The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program Faculty-Graduate Workshop Series, Spring 2011

• All My Life A Musician : The Art, Contexts and Aesthetics of East European Jewish Traditional Musical Performers - Michael Alpert Paul - Artist in Residence - Borns Jewish Studies Program - Friday March 4 - Distinguished Alumni Room - 12:00 Noon
• Challenging Particularity: Jews as a Lens on Latin American Ethnicity - Jeffrey Lesser - Professor of History - Emory University - Friday March 25 - University Club President's Room IMU - 12:00 Noon
• This Land is My Land, Your Land is My Land: Dueling Narratives Within Israel and Palestinian Jerusalem Amy Horowitz - Dept. of Comparative Literature - Mershon Center - Friday April 22 - University Club President's Room IMU - 12:00 Noon

Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants

"Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants" Tuesday, March 1, 2011 7 p.m. Greg Hartley Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library Auditorium Greg Hartley 's expertise as an interrogator, interrogation instructor and resistance to interrogation instructor first earned him honors with the United States Army. More recently, it has drawn national level intelligence organizations and international media to seek his insights about "how to" as well as "why." He graduated from the United States Army Interrogation School, the Anti-Terrorism Instructor Qualification Course, the Principle Protection Instructor Qualification Course, and Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) school. Hartley has trained government agencies, private investigators, human resource representatives, lawyers, and finance experts to read people and detect deception. He has worked as a business consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and consulted with international clients. Hartley is also the author of seven books. Register Now! 2010-11 Global Studies Speaker Series Sponsored by: Two-Part Series on "Torture and Interrogation in an Age of Terrorism" Tuesday, March 1, 2011 7 p.m. Greg Hartley Interrogation in the Era of Non-Traditional Combatants Thursday, April 14, 2011 7 p.m. Peter Brooks Ethics, Interpretation, and the Torture Memos Register Now!

The Challenge of Being the Majority: Intra-Jewish and Multicultural Issues in Israel

Talk by Prof. Tamar Arieli, Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, this coming Sunday, Feb. 27, 7 PM, om "The Challenge of Being the Majority: Intra-Jewish and Multicultural Issues in Israel" at Congregation Beth Shalom (near the corner of Third St. and Smith Rd.). 


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Branigin Lecture by Christopher Melchert

Dear friends/colleagues,Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study presents a Branigin Lecture by

Christopher Melchert

Agreeing to Disagree (or not): The Shaping of Islam In the Early Middle Ages

Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 4:00 p.m. - Wright Education Building, 1120 (201 N. Rose Ave.) IU Bloomington

The Sunni community formed in the ninth and tenth centuries CE around a series of agreements to disagree. Multiple texts of the Qur?an were accepted, multiple collections of sound hadith, and most importantly multiple schools of law. In the area of piety, Sufism evolved so as to avoid offence to the legal-minded, although tensions here have persisted to the present. Agreement was even more elusive in the area of theology, although with diminishing effects in time except as to the Sunni-Shi`i divide. Probabilism was the most important mechanism for keeping the peace: one felt sure that one?s own way was the closest to what God wanted but recognized that there was a certain chance that other ways were actually closer.

Christopher Melchert is University Lecturer in Arabic and Islam at the Oriental Institute and a Fellow of Pembrook College at the University of Oxford, England. He is one of the leading experts on Islamic law, focusing on the formation of Islamic legal traditions and on the early Hanbali school. His 1997 book, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. has already become a modern classic.

U.S. Policy and Strategy in Afghanistan - What Next?

The Center of the Study of the Middle East announces the upcoming lecture

"U.S. Policy and Strategy in Afghanistan - What Next?"

by Larry P. Goodson, Professor of Middle East Studies U.S. Army War College

Friday, February 25 at 5:30 pm
India Studies House

For additional information see attached flyer or contact:

Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program
825 E 8th Street, Bloomington IN 47408
812 855 5798
http://indiana.edu/~isp
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This lecture is made possible through the support of The Indiana University India Studies Program, The Center on American and Global Security, and The Center for the Study of the Middle East.

Special ArtsWeek 2011 Program

Special ArtsWeek 2011 Program

Saturday, February 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 27, 1:00-3:00 p.m.

The IU Art Museum is presenting Family ArtsWeekEnd, a unique program created for IU's ArtsWeek 2011  with funding from an ArtsWeek grant. This program will give families throughout south-central Indiana opportunities to explore four primary areas of K-12 curricula (history, math, science, and literature) through the visual arts.

Working closely with an ArtsWeekEnd team of Art Museum staff, IU students, and K-12 classroom and art teachers, the museum's education department will offer four curriculum-based gallery sessionsand four hands-on "work stations" that will showcase the visual arts as a vehicle for teaching and learning.

Each 30-minute gallery session will emphasize how artists from around the world and throughout the ages have clothed ideas in the language and media of the visual arts, using examples from the museum's extensive collection of worldwide art. Museum tour guides will tailor these curriculum-based gallery experiences to a range of age groups.

Saturday afternoon's program will focus on history and science; Sunday afternoon's program will spotlight math and literature. Tour guides will be available throughout both afternoons to repeat gallery sessions as requested.

"Work stations" will be positioned on the first and second floors of the museum's Thomas T. Solley Atrium, where families can participate in hands-on projects coordinated with the gallery sessions. There will be two work stations per day (history and science on Saturday; math and literature on Sunday). Practicum students and volunteers from the museum's education department will assist families with the various hands-on projects. At the end of each day's program, families will be able to take home resource materials that are designed to extend the museum's activities at home.

Live music will be provided by Bobbie Lancaster on Saturday and Mitch & Eileen Rice on Sunday. Free refreshments will be provided as well. No tickets are required to attend this event.

Family ArtsWeekEnd is made possible by a generous ArtsWeek 2011 grant through the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research. Additional support comes from the IU Art Museum's ARC Fund, Learning Treasures, and Pygmalion's Art Supplies.

East Asian Studies Center - Spring 2011 Special Events

Symposium on "Difference and Constitutionalism in Asia"
March 4-5 - 8am-5pm Maurer School of Law
Hosted by the ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute and the Mauer School of Law's Center for Constitutional Democracy

"Rethinking the 'Post-Defeat' Discursive Space: Censorship during the Occupation Period" 
March 10 - 4-5:30pm Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006
Richi Sakakibara, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University

East Asian Film Series - The Housemaid
March 26 - 6:30pm IU Cinema
Admission will be free, but tickets will be required. Tickets may be obtained through the IU Auditorium box office, Mon.-Fri. 10am - 5pm or in the IU Cinema lobby 30 minutes prior to screening.

Roundtable -"The Economic Recession: Opportunities and Challenges in Economies in Transition"
April 8 - 9am-22pm, 2-4pm IMU Stateroom East
Hosted by the Russian & East European Institute

Film & Director's Talk - Pinoy Sunday 
April 21 6:30pm IU Cinema
Admission will be free, but tickets will be required. Tickets may be obtained through the IU Auditorium box office, Mon.-Fri. 10am - 5pm or in the IU Cinema lobby 30 minutes prior to screening.

East Asian Film Ceries - Japanese film, title TBA
April 23 6:30pm IU Cinema
Admission will be free, but tickets will be required. Tickets may be obtained through the IU Auditorium box office, Mon.-Fri. 10am - 5pm or in the IU Cinema lobby 30 minutes prior to screening

EALC/EASC Student Awards Ceremony
April 29 - 3:30-5pm Wells House (1321 East 10th Street)

Jacobs Presentations

Jacobs School of Music is presenting numerous shows this February. Specifically, they are presenting:

Faust by Charles Gounod
Spring Ballet: New York, New York! by Stewart Kershaw

Scheduling and other details can be found by clicking on the above links.

David Cohen: Eastern China in the Early Bronze Age and the Search for the "Great City Shang"

The Departments of Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Cultures Presents: 

David Cohen

(Boston University)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

5:00 pm

Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology

Auditorium (GL 101)

Eastern China in the Early Bronze Age and the Search for “Great City Shang”

The origins of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1045 BC) and of the great Bronze Age civilization it produced have been subjects long debated by archaeologists and historians studying ancient China. One central issue in these debates is the location of “Da Yi Shang,” or “Great City Shang”— a city that is thought to have been the political center of the Shang royal lineage in its predynastic stage (before 1600 BC) and then to have remained the principal ancestral cult center of the Shang kings throughout the dynastic period. Even as the Shang political capital moved a number of times across the landscape of the middle Yellow River region, the Shang kings would always return to Da Yi Shang to perform “telling” rituals to their highest ancestors. A traditional, historiographic view places Great City Shang in eastern Henan province, and this talk will show how archaeology can add support to this view. In doing this, however, we also consider that locating Great City Shang is not only an historical question, but an anthropological one as well, for it ties into other issues we will explore in this talk concerning Shang identity, Shang relationships with surrounding polities, and ethnic formation processes during the time period of state formation and urbanization on the North China Plain, and in particular, the Shang’s relationships with groups in the lower Yellow River region known later as the “Eastern Yi.” 

David Cohen (PhD 2001 Harvard University) is a specialist in Chinese archaeology. With a twenty year background of field research at sites in North and South China, his research covers a wide range of issues in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology, including the origins of complexity and the beginnings of the early Bronze Age Shang dynasty, ethnicity and state formation, ancient Chinese urbanism, human adaptations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, and the origins of rice and millet agriculture. Dr. Cohen has excavated a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the Yellow River region, and he is currently working on hunter-gatherer and early Neolithic village sites in the Middle Yangzi River region, where he and members of the Early Rice Agriculture Project team have recently dated the earliest pottery in the world at over 18,000 years ago. Over the past ten years, Dr. Cohen has helped establish a major research institute for East Asian archaeology at Boston University, where he is also managing the development of an international, collaborative, comprehensive, multilingual bibliographic database of East and Southeast Asian archaeology. He serves as an advisor to PhD students in Asian archaeology and has taught general archaeology and Chinese archaeology courses as a Lecturer or Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University and Harvard.

Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: Alex Chávez

!Vamos a Da’ Las! (Let’s Go to Dallas!): Transborder Geographies of Illegality in Mexican Speech Play

Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102

This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico.

Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.

For Additional Information:

If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-0043.

Liora Halperin Guest Lecture

The Center for the Study of the Middle East

announces a lecture by

 Liora Halperin, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University

Babel in Zion: Hebrew and the Politics of Language Diversity in Mandate Palestine 

will be presented on 

Monday February 21, at 1:00 p.m. in the Maurer School of Law, Room 335.

Liora Halperin is completing her Ph.D. in History at UCLA (Jewish history and Middle Eastern history fields) and holds her undergraduate degree in History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard. Since 2009 she has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies and a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard History Department. Her research focuses on the politics of language within the Jewish community of interwar Palestine (known as the Yishuv) and considers how a society broadly committed to the Zionist ideal of Hebrew language exclusivity represented and negotiated linguistic difference in a society constituted of multilingual immigrants, under British rule, in heart of the Arabic-speaking Middle East.

Her broader research and teaching interests include the history of Israel and Palestine; language and nationalism in comparative perspective; sociolinguistics; cultural history; and the history of the everyday.  Her article "Orienting Language: Reflections on the Study of Arabic in the Yishuv" appeared in the Jewish Quarterly Review (Fall 2006) and her article on Zionist attitudes toward foreign languages was recently published in Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011). Her work has been supported by the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Grant.

Images and Public Culture: Understanding Images Across the Humanities

Josh Carney, (Communication and Culture, Indiana University)

THE VALLEY IN TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS:

KURTLAR VADISI AND THE IMAGING OF CONFLICT 

Friday February 25^th, 2011, 2:00 – 3:30 pm,

at CAHI, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Atwater and Ballantine)

Since the start of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in late December of 2008, Turkish/Israeli relations have seen a steep decline. While this trend has much to do with concrete policies and governmental actions on both sides, the Turkish television and film franchise Kurtlar Vardisi (Valley of the Wolves) has played an unusually large role in the conflicts that have emerged. This presentation explores some of the texts from this franchise in light of DeLuca and Peeples' (2002) notion of “imagefare” in the era of the public sphere, suggesting that a central strategy of the imagefare they wage is a unique form of metapicture (WJT Mitchell, 1995) that blends fact and fiction in a particularly potent combination.

Questions: contact Jon Simons, simonsj@indiana.edu 

Jon Simons, Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Communication and Culture

Indiana University

800 E. Third St.

Bloomington, IN 47405

USA

Phone: 812 856 0896

Editorial board member: Culture, Theory & Critique

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14735784.asp

Co-editor (with Simon Tormey) of Manchester University Press book series, Reappraising the Political

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/aseries.asp?id=54

CEUS Colloquium

The next CEUS Colloquium will convene Wednesday, February 23, from 5:15-6:30 pm (note different time) in the IMU Oak Room. Our guest speaker will be Professor Karl Reichl from the Universität Bonn, who will speak on "Voices and Presence: Performance Aspects of Turkic Oral Epics." Light refreshments will be served. See attached flyer:


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Upcoming Talks

Upcoming talks:

Zouhair Ghazzal - Iliya Harik’s Work on Lebanon and Egypt in Light of His Critics - Feb 25th noon Woodburn 218 - http://www.zouhairghazzal.com/

Charles Kurzman - The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists - March 9th 4pm Woodburn 120 - : http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/

Rescheduled Arabic Pedagogy Lectures with Mr. Kevin Burnham

Hoosiers for Peace in the Middle East Film Screanings

For more information, find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127296737300981Or contact us via email: hoosiersforpeace@gmail.com 



Each screening begins at 7:30pm in Myers Hall room 130 and will be followed by an open discussion.

February 16
Slingshot Hip Hop Documentary, 83 minutesThis film braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.

March 9
Occupation 101Documentary, 90 minutesHere, a comprehensive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is presented in order to dispel many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film works through the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880’s, to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

March 30
To See If I'm SmilingDocumentary, 59 minutesIn this film, former Israeli soliders revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. These women share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, and power-tripping.

The International Interfaith Initiative Invites You to "Understanding Egypt Today: A Conversation"

Co-sponsored by The Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies

Indiana Interchurch Center, Krannert Room
1100 West 42nd Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
Wednesday February 16, 2011, 7-9 p.m.

Join the International Interfaith Initiative for an opportunity to hear and discuss the situation in Egypt with four experts:

• Omar Atia, Local businessman and president of Bridge Generation
• Dr. Pierre Atlas, Political science professor at Marian University and director of The Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies
• Father Nabil Hanna, Pastor of St. George's Orthodox Church
• Amira Mashhour, Visiting lecturer for the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at IUPUI A
• Abla Abdelrouf Rasslan, United States State Department visiting Egyptian scholar

Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship

MEMORANDUM

I am pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship.

On Sunday 4 July 1999, a bright and promising young Korean graduate student was killed as he was entering his church. He was the victim of a random act of extremist violence. Indiana University is united in deploring the hatred and intolerance that caused this senseless tragedy and is committed to the principles and ideals that make this university a place where people from all walks of life and from all nations and religions, can join together in pursuit of knowledge and mutual respect. As a way of underscoring Mr. Yoon’s legacy, Indiana University established this scholarship.

The Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship will provide financial support for IU students who have exemplified tolerance and understanding across racial and religious lines through service, personal commitment, academic achievement and future potential.

Candidates may be graduate students or undergraduates who have completed at least one academic semester of study at Indiana University at the time of application.

• Candidates may be citizens of any country.
• Candidates must be full-time students pursuing Indiana University degrees in Bloomington.
• Candidates may be self-nominated (apply themselves) or be nominated by Indiana University faculty or staff members. 
• Candidates must submit a statement (not to exceed 750 words) describing what the scholarship will enable them to accomplish in their academic programs. The scholarship should be taken up during summer 2011 or the 2011-2012 academic year. 
• Candidates must submit a resume or curriculum vitae as well as a transcript.

Three letters of support are required, at least one of which should be from an Indiana University faculty member.
 
Faculty or staff who nominate candidates, should provide a letter of nomination and at least one additional letter of support. If possible, please also enclose a copy of the student’s resume or curriculum vitae as well as a transcript.
  
The scholarship has a value of approximately $2,500.

The application deadline is March 15, 2011.

Completed applications/nominations should be sent to the Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship Committee, Bryan Hall 104, Indiana University, 107 S. Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405.

Please direct questions to Edda Callahan, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Bryan Hall 104, phone: 812-855-5021; e-mail egcallah@indiana.edu

Re-scripting Islam: Muslims and the Media

March 23 and 24, 2011
DeVault Alumni Center – Indiana University Bloomington
Registration and information: www.indiana.edu/~global/Re-scriptingIslam/

Registration Deadline: March 20, 2011

A quick Internet search of the terms “Islam” and “Muslim” turns up news stories with headlines about “radical Islam” or Islam’s war against the First Amendment or honor killings. The stories attached to such headlines ask whether Islam is compatible with the West; whether Muslims can ever truly be American. Such framing of Muslims, and Islam, is not new. In fact, it goes back centuries both in the United States and abroad.

A conference organized by Indiana University’s Voices and Visions Project will dissect this framing as well as highlight what some Muslims are doing to counteract these seemingly hegemonic narratives about their faith and themselves.

Re-scripting Islam: A conversation between media professionals and scholars will take place March 23 and 24 on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. This free conference is designed to bring together academics, journalists and communication students to discuss the media’s portrayal of Islam and Muslims. The international slate of panelists features bloggers, journalists, and experts on the framing of Muslim women as well as Muslim use of new media.

The conference’s keynote address will be given by Andrea Elliott of The New York Times. A Pulitzer Prize winner, and the creator the Islam beat at the Times, Elliott will speak about her experience covering “Muslims in a Post-9/11 America.”

Registration: www.indiana.edu/~global/Re-scriptingIslam/

Project Coordinator: Rosemary Pennington (rompenni@umail.iu.edu or 812-855-0353)

The Voices and Visions Project is made possible by support from the Social Science Research Council.

Muslim Voices – Voices and Visions of Islam and Muslims from a Global Perspective