The Fulbright German Studies Seminar gives participants a
firsthand look into how Germany’s political, economic and cultural systems deal
with contemporary issues. For U.S. scholars, the engagement in substantive
dialogue with political, academic, scientific, journalistic and cultural
leaders in Germany can strengthen research and teaching. The German Studies
Seminar is a group program that explores themes of transnational relevance from
a German perspective and within the broader context of the European Union.
Application Deadline: October 15, 2012
Instructions for completing the German Studies Seminar
application are on our website: http://www.cies.org/GSS/SpecialInstructions.pdf
Please contact Tanya Janes, Senior Program Officer, at tjanes@iie.org or Anna Valiante, Program Coordinator, at avaliante@iie.org with any questions about the Fulbright
German Studies Seminar.
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is pleased
to announce its eleventh annual Wadie Jwaideh Memorial lecturer, Amaney
Jamal, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at Princeton
University and director of the Workshop on Arab Political Development. Her
first book titled Barriers to Democracy, published by Princeton
University Press, won the Best Book Award from the American Political Science
Association in 2008.
“Of
Empires and Citizens in the Arab World: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy
At All?”
Monday, September 24, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
7:30
pm
President's
Room in the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union
Abstract: In the post-Cold War era, why has
democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? Amaney Jamal argues that
even in the wake of the Arab spring with the overthrow of some autocratic Arab
regimes, the future course of Arab democratization will be influenced by the
strength of U.S. presence in the region and of popular anti-Americanism which
weakens democratic voices. Examining such countries as Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco,
Palestine, and Saudi Arabia, Professor Jamal explores how Arab citizens decide
whether to back existing regimes, regime transitions, and democratization
projects, and how the global position of Arab states shapes people's attitudes
toward their governments.
A flyer for the lecture is attached. For more
information, visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/events/jwaideh.shtml#upcoming
Dan Smail, (Harvard
University) September 28: " History and the Pre: Perspectives on the Structure
of Deep Historical Arguments" Oak Room 3pm
Stephanie
Koscak , November 2: “Henry the Eight’s Codpiece and Queen Anne’s Ginshop:
Royal Signs and Visual Literacy in Eighteenth-Century London.” Maple Room 3 pm
Tara Zahra, (University of Chicago), November 30: “Travel Agents on
Trial: Policing Mobility in Late Imperial Austria.” maple Room 1pm
4.
Alternative Spring Break in
Russia (March 2013) - Service Learning in Two Ancient Russian Cities
VLADIMIR
Help several community organizations, including the Youth Health
and Education Center, Karl Liebnicht Orphanage, Humanitarian Aid Store,
Handicapped Children's Association “Light” and others, while interacting with
Russian university students and experiencing the delight and wonder of
provincial Russia.
MUROM
Work with university students at the Murom Institute to improve
their English language skills; prepare audio and video materials for their
English language program. During the Soviet period Murom was a closed city. Today it
remains isolated from traditional tourist routes. Foreign language faculty and
students are eager for contact with native English speakers.
DATES: March 3-11 and 10-17, 2013
HOUSING: Homestays (with home-cooked breakfasts and dinners)
EXCURSIONS: Excursions in each city and to surrounding sights, for
example to Suzdal (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
PROGRAM FEE: $795-940, depending on the number of participants;
Includes room and board, excursions, transportation from/to Moscow airport,
visa invitation, basic Russian language lessons, on-site administrative
support; Does not include visa application expenses ($240), airfare, lunches,
public transportation in Vladimir ($0.45/ride), health/travel insurance
LEADERS: In Vladimir – David Johnson (Lecturer in Russian,
Vanderbilt University) and American Home staff and Vladimir State University
students; In Murom – English language faculty and students from the Murom
Institute
GROUP SIZE: 5-10 participants (a minimum of 5 participants is
required for each group)
Application Deadlines: October 15 and November 1, 2012
To Apply:
1) by October 15 email David Johnson (david.matthew.johnson@vanderbilt.edu)
expressing
your interest in the program and include a scanned copy of the picture page of
your passport (for your Russian visa)
2) by November 1 mail a $500 deposit to Dr. Ron Pope, 1403
Kingsridge Drive, Normal, IL 61761-2860
Horizons
of Knowledge Lecture sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Professor
Paulo de Medeiros
Utrecht
University
“Fernando
Pessoa, Photography, and Cinema”
Monday,
October 8
3:00 PM
Walnut Room,
IMU Tree Suite
Critics
have always asserted that only language mattered for Fernando Pessoa and that
he ignored or mistrusted both photography and cinema. However, a reading of the
Book of Disquiet shows that
photography was of great importance to him-so much that he advocated a form of
“photographic writing”. His keen interest in cinema is also suggested by newly
available documents from his massive archive. They include fragments of film
scripts and notes on setting up a movie studio. A reassessment of Pessoa’s
relationship to visual culture can help us to more fully appreciate his
poetics.
The Renaissance
Studies Program
“Techné:
Intersections of Theory and Practice in Renaissance Culture” Series
Presents a lecture by
LYLE MASSEY
The Epistemic Image:
Picturing Knowledge in Early Modern Sciences of the Body
6:00 p.m., Monday,
September 24, 2012
Maple Room
Indiana University
Union
First printed in 1543, Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis
fabrica challenged centuries of assumptions about human anatomy. One reason
that the book was so persuasive to generations of physicians and anatomist was
that the beautiful, folio-sized plates depicting the dissected body established
the very idea of a normative canon of knowledge. Presenting an ideal composite
of observations taken from interactions with multiple bodies, the plates embody
a Renaissance episteme that Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison have called
“truth-to-nature.” This approach to representation remained hegemonic until it
was challenged first by the Dutch anatomist and surgeon, Govard Bidloo, in the
late 17th century, and then by the English man-midwife, William Hunter, in the 18th
century. Bidloo and Hunter rejected the very idea of the normative picture and
instead published anatomical pictures that focused on the individuated act of
dissection and on the hand, as-it-were, of the anatomist himself.
This lecture will explore how and why this shift from the
normative to the manual illuminates aspects of the relationship between
picturing and vision in early modern science. Lyle Massey is Associate
Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of California,
Irvine. This lecture is made possible through the support of the College Arts
and Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the
Provost, the Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series, Department of the History of
Art, and the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science.
*There will be coffee, tea and light refreshments.
This fall at the Polish Studies Center, we’ll have a
series of events situated around the theme ‘Memory|Morality|Amnesia,’ featuring
speakers from Poland and two films that deal with public morality and its
relationship to the past.
We’re getting started this week with the visit of
Jarosław Kuisz, the founder and chief-editor of the online weekly Kultura
Liberalna http://kulturaliberalna.pl/. Those events, with their flyers
below, are:
·
New
Media in the New Europe: A Collins Center Discussion with the School of
Journalism.
Thursday 20 September at 6pm, at the coffeehouse of the Collins Living-Learning
Center, 541 N. Woodlawn Avenue. A discussion with Mr. Kuisz.
·
From
Cataclysm to Utopia: Law, Film, & Propaganda at the Beginning of Communist
Poland.
Monday 24 September at 12pm, in Ballantine Room 004. A presentation with Mr.
Kuisz.
·
Camouflage (1977) by Krzysztof Zanussi. Monday 24 September at
7pm, at the IU Cinema. Mr. Kuisz will give a short introduction.
·
The
Culture of Amnesia: Poland Between the Revolutions of 1989 and the Arab Spring. Tuesday 25 September at
3pm, and the College Arts and Humanities Institute, 1211 E Atwater
Avenue. A presentation by Mr. Kuisz with a reception to follow.
IU Press presents panel discussion with
IU women scholars
Please join us September 26 for a
unique panel discussion featuring Indiana University women scholars describing
the path from research to book publication.
“Indiana University Women’s
Contribution to Scholarship” will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the
President’s Room at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union. A reception and book exhibit
will follow from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. featuring Press publications in women’s
and gender studies and books by IU women authors.
The panel will be introduced by
Laurie McRobbie, First Lady of Indiana University, with closing remarks from
Provost Lauren Robel. It will be moderated by Janet Rabinowitch, Director of IU
Press, and feature faculty in diverse disciplines, including Maria Bucur,
Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences;
Heidi Gealt, Director of the IU Art Museum; Estelle Jorgensen, Professor of
Music Education at the Jacobs School of Music; Eileen Julien, Professor of
Comparative Literature; Audrey McCluskey, Professor of African and African
Diaspora Studies; and Suzanne Stetkevych, Professor of Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures.
Topics to be considered by the
panel will include publishing and professional advancement; the research,
writing, and publishing process; choosing the right publisher for your field;
furthering the discipline through publishing; the professional and personal
rewards of research and publishing; and the impact of women’s scholarship on
the academy and the broader public. Panelists will share their experiences
researching, writing, and publishing in a lively discussion of the processes,
challenges, and rewards.
The event is supported in part by
the Office for Women’s Affairs. Everyone is welcome.
10. Free Library Workshops
Please
share the following information with your students, staff, and faculty.
Join
the IUB Libraries for the Fall 2012 Seminar and Workshops.
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
Online resources in Slavic
and East European studies
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Finding Images for Teaching
and Research
This workshop will
demonstrate how to use several key image databases, including best practices in
searching, navigating, and downloading images for use in teaching and research.
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:00 am -
11:00 am
Meeting the NSF Data Management
Mandate at IUB
Learn the fundamentals for
preparing a data management plan that conforms to the January 2011 NSF mandate.
Find information on free, fully supported campus resources for data storage,
access, and preservation; resources for DMP development; and key staff that can
help you develop your proposal. Q&A will follow the presentation. Anyone
interested in or planning to apply for NSF funding should attend
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