Cultural Studies at IU Announcements and Events

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

2011-10-05T08:34:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-05T08:30:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-05T08:29:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-04T05:57:00.000-05:00

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

2011-10-04T05:52:00.001-05:00

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

2011-10-04T05:50:00.000-05:00

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"

2011-10-04T05:49:00.000-05:00

“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"

2011-09-29T09:54:00.001-05:00

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

2011-09-29T09:52:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-29T09:46:00.001-05:00

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

2011-09-21T14:32:00.005-05:00

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."

2011-09-21T14:30:00.003-05:00

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"

2011-09-21T14:28:00.001-05:00

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

2011-09-12T09:56:00.005-05:00

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

2011-09-12T09:54:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-12T09:43:00.001-05:00

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"

2011-09-07T14:36:00.000-05:00

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/"

2011-09-07T14:35:00.000-05:00

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).

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

2011-09-07T14:32:00.001-05:00

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

2011-09-07T14:29:00.000-05:00

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

2011-09-07T14:23:00.000-05:00

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"

2011-08-31T06:21:00.000-05:00

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

2011-08-30T13:45:00.003-05:00

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

2011-08-30T13:41:00.002-05:00

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

IU Asian Culture Center Outreach e-Bulletin

2011-08-30T13:40:00.001-05:00

Remembering 9/11
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Please join us in a panel discussion as we reflect upon the events of 9/11 and their ramifications for community, tolerance, and freedom.

Special guest panelists include:
IU Professor Faiz Rahman, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), Reverend Linda C. Johnson, Episcopal Chaplin to IU and President of the IU Campus Religious Leaders Association, and Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg, Executive Director, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, and La Casa Latino Cultural Center
For more info, please email acc@indiana.edu<mailto:acc@indiana.edu> or call (812) 856-5361

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

2011-08-30T13:39:00.001-05:00

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 non-traditional 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 September 25, 2011. The conference will be hosted 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.

IU Art Museum Tours and Visits Information

2011-08-30T13:36:00.002-05:00

Welcome back to a new semester! Our art museum now has a beautiful new glass atrium ceiling.

If you wish to bring your class to the Indiana University Art Museum for a tour led by yourself, or for a docent-led tour, please contact Patsy Rahn, tour coordinator, at prahn@indiana.edu<mailto:prahn@indiana.edu> . Please provide us with: the date and time of your visit, the number of students, and the galleries you will be visiting.

It is important that you inform us of your visit for the following reasons:
* We need to inform Security of all group gallery visits
* We provide you with the necessary information to insure a quality visit
* We keep track of tour information for grant and financial reports

As many of you already know, for a Docent-led tour we prefer at least a two week notice.

With a bit more notice we can customize tours around specific topics or themes. And keep an eye out for news on our Themester War and Peace tours.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. We look forward to working with you!

Cordially,

Patsy

Patsy Rahn
Tour Coordinator
IU Art Museum
Education Department
1133 East Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7509

812-855-7719
FAX: 812-855-1023
prahn@indiana.edu<mailto:prahn@indiana.edu>

3rd Annual NOBCChE Research Symposium

2011-08-30T13:35:00.000-05:00

Please join us for the 3rd Annual NOBCChE Research Symposium that will be held on Saturday, September 17th, in State Rooms East and West at the Indiana Memorial Union from 10am-2pm! This year?s invited keynote speaker is Dr. Theodore Goodson III, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.
We invite undergraduate and graduate students to present research that they have conducted over the summer, presented at a recent conference or even to practice a poster presentation for a conference to come. Our goal is to encourage student networking as well as feature the diversity in research that is being conducted on the IU campus.

Not only will students have an opportunity to present their work but there will be a cash prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in both graduate and undergraduate categories! If you are interested in presenting a poster, please submit your abstract through IU's myinvolvment website (https://myinvolvement.indiana.edu/Community?action=getSurvey&surveyID=38&orgID=586) or send abstracts or any questions to Paul Carey, NOBCChE President at careyp@indiana.edu<mailto:careyp@indiana.edu> by September 10th! Please include year in school and department in the email.

With your participation, this will be a great symposium and we look forward to seeing you there!

Virginia Smith
NOBCChE Liaison
smithvm@indiana.edu

National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG)

2011-06-25T07:55:00.000-05:00

National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG)

The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.

Application deadlines for Fall 2011 are below. Please note that NSF DDRIG applications must be submitted through IU's Office of Research Administration (ORA), and some parts of the application are due to ORA before the NSF program deadline.

Archeology: Anytime

Cultural Anthropology: August 15, 2011

Law and Social Sciences: August 15, 2011

Science, Technology, and Society: August 16, 2011

Linguistics: August 16, 2011

Physical Anthropology: August 16, 2011

Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics: August 16, 2011

Economics: August 18, 2011

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences: August 18, 2011

Science of Science and Innovation Policy: September 9, 2011

Documenting Endangered Languages: September 15, 2011

Political Science: September 16, 2011

Geography and Spatial Sciences: October 15, 2011

Sociology: October 15, 2011

For details about each program and application, see the DDRIG Program Page and the full text of the DDRIG Program Solicitation NSF 11-547

If you are planning to submit a proposal to a specific NSF DDIG or DDRIG solicitation, please send an e-mail toresdev@indiana.edu with the following information:
Name
NSF program you are applying to
Deadline
Department
Degree type and year received (most recent degree completed)
Phone number (of your academic department)
Fax
E-mail address (your IU e-mail account)
Faculty sponsor name (your advisor)
A draft Excel budget

A Grant Consultant from the Office of Research Administration will then provide a budget review and guide you through the submission process. The Grant Consultant will submit your proposal through FastLane once it is ready. For more details on the submission process, attend the workshop announced below, or contact ORA: resdev@indiana.edu<mailto:resdev@indiana.edu>

For assistance and feedback on a DDRIG proposal, make an appointment with a consultant at the GradGrants Center:http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/

ORA Workshop for Graduate Students Applying for NSF Grants: DDRIG and DDIG

IU's Office of Research Administration would like to invite you to a workshop/presentation on submitting a National Science Foundation-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) or Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) on Wednesday, July 6th from 9-11 a.m. in the Office of Research Administration building located at 509 E. 3rd St., Room 050 (The building is on the corner of 3rd Street and Dunn Avenue, next to the BP gas station.) We will be presenting information and tips that will help you with the proposal submission process. There will also be an intro to Kuali Coeus.

This workshop is for students who are planning to submit to a specific DDIG program announcement in the near future. If this is you, please register at Educational Opportunities here: http://researchadmin.iu.edu/EO/eo_sessions.html. If you are just starting out and would like assistance in searching for various grant funding opportunities, please contact the Grad Grants Center at gradgrnt@indiana.edu<mailto:gradgrnt@indiana.edu>.

Seating is limited, so this workshop will be on a first come/first serve basis. Please also take a moment to fill out a Research-Related Conflict of Interest Disclosure form here: http://researchadmin.iu.edu/COI/coi_disclosure.html Don't worry if you can't attend this specific workshop-we will have more DDIG workshops at later dates.

We look forward to working with you! -IU's Office of Research Administration

Call for Submissions: Diversity Research Symposium

2011-06-25T07:52:00.000-05:00

Diversity Research Symposium:

DIVERSITY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM DRS 2011: APPLYING DIVERSITY RESEARCH ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Sponsored by the Ball State University Office of Institutional Diversity and the Department of Psychological Science
L.A. Pittenger Student Center
Muncie, Indiana

Saturday, October 29, 2011
9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Registration Fees: Faculty, Staff, and Community Members: $50; Students: Free (spaces limited)
To Register, visit REGISTRATION

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Attention faculty, staff, and students from all disciplines interested in diversity research and writing. Would you like to:

* learn, interact, network, and share ideas with experienced and novice diversity researchers
* share with others how you have applied diversity research
* hear speakers from different disciplines talk about diversity research in the real world?

You are invited to submit a proposal to present your diversity related research via a poster, a 25-minute talk, a 50-minute talk, or a 50-minute facilitated discussion. Papers and research studies already published and/or presented elsewhere are welcome. Presenting at the symposium offers you the opportunity to share your diversity research with other participants and to be eligible for the following awards:

Creative Content Presentation Award: Outstanding poster or presentation judged to have the most creative and original content

Creative Methodology Presentation Award: Outstanding poster or presentation judged to have used the most creative and original research methodology

GLBT Presentation Award: Outstanding poster or presentation judged to contribute the most to the knowledge and/or awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered issues.
Each award winner will receive a certificate, and each winning poster/presentation will receive a check for $200. The symposium committee will determine the best posters and/or presentations. You must present your work at the symposium to win. Winners will be announced at the event.

Submit your proposals between 5/15/2011 and 7/15/2011. Visit PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS and enter the following information.

1. Title of your presentation
2. Author name(s) and status (e.g., faculty, staff, community member, graduate student, or undergraduate student)
3. Your institutional or organizational affiliation, and discipline(s)
4. Whether the proposal is for a poster, a 25-minute talk, a 50-minute talk, or a 50-minute facilitated discussion
5. A summary of no more than 250 words
6. A 2-sentence summary (to be printed in the program).

The 2011 Diversity Research Symposium will focus on application of research that involve cultural identities such as age, race, geographical location, ethnicity, physical and mental ability, socioeconomic class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, language, and their intersections in any discipline. Direct questions to Linh Littleford at lnlittleford@bsu.edu<mailto:lnlittleford@bsu.edu> or 765-285-1707.

CFP: ICMPCS Conference Abstracts Due July 8, 2011 Indiana State University

2011-06-25T07:47:00.000-05:00

ICMPCS Conference Abstracts Due July 8, 2011 Indiana State University

THIRD Annual International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration
September 26th, 27th & 28th, 2011
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, Indiana
Sponsored by: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Indiana State University
Sponsored in part by: Department of Criminal Justice College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University

www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/<http://www.indstate.edu/ccj/popcultureconference/>

Conference Chair:
Franklin T. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Indiana State University

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday July 8, 2011
*Early abstract submission is recommended

REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - PRESENTERS: Friday August 19 REGISTRATION/PAYMENT DEADLINE - NON-PRESENTERS: Friday Sept 09

Featured Speakers:
Gregg Barak, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Eastern Michigan University
"Newsmaking Criminology, Policy Making, and Popular Culture: Reflections from the Margins"

Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D., Women's Studies Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Girls Gone Wild: Media Misogyny and the Bad Girl Hype"

Shaun Gabbidon, Ph.D., School of Public Affairs
Penn State Harrisburg
"Media and the Construction of Race and Crime Statistics"

Peter K. Manning, Ph.D., School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
"The Drama of Policing: Modern Modes of Media Amplification"

Gary Potter, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
"Constructing Crime in an Era of Globalization"

Raymond Surette, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice
University of Central Florida
"New Media and Copycat Crime Among Offenders

Kenneth Tunnell, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
&
Terry Cox, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
&
Eddy Green, Department of Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
"Scholarship, Songwriting and Social Justice: A Performance and Discussion"

CFP: Manifestos! for Graduate Students and Post-Graduates (M/MLA Panel)

2011-06-07T08:36:00.002-05:00

As universities adjust to new pressures, the experiences and ideas of graduate students and recent PhDs remain largely unheard. Everyday graduate students, postdocs, and adjuncts talk about teaching, balancing personal and professional lives, and the difficulties of earning tenure, among many other things, in the hallways and offices of university departments. Yet grad students have very few public forums in which to communicate their experiences and express their opinions. We take these experiences and ideas seriously as an opportunity to improve the condition of graduate students, to offer hopeful solutions for the future of academia, and to foster greater collaboration between graduate students, adjuncts, tenured professors, and post-academics.

We chose the manifesto form for its ability to simultaneously address important issues and hail its audience as an active public for positive change. This panel aims to create a public forum that uses the manifesto—understood broadly—to address the issues that are facing us today. Rather than an airing of grievances, we seek affirmative manifestos that expose the experiences, declare new approaches, and organize new and existing networks of academics and postacademics. Manifestos should be 1,000 words or less, and formal experimentation is encouraged. Submit a 250-word abstract to Maglina Lubovich (mlubovic@css.edu) and Steven Davis (stevdavi@indiana.edu) by June 20, 2011.

Possible topics might include:
• Job Market/Post-Academic Alternatives
• Race/Gender/Sexuality/Ability/Class/Religion and Academia
• Coursework/Exams/Dissertation
• Teaching/Funding
• Research/Publishing
• Medical/Mental Health
• Undergraduate/Graduate/Adjunct/Faculty/Post-Academic Collaboration
• Balancing Family and Profession

Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149648151768693

Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship

2011-06-03T05:45:00.000-05:00

I would like to announce the University Graduate Schools new fellowship, the Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship was created to honor President Myles Brand's parents, Irving and Shirley Brand. The fellowship is a $5,000 annual, single year fellowship for incoming or current IUB students in the Humanities. Preference will be given to students of Philosophy.

Since it is a new fellowship, we are going to hold the competition for the 2011-12 academic year now. The student deadline for submitting their application to their department is June 10, 2011. The department deadline for submitting the nomination to us is June 24, 2011. Beginning with the competition for the 2012-13, and subsequent years, the competition will be held during the spring semester.

The application can be found on our website,http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/internal-awards.php.

Indiana University Graduate School

UCLA Queer Studies Conference--DEADLINE EXTENDED

2011-05-16T10:57:00.000-05:00

Queer Fashion(s)
UCLA's 13th Annual Queer Studies Conference
October 14-15, 2011

Call for Papers

Deadline Extended June 6, 2011

UCLA's LGBTS Program is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming Queer Studies Conference featuring presentations by graduate students as well as faculty and advanced undergraduates.

This year's conference will explore and exploit issues of fashion queerly construed. We wish to invite a wide range of questions and panels on subject topics as drag, female masculinities, male femininities, queer self-fashioning, cloning and styling, and, of course, the culture and politics of the fashion industry itself. Questions of class, economics, history, ethnicity, race, geography, exploitation, desire, style and sublimation are at the forefront of our query. We seek to know what might be a new analytic or interdisciplinary methodology through which to attend to multiple registers of queer fashion.

Keynote Speakers:
Michael Bronski, Jack Halberstam, Monica Miller,
Mignon R. Moore, Karen Tongson, and Deborah R. Vargas

Closing Performance:
"Queerture: A night of rocket science and fashion design"
with artistic director Tania Hammidi

Proposals for individual papers should take the form of abstracts; panel proposals should also include both a list of participants and paper abstracts. CVs must accompany all abstracts. Submissions from undergraduates should be accompanied by a brief letter from a faculty member highlighting the strengths of both the student and the student's proposal.

Deadline for abstracts and CVs: June 6, 2011
Send abstracts and CVs to lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>
Contact: Catharine McGraw (310) 206-1145 &
lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>

CFP: The Digital Futures of Marxism

2011-05-16T10:52:00.000-05:00

The Marxist Literary Group
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November 4-6
Atlanta, GA

This panel will consider the force of digitization and new social media on Marxist theory and practice as well as, conversely, the force of Marxism on digital media theory and practice. What are the challenges, opportunities, and limits of the new social media in transforming the revolutionary subjects and sites of recent social movements, emergent multitudes, and virtual communities that gather strength from and part company with Marxism? How do digital archives, digital scholarship, and digital aesthetic practices in the age of hyper-capitalism advance and constrain the promise of a Marxist future to come?

By June 29, 2011, please send 250- to 300-word abstracts to Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University, wkalaid@emory.edu

The deadline may be extended. Email for details.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair

2011-05-09T07:36:00.000-05:00

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is pleased to announce its inaugural Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair in conjunction with its 80th Grand Chapter Meeting.

Free to all interested in learning more about graduate and professional education, the Graduate & Professional Schools Fair will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

You will find the most up-to-date information on Kappa's 80th Grand Chapter Meeting via the centennial celebration website at <http://www.kappaalphapsi2011.com>.

The webpage specific to the recruitment fair can be found here<http://kappaalphapsi2011.com/recruitment-fair/graduate-and-professional-schools.html> and will include the most accurate listing of participating institutions.

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious"

2011-05-09T07:31:00.000-05:00

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious" will begin next Wednesday, May 11 and run through Friday May 13. All are welcome to attend. A schedule of panels and lectures is posted below. Because most of the papers for the Workshop are pre-circulated, you will need to register now online in order to receive the packet of papers. You can register via our website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/workshop.html
If you have any questions about the Workshop, please feel free to contact Mary Favret (favretm@indiana.edu) or Barbara Truesdell (VOLTAIRE@indiana.edu)

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The Tenth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, 11-13 May 2011: The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious

Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Wednesday May 11

2:00 Welcome

2:30-4:00 Panel I

Nima Bassiri (Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities)
"The Unconscious Dimensions of the Sensorium Commune: Material Subjectivity and the Eighteenth-Century Nervous System"

Fritz Breithaupt (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)
"The Rise of Conscience (and its Alternatives)"

Commentator: Tobias Menely (Miami University-Ohio -- English)

4:30-6:00 Panel II

Nathan Gorelick (Utah Valley University English)
"Origin and Repetition: The Early Novel and the Logic of Fantasy."

Saul Anton (The New School Literary Studies)
"The Historical Unconscious in Diderot"

Commentator: Hall Bjornstad (IU Bloomington?French and Italian)

7:30 Festive Dinner at the home of Oscar Kenshur and Margot Gray

Thursday May 12

9-10:30 Lecture

David Bates (UC Berkeley?Rhetoric)
"The Nature of Insight"

Moderator: Sarah Knott (IU Bloomington?History)

10:45-12:45: Panel III
Thomas Dodman (University of Chicago History)
"Guerriers sensibles: fatal nostalgia and the late eighteenth-century unconscious"

Michael Drexler(Bucknell University English)
"The Four Discourses of Arthur Mervyn"

Helen Thompson(Northwestern University English)
"[I]t was impossible to know these People": Secondary Qualities and the Form of Character in Defoe?s A Journal of the Plague Year

Commentator: Johannes Turk (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)

12:45-2:15 Lunch break (on your own)

2:30-4:00 Panel IV
Anne Pollok (Stanford University Philosophy)
"Building Personae: Moses Mendelssohn and the Unconscious"

Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University Art History)
"Chardin's Leibnizian Unconscious"

Commentator: Richard Nash (IU Bloomington?English)

4:15 -5:45 Lecture
Rebecca Spang, (IU Bloomington History)
"The Purloined Assignat: Contract, Signatures, and the Monetary Unconscious in Revolutionary France"

Moderator: Mary Favret (IU Bloomington English)

7:30 p.m. Banquet (Le Petit Café)

Friday May 13

9:30 -11:00 Panel V

Laura Mandell (University of Miami-Ohio English)
"Print Subjectivity, or History in the Case"

Heidi Schlipphake (Old Dominion University German)
"Reading the Surface: Polygamy and the German Enlightenment"

Commentator: Jonathan Elmer (IU Bloomington-English)

11:15-12:30 Wrap-up session, led by Dror Wahrman (IU Bloomington - History) and Mary Favret (IU Bloomington- English)

April 28-IDAH Brown Bag: "Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with IDAH's HASTAC Scholars"

2011-04-27T07:47:00.000-05:00

Please join us for the Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series
Presented by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH)

Thursday, April 28
12-1 p.m.
IDAH Conference Room E170D
(To the left of the elevators in the East Tower)

"Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities:
A Conversation with IDAH's HASTAC Scholars"

Will Coogan
MA Student, Jacobs School of Music

"Multimedia Collaboration: the Process and the Results"
Will Coogan is currently a master's candidate in Computer Music Composition. Most of his recent works involve collaboration between acoustic and electronic elements, including interactive computer processing for both audio and video. Will's new multimedia opera "Marabel" combines traditional operatic elements with interactive software, animation, video, and choreography. His discussion will focus on the collaborative process working with other artists, as well as on the use of mixed media as a way of engaging with audiences.

Grant Leyton Simpson
PhD Student, Department of English
Masters in Information Science Student, School of Library and Information Science
Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer for the Office of the Registrar

"Digital Humanities Prehistory and Future Pasts"
Is the digital humanities a sort of futurism? What might we find when we extend our gaze backward instead, to DH's prehistory? How did humanists and others involved in research and publishing conceptualize the relationship between computers and the humanities? How has this developed? In this presentation, Grant will pay particular attention to the visual aspects of published DH materials in his investigation of these questions. His dissertation in the department of English, Computing the English Middle Ages, deals with the hermeneutics of electronic objects and processes from roughly 1960 to the present. In it he traces the use of computers in Old and Middle English research from the early days of humanities computing to contemporary digital humanities.

Remote connection also available via Adobe Acrobat Connect:
To join the meeting: http://breeze.iu.edu/bbidah/.
Please join us! Feel free to bring your lunch.
To receive a reminder and an abstract of upcoming IDAH presentations, send an email to listserv@indiana.edu<mailto:listserv@indiana.edu> with nothing in the subject line and the message body: sub IDAH_BROWNBAG-L Your Full Name

Best,

Maria Kennedy
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) Graduate Assistant
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library E170
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
(812) 855-0829
IDAH Fax: (812) 856-7107
idah@indiana.edu<mailto:idah@indiana.edu>
www.iub.edu/~idah<http://www.iub.edu/~idah>

Association for Cultural Studies CFP: Crossroads in Cultural Studies

2011-04-27T07:38:00.000-05:00

The Association for Cultural Studies is very pleased to release the Call for Papers for the next Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, to be held 2-6 July 2012 in Paris, France.

Conference details are below. Submission forms for both papers and sessions can be found on the conference website: http://www.crossroads2012.org

We look forward to seeing many of you in Paris next year!
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We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference Crossroads in
Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO.

The city of Paris has a long and complex history as a crossroad between cultures and peoples. Paris has played an important role in the development and circulation of the works of authors and thinkers that have shaped the postcolonial imagination in a significant way. Drawing on their tradition of comprehensive and critical thought, the organizers seek contributions in the form of papers and panels that will continue to examine the intersection between culture, power and knowledge from within the framework of Cultural Studies.

The conference will also be hosted by UNESCO, the international organization that has always championed cultural diversity and difference. Given the long association between Cultural Studies research and UNESCO, this conference should be an occasion for Cultural Studies to look back on its own evolution as well as explore new scholarly insights.

*12 World-class Keynote Speakers from all over the world will address the
conference at keynote and plenary sessions. Among them, Sarah Ahmed, Marie-Hélène
Bourcier, Jeremy Gilbert, Achille Mbembe, Walter Mignolo, Bobby Noble, Phaedra
Pezzullo, Françoise Vergès. With the participation of Stuart Hall and Jacques Rancière (to be confirmed).
*State of the art conference topics. All topics relevant to Cultural Studies, especially new and innovative areas of research are welcome.
*Submit your proposal now! The call for papers and organized panel proposals is now open. Check the submission guidelines and submit before September 30, 2011.
*ACS Assistance Scheme for Crossroads 2012. The Association for Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel accommodation or registration expenses.
*Attractive and convenient accommodation in the heart of the city of Paris and close to the conference venues. Cheaper campus accommodation will also be available close at hand at the International Paris University Campus.
*Spread the news. Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends! We look forward to seeing you in Paris in 2012!

Prof Éric Maigret (Conference Director) on behalf of the National and Local Committees
Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris

Website: http://www.crossroads2012.org
Contact: crossroads2012@univ-paris3.fr

April 21 IDAH Brown Bag Series: Leslie Sharpe "Following Iola: Data Sets and Re-Imagined Spaces of the Arctic"

2011-04-20T02:42:00.000-05:00

IDAH Brown Bag Series presents:

Leslie Sharpe, Associate Professor of Digital Art, School of Fine Arts
"Following Iola: Data Sets and Re-Imagined Spaces of the Arctic"

When:
Thursday, April 21, 2011
12-1 p.m.

Where:
IDAH Conference Room E-170D
(In the Hall to the left of the East Tower Elevators)

Artists have long responded to place within observational and experiential frameworks. What happens when that framework is extended to interpreting place through data related to site? Leslie Sharpe, Associate Professor in the School of Fine Arts, will discuss art that uses digital and non-digital data as content that inspires new works about space and its inhabitants. In her lecture she will present other artists' works as well as her own examples of works related to telemetry, animal migration, and human land use in the Canadian Arctic, and read excerpts from her contribution to the forthcoming book, Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles (published by Intellect Press, UK, 2011), where she discusses this understanding of site in relationship to changing ideas and realities of the Canadian North.

Leslie Sharpe is a Canadian Artist and Associate Professor of Digital Art in the School of Fine Arts. Sharpe has been an artist in residence at P.S. 1 Museum/Institute for Contemporary Art in New York, The Banff Centre in Canada, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, and most recently at Ivvavik National Park in the Canadian Arctic. Her work has been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre (Paris), Banff Centre (Canada), Observatori festival (Spain), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland), and in New York at P.S. 1 Insitute of Contemporary Art, Exit Art, The New Museum, Artists Space, and Franklin Furnace. Her writing has been published in Leonardo Electronic Almanac/MIT Press, Framework, New Observations, and in the forthcoming Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles. Sharpe works primarily in installation and locative/mobile media projects, from works drawing on genre (crime stories to ghost stories), history, and technology. Her recent works draw on human and animal movements through the Canadian Arctic (including her own) within the contexts of technology, environment and human/animal relationships to place.

April 26 Nick Cullather--The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

2011-04-20T02:37:00.001-05:00

Please mark your calendars and share with others who might be interested. Thanks.

2011 Poynter Center Roundtable

When:
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
4:00-5:30 p.m.

Where:
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
618 East Third Street

Nick Cullather is Associate Professor in the Department of History. He is a historian of
US foreign relations, specializing in the history of intelligence, development, and
nation-building. The Hungry World explores the use of food as a tool of psychological
warfare and regime change during the Cold War.

See his web site at http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/Display.php?Faculty_ID=52

April 18: The Ninth Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture

2011-04-15T07:57:00.000-05:00

Please Join Us for the The NELC Department Spring Reception & The Ninth Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture

“Servants of the All-Merciful”: Building Communities of Realization in a Global Civilization
Presented by Professor James W. Morris, Boston College

Monday, April 18, 2011
Beginning at 5:30 PM
University Club, IMU
Refreshments Served

It is always easier, in any age, to notice the public and often violent disintegration of a familiar civilization, than the creation and gradual coalescence of newer forms of cultural and spiritual community. Borrowing some perspectives of Ibn ‘Arabi, this Danner lecture examines some of the contemporary uses and transformations of the pathways of realization elaborated in earlier Islamic settings, the traditional disciplines of philosophy,
art, and spiritual practice devoted to exploring the divine Signs “on the horizons and in their souls” (Qur’an 41:53). It concludes by noting some of the opportunities -and obligations- which our global situation has created for creative, constructive cooperation across older religious and civilizational boundaries.

"Intersections: Middle Eastern Poetries in/and the Arts."

2011-04-15T07:50:00.000-05:00

Title: "Intersections: Middle Eastern Poetries in/and the Arts."
Location: IUB Art Museum, Thomas T. Solley Atrium
Time: 7-9pm
Date: April 7, 14, and 21

Bloomington, Ind. -- In honor of National Poetry Month, the Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Department and IU Art Museum will host "INTERSECTIONS: Middle Eastern Poetries and the Arts," a series of three consecutive Thursday evenings of Middle Eastern poetry featuring different themes. The readings are scheduled for April 7, 14 and 21 from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. in the IUB Art Museum's Thomas T. Solley Atrium.

Each evening will be hosted by Prof. Suzanne Stetkevych, and include poetry readings in both the original language and English, live music by Prof. David McDonald, a short lecture by Prof. Christiane Gruber on Islamic art, and curators Dr. Judy Stubbs and Ms. Juliet Graver-Istrabadi will offer a self-guided gallery tour of the IU Art Museum's Near Eastern Gallery.

INTERSECTIONS is presented in partnership with the IU Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the IU Art Museum, in conjunction with the Indiana University Seminar on Arabic Literature, and Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic Poetry. Special thanks to Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME) for their financial support.

NELC Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/arabiclit/intersections.shtml

IUB Art Museum Website: http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/

Al-Babtain Library Website: http://www.albabtainlibrary.org.kw/

Intersections 2011 would like to extend special thanks to NELC organizers Prof. Suzanne Stetjevych, and NELC graduate students Ms. Danie M. Becknell and Mr. Justin Kitchens; Intersections committee members Prof. Christiane Gruber, Prof. Judy Stubbs, Prof. David McDonald, and Ms. Juliet Graver-Istrabadi; the IU Art Museum Events Manager, Josie Larimer, and Events Coordinator Hannah Carmichael; Murat Candiler of the IU Art Museum Angles Café and Gift Shop; and all of this year's performers.

The Seventh East Asian Colloquium of the Spring Semester is Friday, the 22nd of April.

2011-04-15T07:46:00.001-05:00

EAST ASIAN COLLOQUIUM (Presented by the East Asian Studies Center)
PRESENTER: Robert Tierney (Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and
Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
TOPIC: "Anthropology and Literature in Colonial Taiwan"
DATE: Friday, April 22
TIME: 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Ballantine Hall 004

(Light refreshments will be served. You are also welcome to bring your own lunch.)

While Western scholars introduced the science of anthropology to Japan in the 1870s, Japanese scholars quickly "nationalized" this foreign science and brought it to bear on the aboriginal population of Taiwan, which quickly became the first overseas field in which they could work. As a genre of writing about primitive societies, anthropology offered a model that writers of fiction used to explore the cultures of exotic societies.

In this paper, I will study the concrete interaction between the writer Sato Haruo, who traveled to Taiwan in 1920, and the anthropologist Mori Ushinosuke. In 1923, Sato wrote "Machoo" (Demon Bird), a short work based on a passage in a book by Mori. The narrator of this story impersonates an anthropologist who is studying an episode of persecution in an unnamed barbarian village. At the same time, the story he tells is an allegory about
Japanese persecution of Koreans during the Great Kanto Earthquake. "Demon Bird" is a story that uncovers unexpected links between colony and metropolis. The work is at once a deconstruction of colonial anthropology and an ethnographic critique of the Japanese empire.

Robert Tierney is assistant professor of Japanese literature in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His recent publications include Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (University of California Press, 2010). He is currently researching the history of Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare and
Japan's first anti-imperialist movement. He may be contacted at
rtierney@illinois.edu<mailto:rtierney@illinois.edu>.

For more information about any upcoming event, please contact:
East Asian Studies Center
Indiana University
Memorial Hall West 207
1021 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
(812) 855-3765
easc@indiana.edu<mailto:easc@indiana.edu>

NELC Arabic Literature Seminar, Indiana University Lectures & Workshop, April 21-23, 2011

2011-04-13T07:11:00.000-05:00

NELC Arabic Literature Seminar, Indiana University
Lectures & Workshop, April 21-23, 2011

Poetic Creativity & the Poetics of Translation

All events are conducted in ARABIC, and are Free and Open to the Public.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Guest speaker, Prof. Muhammad Bennis, Moroccan poet, critic and translator, will give a seminar on the creative process in his own poetry for N709 Seminar in Modern Arabic Poetry, Woodburn Hall 205.

8:15-9:00 NELC/IU Art Museum: Intersections: Middle Eastern Poetries & the Arts, multi-lingual poetry reading of Muhammad Bennis’ works. IU Art Museum, 7-9 p.m.

Friday, April 22, 2011, 4-6 p.m.

NELC Arabic Literature Seminar 2011, Keynote Lecture

Prof. Muhammad Bennis
Muhammad V University, Rabat, Morocco
Between Translation and Composition
Slocum Room of the Lilly Library. Reception to follow.

Prof. Muhammad Bennis (PhD, Modern Arabic Poetry, Mohammad V University, Rabat) is a Moroccan poet and one of the leading proponents of poetic modernism in the Arab world today. Born in Fez, Morocco in 1948, he has taught since 1980 at Muhammad V University in Rabat. He has published many poetry collections and critical works in Arabic and literary translations from French (Mallarmé, Georges Bataille) into Arabic. His stature as a major contemporary Arab poet has been widely recognized in the Arab world and throughout the globe.

Collections and selections of his poetry have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese and many other languages. His poetry has also earned him recognition in the form of many national and international awards, among them: The Moroccan Book Award for his collection The Gift of the Void (1993); Atlas Prize for the French translation of his collection, River between Two Funerals (2000); Chevalier des arts et des lettres, France (2003); Calopezzati Prize for Mediterranean Literature, Italy (2006); Ferronia Prize for International Literature, Italy (2007), al-Owais Prize for Poetry, Dubai, UAE (2007); Maghrebi Culture Prize, Morocco (2010); and, most recently, in March 2011 he traveled to Florence, Italy, to accept the 55th Premio Letterario Internazionale Ceppo Pistoia award for international literature, from L’Accademia Pistoiese del Ceppo. One of the foremost contemporary voices in Arab literary and cultural criticism, he is the author, for example, of the 4-volume Modern Arabic Poetry: Structures and Mutations (1989-91), Writing Erasure (1994), and Modernity Destroyed (2004). See his website (Arabic-French-English): http://mohammedbennis.com

All venues are fully accessible. For more information call the NELC Office at (812) 855-5993, and ask for Danie Becknell.

NELC Arabic Literature Seminar: Workshop in Poetry & Theory

Saturday, April 23, 2011
1-5:30 p.m. 004 Ballantine
Chair: Prof. Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University
Discussant, Prof. Muhammad Bennis, Muhammad V University, Rabat, Morocco

Panel I: Critical Approaches to the Classical and Andalusian Tradition
· Bilal Maanaki, Indiana University
The Story of Qays b. al-Mulawwah al-ma’ruf bi-Majnun Layla (pub. 1882)
The “Script” as Media for Selecting and Circulating Udhri Mood

· Anan Habeeb, Indiana University & Earlham College
The Religious Debate in al-Andalus during the 11th – 12th Centuries and its Effect on Increasing Nostalgia for the Holy Land in the Jewish Andalusi Poet Judah Halevi

· Mustafa Binmayaba, Indiana University
Toward a Classification of the Poetry of Expulsion from al-Andalus: Type I: Call to Arms and Refusal to Depart: The Mimiyyah of Malik ibn al-Murhal

Panel II: Critical Approaches to Colonialism & Modernism
· M. Munir Gibrill, Indiana University & Northwestern University
“Help!” Echoing the Cries of the Distressed and the Agonies of Friends.
Reaching the Water Hole of History by Al-Hajj Umar bin Abi Bakr bin Uthman Karchi

· Waed Athamneh, Indiana University & Claremont McKenna College, California
The Poet and his Double/Other in Selected Late Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

· Prof. Huda Fakhreddine, Middlebury College, Vermont
Poetic Creativity and Projects of Modernism in Arabic

All venues are fully accessible. For more information call the NELC Office at (812) 855-5993, and ask for Danie Becknell.