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

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

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