Global Village Announcements

A.     Lecture October 28: Europeanism by John McCormick

B.     New Undergraduate Course for Spring 2011: Environmental Justice

C.     New Graduate Course for Spring 2011:

D.    IPAA Conference: Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions

E.      Human Trafficking Film Series (Thursdays at the Global Village): Blind Mountain October 28th

A.    Lecture: Europeanism (Thursday, October 28, 2010) 12 – 1:30 pm  Woodburn 218

Speaker: Professor John McCormick, IUPUI Political Science Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Politics

Topic: Europeanism – What Europeans Have in Common and Why It Matters

B. New Course: Environmental Justice

P401, Section 28139  Spring 2011

Dr. Stephanie Kane                                                     

Class Tuesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in BH 149                       

This is an intensive writing, interdisciplinary course on comparative environmental justice with a core focus on water issues. We will draw on writings and fieldwork of scholars from the fields of Anthropology, Geography, Human Rights Law, Criminology, Cultural Studies, Communications, Journalism, and Ecology. Their writings and films will provide us with the knowledge to compare and contrast situations and interventions taking place in North and South America, the Mexican borderlands, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Our goal will be to understand environmental crisis as a combination of cultural, political, economic, legal and ecological processes that are set in motion by different factors, and take on different character in localized settings.

See attached flyer for more information. 

C. New Course: Cross-Cultural Studies

Graduate Proseminar P670, Section 28145

Dr. Stephanie Kane                                                     

Class Wednesdays 5:45-8:15 PM in SYC 146                

Course description:

In this course we will read across continents and disciplines, participating in the invention and development of the emerging subfield of cultural criminology. We will draw on theories and methods at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, art history, law and criminology. Our cultural crossings will take us to North, Central and South America, Europe, Near East, Asia, and Africa. As we immerse ourselves in different social worlds and modes of representation, crime and justice emerge as multifaceted concepts, as diverse in their interpretation and relevance as they are universal in their appearance. Struggles over their meaning are the quintessential cultural enterprise, one that digs deeply into the material forces that shape survival, celebration, and moral and legal judgment.

D.  Call for Faculty and Student Papers for IPAA Conference

Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions: Creating Policy for a Rapidly Changing World

The IU International Public Affairs Association (IPAA) seeks panelists for:

The 4^th Annual International Public Affairs Association Spring Conference

(March 25, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Priority deadline for abstract submission: December 10, 2010

Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and independent scholars are cordially invited to submit abstracts addressing all topics relating to international public affairs. Possible topics may include:

·         Global economic development

·         Emerging nations

·         International law and governance

·         Environmental protection and cooperation

·         Conflict and resolution: gender, minority groups, and religion

Prospective participants: We encourage faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from all disciplines to submit their work. The conference welcomes co-authored papers and faculty-student collaborations, as well as submissions of course projects.  In keeping with the conference’s broad theme of sustainability, abstracts dealing with issues of sustainability will receive special consideration. 

Please send submissions and questions to: ipaa@indiana.edu. Please see attached Call for Proposals PDF for more information

E.   Human Trafficking Film Series:

Thursdays 6–8 pm, in the Global Village (Foster-Martin)
This Thursday: October 28^th (in Global Village, Classroom 012B) Blind Mountain by by Li Yang:
In rural early 90’s China, Bai, a pretty and enterprising college student travels to a remote, mist shrouded mountain village in the company of a pair of affable strangers.  What Bai thought was an expedition to gather herbs for resale turns into a crime when fellow travelers sell her into slavery....Follow the story of Bai as she finds herself trapped in slavery and her continual resistance to the fate she has been forced into.

For more information, contact Dr. Stepanka Korytova (stepkory@indiana.edu), visiting scholar at the Global Center and visiting lecturer for the International Studies Program.

See attached flyer