The IULC Working Papers is currently accepting submissions for Volume 11. We accept submissions from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members from all departments, and other IU affiliated scholars in linguistics.
The IULC Working Papers is intended to be an outlet for original research in all fields of linguistics and to introduce graduate students to the publication process. Graduate students with outstanding term papers are especially encouraged to consider submitting their work.
For detailed information on the submission process, visit:
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Bloomington Summer Festival of the Arts
Summer in Bloomington means 113 days of music, visual art, cinema, and theatre. Spread out a blanket on the lawn of the Musical Arts Center, munch popcorn and watch an independent film, or cool off while browsing a rare book collection. Whether you're in town for a day, a week, or all 113 days of our summer festival, you'll find something to love about IU's hot summer art scene.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Abraham's Childern-A Prayer for Peace
Please join us for Abraham's Childern-A Prayer for Peace, a concert promoting world peace through spiritual unity at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Tuesday, May 10 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public.
Please see the following website for more information: https://sites.google.com/site/abrahamschildrenaprayer/
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
This Week @ the IU Art Museum
This Week @ the IU Art Museum April 25, 2011 |
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition | |
Opening Reception Friday, April 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor Group 3 Yang Chen, photography Erin Goedtel, painting Cathy Marks, metals | |
COMING NEXT WEEK: One-Hour Exhibition | |||
Student Picks Friday, May 6, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Visitors should meet in the museum's third floor office. No pre-registration is required, but space is limited. Admission will be on a first come-first served basis.
In celebration of IU's spring graduation, this one-hour "drop-in" exhibition will feature prints, drawings, and photographs selected by the IU Art Museum's Student Academic Committee for Mellon Programs. Among the students' diverse favorites are works by Jean Arp, Giorgio Vasari, Rembrandt van Rijn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Robert Doisneau, and Walt Disney. | |||
COMING NEXT WEEK: Art is Ageless | |
Art is Ageless Sunday, May 8, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor The City of Bloomington Commission on Aging and the Center on Aging and Community invite you to participate in the Creative Aging Festival, a month-long city-wide celebration of Older Americans Month honoring our elders and their creative contributions to our community. At the IU Art Museum, enjoy a gallery tour with several of the museum's leading elder docents. Then stay for a reading of works by Bell Trace Senior Living Center writers who have been working with Tonia Matthew of the Writers Guild. In the art of aging, creatvity matters! Come be inspired. All events are free. | |
New at Angles Café & Gift Shop | |
 Spring Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday Noon-5:00 p.m. | |
Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with IDAH’s HASTAC Scholars
MA Student, Jacobs School of Music
“Multimedia Collaboration: the Process and the Results”
Will Coogan is currently a master’s candidate in Computer Music Composition. Most of his recent works involve collaboration between acoustic and electronic elements, including interactive computer processing for both audio and video. Will's new multimedia opera "Marabel" combines traditional operatic elements with interactive software, animation, video, and choreography. His discussion will focus on the collaborative process working with other artists, as well as on the use of mixed media as a way of engaging with audiences.
PhD Student, Department of English
Masters in Information Science Student, School of Library and Information Science
Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer for the Office of the Registrar
"Digital Humanities Prehistory and Future Pasts"
Is the digital humanities a sort of futurism? What might we find when we extend our gaze backward instead, to DH's prehistory? How did humanists and others involved in research and publishing conceptualize the relationship between computers and the humanities? How has this developed? In this presentation, Grant will pay particular attention to the visual aspects of published DH materials in his investigation of these questions. His dissertation in the department of English, Computing the English Middle Ages, deals with the hermeneutics of electronic objects and processes from roughly 1960 to the present. In it he traces the use of computers in Old and Middle English research from the early days of humanities computing to contemporary digital humanities.
Remote connection also available via Adobe Acrobat Connect:
To join the meeting: http://breeze.iu.edu/bbidah/.
Please join us! Feel free to bring your lunch.
To receive a reminder and an abstract of upcoming IDAH presentations, send an email to listserv@indiana.edu with nothing in the subject line and the message body: sub IDAH_BROWNBAG-L Your Full Name
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Yasir Suleiman Lectures
Language, Conflict and Inter-cultural (Mis)Communication
Monday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union
Contextualising Islam in Britain
Wednesday, April 27 at noon
The Bridgwaters Lounge of the Neal-Marshal Black Culture Center
Friday, April 15, 2011
Goddesses, Bulls & Mounds - Archaeology of the Middle East
Goddesses, Bulls & Mounds
Archaeology of the Middle East
Site Expo Poster Session
Join us as students from ANTH P341/P541 and CUES 389/589 share their research about the archaeology of the Middle East. Posters feature research on a range of fascinating sites -- with details about the excavations, data analysis, site preservation and management efforts, and contemporary socio-politics of 30 different sites!
Friday, April 15
Student Bldg. Main Floor
10:15-12:30
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies
Friday, April 22, 1:30-2:30 pm
Fine Arts, room 007
"Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies" by Prof. Christiane Gruber, Department of Art History
Abstract:
Votive practices have thrived in Arab, Turkish, and Persian lands since the beginning of Islam to today. At the center of Islamic popular devotional practices stands the votive offering (nazr), by which a pious aspirant uses an object to secure a bond with a sacred entity, be it a place or person. Although it is clear from textual sources that ex-votos have been used since medieval times to make a request or to give thanks for a wish granted, they rarely survive today. Turning to contemporary Iranian Shi'i mourning ceremonies, especially those performed during the month of Muharram, can shed further light on the matter, however. Muharram rituals preserve and expand Islamic votive traditions, while also forwarding sectarian discourses. Moreover, they share intriguing overlaps with Christian and Zoroastrian votive customs, such as processional parades and communal meals. Based on fieldwork carried out in Tehran during December 2010, this paper discusses votive practices and objects used in contemporary Muharram ceremonies in order to explore more broadly how a "world of representations" ('alam al-mithal) can enable a devotee's dealings with the divine within Islamic traditions-- traditions which, in this particular instance, converge into a highly artistic votum complex that fuses Shi'i martyrial narratives with Christian and Zoroastrian ritual practices.
Fine Arts, room 007
"Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies" by Prof. Christiane Gruber, Department of Art History
Abstract:
Votive practices have thrived in Arab, Turkish, and Persian lands since the beginning of Islam to today. At the center of Islamic popular devotional practices stands the votive offering (nazr), by which a pious aspirant uses an object to secure a bond with a sacred entity, be it a place or person. Although it is clear from textual sources that ex-votos have been used since medieval times to make a request or to give thanks for a wish granted, they rarely survive today. Turning to contemporary Iranian Shi'i mourning ceremonies, especially those performed during the month of Muharram, can shed further light on the matter, however. Muharram rituals preserve and expand Islamic votive traditions, while also forwarding sectarian discourses. Moreover, they share intriguing overlaps with Christian and Zoroastrian votive customs, such as processional parades and communal meals. Based on fieldwork carried out in Tehran during December 2010, this paper discusses votive practices and objects used in contemporary Muharram ceremonies in order to explore more broadly how a "world of representations" ('alam al-mithal) can enable a devotee's dealings with the divine within Islamic traditions-- traditions which, in this particular instance, converge into a highly artistic votum complex that fuses Shi'i martyrial narratives with Christian and Zoroastrian ritual practices.
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
The Islamic Studies Program and the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center would like to invite you to attend the inaugural Studies in the Formation of Islam lecture. This year’s lecturer, Dr. Johan Elverskog, will speak about Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. Please join us inaugurating the lecture series by welcoming Dr. Elverskog in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Walnut room at 4:00 pm on April 21st, 2011.
The meeting of Buddhism and Islam is often conceived as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 readily confirmed our preconceived imaginings: Islam is bad and violent, while Buddhism is good and peaceful. Yet, how accurate are these stereotypes? Moreover, how do these contemporary views shape our understanding of the past? The aim of this talk is to explore these questions by exploring the cultural exchanges that took place between Buddhists and Muslims in medieval Central Asia.
Dr. Elverskog is Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is also the Director of Asian Studies and the SMU-in-Suzhou Program. He teaches various courses on the history of Asian religions, and his research focuses on the history of Inner Asia. He is the author and editor of seven books, including most recently Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Fatih Yildiz Lecture
Fatih Yildiz, Turkey's Consul General in Chicago, is giving a lecture concerning Turkey's foreign policy on April 28th.
Flier viewable here.
Flier viewable here.
Professor Yasir Suleiman Talks
The Center for the Study of the Middle East announces the upcoming visit of Professor Yasir Suleiman, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King's College.
Professor Suleiman's research covers the cultural politics of the Middle East with special focus on identity, conflict, diaspora studies and modernization in so far as these issues relate to language, modern Arabic literature, translation and memory. He also conducts research in Arabic grammatical theory and the Arabic intellectual tradition in the pre-modern period.
Prof. Suleiman will present two public talks during his visit to Indiana University:
Language, Conflict and Inter-cultural (Mis)Communication
Monday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union
Contextualising Islam in Britain
Wednesday, April 27 at noon
The Bridgwaters Lounge of the Neal-Marshal Black Culture Center
Please join us for light luncheon refreshments in conjunction with this noon lecture which is made possible with the assistance and support of West European Studies and the Center for the Study of the Middle East.
Professor Suleiman’s many published works include the following books: Arabic, Self and Identity: A study in Conflict and displacement (forthcoming, 2011), A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004), The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003), The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Tal'liil (1999), Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (editor 2010), Literature and Nation in the Middle East (editor with Ibrahim Muhawi, 2006), Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1999), Arabic Grammar and Linguistics (editor, 1998), Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1996) Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives (editor, 1994), and Living Islamic History (editor 2010). Professor Suleiman is working on two books (under contract): Arabic in the Fray: Constructing Languages, Constructing Identities (2012) and Being Palestinian (editor, 2012). He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series.
Professor Suleiman acted as project leader for Contextualising Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspectives (http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/
Professor Suleiman is Chair of the Panel of Judges, British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize on Middle Eastern Studies. He serves as Trustee on the Boards of the following organisations: Arab-British Chamber of Commerce Charitable Fund, International Prize for Arab Fiction (in association with the Man-Booker Prize), Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and Gulf Research Centre-Cambridge. He is also Board Member of the Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA).Professor Suleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, formerly Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies.
Monday, April 11, 2011
This Week @ the IU Art Museum
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Europe Day Celebration Wednesday, April 13, 5:00−7:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium To commemorate Europe Day, the IU Art Museum will partner with IU's European Union Center to host a "Getting to Know Europe" celebration with works of art, music, and open dialogue between EU Center staff and visitors. In addition, the EU Center and IU Art Museum are pleased to welcome Sven Schumacher, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany to Indianapolis, and Ramin Navai, British Deputy Consul General to Chicago, as honorary guests and speakers at this event. For more information, visit www.iub.edu/~eucenter.
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Human Rights and Capacity Building in Emerging Democracies: The International Human Rights Law Institute in Iraq.
Major General Charles Tucker
(Professor of Law at DePaul University and
Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute)
April 14, 2011 (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
CCD Conference Room
624 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
CCD Conference Room
624 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Abstract: “The International Human Rights Law Institute has undertaken seven multi-million dollar federally funded capacity building grants aimed at supporting human rights initiatives, the growth of civil society organizations, and the sustainability of democratic legal reform in Iraq. Working in cooperation with local universities, institutions and NGOs in Iraq, the International Human Rights Law Institute has primarily focused its efforts on the support and advocacy of women’s rights and sexual minorities, the improvement of law schools and legal education, and the institutionalization of democratic processes to support Iraq’s most vulnerable populations.”
Bio: Major General (Retired) Charles E. Tucker (USAF) is the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute. For more than 25 years, he has been an international rule of law and humanitarian law practitioner. He was routinely seconded to the US State Department and various International Organizations. He served multiple tours of duty with the United Nations in various countries and served as Economic and Legal Adviser for the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also served as an International Law Adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. Additionally, he served as Legal Adviser for the US Ambassador in Iraq, as well as for State Department and DOD missions in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central and South America. He was named the Air National Guard’s Outstanding Judge Advocate. In his civilian capacity, he served as a Senior Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, where he oversaw the NLRB General Counsel’s adjudication of complex labor rights cases.
Chuck is an accomplished lecturer and has authored numerous manuals on international legal matters. He was an Assistant Professor of Law at the US Air Force Academy, as well as Course Director of the Academy’s Comparative International Law Program. He is the founding Co-Editor of the USAFA Journal of Legal Studies. And he served as Adjunct Professor of Management for Bradley University and as an Adjunct faculty member for Wayland College. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, Government), a 1982 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law (JD) and a 2003 graduate of the US Air War College.
Prior to his military retirement, Chuck was Director of Joint Doctrine, Training and Force Development for the National Guard Bureau. He was responsible for developing training and exercise policies/programs to ensure joint units of the National Guard were ready to respond to their homeland defense and homeland security missions. He oversaw the Joint Commander Training Course, the Joint State Staff Officer Course, and the National Guard Homeland Defense & Joint Interagency Training Centers. He also formulated Joint Professional Military Education policy and coordinated review of all Joint Professional Military Education curricula.
Marian University - Global Policy Presentations
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Tagore's "Religion of Man" - Martha Nussbaum
Tagore’s “Religion of Man”
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago
Friday, April 22 at 5:30 pm
State Room East
Indiana Memorial Union
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago
Friday, April 22 at 5:30 pm
State Room East
Indiana Memorial Union
ABSTRACT
Nineteenth-century political thinkers grew obsessed with the question of how politics might
motivate citizens to depart from narrow egoism and greed, accepting sacrifices for the sake
of fair political institutions and a decent living standard for all. Auguste Comte’s “Religion of
Humanity” had enormous influence all over the world, including India, where leading Bengali intellectuals adapted his ideas to their own situation. Meanwhile, Comte’s proposals, which asked for a great deal of social homogeneity and control, were undergoing criticism and reformulation—by John Stuart Mill in Britain, and later by Tagore in his 1930 Hibbert Lectures in Oxford. Tagore and Mill agree in basing the new humanistic religion in a cultivation of individual freedom and self-expression, but Tagore, drawing on the Baul tradition, gives it a more richly emotional foundation.
Nineteenth-century political thinkers grew obsessed with the question of how politics might
motivate citizens to depart from narrow egoism and greed, accepting sacrifices for the sake
of fair political institutions and a decent living standard for all. Auguste Comte’s “Religion of
Humanity” had enormous influence all over the world, including India, where leading Bengali intellectuals adapted his ideas to their own situation. Meanwhile, Comte’s proposals, which asked for a great deal of social homogeneity and control, were undergoing criticism and reformulation—by John Stuart Mill in Britain, and later by Tagore in his 1930 Hibbert Lectures in Oxford. Tagore and Mill agree in basing the new humanistic religion in a cultivation of individual freedom and self-expression, but Tagore, drawing on the Baul tradition, gives it a more richly emotional foundation.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Are We Stuck in the Nuclear Age?
Sir Lawrence Freedman
Professor of War Studies and Vice-Principal
King's College, London
Sir Lawrence Freedman’s career has been marked by impressive contributions to the understanding of nuclear issues, both historic and strategic, culminating in his seminal publication The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, now in its 3rd addition and widely acclaimed as a standard within the field. Sir Lawrence has been Vice Principal (Research) of King’s College since 2003 and a Fellow since 1992. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996 and Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2003. Sir Lawrence served as Foreign Policy advisor to Tony Blair, and is the Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign. In June 2009, he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War.
Thursday, April 14 at 6:30 pm
President’s Room, University Club
Indiana Memorial Union
Getting Elected to Parliament with a Headscarf: The politics, the glass ceiling, and Islamophobia
Getting Elected to Parliament with a Headscarf:
The politics, the glass ceiling, and Islamophobia
Mahinur Ozdemir
Monday April 11, 2011, 4:00 PM
Woodburn 120
Mahinur Ozdemir was elected at the age of 26 to Brussels’ Regional Parliament (2009) and is a member of the Belgian party Humanist Democratic Center (CDH). Before that, she served on the city council of the Schaerbeek district of Brussels. She serves on several organizations to help the advancement of minorities in Belgium and received several awards for her work. Mahinur Ozdemir earned a degree in political science and public administration from Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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