Themester Events

The following events are associated with Themester: Making War, Making Peace for the dates October 7 through October 14. All events listed are open to the public and all are free except those designated with a $.

Through -Saturday, Oct 15 8:00 pm (Thursdays-Saturdays) Bloomington Playwrights Project	STAGE PRODUCTION: Bomb/Shell  $
Through Oct 15 Ruth N. Halls Theatre	STAGE PRODUCTION: Hair $
Monday, Oct 10 Wylie Hall 115 9:30 a.m.	Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Combat Stress Reactions: A new understanding, Amy Bixler (Indianapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
Monday, Oct 10 Fine Arts Auditorium (FA 015) 7:00 p.m	LECTURE: Many Wars: The Difficulty of Home, Suzanne Opton (International Center for Photography)
Tuesday, Oct 11 Emerti House 1015 E. Atwater 4:00 p.m.	PANEL DISCUSSION: The College of Arts and Science’s Themester on "Making War, Making Peace," panel members include Edward Linenthal, History; Don Lichtenberg, Physics; with George Malacinski, Biology, moderator
Tuesday, Oct 11 800 N. Indiana Avenue 3:00-4:30 p.m	BRANIGIN LECTURE: From Blood Feuds to Peace: Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Ethiopia, Fekade Azeze (Haile Selassie I University)
Tuesday, Oct 11 Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union 7:30 p.m.	LECTURE: The Ethics of Armageddon: Moral Issues in the Threat and Use of Nuclear Weapons, Ron Rosenbaum (Slate Magazine)
Wednesday, Oct 12 Alumni Hall, IMU 8:00-9:00 p.m.	LECTURE: War, Peace, and the Folklorist's Mission, American Folklore Society Plenary Speaker Henry Glassie (Emeritus, Indiana University)
Wednesday, Oct 12 - Saturday, Oct 15 IMU Garden	EXHIBITION: Tell People the Story: The Art of Gustav Potthoff
Wednesday, Oct 12 Mathers Museum of World Cultures 1:30-4:30 p.m.	DISCUSSION: Folklore in Jerusalem Between War and (no) Peace: The Jerusalem Project 1991-2011
Wednesday, Oct 12 Neal Marshall Bridgewaters Lounge 2:00-3:15 p.m.	DISCUSSION: Conspiracy Theories, Lance deHaven-Smith (Florida State University), Nick Cullather (Indiana University) and the students of HIST-J 301
Thursday, Oct 13 IU Cinema 7:00 p.m.	FILM SCREENING: My Vietnam Your Iraq (2011), with filmmaker Ron Osgood (Indiana University)
Thursday, Oct 13 Jordan Hall 124 7:15-8:45 p.m.	LECTURE: State Crimes Against Democracy: Moving Beyond “Conspiracy Theory.”  Lance DeHaven-Smith (Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University)
Friday, Oct 14 IU Art Museum, Special Exhibitions Gallery 5:30‒6:30 p.m.	LECTURE: The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts, Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)
Friday, Oct 14 Faculty Room Indiana Memorial Union 10:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.	SYMPOSIUM: The 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of China
Friday, Oct 14 IU Art Museum, Special Exhibitions Gallery	EXHIBIT OPENING: The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts (material on loan from Special Collections Research Center: The University of Chicago Library)
September-December Mathers Museum	EXHIBITION: Quilts and Human Rights
September - December IU Art Museum	EXHIBITION: Spoils of War: Self-guided tour featuring artworks affected by World War II