November 4: Graduate School Fair Sponsored by the Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference

The Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference (MWOCLC) is pleased to announce that it is organizing a Graduate School Fair that will take place on Friday, November 4, 2011 from 8:15 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. The conference is inviting representatives from IUB graduate departments to share information about their programs. You will share one half (1/2) of an eight foot table with another program representative.

The MWOCLC initially started as the Men of Color Leadership Conference. In 2009 it joined with the Women of Color Leadership Conference to evolve to the event that it is today. Its primary goal is to provide a platform from which to help students develop values relative to academic excellence, career awareness, diversity education, and leadership development.

During the past two years this conference has attracted over 300 undergraduate participants from sixteen colleges and universities throughout the Midwest and other areas of the U.S. Past participating schools included the following:

o Eastern Illinois University,

o Duquesne University,

o Hamline University,

o Huston-Tillotson University

o Indiana University (all campuses)

o Ivy Tech Community College

o Manchester College

o Purdue University

o Southeast Missouri State University

o University of Alabama at Birmingham

o Virginia Tech University

If you would like to participate in the MWOCLC Graduate School Fair please RSVP by Monday, October 10, to smithpd@indiana.edu. When you RSVP, please include in the subject heading "RSVP GRAD FAIR." If you have any questions please contact Patrick Smith at 812-855-8850.
Thank you.

Patrick D. Smith
Executive Director,
Office of Mentoring Services and Leadership Development
Eigenmann Hall South 619
1900 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47406-7511
Ph: (812)855-3540
Fax: (812)856-0445
e-mail: smithpd@indiana.edu
URL: www.indiana.edu/~omsld

October: "rom the Empire of Information to the Documentary State: Notes on Scribes and Writing in Early Colonial South India," a lecture by Bhavani Raman

Beautiful weather brings out the best in the lecture series!

Who: Bhavani Raman, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
What: From the Empire of Information to the Documentary State: Notes on Scribes and
Writing in Early Colonial South India
When: Thursday, October 6 @ 5:30pm
Where: India House, 825 E 8th St. (Corner of 8th and Woodlawn)


Free, open and very welcome to all.

Thursday 10/6: "Opening the Dialogue" – A Film and Discussion Series

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library at Indiana University presents "Opening the Dialogue – A Film and Discussion Series on 'Culture,' Identity, and Critical Media Literacy." Our series will open the dialogue to the ways “culture” and identity are shaped, performed,
and reified in America, and will introduce undergraduates, graduate students, and members of the Bloomington community to the ways our resources at Indiana University Libraries can be used to address and generate a positive environment of understanding, equity,
collaboration, and inclusion. Our 2011-2012 film topics touch on the multicultural issues of cultural identity, race, class, gender, democracy, and globalization. Join us for this new and powerful journey!

A full list of 2011-2012 films include (alphabetically):

Beyond Killing us Softly: The Strength to Resist: The Media’s Impact on
Women & Girls
Blue Eyed
Ethnic Notions
Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
Life and Debt
Merchants of Cool
Skin Deep
The American Ruling Class
The Color of Fear
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Young, Muslim, and French

Reminder. October 6th: “The Fate of the Image:Church History and the Modern State” by Joan Copjec

A Horizon of Knowledge Lecture Presents:
“The Fate of the Image:Church History and the Modern State”
by Joan Copjec, SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor of English

Thursday, October 6th, 2011 | 5:00 pm | Faculty Club at the IMU

Prof. Joan Copjec is SUNY and UB Distinguished professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, and is the author of numerous essays and two important and highly influential books, Read my Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT, 1996) and Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT,2004) that have established her as one of the foremost thinkers of psychoanalysis, film theory, and feminism, of the last two decades.
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This event is free and open to the public. If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call Comparative Literature at 855-7070 or 855-5083.

This lecture was co-sponsored by the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities, the Islamic Studies Program, the Gender Studies Program, the English Department, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

October 13: 17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty Conference-Planning Committee Meeting

Planning Committee Meeting
Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:30-6:00pm
Room 201 of the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research (1022 E. Third Street)

PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY CONFERENCE
8:30-4:30 Friday, February 24, 2012
IMU Solarium
Contact: Deidre Redmond (dlredmon@indiana.edu)
Url: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/
RSVP for free lunch with name, department, and year in program to iupffc@gmail.com

This conference is sponsored by the University Graduate School and other participating departments and is FREE to all IU graduate students.

Indiana University?s 17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference is a one-day event designed to provide graduate students from all disciplines and at all phases of their educations with important information about preparing for their future academic careers.

The conference consists of four sessions addressing issues, such as graduate student concerns as they progress toward the Ph.D., building a professional record, navigating the job market, acclimating to a new faculty position, and professional opportunities within and outside of academia. Each year the conference is organized by a committee of graduate students, led by a PFF fellow who is appointed and funded by the Department of Sociology and the University Graduate School. Panelists are typically professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions.

October 10: "Theorizing the Chronic," A TALK BY ELIZABETH FREEMAN, UC-DAVIS

New Queer Imaginaries: Theorizing Sex at the 21st Century speaker series presents


"Theorizing the Chronic"

A TALK BY ELIZABETH FREEMAN, UC-DAVIS

Monday, Oct 10 // 4:30-6:00 pm
Dogwood Room, IMU


ELIZABETH FREEMAN is the author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke
University Press, 2010) and The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American
Culture (Duke University Press, 2002). Her essays have appeared in Social Text,
differences, New Literary History, boundary 2, American Literary History, and elsewhere.
She is currently editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

NEW QUEER IMAGINARIES: THEORIZING SEX AT THE 21ST CENTURY is sponsored by the College
Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Department of American Studies, Department of
Communications and Culture, Department of English, Department of Gender Studies, Cultural
Studies Program, and Latino Studies Program. For inquiries, please contact Scott Herring
(tsherrin@indiana.edu) or Shane Vogel (shvogel@indiana.edu)

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UPCOMING SPEAKERS:

Jose Esteban Munoz (NYU)
November 17, 2011

Tim Dean (University at Buffalo)
April, 2012

CFP: "Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond"

“Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond” seeks to explore the relationship between digital technology and academic, activist and artistic collaborations. Our focus is on how these collaborations come into being, what challenges they present, and how they are reshaping both the academy and the world at large. While we welcome all papers on the topic of digital collaboration, we are especially interested in those that examine the ways in which technology enables work across disciplinary, geographic, cultural and/or other boundaries, those that identify and/or propose solutions to the barriers that still need to be overcome, and those that offer frameworks for innovative forms of digital collaboration.

In addition to traditional 20-minute papers, we also welcome proposals for round tables, workshops and non-traditional modes of information sharing such as online presentations and discussion. We are pleased to receive proposals from all interested individuals, regardless of affiliation.

Potential topics include:
• Digital collaboration between activists, writers, academics, artists, journalists etc.
• The impact of digital media on pedagogy and learning at universities and beyond
• The consequences of listservs, blogs, message boards and other forms of digital communication
• Modes of thought or artistic expression that become (im)possible through digital collaboration
• Copyright law and its effect on online collaboration, and vice versa
• The Internet as a tool for coordinating or suppressing social, political and cultural activity
• The “digital divide,” its consequences, and/or how it can be overcome
• The economy of digital collaboration, or Wikinomics

Individuals interested in presenting 20-minute papers should submit abstracts of up to 300 words, and individuals or groups interested in proposing a roundtable, workshop or nontraditional session should submit a 500 word proposal outlining the format and intended aims of the session. All proposals should be emailed to cometogether2012@gmail.com by our extended deadline October 31st, 2011. The conference will be hosted by the Department of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on May 11-13th, 2012.

For further information, please check our website at cometogether2012.wordpress.com, or
follow us on twitter @cometogether12.

Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: Hope Karekezi and Christie Popp "Seeking Asylum:Refugee Deportation in the United States"

Hope Karekezi
Political Activist and Workshop Leader
and
Christie Popp
Director Attorney
Immigrants' Rights and Language Center
Indiana Legal Services

Friday, September 30, 2011
1:00 PM
Hutton Honors College Great Room

Facing death threats in Rwanda and South Africa and deportation from the United States, Hope Karekezi's family is in the midst of transnational struggle. Their story leads us to ask: What does it take to obtain political asylum in the United States? What are the criteria, the processes, and the most frequent outcomes for people seeking asylum status? What are the challenges people confront when seeking refuge in the United States from violence or comparable harms abroad? Hope Karekezi is a workshop leader for the American Civil Liberties Union and a mother of three. Joined by Christie Popp, directing attorney of the Immigrants' and Language Rights Center at Indiana Legal Services, Karekezi will narrate her experience fighting legal battles in the United States immigration system. The panel will then lead a discussion on refugee issues. Join us for a conversation about immigration, deportation, and the politics of asylum.

This event is sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Department of History, the African Studies Program, the Graduate Students in African Studies (GSAS), and the Hutton Honors College.

If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 855-5296.

Lecture:Ying-Ying Chang, author of The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking

Asian Culture Center's Over A Cup of Tea presents: Ying-Ying Chang, author of The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking
Date: October 13, 2011 (Thursday)

Time and Venue: 7-8:30pm. Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall 006
Description: Ying-Ying Chang, mother of well-known late American writer and journalist Iris Chang, currently published a memoir on her beloved daughter titled The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang before and beyond The Rape of Nanking.
Iris Chang had published three books in her short yet brilliant writing career. Her international bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, was published in 1997, examines one of the most tragic chapters of World War II: the slaughter, gang rape, and torture of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former capital of China in 1937. The book made a huge impact on the global redress movement regarding the Imperial Japanese war crimes in Asia during the World War II. The Woman Who Could Not Forget is the story of Iris Chang's life as told by her mother, written chronologically from her birth in 1968 to her death in 2004. Iris Chang's parents were immigrants from China and Iris was growing up in a bi-lingual and bi-cultural environment. Ying-Ying will give an overview of her book and discuss the major themes of the book which include parents-children relationship, mother-daughter relationship, Iris's passion and her American dream, the impacts of Iris' three books on Asian history and human rights, and finally the causes of her suicide at age of 36. The narrative of the book is based on a huge number of letters and emails between Iris and her parents, as well as the recollections of many lengthy conversations. Readers will learn about Iris Chang: her trials and tribulations, her successes and failures, but the most important is the revelation of Iris' determination and courage in pursuing the historical truth and social justice and her belief in the "Power of One."

Upcoming Library Workshops

See the complete schedule and register at http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops .

A few of our upcoming workshops:
M, October 3, 12:30-1:30 pm, Wells Library, Rom W302: The Literature of Government: Starting a Research Project Using Government Sources

T, October 4, 11am-12noon, Wells Library, Room W302: Starting a Literature Search in Anthropology

T, October 4, 12noon-1pm, Wells Library, Room W302: Orientation Session for the East Asian Collection

W, October 5, 1-2pm, Wells Library, Room W302: Beginning Psychology Research

Th, October 6, 11am-12 noon, Wells Library, Room W302: Using Special Collections in Your Teaching and Research

F, October 7, 11am-12 noon, Wells Library, Room W302: Research Sources for Art and Art History

M, October 10, 1-2pm, Wells Library, Room W302: The Google You Don't Know
(no advance registration required)

Th, October 13, 1-2pm, Wells Library, Room W302: When Google Just Isn't Enough: Finding Scholarly & Academic Sources(no advance registration required)

M, October 17, 3-4pm, Wells Library, Room W302: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Libraries (But Were Afraid to Ask)

W, October 19, 10:30-11:30am, Wells Library, Room W302: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Libraries (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Asian Cultural Center Bulletin

This Friday, Sept. 23, Who Are APA? A Power Lunch and Talk Series
Topic: "Where Are You From? Indiana. No Really... Where Are You From?"
Co-sponsored by the Advocacy Committee, Asian American Association
Time:  12:00 to 1:00
Venue:  Asian Culture Center Lounge, 807 E. 10th Street (unless otherwise noted)
This is a general conversation about growing up as an Asian American in the United States. Share any stories or thoughts over a light lunch. Lunch is on us! "Who are APA?"  is an informal roundtable lunch discussion that allows students and community members to talk about specific concerns that affect Asian Americans. Open to all.

What's Cooking on Friday? A Collaboration on Student Health and Culture
Date:  September 30, 2011, October 21, and November 11
Time:  5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Description: In collaboration with the Health and Wellness Education staff of the IU Health Center (HWE) and with Intervention Design in Public Health (C602) graduate students, this session will be devoted to a presentation of lessons learned from the class and food demonstrations focusing on fruits and vegetables. In each session, we will feature different Asian food cultures. There will be free food tasting at the end of each session. Please free register in advance to reserve a seat by emailingacc@indiana.edu<mailto:acc@indiana.edu>

Visit the Asian Cultural Center Web site for information on other events.

"Opening the Dialogue – A Film and Discussion Series on 'Culture,' Identity, and Critical Media Literacy."

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library at Indiana University presents "Opening the Dialogue – A Film and Discussion Series on 'Culture,' Identity, and Critical Media Literacy." Our series will open the dialogue to the ways “culture” and identity are shaped, performed, and reified in America, and will introduce undergraduates, graduate students, and members of the Bloomington community to the ways our resources at Indiana University Libraries can be used to address and generate a positive environment of understanding, equity, collaboration, and inclusion. Our 2011-2012 film topics touch on the multicultural issues of cultural identity, race, class, gender, democracy, and globalization. Join us for this new and powerful journey!

A full list of 2011-2012 films include (alphabetically):

Beyond Killing us Softly: The Strength to Resist: The Media’s Impact on
Women & Girls
Blue Eyed
Ethnic Notions
Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
Life and Debt
Merchants of Cool
Skin Deep
The American Ruling Class
The Color of Fear
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Young, Muslim, and French

Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library
Indiana University, Bloomington
(812)855-3237

Lecture on September 22: Steven Wilkinson "Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India"

This week, the Dhar India Studies Program is pleased to welcome Steven Wilkinson, the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University.  Dr. Wilkinson will speak on Veterans and Violence:  Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India, as part of Themester 2011.

Who: Steven Wilkinson
What: DISP and Themester Lecture, Veterans and Violence: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
When: Thursday, September 22 @ 5:30pm
Where: Ballantine Hall, 003

The lecture is free, the campus community and public are most welcome and encouraged to attend.

Have a wonderful week from your friends at India House.

Mark A. Price
Assistant Director. Dhar India Studies Program
825 E 8th St.
Bloomington, IN 47408
812 855 5798 (P) 812 856 4658 (F)

follow us on twitter at IndiaStudiesIUB or on Facebook at Dhar India Studies Program IU and Wordpress at http://dharindiastudiesiub.com/

Award/Fellowship Update

To make the application process more convenient for everyone, we have changed the process for submitting recommendation letters.  Students will no longer be required to upload their recommendation letters when they apply for an award or fellowship in Compass.  Departments who wish to nominate a student for a fellowship he/she has applied for, will be required to submit the required recommendation letters along with the nomination letter.  If all required documents aren't submitted with the departmental nomination by the deadline, the nomination WILL NOT be considered for the competition.  Thanks for your patience as we continuously work to make the process better for everyone involved.

Those students who have already accessed the Compass application system for this academic year will still have the requirement of submitting their recommendation letters.  They will need to attach a document with at least their recommenders name in each required field.  It will be up to the department to submit the recommendation letters on the students behalf if they are nominated.  These students will be contacted directly letting them know of the new process and that they should contact their department about getting their recommendation letters submitted.

Esther Kinsley Master's Thesis Award- 3 recommendation letters required from members of students research committee, 1 departmental nomination letter

Esther Kinsley PhD Dissertation Award- 3 recommendation letters required from members of students research committee, 1 departmental nomination letter

Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research- 2 recommendation letters required; 1 from the students dissertation chair and 1 from another individual knowledgeable of proposed research, 1 departmental nomination letter

Grant-in-Aid of Masters of Fine Arts Projects- 2 recommendation letters required; 1 from the students project director and 1 from another individual knowledgeable of proposed research, 1 departmental nomination letter

Indiana University Credit Union Dissertation Fellowship- 2 recommendation letters required; one from the students dissertation advisor and 1 from either the Chair or DGS of the students department, 1 departmental nomination letter

Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship- 2 recommendation letters required, 1 departmental nomination letter

Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship- 2 recommendation letters required, 1 departmental nomination letter Wells Graduate Fellowship- 2 recommendation letters required, 1 departmental nomination letter

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Thanks,
Yvonne

Yvonne Dwigans
Administrative Assistant & Fellowships Coordinator
Indiana University Graduate School
Kirkwood Hall, Room 114
130 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-8852 (office)
812-855-4266 (fax)
http://www.graduate.indiana.edu<http://www.graduate.indiana.edu/>

Lecture: Michael Titlestad:"Postmodernism adrift: intertextuality and plagiarism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi" on October 4th

Michael Titlestad (Associate Professor)

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

‘Postmodernism adrift: intertextuality and plagiarism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12:00-1:00 pm

Ballantine 004, University of Indiana

Michael Titlestad is the Chair of the Department of English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa. He is the author of Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage, and has published widely on South African literature and the intellectual history of liberalism. He is currently completing a collection of essays concerning shipwreck narratives. He is also a jazz critic, essayist and literary editor.  

Sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program

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Performance: Noa Baum, "A Land Twice Promised" on October 14

Noa is an Israeli storyteller, living in the US and the American Folklore Society at Bloomington is bringing her to perform her world renowned show "A Land Twice Promised", which is a personal story of her friendship
with a Palestinian woman, their stories and their families' stories:

"Storyteller Noa Baum, an Israeli who began a heartfelt dialogue with a Palestinian woman while living in the United States, weaves together their memories and their mothers' stories. She creates a moving testimony
illuminating the complex and contradictory history and emotions that surround Jerusalem for Israelis and Palestinians alike". For an excerpt of her show, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoZw0mEI4YI

The performance info is below:
When: Fri, October 14, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Where: Indiana University, Frangipani Room. Indiana University Union Biddle
Conference Center, Bloomington, IN 47401
Admission: $10 general,  $5 student

All proceeds go to support the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore
Society.

Lecture on November 3: Dylan McGee " Messy Reading: What Stains, Coloring and Graffiti Can Tell Us About Reading Practices in Early Modern Japan"

East Asian Studies Center

Cultural Studies Program

Department of History

Department of Comparative Literature

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Present:

 Messy Reading: What Stains, Coloring and Graffiti Can Tell Us

About Reading Practices in Early Modern Japan  

A Lecture by Dylan McGee

Time:  November 3, Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

Place:  Ballantine Hall 004

In his bestselling compendium of practical ethics, Japan’s leading Confucianist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) enjoins readers to take special precautions when borrowing a book, especially against damage from smoke, fire, oil, cats, rodents—and most of all, children. Evidently, the prevailing ethics of borrowing did not apply to books of perceivedly negligible literary or material value.  A survey of archived popular literature produced between the 1710s and the 1780s and circulated by book lenders thereafter, turns up overwhelming evidence of textual defacement, some unintentional (stains, ember scorches, etc.) and some apparently intended for an audience of fellow book borrowers (paratextual inscriptions and graffiti). This body of material is of enormous value to the literary historian because it provides a new vantage onto popular reading practices of the period. In addition, it constitutes a basis for remapping the emergence of popular literature in early modern Japan—which, as this study contends, is more accurately situated with the works of Ejima Kiseki (1666-1735), Andō Jishō (d. 1745), and Tada Nanrei (1698-1750), who were chiefly published by Kyoto’s fashionable publisher Hachimonjiya, than with the works of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693), the canonical author who is often credited as the founder of popular fiction in Japan. The lecture will include a presentation of book images from the speaker’s archival research at the National Diet Library, Tokyo University Library, Kyoto University Library, Iwase Bunko and Harvard Yenching Library. Ample time will be allowed for audience questions and discussion.

Dylan McGee is associate professor in the Graduate School of Comparative Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University. His principal area of research is early modern Japanese literature and literary history, with a particular focus on the eighteenth century. Recent and forthcoming publications include “The History and Performance Aesthetics of Early Modern Chaban Kyōgen” (the Japanese term meaning “impromptu amateur theatricals”) and “Turrets of Time: Clocks and Early Configurations of Chronometric Time in Edo Fiction (1780-1796)”, both published in Early Modern Japan. He is also preparing an annotated translation of Ueda Akinari’s (1734-1809) book of essays, of which the title is translated by him as Worldly Monkeys with Ears for the Arts (1766).

Lecture on Sept. 9: Elizabeth Oyler--"The Genpei War Remembered in the Noh: rewriting the classical landscape in the plays /Tadanori /and /Shigehira/"

PRESENTER: Elizabeth Oyler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)*

TOPIC: The Genpei War Remembered in the Noh: rewriting the classical landscape in the plays /Tadanori /and /Shigehira/.

DATE: Friday, September 9, 2011

TIME: 12:00-1:15 p.m.

LOCATION: Ballantine 004

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During the centuries following the Genpei War, the unhappy fates of numerous members of the Taira clan who lost their lives because of it became fertile topics for interpretation in narrative, art, and drama.  The status of Taira heroes as “beautiful losers,” tragic figures tormented in the afterlife by their rancor and longing for the past, is especially evident as a basis for the numerous Noh plays composed in the fifteenth century and beyond, works which were surely as influential in shaping popular perceptions of the Genpei past as the monumental/Heike monogatari/ itself.  In particular, the  noh’s emphasis on specific characters’ posthumous suffering at a 
specific (and often peripheral) locale further served to imbue historically significant locations with cultural meaning for theatergoers throughout the country. This talk considers two /mugen nô/ (fantasy Noh) plays about Taira heroes: /Tadanori/ and /Shigehira/ (alt.: /Kasa sotoba/).  In each, the space of the play is previously 
inscribed with poetic or cultural (and specifically religious) meaning: the Suma coast and the ancient capital of Nara. Both are the haunts of Taira ghosts, and their presence at once reinforces and reinscribes meaning on those locales.  The ways the spaces simultaneously pacify and reify the Taira spirits, as well as the effect that cultural 
geographies created in such plays on the physical geography of the realm, are the central questions posed in this inquiry.

Elizabeth Oyler is Associate Professor of Japanese and Director of the Center for East Asia and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois.  She specializes in medieval Japanese literature and drama, particularly the /Tales of the Heike/ and other works recounting the Genpei War, about which she has published a book, /Swords, Oaths, and 
Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan/ (University of Hawaii Press, 2006) and several articles.  She is also coeditor of /Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nô Plays of the Genpei War/ (University of Hawaii Press, 2011).

Persons with disabilities interested in attending our events who may require assistance, please contact us in advance at (812) 855-3765.

East Asian Studies Center

Indiana University

1021 East Third Street

Memorial Hall West 207

Bloomington, IN  47405

Phone:  (812) 855-3765

Fax:  (812) 855-7762

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Call for papers: The politics of fear and the rise of far-right extremism in Europe

Online journal Re-public <http://www.re-public.gr/en/> invites contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled "The politics of fear and the rise of far-right extremism in Europe." The influence of the far-right is surging cross Europe in multiple forms. Mainstream far right political parties have recently participated in government coalitions. Right wing extremism is becoming explosive, ranging from violent attacks against migrants and ethnic minorities to the recent mass killings in Norway. Far right political parties and groups are increasingly setting the political agenda on the European management of migration flows. Although the rise of far right movements in Europe has received widespread attention and has triggered a variety of responses from liberal, social democratic and left political forces, these seem to have been relatively ineffective.

One of the main analytical and activist deficiencies of the struggles against the far-right in Europe is that they have failed to fully tackle its janus-like constitution. The far right in Europe has managed to blend racist (based on the notion of the hierarchy of biological races) with neo-racist (focusing on the insurmountability of cultural differences) beliefs, to frame the question of migration as one of the principal threats to European democracies, and it has managed to place itself both as a legitimate actor in the democratic public sphere and concurrently as one of its main critics. The aim of the special issue will be to explore the dynamics of the contemporary European far-right and to critically assess the anti-racist practices devised to address its influence.

Submissions may address some of the following themes:

the divergent ideologies of European far-right movements;the organization of far right movements, political parties and groups,focusing on transnational and international linkages;the ambiguous relationship of the "far-right" to the concept of democracy and democratic institutions; the role of new and old media in the spread of far right
a critical analysis of anti-racist strategies and practices

Essays should be approximately 1.500 words long.

Please send your contributions in electronic format to:

e-mail: editors@re-public.gr

Deadline for submissions: *30 October 2011*

More information: http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=4555

Call for essays: Culture Theory and Critique special themed issue on Crossroads of Memory

This special issue on the "Crossroads of Memory" seeks to bring  together scholars of various literary and cultural traditions eager to  bring into dialogue different theoretical approaches to memory. For  prominent Memory Studies critic Pierre Nora, historiography represents  the unified language of nationalism with its sanctioned institutions  and apparatuses, while memory is the dialect of particular loci:  regional, local, familial, ethnic, or racial. Nora?s distinction  between history and memory is increasingly questioned in various  disciplines. "Crossroads of Memories" is a contribution to this  questioning. Are mobilizations of the past uniquely local, national,  or global?

This collection seeks a more dynamic view of memory that localizes it  simultaneously in multiple spheres: private and public; local,  regional, and transnational; in written texts and non-written  artifacts. Unlike Nora?s seminal concept of realms of memory, the  crossroads of memory would illuminate how memories can simultaneously  carry multiple meanings according to one's positioning. Embodied in  the metaphor of the crossroads where flows of populations and cultures  meet and leave trails, multilocality often highlights how memories  shift as they circulate within and across local, national, and ethnic  communities. The crossroads, thus, represents a site where multiple or  different kinds of memory are constantly juxtaposed, contested,  rearticulated, and mediated 
according to different individual social  class, needs, historical contexts, and political ends. As such, the  crossroads demonstrates the potency of conflict and power dynamics  (evidenced in censorship and silences) in the emergence and  representation of collective memories.

We invite essays that explore tensions among different  conceptualizations of memory. Possible areas of examination include, but are not restricted to:

• Social class and memory
• Race, ethnicity, or immigration and memory
• Memory and space. Localizing memories in museums, monuments,  landscape, cityscape, etc.
• Performative memories
• Duty to memory
• Visual culture and memory

We welcome essays that address any of these issues.  The questions are  not meant to be proscriptive, however, and we welcome queries about  possible article content. We welcome submissions from graduate students.

Essays need to be submitted for peer review by Oct 1, 2011; length of  final essays to be 5,000-7,000 words including notes.

Send abstracts and essays to Jen Heusel, editorial assistant to ctcjourn@indiana.edu

Culture, Theory and Critique is a refereed, interdisciplinary journal  for the transformation and development of critical theories in the  humanities and social sciences. It aims to critique and reconstruct  theories by interfacing them with one another and by relocating them  in new sites and conjunctures. Culture, Theory and Critique' approach  to theoretical refinement and innovation is one of interaction and hybridization via recontextualization and transculturation.

GradGrants Center Fall 2011 Hours

GradGrants Center

Fall 2011 Hours

Mondays 10:00-2:00

Tuesdays 10:00-3:00

Wednesdays 10:00-2:00

Thursdays 10:00-3:00 and 4:30-6:30

Fridays 10:00-5:00

Please have your 10-digit university ID number available when you make an 

appointment at the GGC.

The GradGrants Center is a  FREE service available to ALL Indiana University 

graduate students.  The GGC provides centralized information to assist students in 

the  search for funding for research and graduate study, training on various

topics related to  funding and one-on-one proposal consulting by

appointment.

Please e-mail or call to make an appointment.

GradGrants Center

Herman B. Wells Library, East Tower, Room E651

E-mail: gradgrnt@indiana.edu     

Telephone: 812-855-5281

Website: www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt

Lecture Series at IU: "The In/Visibility of America's 21st Century Wars"

All talks will start at 7pm and will be in the Fine Arts Auditorium (FA 015).

Suzanne Opton "Many Wars: The Difficulty of Home" - Monday Oct 10

Mike Shapiro "War and the Arts: A Politics of Aesthetic Subjectivity"
Thurs Oct 27

Roger Stahl "Sticks and Stones: Digital War in the Public Mind" -
Thurs Nov 10

Diane Rubenstein "Virtual War" - Thurs Dec. 1

University Graduate School Internal Awards/Fellowships Deadlines

Recruitment Fellowships

Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowship

Graduate Scholars Fellowship

Adam W. Herbert Graduate Fellowship 

Graduate Women in Science Fellowship 

Educational Opportunity Fellowship (EOF)-  Students must submit an application to be eligible for nomination; the student application deadline is due by Friday, January 13, 2012.

Department nomination deadline for Recruitment Fellowships is Friday, February 3, 2012

Esther L. Kinsley Master’s Thesis Award

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, September 16, 2011

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, September 30, 2011

Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, January 13, 2012

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, January 27, 2012

Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship

Student deadline:  Friday, October 14, 2011

Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, September 23, 2011 (Fall competition) and Friday, January 27, 2012 (Spring competition)

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, October 7, 2011 (Fall competition) and Friday, February 10, 2012 (Spring competition)

Grant-in-Aid of Master’s of Fine Arts Projects

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, September 23, 2011 (Fall competition) and Friday, January 27, 2012 (Spring competition) Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, October 7,

2011 (Fall competition) and Friday, February 10, 2012 (Spring competition)

Indiana University Credit Union Dissertation Fellowship

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, March 2, 2012 

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, March 16, 2012

Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship

Student deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, April 13, 2012

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, April 27, 2012

Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Student Deadline:  All materials must be submitted online through Compass by Friday, March 2, 2012

Department Deadline: All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, March 16, 2012

The Wells Graduate Fellowship

Student deadline:  All materials must be turned submitted online through Compass by Friday, November 11, 2011

Department deadline:  All materials must be turned into the University Graduate School by Friday, November 25, 2011

Application/Nomination Process

Students must submit their applications and required materials online through Compass (OneStart >> Services >> Student Self-Service >> Services & Information >> Financial >> “Bloomington Graduate Fellowship Application”).

The Fellowships Coordinator will email the student’s applications and required materials to the respective departments after all materials have been received.

The departments are responsible for reviewing the applications received and making determination if they wish to nominate the applicant for the award.  

All nominations must be submitted to the Fellowships Coordinator: Yvonne Dwigans, ylivings@indiana.edu, by email in one pdf document per student.  If a department submits more than one nomination, please submit a separate pdf that includes the ranking for the nominations.  


Nominations must consist of the following: 

a. Letter of nomination from the Department Chairperson, or from a Faculty member designated by the Chairperson;

b. Any additional information the department may want to include

Upcoming Library Workshops

Join the IUB Libraries for Research @ the IUB Libraries: Fall 2011 Seminar, a weekly series of workshops designed to get you up and running with library research, whether you're a new graduate student, new to IU, or an experienced researcher starting on a new project.  Sessions include:

Week 1, September 5-9:  Information Landscapes: Experts, Specialists, and You
Week 2, September 12-16:  Information Organization: Core Resources
Week 3, September 19-23:  Keeping It All Together: Citation Management
Week 4-5, September 26-27:  Focus In On Your Subject Area
Week 6, October 10-14:  Copyright and Scholarly Communications
Week 7-8, October 17-28:  Research Clinics

We'll also be offering workshops on special topics throughout the semester.

To see the complete workshop schedule and sign up for sessions, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the current schedule link.  Additional workshops may be added in the coming days/weeks; watch for additional email announcements, monitor the website<http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops>, and check out our online calendar of events<http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866>.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please send a message to libwkshp@indiana.edu<mailto:libwkshp@indiana.edu>.


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IUB Libraries Workshops
Reference Services Department
Herman B Wells Library
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops
libwkshp@indiana.edu