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February 2007 Newsletter

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Message from the Director
Branigin Lecturers
Academic Fellows, and Visiting Scholars
IAS Seminars - History of the Book, and Translation
Governing Board

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

This will be my last year as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. It has been a great honor and a pleasure to serve in this capacity for the last four years, helping this Institute to advance IU’s commitment to interdisciplinary research on all eight campuses. As some of you may know, I am stepping down from my positions at IU to become the new Dean of the Law School at Suffolk University in Boston, Mass. Suffolk University Law School offers new administrative challenges that are appealing to me in part because of my wonderful experiences at IU and at the Institute. I have been privileged to work with colleagues dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches to research and to a collaborative spirit that seeks to combine the great depth and talent of this university in creative and important ways. I look forward to joining the Suffolk community but I will always feel a strong bond of gratitude, admiration, and affection for my friends and colleagues at IU, and for this Institute in particular. I look forward to staying in touch.

We have several exciting fellows and events at the Institute this semester. Let me highlight two Branigin Lecturers in particular: Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, who will be with us April 1-5, and Wallace Baker, a renowned global lawyer from the famous law firm of Baker and McKenzie who will arrive the week of April 23rd. As Branigin Lecturer, Baker will help us launch a series of interdisciplinary seminars that will discuss ethics--not only ethics in professions such as law, medicine, and business but ethics more broadly conceived as well. Wallace Baker’s approach to ethical issues, which is comparative and global, is steeped in the humanities, especially religion and philosophy. His visit will help spark conversation and collaboration across disciplinary, departmental, and school boundaries and will also be an occasion for collaboration among this Institute, the Poynter Center, the Center for Global Change, and the College Arts and Humanities Institute. The collaborative, interdisciplinary spirit has always been a hallmark of our Institute and we look forward to his visit and the conversations it will help create.

Alfred C. Aman, Jr.
Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law and
Director, IUIAS

 

BRANIGIN LECTURERS

Supported by an endowment from the estate of IUB alumna Gene Lois Porteus Branigin, this series of lectures brings to the Bloomington campus interdisciplinary scholars whose work is provocative and challenging. During their stays on campus, the Branigin lecturers meet with a variety of faculty and student groups, both formally and informally.

PETER J KATZENSTEIN is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research area encompasses the fields of international relations and comparative politics (political economy, security and culture in both Europe and Asia, with specific concentrations on Germany and Japan). His current work focuses on the role of anti-Americanism, religion and popular culture, and regionalism in world politics, as well as changes in German politics. In 1987 Katzenstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science. He has held numerous visiting fellowships and serves on the editorial boards and academic advisory boards of several journals and organizations both in the United States and abroad. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than twenty books and has written over eighty papers and book chapters. Among his recent books are: Anti-Americanism in World Politics, coedited with Robert O. Keohane and in preparation for Cornell University Press (2006); Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006), coedited with Timothy A. Byrnes; Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi; A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005); and Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2005 Katzenstein was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching. Peter Katzenstein will be at the Institute April 1-5, 2007 and will give a Branigin lecture on Anti-Americanisms in World Politics on Monday, April 2, in Woodburn Hall 101 (a separate announcement will be mailed later).

WALLACE BAKER is an international partner in the Baker & McKenzie law firm, which has seventy offices in thirty-eight countries. He lives in Paris and is member of the Paris and Illinois Bars (LLB from Harvard Law School, 1949-1952). He holds Doctor of Laws from University of Brussels, 1959-1961, and Licence en Droit from University of Paris, 1970-1972. Baker is currently engaged in research for and advice to companies in risk management relating to the rapidly developing field of corporate responsibility (the triple-bottom-line). Since 1990 he has also been active at MIT in creating and developing the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD – http://gssd.mit.edu/), a knowledge meta-networking system to generate and communicate the best information related to achieving sustainable social and economic development. He has written on subjects such as corporate social responsibility, business ethics, the GSSD, the Kyoto Protocol, and emissions trading. In December 1998 he served as Chairman of a UNESCO symposium on Business Ethics. More recently, he has been involved in studies on how UNESCO can work with companies in order to fulfill its mission of education for all and promotion of ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility, including protecting the environment. He has worked with the public and private sector on the legal problems of foreign investors in France, French companies doing business in the U.S., European acquisitions, buy-outs, reorganizations and public financing, international and French litigation, international product liability cases, proceedings before the EEC commission in anti-trust cases, international trade secret disputes, international disputes relating to distributors and agents, and international estate planning and administration. Baker will visit the Institute the week of April 23rd.

 

ACADEMIC FELLOWS

PEARL GLUCK is a professional filmmaker and scholar of Jewish ethnography. Last year she taught Yiddish language and culture at Rutgers University. She will spend three weeks at the Institute (February 7-28), researching video materials from the Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories Project (AHEYM)—an archive of nearly 500 hours of videotaped interviews with Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe and professionally videotaped footage of contemporary Jewish life there—as well as consulting with faculty in Jewish Studies, History, Central Eurasian Studies, and Communication and Culture. In addition, she will visit several classes and participate in film screenings and in discussions of first-person narratives and oral history on the Bloomington and IUSB campuses. For more information contact the Institute (812-855-3658) or her primary sponsor, Jeffrey Veidlinger, History and Jewish Studies, IUB (jveidlin@indiana.edu). More information about Pearl Gluck and her work is also available at www.palinkapictures.com.

MIHAELA MIROIUis Professor of the Political Science Faculty at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania. She is a founder of Gender Studies in Romania and a prominent scholar in the fields of feminist theory and ethics, social policy, political ideologies, and the modernization of Romanian higher education. She was an Institute fellow in 2001 and will return for another visit (March 18-April 10, 2007) during which she will collaborate with IUB colleagues in History, Political Science (also at IUPUI), Gender Studies, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. In addition, she will participate in a conference on Romanian studies scheduled to take place on the IUB campus at the end of March. Her lectures on the IUB and IUPUI campuses will be announced at a later date. For further information contact her primary sponsor, Jeffrey Isaac, Political Science, IUB (Isaac@indiana.edu) or the Institute (812-855-3658).

 

 

VISITING SCHOLARS

ROBERT FISCHMAN , Professor of Law at IUB, will spend his spring 2007 sabbatical leave at the Institute examining how the primary sources of the law construct the idea of nature. He is particularly interested in how the narrative of place helps shape both the law and our images of nature.

CAROL GREENHOUSE, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, will spend her 2006/2007 sabbatical year at the Institute working on a project which focuses on the work of anthropologists whose field was the United States in the 1990s. The book is part intellectual history, part political critique, and part literary analysis; it is aimed at a closer understanding of the relationship between disciplinarity and aspirations to social justice.

KUAN YU-YUAN, Professor of Social Welfare, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan. His research interests focus on the nonprofit sector. He spent the fall semester through February 10 at the Institute on a grant from the National Science Council in Taiwan, examining SPEA’s nonprofit management program and exploring nonprofit studies at IU. His sponsor is Kirsten Gronbjerg (kgronbj@indiana.edu), Professor of SPEA and Chair of the Center on Philanthropy, IUB.

AUDREY MCCLUSKEY, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Women Studies, IUB, and former Director of the Black Film Center/Archive is spending her 2006/2007 leave at the Institute completing the final draft of her new book, Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (to be published by the IU Press in February 2007) and working on two other projects: Richard Pryor, Tortured Genius: A Reader (tentative title) and The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa.

MEG WESLING, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California San Diego, is recipient of a Faculty Career Development Grant (fall 2006 through March 2007) and is working at the Institute on her book, Educated Subjects: The Pedagogy of Empire in U.S. Literature.

 

IAS SEMINARS

THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR

Spring 2007

All sessions will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Lilly Library Lounge except March 9th (see below)

Monday, February 19

Richard Nash (English, IUB): “The Book That Wrote an Animal: The General Stud Book and Notions of Englishness in the Late 18th Century.”

Monday, March 5

Kathleen Myers (Spanish and Portuguese, IUB): “Fernandez de Oviedo, Europe's First Chronicler of America.”

Monday, March 19

Robert Schneider (History, IUB): “Fictions of France: Writing the French Nation in the Age of Richlieu”(This session will meet from 3 to 4:30 pm)

Monday, April 2

David Hall (Harvard Divinity School): “Not in Print, Yet Published: The Significance of Scribal Publications in Early New England”

Monday, April 16

Rosemary Lloyd (French & Italian, IUB): “Baudelaire's Phantoms: The Diplomatic Edition of Les Fleurs du Mal.”

Monday, April 23

Timothy Raylor (English, Carleton College): “Hobbes's De Corpore and Its Tortuous History from Manuscript to Print and After”

For more information on this seminar contact Peter Lindenbaum (lindenba@indiana.edu), Joel Silver (silverj@indiana.edu), Paul Gutjahr (pgutjahr@indiana.edu) at (812)855-4137 or the Institute (ihedin@indiana.edu).

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

Spring 2007 Schedule

All sessions will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Lilly Library Lounge

Thursday, February 22

Richard Zenith (Lisbon, Portugal): “The Poetry of Distance: Translating from the Portuguese.” Richard Zenith is an internationally-known editor and translator of Portuguese prose and poetry. His Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Company (Grove Press) won the 1999 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and his new version of Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet (Penguin) was awarded the 2002 Gulbenkian Prize for Portuguese Translation. Zenith’s translations also include Education in Stone: Selected Poems (Archipelago Books), by Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo, and four novels by António Lobo Antunes (Grove/Atlantic). He is also the author of short stories and poetry in Portuguese.

Thursday, March 8

Peter Wortsman (Columbia): “Meditation in Translation: Transcending Ego and Transmitting Voice.” Peter Wortsman’s first book of short fiction, A Modern Way to Die (1999), was published by Fromm International, as was his translation of the German Romantic classic, Peter Schlemiel, by Adelbert von Chamisso. His other translations from the German include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, originally published by Eridanos Books in 1987, reissued by Penguin 20th-Century Classics in 1995 (and in a third edition by Archipelago Books last year). Archipelago also published his selection/translation of Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg. He is currently at work on a new translation of Travel Pictures (Reisebilder), by Heinrich Heine.

Thursday, March 29

Adam Kern (Harvard): “Electrifying Japanese Comic Books.” Adam Kern is author of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan (Harvard University Asian Center, 2006). He will talk about translating illustrated comic books since the eighteenth century including contemporary manga comics. He will show the peculiar format of comic books by bringing examples. By the word "electrifying," Kern means how a translation can make a comic book come alive and glitter in English as well as a new trend in Japan of deciphering old comic books electronically.

Thursday, April 5

Peter Theroux (Washington, DC): “LA-Tel Aviv-Jerusalem-Nazareth-Casablanca, A Tale of Five Cities.” Peter Theroux has lived and traveled in Egypt, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. He is the translator of ten books from Arabic, including works by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz and Saudi dissident Abdelrahman Munif, and the author of Sandstorms: Days and Nights in Arabia. He recently served for two years as Director for Persian Golf Affairs on the National Security Council at the White House. His talk will be about his latest publication, the Israeli Arab novel Saraya The Ogre's Daughter by Emile Habiby.

Thursday, April 19

Cola Franzen (Cambridge, Mass.): “Translating at the Edges.” Cola Franzen has published fifteen books of translations, among them poetry, fiction, and criticism by notable Spanish and Latin American authors. Her recent publications include Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel (University of Nebraska Press, 1998; and The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000), both by Argentinean-born writer Alicia Borinksy. Other authors whose work she translates regularly include Saúl Yurkievich (Argentinean), Juan Cameron (Chilean), and Antonio José Ponte (Cuban). Her other translations include Poems of Arab Andalusia (1989, reprinted 1995) and The Challenge of Comparative Literature (1993), by Claudio Guillén, son of the poet Jorge Guillén.

Thursday, May 10

Linda Gaboriau (Montreal, Canada): ): “Reading the World: Translators in Residence at Banff.” Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator based in Montreal. Her translations of plays by Quebec’s most prominent playwrights have been published and produced across Canada and abroad. She has also worked as a freelance journalist and broadcaster, and, as a literary manager and dramaturge, she has directed numerous translation residencies and international exchange projects. This is her fifth year as program director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She will tell us, among other things, of the special fellowships available to literature translators in the beautiful setting of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

2007 IAS GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS

 

HOW TO NOMINATE AN ACADEMIC FELLOW

The program for external academic fellowships is designed to further the research and creative collaborative projects of Indiana University faculty members by facilitating the visits of scholars, scientists, and artists to any of IU’s eight campuses. Fellows, who are invited to consult with and/or collaborate on ongoing projects of the nominating IU faculty member, should ordinarily have a terminal degree or its equivalent and should be actively involved in scholarly or creative activity. In addition to the consultative/collaborative role, fellows should also enrich the intellectual life of the related departments. Normal tenure: two to three weeks; stipend: $2,500 a week; formal requirements: one public lecture to a general audience.

Nominations come from faculty, either as individuals or as groups. There are no forms or deadlines so nominations may be submitted and are reviewed throughout the year. The review process takes about four weeks.

Nominations should include the following:

1. A formal letter of nomination by the principal sponsor or co-sponsors describing the collaborative project/consultative role in detail, confirming that the sponsor/co-sponsors agree to be present during the entire working visit of the fellow.

2. Three-to-four (or more) letters of support from other faculty members of the same campus, graduate students, and faculty from other campuses (where appropriate). The letters should describe the ways in which the supporters will interact with the fellow.

3. Curriculum vitae for the proposed fellow with publications relevant to the proposed visit marked with asterisks.

4. Curriculum vitae of the principal sponsor/nominator, again with an indication of publications relevant to the proposed collaboration/consultation.

Nominations are reviewed by the Governing Board, made up of faculty members from all Indiana University campuses.

For more information, look up our web page: www.indiana.edu/~ias or contact Ivona Hedin, Academic Specialist, at 812-855-3658.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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