what it is that you have collected.
Roger D. Abrahams is a prominent folklorist whose work focuses on the expressive cultures and cultural histories of the Americas, with a specific emphasis on African American peoples and traditions. He is the Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught in the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He is the author of a large number of books, among which "Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices" is a recent title.
A light reception will follow the lecture.
Tuesday, April 5th
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Wells House, 1321 E. 10th St.
This lecture series is named for Richard M. Dorson, who is credited with establishing folklore studies as an academic discipline in the United States through his many years directing the IU Folklore Institute, beginning in 1956. He later chaired the Folklore Department, until his death in 1981. For these efforts, he has been called the "father of American Folklore."
In this lecture, Roger Abrahams brings into focus the development throughout the post-emancipation era of high-flash street-corner groups that have emerged in virtually every port of call in the commercial Atlantic world. Abrahams argues that there is a pattern linking these manifestations, though they are commonly regarded as being unique to one metropolitan area or another. Each has founding legends, stories of the great song-makers, dancers, stick-fighters, and so on. This research tests the argument between those who have argued for the retention of African cultural traits and those who have argued for culture-loss under enslavement conditions. The West Indian performers with whom Abrahams has worked maintain that their repertoires are played not only for enjoyment but more importantly, as embodiments of the history and the strength of ties within the community. The burden of the argument, at last, is that doing folklore involves both extensive live-there field work and comparative study to situate what it is that you have collected.
Roger D. Abrahams is a prominent folklorist whose work focuses on the expressive cultures and cultural histories of the Americas, with a specific emphasis on African American peoples and traditions. He is the Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania where he taught in the Department of Folklore and Folklife. He is the author of a large number of books, among which "Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices" is a recent title.
A light reception will follow the lecture.
Hungarian Film Series
The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Association and the Russian and East European Institute, is proud to present a Hungarian Film Series for the Spring. We will show one Hungarian film every Thursday evening beginning this week at 7pm in Lindley Hall.
Thursday, March 31st: The Little Valentino —Follow a day in the life of Laszlo, a 20-year-old driver’s assistant who spends his day riding cabs, flirting with ladies, and gambling on pinball games – using the money he’s just stolen.
Thursday, April 7th: Freedom’s Fury —This documentary tells the story of the star of the 1956 Hungarian Olympic waterpolo team, Ervin Zador, who finds himself embroiled in one of the most politicized sports events in history – a match with the Soviet Union that would later be dubbed the “Blood in the Water” match.
Thursday, April 14th: The Prefab People —Renowned Hungarian director Bela Tarr holds a magnifying glass to the marriage of a young working-class couple. The film focuses in on their nuanced relationship and the sparseness of their existence in the wake of an explosive argument.
Thursday, April 21st: Delta —After making a fortune in the city, a young man returns to his isolated village in the Danube delta. His return fractures his family, and he decides to build a house out in the marshes with his half-sister, drawing the disapproval of his family and community. Viewer discretion advised for mature themes.
Thursday, March 31st: The Little Valentino —Follow a day in the life of Laszlo, a 20-year-old driver’s assistant who spends his day riding cabs, flirting with ladies, and gambling on pinball games – using the money he’s just stolen.
Thursday, April 7th: Freedom’s Fury —This documentary tells the story of the star of the 1956 Hungarian Olympic waterpolo team, Ervin Zador, who finds himself embroiled in one of the most politicized sports events in history – a match with the Soviet Union that would later be dubbed the “Blood in the Water” match.
Thursday, April 14th: The Prefab People —Renowned Hungarian director Bela Tarr holds a magnifying glass to the marriage of a young working-class couple. The film focuses in on their nuanced relationship and the sparseness of their existence in the wake of an explosive argument.
Thursday, April 21st: Delta —After making a fortune in the city, a young man returns to his isolated village in the Danube delta. His return fractures his family, and he decides to build a house out in the marshes with his half-sister, drawing the disapproval of his family and community. Viewer discretion advised for mature themes.
Course Ad - Telecommunications T535: Economics of Information
Telecommunications T535
Economics of Information
MW 5:45 -7 pm , RTV 169
Fall, 2011
(29146)
We use economic analysis to address policy and strategy problems involving information and information products. Main topic areas are the production, pricing, and distribution of information products; and the economics of information networks and standard setting. A central theme of the course: When is government intervention desirable, and what policies are most likely to work?
Examples of questions we address: How can economic incentives to create intellectual property be preserved in the presence of cheap copying devices and file sharing? How can owners of intellectual property use copying and electronic distribution to their advantage?
What are the economics of electronic vs. hardcopy textbook and academic journal publication? What are economic arguments for and against fee-based library services? Why does the U.S. dominate the world export of entertainment and other information? How can critical mass be achieved in information networking? Are compatibility standards affecting media or telecommunications networks best set by government or by private industry?
Policy analysis in the information industries must be interdisciplinary, but economic analysis gives one useful perspective.
First, economics provides a specific framework for evaluating social welfare. Second, economic analysis can make good predictions about whether different policy options are likely to work or not. We also get insights into which business strategies of information industry firms and organizations are most likely to work. The class does not have a prerequisite. Some basic microeconomic principles will be provided as the course proceeds.
For more information, contact David Waterman (5-6170)
waterman@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/waterman.shtml
Economics of Information
MW 5:45 -7 pm , RTV 169
Fall, 2011
(29146)
We use economic analysis to address policy and strategy problems involving information and information products. Main topic areas are the production, pricing, and distribution of information products; and the economics of information networks and standard setting. A central theme of the course: When is government intervention desirable, and what policies are most likely to work?
Examples of questions we address: How can economic incentives to create intellectual property be preserved in the presence of cheap copying devices and file sharing? How can owners of intellectual property use copying and electronic distribution to their advantage?
What are the economics of electronic vs. hardcopy textbook and academic journal publication? What are economic arguments for and against fee-based library services? Why does the U.S. dominate the world export of entertainment and other information? How can critical mass be achieved in information networking? Are compatibility standards affecting media or telecommunications networks best set by government or by private industry?
Policy analysis in the information industries must be interdisciplinary, but economic analysis gives one useful perspective.
First, economics provides a specific framework for evaluating social welfare. Second, economic analysis can make good predictions about whether different policy options are likely to work or not. We also get insights into which business strategies of information industry firms and organizations are most likely to work. The class does not have a prerequisite. Some basic microeconomic principles will be provided as the course proceeds.
For more information, contact David Waterman (5-6170)
waterman@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/faculty/waterman.shtml
Course Ad - Journalism J660: Agenda Setting
Fall 2011--Tuesdays, 2:30 - 5 p.m., Ernie Pyle Hall 203
Professor David Weaver, School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall 200-I
This graduate course provides an overview of the research on agenda setting.
Since the first study of media agenda setting was published in Public Opinion Quarterly in the summer of 1972, there have been hundreds of replications and expansions, including studies not only of the relationship between media agendas and public/policy agendas, but also between agendas of different media and at different levels of abstraction (first-level and
second-level). Contingent conditions that enhance or reduce agenda-setting
effects have also been tested empirically, such as need for orientation.
This is both a readings and research seminar that aims to acquaint you with major studies of agenda setting in the first half of the semester and also provides an opportunity for you to do some original research on agenda setting in the second half of the semester. Because this is a 600-level seminar, I expect some familiarity with research methods and data analysis techniques. The papers that you produce for this class from your research projects should strive to be of publishable quality. A number of them done for this course in the past have been have presented at major conferences and also published as journal articles.
My own experience with agenda-setting research goes back to the early 1970s when I was a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina working with Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, the pioneers in empirical research on agenda setting. If you have questions, please contact me at weaver@indiana.edu or at 855-1703.
Professor David Weaver, School of Journalism, Ernie Pyle Hall 200-I
This graduate course provides an overview of the research on agenda setting.
Since the first study of media agenda setting was published in Public Opinion Quarterly in the summer of 1972, there have been hundreds of replications and expansions, including studies not only of the relationship between media agendas and public/policy agendas, but also between agendas of different media and at different levels of abstraction (first-level and
second-level). Contingent conditions that enhance or reduce agenda-setting
effects have also been tested empirically, such as need for orientation.
This is both a readings and research seminar that aims to acquaint you with major studies of agenda setting in the first half of the semester and also provides an opportunity for you to do some original research on agenda setting in the second half of the semester. Because this is a 600-level seminar, I expect some familiarity with research methods and data analysis techniques. The papers that you produce for this class from your research projects should strive to be of publishable quality. A number of them done for this course in the past have been have presented at major conferences and also published as journal articles.
My own experience with agenda-setting research goes back to the early 1970s when I was a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina working with Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, the pioneers in empirical research on agenda setting. If you have questions, please contact me at weaver@indiana.edu or at 855-1703.
From Our Chair, Alex Doty
Everything's Coming Up Roses--for Amanda Keeler and Travis Vogan, that is! Amanda has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of film and media studies in the Department of English at Bucknell University, and Travis has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of English at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Say, why are English Departments making all the hires these days? They seem to be evolving along the lines of "all under one roof" corporation models! Well, I guess we do a little of that too here at CMCL. But back to Amanda and Travis--good work, and enjoy being places that are even colder and snowier than Bloomington!
Monday, March 28, 2011
CFP - THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CRIME, MEDIA & POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES CONFERENCE: A CROSS DISCIPLINARY EXPLORATION
September 26th, 27th & 28th, 2011
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA
Sponsored by: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Indiana State University Sponsored in part by: Department of Criminal Justice College of Justice and Safety Eastern Kentucky University
www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/
Conference Chair:
Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
fwilson2@indstate.edu
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday July 8, 2011
*Early abstract submission is recommended
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - PRESENTERS: Friday August 19
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - NON-PRESENTERS: Friday Sept 09
Featured Speakers:
Gregg Barak, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Eastern Michigan University
“Newsmaking Criminology, Policy Making, and Popular Culture: Reflections from the Margins"
Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D.
Women's Studies Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Girls Gone Wild: Media Misogyny and the Bad Girl Hype"
Shaun Gabbidon, Ph.D.
School of Public Affairs
Penn State Harrisburg
“The Construction of Race and Crime Statistics"
Peter K. Manning, Ph.D.
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
"The Drama of Policing: Modern Modes of Media Amplification"
Gary Potter, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
"Constructing Crime in an Era of Globalization"
Raymond Surette, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice
University of Central Florida
"New Media and Copycat Crime Among Offenders"
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA
Sponsored by: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Indiana State University Sponsored in part by: Department of Criminal Justice College of Justice and Safety Eastern Kentucky University
www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/
Conference Chair:
Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University
fwilson2@indstate.edu
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday July 8, 2011
*Early abstract submission is recommended
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - PRESENTERS: Friday August 19
REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - NON-PRESENTERS: Friday Sept 09
Featured Speakers:
Gregg Barak, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Eastern Michigan University
“Newsmaking Criminology, Policy Making, and Popular Culture: Reflections from the Margins"
Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D.
Women's Studies Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Girls Gone Wild: Media Misogyny and the Bad Girl Hype"
Shaun Gabbidon, Ph.D.
School of Public Affairs
Penn State Harrisburg
“The Construction of Race and Crime Statistics"
Peter K. Manning, Ph.D.
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
"The Drama of Policing: Modern Modes of Media Amplification"
Gary Potter, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
"Constructing Crime in an Era of Globalization"
Raymond Surette, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Justice
University of Central Florida
"New Media and Copycat Crime Among Offenders"
Bhattacharya Memorial Lectures - Crisis in Civilization: Seventy Years On
Dr. Lal, of Jadavpur University, Kolkata (and the noted theatre critic for The Telegraph) will deliver the first of two Bhattacharya Memorial Lectures, Crisis in Civilization: Seventy Years On as an integral part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore.
Monday, March 28th
6:30pm
Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union
Questions may be directed to Mark Price, Assistant Director, Dhar India Studies Program (812) 855-2024
Monday, March 28th
6:30pm
Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union
Questions may be directed to Mark Price, Assistant Director, Dhar India Studies Program (812) 855-2024
Nomadic Wax: Global Hip-Hop, Social Change & Technology
A Multimedia Conversation with Founder/CEO Ben Herson
Monday, March 28
7:30 pm
Foster Shea Ground Floor Loungejavascript:void(0)
100 N. Fee Lance
Fpster International Living Learning Center sponsors international and fair trade hip-hop record label founder Ben Henson for a discussion about his work for the company (Nomadic Wax). This discussion will revolved around media and hip-hop in relation to social change movements, and will also be discuss the three documentaries that the Nomadic Wax has distributed.
Monday, March 28
7:30 pm
Foster Shea Ground Floor Loungejavascript:void(0)
100 N. Fee Lance
Fpster International Living Learning Center sponsors international and fair trade hip-hop record label founder Ben Henson for a discussion about his work for the company (Nomadic Wax). This discussion will revolved around media and hip-hop in relation to social change movements, and will also be discuss the three documentaries that the Nomadic Wax has distributed.
Friday, March 25, 2011
CFP - Queertopia 4.0 Queer(ing) Poetics: Text, Method, Movement, Thought
May 27‐29, Northwestern University
Keynote: Sue Golding, University of Greenwich (Director, Institute for the Converging Arts and Sciences), University College London, and the Royal Academy for the Arts. Learn more here.
“to want, and to know that one wants should not be forgotten or thrown away, as if, ‘unimportant’, ‘begging the question’. For those honest enough to admit it, it remains at the very basis of a new socialised being, politics, and indeed, poetics.”
–Sue Golding
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called Research.”
–Albert Einstein
Northwestern University’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association, OUTlaw, and The Graduate School invite individual papers, complete panels and organized roundtables and workshops for its fourth annual graduate student academic festival, which includes our evening showcase, Queergasm! A Cabaret.
This year, Queertopia! is supported by Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Art History, English, Philosophy, French and Italian, and The Sexualities Project at Northwestern.
To facilitate a truly interdisciplinary queer studies event, Queertopia! 4.0 examines the possibility of queer poetics across all disciplines. We invite presentations not just on the poetic, but on queer poetics as method and practice that experiments, radicalizes, disorganizes, and dreams. Scholars are welcome to widely interpret this conception of poetics as experimental method in text, sound, image, movement, thought, and other areas between and beyond.
Scholars from all disciplines are warmly welcome, including but not limited to philosophy, law and justice studies, sociology, anthropology, medical studies, psychology, psychiatry, biology, chemistry, mathematics, communications studies, technology studies, physics, art (and other) practice, art (and other) history, literature, political and critical theory, political science, music practice, musicology, moving image studies, performance studies, library and archival studies and practice, religious studies, theology, and women’s, gender, queer and sexuality studies.
Thinking and enacting poetics as radical, indeed perhaps impossible method, can occur throughout the humanities; but it must also be crucially thought and enacted across nonhumanities disciplines: Researchers and practitioners in (not only Western) medicine, psychology, psychiatry, biology, chemistry, and communications studies, to name a few, may engage with the concept of poetics to problematize, redistribute, and render interdisciplinary their method and practice.
As always, Queertopia invites proposals that fall outside the strict realm of our theme. We love our academically diverse community and we want you all back this year for our biggest conference yet! Here are a few possible topics:
What’s poetic about (queer) method, and how can one push method to the point of poetics?
Homotextuality and/as method.
Is poetics as method inherently queer?
Is poetics inherently interdisciplinary?
Is it inherently performative?
Trans method/poetics across disciplines.
Queer method in the study/practice of movement; queer method as movement.
Queer(ing) method in the study/practice of the ephemeral arts, including “life”.
Queerness and the ephemeral.
Queerness and the static/frozen (image)/other types of image as queer.
Queer(ing) “hard data” across disciplines.
Unknowing and experimentation in psychology/psychiatry and other disciplines.
Queer method / queer subjects in the anti‐psychiatry movement.
Queer(ing) scientific method.
Is the appropriation of scientific work by the humanities queer?
What is the status in queer studies of the “intellectual impostor”?
Testing.
Queer(ing) method in ethics.
The rhizome and the non‐linear as queer method.
Poetics of (queer) activism.
Queer(ing) temporality in/through the methodology of history.
Please send abstracts of 250 words, and a 100 word paper summary / a 75 word bio (for conference booklet) to QPGSA at nuqpgsa@gmail.com by April 15.
Keynote: Sue Golding, University of Greenwich (Director, Institute for the Converging Arts and Sciences), University College London, and the Royal Academy for the Arts. Learn more here.
“to want, and to know that one wants should not be forgotten or thrown away, as if, ‘unimportant’, ‘begging the question’. For those honest enough to admit it, it remains at the very basis of a new socialised being, politics, and indeed, poetics.”
–Sue Golding
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called Research.”
–Albert Einstein
Northwestern University’s Queer Pride Graduate Student Association, OUTlaw, and The Graduate School invite individual papers, complete panels and organized roundtables and workshops for its fourth annual graduate student academic festival, which includes our evening showcase, Queergasm! A Cabaret.
This year, Queertopia! is supported by Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Art History, English, Philosophy, French and Italian, and The Sexualities Project at Northwestern.
To facilitate a truly interdisciplinary queer studies event, Queertopia! 4.0 examines the possibility of queer poetics across all disciplines. We invite presentations not just on the poetic, but on queer poetics as method and practice that experiments, radicalizes, disorganizes, and dreams. Scholars are welcome to widely interpret this conception of poetics as experimental method in text, sound, image, movement, thought, and other areas between and beyond.
Scholars from all disciplines are warmly welcome, including but not limited to philosophy, law and justice studies, sociology, anthropology, medical studies, psychology, psychiatry, biology, chemistry, mathematics, communications studies, technology studies, physics, art (and other) practice, art (and other) history, literature, political and critical theory, political science, music practice, musicology, moving image studies, performance studies, library and archival studies and practice, religious studies, theology, and women’s, gender, queer and sexuality studies.
Thinking and enacting poetics as radical, indeed perhaps impossible method, can occur throughout the humanities; but it must also be crucially thought and enacted across nonhumanities disciplines: Researchers and practitioners in (not only Western) medicine, psychology, psychiatry, biology, chemistry, and communications studies, to name a few, may engage with the concept of poetics to problematize, redistribute, and render interdisciplinary their method and practice.
As always, Queertopia invites proposals that fall outside the strict realm of our theme. We love our academically diverse community and we want you all back this year for our biggest conference yet! Here are a few possible topics:
What’s poetic about (queer) method, and how can one push method to the point of poetics?
Homotextuality and/as method.
Is poetics as method inherently queer?
Is poetics inherently interdisciplinary?
Is it inherently performative?
Trans method/poetics across disciplines.
Queer method in the study/practice of movement; queer method as movement.
Queer(ing) method in the study/practice of the ephemeral arts, including “life”.
Queerness and the ephemeral.
Queerness and the static/frozen (image)/other types of image as queer.
Queer(ing) “hard data” across disciplines.
Unknowing and experimentation in psychology/psychiatry and other disciplines.
Queer method / queer subjects in the anti‐psychiatry movement.
Queer(ing) scientific method.
Is the appropriation of scientific work by the humanities queer?
What is the status in queer studies of the “intellectual impostor”?
Testing.
Queer(ing) method in ethics.
The rhizome and the non‐linear as queer method.
Poetics of (queer) activism.
Queer(ing) temporality in/through the methodology of history.
Please send abstracts of 250 words, and a 100 word paper summary / a 75 word bio (for conference booklet) to QPGSA at nuqpgsa@gmail.com by April 15.
Response to Crisis in Japan: March 30 teach-in & Benefit Event
Indiana University and the Bloomington community have been shocked and saddened by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the nuclear radiation crisis in Japan. We extend our deepest sympathy, our prayers, and our support to all those affected by this ongoing tragedy.
As part of a campus- and community-wide relief effort, we will hold a teach-in and benefit event 7:00-8:30 p.m. on March 30 at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the IMU featuring faculty experts, students from the regions affected, and musicians from the Jacobs School of Music. Representatives from various organizations will report on their fundraising efforts, and the Japanese Student Association will have donation boxes at the site.
See additional details and the program here. For more information, email the Asian Culture Center at acc@indiana.edu.
As part of a campus- and community-wide relief effort, we will hold a teach-in and benefit event 7:00-8:30 p.m. on March 30 at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the IMU featuring faculty experts, students from the regions affected, and musicians from the Jacobs School of Music. Representatives from various organizations will report on their fundraising efforts, and the Japanese Student Association will have donation boxes at the site.
See additional details and the program here. For more information, email the Asian Culture Center at acc@indiana.edu.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Course Ad - History H650: Colloquium in United States History / H680: Colloquium in Cultural History
Fall 2011
History H650: Colloquium in United States History / H680: Colloquium in Cultural History
Prof. Eric Sandweiss
SPACE, PLACE AND HISTORY
Where does history take place?
Armed with insight from geographers, ecologists, social theorists, architects, and anthropologists, historians have returned with new vigor to an assumption that many in our field once took for granted: that place (with its more elusive companion, space) not only reflects but also actively structures human experience.
This course is designed for students interested in exploring where—and how—history “takes place.” The class is designed to serve students in any temporal-geographic field—up to half of the semester’s readings will be selected by you and related to your particular areas of historical study.
More specifically, the class aims, 1) to familiarize you with the range of the literature of space and place, and 2) to help you integrate that literature into your own studies. Readings address five broad themes: geography and ecology, cartography and imagery, architecture and built form, urbanization, and social theory. We then consider some historical applications of these themes to American and European topics.
In addition to reading one book weekly, your class assignments will include a field study, brief review essays, oral presentations, and a research proposal applying course themes to a subject of your choosing.
Required Reading:
Alexander Von Humboldt, Cosmos, v. 2 (selections) (1850, Cambridge University Press, 2010); J.B. Harley, The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time, and Architecture (1941; Harvard University Press, 2009); David Harvey, The Urban Experience (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 2011); Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (A.A. Knopf, 1995); John Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 (Yale University Press, 1983).
Additional readings will be drawn from a list which is available from the instructor. Alternative selections are allowed with my prior approval.
History H650: Colloquium in United States History / H680: Colloquium in Cultural History
Prof. Eric Sandweiss
SPACE, PLACE AND HISTORY
Where does history take place?
Armed with insight from geographers, ecologists, social theorists, architects, and anthropologists, historians have returned with new vigor to an assumption that many in our field once took for granted: that place (with its more elusive companion, space) not only reflects but also actively structures human experience.
This course is designed for students interested in exploring where—and how—history “takes place.” The class is designed to serve students in any temporal-geographic field—up to half of the semester’s readings will be selected by you and related to your particular areas of historical study.
More specifically, the class aims, 1) to familiarize you with the range of the literature of space and place, and 2) to help you integrate that literature into your own studies. Readings address five broad themes: geography and ecology, cartography and imagery, architecture and built form, urbanization, and social theory. We then consider some historical applications of these themes to American and European topics.
In addition to reading one book weekly, your class assignments will include a field study, brief review essays, oral presentations, and a research proposal applying course themes to a subject of your choosing.
Required Reading:
Alexander Von Humboldt, Cosmos, v. 2 (selections) (1850, Cambridge University Press, 2010); J.B. Harley, The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time, and Architecture (1941; Harvard University Press, 2009); David Harvey, The Urban Experience (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 2011); Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (A.A. Knopf, 1995); John Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 (Yale University Press, 1983).
Additional readings will be drawn from a list which is available from the instructor. Alternative selections are allowed with my prior approval.
A reminder: J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture Tonight!
March 24, 2011
Swain West 007
7:00 PM
Department of Communication and Culture
TWENTY-EIGTH ANNUAL
J. JEFFERY AUER LECTURE
by Jodi Dean
Are social networks like Twitter and Facebook powerful forces for egalitarian people's struggles? Or are they distractions that ultimately undermine collective power even as they enhance democracy? In her lecture, Jodi Dean will present her idea of communicative capitalism, explaining how new media realize democracy and thus point us to the limits of democracy for radical politics.
Reception Immediately Following
Classroom Office Building
800 E. Third Street
2nd Floor Lobby
Swain West 007
7:00 PM
Department of Communication and Culture
TWENTY-EIGTH ANNUAL
J. JEFFERY AUER LECTURE
by Jodi Dean
Are social networks like Twitter and Facebook powerful forces for egalitarian people's struggles? Or are they distractions that ultimately undermine collective power even as they enhance democracy? In her lecture, Jodi Dean will present her idea of communicative capitalism, explaining how new media realize democracy and thus point us to the limits of democracy for radical politics.
Reception Immediately Following
Classroom Office Building
800 E. Third Street
2nd Floor Lobby
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East Film Screening
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East Film Screening
To See If I'm Smiling
Wednesday, March 30th, 7:30pm
Myers Hall room 130, IU Bloomington Campus, discussion to follow
Please print, post, forward, and otherwise circulate to all who might find this of interest.
"To See If I’m Smiling," documentary, 2007, 59 minutes
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping as they describe atrocities they witnessed and participated in.
The psychological transformation that these young women underwent as a result of military service is both upsetting and riveting. The culture of war transforms people: personalities change, moral codes are subverted, values are supplanted and masks are constructed to dull the pain of what they did and didn't do in uniform. At a time when women in the military are increasingly on the frontlines, and the actions of soldiers all over the world are being questioned, this powerful film explores the ways that gender, ethics and moral responsibility intersect during war.
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East is a group devoted to promoting education, dialog, and action with the goal of achieving a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. While a primary focus of this group is on the situation in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, we share an interest in promoting peace in the greater area, including Afghanistan and Iraq.
To See If I'm Smiling
Wednesday, March 30th, 7:30pm
Myers Hall room 130, IU Bloomington Campus, discussion to follow
Please print, post, forward, and otherwise circulate to all who might find this of interest.
"To See If I’m Smiling," documentary, 2007, 59 minutes
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping as they describe atrocities they witnessed and participated in.
The psychological transformation that these young women underwent as a result of military service is both upsetting and riveting. The culture of war transforms people: personalities change, moral codes are subverted, values are supplanted and masks are constructed to dull the pain of what they did and didn't do in uniform. At a time when women in the military are increasingly on the frontlines, and the actions of soldiers all over the world are being questioned, this powerful film explores the ways that gender, ethics and moral responsibility intersect during war.
Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East is a group devoted to promoting education, dialog, and action with the goal of achieving a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. While a primary focus of this group is on the situation in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, we share an interest in promoting peace in the greater area, including Afghanistan and Iraq.
CMCL MA Comprehensive Exam Application Due April 8th
If you are planning to take the MA Comprehensive Exam this May, please submit your application to Kathy by 4:00 pm on Friday, April 8, 2011. The applicaiotn may be downloaded from this page.
CMCL May 2011 PhD Qualifying Exam Application Due April 8th
If you plan to take your PhD Exam this May 9-23, you must submit your exam application to Kathy by 4 pm. on April 8, 2011. The form may be downloaded from this page.
Congratulations to Jennifer Jones
Congratulations to CMCL PhD student Jennifer Jones, who has been awarded a Graduate & Professional Student Organization (GPSO) Travel Grant.
2010-2011 CMCL Spring Travel Grants
Applications are now open for CMCL travel grants for Spring 2011. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday April 1st, 2011.
Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested and distance traveled.
The Department is running its own competition in the spring, as COAS held only one Travel Award competition in the fall. The GAC will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful then, so if you were listed as an alternate in the fall, you need not re-apply now.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this spring you must complete the form that has been emailed to you. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 1st.
The GAC ranks the applications and will make 5 awards this semester. We hope to be able to announce the results by Friday, April 8th.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and may thus need your help in grasping the significance of your conference presentation. So, provide a context for your presentation. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested. Please download the form, fill it out, save it with your name, and 2011 Spring Travel Grant (ex: Kathy Teige 2011 Spring Travel Grant) as the file name. Then you may send it to me as an email attachment.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested and distance traveled.
The Department is running its own competition in the spring, as COAS held only one Travel Award competition in the fall. The GAC will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful then, so if you were listed as an alternate in the fall, you need not re-apply now.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this spring you must complete the form that has been emailed to you. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 1st.
The GAC ranks the applications and will make 5 awards this semester. We hope to be able to announce the results by Friday, April 8th.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and may thus need your help in grasping the significance of your conference presentation. So, provide a context for your presentation. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested. Please download the form, fill it out, save it with your name, and 2011 Spring Travel Grant (ex: Kathy Teige 2011 Spring Travel Grant) as the file name. Then you may send it to me as an email attachment.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Prague Summer Schools 2011
The Prague's Centre for Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP) is pleased to announce the forthcoming Prague Summer Schools 2011 on the following topics:
1. European Summer Institute on the Future of Europe: Lobbying in Brussels
2. Summer School on Crime, Law and Pscychology
3. Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe
4. Summer School on „China: a World Superpower - Myth or Reality?“
Where? Summer Schools will take place in Prague, Czech Republic
When? July 2-9, 2011
Why? The Prague Summer Schools are delivered as seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to enjoy their summer holidays in the unique academic and cultural environment.
We invite you to visit our new website www.praguesummerschools.org to discover the details about the upcoming events. The website contains a brief description about each program, admission deadlines and on-line application. It will also direct you to the separate website of the summer school of your interest for the detailed information on academic content, guidelines to application process, practicalities, photos and alumni feedback.
We also suggest students to submit their applications to Prague Summer Schools by Early Bird Application Deadline of April 29, 2011. The Final Deadline is May 13, 2011.
Should you have any questions regarding the Prague Summer Schools or application process, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Prague Summer Schools
Center for Public Policy
Vyjezdova 510
190 11 Prague 9
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 737 679 605
E-mail: info@praguesummerschools.org
1. European Summer Institute on the Future of Europe: Lobbying in Brussels
2. Summer School on Crime, Law and Pscychology
3. Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe
4. Summer School on „China: a World Superpower - Myth or Reality?“
Where? Summer Schools will take place in Prague, Czech Republic
When? July 2-9, 2011
Why? The Prague Summer Schools are delivered as seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to enjoy their summer holidays in the unique academic and cultural environment.
We invite you to visit our new website www.praguesummerschools.org to discover the details about the upcoming events. The website contains a brief description about each program, admission deadlines and on-line application. It will also direct you to the separate website of the summer school of your interest for the detailed information on academic content, guidelines to application process, practicalities, photos and alumni feedback.
We also suggest students to submit their applications to Prague Summer Schools by Early Bird Application Deadline of April 29, 2011. The Final Deadline is May 13, 2011.
Should you have any questions regarding the Prague Summer Schools or application process, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Prague Summer Schools
Center for Public Policy
Vyjezdova 510
190 11 Prague 9
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 737 679 605
E-mail: info@praguesummerschools.org
"Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage: Challenges to Abolishing Female Genital Cutting"
The Department of Anthropology and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction Present:
Ellen Gruenbaum, PhD
Chair and Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
"Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage: Challenges to Abolishing Female Genital Cutting"
Wednesday, March 23
4:00 pm
Herman B. Wells Library, Room 033 (capacity=89)
The international movement to abolish the practices known as Female Genital Cutting or FGM has made great strides in some countries by engaging communities in discussions that challenge cultural beliefs, promoting new ways of looking at traditional values, and offering more information. Yet resistance to change is strong among some social leaders. This presentation explores the strongest examples of resistance to change from recent research Ellen Gruenbaum conducted in Sudan, where FGC is embedded in cultural expectations about honor and sexuality, and Sierra Leone, where secret societies and witchcraft beliefs play key roles. An analysis and critique of policies and programs—some of which have sparked angry street demonstrations against them—is included. A key issue for the movement is how all of this fits with the economic and social well being of women and girls.
Ellen Gruenbaum is a medical anthropologist who has conducted research in Sudan and Sierra Leone on the practice of female genital cutting and the social movements against harmful traditional practices, and she has served as a research consultant for UNICEF and CARE. Dr. Gruenbaum studied Anthropology at Stanford University (AB) and the University of Connecticut (MA, PhD), and since 2008 she is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her interest in the controversies among cultural self-determination, international human rights, and women’s rights led to her past service on the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association and the boards of the Association for Feminist Anthropology and the Society for Medical Anthropology. Gruenbaum is the author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (Pennsylvania).
Ellen Gruenbaum, PhD
Chair and Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
"Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage: Challenges to Abolishing Female Genital Cutting"
Wednesday, March 23
4:00 pm
Herman B. Wells Library, Room 033 (capacity=89)
The international movement to abolish the practices known as Female Genital Cutting or FGM has made great strides in some countries by engaging communities in discussions that challenge cultural beliefs, promoting new ways of looking at traditional values, and offering more information. Yet resistance to change is strong among some social leaders. This presentation explores the strongest examples of resistance to change from recent research Ellen Gruenbaum conducted in Sudan, where FGC is embedded in cultural expectations about honor and sexuality, and Sierra Leone, where secret societies and witchcraft beliefs play key roles. An analysis and critique of policies and programs—some of which have sparked angry street demonstrations against them—is included. A key issue for the movement is how all of this fits with the economic and social well being of women and girls.
Ellen Gruenbaum is a medical anthropologist who has conducted research in Sudan and Sierra Leone on the practice of female genital cutting and the social movements against harmful traditional practices, and she has served as a research consultant for UNICEF and CARE. Dr. Gruenbaum studied Anthropology at Stanford University (AB) and the University of Connecticut (MA, PhD), and since 2008 she is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her interest in the controversies among cultural self-determination, international human rights, and women’s rights led to her past service on the Committee for Human Rights of the American Anthropological Association and the boards of the Association for Feminist Anthropology and the Society for Medical Anthropology. Gruenbaum is the author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective (Pennsylvania).
Documentary Filmmaker Stanley Nelson visits CMCL, IU on Friday
On Friday April 1 at 9:30 am, Stanley Nelson will meet with CMCL students in Room 203. Though organized originally for the production courses, I think this might be of interest to other areas in the department. Please feel free to join us and to pass on this information to your students. We will be offering some refreshments.
Later that day, Stanley Nelson will also give a public lecture at the IU Cinema at 3pm, and at 7pm he will screen his newest documentary The Freedom Riders, about young civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the South in the early 1960s. The documentary was made for PBS American Experience, where it will premiere on May 16. For more information look here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Stanley Nelson is an award winning filmmaker who has done a number of documentaries for PBS, among them Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till and Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice. He has won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, Peabody Award, Primetime Emmy, an IDA Award, and a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.
Later that day, Stanley Nelson will also give a public lecture at the IU Cinema at 3pm, and at 7pm he will screen his newest documentary The Freedom Riders, about young civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the South in the early 1960s. The documentary was made for PBS American Experience, where it will premiere on May 16. For more information look here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Stanley Nelson is an award winning filmmaker who has done a number of documentaries for PBS, among them Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till and Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice. He has won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, Peabody Award, Primetime Emmy, an IDA Award, and a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.
IU Department of English Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: "Collections and Collaborations"
The Department of English is hosting our annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled “Collections and Collaborations”
this Thursday through Saturday, March 24th to 26th. Please come and join us!
Check out the info below as well as our website, where you can find the full conference schedule:
http://www.indiana.edu/~engsac/conference/
New media—most notably Web 2.0 (and now 3.0)—have challenged us to think about our artistic creations, social spaces, and most deeply cherished beliefs along increasingly decentered, collectivist lines. Do such technologies push our creative and critical work in more collaborative directions? And given that ideas of collective fictions and culture, collaborations, adaptations, and translations exist in folk traditions, national legends, and the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere, is there anything new about collectivity or collaboration?
• Collaborative writing, storytelling, filmmaking, and performance
• Translation, adaptation, remediation
• Intertextuality, particularly across history or genre
• Museums, readings, performances, exhibitions
• The death of the author and originality
• Multiple voices/images
• Mass audiences
• New media
• Web 2.0/3.0: “crowdsourcing,” “truthiness,” and “collaboratition”
• Digital possibilities for collaborative scholarship
• Collective aesthetics
• Genre studies
• Oral and folk traditions
• National legends and myths of “national character”
• The position of the individual in relation to the collective
• Subaltern, or other imposed collective identities
• Collaborative or collectives truths and faiths
Several of our panels bridge the “critical” and “creative” in interesting and exciting ways. Come check them out!
Our keynote speakers at this year’s conference will be Jeremy Braddock from Cornell University and Ellen MacKay from our own English Department. We will also have a Creative Writer from here at IU, Cathy Bowman, presenting some of her work.
this Thursday through Saturday, March 24th to 26th. Please come and join us!
Check out the info below as well as our website, where you can find the full conference schedule:
http://www.indiana.edu/~engsac/conference/
New media—most notably Web 2.0 (and now 3.0)—have challenged us to think about our artistic creations, social spaces, and most deeply cherished beliefs along increasingly decentered, collectivist lines. Do such technologies push our creative and critical work in more collaborative directions? And given that ideas of collective fictions and culture, collaborations, adaptations, and translations exist in folk traditions, national legends, and the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere, is there anything new about collectivity or collaboration?
• Collaborative writing, storytelling, filmmaking, and performance
• Translation, adaptation, remediation
• Intertextuality, particularly across history or genre
• Museums, readings, performances, exhibitions
• The death of the author and originality
• Multiple voices/images
• Mass audiences
• New media
• Web 2.0/3.0: “crowdsourcing,” “truthiness,” and “collaboratition”
• Digital possibilities for collaborative scholarship
• Collective aesthetics
• Genre studies
• Oral and folk traditions
• National legends and myths of “national character”
• The position of the individual in relation to the collective
• Subaltern, or other imposed collective identities
• Collaborative or collectives truths and faiths
Several of our panels bridge the “critical” and “creative” in interesting and exciting ways. Come check them out!
Our keynote speakers at this year’s conference will be Jeremy Braddock from Cornell University and Ellen MacKay from our own English Department. We will also have a Creative Writer from here at IU, Cathy Bowman, presenting some of her work.
Monday, March 21, 2011
New Television-Radio Club Call Out
IU Television and Radio (IUTR) is a club for students interested in broadcasting careers. This new club will have its first call out meeting on Thursday at 6:30 pm in the Ernie Pyle Hall Library. Associate Professor Mike Conway is the faculty adviser and will be speaking at the first meeting. There will also be free pizza and pop.
This club's goal to bring ALL broadcasting students together to help find internships and we will offer peer and professor critiques on their work. We will also be having guest speakers and screenings of different broadcasting films. Anyone interested in any broadcasting career is encouraged to attend.
During the meeting input will be sought from students on what they would like to get out of this club. It's a great way to get further involved to jumpstart your career and find contacts through our alumni base. We look forward to seeing you all there!
For more information, visit:
http://journalism.indiana.edu/notices/student-broadcast-group-forming/
Organizer Brianna Smith may be contacted by email at smith806@indiana.edu
This club's goal to bring ALL broadcasting students together to help find internships and we will offer peer and professor critiques on their work. We will also be having guest speakers and screenings of different broadcasting films. Anyone interested in any broadcasting career is encouraged to attend.
During the meeting input will be sought from students on what they would like to get out of this club. It's a great way to get further involved to jumpstart your career and find contacts through our alumni base. We look forward to seeing you all there!
For more information, visit:
http://journalism.indiana.edu/notices/student-broadcast-group-forming/
Organizer Brianna Smith may be contacted by email at smith806@indiana.edu
TLTC becomes CITL
This is the FINAL TLTC FRIENDS Announcement
Thank you for following the TLTC Friends announcements. We wanted to send you one last message from this list to tell you about some changes in the way we will support your instructional technology use in the future. This past August, TLTC became part of the new Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), joining with colleagues from other instructional support units across the IU Bloomington campus. As part of this merging of services, announcements about instructional technology workshops and support will now come through the monthly CITL newsletter, so please look for e-mail coming from CITL near the start of each month. If you have not yet received a CITL newsletter and would like to subscribe, please send an email to citl@indiana.edu. For more information about CITL and how it can support your teaching, see http://citl.indiana.edu.
MARCH WORKSHOP REMINDERS
3/25 - Creating Online Content and Activities: SoftChalk Lesson Builder and Oncourse Modules Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Wells Library, 305 West Tower Register Here (https://webdb.iu.edu/tltc/scheduler.cfm?sch=TIS)
Get hands-on experience with tools for building web pages (without knowledge of HTML) that guide students through the readings, presentations, activities, assignments, tests and quizzes for the course. Modules is part of Oncourse and uses the familiar WYSIWYG text-editor to bring together text, images, and links to other resources. SoftChalk Lesson Builder allows you to create course lessons or modules that include all of the above, plus simple interactive pieces such as quizzes, flash cards, drag-and-drop exercises, etc. You can even embed Adobe Presenter or Captivate pieces, and YouTube videos.
Both tools automatically build navigation from page-to-page.
3/31 - Clickers: Question-Writing Workshop Thursday, March 31, 9:30-11:00 AM; NOTE: RESCHEDULED from 3/24 to 3/31, Wells Library, 305 West Tower Register Here (https://webdb.iu.edu/tltc/scheduler.cfm?sch=TIS)
Successful clicker use depends on having clicker questions that match your instructional goals, such as promoting discussion, uncovering misconceptions, assessing conceptual understanding, or making students aware of others' views. In this hands-on workshop you will learn some best practices for writing questions and then apply those ideas by writing and revising your own questions with the help of CITL staff and your peers. This workshop is designed for instructors who are currently using or who are familiar with using clickers in their classes.
CITL staff attend retreat on THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH
Ballantine Hall 307 will be open normal hours 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wells Library, 305 West Tower will be open 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM The TRC in Ballantine Hall will be closed for the day.
See a listing of all of the CITL events on our new web
page: http://citl.indiana.edu/events/index.php
To contact the CITL, please send an email to citl@indiana.edu or call 855-9023.
From Greg Siering and the rest of the CITL staff
Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers A service of University Information Technology Services Herman B Wells Library 305 West & Ballantine Hall 307
812.855.7829 * http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc/
Thank you for following the TLTC Friends announcements. We wanted to send you one last message from this list to tell you about some changes in the way we will support your instructional technology use in the future. This past August, TLTC became part of the new Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), joining with colleagues from other instructional support units across the IU Bloomington campus. As part of this merging of services, announcements about instructional technology workshops and support will now come through the monthly CITL newsletter, so please look for e-mail coming from CITL near the start of each month. If you have not yet received a CITL newsletter and would like to subscribe, please send an email to citl@indiana.edu. For more information about CITL and how it can support your teaching, see http://citl.indiana.edu.
MARCH WORKSHOP REMINDERS
3/25 - Creating Online Content and Activities: SoftChalk Lesson Builder and Oncourse Modules Friday, March 25, 2011, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Wells Library, 305 West Tower Register Here (https://webdb.iu.edu/tltc/scheduler.cfm?sch=TIS)
Get hands-on experience with tools for building web pages (without knowledge of HTML) that guide students through the readings, presentations, activities, assignments, tests and quizzes for the course. Modules is part of Oncourse and uses the familiar WYSIWYG text-editor to bring together text, images, and links to other resources. SoftChalk Lesson Builder allows you to create course lessons or modules that include all of the above, plus simple interactive pieces such as quizzes, flash cards, drag-and-drop exercises, etc. You can even embed Adobe Presenter or Captivate pieces, and YouTube videos.
Both tools automatically build navigation from page-to-page.
3/31 - Clickers: Question-Writing Workshop Thursday, March 31, 9:30-11:00 AM; NOTE: RESCHEDULED from 3/24 to 3/31, Wells Library, 305 West Tower Register Here (https://webdb.iu.edu/tltc/scheduler.cfm?sch=TIS)
Successful clicker use depends on having clicker questions that match your instructional goals, such as promoting discussion, uncovering misconceptions, assessing conceptual understanding, or making students aware of others' views. In this hands-on workshop you will learn some best practices for writing questions and then apply those ideas by writing and revising your own questions with the help of CITL staff and your peers. This workshop is designed for instructors who are currently using or who are familiar with using clickers in their classes.
CITL staff attend retreat on THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH
Ballantine Hall 307 will be open normal hours 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wells Library, 305 West Tower will be open 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM The TRC in Ballantine Hall will be closed for the day.
See a listing of all of the CITL events on our new web
page: http://citl.indiana.edu/events/index.php
To contact the CITL, please send an email to citl@indiana.edu or call 855-9023.
From Greg Siering and the rest of the CITL staff
Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers A service of University Information Technology Services Herman B Wells Library 305 West & Ballantine Hall 307
812.855.7829 * http://www.indiana.edu/~tltc/
Czech Film Series for 2011
"Run Waiter, Run!" directed by Ladislav Smoljak
Wednesday March 23
7:00 pm
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.
Wednesday March 23
7:00 pm
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.
Department of Telecommunications Colloquium - Public Attention in an Age of Digital Media
Date: Friday, March 25
Time: 12:30
Place: RTV 245 (Note room Change)
Speaker: James G. Webster
Abstract:
Digital media offer countless options that compete for a limited supply of public attention. Identifying the forces that shape media use in this environment can inform our understanding of the new “attention economy.” In this talk I consider different ways to explain media use and offer an integrated model of public attention based on the notion of structuration. I report the results of a recent study that applied network analysis metrics to Nielsen data on television and internet use. These shed light on the nature of audience fragmentation and whether such “long tail” distributions can be taken as evidence of social polarization. I conclude with a discussion of niches, enclaves, and the persistence of popularity.
Speaker Biography:
James G. Webster (PhD 1980, Indiana) is a Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He studies audience behavior and patterns of media consumption across digital platforms. Secondary areas of interest are audience measurement, media industries, and the social impact of new media. He is the author of Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media and the Journal of Communication. He has been a consultant to Nielsen, Arbitron, Initiative Media, and the Rudd Center at Yale University.
Time: 12:30
Place: RTV 245 (Note room Change)
Speaker: James G. Webster
Abstract:
Digital media offer countless options that compete for a limited supply of public attention. Identifying the forces that shape media use in this environment can inform our understanding of the new “attention economy.” In this talk I consider different ways to explain media use and offer an integrated model of public attention based on the notion of structuration. I report the results of a recent study that applied network analysis metrics to Nielsen data on television and internet use. These shed light on the nature of audience fragmentation and whether such “long tail” distributions can be taken as evidence of social polarization. I conclude with a discussion of niches, enclaves, and the persistence of popularity.
Speaker Biography:
James G. Webster (PhD 1980, Indiana) is a Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He studies audience behavior and patterns of media consumption across digital platforms. Secondary areas of interest are audience measurement, media industries, and the social impact of new media. He is the author of Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media and the Journal of Communication. He has been a consultant to Nielsen, Arbitron, Initiative Media, and the Rudd Center at Yale University.
IU Art History - 21st Annual Graduate Student Symposium
Departed: Memory, Absence, and Devotion in Art History and Visual Culture
Saturday, March 26th
9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.
featuring noted art historian, Dr. Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame, as our keynote speaker! Her talk is titled “Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America.”
We will also be hosting 6 graduate student speakers from across the U.S. to share their varied, stimulating interpretations of this topic. Death, skeletons, ghosts, gravestones, revolt imagery, and memories of the past will all be discussed!
Please contact Christiane Wisehart at cwisehar@indiana.edu if you have any questions. The Symposium schedule is included below:
MORNING SESSION:
9:00: Breakfast Reception outside Room 102
9:30: Opening Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association
9:45: Brenna Graham, Remembering Tragedy and Grief: The Death of Francesca Pitti Tornabuoni
10:15: Valerie C. Palazzolo, Death and the Physician: Andreas Vesalius’ Animated Skeletons as Sites of Memorialization
10:45: Matthew Lincoln, Histories of Revolt in the Church Interior Paintings of Emanuel de Witte
11:15: Panel Discussion led by Dr. Sarah Burns
12:00: Lunch at SoFA Gallery
AFTERNOON SESSION:
1:30: Susan Lockwood, A House Divided: The Evolution of Jewish Gravestone Motifs: Contrasts and Similarities in the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Contexts
2:00: Lucy K. H. Traverse, From the Gossamer to the Grotesque: Materializing Spirits and Re-membering the Dead In Fin-de-siècle Ectoplasm Photography
2:30: Amanda Valla Dilla, Redefining Progress Through Fragments of the Past: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Jigsaw Puzzles, 1987-1992
3:00: Panel Discussion led by Dr.Sarah Burns
4:00: Dr.Erika Doss, Keynote Lecture: Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
5:30: Closing Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association
Reception: 6:00 pm in the Federal Room at the Indiana Memorial Union
Saturday, March 26th
9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.
featuring noted art historian, Dr. Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame, as our keynote speaker! Her talk is titled “Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America.”
We will also be hosting 6 graduate student speakers from across the U.S. to share their varied, stimulating interpretations of this topic. Death, skeletons, ghosts, gravestones, revolt imagery, and memories of the past will all be discussed!
Please contact Christiane Wisehart at cwisehar@indiana.edu if you have any questions. The Symposium schedule is included below:
MORNING SESSION:
9:00: Breakfast Reception outside Room 102
9:30: Opening Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association
9:45: Brenna Graham, Remembering Tragedy and Grief: The Death of Francesca Pitti Tornabuoni
10:15: Valerie C. Palazzolo, Death and the Physician: Andreas Vesalius’ Animated Skeletons as Sites of Memorialization
10:45: Matthew Lincoln, Histories of Revolt in the Church Interior Paintings of Emanuel de Witte
11:15: Panel Discussion led by Dr. Sarah Burns
12:00: Lunch at SoFA Gallery
AFTERNOON SESSION:
1:30: Susan Lockwood, A House Divided: The Evolution of Jewish Gravestone Motifs: Contrasts and Similarities in the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Contexts
2:00: Lucy K. H. Traverse, From the Gossamer to the Grotesque: Materializing Spirits and Re-membering the Dead In Fin-de-siècle Ectoplasm Photography
2:30: Amanda Valla Dilla, Redefining Progress Through Fragments of the Past: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Jigsaw Puzzles, 1987-1992
3:00: Panel Discussion led by Dr.Sarah Burns
4:00: Dr.Erika Doss, Keynote Lecture: Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
5:30: Closing Remarks, Co-President, Art History Association
Reception: 6:00 pm in the Federal Room at the Indiana Memorial Union
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics - How Americans Think About China: Do the Media Matter?
Speaker: Lars Willnat and Emily Metzgar, School of Journalism, IUB
Topic: How Americans Think About China: Do the Media Matter?
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011
Time: 1:45-3:00pm
Place: Rm. #001 Wells Library (SLIS)
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee, available at 1:30pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate students following the talk.
Abstract:
Based on a representative online survey of 1,012 adult Americans conducted in February 2011, we will investigate whether exposure to news about China is associated with the way people think about China.
Our presentation will first focus on perceptions of China as an emerging political and economic competitor of the United States, how Americans think about China and the Chinese people overall, and how much people actually know about China. We will then analyze the potential relationship between these perceptions and respondents’
exposure to various types of news. While the analysis of our data is not complete, we expect to find that respondents with more exposure to news about China have a more positive image of China and the Chinese people in general.
Biographical Sketches:
Lars Willnat is Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana University. Before joining IU in 2009, Professor Willnat taught at the George Washington University in Washington, DC and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests include media effects on political attitudes, theoretical aspects of public opinion formation, and international communication. He has published book chapters and articles in journalism, mass communication, political communication, and public opinion.
Email: lwillnat@indiana.edu
Emily Metzgar is Assistant Professor at Indiana University's School of Journalism. Her research focuses on public diplomacy, political communication and social media. A former U.S. diplomat with additional experience at the National Defense University and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and International Herald Tribune.
Email: emetzgar@indiana.edu.
The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is supported by the School of Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, and Kelley School of Business.
Topic: How Americans Think About China: Do the Media Matter?
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011
Time: 1:45-3:00pm
Place: Rm. #001 Wells Library (SLIS)
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee, available at 1:30pm. There will be an informal meeting with graduate students following the talk.
Abstract:
Based on a representative online survey of 1,012 adult Americans conducted in February 2011, we will investigate whether exposure to news about China is associated with the way people think about China.
Our presentation will first focus on perceptions of China as an emerging political and economic competitor of the United States, how Americans think about China and the Chinese people overall, and how much people actually know about China. We will then analyze the potential relationship between these perceptions and respondents’
exposure to various types of news. While the analysis of our data is not complete, we expect to find that respondents with more exposure to news about China have a more positive image of China and the Chinese people in general.
Biographical Sketches:
Lars Willnat is Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana University. Before joining IU in 2009, Professor Willnat taught at the George Washington University in Washington, DC and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His teaching and research interests include media effects on political attitudes, theoretical aspects of public opinion formation, and international communication. He has published book chapters and articles in journalism, mass communication, political communication, and public opinion.
Email: lwillnat@indiana.edu
Emily Metzgar is Assistant Professor at Indiana University's School of Journalism. Her research focuses on public diplomacy, political communication and social media. A former U.S. diplomat with additional experience at the National Defense University and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and International Herald Tribune.
Email: emetzgar@indiana.edu.
The Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics is supported by the School of Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing, and Kelley School of Business.
Afghanistan and South Asia: Implications for Global and Regional Security
Featuring:
Rajendra Abhyankar, Diplomat-in-Residence at the Center for American and Global Security
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Department of Political Science
Tuesday, March 22nd
5:30-7pm
Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union
In the 1990’s, President Clinton prophetically characterized South Asia as ‘the most dangerous place on earth’. The fall-out of the US war on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is framed by the enduring rivalry between the two largest states of the region, India and Pakistan, which became declared nuclear powers in 1998. Additionally, the last decade has seen an increase in the profiles of Iran, China, Japan and Western powers in the region. The looming dangers include conflicts arising from huge, diverse and poor populations, imperfect borders, water disputes, proliferation of radical Islamic groups wedded to terror, military proliferation and the absence of a regional construct for stabilizing Afghanistan.
The effects of US policy on the pace of its military draw-down coupled with governmental transition in Afghanistan poses a major challenge to countries in the region and will determine its future security.
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[i] Rajendra Abhyankar also is Chairman of the Kunzru Centre for Defence Study and Research, Pune. A former diplomat, he was Indian Ambassador to Syria, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the EU, and served as Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs with responsibility for Asia, North Africa, and Oceania. From 2006 to 2008 he was Director of the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Rajendra Abhyankar, Diplomat-in-Residence at the Center for American and Global Security
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Department of Political Science
Tuesday, March 22nd
5:30-7pm
Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union
In the 1990’s, President Clinton prophetically characterized South Asia as ‘the most dangerous place on earth’. The fall-out of the US war on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan is framed by the enduring rivalry between the two largest states of the region, India and Pakistan, which became declared nuclear powers in 1998. Additionally, the last decade has seen an increase in the profiles of Iran, China, Japan and Western powers in the region. The looming dangers include conflicts arising from huge, diverse and poor populations, imperfect borders, water disputes, proliferation of radical Islamic groups wedded to terror, military proliferation and the absence of a regional construct for stabilizing Afghanistan.
The effects of US policy on the pace of its military draw-down coupled with governmental transition in Afghanistan poses a major challenge to countries in the region and will determine its future security.
________________________________________
[i] Rajendra Abhyankar also is Chairman of the Kunzru Centre for Defence Study and Research, Pune. A former diplomat, he was Indian Ambassador to Syria, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the EU, and served as Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs with responsibility for Asia, North Africa, and Oceania. From 2006 to 2008 he was Director of the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
School of Journalism Research Colloquium: "Is The Steroids Era Over? ESPN Coverage and Adolescent Steroid Use"
ChangHee Choi, School of Journalism Doctoral Candidate
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge, (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
Synopsis:
Employing a framing analysis, this study investigates the content of the steroids-related articles from the most popular sports website, ESPN.com. Additionally, this project looks at the potential impact that the frames in the sports articles could have on increasing intention/behavior of adolescent steroid use, and the potential for chronic and dangerous steroid abuse.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
4pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge, (2nd Floor) Ernie Pyle Hall
Synopsis:
Employing a framing analysis, this study investigates the content of the steroids-related articles from the most popular sports website, ESPN.com. Additionally, this project looks at the potential impact that the frames in the sports articles could have on increasing intention/behavior of adolescent steroid use, and the potential for chronic and dangerous steroid abuse.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
J. Jeffrey Auer Lecture - Communicative Capitalism: This is what democracy looks like?”
March 24, 2011
Swain West 007
7:00 PM
Department of Communication and Culture
TWENTY-EIGTH ANNUAL
J. JEFFERY AUER LECTURE
by Jodi Dean
Are social networks like Twitter and Facebook powerful forces for egalitarian people's struggles? Or are they distractions that ultimately undermine collective power even as they enhance democracy? In her lecture, Jodi Dean will present her idea of communicative capitalism, explaining how new media realize democracy and thus point us to the limits of democracy for radical politics.
Reception Immediately Following
Classroom Office Building
800 E. Third Street
2nd Floor Lobby
Swain West 007
7:00 PM
Department of Communication and Culture
TWENTY-EIGTH ANNUAL
J. JEFFERY AUER LECTURE
by Jodi Dean
Are social networks like Twitter and Facebook powerful forces for egalitarian people's struggles? Or are they distractions that ultimately undermine collective power even as they enhance democracy? In her lecture, Jodi Dean will present her idea of communicative capitalism, explaining how new media realize democracy and thus point us to the limits of democracy for radical politics.
Reception Immediately Following
Classroom Office Building
800 E. Third Street
2nd Floor Lobby
Friday, March 11, 2011
CMCL Grad Students in Fall 2010 Issue of The Moving Image
The Fall 2010 issue of The Moving Image, the Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Includes an article by Travis Vogan on the NFL Films archive and an extended interview by Amanda Keeler conducted with educational filmmaker Thomas G. Smith.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
African Film Series - The Desert Ark
Monroe County Public Library Auditorium
THURSDAY MARCH 31, 2011
6:30—8:30 PM
Mohamed Chouikh directs this compelling Romeo and Juliet-esque drama about young lovers, Amin and Myriam, whose families are on opposing sides in a deadly conflict in Algeria. With fresh hostility now directed at them because of their love, the two flee to a secret refuge in the desert, where they hope the cycle of violence and retribution will pass them by.
THURSDAY MARCH 31, 2011
6:30—8:30 PM
Mohamed Chouikh directs this compelling Romeo and Juliet-esque drama about young lovers, Amin and Myriam, whose families are on opposing sides in a deadly conflict in Algeria. With fresh hostility now directed at them because of their love, the two flee to a secret refuge in the desert, where they hope the cycle of violence and retribution will pass them by.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
African Modernity and Identity in the Era of New Media
2011 Symposium Schedule: Saturday, April 2, 2011
8:30-9:15
Registration & Breakfast, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library lobby
9:30-11:30
Welcome and
Panel 1, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library
Rudo Mudia, Indiana University, Communication and Culture
“You Won’t See Me in Your History Books: The Performance and Mediation of Zimbabwean Identity in the Work of Comrade Fatso”
Kristofer Olsen, Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts
“Takai on YouTube: What Effect Does New Media Have on Traditional Ghanaian Musical Creativity?”
Carinna Friesen, Indiana University, Ethnomusicology
“Internet, iTunes and Rap: The role of music, globalization and technology in the construction of identity among West African Canadians”
11:30-1:30
Lunch, School of Fine Arts (SOFA) Gallery
1:30-2:30
Panel 2, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library
Hans Aschim, University of Wisconsin Madison, Journalism and Public Health
“The BBC Effect in the Global Village: Africa”
John Hames, University of Florida, Anthropology
“Pulaar Online: Language Promotion, the Internet, and the Creation of a Common Front”
3:00-4:15
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Victoria Bernal, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine, followed by Closing Remarks
4:15-5:30
Reception, Woodburn Hall 200, outside the Political Science Library
Sponsored by the following Departments & Programs at Indiana University - Bloomington:
African Studies Program, Office of the Vice President of International Affairs, Communications & Culture, Anthropology, Comparative Literature,English, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Political Science, Department of History, School of Library & Information Science
8:30-9:15
Registration & Breakfast, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library lobby
9:30-11:30
Welcome and
Panel 1, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library
Rudo Mudia, Indiana University, Communication and Culture
“You Won’t See Me in Your History Books: The Performance and Mediation of Zimbabwean Identity in the Work of Comrade Fatso”
Kristofer Olsen, Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts
“Takai on YouTube: What Effect Does New Media Have on Traditional Ghanaian Musical Creativity?”
Carinna Friesen, Indiana University, Ethnomusicology
“Internet, iTunes and Rap: The role of music, globalization and technology in the construction of identity among West African Canadians”
11:30-1:30
Lunch, School of Fine Arts (SOFA) Gallery
1:30-2:30
Panel 2, Woodburn Hall 200, Political Science Library
Hans Aschim, University of Wisconsin Madison, Journalism and Public Health
“The BBC Effect in the Global Village: Africa”
John Hames, University of Florida, Anthropology
“Pulaar Online: Language Promotion, the Internet, and the Creation of a Common Front”
3:00-4:15
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Victoria Bernal, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine, followed by Closing Remarks
4:15-5:30
Reception, Woodburn Hall 200, outside the Political Science Library
Sponsored by the following Departments & Programs at Indiana University - Bloomington:
African Studies Program, Office of the Vice President of International Affairs, Communications & Culture, Anthropology, Comparative Literature,English, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Political Science, Department of History, School of Library & Information Science
Summer Teaching Opportunities!
The Student Academic Center is accepting applications for teaching positions during Summer II for X153 Critical Reading & Reasoning for New College Students as part of the GROUPS program. Preference will be given to graduate students at the doctoral level.
Applications available at: http://sac.indiana.edu/
Please send direct inquiries to Chip Frederick at crfreder@indiana.edu
Applications available at: http://sac.indiana.edu/
Please send direct inquiries to Chip Frederick at crfreder@indiana.edu
Dearly Departed: Memory, Absence and Devotion in Art History and Visual Culture
Join us for short presentations and discussions led by graduate students from the Art History Department, Indiana University. Interactive talks will present images and ideas as jumping off points for conversation. Please drop in.
6:30-9 p.m., Thursday, March 10
Monroe County Public Library
Program Room 2B, Second Floor
TOPICS FOR THE EVENING:
Wit, Moral Expectation, and the Erotics of Interpretation by Haohao Lu
This presentation investigates La Volupté et la Mort, an ivory statuette depicting a nude woman and a skeletal figure standing back-to-back; the relief on the base depicts a Garden of Love. This object is unusual in its combination of courtly
love, Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), and the notion Stultorum numerus infinitus (Infinite is the number of fools).
“She, Given the Extolled Quill”: The Representation of Female Power in the Visual Legacy of Shajar al-Durr by Olivia Wolf
While the reign of Shajar al-Durr was brief, it is imperative to consider the visual evidence left behind from the reign of this medieval sultana. By examining the calligraphic and architectural material that remains in her coinage and
mausoleum, I hope to demonstrate that Shajar al-Durr’s reign projected a unique vision of female authority.
The Blossoming of Folk Art Connoisseurship in America by Emilee Mathews In the 1920s and 1930s, folk art suddenly became a fashionable genre to collect, and was sold in galleries alongside avantgarde European-influenced art. This talk will follow the development of this collecting trend, concentrating on important figures like Holger Cahill and Edith Halpert, who were instrumental in popularizing folk art while creating formal connections to modern art.
Memorial Symbolism in Stuart Davis’s ‘Mural’ by Erin Pauwels
Stuart Davis’s mural, Men without Women, was completed in 1932 for the men’s smoking
lounge of Radio City Music Hall. While this painting is usually interpreted as a celebration of mainstream masculine society, this presentation argues that the symbols actually had personal meaning for Davis, and can be read as a coded memorial to his wife Bessie and best friend Glenn Coleman, both of whom died suddenly while the work was underway.
6:30-9 p.m., Thursday, March 10
Monroe County Public Library
Program Room 2B, Second Floor
TOPICS FOR THE EVENING:
Wit, Moral Expectation, and the Erotics of Interpretation by Haohao Lu
This presentation investigates La Volupté et la Mort, an ivory statuette depicting a nude woman and a skeletal figure standing back-to-back; the relief on the base depicts a Garden of Love. This object is unusual in its combination of courtly
love, Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), and the notion Stultorum numerus infinitus (Infinite is the number of fools).
“She, Given the Extolled Quill”: The Representation of Female Power in the Visual Legacy of Shajar al-Durr by Olivia Wolf
While the reign of Shajar al-Durr was brief, it is imperative to consider the visual evidence left behind from the reign of this medieval sultana. By examining the calligraphic and architectural material that remains in her coinage and
mausoleum, I hope to demonstrate that Shajar al-Durr’s reign projected a unique vision of female authority.
The Blossoming of Folk Art Connoisseurship in America by Emilee Mathews In the 1920s and 1930s, folk art suddenly became a fashionable genre to collect, and was sold in galleries alongside avantgarde European-influenced art. This talk will follow the development of this collecting trend, concentrating on important figures like Holger Cahill and Edith Halpert, who were instrumental in popularizing folk art while creating formal connections to modern art.
Memorial Symbolism in Stuart Davis’s ‘Mural’ by Erin Pauwels
Stuart Davis’s mural, Men without Women, was completed in 1932 for the men’s smoking
lounge of Radio City Music Hall. While this painting is usually interpreted as a celebration of mainstream masculine society, this presentation argues that the symbols actually had personal meaning for Davis, and can be read as a coded memorial to his wife Bessie and best friend Glenn Coleman, both of whom died suddenly while the work was underway.
2010-2011 Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Research Colloquium Series: The Aesthetics of Fear
The Legacy of a Pious Trickster: Incorporating the Christian Other in a Muslim Saint’s Festival
By Cassandra Chambliss
Friday, March 11th
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Performance & Lecture Hall
800 N. Indiana Ave.
The festival of Abul Hajjaj in Luxor, Egypt, is an expression of Muslim and Hajjaji piety and a commemoration of the taking of Luxor by Yusuf Abul Hajjaj in the 13th century. Through annual re-enactments of the Muslim saint's clever besting of Luxor's Christian queen, it also offers an important window into the tensions and engagements between the Hajjaji community and the Christian Other.
Based on my dissertation research on the role of these performances in the constitution of ethical practice in the Muslim community, this talk will address how the public performance of Muslim rituals reflects Muslims' relationships to the Christian community, and gives them ways to manage the problematic Christian body buried under the mosque. In light of the 2011 revolution and continuing protests throughout Egypt, this work also suggests patterns of exclusion and desertion in the ritual use of public space that have not yet been challenged by recent, unprecedented activities in Tahrir Square.
Cassandra Chambliss is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology and has spent seven years studying and conducting research in Egypt. Her dissertation on the festival of Abul Hajjaj is part of a larger examination of the relationships between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, particularly as expressed in the complex traditions of saint veneration in both faith communities. Her research interests include cultural performance, festival, verbal arts, slaughtering and animal husbandry, Sufism, Coptic culture, and the American South.
By Cassandra Chambliss
Friday, March 11th
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Performance & Lecture Hall
800 N. Indiana Ave.
The festival of Abul Hajjaj in Luxor, Egypt, is an expression of Muslim and Hajjaji piety and a commemoration of the taking of Luxor by Yusuf Abul Hajjaj in the 13th century. Through annual re-enactments of the Muslim saint's clever besting of Luxor's Christian queen, it also offers an important window into the tensions and engagements between the Hajjaji community and the Christian Other.
Based on my dissertation research on the role of these performances in the constitution of ethical practice in the Muslim community, this talk will address how the public performance of Muslim rituals reflects Muslims' relationships to the Christian community, and gives them ways to manage the problematic Christian body buried under the mosque. In light of the 2011 revolution and continuing protests throughout Egypt, this work also suggests patterns of exclusion and desertion in the ritual use of public space that have not yet been challenged by recent, unprecedented activities in Tahrir Square.
Cassandra Chambliss is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology and has spent seven years studying and conducting research in Egypt. Her dissertation on the festival of Abul Hajjaj is part of a larger examination of the relationships between Muslims and Christians in Egypt, particularly as expressed in the complex traditions of saint veneration in both faith communities. Her research interests include cultural performance, festival, verbal arts, slaughtering and animal husbandry, Sufism, Coptic culture, and the American South.
HOLI HAI Celebration
The IU Asian Culture Center, Indian Students Association, Delta Phi Omega Sorority, Inc., and Sigma Beta Rho Fraternity are sponsoring a Holi celebration at Dunn Meadow on March 25th at 4:00 pm.
We would like to invite you to this FREE event to enjoy ethnic cuisine, watch performances, henna, and a COLOR FIGHT! Mark your calendars and don't forget to wear something you don't mind getting color on! And yes, FREE FOOD!!!
If it rains, the celebration will be held at the IU Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th street with indoor activities and games.
For more information please contact acc@indiana.edu
We would like to invite you to this FREE event to enjoy ethnic cuisine, watch performances, henna, and a COLOR FIGHT! Mark your calendars and don't forget to wear something you don't mind getting color on! And yes, FREE FOOD!!!
If it rains, the celebration will be held at the IU Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th street with indoor activities and games.
For more information please contact acc@indiana.edu
India Studies I-100 Introduction to India Film Series
Everyone is welcome to the Spring 2011 film series in conjunction with the new “core course,” I-100, Introduction to India. Movies start promptly at 7:15 every Wednesday evening.
Wednesdays, 7:15, Ballantine Hall 310
All films have English subtitles
March 9 - “Earth” (Deepa Mehta, 1998; 110 minutes)
March 16 - “The Home and the World” (Satyajit Ray, 1984; 140 minutes)
March 30 - “Gandhi” (Richard Attenborough, 1982; 190 minutes)
April 6 - “Mughal-e-Azam” (K. Asif, 1960; 173 minutes)
April 13 - “Veer Zaara” (Yash Chopra, 2004; 192 minutes)
April 20 - “Welcome to Sajjanpur” (Shyam Benegal, 2008; 133 minutes)
April 27 - “The Namesake” (Mira Nair, 2006; 122 minutes)
Wednesdays, 7:15, Ballantine Hall 310
All films have English subtitles
March 9 - “Earth” (Deepa Mehta, 1998; 110 minutes)
March 16 - “The Home and the World” (Satyajit Ray, 1984; 140 minutes)
March 30 - “Gandhi” (Richard Attenborough, 1982; 190 minutes)
April 6 - “Mughal-e-Azam” (K. Asif, 1960; 173 minutes)
April 13 - “Veer Zaara” (Yash Chopra, 2004; 192 minutes)
April 20 - “Welcome to Sajjanpur” (Shyam Benegal, 2008; 133 minutes)
April 27 - “The Namesake” (Mira Nair, 2006; 122 minutes)
Friday, March 4, 2011
CMCL Reception at SCMS
Department of Communication and Culture Hosting Reception at SCMS
Friday, March 11 from 6-8 pm
Ritz-Carlton Broadmoor Room-Level One
Food and Drinks
Please spread the word.
Friday, March 11 from 6-8 pm
Ritz-Carlton Broadmoor Room-Level One
Food and Drinks
Please spread the word.
CMCL Colloquium Today!
Classroom Office Building, room 100
4-5 p.m.
The Secret (Research ) Lives of Faculty
Joan Hawkins, Robert Terrill, and Jane Goodman share their current research and discuss how research inform their teaching.
4-5 p.m.
The Secret (Research ) Lives of Faculty
Joan Hawkins, Robert Terrill, and Jane Goodman share their current research and discuss how research inform their teaching.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: Alex Chávez
Co-sponsored by: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Alex Chávez, Ph.D.
!Vamos a Da’ Las! (Let’s Go to Dallas!): Transborder Geographies of Illegality in Mexican Speech Play
Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102
This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico.
Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.
For Additional Information:
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-0043.
Alex Chávez, Ph.D.
!Vamos a Da’ Las! (Let’s Go to Dallas!): Transborder Geographies of Illegality in Mexican Speech Play
Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102
This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico.
Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.
For Additional Information:
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-0043.
Post Doc: Faculty of Humanities at Umeå University
The Faculty of Humanities at Umeå University is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to be placed at the Department of Culture and Media Studies. The researcher will conduct studies relating to the continuities between participatory culture and civic engagement. As such, qualified candidates should be aware of current research trends in digital culture, new media, online activism, web and citizen journalism, and fan studies, and should be ready to apply that knowledge to case study research.
The media landscape of today is characterized by active audiences that increasingly take control over the flows of communication. Through social media, new spaces for engagement and for the creation of user-created content are formed. Audiences now act back more and more upon the content that is presented to them from traditional institutions in politics, journalism and culture. Hybrid media places become the springboard for new forms of social movements as well as more or less individualized expressions that challenge the previously established boundaries and cultural contracts of the public sphere.
The postdoctoral researcher will have earned an advanced degree and should have conducted previous qualitative research in one or more of the above listed areas. Successful candidates must be able to work independently and apply knowledge of domestic and international participatory cultures and civic action to the development of innovative analyses and models of civic learning and identity.
The position will also be affiliated with the Media Places research program at HUMlab (Umeå University) and particularly to the research theme Media Places as Hybrid Practice and Representation. Within this theme, analyses are carried out of how physical, digital and symbolic properties of our lived experience come together in rich media places, and how hybrid practices and representations develop. The research carried out by this post doc, in the field of participatory media and activism, will function as part of this wider framework, and the post doc will also be able to gain from collaboration and exchange with other researchers within the program.
Applicants must have taken their doctorate within the last three years and not have already held a postdoctoral position.
For further information about the position, please contact Professor Simon Lindgren, simon.lindgren@soc.umu.se, phone number +46 90 786 95 19.
Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65, SEKO, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.
Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format. Your complete application, marked with reference number 315-150-11, should be sent to jobb@umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive March 21, 2011 at the latest.
On the Links menu at: https://sites.google.com/site/kathyteige/post-doctoralpostions
The media landscape of today is characterized by active audiences that increasingly take control over the flows of communication. Through social media, new spaces for engagement and for the creation of user-created content are formed. Audiences now act back more and more upon the content that is presented to them from traditional institutions in politics, journalism and culture. Hybrid media places become the springboard for new forms of social movements as well as more or less individualized expressions that challenge the previously established boundaries and cultural contracts of the public sphere.
The postdoctoral researcher will have earned an advanced degree and should have conducted previous qualitative research in one or more of the above listed areas. Successful candidates must be able to work independently and apply knowledge of domestic and international participatory cultures and civic action to the development of innovative analyses and models of civic learning and identity.
The position will also be affiliated with the Media Places research program at HUMlab (Umeå University) and particularly to the research theme Media Places as Hybrid Practice and Representation. Within this theme, analyses are carried out of how physical, digital and symbolic properties of our lived experience come together in rich media places, and how hybrid practices and representations develop. The research carried out by this post doc, in the field of participatory media and activism, will function as part of this wider framework, and the post doc will also be able to gain from collaboration and exchange with other researchers within the program.
Applicants must have taken their doctorate within the last three years and not have already held a postdoctoral position.
For further information about the position, please contact Professor Simon Lindgren, simon.lindgren@soc.umu.se, phone number +46 90 786 95 19.
Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65, SEKO, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.
Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format. Your complete application, marked with reference number 315-150-11, should be sent to jobb@umu.se (state the reference number as subject) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive March 21, 2011 at the latest.
On the Links menu at: https://sites.google.com/site/kathyteige/post-doctoralpostions
CFP - (Dis)locating Queer: Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas
CALL FOR PAPERS/PERFORMANCES
deadline for proposals March 15
(Dis)locating Queer: Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas
A Graduate Conference at the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
May 5‐7, 2011
Keynote speaker: Eithne Luibhéid
Associate Professor, Gender & Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (U of Minnesota Press, 2002) and co‐editor of Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (U of Minnesota Press, 2005).
This is an exciting time for work at the intersections of Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, and studies of region. "Queer" continues to be a critical location for agency and activism. However, those who undertake Queer Studies must also be conscious about uncritically endorsing racialized, spacialized, and classed norms while striving for a deeper understanding of intersectionality. In contemplating the potential to "queer" the study of race, region and sexual diaspora we intend to challenge assumptions that undergird the construction of nationhood, race, migrations, community, settlement(s), and locality.
(Dis)locating Queer invites presentations that queer the analysis of race, region, and sexual diaspora and which unsettle racial, regional, and diasporic assumptions within queer studies. We seek presentations that investigate these intersecting lines of inquiry, asking what queer does rather than what “queer” is.
We encourage submissions organized around one or more of the following themes, but
welcome presentations that use other rubrics to address the topic of race, region, and sexual diasporas:
‐Race/citizenship
‐Region/location
‐Movement/diaspora
‐Academy/activism
We invite proposals for panels, paper presentations, and artistic performances. The final day of the conference will be devoted to seminars on pre‐circulated papers.
Please indicate in your abstract if you would be interested in submitting your work early for a seminar. It is possible to both present a paper and participate in the seminar. We are eager to receive submissions from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
Guidelines:
‐‐ Panel proposals must include a title and a panel abstract not to exceed 500 words. Each panelist must submit a one page CV with the panel proposal.
‐‐ Individual papers must include an abstract (250 words maximum) and one page CV
‐‐ Please submit all materials electronically to dislocatingqueer@gmail.com by March 15, 2011.
We look forward to submissions that are insightful, creative, and challenging, and we hope to host a truly interactive, supportive conference.
On the Links Menu at: https://sites.google.com/site/kathyteige/callsforpapers
deadline for proposals March 15
(Dis)locating Queer: Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas
A Graduate Conference at the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
May 5‐7, 2011
Keynote speaker: Eithne Luibhéid
Associate Professor, Gender & Women's Studies, University of Arizona
Author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (U of Minnesota Press, 2002) and co‐editor of Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (U of Minnesota Press, 2005).
This is an exciting time for work at the intersections of Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, and studies of region. "Queer" continues to be a critical location for agency and activism. However, those who undertake Queer Studies must also be conscious about uncritically endorsing racialized, spacialized, and classed norms while striving for a deeper understanding of intersectionality. In contemplating the potential to "queer" the study of race, region and sexual diaspora we intend to challenge assumptions that undergird the construction of nationhood, race, migrations, community, settlement(s), and locality.
(Dis)locating Queer invites presentations that queer the analysis of race, region, and sexual diaspora and which unsettle racial, regional, and diasporic assumptions within queer studies. We seek presentations that investigate these intersecting lines of inquiry, asking what queer does rather than what “queer” is.
We encourage submissions organized around one or more of the following themes, but
welcome presentations that use other rubrics to address the topic of race, region, and sexual diasporas:
‐Race/citizenship
‐Region/location
‐Movement/diaspora
‐Academy/activism
We invite proposals for panels, paper presentations, and artistic performances. The final day of the conference will be devoted to seminars on pre‐circulated papers.
Please indicate in your abstract if you would be interested in submitting your work early for a seminar. It is possible to both present a paper and participate in the seminar. We are eager to receive submissions from a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
Guidelines:
‐‐ Panel proposals must include a title and a panel abstract not to exceed 500 words. Each panelist must submit a one page CV with the panel proposal.
‐‐ Individual papers must include an abstract (250 words maximum) and one page CV
‐‐ Please submit all materials electronically to dislocatingqueer@gmail.com by March 15, 2011.
We look forward to submissions that are insightful, creative, and challenging, and we hope to host a truly interactive, supportive conference.
On the Links Menu at: https://sites.google.com/site/kathyteige/callsforpapers
REMINDER: Global Village Call for Proposals SPRING 2012 (DEADLINE 3/4/2011)
GLOBAL VILLAGE LIVING-LEARNING CENTER
A MULTILINGUAL, MULTINATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL, AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENCE AT IU
A Call for Course Proposals for Spring 2012
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is seeking faculty and advanced graduate students to submit proposals for courses to be taught SPRING 2012. Proposed courses must consider contemporary global topics or issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Recent Global Village courses include:
Global Celebrations
Diseases that Changed the World: How Epidemics Impact Society
Guitar Culture Around the World
International Drug Control Policy
Human Rights, Truths, and Justice
Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
Protest, Violence, and Revolution in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Global Media, Consumerism, and Commercial Nation Making
All seminars earn students 3 credits toward graduation, carry distribution credit (A&H, S&H, or N&M; and WC), are limited to a maximum of 20 students, and are open to all IU undergraduates. Classes meet in the classrooms of the Global Village in Foster-Martin, which are equipped with a television with VHS and DVD, a computer, video projector, a standard overhead projector, multiple chalkboards and wireless access. The Global Village offers full administrative support as well. Instructors are compensated on a per course basis; instructor perks include a parking pass and meal points for dining with students.
Teach a Course of Your Own Design
When submitting a proposal, please include the following:
- a completed Global Village Cover Sheet (pages 3 and 4 of this document)
- a current curriculum vitae
- a detailed course syllabus including:
a) a course description
b) proposed methods of assessment
c) the learning objectives of the course (see FAQs)
d) potential reading/viewing list
e) types of assignments to be completed
f) an indication of A&H, S&H, N&M, or WC
Note: Please have your CV proofed by your graduate advisor or the Career Development Center and have your syllabus proofed by your graduate advisor or Campus Instructional Consulting. Make sure that your course addresses contemporary global topics and uses a multi-disciplinary approach.
Materials can be emailed as attachments to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu. If you have any questions about the Global Village or our teaching opportunities, please feel free to contact us at 812-855-4552.
The deadline for submission for courses to be taught SPRING 2012 is Friday, March 4, 2011.
A MULTILINGUAL, MULTINATIONAL, MULTICULTURAL, AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENCE AT IU
A Call for Course Proposals for Spring 2012
Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center is seeking faculty and advanced graduate students to submit proposals for courses to be taught SPRING 2012. Proposed courses must consider contemporary global topics or issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Recent Global Village courses include:
Global Celebrations
Diseases that Changed the World: How Epidemics Impact Society
Guitar Culture Around the World
International Drug Control Policy
Human Rights, Truths, and Justice
Manifestos: Persuading Unbelievers and Inciting Revolutions
Protest, Violence, and Revolution in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Global Media, Consumerism, and Commercial Nation Making
All seminars earn students 3 credits toward graduation, carry distribution credit (A&H, S&H, or N&M; and WC), are limited to a maximum of 20 students, and are open to all IU undergraduates. Classes meet in the classrooms of the Global Village in Foster-Martin, which are equipped with a television with VHS and DVD, a computer, video projector, a standard overhead projector, multiple chalkboards and wireless access. The Global Village offers full administrative support as well. Instructors are compensated on a per course basis; instructor perks include a parking pass and meal points for dining with students.
Teach a Course of Your Own Design
When submitting a proposal, please include the following:
- a completed Global Village Cover Sheet (pages 3 and 4 of this document)
- a current curriculum vitae
- a detailed course syllabus including:
a) a course description
b) proposed methods of assessment
c) the learning objectives of the course (see FAQs)
d) potential reading/viewing list
e) types of assignments to be completed
f) an indication of A&H, S&H, N&M, or WC
Note: Please have your CV proofed by your graduate advisor or the Career Development Center and have your syllabus proofed by your graduate advisor or Campus Instructional Consulting. Make sure that your course addresses contemporary global topics and uses a multi-disciplinary approach.
Materials can be emailed as attachments to Assistant Director Lauren Caldarera at lcaldare@indiana.edu. If you have any questions about the Global Village or our teaching opportunities, please feel free to contact us at 812-855-4552.
The deadline for submission for courses to be taught SPRING 2012 is Friday, March 4, 2011.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE FUTURE OF DOMA: LAW, POLITICS, FEDERALISM, & FAMILIES
A mini-symposium on
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE FUTURE OF DOMA: LAW, POLITICS, FEDERALISM, & FAMILIES
Featuring a lecture on "One State's Challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act"
by Maura Healey, Chief, Civil Rights Division, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
followed by a panel of legal and academic experts:
Thomas M. Fisher, Solicitor General, State of Indiana
Dawn Johnsen, Walter W. Foskett Professor, IU Maurer School of Law,
and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Brian Powell, Rudy Professor of Sociology, IU College of Arts & Sciences
and co-author of Counted Out: Same-sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of the Family
Deborah Widiss, Associate Professor, IU Maurer School of Law
Moderated by Steve Sanders, University of Michigan Law School
3 p.m. Thursday, April 7, Maurer School of Law, IU Bloomington. Free and open to the public.
Massachusetts (the first state to legalize same-sex marriage) filed suit against the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2009. A companion suit was filed by same-sex couples. Last year, a federal judge ruled that DOMA violates the Constitution's 10th Amendment and equal protection guarantee. On Feb. 23, the Obama Justice Department announced it agreed that DOMA was unconstitutional and that it would cease defending several lawsuits against the act. Ms. Healy and our panelists will discuss these dramatic legal and political developments and the larger contexts in which they arise, including the diverse views of the states on federalism and same-sex marriage, and Americans' changing perceptions of gay/lesbian families.
Sponsored by the Maurer School of Law and its LGBT Alumni Advisory Board, the College of Arts & Sciences, the IU Office of Affirmative Action, the IU GLBT Alumni Association, the Center on Law, Society & Culture, and OUTlaw.
For more information, contact Steve Sanders (stevesan@umich.edu).
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE FUTURE OF DOMA: LAW, POLITICS, FEDERALISM, & FAMILIES
Featuring a lecture on "One State's Challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act"
by Maura Healey, Chief, Civil Rights Division, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
followed by a panel of legal and academic experts:
Thomas M. Fisher, Solicitor General, State of Indiana
Dawn Johnsen, Walter W. Foskett Professor, IU Maurer School of Law,
and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Brian Powell, Rudy Professor of Sociology, IU College of Arts & Sciences
and co-author of Counted Out: Same-sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of the Family
Deborah Widiss, Associate Professor, IU Maurer School of Law
Moderated by Steve Sanders, University of Michigan Law School
3 p.m. Thursday, April 7, Maurer School of Law, IU Bloomington. Free and open to the public.
Massachusetts (the first state to legalize same-sex marriage) filed suit against the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2009. A companion suit was filed by same-sex couples. Last year, a federal judge ruled that DOMA violates the Constitution's 10th Amendment and equal protection guarantee. On Feb. 23, the Obama Justice Department announced it agreed that DOMA was unconstitutional and that it would cease defending several lawsuits against the act. Ms. Healy and our panelists will discuss these dramatic legal and political developments and the larger contexts in which they arise, including the diverse views of the states on federalism and same-sex marriage, and Americans' changing perceptions of gay/lesbian families.
Sponsored by the Maurer School of Law and its LGBT Alumni Advisory Board, the College of Arts & Sciences, the IU Office of Affirmative Action, the IU GLBT Alumni Association, the Center on Law, Society & Culture, and OUTlaw.
For more information, contact Steve Sanders (stevesan@umich.edu).
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