Applications open tomorrow, November 1st, for simultaneous application for COAS and CMCL travel grants for Fall 2009. Travel Grant Applications may be submitted until Friday, November 13th, 2009. This date is different than the deadline given by COAS! The GAC must have time to review these applications, so be sure to adhere to the CMCL date.
College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Awards are usually in the range of $300. Departmental Travel Awards are usually in the range of $250, but may vary according to the budget requested.
This year COAS is running only one Travel Award competition, so there will not be one is Spring, but the Department will run its own competition in the spring, when we will re-consider a “reserve list” of Fall applications that were unsuccessful.
The departmental form has changed since last year, along with some of the criteria according to which we make awards. Please come to the Graduate Colloquium about “Writing Grant Proposals” on Friday, October 30th, 4 pm for more information.
In making its decisions, the GAC considers whether or not you have previously received a travel award (giving preference to those who have not previously received a Travel Award); the quality of your proposal; the significance of the conference both for your field and for your research; and how important it is for you to attend this particular conference at this stage of your career (giving preference to those who are currently on the job market). Please note that the combination of these criteria mean that it may be sensible to wait to apply for the award until you need exposure at conferences to further your job prospects.
To apply for the Travel Award this Fall you must both apply on line to COAS at: https://coas3.indiana.edu/coasadmin/CICada/TravelGrantsApplication.cfm
(Please note that this link will not go live until November 1. If you try to access it before then, you will get a “page not found” response.)
and complete the attached departmental application form. Please print this application, fill it out, and return three copies, along with three hardcopies of your COAS application to Kathy by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 13th.
The GAC ranks the applications and nominates the top three for COAS Travel Awards. The Department has funds for approximately 5 awards this semester, which will be allocated first to whichever of the COAS nominations are unsuccessful, and thereafter to the applications ranked next. This means that between about 5-8 applications will be awarded funds either through COAS or CMCL. It also means that we have to wait until COAS make their decision before we know all the applicants who will receive a CMCL award.
Travel Award winners must provide documentation of their presentations in the conference program before their travel awards will be disbursed. You may apply retroactively for travel to conferences that took place in the previous 6 months.
Advice for completing the applications
Bear in mind that your application is being assessed both by faculty in the department who are not necessarily in your field and, more importantly, by people in the College who don’t necessarily know what NCA, SCMS, or AAA mean or can grasp the significance of your conference presentation without you providing a context. Merely providing a brief abstract of your paper will not achieve that goal.
On your department application form please complete the different boxes as requested.
On the COAS application form you should use the “Project details” section to include not only the title, dates and location of the conference, as well as your paper title, but also a version of the information on your department application form. You should use the “additional information” section to include not only an abstract but also to frame the abstract as suggested above.
You should also provide a full budget, listing costs for each item. Sabrina can advise you about how to calculate mileage, and you do not need to have booked your hotel to list an expected cost.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Scholars Assess Their Progress on Improving Student Learning
"What do our students who have studied history now understand that they might not have understood without us?'" "What about those in chemistry, and management, and French? And what can we claim more generally about the intelligence, skills, wisdom, and character of those whom we have educated?"
A decade after Lee S. Shulman, past president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, urged scholars to give more-sustained attention to how college students learn, those questions were revisited this weekend during the sixth annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which drew 650 people.
The scholars who gathered here were cautiously hopeful about colleges' commitment to the study of student learning, even as the Carnegie Foundation winds down its own project. (Mr. Shulman stepped down as president last year, and the foundation's scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning program formally came to an end last week.)
"It's still a fragile thing," said Pat Hutchings, the Carnegie Foundation's vice president, in an interview here. "But I think there's a huge amount of momentum." She cited recent growth in faculty teaching centers, disciplinary conferences on pedagogy, and campuswide efforts to assess student learning. She also pointed to the 2004 birth of the International Society itself, which was created by scholars who had been involved in the Carnegie project.
To read the full article, click here.
A decade after Lee S. Shulman, past president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, urged scholars to give more-sustained attention to how college students learn, those questions were revisited this weekend during the sixth annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which drew 650 people.
The scholars who gathered here were cautiously hopeful about colleges' commitment to the study of student learning, even as the Carnegie Foundation winds down its own project. (Mr. Shulman stepped down as president last year, and the foundation's scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning program formally came to an end last week.)
"It's still a fragile thing," said Pat Hutchings, the Carnegie Foundation's vice president, in an interview here. "But I think there's a huge amount of momentum." She cited recent growth in faculty teaching centers, disciplinary conferences on pedagogy, and campuswide efforts to assess student learning. She also pointed to the 2004 birth of the International Society itself, which was created by scholars who had been involved in the Carnegie project.
To read the full article, click here.
Monday, October 26, 2009
AID, Bloomington and Raga Ranjani celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights, Deepavali
A Row of Lamps
Folk, Film, and Classical music and dances in diverse languages from India
Sunday, November 1st 2009
7 pm
Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Cultural Center
Admission is Free.
Sponsored by AID, Bloomington Chapter
Join us in celebrating Deepavali. Share your joy with generous donations for AID’s Flood Relief project. (Suggested donation: $ 3 per person. Cash and checks accepted.)
"If we all do a little, we can do a lot!" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Contacts:
The Raga Ranjani Collective
Rama (ramacousik@gmail.com)
Aditi (deo.adi@gmail.com)
Poonam (poonambhrgv@yahoo.com)
Association for India’s Development (AID)
Website: www.indiana.edu/~aid
Email: aid@indiana.edu
Folk, Film, and Classical music and dances in diverse languages from India
Sunday, November 1st 2009
7 pm
Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Cultural Center
Admission is Free.
Sponsored by AID, Bloomington Chapter
Join us in celebrating Deepavali. Share your joy with generous donations for AID’s Flood Relief project. (Suggested donation: $ 3 per person. Cash and checks accepted.)
"If we all do a little, we can do a lot!" ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Contacts:
The Raga Ranjani Collective
Rama (ramacousik@gmail.com)
Aditi (deo.adi@gmail.com)
Poonam (poonambhrgv@yahoo.com)
Association for India’s Development (AID)
Website: www.indiana.edu/~aid
Email: aid@indiana.edu
Political Science Course-Y675. REVOLUTIONS AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Spring 2010
TUesday and Thursday
2-4 pm,
Woodburn Hall 200
Description of the course. This course explores the concept of revolution in modern political thought. It does so by examining key revolutionary moments in the history of modern Europe and America: 1688, 1776, 1789, 1848, 1917 and 1989. All these revolutions reshaped the political map and challenged the conceptual vocabulary of social scientists by challenging them to rethink the prerequisites of political change and the conditions under which the latter can be brought to a successful end. This course that has both a historical and a contemporary part focuses on the lessons that scholars could earn from reflecting on the legacies of these historical moments. How do revolutions come to an end? What factors can contribute to constitutionalizing the newly gained liberties? How must new regimes deal with the legacy of the past? The course will examine the works of some of the most important interpreters of these revolutionary moments as well as a few classic works on revolution (Hannah Arendt and, most recently, Martin Malia). It will include representative selections from The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers, Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Sieyes’s What is the Third Estate, Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution and Recollections, as well as representative selections from the writings of Marx and Lenin. The last part of the course will examine the revolutions of 1989 and a few important theoretical reflections on the events 1989 (Dahrendorf, Michnik, Havel).
TUesday and Thursday
2-4 pm,
Woodburn Hall 200
Description of the course. This course explores the concept of revolution in modern political thought. It does so by examining key revolutionary moments in the history of modern Europe and America: 1688, 1776, 1789, 1848, 1917 and 1989. All these revolutions reshaped the political map and challenged the conceptual vocabulary of social scientists by challenging them to rethink the prerequisites of political change and the conditions under which the latter can be brought to a successful end. This course that has both a historical and a contemporary part focuses on the lessons that scholars could earn from reflecting on the legacies of these historical moments. How do revolutions come to an end? What factors can contribute to constitutionalizing the newly gained liberties? How must new regimes deal with the legacy of the past? The course will examine the works of some of the most important interpreters of these revolutionary moments as well as a few classic works on revolution (Hannah Arendt and, most recently, Martin Malia). It will include representative selections from The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers, Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Sieyes’s What is the Third Estate, Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution and Recollections, as well as representative selections from the writings of Marx and Lenin. The last part of the course will examine the revolutions of 1989 and a few important theoretical reflections on the events 1989 (Dahrendorf, Michnik, Havel).
Czech Film Series 2009-2010
Thursday, October 29
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
Juraj Herz: The Cremator
(1969)
An “expressionistic” psychological horror according to a novel by Ladislav Fuks. Director Juraj Herz progressively builds tension through wide angle detailed shots and surprising twists. Amazing cinematography, surreal images and a hallucinatory feel. Herz has created a masterpiece that still remains undiscovered to many. The film was also groundbreaking for its time with its sexual content and macabre violence. It echoes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) in its subjective visualizing of the mind of a madman. Set before and after Munich during the time of German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the film was produced a year after the Soviet invasion, inevitably creating parallels between the two situations.
Black and white. In Czech with English subltitles, 100 min.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
Juraj Herz: The Cremator
(1969)
An “expressionistic” psychological horror according to a novel by Ladislav Fuks. Director Juraj Herz progressively builds tension through wide angle detailed shots and surprising twists. Amazing cinematography, surreal images and a hallucinatory feel. Herz has created a masterpiece that still remains undiscovered to many. The film was also groundbreaking for its time with its sexual content and macabre violence. It echoes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) in its subjective visualizing of the mind of a madman. Set before and after Munich during the time of German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the film was produced a year after the Soviet invasion, inevitably creating parallels between the two situations.
Black and white. In Czech with English subltitles, 100 min.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Friday, October 23, 2009
Travel Grants
The applications for both COAS and CMCL Travel Grants will be accepted from November 1st through November 13th.
Please note that the applications are not yet available!
To learn more about how to write a successful proposal, and to learn about the new CMCL application form and award criteria, please attend the Graduate Colloquium about “Writing Grant Proposals” on Friday, October 30th, 4 pm.
Please note that the applications are not yet available!
To learn more about how to write a successful proposal, and to learn about the new CMCL application form and award criteria, please attend the Graduate Colloquium about “Writing Grant Proposals” on Friday, October 30th, 4 pm.
Telecommunications Spring Graduate Courses
If you're interested in the offerings from Telecom this spring, click here.
Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
Friday, October 30
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, Room 100
Next week's colloquium brings Bill Eastman from the Grad Grants Center to discuss how to write a successful grant proposal. As the Travel Grant competition opens on November 1st, and the Dissertation Year Fellowship Grant competition deadlnes will be here soon after the first of the year, you don't want to miss this helpful and timely presentation.
No reservations required.
4-5 pm
Classroom-Office Building, Room 100
Next week's colloquium brings Bill Eastman from the Grad Grants Center to discuss how to write a successful grant proposal. As the Travel Grant competition opens on November 1st, and the Dissertation Year Fellowship Grant competition deadlnes will be here soon after the first of the year, you don't want to miss this helpful and timely presentation.
No reservations required.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Course for Spring - P680: Environmental Justice
Calling on all graduate students with an interest in social justice and the environment!
Spring Semester 2010
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
P680, Section 15637
Wednesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in SYC 146
Dr. Stephanie C. Kane of the Department of Criminal Justice in collaboration with
the Center for the Study of Global Change has created a new graduate level seminar in Environmental Justice for spring semester 2010.
This seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration of approaches to environmental justice, i.e., a critical analysis of how scholars, legal practitioners and activists conceptualize and intervene in destructive relationships between humans and habitats. We will study the field of environmental justice as it has emerged at the margins of anthropology, criminology and law, stretching theories about rural and urban communities, space and place, political ecology, organized crime, habitus, and social movements, to wrestle with situations locally, regionally and globally. We will experiment with worldviews, rhetorics, paradigms and popular culture to find ways to analytically connect injustices of human inequality with injustices against animals, plants and habitats. In other words, we will focus intensely on the interface between human rights and ecological sustainability.
Readings and discussion will focus on three cultural-geographic areas: South America, North America and South Asia. Dr. Kane will bring her current ethnographic research on water in port cities of Brazil and Argentina into the discussion. Independent research projects will allow students to pursue relevant topics, theories, methods and culture-geographic areas of their choice.
Readings:
A small collection of short essays (to be selected) will frame initial discussion, followed by:
(Colombia)
Escobar, Arturo. 2008. Territories of Difference: place, movements, life, redes.
Durham: Duke University Press.
(United States)
Burns, Ronald, Michael Lynch and Paul Seretesky. 2008. Environmental Law, Crime, and Justice.
New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
Pezzulo, Phaedra. 2007. Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
(India)
Shiva, Vandana. 2002. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit. Cambridge: South End Press.
Fortun, Kim. 2001. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dr. Stephanie Kane
Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
Phone: (812) 855-0896, (812) 855-9325
E-mail: stkane@indiana.edu
CultureX Web site: www.indiana.edu/~culturex
Spring Semester 2010
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
P680, Section 15637
Wednesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in SYC 146
Dr. Stephanie C. Kane of the Department of Criminal Justice in collaboration with
the Center for the Study of Global Change has created a new graduate level seminar in Environmental Justice for spring semester 2010.
This seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration of approaches to environmental justice, i.e., a critical analysis of how scholars, legal practitioners and activists conceptualize and intervene in destructive relationships between humans and habitats. We will study the field of environmental justice as it has emerged at the margins of anthropology, criminology and law, stretching theories about rural and urban communities, space and place, political ecology, organized crime, habitus, and social movements, to wrestle with situations locally, regionally and globally. We will experiment with worldviews, rhetorics, paradigms and popular culture to find ways to analytically connect injustices of human inequality with injustices against animals, plants and habitats. In other words, we will focus intensely on the interface between human rights and ecological sustainability.
Readings and discussion will focus on three cultural-geographic areas: South America, North America and South Asia. Dr. Kane will bring her current ethnographic research on water in port cities of Brazil and Argentina into the discussion. Independent research projects will allow students to pursue relevant topics, theories, methods and culture-geographic areas of their choice.
Readings:
A small collection of short essays (to be selected) will frame initial discussion, followed by:
(Colombia)
Escobar, Arturo. 2008. Territories of Difference: place, movements, life, redes.
Durham: Duke University Press.
(United States)
Burns, Ronald, Michael Lynch and Paul Seretesky. 2008. Environmental Law, Crime, and Justice.
New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
Pezzulo, Phaedra. 2007. Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
(India)
Shiva, Vandana. 2002. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit. Cambridge: South End Press.
Fortun, Kim. 2001. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dr. Stephanie Kane
Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
Phone: (812) 855-0896, (812) 855-9325
E-mail: stkane@indiana.edu
CultureX Web site: www.indiana.edu/~culturex
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
From the Kinsey Institute
Join Kinsey Institute researchers to see how you score on your own unique sexual personality
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
4:00 – 5:15 pm
Morrison Hall, Room 007
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction presents:
Sex Research LIVE!
Be a part of the live audience vote on sex questions from recent Kinsey Institute studies.
Kinsey Institute researchers Erick Janssen, Heather Rupp, Stephanie Sanders and Julia Heiman will discuss the how and whys of current sex research, and give audience members an opportunity to respond to selected questions, and to compare themselves to the research findings on various aspects of sexual behavior.
Sex Research LIVE! is a program of the THEMESTER and SEXPLORATION Week.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
4:00 – 5:15 pm
Morrison Hall, Room 007
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction presents:
Sex Research LIVE!
Be a part of the live audience vote on sex questions from recent Kinsey Institute studies.
Kinsey Institute researchers Erick Janssen, Heather Rupp, Stephanie Sanders and Julia Heiman will discuss the how and whys of current sex research, and give audience members an opportunity to respond to selected questions, and to compare themselves to the research findings on various aspects of sexual behavior.
Sex Research LIVE! is a program of the THEMESTER and SEXPLORATION Week.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Holds Sixth Annual Conference
Educators from around the world convene on IU Bloomington campus
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning holds sixth annual conference Oct. 22-25
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Six hundred college and university educators from 15 countries will converge on Indiana University Bloomington this week to share research and insights on what makes for effective teaching and learning.
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) will have its annual conference Oct. 22-25 (Thursday-Sunday) on the IU Bloomington campus -- the same campus where the society had its launch five years ago.
Scholars from Canada, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as from hundreds of campuses throughout the U.S., will be in attendance to focus on how to enhance the understanding of student learning and guide teaching practices.
The 2009 conference, "Solid Foundations, Emerging Knowledge, and Shared Futures in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," features workshops by leaders in the field, distinguished international plenary speakers, panel presentations, individual paper and poster presentations and roundtable discussions.
"The slate of offerings is really strong and diverse, with sessions on teaching creativity, Japanese-style lesson study, learning in the STEM disciplines, preparing graduate students to teach, instructional technologies, and many more," said IU Department of Communications and Culture faculty member Jennifer Meta Robinson, ISSOTL president and 2009 ISSOTL conference chair.
The opening keynote speaker is Voldemar Tomusk (5:30 p.m., Thursday), director for policy and evaluation of Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program (HESP), based in London, U.K., speaking on "Learning Together and the Politics of Knowledge: Mis- and Disconnections in Europe and Beyond."
Plenary speakers include:
Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Connexions, Rice University, "Open Access Education and the Textbook of the Future,"
Friday, 9-10 a.m.
Tai L. Peseta, lecturer, Teaching and Learning Unit and Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The University of Melbourne, Australia, "For Whom Do We Write? The Place and Practices of Writing in Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,"
Saturday, 9-10 a.m.
Craig E. Nelson, professor emeritus of biology, Indiana University, "Why SOTL? Why Now?"
Sunday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The keynote and three plenary sessions held in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union are open gratis to IU Bloomington faculty, staff and students who check in with their Indiana University ID at the conference registration desk in the IMU East Lounge.
"The real appeal of ISSOTL is that it networks a broad range of faculty to share their own formal discussions about what matters and what works in learning and teaching," said Robinson. "It's not about externally-derived standards or homogenous expectations and outputs like some of the worst fears about assessment. Instead, ISSOTL is about disciplinary experts engaging the real work of teaching subject matter, acknowledging that work as worthy of intellectual inquiry and investment.
"It's about formalizing what may start as a hunch about what makes a good class, and considering it in a scholarly manner that will be meaningful to others," she continued. "It's about sharing our insights and discoveries so that the horizon of what is possible in higher education moves forward -- for individual students, in individual classrooms, in departments and fields, in institutions and across nations."
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL)
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning was founded in 2004 by a committee of 67 scholars from several countries.
It was organized to recognize and encourage scholarly work on teaching and learning in each discipline, within other scholarly societies and across educational levels; to promote cross-disciplinary conversation to create synergy and prompt new lines of inquiry; to facilitate the collaboration of scholars in different countries and the flow of new findings and applications across national boundaries; to encourage the integration of discovery, learning and public engagement; and to advocate for support, review, recognition and appropriate uses of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
For more information about ISSOTL, see http://www.issotl.org/. To learn more about the conference, visit http://issotl09.indiana.edu/. And for questions, contact issotl09@indiana.edu.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning holds sixth annual conference Oct. 22-25
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Six hundred college and university educators from 15 countries will converge on Indiana University Bloomington this week to share research and insights on what makes for effective teaching and learning.
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) will have its annual conference Oct. 22-25 (Thursday-Sunday) on the IU Bloomington campus -- the same campus where the society had its launch five years ago.
Scholars from Canada, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as from hundreds of campuses throughout the U.S., will be in attendance to focus on how to enhance the understanding of student learning and guide teaching practices.
The 2009 conference, "Solid Foundations, Emerging Knowledge, and Shared Futures in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," features workshops by leaders in the field, distinguished international plenary speakers, panel presentations, individual paper and poster presentations and roundtable discussions.
"The slate of offerings is really strong and diverse, with sessions on teaching creativity, Japanese-style lesson study, learning in the STEM disciplines, preparing graduate students to teach, instructional technologies, and many more," said IU Department of Communications and Culture faculty member Jennifer Meta Robinson, ISSOTL president and 2009 ISSOTL conference chair.
The opening keynote speaker is Voldemar Tomusk (5:30 p.m., Thursday), director for policy and evaluation of Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program (HESP), based in London, U.K., speaking on "Learning Together and the Politics of Knowledge: Mis- and Disconnections in Europe and Beyond."
Plenary speakers include:
Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Connexions, Rice University, "Open Access Education and the Textbook of the Future,"
Friday, 9-10 a.m.
Tai L. Peseta, lecturer, Teaching and Learning Unit and Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The University of Melbourne, Australia, "For Whom Do We Write? The Place and Practices of Writing in Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,"
Saturday, 9-10 a.m.
Craig E. Nelson, professor emeritus of biology, Indiana University, "Why SOTL? Why Now?"
Sunday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The keynote and three plenary sessions held in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union are open gratis to IU Bloomington faculty, staff and students who check in with their Indiana University ID at the conference registration desk in the IMU East Lounge.
"The real appeal of ISSOTL is that it networks a broad range of faculty to share their own formal discussions about what matters and what works in learning and teaching," said Robinson. "It's not about externally-derived standards or homogenous expectations and outputs like some of the worst fears about assessment. Instead, ISSOTL is about disciplinary experts engaging the real work of teaching subject matter, acknowledging that work as worthy of intellectual inquiry and investment.
"It's about formalizing what may start as a hunch about what makes a good class, and considering it in a scholarly manner that will be meaningful to others," she continued. "It's about sharing our insights and discoveries so that the horizon of what is possible in higher education moves forward -- for individual students, in individual classrooms, in departments and fields, in institutions and across nations."
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL)
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning was founded in 2004 by a committee of 67 scholars from several countries.
It was organized to recognize and encourage scholarly work on teaching and learning in each discipline, within other scholarly societies and across educational levels; to promote cross-disciplinary conversation to create synergy and prompt new lines of inquiry; to facilitate the collaboration of scholars in different countries and the flow of new findings and applications across national boundaries; to encourage the integration of discovery, learning and public engagement; and to advocate for support, review, recognition and appropriate uses of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
For more information about ISSOTL, see http://www.issotl.org/. To learn more about the conference, visit http://issotl09.indiana.edu/. And for questions, contact issotl09@indiana.edu.
Animalizing India: Emerging Signs of an Unruly Market
Radhika Parameswaran, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Indiana University
Friday, October 23,
2:00-3:30 pm
Ernie Pyle Hall Rm. 214
Analyzing the rise and fall of Indonesia's status in globalization's economic imaginary, Anna Tsing notes that an "economy of appearances" drives the search for new economic frontiers at historic moments when global capital seeks wild creativity rather than stable reproduction.
In the creative logic of globalization's economy of appearances, profit must be imagined before it can be extracted; a nation's possibility of economic performance must be conjured like a spirit to motivate an audience of investors, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens to believe in the promise of a linked global future.
How is India's potential as an emerging market and a serious player in the global economy being conjured in the popular aesthetics of magazine and non-fiction book covers? Even as an outpouring of verbal discourse from academics, journalists, and business and policy pundits has hailed an India that is either “rising, ascending, levitating, and soaring” or “falling, descending, tumbling, and receding,” a steady stream of popular illustrations has also sought to illuminate the vicissitudes of India’s newfound economic recognition. Drawing from a larger historical project’s archive of still images, this presentation will focus on recent artistic portraits of global India as an animal—an elephant or tiger—that wanders alone or sometimes with another animal companion—dragon or panda bear—called China. My analysis will attempt to make sense of different metonymic and surreal representations of a bestial India that circulate in an unpredictable economic ecosystem already inhabited by capricious bulls and bears. Bringing the literature on soft power and global nation branding in conversation with studies of animals in popular culture, the presentation seeks to get inside a visual economy of appearances in which zoological embodiments arbitrate an emerging market’s unruly prospects for success.
Friday, October 23,
2:00-3:30 pm
Ernie Pyle Hall Rm. 214
Analyzing the rise and fall of Indonesia's status in globalization's economic imaginary, Anna Tsing notes that an "economy of appearances" drives the search for new economic frontiers at historic moments when global capital seeks wild creativity rather than stable reproduction.
In the creative logic of globalization's economy of appearances, profit must be imagined before it can be extracted; a nation's possibility of economic performance must be conjured like a spirit to motivate an audience of investors, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens to believe in the promise of a linked global future.
How is India's potential as an emerging market and a serious player in the global economy being conjured in the popular aesthetics of magazine and non-fiction book covers? Even as an outpouring of verbal discourse from academics, journalists, and business and policy pundits has hailed an India that is either “rising, ascending, levitating, and soaring” or “falling, descending, tumbling, and receding,” a steady stream of popular illustrations has also sought to illuminate the vicissitudes of India’s newfound economic recognition. Drawing from a larger historical project’s archive of still images, this presentation will focus on recent artistic portraits of global India as an animal—an elephant or tiger—that wanders alone or sometimes with another animal companion—dragon or panda bear—called China. My analysis will attempt to make sense of different metonymic and surreal representations of a bestial India that circulate in an unpredictable economic ecosystem already inhabited by capricious bulls and bears. Bringing the literature on soft power and global nation branding in conversation with studies of animals in popular culture, the presentation seeks to get inside a visual economy of appearances in which zoological embodiments arbitrate an emerging market’s unruly prospects for success.
CMCL Colloquium Series: Mock NCA Panel
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Classroom Office Building, room 100
Mock Panel of papers that will be presented at the NCA conference next month
A Case for Dissident Judgment: Jesse Jackson and the Language Game of Presidential Politics
(Jennifer Heusel)
“Dissident judgment” cultivates the boundaries of multiple language games in order to expand existing games, reshape rules of play, and develop alternative ones. I use Beiner and Lyotard to clarify dissident judgment as a human faculty that participates in multiple language games. In this paper, I claim that Jesse Jackson embodies dissident judgment by examining his Democratic National Convention speeches.
Regulations of Queer Citizenship: Representing the Rural in Matthew Shepard’s Memory
(Emily Cram)
The circulation of imagery in the wake and continued memory of Matthew Shepard’s murder engenders a space to negotiate tensions between urban and rural publics, circumscribed by an increasingly visible GLBTQ politics. I argue the iconic image of “the fence,” animated by a mythos of the horror of the rural, spatializes queerphobia and articulation of queer citizenship. Spatialization of queerphobia to the rural engenders the maintenance of meteronormativity, foreclosing the confrontation to queerphobia as a cultural institution as well as inhabitable spaces for queer citizenship.
Objecting to the Rule of Law: Seeking Justice for Immigrants in the Case of Enforcement(
(Danielle Fernandez)
In the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unveiled two pilot programs aimed at bringing illegal immigrants to justice: post-raid judicial fast-tracking and Operation Scheduled Departure. In both programs, agents relied primarily on objective legal discourses to distance themselves from questions of personal responsibility and preclude immigrants from asserting themselves as legitimate national subjects. A rhetorical examination of objectivity’s role in the conceptualization of justice reveals that these programs exhibit an overreliance on the Rule of Law, which becomes a problem for questions of immigrant justice as the Rule of Law disables judicial judgment and social critique of the law’s abuse(s). Insofar as the Rule of Law animates what Chaїm Perelman calls the “confused” idea of justice, however, the law remains open to more critical considerations of how just social relations can be achieved through the courts.
4:00 p.m.
Classroom Office Building, room 100
Mock Panel of papers that will be presented at the NCA conference next month
A Case for Dissident Judgment: Jesse Jackson and the Language Game of Presidential Politics
(Jennifer Heusel)
“Dissident judgment” cultivates the boundaries of multiple language games in order to expand existing games, reshape rules of play, and develop alternative ones. I use Beiner and Lyotard to clarify dissident judgment as a human faculty that participates in multiple language games. In this paper, I claim that Jesse Jackson embodies dissident judgment by examining his Democratic National Convention speeches.
Regulations of Queer Citizenship: Representing the Rural in Matthew Shepard’s Memory
(Emily Cram)
The circulation of imagery in the wake and continued memory of Matthew Shepard’s murder engenders a space to negotiate tensions between urban and rural publics, circumscribed by an increasingly visible GLBTQ politics. I argue the iconic image of “the fence,” animated by a mythos of the horror of the rural, spatializes queerphobia and articulation of queer citizenship. Spatialization of queerphobia to the rural engenders the maintenance of meteronormativity, foreclosing the confrontation to queerphobia as a cultural institution as well as inhabitable spaces for queer citizenship.
Objecting to the Rule of Law: Seeking Justice for Immigrants in the Case of Enforcement(
(Danielle Fernandez)
In the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unveiled two pilot programs aimed at bringing illegal immigrants to justice: post-raid judicial fast-tracking and Operation Scheduled Departure. In both programs, agents relied primarily on objective legal discourses to distance themselves from questions of personal responsibility and preclude immigrants from asserting themselves as legitimate national subjects. A rhetorical examination of objectivity’s role in the conceptualization of justice reveals that these programs exhibit an overreliance on the Rule of Law, which becomes a problem for questions of immigrant justice as the Rule of Law disables judicial judgment and social critique of the law’s abuse(s). Insofar as the Rule of Law animates what Chaїm Perelman calls the “confused” idea of justice, however, the law remains open to more critical considerations of how just social relations can be achieved through the courts.
Housing Growth in the United States, 1940-2030: Ecological Consequences of the Expanding Human Footprint
School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) Room 278
Thursday, October 22nd
4:00-5:00pm
Presentation by:
Susan I. Stewart, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station - Evanston, IL
Abstract:
Housing growth in the U.S. has been steady and strong since the 1940s, outpacing population growth as a result of shrinking family size, divorce, and the affluence to afford multiple homes. The impact of housing growth has been felt all across the landscape, but while "urban sprawl" captured the attention of national policy makers, it is arguably the rural expansion of housing developments that has the greatest potential to affect natural resources. Using census data and working in a GIS, we developed methods to create a spatially explicit, fine-scale, long-term dataset for the coterminous U.S. We use the data to investigate the effects of housing on ecological structure and processes, such as avian communities, exotic invasive plant distribution, fire regimes, and landscape patterns. The overarching lesson of all this research is that housing has definite and lasting impacts on ecological systems stemming from the physical changes that result from housing development, and from the human activities centered at the home. Housing growth patterns and forecasts for the U.S. and in Indiana will be displayed, and recommendations proposed for changes in where we build and how we manage residential lots.
Bio: Susan I. Stewart is a research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, in Evanston, IL. Her background is in multidisciplinary social sciences, recreation, and resource economics, with degrees from Michigan State University. Her current research interests include seasonal home ownership and use, housing growth, the wildland urban interface, and the ecological implications of housing.
Thursday, October 22nd
4:00-5:00pm
Presentation by:
Susan I. Stewart, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station - Evanston, IL
Abstract:
Housing growth in the U.S. has been steady and strong since the 1940s, outpacing population growth as a result of shrinking family size, divorce, and the affluence to afford multiple homes. The impact of housing growth has been felt all across the landscape, but while "urban sprawl" captured the attention of national policy makers, it is arguably the rural expansion of housing developments that has the greatest potential to affect natural resources. Using census data and working in a GIS, we developed methods to create a spatially explicit, fine-scale, long-term dataset for the coterminous U.S. We use the data to investigate the effects of housing on ecological structure and processes, such as avian communities, exotic invasive plant distribution, fire regimes, and landscape patterns. The overarching lesson of all this research is that housing has definite and lasting impacts on ecological systems stemming from the physical changes that result from housing development, and from the human activities centered at the home. Housing growth patterns and forecasts for the U.S. and in Indiana will be displayed, and recommendations proposed for changes in where we build and how we manage residential lots.
Bio: Susan I. Stewart is a research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, in Evanston, IL. Her background is in multidisciplinary social sciences, recreation, and resource economics, with degrees from Michigan State University. Her current research interests include seasonal home ownership and use, housing growth, the wildland urban interface, and the ecological implications of housing.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Reminder - Home Movie Day Tomorrow
Home Movie Day is returning to Bloomington again this year on
Saturday, October 17th
from 12-4pm
at the Monroe County History Center, located at
202 E. Sixth Street in downtown Bloomington.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best to care for them.
Last year was our first event in Bloomington and it was a blast. This year, our Home Movie Day is co-sponsored by the Monroe County Historical Society and the Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture. There will be screenings of films brought in from the community and beyond. We will have the ability to screen films in the following formats: 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm film, VHS, and DVD.
For more general information about Home Movie Day, check out the
website: www.homemovieday.com.
For information about the Bloomington HMD, please contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu, or Dr. Greg Waller at gwaller@indiana.edu.
Co-sponsored by The Department of Communication and Culture and the Monroe County Historical Society
Saturday, October 17th
from 12-4pm
at the Monroe County History Center, located at
202 E. Sixth Street in downtown Bloomington.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best to care for them.
Last year was our first event in Bloomington and it was a blast. This year, our Home Movie Day is co-sponsored by the Monroe County Historical Society and the Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture. There will be screenings of films brought in from the community and beyond. We will have the ability to screen films in the following formats: 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm film, VHS, and DVD.
For more general information about Home Movie Day, check out the
website: www.homemovieday.com.
For information about the Bloomington HMD, please contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu, or Dr. Greg Waller at gwaller@indiana.edu.
Co-sponsored by The Department of Communication and Culture and the Monroe County Historical Society
Borns Jewish Studies Program Presents a Lecture by Writer/Filmmaker Etgar Keret
Monday, October 26
7:30 p.m.
Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Bloomington
FREE
Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967 to an extremely diverse family, his brother heads an Israeli group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana, and his sister is an orthodox Jew and the mother of ten children. Keret regards his family as a microcosm of Israel. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in twenty-two languages and include Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (2004); Missing Kissinger (2007); and Gaza Blues (2004). Keret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times, has been awarded the Prime Minister`s Prize, and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize. More than forty short movies have been based on his stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998).
As a filmmaker, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays, including Skin Deep (1996), which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Wrist Cutters, featuring Tom Waits, was released in August 2007. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen, won the coveted Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. Keret, at present, teaches at Ben Guryon University.
This lecture is free and open to the public. If you have a disability and need assistance, please contact the Borns Jewish Studies Program at 812-855-0453 or iujsp@indiana.edu
7:30 p.m.
Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Bloomington
FREE
Hailed as the voice of young Israel and one of its most radical and extraordinary writers, Etgar Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967 to an extremely diverse family, his brother heads an Israeli group that lobbies for the legalization of marijuana, and his sister is an orthodox Jew and the mother of ten children. Keret regards his family as a microcosm of Israel. His books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in twenty-two languages and include Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (2004); Missing Kissinger (2007); and Gaza Blues (2004). Keret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times, has been awarded the Prime Minister`s Prize, and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize. More than forty short movies have been based on his stories, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998).
As a filmmaker, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays, including Skin Deep (1996), which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Wrist Cutters, featuring Tom Waits, was released in August 2007. Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen, won the coveted Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. Keret, at present, teaches at Ben Guryon University.
This lecture is free and open to the public. If you have a disability and need assistance, please contact the Borns Jewish Studies Program at 812-855-0453 or iujsp@indiana.edu
REEI Monday Noon Workshop Series, Fall 2009
October 26, 2009
12:15-1:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 004
Coming into the Word: Ethnography of an Evangelical Christian Language School in Poland
Bill Johnston, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature/Second Language Acquisition/Polish Studies
This talk outlines a year-long ethnographic study of a language school located in a large Polish city and run by North American evangelical Christian missionaries as a platform for mission work. Data comprise of interviews, observations, classroom recordings, and found data. This presentation will be a preliminary description of the study, along with a discussion of possible theoretical frameworks that may help to conceptualize and contextualize the work.
12:15-1:30 pm
Ballantine Hall 004
Coming into the Word: Ethnography of an Evangelical Christian Language School in Poland
Bill Johnston, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature/Second Language Acquisition/Polish Studies
This talk outlines a year-long ethnographic study of a language school located in a large Polish city and run by North American evangelical Christian missionaries as a platform for mission work. Data comprise of interviews, observations, classroom recordings, and found data. This presentation will be a preliminary description of the study, along with a discussion of possible theoretical frameworks that may help to conceptualize and contextualize the work.
Indiana Democracy Consortium Event
Friday, October 23
1:30-3:00 pm
Woodburn Hall 218
"20 Years of Democracy in Central Europe: Developments, Deficits and Discontents"
Andras Bozoki
Professor of Political Science
Central European University Budapest
1:30-3:00 pm
Woodburn Hall 218
"20 Years of Democracy in Central Europe: Developments, Deficits and Discontents"
Andras Bozoki
Professor of Political Science
Central European University Budapest
City Lights & Underground Film Series
Friday, October 16
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, Room 251
Robert Todd Films
Emerson College professor Robert Todd has been making short poetic films since 1989. While he has no characteristic style, his work is always diffuse, elliptical, and suggestive, its effects based on implication rather than explanation. Tonight’s screening will draw from a broad range of his films.
7:00 pm
Radio-TV Building, Room 251
Robert Todd Films
Emerson College professor Robert Todd has been making short poetic films since 1989. While he has no characteristic style, his work is always diffuse, elliptical, and suggestive, its effects based on implication rather than explanation. Tonight’s screening will draw from a broad range of his films.
Czech Film Series 2009-2010
Thursday, October 29,
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
Juraj Herz: The Cremator (1969)
An “expressionistic” psychological horror according to a novel by Ladislav Fuks. Director Juraj Herz progressively builds tension through wide angle detailed shots and surprising twists. Amazing cinematography, surreal images and a hallucinatory feel. Herz has created a masterpiece that still remains undiscovered to many. The film was also groundbreaking for its time with its sexual content and macabre violence. It echoes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) in its subjective visualizing of the mind of a madman. Set before and after Munich during the time of German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the film was produced a year after the Soviet invasion, inevitably creating parallels between the two situations.
Black and white. In Czech with English subltitles, 100 min.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
Juraj Herz: The Cremator (1969)
An “expressionistic” psychological horror according to a novel by Ladislav Fuks. Director Juraj Herz progressively builds tension through wide angle detailed shots and surprising twists. Amazing cinematography, surreal images and a hallucinatory feel. Herz has created a masterpiece that still remains undiscovered to many. The film was also groundbreaking for its time with its sexual content and macabre violence. It echoes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1919) in its subjective visualizing of the mind of a madman. Set before and after Munich during the time of German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the film was produced a year after the Soviet invasion, inevitably creating parallels between the two situations.
Black and white. In Czech with English subltitles, 100 min.
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Grad Fair - Reserve Caps and Gowns
Thursday, October 15
10:00 am-5:00 pm
IMU Bookstore 2nd Floor Balcony
If you plan to graduate in December and wnat to take part in Commencement, go to this event to reserve your IU custom cap and gown, check out diploma frames, graduation announcements, and other IU keepsakes, and pick up your free gift from the Alumni Association.
May graduates may reserve caps and gowns for May Commencement now as well.
10:00 am-5:00 pm
IMU Bookstore 2nd Floor Balcony
If you plan to graduate in December and wnat to take part in Commencement, go to this event to reserve your IU custom cap and gown, check out diploma frames, graduation announcements, and other IU keepsakes, and pick up your free gift from the Alumni Association.
May graduates may reserve caps and gowns for May Commencement now as well.
Bauman Lecture - November 5, 2009
Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture is honored to present
The Richard Bauman Lecture
Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi with Pedro Matta
Diana Taylor
Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish
New York University
Thursday, November 5, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Morrison Hall, Room 007
A reception will follow in the upstairs lobby of the Classroom Office Building
(800 East Third Street)
Petro Matta, a survivor, gives visitors a walk through Villa Grimaldi, an infamous Chilean torture camp. His reiterated acts of walking, of showing, of telling, of leading people down the paths characterize trauma and the trauma-driven actions to channel and alleviate it. For him, as for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the ritualized tour offers both personal consolation and revenge. Memory is a tool and a political project—an honoring of those who are gone, and a reminder to those who will listen that the victimizers have gotten away with murder. Using a ‘guided’ visit she had with Matta, a survivor of a former concentration camp in Chile, Professor Taylor’s lecture will focus on how trauma is transmitted through embodied practice.
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (1997), and most recently The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2003), which won the Outstanding Book from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005-2006. She is founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Richard Bauman Lecture
Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi with Pedro Matta
Diana Taylor
Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish
New York University
Thursday, November 5, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Morrison Hall, Room 007
A reception will follow in the upstairs lobby of the Classroom Office Building
(800 East Third Street)
Petro Matta, a survivor, gives visitors a walk through Villa Grimaldi, an infamous Chilean torture camp. His reiterated acts of walking, of showing, of telling, of leading people down the paths characterize trauma and the trauma-driven actions to channel and alleviate it. For him, as for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the ritualized tour offers both personal consolation and revenge. Memory is a tool and a political project—an honoring of those who are gone, and a reminder to those who will listen that the victimizers have gotten away with murder. Using a ‘guided’ visit she had with Matta, a survivor of a former concentration camp in Chile, Professor Taylor’s lecture will focus on how trauma is transmitted through embodied practice.
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (1997), and most recently The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2003), which won the Outstanding Book from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005-2006. She is founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
NELC Student Organization Pizza Sale
Thursday, October 15, 2009
12:00-2:00 pm
Ballantine Hall Gound Floor
Support the NELC Student Organization by buying a slcie or two for lunch or a tasty snack!
12:00-2:00 pm
Ballantine Hall Gound Floor
Support the NELC Student Organization by buying a slcie or two for lunch or a tasty snack!
Teaching and Learning Technologies Center - Upcoming Workshops
Adobe Presenter (Oct. 20) – hands-on workshop to get you up to speed with Adobe Presenter, a PowerPoint plug-in that allows you to produce voice-over presentations, branching, and quizzing.
Creating Online Content and Activities (Oct. 27) – learn about new tools for creating interactive web pages and Flash activities without any knowledge of html or Flash programming.
TLTC Reading Group (Oct. 29) – if you want to get into the literature on teaching and learning, come to the first meeting and help us plot the course; we’ll give you access to the first readings when you register.
To register for these and other workshops, go to the TLTC web page and click on Technology Integration Series (TIS) Workshops.
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/
Creating Online Content and Activities (Oct. 27) – learn about new tools for creating interactive web pages and Flash activities without any knowledge of html or Flash programming.
TLTC Reading Group (Oct. 29) – if you want to get into the literature on teaching and learning, come to the first meeting and help us plot the course; we’ll give you access to the first readings when you register.
To register for these and other workshops, go to the TLTC web page and click on Technology Integration Series (TIS) Workshops.
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/
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Fall of the Wall...20 Years Later: Berlin Disco and Film Party
On November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall ceased to divide East and West Germany.
On the night of
Friday, November 6th
from 9pm to 1am,
we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 'Fall of the Wall' with a dance party at The Lodge in downtown Bloomington. There will be beer, wine, German films, German music, lots of dancing, and of course… some serious David Hasselhoff worship!
The Fall of the Wall... 20 years later: Berlin Disco and Film Party is not only an awesome and fun way to celebrate German Reunification, but also an excellent way to find out more about the upcoming DEFA Project/East German Film Series beginning in January here in Bloomington. So come dance, drink – and party like it's 1989!
On the night of
Friday, November 6th
from 9pm to 1am,
we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 'Fall of the Wall' with a dance party at The Lodge in downtown Bloomington. There will be beer, wine, German films, German music, lots of dancing, and of course… some serious David Hasselhoff worship!
The Fall of the Wall... 20 years later: Berlin Disco and Film Party is not only an awesome and fun way to celebrate German Reunification, but also an excellent way to find out more about the upcoming DEFA Project/East German Film Series beginning in January here in Bloomington. So come dance, drink – and party like it's 1989!
Friday, October 9, 2009
City Lights and Underground Film Series
Friday, October 9
7 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
FREE and open to the public
TOKAPI
Dassin’s “criminally” overlooked gem of a heist film follows the story of three professional thieves and a “schmo” (Peter Ustinov) as they attempt to steal the priceless emerald encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I from the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. Featuring an outstanding performance from Peter Ustinov, whose work would earn him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Topkapi features one of the most suspenseful heist scenes in 1960’s cinema, Dassin’s film invites viewers to celebrate and re-examine the conventions of the heist film genre.
Sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture
7 pm
Radio-TV Building, room 251
FREE and open to the public
TOKAPI
Dassin’s “criminally” overlooked gem of a heist film follows the story of three professional thieves and a “schmo” (Peter Ustinov) as they attempt to steal the priceless emerald encrusted dagger of Sultan Mahmud I from the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. Featuring an outstanding performance from Peter Ustinov, whose work would earn him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Topkapi features one of the most suspenseful heist scenes in 1960’s cinema, Dassin’s film invites viewers to celebrate and re-examine the conventions of the heist film genre.
Sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture
Workshop: Writing Grant Proposals
Friday, October 30, 2009
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, Room 100
CMCL has arranged for a representative from the Grad Grants Center to give an overview of grant-writing, along with some Q & A time to answer your questions. With the travel grant and dissertation year fellowship application season coming up soon, this should be helpful and very timely.
PLease be sure to join us! No advance registration is required
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, Room 100
CMCL has arranged for a representative from the Grad Grants Center to give an overview of grant-writing, along with some Q & A time to answer your questions. With the travel grant and dissertation year fellowship application season coming up soon, this should be helpful and very timely.
PLease be sure to join us! No advance registration is required
Image Studies Forum - Animalizing India: Emerging Signs of an Unruly Market
Radhika Parameswaran, School of Journalism, Indiana University
Friday, October 23
2:00-3:30
Ernie Pyle Hall Rm. 214
Analyzing the rise and fall of Indonesia's status in globalization's economic imaginary, Anna Tsing notes that an "economy of appearances" drives the search for new economic frontiers at historic moments when global capital seeks wild creativity rather than stable reproduction. In the creative logic of globalization's economy of appearances, profit must be imagined before it can be extracted; a nation's possibility of economic performance must be conjured like a spirit to motivate an audience of investors, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens to believe in the promise of a linked global future.
How is India's potential as an emerging market and a serious player in the global economy being conjured in the popular aesthetics of magazine and non-fiction book covers? Even as an outpouring of verbal discourse from academics, journalists, and business and policy pundits has hailed an India that is either “rising, ascending, levitating, and soaring” or “falling, descending, tumbling, and receding,” a steady stream of popular illustrations has also sought to illuminate the vicissitudes of India’s newfound economic recognition. Drawing from a larger historical project’s archive of still images, this presentation will focus on recent artistic portraits of global India as an animal—an elephant or tiger—that wanders alone or sometimes with another animal companion—dragon or panda bear—called China. My analysis will attempt to make sense of different metonymic and surreal representations of a bestial India that circulate in an unpredictable economic ecosystem already inhabited by capricious bulls and bears. Bringing the literature on soft power and global nation branding in conversation with studies of animals in popular culture, the presentation seeks to get inside a visual economy of appearances in which zoological embodiments arbitrate an emerging market’s unruly prospects for success.
Friday, October 23
2:00-3:30
Ernie Pyle Hall Rm. 214
Analyzing the rise and fall of Indonesia's status in globalization's economic imaginary, Anna Tsing notes that an "economy of appearances" drives the search for new economic frontiers at historic moments when global capital seeks wild creativity rather than stable reproduction. In the creative logic of globalization's economy of appearances, profit must be imagined before it can be extracted; a nation's possibility of economic performance must be conjured like a spirit to motivate an audience of investors, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens to believe in the promise of a linked global future.
How is India's potential as an emerging market and a serious player in the global economy being conjured in the popular aesthetics of magazine and non-fiction book covers? Even as an outpouring of verbal discourse from academics, journalists, and business and policy pundits has hailed an India that is either “rising, ascending, levitating, and soaring” or “falling, descending, tumbling, and receding,” a steady stream of popular illustrations has also sought to illuminate the vicissitudes of India’s newfound economic recognition. Drawing from a larger historical project’s archive of still images, this presentation will focus on recent artistic portraits of global India as an animal—an elephant or tiger—that wanders alone or sometimes with another animal companion—dragon or panda bear—called China. My analysis will attempt to make sense of different metonymic and surreal representations of a bestial India that circulate in an unpredictable economic ecosystem already inhabited by capricious bulls and bears. Bringing the literature on soft power and global nation branding in conversation with studies of animals in popular culture, the presentation seeks to get inside a visual economy of appearances in which zoological embodiments arbitrate an emerging market’s unruly prospects for success.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture
In sponsorship with The Department Anthropology, the Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series, Department of the History of Art, Islamic Studies, The IU Art Museum, Religious Studies and NELC Present:
Dr. Kenneth George
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:30 pm, IMU Oak Room
“Ethics, Iconoclasm, and Qur’anic Art in Indonesia”
________________________________________
Abstract: What predicaments and crises are posed, whose interests are served, and what discourses are advanced when artists use the Qur’an for aesthetic projects? This talk throws light on some of the ethical and ideological energies that have animated today’s Muslim art publics by looking at the anxiety and outcry in Indonesia’s art world over the use of Qur’anic script in fashion and in painting. I argue that moments of panic or outrage may afford us a special glimpse of ethico-political claims as to what is or is not Islamically significant in the field of visual culture, and simultaneously reveal some of the power relations that shape national and global Muslim art publics. By looking at problems that have befallen designer Karl Lagerfeld, painter A. D. Pirous, and other Indonesian artists, I suggest how a custodial ethics for handling Qur’anic Arabic has played into the hands of Muslim religious conservatives as they extend their authority into national and transnational art worlds, and more generally how Qur’anic art has become a space of struggle over the scope of secularism, religion, and culture.
Bio: Ken George is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Past Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). Ken’s early work in Indonesia (1982-1992) dealt with ritual speech, song, and violence. Since 1994, he has been collaborating with Indonesian painter A. D. Pirous and others in exploring the predicaments and possibilities for Islamic visual culture in national and transnational art publics. His books include the forthcoming Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld (Wiley-Blackwell); Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (co-edited with Andrew Willford); and Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a 20th-Century Headhunting Ritual, winner of the 1998 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies.
Dr. Kenneth George
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:30 pm, IMU Oak Room
“Ethics, Iconoclasm, and Qur’anic Art in Indonesia”
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Abstract: What predicaments and crises are posed, whose interests are served, and what discourses are advanced when artists use the Qur’an for aesthetic projects? This talk throws light on some of the ethical and ideological energies that have animated today’s Muslim art publics by looking at the anxiety and outcry in Indonesia’s art world over the use of Qur’anic script in fashion and in painting. I argue that moments of panic or outrage may afford us a special glimpse of ethico-political claims as to what is or is not Islamically significant in the field of visual culture, and simultaneously reveal some of the power relations that shape national and global Muslim art publics. By looking at problems that have befallen designer Karl Lagerfeld, painter A. D. Pirous, and other Indonesian artists, I suggest how a custodial ethics for handling Qur’anic Arabic has played into the hands of Muslim religious conservatives as they extend their authority into national and transnational art worlds, and more generally how Qur’anic art has become a space of struggle over the scope of secularism, religion, and culture.
Bio: Ken George is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Past Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). Ken’s early work in Indonesia (1982-1992) dealt with ritual speech, song, and violence. Since 1994, he has been collaborating with Indonesian painter A. D. Pirous and others in exploring the predicaments and possibilities for Islamic visual culture in national and transnational art publics. His books include the forthcoming Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld (Wiley-Blackwell); Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia (co-edited with Andrew Willford); and Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a 20th-Century Headhunting Ritual, winner of the 1998 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Call for Papers - International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
The Film and Media division of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts seeks paper and panel proposals for the 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts which will be held March 17th – 21st, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel.
The topic of this year’s conference is “Race and the Fantastic.” Papers related to this topic, as well as to the work of our guests of honor and attending authors (below), are especially welcome; as always, proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media are also welcome.
Of particular interest to the Film and Television division are papers exploring:
• The alien in SF and fantasy
• Vampires and the racial imaginary in television and film
• TV detective programs featuring psychics and the supernatural
• Fantastic spaces, such as on Lost or Twin Peaks
• Mediations of race in the alternative realities of videogames
The guests of honor and guest scholar for 2010 are as follows:
Guest of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart Man, Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Tesseracts 9, and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater, Hiroshima, Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, Dragon Steel, The Rainbow People, Dragon’s Gate, Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord; co-editor of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America, Cyberpunk America, Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Attending authors and scholars at the 2010 conference will include: Joe Haldeman, Stephen R. Donaldson, Andy Duncan, Candas Jane Dorsey, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Patricia McKillip, Patrick O'Leary, James Morrow, Peter Straub, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
In order to be considered for the 2010 program, your proposal to (1) read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper session, or (3) organize and chair a panel discussion should be date-stamped no later than October 31, 2009; electronic correspondence is welcome. Proposals must be sent to the appropriate Division Head (addresses below). Advise the Division Head if you would like to volunteer to chair a paper session. Proposals must include a 500-word abstract and appropriate bibliography indicating the project's scholarly or theoretical context. Presenters must be members of IAFA at the time of the conference. Be sure to indicate all audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal; later A/V requests cannot be guaranteed.
Submissions and inquiries may be directed to Film and Media division head Jeffrey Weinstock, Central Michigan University (JEFFREY.WEINSTOCK@CMICH.EDU). Department of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA.
More information and updates are available at the IAFA Web site: http://www.iafa.org.
The topic of this year’s conference is “Race and the Fantastic.” Papers related to this topic, as well as to the work of our guests of honor and attending authors (below), are especially welcome; as always, proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media are also welcome.
Of particular interest to the Film and Television division are papers exploring:
• The alien in SF and fantasy
• Vampires and the racial imaginary in television and film
• TV detective programs featuring psychics and the supernatural
• Fantastic spaces, such as on Lost or Twin Peaks
• Mediations of race in the alternative realities of videogames
The guests of honor and guest scholar for 2010 are as follows:
Guest of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, award-winning author of Blackheart Man, Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk, The New Moon’s Arms; editor/co-editor of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Tesseracts 9, and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
Guest of Honor: Laurence Yep, award-wining author of Sweetwater, Hiroshima, Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, Sea Glass, Dragon Steel, The Rainbow People, Dragon’s Gate, Dream Soul, The Junior Thunder Lord; co-editor of American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
Guest Scholar: Takayuki Tatsumi, author of Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America, Cyberpunk America, Japanese SF Controversies: 1957-1997; co-editor of Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Attending authors and scholars at the 2010 conference will include: Joe Haldeman, Stephen R. Donaldson, Andy Duncan, Candas Jane Dorsey, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Patricia McKillip, Patrick O'Leary, James Morrow, Peter Straub, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
In order to be considered for the 2010 program, your proposal to (1) read a paper, (2) recruit and chair a paper session, or (3) organize and chair a panel discussion should be date-stamped no later than October 31, 2009; electronic correspondence is welcome. Proposals must be sent to the appropriate Division Head (addresses below). Advise the Division Head if you would like to volunteer to chair a paper session. Proposals must include a 500-word abstract and appropriate bibliography indicating the project's scholarly or theoretical context. Presenters must be members of IAFA at the time of the conference. Be sure to indicate all audio-visual equipment needs in this initial proposal; later A/V requests cannot be guaranteed.
Submissions and inquiries may be directed to Film and Media division head Jeffrey Weinstock, Central Michigan University (JEFFREY.WEINSTOCK@CMICH.EDU). Department of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA.
More information and updates are available at the IAFA Web site: http://www.iafa.org.
James O. Naremore Lecture Tonight!
Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture is honored to present
“Hive-Sourcing is the New Out-sourcing: Learning from Film/TV Production Cultures”
John T. Caldwell
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
School of Optometry Building, Room 105 (800 East Atwater Avenue)
Reception to Follow in Upstairs Lobby of the Classroom-Office Building (800 East Third Street)
“Hive-Sourcing is the New Out-sourcing: Learning from Film/TV Production Cultures”
John T. Caldwell
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
School of Optometry Building, Room 105 (800 East Atwater Avenue)
Reception to Follow in Upstairs Lobby of the Classroom-Office Building (800 East Third Street)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
7pm Monday, 12 Oct 2009
Free - IU Auditorium
No tickets required.
On Monday, October 12 the Union Board and the Secular Alliance of IU is hosting former Oxford professor Richard Dawkins in a free lecture, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution."
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
7pm Monday, 12 Oct 2009
Free - IU Auditorium
No tickets required.
On Monday, October 12 the Union Board and the Secular Alliance of IU is hosting former Oxford professor Richard Dawkins in a free lecture, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution."
Call for Papers - "The Archive & Everyday Life" Conference
May 7-8, 2010
McMaster University
Proposals due 15 October 2009 to tayconf@mcmaster.ca
Confirmed Keynotes: Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures), Angela Grauerholz (At Work and Play: A Web Experimentation), Ben Highmore (The Everyday Life Reader; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory), Michael O’Driscoll (The Event of theArchive)
This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. From Simmel through Mass Observation to contemporary Cultural Studies theorists, the objective of everyday life theory has been, as Ben Highmore writes, to “rescue the everyday from conventional habits of the mind…to attempt to register the everyday in all its complexities and contradictions.” Archive theory provides a means to explore these structures by “making the unfamiliar familiar,” hence opening the possibility of generating “new forms of critical practice.” The question of a politics of the archive is critical to the burgeoning field of archive theory. How do we begin to theorize the archive as a political apparatus? Can its effective democratization be measured by the participation of those who engage with both its constitution and its interpretation?
“Archive” is understood to cover a range of objects, from a museum’s collection to a personal photograph album, from a repository of a writer’s papers in a library to an artist’s installation of found objects. Regardless of its content, the archive works to contain, organize, represent, render intelligible, and produce narratives. The archive has often worked to legitimate the rule of those in power and to produce a historical narrative that presents class structure and power relations as both common-sense and inevitable. This function of the archive as a machine that produces History—telling us what is significant, valued, and worth preserving, and what isn’t—is enabled through an understanding of the archive as neutral and objective (and too banal and boring to be political!). The archive has long occupied a privileged space in affirmative culture, and as a result, the archive has been revered from afar and aestheticized, but not understood as a potential object of critical practice.
Can a dialogue between archive theory and everyday life theory work to “take revenge” on the archive (Cvetkovich)? If the archive works to produce historical narratives, can we seize the archive and its attendant collective consciousness as a tool for resistance in countering dominant History with resistant narratives? While the archive has worked to preserve a transcendental, “affirmative” form of culture, bringing everyday life theory into conversation with archive theory opens up the possibility of directing critical attention to both the wonders and drudgeries of the everyday. Archiving the everyday—revealing class structures and oppression on the basis of race and gender, rendering working and living conditions under global capitalism visible, audible, and intelligible—redirects us from our busyness and distractedness, and focuses our attention on that which has not been understood to be deserving of archiving. The archive provides the time and space to think through a collection of objects organized around particular set of interests. If the archive could grant us a space in which to examine everyday life, rather than sweeping it under the carpet as a trivial banality, we could begin to understand our conditions and develop the desire to change them.
How can we envision the archive as a site of ethics and/or politics? Does the archive simply represent a place to amass memory, or can it, following Benjamin, represent a site to make visible a history of the present, thus amassing fragments of the everyday, which can in turn be used to uproot the authority of the past to question the present? In short, what happens when we move beyond the archive as merely a collection and begin to theorize it as a site of constant renewal and struggle within which the past and present can come together? Furthermore, how then does the archive as an everyday practice allow us to understand or change our perception of temporality, memory, and this historical moment?
Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics and questions:
• The archive both includes and excludes; it works to preserve while simultaneously doing violence. Are the acts of selection, collection, ordering, systematizing, and cataloguing inherently violent?
• The question of digitization: the internet as digital archive and the digitization of the physical archive. Digitizing the archive renders collections invisible and distant, yet increasingly searchable and quantifiable. Does the digitization of the archive reveal new ways of seeing persistent power structures? Or does it hide them?
• National and colonial archiving: questions of power and national identity.
• The utopian, radical potential of the archive as well as its dystopian possibilities.
• Indigenous modes of archiving.
• Visibility and pedagogy: while the archive often works to hide, conceal, and store away, it can also reveal and display that which otherwise remains invisible. Do barriers to access restrict this emancipatory function of the archive?
• Questions of collective memory and nostalgia (for Benjamin, a retreat to a place of comfort through nostalgia is not a political act).
• The archive as revisionist history.
• The archive as a form of surveillance.
• The role of reflexivity with respect to the manner in which the archive is constructed/produced/curated.
• Function of the narrative form for the archive: how does the way in which the archive reveals its own constructedness unravel the concept of the archive as “historical truth”?
• The future of the archive: preservation and collection look forwards as well as into the past. How should we understand the hermeneutic function of the archive and the struggle over its interpretation?
• The relationship between the archive and the archivist/archon.
• Mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the archive: who speaks and who is spoken for?
• The affective relationship between the archive and the body.
Following the conference, we intend to publish an edited collection of essays based on the papers presented at the conference to facilitate the circulation of ideas in this exciting field of inquiry.
“The Archive and Everyday Life” Conference will take place 7-8 May, 2010, sponsored by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (John Douglas Taylor Fund). The conference format will be diverse, including paper presentations, panels, round-table exchanges, artistic performances, and exhibitions. We encourage individual and collaborative paper and panel proposals from across the disciplines and from artists and community members.
Paper Submissions should include (1) contact information; (2) a 300-500 word abstract; and (3) a one page curriculum vitae or a brief bio.
Panel Proposals should include (1) a cover sheet with contact information for chair and each panelist; (2) a one-page rationale explaining the relevance of the panel to the theme of the conference; (3) a 300 word abstract for each proposed paper; and (4) a one page curriculum vitae for each presenter.
Please submit individual paper proposals or full panel proposals via e-mail attachment by October 15, 2009 to tayconf@mcmaster.ca with the subject line “Archive.” Attachments should be in .doc or .rtf formats. Submissions should be one document (i.e. include all required information in one attached document).
Conference organizing committee:
Mary O’Connor, Jennifer Pybus, and Sarah Blacker
McMaster University
Proposals due 15 October 2009 to tayconf@mcmaster.ca
Confirmed Keynotes: Ann Cvetkovich (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures), Angela Grauerholz (At Work and Play: A Web Experimentation), Ben Highmore (The Everyday Life Reader; Everyday Life and Cultural Theory), Michael O’Driscoll (The Event of theArchive)
This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. From Simmel through Mass Observation to contemporary Cultural Studies theorists, the objective of everyday life theory has been, as Ben Highmore writes, to “rescue the everyday from conventional habits of the mind…to attempt to register the everyday in all its complexities and contradictions.” Archive theory provides a means to explore these structures by “making the unfamiliar familiar,” hence opening the possibility of generating “new forms of critical practice.” The question of a politics of the archive is critical to the burgeoning field of archive theory. How do we begin to theorize the archive as a political apparatus? Can its effective democratization be measured by the participation of those who engage with both its constitution and its interpretation?
“Archive” is understood to cover a range of objects, from a museum’s collection to a personal photograph album, from a repository of a writer’s papers in a library to an artist’s installation of found objects. Regardless of its content, the archive works to contain, organize, represent, render intelligible, and produce narratives. The archive has often worked to legitimate the rule of those in power and to produce a historical narrative that presents class structure and power relations as both common-sense and inevitable. This function of the archive as a machine that produces History—telling us what is significant, valued, and worth preserving, and what isn’t—is enabled through an understanding of the archive as neutral and objective (and too banal and boring to be political!). The archive has long occupied a privileged space in affirmative culture, and as a result, the archive has been revered from afar and aestheticized, but not understood as a potential object of critical practice.
Can a dialogue between archive theory and everyday life theory work to “take revenge” on the archive (Cvetkovich)? If the archive works to produce historical narratives, can we seize the archive and its attendant collective consciousness as a tool for resistance in countering dominant History with resistant narratives? While the archive has worked to preserve a transcendental, “affirmative” form of culture, bringing everyday life theory into conversation with archive theory opens up the possibility of directing critical attention to both the wonders and drudgeries of the everyday. Archiving the everyday—revealing class structures and oppression on the basis of race and gender, rendering working and living conditions under global capitalism visible, audible, and intelligible—redirects us from our busyness and distractedness, and focuses our attention on that which has not been understood to be deserving of archiving. The archive provides the time and space to think through a collection of objects organized around particular set of interests. If the archive could grant us a space in which to examine everyday life, rather than sweeping it under the carpet as a trivial banality, we could begin to understand our conditions and develop the desire to change them.
How can we envision the archive as a site of ethics and/or politics? Does the archive simply represent a place to amass memory, or can it, following Benjamin, represent a site to make visible a history of the present, thus amassing fragments of the everyday, which can in turn be used to uproot the authority of the past to question the present? In short, what happens when we move beyond the archive as merely a collection and begin to theorize it as a site of constant renewal and struggle within which the past and present can come together? Furthermore, how then does the archive as an everyday practice allow us to understand or change our perception of temporality, memory, and this historical moment?
Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics and questions:
• The archive both includes and excludes; it works to preserve while simultaneously doing violence. Are the acts of selection, collection, ordering, systematizing, and cataloguing inherently violent?
• The question of digitization: the internet as digital archive and the digitization of the physical archive. Digitizing the archive renders collections invisible and distant, yet increasingly searchable and quantifiable. Does the digitization of the archive reveal new ways of seeing persistent power structures? Or does it hide them?
• National and colonial archiving: questions of power and national identity.
• The utopian, radical potential of the archive as well as its dystopian possibilities.
• Indigenous modes of archiving.
• Visibility and pedagogy: while the archive often works to hide, conceal, and store away, it can also reveal and display that which otherwise remains invisible. Do barriers to access restrict this emancipatory function of the archive?
• Questions of collective memory and nostalgia (for Benjamin, a retreat to a place of comfort through nostalgia is not a political act).
• The archive as revisionist history.
• The archive as a form of surveillance.
• The role of reflexivity with respect to the manner in which the archive is constructed/produced/curated.
• Function of the narrative form for the archive: how does the way in which the archive reveals its own constructedness unravel the concept of the archive as “historical truth”?
• The future of the archive: preservation and collection look forwards as well as into the past. How should we understand the hermeneutic function of the archive and the struggle over its interpretation?
• The relationship between the archive and the archivist/archon.
• Mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the archive: who speaks and who is spoken for?
• The affective relationship between the archive and the body.
Following the conference, we intend to publish an edited collection of essays based on the papers presented at the conference to facilitate the circulation of ideas in this exciting field of inquiry.
“The Archive and Everyday Life” Conference will take place 7-8 May, 2010, sponsored by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (John Douglas Taylor Fund). The conference format will be diverse, including paper presentations, panels, round-table exchanges, artistic performances, and exhibitions. We encourage individual and collaborative paper and panel proposals from across the disciplines and from artists and community members.
Paper Submissions should include (1) contact information; (2) a 300-500 word abstract; and (3) a one page curriculum vitae or a brief bio.
Panel Proposals should include (1) a cover sheet with contact information for chair and each panelist; (2) a one-page rationale explaining the relevance of the panel to the theme of the conference; (3) a 300 word abstract for each proposed paper; and (4) a one page curriculum vitae for each presenter.
Please submit individual paper proposals or full panel proposals via e-mail attachment by October 15, 2009 to tayconf@mcmaster.ca with the subject line “Archive.” Attachments should be in .doc or .rtf formats. Submissions should be one document (i.e. include all required information in one attached document).
Conference organizing committee:
Mary O’Connor, Jennifer Pybus, and Sarah Blacker
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Call for Papers - Contemporary Italian Cinema
Symposium on New Italian Cinema
April 7-11, 2010
Indiana University, Bloomington
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2009
Submissions are being accepted for original research on new directors and trends in Italian cinema. Papers may focus on, but should not be limited to: new directions in criticism, financial and political dynamics in film production, analysis of individual films, development of new authorial visions, the relationship to other national cinematographic traditions and films, intersections between film and
other arts (photography, music, literature, etc.), "Italophone cinema" coming from the Americas, Australia, Africa, The Mediterranean World or other countries, the representation of family and gender, the issue and experience of otherness, the search for cultural and spiritual identity.
Proposals on the pedagogical application of cinema in the foreign language classroom are also welcomed.
Papers should be written in the language in which the reader feels most comfortable (Italian or English); however, they should be limited to no more than 18 minutes (8-9 doubled-spaced pages). One-page abstracts should be sent electronically (Word attachment only) by Dec. 31, 2009 or before to Antonio Vitti (ancvitti@indiana.edu), or to Colleen Ryan-Scheutz (ryancm@indiana.edu) and or to Andrea Ciccarelli
(aciccare@indiana.edu ).
April 7-11, 2010
Indiana University, Bloomington
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2009
Submissions are being accepted for original research on new directors and trends in Italian cinema. Papers may focus on, but should not be limited to: new directions in criticism, financial and political dynamics in film production, analysis of individual films, development of new authorial visions, the relationship to other national cinematographic traditions and films, intersections between film and
other arts (photography, music, literature, etc.), "Italophone cinema" coming from the Americas, Australia, Africa, The Mediterranean World or other countries, the representation of family and gender, the issue and experience of otherness, the search for cultural and spiritual identity.
Proposals on the pedagogical application of cinema in the foreign language classroom are also welcomed.
Papers should be written in the language in which the reader feels most comfortable (Italian or English); however, they should be limited to no more than 18 minutes (8-9 doubled-spaced pages). One-page abstracts should be sent electronically (Word attachment only) by Dec. 31, 2009 or before to Antonio Vitti (ancvitti@indiana.edu), or to Colleen Ryan-Scheutz (ryancm@indiana.edu) and or to Andrea Ciccarelli
(aciccare@indiana.edu ).
Indiana University Cinema Groundbreaking
Saturday, October 17, 2009
2:00 p.m.
steps of the University Theatre
Provost Karen Hanson and President Michael McRobbie are pleased to invite you to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Indiana University Cinema and renovation of the Theatre and Drama Building. This Homecoming 2009 event marks the beginning of an exciting project that will enhance our exceptional resources in film and theatre.
To view the invitation and to RSVP, click here. We hope you will join us for this very special occasion.
2:00 p.m.
steps of the University Theatre
Provost Karen Hanson and President Michael McRobbie are pleased to invite you to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Indiana University Cinema and renovation of the Theatre and Drama Building. This Homecoming 2009 event marks the beginning of an exciting project that will enhance our exceptional resources in film and theatre.
To view the invitation and to RSVP, click here. We hope you will join us for this very special occasion.
Call for Papers: Animation Evolution
The 22nd Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference
Edinburgh College of Art, 9-11th July 2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Animation Studies invites submissions for proposals for individual papers and panels for its 22nd Annual conference to be held in Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland July 9-11th 2010. This year's conference will include presentations, screenings and roundtables. We are delighted to be able to announce the confirmed keynote speakers are Clare Kitson and Paul Wells.
The conference theme is "convergence" with a view to encouraging debates surrounding the changing nature of animation studies, taking into account the diverse range of applications and industries which animation increasingly occupies. However papers and pre-constituted panels on all aspects of animation history, theory and criticism are also welcome.
Possible topics may include:
* Animation histories or national movements/identities
* Animation and advertising
* Gaming and animation
* Animation applications in other industries (i.e. medical/science)
* Animation and music/sound
* New technologies in animation - the future of 3D?
* TV animation - alternative broadcasting methods; specific shows; audiences etc.
* Animation and popular culture - graphic novels, comics, film
* Theories and methodologies in animation studies
* Animation pedagogy - online learning applications; balance of theory and practice in curricula
1. Interested individuals should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for 20 minute presentations with the following information:
. Title and 100 word version of abstract for publication.
. A biographical statement, up to 100 words, indicating how the proposed paper fits into your overall research agenda and experience.
. A head shot of yourself suitable for publication.
. Complete contact information, including name, institutional affiliation (if any), postal address, e-mail address(es) and telephone number(s).
Deadline for individual submissions: 8 January 2010
2. Alternatively, panel proposals of 3/4 speakers each are also encouraged.
One individual should act as the Chair of the panel and collate abstracts and contact information for all panel members before submission. Please include the following information:
. Overall panel title/theme
. Name and contact information for the panel Chair (clearly
identified)
. Titles and abstracts of each paper
. Contact information for each presenter (mail, email, phone)
. Biography (100-word) and contact information for each presenter (mail, email, phone).
. Photo of each presenter suitable for publication.
Deadline for panel submissions: 8 January 2010
Proposals will be blind reviewed by a panel of SAS members, and acceptance will be announced by 8 February 2010. Please be aware that spaces for paper presentations are limited. Late proposals will not be considered until all other proposals have been read.
Proposals must be submitted as an email attachment, in MS Word or RTF formats to Nichola Dobson at animationevolution@animationstudies.org by 8 January 2010.
Membership in the Society for Animation Studies is required if your proposal is accepted for presentation at the conference. (For more information on the Society, go to its webpage at www.animationstudies.org
Financial aid for travel will be available on a limited basis; details will be forthcoming.
A schedule and further details of the conference will follow in due course at www.animationevolution.animationstudies.org
If you have any questions regarding the conference or submission of a proposal, please contact conference chair Nichola Dobson.
Edinburgh College of Art, 9-11th July 2010.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Animation Studies invites submissions for proposals for individual papers and panels for its 22nd Annual conference to be held in Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland July 9-11th 2010. This year's conference will include presentations, screenings and roundtables. We are delighted to be able to announce the confirmed keynote speakers are Clare Kitson and Paul Wells.
The conference theme is "convergence" with a view to encouraging debates surrounding the changing nature of animation studies, taking into account the diverse range of applications and industries which animation increasingly occupies. However papers and pre-constituted panels on all aspects of animation history, theory and criticism are also welcome.
Possible topics may include:
* Animation histories or national movements/identities
* Animation and advertising
* Gaming and animation
* Animation applications in other industries (i.e. medical/science)
* Animation and music/sound
* New technologies in animation - the future of 3D?
* TV animation - alternative broadcasting methods; specific shows; audiences etc.
* Animation and popular culture - graphic novels, comics, film
* Theories and methodologies in animation studies
* Animation pedagogy - online learning applications; balance of theory and practice in curricula
1. Interested individuals should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words for 20 minute presentations with the following information:
. Title and 100 word version of abstract for publication.
. A biographical statement, up to 100 words, indicating how the proposed paper fits into your overall research agenda and experience.
. A head shot of yourself suitable for publication.
. Complete contact information, including name, institutional affiliation (if any), postal address, e-mail address(es) and telephone number(s).
Deadline for individual submissions: 8 January 2010
2. Alternatively, panel proposals of 3/4 speakers each are also encouraged.
One individual should act as the Chair of the panel and collate abstracts and contact information for all panel members before submission. Please include the following information:
. Overall panel title/theme
. Name and contact information for the panel Chair (clearly
identified)
. Titles and abstracts of each paper
. Contact information for each presenter (mail, email, phone)
. Biography (100-word) and contact information for each presenter (mail, email, phone).
. Photo of each presenter suitable for publication.
Deadline for panel submissions: 8 January 2010
Proposals will be blind reviewed by a panel of SAS members, and acceptance will be announced by 8 February 2010. Please be aware that spaces for paper presentations are limited. Late proposals will not be considered until all other proposals have been read.
Proposals must be submitted as an email attachment, in MS Word or RTF formats to Nichola Dobson at animationevolution@animationstudies.org by 8 January 2010.
Membership in the Society for Animation Studies is required if your proposal is accepted for presentation at the conference. (For more information on the Society, go to its webpage at www.animationstudies.org
Financial aid for travel will be available on a limited basis; details will be forthcoming.
A schedule and further details of the conference will follow in due course at www.animationevolution.animationstudies.org
If you have any questions regarding the conference or submission of a proposal, please contact conference chair Nichola Dobson.
Campus Instuctional Consulting Workshop: Active Learning for Struggling Students.
Ballantine Hall 347
Friday, October 9, 2009
2:30 – 4:00 pm
One of the most significant and difficult realizations for many instructors is that their own learning styles—their preferred ways of learning new information—may differ from their students’ styles. Because of these differences, instructors may ask themselves how to teach course content when their students’ learning styles differ dramatically from their own, and when students differ among themselves in how they prefer to take in new information.
In this workshop facilitated by Alison Doubleday (Medical Sciences) and Lisa Kurz, participants will explore strategies for presenting course material in different ways to address students’ differing learning styles. We will address questions such as: What simple techniques can you incorporate into your teaching that will help you enhance all of your students’ learning? How can you help individual students who are struggling to learn your course content? In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to develop a plan to incorporate specific strategies into their teaching to address students’ differing learning styles, and will be able to learn about and offer feedback on other participants’ plans.
Friday, October 9, 2009
2:30 – 4:00 pm
One of the most significant and difficult realizations for many instructors is that their own learning styles—their preferred ways of learning new information—may differ from their students’ styles. Because of these differences, instructors may ask themselves how to teach course content when their students’ learning styles differ dramatically from their own, and when students differ among themselves in how they prefer to take in new information.
In this workshop facilitated by Alison Doubleday (Medical Sciences) and Lisa Kurz, participants will explore strategies for presenting course material in different ways to address students’ differing learning styles. We will address questions such as: What simple techniques can you incorporate into your teaching that will help you enhance all of your students’ learning? How can you help individual students who are struggling to learn your course content? In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to develop a plan to incorporate specific strategies into their teaching to address students’ differing learning styles, and will be able to learn about and offer feedback on other participants’ plans.
The Stone Age Institute and Indiana University present "ORIGINS: The Evolution on the Universe, the Earth, Life, and the Human Species"
In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences 2009 Themester:
“Evolution, Diversity and Change”
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
IU Bloomington
******* This symposium is free and open to the public *******
_MORNING
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Michael McRobbie, President, Indiana University
Sarita Soni, Vice Provost for Research
Robert Becker, Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
9:20-9:30 From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: A Framework for Teaching about Origins
9:30-9:45 The Origin of Everything: The Big Bang and its Aftershocks (Tim Londergan, Physics)
9:45-10:00 The Origin of Stars and Galaxies (Catherine Pilachowski, Astronomy)
10:00-10:15 The Origin of the Earth and our Solar System, and What Meteorites Can Tell Us (Abhijit Basu, Geology)
10:15-10:30 Question & Answer
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:00 The Origin of Life on Earth (and Beyond?) (Lisa Pratt, Geology)
11:00-11:15 The Origin of Animals and the Cambrian Explosion (Rudolf Raff, Biology)
11:15-11:30 The Origin of Invertebrates and What Corals Can Tell Us (Claudia Johnson, Geology)
11:30-11:45 The Origin of Vertebrates and the Age of Mammals (David Polly, Geology)
11:45-12:00 Question & Answer
12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
1:30-1:45 Planet of the Apes Monkeys (Kevin Hunt, Anthropology)
1:45-2:00 The Origin of the Genus Homo and the Dawn of Technology (Nicholas Toth, Anthropology)
2:00-2:15 The Origin of the Modern Human Brain and Consciousness (Thomas Schoenemann, Anthropology)
2:15-2:30 Question & Answer
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:00 The Origin of Creativity and Symbolic Thought (Kathy Schick, Anthropology)
3:00-3:15 The Origin of Modern Life: Foraging, Farming, and Civilization (Geoffrey Conrad, Anthropology)
3:15-3:30 Origins, Evolution and Being Human in the Modern World (Elizabeth Raff, Biology)
3:30-4:00 Question & Answer and Final Remarks
For more information visit www.stoneageinstitute.org
“Evolution, Diversity and Change”
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
IU Bloomington
******* This symposium is free and open to the public *******
_MORNING
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Michael McRobbie, President, Indiana University
Sarita Soni, Vice Provost for Research
Robert Becker, Executive Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
9:20-9:30 From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: A Framework for Teaching about Origins
9:30-9:45 The Origin of Everything: The Big Bang and its Aftershocks (Tim Londergan, Physics)
9:45-10:00 The Origin of Stars and Galaxies (Catherine Pilachowski, Astronomy)
10:00-10:15 The Origin of the Earth and our Solar System, and What Meteorites Can Tell Us (Abhijit Basu, Geology)
10:15-10:30 Question & Answer
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:00 The Origin of Life on Earth (and Beyond?) (Lisa Pratt, Geology)
11:00-11:15 The Origin of Animals and the Cambrian Explosion (Rudolf Raff, Biology)
11:15-11:30 The Origin of Invertebrates and What Corals Can Tell Us (Claudia Johnson, Geology)
11:30-11:45 The Origin of Vertebrates and the Age of Mammals (David Polly, Geology)
11:45-12:00 Question & Answer
12:00-1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
1:30-1:45 Planet of the Apes Monkeys (Kevin Hunt, Anthropology)
1:45-2:00 The Origin of the Genus Homo and the Dawn of Technology (Nicholas Toth, Anthropology)
2:00-2:15 The Origin of the Modern Human Brain and Consciousness (Thomas Schoenemann, Anthropology)
2:15-2:30 Question & Answer
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:00 The Origin of Creativity and Symbolic Thought (Kathy Schick, Anthropology)
3:00-3:15 The Origin of Modern Life: Foraging, Farming, and Civilization (Geoffrey Conrad, Anthropology)
3:15-3:30 Origins, Evolution and Being Human in the Modern World (Elizabeth Raff, Biology)
3:30-4:00 Question & Answer and Final Remarks
For more information visit www.stoneageinstitute.org
Grad School Prom
Attention all Indiana University Graduate Students!
Union Board’s Outreach Committee
GRAD SCHOOL PROM
October 16th
7:30 pm
IMU Alumni Hall
This special event is exclusively for graduate students and will be a great time to kick back and have some fun with fellow students. The event is FREE and includes limited buffet style dinner. In addition to the buffet, there will be also be a cash bar and DJ! The event will begin at 7:30 at Alumni Hall in the Union and don’t forget to “dress to impress”!
Remember to bring your student ID.
Union Board’s Outreach Committee
GRAD SCHOOL PROM
October 16th
7:30 pm
IMU Alumni Hall
This special event is exclusively for graduate students and will be a great time to kick back and have some fun with fellow students. The event is FREE and includes limited buffet style dinner. In addition to the buffet, there will be also be a cash bar and DJ! The event will begin at 7:30 at Alumni Hall in the Union and don’t forget to “dress to impress”!
Remember to bring your student ID.
Reminder: James O. Naremore Lecture
Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture is honored to present
“Hive-Sourcing is the New Out-sourcing: Learning from Film/TV Production Cultures”
John T. Caldwell
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
School of Optometry Building, Room 105 (800 East Atwater Avenue)
Reception to Follow in Upstairs Lobby of the Classroom-Office Building (800 East Third Street)
Media and film studies scholars can gain rich insights—about history, audiences, narratives, and onscreen texts—through material, grounded ethnographic studies of production workers, their tools, and their habits. This lecture draws out these notions by looking at production culture’s mirror image—or “flipside”—of the “participatory” fan culture and “networked sociality” that Henry Jenkins and others have so ably mapped out. Professor Caldwell argues that these linked cultural flipsides (production work-and-consumer work) provide some historical grounding and parallels for several more recent, optimistic (and sometimes utopian) claims about participatory media culture. Several arguments guide this study, including the claim that new forms of crowd-sourcing and hive-sourcing fulfill old strategies of production outsourcing. This lecture extends arguments from conclusions first developed in the book Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television.
Screening and discussion of Professor Caldwell’s feature documentary film
Rancho California (por favor)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
12:00-2:00 pm
Wells Library, Room E174
“Hive-Sourcing is the New Out-sourcing: Learning from Film/TV Production Cultures”
John T. Caldwell
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
School of Optometry Building, Room 105 (800 East Atwater Avenue)
Reception to Follow in Upstairs Lobby of the Classroom-Office Building (800 East Third Street)
Media and film studies scholars can gain rich insights—about history, audiences, narratives, and onscreen texts—through material, grounded ethnographic studies of production workers, their tools, and their habits. This lecture draws out these notions by looking at production culture’s mirror image—or “flipside”—of the “participatory” fan culture and “networked sociality” that Henry Jenkins and others have so ably mapped out. Professor Caldwell argues that these linked cultural flipsides (production work-and-consumer work) provide some historical grounding and parallels for several more recent, optimistic (and sometimes utopian) claims about participatory media culture. Several arguments guide this study, including the claim that new forms of crowd-sourcing and hive-sourcing fulfill old strategies of production outsourcing. This lecture extends arguments from conclusions first developed in the book Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television.
Screening and discussion of Professor Caldwell’s feature documentary film
Rancho California (por favor)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
12:00-2:00 pm
Wells Library, Room E174
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Call for Papers - Bloom: Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Food Systems, Cultures and Methods
The Twelfth Annual Joint Annual Meeting
of the
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
with
the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)
June 2 to June 6, 2010
Hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Organizer and Local Arrangements:
Richard Wilk, Indiana University wilkr@indiana.edu
Program Committee Chairs:
Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America b_forres@culinary.edu and
Alice Julier, Chatham University apjulier@gmail.com
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition:
Janet Chrzan[GWG2] , University of Pennsylvania jchrzan@sas.upenn.edu
From when seeds are first planted in the ground, many factors affect a harvest. Food systems are shaped by everything from the weather and the soil to equipment, human skills, and social interventions from community rules, governments, migrations, and strife. Likewise, after harvest, the distribution, preparation, and consumption of foodstuffs are all by individuals acting according to cultural and social expectations. Thus, it can be said that food is cross pollinated by ion of ideas and conceptions all the way through the agriculture and food system. A similar cross pollination also characterizes agriculture and food studies as intellectual domains. Food is inherently cross-disciplinary, requiring scholarly flexibility and integration. Our research and writing becomes more robust by manifesting cross pollination of theories and methods. Furthermore, students of food must recognize the complex nexus of material and social components that make food, like sex, uniquely interesting. Expanding and embracing the practical, everyday aspects of food systems nourishes the field and leads to new methodological and ethical questions with broader applicability. As Anthropologist Mary Douglas asserted, "a radical approach to food's place in civilization would require the whole range of food's social uses to be considered." For this conference, we call for papers that span and cross the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, while also taking the practical knowledge of food system citizens seriously.
The conferenceseeks to celebrate the interconnectedness of food studies and to promote the understanding of food and agriculture. Although our organizations encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences, we are enthusiastically encouraging papers and sessions that speak directly to the theme. We also encourage full panel submissions and roundtable sessions on all topics related to the social, cultural, political, and ethical organization of food and agriculture.
o The Cultivation & Sustainability of Food Systems
o Issues of Boundary Crossing: Migration, Globalization, Interpretation; Class, Gender, Race
o The Inter-connectedness of Agriculture, Food, & Pedagogy
The Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition will be joining the conference for the first time. We welcome abstracts for papers, posters, and panels on all aspects of food, nutrition, and agriculture, including those related to:
Art, media, and literary analyses
Change & development
Culture & cultural geography
Ethics & philosophy
Food safety & risk
Gender and ethnicity
Globalization of agriculture and food
History
Inequality, access, security, & social justice
Knowledge
Local food systems
Pedagogy
Politics, policies, & governance in national & global contexts
Research methods, practices & issues
Social action & social movements
Sustainability
Science & technologies
Conference Location
Indiana University, located in the college town of Bloomington, amid rolling hills of southern Indiana, is the ideal place for our conference. Consistently voted as among the most beautiful campuses in the USA, it boasts natural resources, cultural events, an impressive art museum, an array of musical venues (including opera, symphonic, bluegrass), a Tibetan monastery, and a thriving regional food scene. The campus, less than an hour from the Indianapolis International airport, is reached by a scheduled shuttle bus. Accommodations range from thrifty dorm rooms to local hotels and charming B&Bs. The conference will be held on the beautiful grounds of the university campus.
Tours, Tastings and Other Local Events
As usual, the first day of the conference will be filled with local tours, organized to showcase the best local connections to food and agriculture. These will include excursions to wineries, organic farms, Amish communities, a thriving farmers market, as well as an amazing variety of ethnic restaurants and an enthusiastic campus community.
Procedures for Submitting Abstracts for Papers, Panels, or Events
DUE DATE: February 1, 2010
TYPES OF SESSIONS: Submissions may include proposals for (1) individual papers, (2) full panels (between 3-4 papers on a theme) roundtables (informal presentations or discussions with multiple participants), or (3) events (for example: films, readings)may be proposed.
FORMAT: Abstracts only. Electronic submission. Abstracts – please name the document as follows: with lead author's last name and ASFS in the title (ex: julierASFS.doc). If the submission is a panel or a roundtable, please include the word in the title (ex: julierASFSpanel.doc or julierASFSroundtable.doc)
Submissions may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats All proposals should include, in this order: (1) type of submission (e.g., paper, panel, or event); (2) title; (3) submitter's name, organizational affiliation, and full mailing address; (4) submitter's e-mail address; (5) submitter's telephone number, (6) names and organizational affiliations of co-authors or co-organizers; and (7) abstract of 300 or fewer words that describes the proposed paper, panel, or event. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract and individual abstracts for each of the papers on the panel as well as contact information (name, affiliation, email) of the moderator and all panel members. Individual paper proposals and roundtable proposals should be a single abstract with names and contact information for all presenters.
SUBMISSION: Please send abstract electronically to: asfs2010@gmail.com. For questions or concerns, please contact Beth Forrest: b_forres@culinary.edu
ACKNOWLEGEMENT AND NOTIFICATION: All proposals sent by e-mail will be acknowledged within one week of receipt. Notification of status of proposals will be sent by February 20th. We regret that our peer review process does not enable us to provide critique, only "accept" or "not accept" status. We reserve the right to limit multiple submissions by the same author.
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS: To encourage participation by undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize excellence, both ASFS and AFHVS invite submissions to their student paper competitions. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts to the conference as well. Information for both competitions appears below. Please note that a paper may be submitted to only one, not both, of the competitions. For more information, please see: www.food-culture.org (ASFS) and www.afhvs.org for more information on deadlines and submission guidelines.
ASFS Student Paper Committee: Riki Saltzman, Riki.Saltzman@iowa.gov
AFHVS Student Paper Contact: Richard Haynes rhaynes@phil.ufl.edu [GWG3]
of the
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
with
the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)
June 2 to June 6, 2010
Hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Organizer and Local Arrangements:
Richard Wilk, Indiana University wilkr@indiana.edu
Program Committee Chairs:
Beth Forrest, Culinary Institute of America b_forres@culinary.edu and
Alice Julier, Chatham University apjulier@gmail.com
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition:
Janet Chrzan[GWG2] , University of Pennsylvania jchrzan@sas.upenn.edu
From when seeds are first planted in the ground, many factors affect a harvest. Food systems are shaped by everything from the weather and the soil to equipment, human skills, and social interventions from community rules, governments, migrations, and strife. Likewise, after harvest, the distribution, preparation, and consumption of foodstuffs are all by individuals acting according to cultural and social expectations. Thus, it can be said that food is cross pollinated by ion of ideas and conceptions all the way through the agriculture and food system. A similar cross pollination also characterizes agriculture and food studies as intellectual domains. Food is inherently cross-disciplinary, requiring scholarly flexibility and integration. Our research and writing becomes more robust by manifesting cross pollination of theories and methods. Furthermore, students of food must recognize the complex nexus of material and social components that make food, like sex, uniquely interesting. Expanding and embracing the practical, everyday aspects of food systems nourishes the field and leads to new methodological and ethical questions with broader applicability. As Anthropologist Mary Douglas asserted, "a radical approach to food's place in civilization would require the whole range of food's social uses to be considered." For this conference, we call for papers that span and cross the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, while also taking the practical knowledge of food system citizens seriously.
The conferenceseeks to celebrate the interconnectedness of food studies and to promote the understanding of food and agriculture. Although our organizations encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences, we are enthusiastically encouraging papers and sessions that speak directly to the theme. We also encourage full panel submissions and roundtable sessions on all topics related to the social, cultural, political, and ethical organization of food and agriculture.
o The Cultivation & Sustainability of Food Systems
o Issues of Boundary Crossing: Migration, Globalization, Interpretation; Class, Gender, Race
o The Inter-connectedness of Agriculture, Food, & Pedagogy
The Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition will be joining the conference for the first time. We welcome abstracts for papers, posters, and panels on all aspects of food, nutrition, and agriculture, including those related to:
Art, media, and literary analyses
Change & development
Culture & cultural geography
Ethics & philosophy
Food safety & risk
Gender and ethnicity
Globalization of agriculture and food
History
Inequality, access, security, & social justice
Knowledge
Local food systems
Pedagogy
Politics, policies, & governance in national & global contexts
Research methods, practices & issues
Social action & social movements
Sustainability
Science & technologies
Conference Location
Indiana University, located in the college town of Bloomington, amid rolling hills of southern Indiana, is the ideal place for our conference. Consistently voted as among the most beautiful campuses in the USA, it boasts natural resources, cultural events, an impressive art museum, an array of musical venues (including opera, symphonic, bluegrass), a Tibetan monastery, and a thriving regional food scene. The campus, less than an hour from the Indianapolis International airport, is reached by a scheduled shuttle bus. Accommodations range from thrifty dorm rooms to local hotels and charming B&Bs. The conference will be held on the beautiful grounds of the university campus.
Tours, Tastings and Other Local Events
As usual, the first day of the conference will be filled with local tours, organized to showcase the best local connections to food and agriculture. These will include excursions to wineries, organic farms, Amish communities, a thriving farmers market, as well as an amazing variety of ethnic restaurants and an enthusiastic campus community.
Procedures for Submitting Abstracts for Papers, Panels, or Events
DUE DATE: February 1, 2010
TYPES OF SESSIONS: Submissions may include proposals for (1) individual papers, (2) full panels (between 3-4 papers on a theme) roundtables (informal presentations or discussions with multiple participants), or (3) events (for example: films, readings)may be proposed.
FORMAT: Abstracts only. Electronic submission. Abstracts – please name the document as follows: with lead author's last name and ASFS in the title (ex: julierASFS.doc). If the submission is a panel or a roundtable, please include the word in the title (ex: julierASFSpanel.doc or julierASFSroundtable.doc)
Submissions may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats All proposals should include, in this order: (1) type of submission (e.g., paper, panel, or event); (2) title; (3) submitter's name, organizational affiliation, and full mailing address; (4) submitter's e-mail address; (5) submitter's telephone number, (6) names and organizational affiliations of co-authors or co-organizers; and (7) abstract of 300 or fewer words that describes the proposed paper, panel, or event. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract and individual abstracts for each of the papers on the panel as well as contact information (name, affiliation, email) of the moderator and all panel members. Individual paper proposals and roundtable proposals should be a single abstract with names and contact information for all presenters.
SUBMISSION: Please send abstract electronically to: asfs2010@gmail.com. For questions or concerns, please contact Beth Forrest: b_forres@culinary.edu
ACKNOWLEGEMENT AND NOTIFICATION: All proposals sent by e-mail will be acknowledged within one week of receipt. Notification of status of proposals will be sent by February 20th. We regret that our peer review process does not enable us to provide critique, only "accept" or "not accept" status. We reserve the right to limit multiple submissions by the same author.
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS: To encourage participation by undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize excellence, both ASFS and AFHVS invite submissions to their student paper competitions. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts to the conference as well. Information for both competitions appears below. Please note that a paper may be submitted to only one, not both, of the competitions. For more information, please see: www.food-culture.org (ASFS) and www.afhvs.org for more information on deadlines and submission guidelines.
ASFS Student Paper Committee: Riki Saltzman, Riki.Saltzman@iowa.gov
AFHVS Student Paper Contact: Richard Haynes rhaynes@phil.ufl.edu [GWG3]
Call for Papers - Contested Economies: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage
2010 SEA Annual Meeting
April 8-10, 2010
Tampa, Florida
Co-Chairs: Sarah Lyon (University of Kentucky) and Christian Wells
(University of South Florida)
Call For Papers:
Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods,
services and people that humanity has witnessed with the exponential
growth of international tourist arrivals, which in 2008 numbered over
900 million globally. Consequently, for anthropology
tourism has proven to be an ideal context for studying issues of
political economy, social change, development, natural resource
management, and cultural identity. And yet if tourism accounts for an
ever greater segment of national economies, it also challenges classic
theoretical descriptions of just what an economy is: What are the
commodities being consumed? What is the division of labor between
producers and clients in creating the value of tourist exchanges?
The 2010 SEA conference will bring together researchers to examine the
connections among economy, sustainability, heritage, and identity that
tourism makes explicit. Presentations and discussions will seek a new
synthesis for the anthropology of tourism. They will also aim to show
how new theories of the economics of tourism can lead to rethinking of
non-touristic enterprises—from farming to heavy industry to medical
occupations.
Paper and poster presentation topics might include, but are certainly
not limited to, the following:
* The intersection of tourism and the economy: the impact of
tourism on socioeconomic inequalities, development, wage labor, and
subsistence activities; the possibilities and limitations of
alternative and new forms of tourism
* Tourism’s impact on the environment and the promise of
eco-tourism: whether negative in the form of environmental degradation
or positive through eco-tourism initiatives, protected areas, and
heightened environmental sustainability
* Theory: models and/or analytical frameworks that help us predict
the conditions under which local economies will be strengthened or
harmed, resources will be protected or degraded, and local
traditions/values will be strengthened or weakened
* Cultural heritage tourism and identity: the reification and/or
transformation of identities and cultural heritage as a result of
tourism and the commodification of culture, the dialectic between
governments and local populations over the control of tourism sites
* Economic crisis: the effects of the economic crisis on the
industry and attempts to overcome current challenges; the aftermath of
tourism and what happens when the flow of tourists is reduced in an
industry especially prone to boom and bust cycles
* Tourism and archaeology: the importance of tourism both for and
in archaeological research, interpretation and reconstruction
Poster presentations:
At the annual conference, the SEA always welcomes posters on any topic
in economic anthropology. Students and scholars whose work may not fit
the central theme of the meeting are encouraged to submit a poster.
The special poster session during the meeting is inclusive and a major
event of the SEA conference.
The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent
program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a
convivial intellectual setting. Papers are selected for a program that
allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion in a
single plenary session over two days; additional abstracts will be
selected for the poster session. Each SEA annual meeting also produces
a book on the conference theme. Submitting a paper for the plenary
session represents a commitment that you wish to be considered for
inclusion in this volume. We encourage archaeologists, cultural
anthropologists, economists, and scholars concerned with the tourism
and hospitality industry to submit abstracts. Please send a 300-500
word abstract for a paper or poster to Sarah Lyon at
sarah.lyon@uky.edu or 202 Lafferty Hall,
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506-0024 by November 15th, 2009.
April 8-10, 2010
Tampa, Florida
Co-Chairs: Sarah Lyon (University of Kentucky) and Christian Wells
(University of South Florida)
Call For Papers:
Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods,
services and people that humanity has witnessed with the exponential
growth of international tourist arrivals, which in 2008 numbered over
900 million globally. Consequently, for anthropology
tourism has proven to be an ideal context for studying issues of
political economy, social change, development, natural resource
management, and cultural identity. And yet if tourism accounts for an
ever greater segment of national economies, it also challenges classic
theoretical descriptions of just what an economy is: What are the
commodities being consumed? What is the division of labor between
producers and clients in creating the value of tourist exchanges?
The 2010 SEA conference will bring together researchers to examine the
connections among economy, sustainability, heritage, and identity that
tourism makes explicit. Presentations and discussions will seek a new
synthesis for the anthropology of tourism. They will also aim to show
how new theories of the economics of tourism can lead to rethinking of
non-touristic enterprises—from farming to heavy industry to medical
occupations.
Paper and poster presentation topics might include, but are certainly
not limited to, the following:
* The intersection of tourism and the economy: the impact of
tourism on socioeconomic inequalities, development, wage labor, and
subsistence activities; the possibilities and limitations of
alternative and new forms of tourism
* Tourism’s impact on the environment and the promise of
eco-tourism: whether negative in the form of environmental degradation
or positive through eco-tourism initiatives, protected areas, and
heightened environmental sustainability
* Theory: models and/or analytical frameworks that help us predict
the conditions under which local economies will be strengthened or
harmed, resources will be protected or degraded, and local
traditions/values will be strengthened or weakened
* Cultural heritage tourism and identity: the reification and/or
transformation of identities and cultural heritage as a result of
tourism and the commodification of culture, the dialectic between
governments and local populations over the control of tourism sites
* Economic crisis: the effects of the economic crisis on the
industry and attempts to overcome current challenges; the aftermath of
tourism and what happens when the flow of tourists is reduced in an
industry especially prone to boom and bust cycles
* Tourism and archaeology: the importance of tourism both for and
in archaeological research, interpretation and reconstruction
Poster presentations:
At the annual conference, the SEA always welcomes posters on any topic
in economic anthropology. Students and scholars whose work may not fit
the central theme of the meeting are encouraged to submit a poster.
The special poster session during the meeting is inclusive and a major
event of the SEA conference.
The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent
program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a
convivial intellectual setting. Papers are selected for a program that
allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion in a
single plenary session over two days; additional abstracts will be
selected for the poster session. Each SEA annual meeting also produces
a book on the conference theme. Submitting a paper for the plenary
session represents a commitment that you wish to be considered for
inclusion in this volume. We encourage archaeologists, cultural
anthropologists, economists, and scholars concerned with the tourism
and hospitality industry to submit abstracts. Please send a 300-500
word abstract for a paper or poster to Sarah Lyon at
sarah.lyon@uky.edu
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506-0024 by November 15th, 2009.
Call for Papers- People, Power, and Pragmatism
People, Power, and Pragmatism: The Future of Development in Our Changing World A Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
February 26-27, 2010
The Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies & Solidarity and the Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with SIT Study Abroad, a program of World Learning, announce a student conference on topics vital to human development to be held at the University of Notre Dame on February 26-27, 2010.
All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. This conference is intended to be an event in which students come together to identify and share the current state of human development in their respective fields through presentations of their research; analyze and assess the way human development issues are being addressed across that wide spectrum of topics; and then formulate a vision for the direction of human development in the future. Students are encouraged to submit proposals for papers that present the results of original research, both qualitative and quantitative, and address issues that express a relationship between human development and:
• Theories, concepts, and philosophies
• Ethics
• Governance
• Health
• Public Policy
• Gender
• Education
• Economics
• Human Rights
• Peace & Conflict
• Agriculture
• Engineering
• Technology
• Environment/Climate
• Culture
• Religion
Please submit proposals/abstracts (strictly 300 words or less), and questions to aseelaus@nd.edu. Only proposals received by Friday, October 16 will receive consideration. Invitations for participation will be extended by Monday, November 9
. Students who accept invitations to present at the conference will be responsible for securing funding for travel, lodging and other related expenses. We hope that you will be able to join us for this conference and the opportunity to engage in conversation as we help build the next generation of development leaders.
Notre Dame, Indiana USA
February 26-27, 2010
The Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies & Solidarity and the Center for Social Concerns of the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with SIT Study Abroad, a program of World Learning, announce a student conference on topics vital to human development to be held at the University of Notre Dame on February 26-27, 2010.
All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. This conference is intended to be an event in which students come together to identify and share the current state of human development in their respective fields through presentations of their research; analyze and assess the way human development issues are being addressed across that wide spectrum of topics; and then formulate a vision for the direction of human development in the future. Students are encouraged to submit proposals for papers that present the results of original research, both qualitative and quantitative, and address issues that express a relationship between human development and:
• Theories, concepts, and philosophies
• Ethics
• Governance
• Health
• Public Policy
• Gender
• Education
• Economics
• Human Rights
• Peace & Conflict
• Agriculture
• Engineering
• Technology
• Environment/Climate
• Culture
• Religion
Please submit proposals/abstracts (strictly 300 words or less), and questions to aseelaus@nd.edu. Only proposals received by Friday, October 16 will receive consideration. Invitations for participation will be extended by Monday, November 9
. Students who accept invitations to present at the conference will be responsible for securing funding for travel, lodging and other related expenses. We hope that you will be able to join us for this conference and the opportunity to engage in conversation as we help build the next generation of development leaders.
"We Are Not Mizrahi . . . We Are Indian Jews: Issues of Culture and Identity in the Indian Jewish Community in Israel."
Friday, October 23
12:30 p.m.
Ballantine Hall 137
Professor Maina Chawla Singh
This talk is based on Dr. Maina Singh's recently published book 'Being Indian, Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland'(New Delhi: Manohar, 2009). This book presents a deeply researched analysis, examining for the first time, all three Jewish communities from India holistically as ‘Indian-Israelis’-- with shared histories of migration, displacement, acculturation and identity in the Jewish Homeland. Based on extensive fieldwork and ethnographic research conducted among Indian Jews across Israel between 2005-8, the book draws upon over 150 interviews and reflects the author’s own deep engagement and familiarity with Israeli society and the complexities of ethnicity and class that underlie the clevages within Israeli Jewish society.
Maina Chawla Singh, a visiting faculty member at American University of Washington, D.C., and associate professor of vocational studies at the University of Delhi
12:30 p.m.
Ballantine Hall 137
Professor Maina Chawla Singh
This talk is based on Dr. Maina Singh's recently published book 'Being Indian, Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland'(New Delhi: Manohar, 2009). This book presents a deeply researched analysis, examining for the first time, all three Jewish communities from India holistically as ‘Indian-Israelis’-- with shared histories of migration, displacement, acculturation and identity in the Jewish Homeland. Based on extensive fieldwork and ethnographic research conducted among Indian Jews across Israel between 2005-8, the book draws upon over 150 interviews and reflects the author’s own deep engagement and familiarity with Israeli society and the complexities of ethnicity and class that underlie the clevages within Israeli Jewish society.
Maina Chawla Singh, a visiting faculty member at American University of Washington, D.C., and associate professor of vocational studies at the University of Delhi
TURKEY TODAY
Support for this lecture is generously provided by: The
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Turkish Studies
Program, Office of the VP for International Affairs, IAUNRC
TURKEY TODAY
A lecture by
Honorable Mr. Kenan Ipek
Consul General of the Republic of Turkey
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
7:30 pm
Woodburn Hall 120
After an introductory talk by Honorable Mr. Kenan Ipek, a
question and answer session will follow. The session will be
moderated by Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi.
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Turkish Studies
Program, Office of the VP for International Affairs, IAUNRC
TURKEY TODAY
A lecture by
Honorable Mr. Kenan Ipek
Consul General of the Republic of Turkey
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
7:30 pm
Woodburn Hall 120
After an introductory talk by Honorable Mr. Kenan Ipek, a
question and answer session will follow. The session will be
moderated by Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi.
Social Science Diversity Colloquium
Friday, October 2nd
11:00am in
IMU, State Room West
Vasti Torres will be presenting a talk entitled:
“If Racism is So Clear, Why Can’t We Recognize Racist Behavior?”
Vasti Torres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the W. W. Wright School of Education at Indiana University. Professor Torres’ presentation will highlight her work on the processes that college students go through in learning how to recognize racist behavior in themselves and others. Specifically, Professor Torres will use developmental theories and longitudinal data to unveil the different paths that lead to the recognition of racist behavior.
11:00am in
IMU, State Room West
Vasti Torres will be presenting a talk entitled:
“If Racism is So Clear, Why Can’t We Recognize Racist Behavior?”
Vasti Torres is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the W. W. Wright School of Education at Indiana University. Professor Torres’ presentation will highlight her work on the processes that college students go through in learning how to recognize racist behavior in themselves and others. Specifically, Professor Torres will use developmental theories and longitudinal data to unveil the different paths that lead to the recognition of racist behavior.
Call for Papers-Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics, Literature, and Culture
Perspectives on Meaning and Self-Expression: Harmonizing Disparate Voices
February 6, 2009
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
There is a high degree of individuation in the manner in which people express themselves as well as in the communicative methods they use to connect with one another. This individuality manifests itself in various mediums and cultural products including literature, art, music, film and language itself. Arguably, these products both produce and circulate countless identities, meanings and perspectives within society. In this economy of signification and identity, a multiplicity of perspectives and voices are in dialogue with each other, which may result in reconciliation and harmony or discord and conflict.
The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics, Literature and Culture invites graduate students to ponder meaning and self-expression in Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian and Latin American linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts. What is the relationship between individuality and language use? How is individuality expressed in language choice? How do different voices rely upon each other as they attempt to create or appropriate individuated identity and meaning? How are disparate voices and perspectives harmonized? Is the process of harmonization necessarily exclusionary? At what point does the act of harmonizing become normalizing? Does this reconciliation and harmonization sabotage individuality? Does harmonization also cause dissonance?
In addition to seeking papers on the conference theme, discussion of the following areas of language study are also encouraged for submission: Spanish and Portuguese sociolinguistics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, syntax and morphology, phonology and phonetics, semantics, and historical linguistics.
Hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, the conference encourages submissions from all graduate students interested in the topic.
Due date and abstract information. Please submit a 250-word abstract with presentation title by December 15, 2009 via e-mail to gsac.hisp.iu@gmail.com. The abstract itself should consist of only the title of the paper and abstract with no personal information. On a separate page please include the following: name, email, institution address, telephone number (office or home), title of your presentation. Submissions of panels are encouraged.
Paper format. Papers or presentations may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English and should not exceed a presentation time of twenty minutes (aprox. 8 pages). A brief discussion and question session will follow each presentation.
February 6, 2009
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
There is a high degree of individuation in the manner in which people express themselves as well as in the communicative methods they use to connect with one another. This individuality manifests itself in various mediums and cultural products including literature, art, music, film and language itself. Arguably, these products both produce and circulate countless identities, meanings and perspectives within society. In this economy of signification and identity, a multiplicity of perspectives and voices are in dialogue with each other, which may result in reconciliation and harmony or discord and conflict.
The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Linguistics, Literature and Culture invites graduate students to ponder meaning and self-expression in Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian and Latin American linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts. What is the relationship between individuality and language use? How is individuality expressed in language choice? How do different voices rely upon each other as they attempt to create or appropriate individuated identity and meaning? How are disparate voices and perspectives harmonized? Is the process of harmonization necessarily exclusionary? At what point does the act of harmonizing become normalizing? Does this reconciliation and harmonization sabotage individuality? Does harmonization also cause dissonance?
In addition to seeking papers on the conference theme, discussion of the following areas of language study are also encouraged for submission: Spanish and Portuguese sociolinguistics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, syntax and morphology, phonology and phonetics, semantics, and historical linguistics.
Hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, the conference encourages submissions from all graduate students interested in the topic.
Due date and abstract information. Please submit a 250-word abstract with presentation title by December 15, 2009 via e-mail to gsac.hisp.iu@gmail.com. The abstract itself should consist of only the title of the paper and abstract with no personal information. On a separate page please include the following: name, email, institution address, telephone number (office or home), title of your presentation. Submissions of panels are encouraged.
Paper format. Papers or presentations may be in Spanish, Portuguese, or English and should not exceed a presentation time of twenty minutes (aprox. 8 pages). A brief discussion and question session will follow each presentation.
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY
22-25 July 2010
University of Sydney, Australia
http://www.Arts-Conference.com/
The International Conference on the Arts in Society and The International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their ontexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.
The 2010 Conference will coincide with the Sydney Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs. The Biennale of Sydney was created in 1973 as an international showcase for contemporary art. Its aim was to develop and present a program that challenged traditional thinking and encouraged innovative, creative expression. Within its first decade of exhibitions (1973-82) the Biennale of Sydney was among the first to celebrate Australia's cultural and ethnic diversity; the first to show indigenous art in an international contemporary art context; the first to focus on Asia and the contemporary art of the region. It was among the first to present to wide audiences the art of the social change movements which transformed Australian society in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The occasion of the Sydney Biennale provides an opportunity for the Conference to serve as a node in the larger phenomenon of fairs, festivals, and their networks. As such, the Arts Conference aims to discover what values, instincts and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world. Your participation shapes the Conference itself.
As well as an impressive line-up of plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 8 October 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope that you will be able to join us in Sydney in July 2010.
University of Sydney, Australia
http://www.Arts-Conference.com/
The International Conference on the Arts in Society and The International Journal of the Arts in Society provide an intellectual platform for the arts and art practices, and enable an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their ontexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities.
The 2010 Conference will coincide with the Sydney Biennale, and will be held in conjunction with featured exhibitions and programs. The Biennale of Sydney was created in 1973 as an international showcase for contemporary art. Its aim was to develop and present a program that challenged traditional thinking and encouraged innovative, creative expression. Within its first decade of exhibitions (1973-82) the Biennale of Sydney was among the first to celebrate Australia's cultural and ethnic diversity; the first to show indigenous art in an international contemporary art context; the first to focus on Asia and the contemporary art of the region. It was among the first to present to wide audiences the art of the social change movements which transformed Australian society in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The occasion of the Sydney Biennale provides an opportunity for the Conference to serve as a node in the larger phenomenon of fairs, festivals, and their networks. As such, the Arts Conference aims to discover what values, instincts and common ground may exist within the arts and their practices and sites of reception around the world. Your participation shapes the Conference itself.
As well as an impressive line-up of plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of the Arts in Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 8 October 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.Arts-Conference.com/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope that you will be able to join us in Sydney in July 2010.
How to Write a CV for an Academic Job Workshop
Friday, October 8th
1:30-3:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Sign-up Deadline: Monday, October 5th
The GAC has arranged a workshop for 1:30 on Friday, October 8th on How to Write a CV for an Academic Job. Even if you are not on the job market currently, you will be sometime, so this should be very valuable.
The workshop leader will be Laura Plummer, Ph.D., Director of the Campus Writing Program and Interim Director of Campus Instructional Consulting. She will be bringing materials and so will need a head count. There's a sign-up shhet on Kathy's door, or you can email her at kteige@indiana.edu.
Remember, the sign-up deadline is Monday, October 5th at 5:00 pm.
1:30-3:00 pm
Classroom-Office Building, room 100
Sign-up Deadline: Monday, October 5th
The GAC has arranged a workshop for 1:30 on Friday, October 8th on How to Write a CV for an Academic Job. Even if you are not on the job market currently, you will be sometime, so this should be very valuable.
The workshop leader will be Laura Plummer, Ph.D., Director of the Campus Writing Program and Interim Director of Campus Instructional Consulting. She will be bringing materials and so will need a head count. There's a sign-up shhet on Kathy's door, or you can email her at kteige@indiana.edu.
Remember, the sign-up deadline is Monday, October 5th at 5:00 pm.
GPSO Graduate Student Survival Week 2009
October 2 – 7
GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIAL HOUR
FRIDAY – 10/2 – 7-9pm
WHERE: Farm-Bloomington
Root Cellar (108 E. Kirkwood)
GPSO’s Survival Week kick-off event!
Come to meet graduate and professional students from
other departments while enjoying free appetizers, courtesy of GPSO!
FAMILY RESOURCE FAIR
SATURDAY – 10/3 – 10am-12pm
WHERE: Campus View Apartments
Activities Room (800 N. Union St.)
Join us for GPSO’s newest annual event! This Family Resource Fair will introduce IUB Graduate and Professional Students with children to many of the community and campus resources available to them. This is a kid-friendly event! (Free ‘D’ spot parking will be available)
ROUNDTABLE DIVERSITY DISCUSSION
MONDAY – 10/5 – 5-6pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
Join Moderator Carol McCord (Associate Dean of Students) for Difference and Intolerance on the IUB Campus: A discussion and action plan to improve acceptance and build community among a diverse graduate student body. This event is sponsored by the Diversity Council.
PLAGIARISM PRESENTATION
TUESDAY – 10/6 – 5-6pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
If you’re an AI with questions on how to deal with plagiarism in the classroom, then this event is for you! Justin Brown (Student Ethics & Anti-Harassment Programs) will be on hand to respond to your questions and concerns.
RESEARCH SUBJECTS PRESENTATION
WEDNESDAY – 10/7 – 5-7pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
Don’t miss this Survival Week event if you have procedural questions regarding human and animal research subjects. Representatives from IRB (Institutional Review Board) (5-6pm) and IACUC (Institutional Animal Care Use Committee) (6-7pm) will be on hand to address your questions and concerns.
GPSO wishes to thank all of the individuals and departments participating in Graduate Student Survival Week, for their generosity and support of IUB graduate and professional students.
Visit www.iu.edu/~gpso for Survival Week details and upcoming events
GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIAL HOUR
FRIDAY – 10/2 – 7-9pm
WHERE: Farm-Bloomington
Root Cellar (108 E. Kirkwood)
GPSO’s Survival Week kick-off event!
Come to meet graduate and professional students from
other departments while enjoying free appetizers, courtesy of GPSO!
FAMILY RESOURCE FAIR
SATURDAY – 10/3 – 10am-12pm
WHERE: Campus View Apartments
Activities Room (800 N. Union St.)
Join us for GPSO’s newest annual event! This Family Resource Fair will introduce IUB Graduate and Professional Students with children to many of the community and campus resources available to them. This is a kid-friendly event! (Free ‘D’ spot parking will be available)
ROUNDTABLE DIVERSITY DISCUSSION
MONDAY – 10/5 – 5-6pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
Join Moderator Carol McCord (Associate Dean of Students) for Difference and Intolerance on the IUB Campus: A discussion and action plan to improve acceptance and build community among a diverse graduate student body. This event is sponsored by the Diversity Council.
PLAGIARISM PRESENTATION
TUESDAY – 10/6 – 5-6pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
If you’re an AI with questions on how to deal with plagiarism in the classroom, then this event is for you! Justin Brown (Student Ethics & Anti-Harassment Programs) will be on hand to respond to your questions and concerns.
RESEARCH SUBJECTS PRESENTATION
WEDNESDAY – 10/7 – 5-7pm
WHERE: H B Wells Library, E-174
Don’t miss this Survival Week event if you have procedural questions regarding human and animal research subjects. Representatives from IRB (Institutional Review Board) (5-6pm) and IACUC (Institutional Animal Care Use Committee) (6-7pm) will be on hand to address your questions and concerns.
GPSO wishes to thank all of the individuals and departments participating in Graduate Student Survival Week, for their generosity and support of IUB graduate and professional students.
Visit www.iu.edu/~gpso for Survival Week details and upcoming events
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