Lecture: College of Arts and Humanities Institute

The College of Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) invites you to a presentation by

Alyce Miller

on her book-in-progress

My Animal Life

A collection of essays on the animal question

5:00 pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2010

College Arts and Humanities Institute

1211 E Atwater Ave

Interest in non-human animals and our treatment of them is an an all-time high, as evidenced by the plethora of books published in the last decade, from rights-based thinkers like Jefferey Masson, Jonathan Balcombe, and Carol Adams to welfarists like Jonathan Safer Foer, whose Eating Animals is a recent bestseller.

My Animal Life springs from a wide variety of sources: Miller's multidisciplinary class Animals and Ethics that she teaches, the 2006 international Kindred Sprits Conference she chaired and organized, and her own personal explorations into questions about what moral status we should accord to animals and what it means to use and consume them. The essays cover a variety of topics such as pitbulls rescued from a dog fighting ring, the role of the 'sacrificed' animal in young adult fiction, and the mainstreaming of veganism.

Alyce Miller is the award winning author of three books of fiction, and more than 200 published essays, articles, short stories, and poems. She has published and presented on animals, and is a pro bono attorney with particular interests in animal law and family law.

Miller is a Professor of English and Creative Writing.

Carnegie Junior Fellow Program -- Undergraduate Seniors

The internal competition for the 2011-2012 Carnegie Junior Fellows Program is Friday, November 12
at 4:00 p.m. Any students with a strong interest and significant coursework in international affairs or area studies (Russia, Asia [China], Middle East, South Asia ) are encouraged to apply for this prestigious program.

Requirements for eligibility include:
 
-Graduating seniors or students who have graduated within the past academic year but who have not begun graduate studies

-Demonstrated interest in and completion of a significant amount of coursework in international affairs, political science, economics, history, or Russian, Middle Eastern, Asian/South Asian studies.

-Eligible and able to work in the United States for a full 12 months from August 1 through July 31, 2011. Note: Students on F-1 visas who are eligible to work in the US for the full year may apply.

-High academic merit, including a minimum College GPA of 3.750

If you have questions about the Carnegie Junior Fellows program, please do not hesitate to contact: 


Terri Greenslade
Assistant Dean for Academic Standards and Opportunities
College of Arts and Sciences
Kirkwood Hall 012, 130 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Tel: 812.855.8245

"IU Helps Pakistan" - fundraising event featuring Straight No Chaser

IU Helps Pakistan

Thursday, October 28 from 1-7 pm
Dunn Meadow
Featuring Straight No Chaser

In light of the recent floods in Pakistan, student organizations from around campus have come together to organize a fundraising event aimed at raising awareness about "the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history" according to the United Nations. The U.N. estimates that more than 21 million people are affected, injured, or left homeless as a result of the floods, exceeding the combined total of individuals affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. At one point, approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was underwater due to the flooding. Over a million homes have been destroyed or damaged and total damage to crops and infrastructure was estimated at $43bn - a quarter of the gross domestic product (GDP) for 2009.

Our event, "IU Helps Pakistan" will be held on the 28th of October, 1-7pm in Dunn Meadow. There is a $3 admission fee which will go entirely towards our selected charity, the Edhi Foundation, the largest welfare organization in Pakistan. The event will feature various performing acts such as Straight No Chaser, Hip Hop ConnXion, etc, games & activity stalls set up by participating student organizations (Speak Urdu booth, Henna Tattoos booth, various folk games booths and many many more) and food & beverage stalls which will be catered by various Bloomington restaurants. We have also been selling green wrist bands for $1 all around campus with the logo "Lower the Water, Save the Victims".

 We have prepared a 2 minute video to raise awareness about the floods and as well as the fund raiser. Attached you will find a copy of the poster of the event. Below is the link to the video.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDko03ObAEQ&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=E74wTsntpc4

Also, if you are willing to make any personal donations to the fund, that would be extremely appreciated as well. Every dollar that you can donate towards the fund will go a long way in helping these people.

Lecture: Department of Central Eurasian Studies

The Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies and The Department of Central Eurasian Studies present,

The 2010 Bregel Lecture

Peter B. Golden

Rutgers University

"History and Historical Memory in the Pre-Chinggisid Turkic World"

4:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 10

Jordan Hall A106

 Professor Peter B. Golden is a noted specialist on the history of the Turkic peoples of Central Eurasia; he has taught at Rutgers University since 1969, and currently serves as Director of the Program for Middle Eastern Studies there. His presentation for the Bregel Lecture series draws upon his long historical and philological research on the Turkic nomads of Inner Asia before the Mongol conquest of the 13^th century.

The Bregel Lecture series honors I.U. Professor Emeritus Yuri Bregel, and his many contributions to the study of Central Asian history and of Persian and Chaghatay Turkic historiography. Professor Bregel taught in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies from 1981 until 2000, serving also as Director of the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies from 1986 to 1997, and as Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center from 1989 to 1997.

This Week at the IU Art Museum

Noon Talk 

Exploring the Tibetan Book
October 27, 12:15-1:00 PM
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

Jim Canary, manuscript conservator for the Lilly Library, will discuss Tibetan manuscripts and printed books.

Film Series

Mongolian and Tibetan Films
Thursday, October 28, 8:00 PM
Wylie Hall 005

In conjunction with the special exhibition, From Steppes and the Monestaries, the IU Art Museum collaborated with the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center to present screenings of four Mongolian and Tibetan films on Thursday evenings in October, November, and December.

A Pearl in the Forest (Mongolian)
The first film is sent in 1930s Mongolia. A former villager returns home as a government informer, determined to use his authority to take by force what he could not win by love - a young woman engaged to another man.

The Saltmen of Tibet (Tibetan)
Thursday, November 11, 8:00 PM

Khadak (Mongolian)
Thursday, November 18, 8:00 PM

Mountail Patrol (Tibetan)
Thursday, December 2, 8:00 PM

Special Exhibiton

From the Steppes and the Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture
Continuing through December 19, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor

Turkish Republic Day Celebration

The Turkish Student Association cordially invites you to,

The Celebration of the 87th anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Republic
  Friday, October 29th, 2010

Indiana Memorial Union (IMU), The Tudor Room

Beginning at 7:00 PM

The event will feature speakers, Professor Kemal Silay, and Professor Bulent Guler, as well as Turkish media, dance, and music. Dinner will be served.

For further questions or concerns, please email tsa@indiana.edu. 

Lecture at the Hillel Center

Building Israel with Innovation

Monday, November 1, 2010 

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Helene G. Simon Hillel, 730 E. 3rd Street

Hear about how two young Israelis add a new meaning to the concept of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) and Israeli society. Through the life stories of Ofer and Avishay you will learn about the hottest start up in Israel from the past few years: Ayalim Villages – a 'greenhouse' for young students entrepreneurship, love of Israel, and social justice. A grassroots initiative led by Israeli university students, Ayalim nurtures values such as young entrepreneurship, environmentalism, the bond between people and the land, and the bond between individuals and society.

For further questions, please email levittm@indiana.edu

Lecture: Center for the Study of the Middle East

The Center for the Study of the Middle East presents,

“A Critical Appraisal of Post-Conflict Justice:  A Promise Unfulfilled”.

Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, 

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, DePaul University College of Law

12:00 PM, November, 8th, 2010

The Moot Court Room, Maurer School of Law

M. Cherif Bassiouni is a distinguished research professor of law emeritus at DePaul University College of Law and president emeritus of the law school’s International Human Rights Law Institute. He also is president of the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy, and honorary president of the International Association of Penal Law in Paris, France. 

Bassiouni has served the United Nations in a number of capacities, including as co-chair of the Committee of Experts to draft the Convention on the Prevention and Suppression of Torture (1977); member, then chairman, of the Security Council's Commission to Investigate War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia (1992-1994); vice-chairman of the General Assembly's Ad Hoc and Preparatory Committees on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (1995 and 1998); chairman of the Drafting Committee of the 1998 Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; independent expert for the Commission on Human Rights on The Rights to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Grave Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1998-2000); and independent expert for the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan (2004-2006). 

In 1999, Bassiouni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the field of international criminal justice and for his contribution to the creation of the International Criminal Court. He has received the following medals: Medal Beccaria, Spain (2009); Knight of the Grand Cross (Cavaliere di Gran Croce), Italy (2006); Order of the Academic Palmes, Commander, France (2006); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Commander, Federal Republic of Germany (2003); Legion d’Honneur, Officer, France (2003); Order of Lincoln of Illinois, United States of America (2001); Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Austria (1990); Order of Sciences (First Class), Egypt (1984); Order of Merit (Grand’Ufficiale), Italy (1977); and Order of Military Valor (First Class), Egypt (1956).

He also has received numerous academic and civic awards, including the Special Award of the Council of Europe (1990); the Defender of Democracy Award, Parliamentarians for Global Action (1998); The Adlai Stevenson Award of the United Nations Association (1993); the Saint Vincent DePaul Humanitarian Award (2000); and the Silvia Sandano Humanitarian Jurist Award, Italy (2008). He has honorary Doctor of Law degrees from the University of Torino (Italy), Pau (France), National University (Ireland), Niagara University (USA), and a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Catholic Theological Union (USA). 

Bassiouni is the author of 32 and editor of 47 books, and the author of 241 articles on a wide range of legal issues, including international criminal law, comparative criminal law and international human rights law. His publications have been published in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Several of his publications have been cited by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the U.S. Supreme Court, and a number of state supreme, U.S. appellate and federal district courts. 

Creative Exchange Program at Indiana University (CEPIU)

Interested in becoming more involved on Campus?

The Creative Exchange Program at Indiana University (CEPIU) is an organization where creative exchange can be practiced via the writing and translation of stories, poems, and essays in constructive workshops. The organization will bring together both native and non-native speakers of English who share a common interest in the arts. Ultimately, the CEPIU hopes that through their work, they can attract a larger audience for creative work in non-English languages at Indiana University.  

Any student who enjoys creative writing, as well as learning other languages than their primary language, are encouraged to come to the call-out meeting of CEPIU in mid-November. 

If interested, please do not hesitate to come. The CEPIU is an excellent place to meet new people with similar interests, develop your language ability, and even find a conversation partner.  

For further questions, please email sean.kaellner@gmail.com. 

FOLK-F253: The Supernatural, Spring 2011

Diane Goldstein
MWF 1:25-2:15 pm
Course # 28262

Fulfills COLL Social & Historical

Statistics gathered by Gallop Poll together with a variety of other scientific and public opinion surveys indicate taht an extremely large percentage of the American and Canadian population not only believe in the supernatural, but in fact, believe that they themselves have had a supernatural or paranormal experience.

While most social science disciplines consider supernatural belief to be either historical or marginal, it would seem that a substantial proportion of the North American population, of all ages and social classes, share in these traditions. If this is the case, two questions become enormously important. First, why is it that traditions predicted to decline as scientific rationalism arose, have not? Secondly, why has the extent of belief in the supernatural gone unrecognized and underestimated by the academy for so long?

By examining patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore, this course will attempt to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. The course will focus on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. The general approach of the course will be ethnographic, focusing on the ethnography of belief systems.

For further information, please email folkethn@indiana.edu.

Spring 2011 Undergraduate Courses -- Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology

F101: Introduction to Folklore
F111: World Music & Cultures
F121: World Arts & Cultures
F252: Global Pop Music
F253: The Supernatural
E295: Survey of Hip-Hop
E297:  Popular Music of Black America
F301: Ghanian Music, Drum, & Dance
F305: Chinese Film & Music
F307: Arabian Nights: East & West
F312: Irish Music & Culture
F315: South American Performance & Culture
F315: Latino Folklore
F330: Roma (Gypsy) History & Culture
F352: Native American Folklore
F358: Music in Judaism
F359: Exploring Jewish Identity Today
F364: Children's Folklore
F400: Individual Study
F401: Methods & Theories
F402: Traditional Arts Indiana
F403: Practicum
F405: Studying Ethnomusicology
F494: Transcription & Analysis
E496: African American Religious Music

Interested in a major, double major, or minor?

Contact Dr Pravina Shukla, Director of Undergraduate Studies shukla@indiana.edu or Krystie Herndon, Academic Advisor kherndon@indiana.edu.

CEUS Lecture Series

Challenges Facing Mongolian Culture, 

Language, and Identity in China

By Naranbilig

Thursday, October 21, 2010, 7:00 pm

Sycamore Hall, Room 002

Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana

China’s Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and its neighboring provinces are home to approximately eight million Mongols, who are numerically a small minority in their own traditional lands. Over the past six decades, Mongolian culture, language and identity in China have been subjected to an unprecedented stress of radical transformation, brought on by state-sponsored economic, social and political projects such as “ecological migration,” “livestock grazing ban,” and “quick urbanization.” Implemented in a top-down manner, these programs haunt the lives of the Mongolians, whose culture and identity - at the time of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic – were supposed to be protected by law. That legal protection has not prevented the possibility of cultural assimilation of the Mongols of China today.  In my talk, I will survey the recent history and circumstances of the continuing challenges to Mongolian culture in China.

Naranbilig is an ethnic Mongolian from Southern (Inner) Mongolia, who has more than 30 years experience in journalism, research and studies in Mongolian culture, language, tradition, and history.  He has authored and translated more than 40 books, edited several journals, and written hundreds of essays.  Naranbilig has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mongolian Language and Literature from Inner Mongolia University, and a certificate in law studies from the Chinese National Lawyer Training Center.

Sponsored by:
The Mongolia Society
Mongol-American Cultural Association
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies

For further information, please contact the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.

Turkish Student Association Movie Night: Vizontele

Day and Time: October 22, 2010, Friday at 7:30 pm (light snacks), 8:00 pm (movie starts)
Place: The Leo R. Dowling International Center
Language: Turkish with English subtitles
The Movie Name: Vizontele
Plot Synopsis: The story takes place in a small town in Turkey at the beginning of the 70's. The time has come to bring technology into that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins. Some people are excited and some are afraid of this new device which can show us live pictures from different places. Is it devils easy prey to catch us or is it just a feature of the modern time? Without losing time, the mayor (Altan Erkekli) of the town Hakkari tries to find some people who can help him to set up the signal receiver on the highest position of themountain. His team consists of one crazy electrician called Emin (Yilmaz Erdogan) and some mayor office staff members; however none of them has any knowledge of TVs.
The Story of Vizontele consists of many jokes which are mixed up with some traditional superstitions to show how funny the conflict between these two points can be.

LECTURE: Getting Started in the Digital Humanities

Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

Brown Bag Series
“Getting Started in the Digital Humanities”
Thursday, October 21
12-1 p.m.
Wells Library Media Showing Room, E174

(Between the glass doors that lead to the Library parking lot)

Join us as Professors Kirsten Sword, Bill Newman, and John Walsh discuss how they became involved in Digital Humanities research. Following a short presentation by each scholar, there will be an open forum for questions and a discussion about how scholars can begin to envision digital directions for humanities research.

Kirsten Sword, Department of History: “Digital Projects & the Scholarly Life-Cycle”

Bill Newman, Department of History and Philosophy of Science: "Old-Fashioned Scholarship and the Digital Medium"

John Walsh, School of Library and Information Science: “From Grad Student to Faculty Member: A Journey in Digital Humanities”

Remote connection also available via Adobe Acrobat Connect:

To join the meeting: http://breeze.iu.edu/idahbb/

After the presentation, recordings will be posted on the IDAH website’s brown bag page:
http://www.indiana.edu/~idah/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=categoryevents&id=3&Itemid=61

Please join us! Feel free to bring your lunch.

LECTURE: Bosnia-Herzegovina since Dayton

Wednesday, October 20 4pm Sassafras Room of IMU

Dr. Sabrina Ramet, Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, co-editor of the Cambridge journal Politics and Religion, and a Senior Associate of the Centre for the Study of Civil War

Bosnia-Herzegovina was admitted to the United Nations in May 1992. Yet the system established, after three-and-a-half years of warfare, by the Dayton Peace Accords is patently dysfunctional. In her talk, Professor Ramet will summarize the basic challenges which Bosnia-Herzegovina has faced -- including establishing the rule of law, promoting the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and building stable institutions. It is in this last area that progress has been particularly problematic, with each of the three major national groups holding to different visions of the future. Where Bosniaks have tended to hope for a stronger central government and a more unified system of governance, many Bosnian Serbs have tended to hope for eventual union with Serbia, while many Bosnian Croats have hoped for either eventual union with Croatia or a reorganization of the system so as to create a third autonomous unit. As a consequence, Bosnia-Herzegovina cannot be considered a stable state at the present time.

This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Democracy, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Geography, and the Russian and East European Institute.

Mathers Museum exhibit opening--From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything

Mathers Museum exhibit opening--From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web:  The Origins of Everything

You're invited to the exhibit opening on Saturday, October 23, 10 AM - 2 PM, featuring hands-on activities and refreshments.

Mathers Museum of World Cultures
416 N Indiana Ave
Bloomington, Indiana

East Asia Colloquium

Silver Labor: Putting the Elderly to Work in an Aging Japan

Joseph Coleman
Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence
School of Journalism,  Indiana University

Friday, October 22, 2010
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Ballantine Hall 004

Japan, as the most rapidly aging leading industrialized nation, is also home to the world's most advanced elderly employment system. The government, worried the pension system will implode and the economy will suffer from disappearance of skilled baby-boomers from the workforce, has taken myriad steps to keep employees on the job past the standard retirment age. Yet, ironically, the most successful silver workforce programs are happening independently of government measures, in small companies under a unique set of circumstances. Workers here have more incentive to stay at work. Pensions at these tiny firms are low, so workers feel the need for supplemental income. Personal relations between workers and management are tight, forming bonds of loyalty and familiarity that encourage employees to stay at work past retirement. Companies are also highly motivated to keep their workers. Aging is most advance in rural and semi-rural areas where many of these companies are based, meaning a dearth of young applicants. And the work is often highly skilled and artisan-like, which encourages employers to find ways to keep their top employees.

Joseph Coleman is the Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence at the School of Journalism at Indiana University. He has 20 years' experience as a journalist, mostly overseas in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He was the Associated Press bureau chief in Tokyo for four years, and his work has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many oterh publications from around the world. Coleman studied Japan's elderly employment system for six weeks this summer on an Abe Fellowship for Journalists awarded by the Social Science Research Council and funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. His recent article titled "Japan Puts the Elderly to Work" has been published at Maclean's, http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/25/out-of-the-hammock-and-back-in-the-office/.

Kathak Performance

The Indiana University India Studies Program presents,

Kathak Performance

Pallabi Chakravorty

Assistant Professor

Department of Music and Dance

Swarthmore College

Saturday, October 23 at 8:30 PM

Merill Hall

1201 E 3rd Street

Recital Hall

Pallabi Chakravorty will explore thoughts about Indian dance, culture, history within a performative framework through choreographic works. Her dance repertoire will integrate both theory and practice through creative work.

For more information, pleace contact the India Studies Program: 812.855.5798. india@indiana.edu.

October 18 - October 24 @ the IU Art Museum

Noon Talk

"The Scabs of Conciousness": Walker Evans and James Agee

Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor

Wednesday, October 20, 12:15-1:00 pm

 Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975). Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, July-August 1936. Gelatin silver print. Henry Holmes Smith Archive

Christoph Irmscher, IU professor of English, will take a fresh look at the role that Walker Evan's photographs played in James Agee's book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) and will discuss the ways in which the photographer and writer unsettle, battle, and occasionally reaffirm the assumptions underlying their art forms. Drawn from the IU Art Museum's large archive of Farm Security Administration photographs, this talk is presented in conjunction with the IU Archives and Special Collections Month theme of "Sustainability of Our Cultural Heritage."

Stop by during the lunch hour this Wednesday for a Noon Talk exploring the complex creative relationship between photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee. While you're here, check out the nineteenth-century section of the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, which has recently been reinstalled.

From the Steppes and the Monasteries:

Arts of Mongolia and Tibet

Continuing through December 19, 2010

Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

Spanning a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, this exhibition offers a tantalizing glimpse of the arts of Tibet and Mongolia, whose practice of Buddhism has joined them together at key moments in their history.

African Reinventions:

Reused Materials in Popular Culture

Continuing through December 19, 2010

Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor

Plastic bags, aluminum cans, wire, and scraps of wood, cloth, metal, and plastic are given second lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa when they are transformed into a variety of utilitarian and decorative items. With objects including a working radio, a movie poster painted on an old flour sack, and a menagerie of animals made out of cans and wire, African Reinventions presents an engaging assortment of creative uses of recycled materials.



This exhibition was organized in conjunction with sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet, the Fall 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Themester. For more information about this Themester, visit http://themester.indiana.edu/.

A Cross Disciplinary Symposium

After 100: the Legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Work in 21st Century Arts and Humanities

Indiana University, Bloomington

October 22-23, 2010

All sessions will be open to the public

Friday, 10/22 (Law School Room 122)

Session 1. Beyond Structure, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

James Boon, Princeton University - “Lévi-Strauss' Last Laugh: Encore, Encore”
Emmanuel Désveaux, E.H.E.S.S. - “Farewell to Primitivism: How Lévi-Strauss Read Ethnography”
Raymond DeMallie, Indiana University - “Pensée Sauvage in the Great Plains”

Session 2. Lévi-Strauss in the Arts and Humanities, 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Marie Mauzé, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale and E.H.E.S.S. – “Northwest Coast Art and Lévi-Strauss’ Ethno-Aesthetics”
Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University -“Anthropology at the Académie Française”
Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - “Transformation: Lévi-Strauss in the Rabbis’ Academy”
Film showing “À Propos de Tristes Tropiques” by Patrick Menget 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 10/23 (Law School Room 122)

Session 3. Mythology Studies, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Anthony Seeger, UCLA - “Performing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Fugue of the Five Senses: Myths, Aromas, Tastes, Feelings and Music in the Brazilian Amazon”
Greg Schrempp, Indiana University -“Scientific Fire Myths: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of Four Variants”
Jeffrey D. Anderson, Colby College - “Lévi-Strauss and the Mysteries of the Arapaho Porcupine Redaction Myth”
Film showing: “Auprès de l’Amazonie” by Marcelo Fortaleza Flores 11:30-12:30 p.m.

Session 4. Anthropology and History, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Cesar Gordon, Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro - “L'Apothéose d'Auguste: Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Despair and Hopefulness”
Christopher Peebles, Indiana University - “Lévi-Strauss among the Archeologists: From Structuralism to Logicism”
Allen Douglas, Indiana University, - “Space and Time: The Philosophy of History in Tristes Tropiques”

Session 5. Lévi-Strauss in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable Summation, 5:15-6:30 p.m.

For questions or additional information, contact Joëlle Bahloul (bahloul@indiana.edu) or Raymond DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu)

India Studies Kathak Performance - Pallabi Chakravorty

The Indiana University India Studies Program presents,

Kathak Performance

Pallabi Chakravorty

Assistant Professor

Department of Music and Dance

Swarthmore College

Saturday, October 23 at 8:30 pm

Merrill Hall (Old Music Building)

1201 East 3rd Street

Recital Hall

Pallabi Chakravorty teaches Kathak dance and academic courses related to the anthropology of performance in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble Courtyard Dancers, she is an anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, and cultural worker. Professor Chakravorty studied Kathak and other classical and folk dance styles in Kolkata under renowned gurus, primarily Bandana Sen. She received her doctoral degree in Visual Anthropology from Temple University, Philadelphia. For her performance here at IU, Professor Chakravorty has selected some choreographic works from her dance repertoire to demonstrate how she integrates theory and practice in her creative work. This performance will help us explore how we can think about Indian dance, culture, history within a performative framework.

Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dance. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers, who specialized in recounting mythological and moral tales through dance. From the 16th century onwards the Mughal courts patronized the art form, which had by then absorbed features from Persia and Central Asia.

This Week at the Art Museum Oct 11-17

Gallery Reinstallation: Nineteenth Century Art

This reinstallation offers a fresh look at favorite works in the collection and prominently features several recent acquisitions. Works on display for the first time include paintings by the Austrian symbolist painter Walter Sigmund Hampel, Italian impressionist Giacomo Favretto, and German landscape painter Julius Lange. The new installation aims to evoke the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century museum or art gallery, with deep blue walls providing a dark backdrop for the paintings.


From the Steppes and Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet
Continuing through December 19

Spanning a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, this exhibition offers a tantalizing glimpse of the arts of Tibet and Mongolia, whose practice of Buddhism has joined them together at key moments in their history.

African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture

Continuing through December 19, 2010

Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor

Plastic bags, aluminum cans, wire, and scraps of wood, cloth, metal, and plastic are given second lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa when they are transformed into a variety of utilitarian and decorative items. With objects including a working radio, a movie poster painted on an old flour sack, and a menagerie of animals made out of cans and wire, African Reinventions presents an engaging assortment of creative uses of recycled materials.


This exhibition was organized in conjunction with sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet, the Fall 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Themester. For more information about this Themester, visit http://themester.indiana.edu/.

IDAH Brown Bag Series: Norbert Herber

Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series

Presented by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH)

Thursday, Oct 7

12-1 p.m.

IDAH Conference Room, Wells Library E170D

Norbert Herber, Lecturer, Department of Telecommunications

“First-, Second-, & Third-order Cybernetics for Music and Mediated Interaction”

Implicitly or explicitly, Cybernetics plays a role in works of Experimental, Ambient, and Generative music. This talk will introduce Amergent music, a genre that draws from these musical traditions and creates a third-order cybernetic stipulation in works of technoetic and media art. Drawing on the work of Maturana & Varela and Martin Heidegger, Amergent music establishes a new relationship between listeners, generative systems, and the musically mediated environment that is created in the course of interaction, play, and presence. Some recent projects, including Londontown and Dérive Entre Mille Sons, will be used as examples of this approach in the music of virtual worlds and mobile device applications.

Please join us! Feel free to bring your lunch.

29 Jewish Studies courses offered in Spring 2011

Undergraduate courses: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/undergraduates/courses.shtml

Courses include:

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict a& the Prospect for Peace
• Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
• Introduction to Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
• American Judaism and Popular Culture
• Death & the Afterlife in Ancient Judaism
• Exploring Jewish Identity Todah
• Gender & Rabbinic Literature
• Israel’s Environment: Sustainable Development in the Holy Land
• Jewish Memories, Memoirs, and History
• Jews & Race in the U.S.
• The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction
• Klezmer Music and Performance
• Love, Soul, & Destiny in Modern Yiddish Literature
• Modern Hebrew Literature in English
• Music in Judaism
• Understanding Antisemitism (Hutton Honors College)
• Yiddish Creativity, Literature, and Culture (in Russian)
• The Jewish Jesus Through the Ages
• Judaism & Gender: Philosophical & Theological Perspectives
• Modern Hebrew
• Biblical Hebrew
• Yiddish

Graduate courses: http://www.indiana.edu/~jsp/graduates/courses.shtml

 Graduate courses include:

• A Language Without an Army? Functions & Conceptions of Yiddish Through the Ages
• Judeo-Spanish Diaspora & the Jews of the Middle East
• Rhetoric, Representation, and the Holocaust

October 4 - October 10 @ the IU Art Museum

Rivers and Tides

Wednesday, October 6, 8:00-9:30 pm
Sculpture Terrace, second floor

Thomas Riedelsheimer's film follows renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates with ice, driftwood, bracken, leaves, stone, dirt, and snow in open fields, beaches, rivers, creeks, and forests. We see Goldsworthy as he works to understand the energetic flow in nature, represented often by water, by wind, or simply the passage of seasons. Both carefully composed and fluid, Rivers and Tides keeps its focus on the artist's vision and work, giving us room to ponder our own relationship to the energy coursing through the natural world.

Angles Cafe will be open for refreshments. In the event of rain, the film screening will be moved indoors.

From the Steppes and the Monasteries:

Arts of Mongolia and Tibet
Continuing through December 19, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

Spanning a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, this exhibition offers a tantalizing glimpse of the arts of Tibet and Mongolia, whose practice of Buddhism has joined them together at key moments in their history.

African Reinventions:

Reused Materials in Popular Culture
Continuing through December 19, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor


Plastic bags, aluminum cans, wire, and scraps of wood, cloth, metal, and plastic are given second lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa when they are transformed into a variety of utilitarian and decorative items. With objects including a working radio, a movie poster painted on an old flour sack, and a menagerie of animals made out of cans and wire, African Reinventions presents an engaging assortment of creative uses of recycled materials.

The Indiana University Art Museum's galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from Noon to 5:00 p.m. Angles Café & Gift Shop is open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday Noon to 5:00 p.m. The Art Museum's galleries are closed on Mondays and major holidays. The museum and all exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop Series, Fall 2010

Each semester, the Borns Jewish Studies Program is pleased to present a series of workshops for IU faculty and graduate students.  The speakers and topics related to Jewish Studies vary each semester.  Lunch is provided free at these workshops and no reservations are necessary.  We hope you can join us for this fall’s workshop series featuring presentations by the scholars listed below.  If you have questions about any of the workshops please don’t hesitate to contact the Borns Jewish Studies Program.

“The Gender of Difference: Race and the Construction of the American Jew, 1910-1925”

Sarah Imhoff

Visiting Lecturer, Borns Jewish Studies Program

Indiana University

Friday, October 8

Sassafras Room, IMU

12:00 noon

 

“Jews and their Neighbors:

Law and Interethnic Relations in the Russian Empire”

Professor Eugene Avrutin

Professor of Modern European Jewish History and Tobor Family Scholar,

Program of Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois

Friday, October 15

12:00 noon

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

“In the Steps of Our Foremothers: Themes and Genres of Contemporary Hasidic Women’s Yiddish Songs”

Asya Vaisman

Visiting Lecturer, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University

Friday, October 29

12:00 noon

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

“Crossing the Jordan:

A Study of Israel-Jordan Cross-border Relations since the 1994 Peace Treaty"

Tamar Arieli

Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor

Friday, November 12

12:00 noon

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

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Islam & Peacebuilding

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures,

Voices & Visions: Islam & Muslims from a Global Perspective, &

the Center for the Study of the Middle East

Presents;

Dr. Qamar-ul Huda,

Senior Program Officer,

United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.

Islam &

Peacebuilding:

Theory and Practice

Monday, October 11, 7:30pm

The Neal-Marshall Center, A201

Copies of Dr. Huda’s book will be available for purchase and

signature by the author at the end of lecture.

Dr. Huda is Senior Program Officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Program at the US Institute of Peace Studies and scholar of Islam. His area of expertise is Islamic theology, intellectual history, ethics, comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in contemporary Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic Intellectual History from UCLA and is the editor of the recently published The Crescent and Dove: Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam (USIP Press, 2010), which provides a critical analysis of models of nonviolent strategies, peace building efforts, conflict resolution methods in Muslim communities.

Please visit Dr. Huda’s webpage for more information;

http://www.usip.org/specialists/qamar-ul-huda

Graduate students & faculty, please RSVP at  n elc@indiana.edu for the opportunity to meet with Dr. Huda informally over lunch* on

Tuesday, October 12, 11.30-1pm

Ballantine Hall, 004**

*Pizza and beverages will be provided for this event.

** Please note room change!