Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
Cultural Events:
Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: The 5th Annual AGSA Symposium, "The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory"
Other Announcements:
3. Sunday, November 14: Consecration Prayers and Traditional Music and Dance
Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
Detailed Descriptions of Events
Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
1. Monday, November 15: Professor Michael Finkenthal, Johns Hopkins University, "Sesto Pals: A Poet (Almost) Lost in the Labyrinth of History"
12:00 PM, Lilly Library, Ellison Room
This talk gives a brief account of the life and works–poetical and philosophical—of a man born at the beginning of the 20th century in Russia (1912 in Odessa), who lived most of his life in Romania (and wrote his entire poetical work in Romanian) and died in the Holy Land at the beginning of the new century (2002). To a large extent, Sesto Pals’ life was shaped by the history of the last century and at the same time, reflected its turbulent course.
Co-Sponsored by REEI, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies, and the Lilly Library.
2. Monday, November 15: Batchimeg Migeddorj, National Security Policy Advisor to the President of Mongolia, “Mongolian National Security: Past, Present & Future”
7:00 PM, Bridgewaters Lounge (1st Floor), Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Indiana University
Discussion Points:
· Security dynamics in Northeast Asia
· Opportunities and challenges for Mongolia
· Strategies for National Security
· Old vs. New National Security Concepts in Mongolia
After a decade with the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia, and a three-year diplomatic service in Taipei, Taiwan, Batchimeg Migeddorj was appointed to her current position, where she advises the President of Mongolia on national security issues and works closely with the National Security Council to ensure coordination among relevant public agencies. A widely-published analyst of complex international and political affairs, Ms. Migeddorj is also accomplished in defense and military arenas. Her book “Collection of Agreements between China and Russia” was published in 2001, and she has written numerous briefs on security related issues.
For information, call The Mongolia Society (812) 855-4078
Sponsored by:The Mongolia Society
Mongolian Student Association
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs
Eisenhower Fellowships
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Cultural Events:
3:00 PM, Whittenberger Auditorium
DEFA Foundation director Helmut Morsbach will be here to introduce the documentary LOCKED UP TIME--Sibylle Schönemann's reckoning with the STASI. Morsbach will introduce a rarity in 35mm, Sybille Schönemann's Locked Up Time (1990), in which one of East Germany's few female filmmakers hunts down the secret police who imprisoned her in 1984. A bitter and moving reckoning with the recent past, the documentary will be rereleased in Germany this year.
After studying archival science and history in East Berlin, Helmut Morsbach became a researcher at the National Film Archive of the German Democratic Republic. He later worked as the assistant department chief in the film branch of the Federal Archive before taking on the leading position at the DEFA Foundation, a body that both oversees the rights to the East German film oeuvre and works to promote these films at home and abroad. Morsbach is also the author of countless film reviews and several film historical publications.
7:00 PM, Fine Arts Auditorium
Filmmaker Peter Kahane, whose 1990 masterpiece of East German rage and mourning, The Architects, screened in Bloomington last April, will join film critic, writer and radio personality Knut Elstermann (RadioEins Berlin), to introduce the 1963 Frank Beyer film Carbide and Sorrel. Set in the summer of 1945, the film centers on a factory worker's adventurous journey through postwar Germany in search of sorrel for his workplace. Deeply influenced by the film's clever avoidance of overt GDR propaganda, Kahane and Elstermann will lead a discussion with the audience after the screening.
7:00 PM, Fine Arts Auditorium
DEFA Dialogues will screen Kahane's 1987 teen film Vorspiel. The title is a play on words that means "acting," "foreplay" and "prelude." Subtitled for the first time for the Bloomington community (upon request from Indiana's regional high school students, who participated in an April student symposium on DEFA film), this sensitive and, at times, comical romance portrays East German youth in the provinces. Elstermann, who is currently writing a book on youth film stars in the East, will interview Kahane after the film.
7:00 PM, Jordan Hall A 100
Kvido is born to a hapless economist father and a lawyer/actress mother. He is a young boy when the Soviets invade Prague and his family is forced to relocate to a small town out in the country. From that point in 1968 to the collapse of communism in 1989, the precocious Kvido and his parents have some experiences that truly do suck!
This film offers a comedic look at what happens under a communist regime when you aren’t a team player and don’t make yourself “politically visible.”
In Czech with English subtitles. 110 minutes.
5:15 PM, Faculty Room, University Club, Indiana Memorial Union
Latvian Independence Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, Novemeber 17, at 5:15pm in the Faculty Room in the University Club at the Indiana Memorial Union. To clarify, it will be at 5:15pm. The reason for this precision is that we have the honor to present to you the Latvian Ambassador to the USA, Andrejs Pildegovics, who will speak to us via Skype at 5:30pm. In addition to our special guest, we will also have wonderful Latvian-inspired food, singing from our gracious choir, and plenty of time to socialize.
The Ambassador will speak for 10-15 minutes, allowing for a brief discussion or Q&A after his speech. Interested students should be alerted so that they may have the opportunity to participate.
8:00 PM, Wylie Hall 005
The third in a series of Tibetan and Mongolian films presented by the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center and the IU Art Museum in conjunction with the museum's special exhibition, From the Steppes and the Monasteries, on view through December 19, 2010.
Khadak
After a plague strikes his herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. After saving the life of Zolzaya, a beautiful outcast, Bagi discovers the plague was a government lie to eradicate nomadic life. With spiritual integrity Bagi and Zolzaya incite a revolution, but can they return to their old way of life?
Khadak
After a plague strikes his herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. After saving the life of Zolzaya, a beautiful outcast, Bagi discovers the plague was a government lie to eradicate nomadic life. With spiritual integrity Bagi and Zolzaya incite a revolution, but can they return to their old way of life?
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Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Deadline: February 1, 2010
The Havighurst Center is happy to announce that we will be able to offer to two (2) postdoctoral fellowships for the 2011-2012 academic year. The area of specialization is open as to field but we have identified the following areas as of particular interest:
Sociology, Gerontology, Political Science, Economics, Art and Architectural History. Outstanding applicants in any field are, however, welcome to apply. Please follow the guidelines below in submitting your application for a fellowship:
1) Fellows must have their Ph.D. (or Kandidat nauk) in hand by the beginning of their fellowship, and those without native ability in English must have a demonstrated capability to lecture in English;
2) Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a one page description of their research proposal, a one- page description of each of the courses (3-4) they would like to teach, and three letters of reference in English.
Materials can be mailed to The Havighurst Center, Fellowship Program, Harrison Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 45056 or emailed to: havighurstcenter@muohio.edu, subject line Postdoctoral Fellowship. For best consideration, completed applications should be received by February 1, 2011. For more information see http://www.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter
Deadline: January 27, 2011
Eight to ten graduate students will be selected for a three and a half week advanced study tour of Poland, focused on Polish-Jewish relations, Holocaust history, and and Polish-Jewish history. Applications from students with an interest in Holocaust studies, Jewish Studies, Polish-Jewish history, genocide prevention, and human rights are strongly encouraged. The program will begin in the last week of June 2011.
Dates will be announced on www.ajcf.org when they become available.
Applications can be found at www.ajcf.org. An eligible candidate is matriculated in a graduate program or has completed an undergraduate degree and is engaged in meaningful continuing studies. Applicants will be required to submit academic transcripts, references, and a letter of recommendation, in addition to two reflective essays. It is strongly suggested that the applicant choose references that can attest to his/her leadership experience and qualities, as well as his/her experience with the issues of Holocaust education, human rights, or social improvement.
Completed applications must be received by January 17, 2011. The selection committee will review the applications, and inform all candidates of their decisions by February 28, 2011. Those selected to the program will have the costs of the program covered, including international travel and lodging, and will receive a food stipend.
Visit the website at http://www.ajcf.org
Deadline: December 23, 2010
In an effort to enhance the quality of courses, instruction, and research in Jewish Studies at universities throughout the world, a Visiting Fellowship programme has been established by Yad Hanadiv and the Beracha Foundation. Fellowships are awarded each year to scholars in Jewish Studies, who hold non-tenured university positions at the time of their application. Fellows will spend a year in Israel, pursuing their research projects, while participating in a structured programme in their field of study. The programme will include regular meetings with a senior scholar who will serve as an academic supervisor to each fellow. The Fellows will be required to confirm that upon completion of the 2011/2012 academic year they will resume teaching Jewish Studies at a University outside Israel.
Deadline for receipt of applications is 23 December 2010. Further information and application forms may be obtained from:
Prof. Isaiah Gafni or Ms. Natania Isaak
Yad Hanadiv/Beracha Foundation Fellowships,
16 Ibn Gvirol Street, 92430 Jerusalem, ISRAEL
e-mail: natania@yadhanadiv.org.il
Deadline: November 19, 2010
The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (Center of Contemporary History Potsdam) invites applications for the position of a research fellow.
Candidates for this position should hold a Ph.D. in the Humanities and Social Sciences with a focus on East European and East Central European contemporary history. Further, candidates should have an international record of research experience and relevant experiences in project coordination and research fund raising. Excellent knowledge of English and one East Central European language and basic knowledge of German are required for this position.
The successful candidate will coordinate the international network project “Physical violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism” and also work on a research project on East European and East Central European contemporary history which should refer to the international network project. The working language of the research network will be English.
Research fellows at the ZZF are expected to participate in academic teaching at one of the universities in Berlin or Potsdam.
For queries about the network project and the position contact Dr. Jens Gieseke at gieseke@zzf-pdm.de. For the time being, employment is limited in duration to five years. The position is subject to budgetary approval. Please submit your application and a project proposal by 19 November 2010 to Mrs. Ursula Schulz, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Verwaltung, Am Neuen Markt 1, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
Website: http://www.zzf-pdm.de
Deadline: December 3, 2010
The ECLA Postdoctoral Fellowships are teaching fellowships that allow outstanding academics in the early stages of their careers to develop as teachers in an academic environment where teaching matters.
During their two years at ECLA, Fellows will teach both within their area of expertise and beyond: ECLA's core courses – dedicated to 'value studies' – provide an opportunity to engage with topics and texts that have a claim on us regardless of our specialty, and an opportunity to co-teach with academics from other backgrounds or disciplines.
Applicants must have received or expect to receive a PhD between January 2009 and December 2012.
Excellent English is necessary, and ideally applicants will have done their graduate work in English.
Teaching experience is an advantage. Applicants from all disciplines are considered as long as they have a documented interest in the study of values and a capacity to teach beyond their field of expertise in ECLA’s core courses. In our current search special attention will be given to applicants with a PhD in economics, psychology, sociology, theology, medieval studies, or anthropology.
Deadline is December 3, 2010. More details and application forms can be downloaded from ECLA’s website: www.ecla.de/contact/employment/postdoc/
The American Center for Mongolian Studies is pleased to announce the first year of the ACMS Library Fellowship. This fellowship supports US advanced graduate students or faculty members in library science from US colleges and universities to conduct short-term projects and/or research in Mongolia between May and October 2011. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents currently enrolled in or teaching at a college or university in the United States.
In addition to the US-Mongolia Field Research Fellowship Program for students, the Faculty Research Program , the year-long Research Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Summer Language Fellowship Program, is the new Library Fellowship Program
Email: info@mongoliacenter.org
Visit the website at http://www.mongoliacenter.org
Deadline: February 15, 2011
ACMS Research Fellowships 2011
The program supports in-depth research in Mongolia by scholars who have conducted prior research in the country; it also aims to provide research opportunities to scholars who have not included the country in their previous research. Projects should enhance knowledge of Mongolia and the Mongols within relevant academic disciplines or fields of study. Projects that link research conducted in Mongolia to research in other parts of Eurasia or across academic fields are especially encouraged.
Fellowship awards will include travel expenses to and from Mongolia, an accommodation and food allowance, and a stipend to cover research expenses. Awards will be adjusted based on the length of time spent conducting research in the region with a maximum award of $27,000 per fellow. Fellows will also have the opportunity to take intensive Mongolian language courses, select resources for inclusion in the ACMS Library, and participate in an annual academic conference in Mongolia that will bring together international, regional and local scholars and students.
Research work under this program must begin between September 2011 and March 2012, and last for a continuous 6-12 months. Fellowship recipients must be based in Mongolia for the duration of their fellowship, but research travel in the broader region is encouraged.
The 12-month term will allow recipients to stay in Mongolia for the academic year, which runs from September to June, and the summer months, which offer the best weather for field research.
The ACMS offices in the US and Ulaanbaatar will be available to assist program participants by providing services such as pre-departure information on Mongolia, assistance with travel arrangements to and from Mongolia and within the country, assistance locating and renting appropriate living accommodations, networking with local and international scholars, contacts with Mongolian institutions, research approvals, and assistance with visa and registration requirements.
Fellowship recipients will have the opportunity to participate in Mongolian language courses and resources developed by the ACMS.
Depending on the course schedules, such courses may be available both before departure for Mongolia and during the time in country. The ACMS regularly hosts visiting scholars, and provides a wide range of services, as outlined on the ACMS website under the Services link.
Fellowship recipients will be able to access all ACMS services, including access to the ACMS library and available internet and web resources.
In an effort to support the fellowship recipients' research and build the collection of scholarly material available in Mongolia, each recipient may request library materials to be purchased for inclusion in the ACMS collection that are important for his/her research or field of study. The ACMS librarian will also regularly purchase items in each recipient's field of study to improve the overall holdings available to all researchers. These materials will be purchased for the ACMS library collection in Ulaanbaatar using designated funds from the fellowship program and the ACMS library acquisition budget, and will be available to the scholar during his/her research in Mongolia.
Fellowship recipients will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of programs and projects sponsored by the ACMS, including an annual academic conference in Ulaanbaatar hosted by the ACMS and supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The three fellowship recipients will help select the theme for the conference, and each will be asked to introduce and discuss their research work at the conference. Conference participants will include international, regional and local scholars and students.
Questions about the program should be directed to info@mongoliacenter.org. Funding for the program is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. For more information on the Henry Luce Foundation, please visit: http://www.hluce.org/home.aspx
Deadline: 5:00 PM, November 17, 2010
IREX is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program.
The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) provides students, scholars and professionals with support to perform policy relevant field research, in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In addition to engaging in research in the region, the IARO fellowship affords scholars the opportunity to increase their understanding of critical, policy relevant issues, develop and sustain international networks, and collaborate with foreign scholars on topics vital to both the academic and policy-making communities.
Applications and all supporting documents for 2011-2012 IARO Fellowship will
*only* be accepted through the online application system found at:
Applications must be completed and submitted (including all required supporting documents) by *5 p.m.* on *November 17, 2010*
Masters Students, Pre-doctoral Students, Postdoctoral Students, and Professionals with advanced degrees are eligible for the IARO Fellowship
IARO Fellowships cover the cost of international airfare, a living/housing stipend, visa support, travel insurance, and access to the resources available at our 25 field offices within the region.
Questions may be addressed to the IARO Program Staff at iaro@irex.org or by telephone at 202-628-8188
*Countries Eligible for Research:*
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
*IARO is funded by the United States Department of State Title VIII Program*
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Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: The 5th Annual AGSA Symposium, "The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory"
Deadline: December 17, 2010
February 25-27, 2011, Indiana University, Bloomington
In its fifth year, the annual AGSA Symposium has proven to be a valuable opportunity for students to share their work on campus. It is a chance to present your research to your peers in a friendly environment, prep a paper for a bigger conference, find out what mysterious project your friend's are working on in the department and learn about similar studies that are going on across campus.
This year's theme is "The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory". The committee invites graduate and undergraduate students in all anthropological sub-fields and related disciplines to submit papers relating to this topic. This theme can be interpreted broadly to include topics such as: the ways humans interact with technology, historical use of technology, technologies of power and knowledge and methodological and pedagogical uses of technology. IU alumnus, Dr. Mark Schurr of Notre Dame University's Anthropology department will be joining us as our key note speaker for this topic.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Paper, poster, and panels submissions for the symposium are due DECEMBER 17, 2010. Please see the flyer for submission requirements.
Deadline: January 15, 2011
April 15-16, 2011, Yale University, New Haven, CT
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University would like to invite submissions for the Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Cycles, Continuity, and Change in the Post-Soviet World
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 appears as a boundary between two distinct periods in geopolitics, history, and culture. More than that, it emerges as an irrevocable break, separating the era of a bipolar global balance of power from the widely perceived universal triumph of liberal democracy and the ‘end of history.’ Now, on the twentieth anniversary of the disintegration of the only supposed alternative to a spreading globalized culture, we wish to explore the ways in which the complex movement of history interferes with clean temporal delimitations. What has changed in the last two decades and what has not? What is repeating itself and what is emerging anew? How do the histories of media, technologies, and the proliferation of global cultural networks accentuate or militate against the periodization of history according to the life-cycles of superpowers?
What of the desire of human beings to overcome chronological time by giving themselves over to utopianism or nostalgia? Motivated by these questions, we initiate this conversation, hoping in the process to learn how literary, cinematic, and other types of cultural production have responded to the changes and developments in the physical, cultural, and conceptual terrain of the former Soviet Union.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
- Utopianism after socialism;
- Nostalgia for the Soviet past;
- Cultural memory and cultural amnesia;
- Representations of war: Great Patriotic War, Afghanistan, Chechnya,
Georgia/Ossetia;
- Censorship and self-censorship in television and mass media: legacies
and new developments;
- Reconfiguration of center-periphery relations in contemporary Russia
(Moscow vs. regions; Russia vs. Former Soviet republics; Russia vs.
Western/Central/Eastern Europe);
- Cultural mobility: writers and artists from the periphery as leading
cultural figures;
- New waves of emigration/immigration, Russian diasporas abroad and
Caucasian/Central Asian migrants in Russia;
- New cultural relations among Slavic peoples;
- Rewriting history: nationalism, mythology, and historiography in the
former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe;
- Internet and new media as a form of cultural production;
- Genealogy of contemporary Russian film;
- Post-Soviet historical films;
- Soviet and post-Soviet responses to Hollywood cinema;
- The Soviet school of translation: tradition lost?
Presentations may not exceed 20 minutes.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to yaleslavicconference@gmail.com by January 15, 2011. Please include paper title, name, institution, department, email & phone. Open to graduate students only.
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Other Announcements:
REEI-affliated faculty, staff, and students can now access the Indiana Business Research Center’s subscriptions to the fDI Markets (foreign investment) and Wisertrade (imports and exports). Database access is available only on-site at IBRC. To learn more about these databases go to: fDi Markets and here Wisertrade. To set up an appointment for accessing the databases, contact Nikki Livingston at 855-5507 or livings@indiana.edu. Access to the database for the REEI academic community is funded through the REEI Title VI NRC grant.
In addition to the films presented this week, there will also be a seminar (organized by Jan Steele, Peter Blank, and Nick Sveholm) for graduate students who would like to meet Peter Kahane and Knut Elstermann on Tuesday, November 16 (10am-noon in the IMU Sassafras Room). Please RSVP for this event to: nlundhol@indiana.edu
2:00 – 3:00 PM, Indiana University Art Museum, 1133 E. Seventh St.
Consecration Ceremony
Special Exhibitions Gallery
In conjunction with From the Steppes and the Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet, Arjia Rinpoche, of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, will bless the objects in the collection by performing traditional Buddhist prayers, which are recited to accumulate positive merit or karma, to eliminate obstacles, and to promote peace and happiness for all beings.
Dance and Musical Performance
Thomas T. Solley Atrium
A musical and dance performance will follow the prayer ceremony in museum’s atrium.
Mongolia’s national instrument, the Morin Khuur (horse-head fiddle), and the zither, a Mongolian stringed instrument, will be introduced by Delgerbat Uvsh and Ochmaa Escue. Following the instrumental solos, two traditional folk songs will be performed by the duo, joined by Indiana University student vocalists.
Sixth grade University School student Animaa Ganbaatar will perform the traditional Mongolian folk dance Saalichin, which literally means “Milker’s Dance.”
6:30 PM, Career Development Center
An information session for students interested in learning about various international experiences as well as job opportunities in Western Europe. A panel of professionals will share advice, tips, and strategies on working abroad.
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Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
6:00PM – 7:00PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
6:00 PM, Runcible Spoon
5:45 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:30 PM, Pourhouse Café (314 E Kirkwood)
5:00 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:30 PM, Ballantine Hall 506
7:00 PM, Runcible Spoon
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