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January 2005 Newsletter

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Message from the Director
Branigin Lecturers
Spring 2005 Fellows and Scholars - Academic, Distinguished, and Visiting
IAS Seminars - Global, History of the Book, Life Writing, Translation, and Modernist Exchange
Governing Board
Society for Advanced Study

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

The Institute for Advanced Study is dedicated to encouraging and facilitating research that crosses disciplinary boundaries and, when possible, territorial boundaries as well. This semester we look forward to incoming scholars from five countries: Norway, France, Brazil, U.K., and China . We also look forward to welcoming Peter Turnley, a photojournalist, as a Branigin Lecturer as well as welcoming back Lee Hamilton, a former U.S. Congressman, as a Distinguished Citizen Fellow.

We also look forward to launching a new, on-going seminar: the Global Seminar (more information below). This seminar will not only enable us to take advantage of our international Fellows but provide us with an on-going forum of interdisciplinary exchanges among our own faculty.

We certainly hope you can join us for as many of our various lectures and seminars as possible.

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 TURNLEY is a prominent photojournalist who worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek from 1984 to 2001. In addition, his work appeared in numerous international magazines such as Stern, Paris Match, National Geographic, The London Sunday Observer, le Figaro, le Monde, and Double Take. In the past twenty years Turnley has covered most major news events, including world conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Iraq, the Middle East, as well as 9/11. In the 1970’s, Turnley worked as assistant to the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau. His work was inspired by such great photographers as Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andr J Kert J sz, and Josef Koudelka.

Turnley has received numerous awards and his photographs have been exhibited world wide. He resides in Paris and New York and teaches in Paris for the Maine Photographic Workshops. He has published four books - BEIJING SPRING, MOMENTS OF REVOLUTION, IN TIMES OF WAR AND PEACE, and PARISIANS – and has received honorary doctorates from the School of Social Research in New York and from Saint Francis College in Indiana . In 2001, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University .

Peter Turnley will be a Branigin Lecturer from February 27 through March 4, 2005 and will give a Branigin Lecture, “Moments of the Human Condition – A Visual Tour of World Affairs And the Family of Man During the Past Twenty Five Years,” on Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in Fine Arts 015, IUB.

 

SPRING 2005 FELLOWS and SCHOLARS

ACADEMIC FELLOWS

BIRGIT BROCK-UTNE , Professor of Education at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo , Norway , will be a Fellow of the Institute February 15- March 7, 2005 .  She is an internationally renowned scholar with expertise in peace studies, globalization, feminist pedagogy, conflict resolution, and language and education polices in Africa . During her visit, Brock-Utne will collaborate with colleagues in Education (IUB and IUPUI) as well as in Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, English, and Criminal Justice (IUB). For further information contact her primary sponsor, Robert Arnove, Education IUB (arnove@indiana.edu), or the Institute at 855-3658.

WALTER GEIST, Research Director at the Institute of Subatomic Research in Strasbourg , France , is a distinguished high energy particle physicist and expert in colliding beam physics.  He will be a Fellow of the Institute for three weeks in February, working with colleagues in IUB Physics and Cyclotron Facility.  For further information contact his main sponsor, Andrzej Zieminski, Physics IUB (zieminsk@indiana.edu), or the Institute at 855-3658. 

 IVO IBRI is Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Sa Paulo, Brazil, and a specialist in the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, as well as in pragmatism and semiotics. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies in the Philosophy Graduate Program at Catholic University . Ibri spent three weeks on the IUPUI campus in February of 2004, working with his primary sponsor, Nathan Houser (Philosophy, the Peirce Edition Project, IUPUI) and consulting with colleagues in Philosophy, Peirce Edition Project, and English at IUPUI and Philosophy at IUB. Ibri will return for a follow-up visit January 30 through February 5, 2005 . For further information, contact Nathan Houser (nhouser@iupui.edu) or the Institute (812/855-3658).

JEREMY JENNINGS , Professor of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, U.K., is an established scholar in the area of nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual French history and European political philosophy. Among others, he has written extensively on French syndicalism and on Georges Sorel and is currently collaborating with Aurelian Craiutu, IUB Professor of Political Science, on the translation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s letters to American friends after 1840. During his three-week visit to the Institute (March/April, 2005), Jennings will work with faculty members and graduate students in Political Science (IUB and IUPUI), History, the Workshop in Political Theory and Political Analysis at IUB. For further information contact his primary sponsor, Aurelian Craiutu (acraiutu@indiana.edu)or the Institute (855-3658).

LAURENT LEGENDRE is Professor of Biology at the Universit J Jean Monnet de Saint Etienne ( France ) and Director of the Institute of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants. His training was in chemical engineering and in plant biochemistry. He is an expert in the pathology of grapes and in the physiology and evolutionary biology of butterworts, carnivorous plants found in Americas , Europe , and Asia . He will visit the Institute for three weeks in July/August, 2005 and will reside at IU Southeast where he will collaborate with his primary sponsor, Douglas Darnowski (Biology, ddarnows@ius.edu) and other colleagues in Biology both at IU Southeast and IUB.


MENG XIANGDONG, Senior Physician and Director of the Institute of STD/AIDS Prevention and Control in the Jilin Province Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Changchun , P.R. China, is one of the leading Chinese researchers in AIDS prevention and treatment.  He will be a Fellow of the Institute for two weeks in February and will collaborate on the on-going research project with his IUB colleagues in SPEA and East Asian Studies, as well as with colleagues in the School of Nursing at IU Kokomo. For further information, contact his main sponsor, Allen F. Anderson, SPEA, IUB (allender@indiana.edu), or the Institute at 855-3658.

 

DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN FELLOWS

LEE HAMILTON is Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (since 1999) and Director of the Center for Congress at Indiana University (since 1999). From 1965 to 1999, he served as U.S. Representative of Ninth District in Indiana. Among other functions, Hamilton has served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) and as Vice Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission). On June 11, 2002, Hamilton was appointed to President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Council.  Lee Hamilton will return to IU as a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute in April 4-7, 2005, and will give a lecture on Wednesday, April 6, at noon in the Moot Court, IUB School of Law. 

 

VISITING SCHOLARS

Eric Sandweiss , History, IUB

 

IAS SEMINARS

GLOBAL SEMINAR

The purpose of this new seminar is to bring together from various disciplines faculty members who are working on issues of globalization, broadly defined.  Several interested scholars would form a core group and meet on a regular basis, share ideas involving their own work, react to draft papers, and engage in occasional discussions with visiting scholars whose work is of interest to them.  The seminar will meet two or three times each semester at the Institute for Advanced Study. If you are interested, please contact Ivona Hedin at ihedin@indiana.edu.

LIFE WRITING SEMINAR

The LIFE WRITING SEMINAR is an interdisciplinary faculty seminar uniting those interested in any phase of life writing. It will continue to hold monthly brown bag lunch meetings at which members present current work. For further information contact the convener, John Eakin (eakin@indiana.edu).

THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR

THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR , sponsored by the Institute and supported in part by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, continues in this its sixth year. Speakers for the present semester include: David Brakke (Religious Studies, IU-Bloomington), speaking on Medieval Demon Manuals; Sarah Knott (History, IU-Bloomington), on Late 18th Century American Periodicals; Donald Krummel (School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), on Early Modern Music Publishing; and David Nord (Journalism, IU-Bloomington), on Religious Publishing in 19th and 20th-Century America. Dates of the sessions are to be announced shortly. For more information, contact: Peter Lindenbaum, English, IUB (lindenba@indiana.edu) or Joel Silver, Lilly Library, IUB (silverj@indiana.edu).

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

SPRING 2005 SCHEDULE
(All sessions will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m . at the Lilly Library Lounge)

Thursday, February 24

“Crossing Two Borders: Translating Medieval French into Modern English"— Samuel Rosenberg (Comp. Lit., IUB)

Thursday, March 10

"Primal Nights and Verbal Daze: Puns, Paronomasia, and the People's Daily"—Eugene Eoyang (Indiana University/Lingnam College, Hong Kong ), author of The Transparent Eye: Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics. Lawrence Venuti ( Temple University ), author of The Scandals of Translation, Rethinking Translation, and The Translator's Invisibility will discuss his current work on translation and commerce.

Thursday, April 7

"Translating Purple: Contemporary Japanese Literature into English"—Howard Hibbet (Harvard University).

Friday, April 22

"Translation: A User's Manual"—David Bellos (Princeton University), discussing his translations of George Perec and other leading French authors.

Thursday, May 5

"Translation: Text, Subtext, Context"—Barbara Harshav (Yale University) discussing her translations from the Hebrew.

Thursday, June 9

Anthea Bell (Cambridge, England) will discuss her translations of W.G. Sebald, Asterix and other interesting challenges from the French and German

For further information, contact: Breon Mitchell (mitchell@indiana.edu) or Sumie Jones (joness@indiana.edu).

 

THE MODERNIST EXCHANGE SEMINAR

THE MODERNIST EXCHANGE SEMINAR will resume its meetings in the Fall of 2005.

 

2005 IAS GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS

(*new members)

 

SOCIETY FOR ADVANCED STUDY

The Society supports the work of the IAS, making possible various programs and activities. Members of the Society gather once a year for an annual meeting chaired by the President, currently the Honorable Edward Najam Jr.; a gala dinner; and a “distinguished” lecture – The Herman B Wells Distinguished Lecture, honoring the late Chancellor, former president of IU who was long a member and supporter of the Society. For information about this event and the Society, please contact the Institute (812/855-3658).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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