MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
We are preparing for another very active year at the Institute. In addition to our seminars, Branigin lectures, and visiting Fellows and Scholars, we are also inaugurating, on an experimental basis, a more thematic approach to some of our Institute projects. Specifically, we plan to develop two broadly-based themes: chaos and solitude.
The theme of chaos will, initially, explore the political and social chaos in failing or failed states as well as the kinds of constitutional reforms that may help in these situations. To this end, we have partnered with the new Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, housed in the IUB School of Law. We also supported in August a working group of six scholars and leaders from Burma, Liberia, and Azerbaijan to explore the fundamental problems facing those countries and the kinds of constitutional reforms that might be effective and possible. We plan to support their further workshops on this topic in the coming year.
With regard to solitude, we, along with the College of Arts and Humanities Institute, were this year’s recipient of a $40,000 grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research to bring eminent scholars to campus to explore this theme. Our goal is to examine various aspects of solitude from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and, hopefully, publish the papers and lectures generated by this joint program in an edited volume. We look forward to developing these and perhaps other themes as well and, as always, welcome your input and suggestions in this regard.
We also draw your attention to our newly designed web site (www.indiana.edu/~ias). We plan to develop it more fully as we go. We hope you will check our web site regularly for information about our fellows and current events and will find time to join us for our lectures, seminars or workshops in the coming year.
Finally, I will be on leave this academic year and Christopher Peebles, Professor of Anthropology and Special Advisor for Centers and Institutes at the Office of the Vice President for Research, has generously agreed to be Acting Director, for which we are all very grateful indeed.
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.
JOHN CROWLEY is an acclaimed novelist and documentary film writer and producer. His fiction is often categorized as science fiction or fantasy. Crowley was raised in Vermont, Kentucky, and Indiana. In 1964, he received his B.A. from Indiana University, with a major in English and a minor in Photography. In 1981, his fantasy novel, Little, Big, won the World Fantasy Award and earned him a fast-growing circle of fans (Harold Bloom was one of them). Among other works of fiction that he has published are: Three Novels, AEgypt, Great Work of
Time (which won another World Fantasy Award), Love and Sleep, The Translator, and, most recently, Girlhood and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. In addition to novels, he also writes and publishes short stories. In 1989, in conjunction with his wife, Laurie Block, Crowley co-founded an innovative media production company, Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., which specializes in making documentaries on subjects of American history and culture (the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1930 World’s Fair, the Depression, the 1950s bomb-shelter hysteria, and the fitness craze in America, among others). Several of their films have been selected for major film festivals and have won numerous awards. Crowley teaches fiction writing and screen writing at Yale and screen writing at Hampshire College. He will be a Branigin Lecturer November 29- December 2, 2005. For further information, contact the Institute.
MARTIN E. MARTY is The Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Religious History at the University of Chicago and one of the most prominent scholars of Modern Christianity and interpreters of religion and its role in American political and social life. Before joining the Chicago faculty, he served as a Lutheran pastor. He taught in the Divinity School for thirty five years and was their first Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, which opened in October of 1979. In 1998, the Institute was renamed the Martin Marty Center in his honor. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fifty nine honorary doctorates. Marty is author of more than fifty books, among them Righteous Empire (winner of the National Book Award); the three-volume Modern American Religion; The One and the Many: America’s Search for the Common Good; Places Along the Way; Our Hope for Years to Come; The Promise of Winter; and most recently The Promise of Grace and Martin Luther (part of the “Penguin Lives” series). In addition to books, he has written more than 5,000 articles, essays, papers, chapters, and forewords. He has served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the American Catholic Historical Association. Martin E. Marty will visit the Institute for a week on February 28, 2006. For more information, call the Institute.
SPRING 2005 FELLOWS and SCHOLARS
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN FELLOWS
PETER TURNLEY is a prominent photojournalist, born in Ft. Wayne , IN , and the brother of David Turnley. A former Branigin Lecturer of the Institute (see our January 2005 Newsletter), Peter worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek from 1984 to 2001. His work appeared in such international magazines as Stern, Paris Match, National Geographic, The London Sunday Observer, le Figaro, le Monde, and Double Take. In the past twenty years, Peter has covered most major news events, including world conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Iraq, and the Middle East, as well as 9/11. He has received numerous awards and his photographs have been exhibited world wide. He has published four books – Beijing Spring; Moments of Revolution; In Times of War and Peace (together with David); 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, Peter was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard. He resides in Paris and New York and teaches for the Maine Photographic Workshops.
DAVID TURNLEY is also a prominent photojournalist and a winner of many awards – the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, World Press Picture of the Year, and the Overseas Press Club Robert Capa Gold Medal among them. His photographs, which documented the most dramatic world events of the last twenty years, have been collected in five prestigious volumes. From 1980 to 1998, David worked as a staff photographer for the Detroit Free Press and was based for part of the time in South Africa and Paris. In 1997-98, he studied documentary filmmaking at Harvard on a Neiman Fellowship. His first video, The Dalai Lama: At Home in Exile, produced by CNN, was awarded the 2001 Cine Golden Eagle and nominated for a National Emmy. In addition, he has produced four segments for ABC Nightline and, in 1999, produced, directed, and photographed his first feature-length documentary, La Tropical. David received a B.A. in French Literature from the University of Michigan and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1997, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the New School of Social Research in New York . Currently, he works for Getty Images, Inc.
Peter and David Turnley will visit the Institute (dates TBA) to work on a photojournalistic study of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the mid-1970s to be published by IU Press in the fall of 2008. The publication of the book will be accompanied by an exhibition of the photographs at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. During their visit to the Institute, Peter and David Turnley will present two public lectures, one in Bloomington and the other at IUPU-Fort Wayne. They will also attend classes and meet with faculty and students.
ACADEMIC FELLOWS
SIMI AFONJA, Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, is one of the pioneers of African feminism and of Gender and Women’s Studies in Nigeria. During her three week visit, October 20-November 12, Afonja will collaborate with her primary sponsor, Gracia Clark (gclark@indiana.edu), African Studies Program and Anthropology, IUB, on a project concerning Ghanaian women’s concepts of positive leadership in community-based civil society organizations. She will also consult with colleagues in Sociology, Gender Studies, and Economics at IUB and IUPUI. For more information, contact Professor Clark or the Institute.
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 was a Fellow of the Institute for three weeks in February, collaborating with his primary sponsor, Andrzej Zieminski (zieminsk@indiana.edu), Physics, IUB and colleagues at IUB Physics and the Cyclotron Facility. Geist will return for a week for a follow-up visit in October. For further information, contact Professor Zieminski or the Institute.
MARK GREENGRASS , Professor of Early-Modern History and Executive Director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, U.K., is a distinguished scholar in the history of early-modern Europe – in particular religious pluralism in sixteenth/seventeenth-century France . He also works in the history of ideas in their early-modern social and political context and in the application of information technologies to humanities research. During his two-week stay, September 4-17, he will collaborate with his primary sponsor, Oscar Kenshur (okenshur@indiana.edu), Comparative Literature, IUB, and colleagues in History, English, and Religious Studies. For further information, contact Professor Kenshur or the Institute.
ROBERT JUEPNER, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering in the Department of Water Management and Director of the Institute for Water Management and Ecotechnology at the Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany . His research areas focus on watershed management and ecological restoration of rivers. During his three-week visit to the Institute in September/October 2004, Juepner worked on developing an exchange program between SPEA and Magdeburg University . He also collaborated on a research project with his primary sponsor, Hendrik Haitjema (haitjema@indiana.edu), SPEA, IUB and consulted with colleagues in SPEA, West European Studies, and Geology at IUB and IUPUI. He will return for a follow-up visit for one week on September 14 and will attend a workshop on Sustainable Approaches in Water Management, Urban Planning and Effective and Renewable Energy Use, which will take place at IUPUI on Sept. 16 and 17. For further information, contact Professor Haitjema or the Institute.
LAURENT LEGENDRE, Professor of Biology at the Jean Monnet University in St. Etienne, France, is an internationally acclaimed expert in the physiology and evolutionary biology of butterworts (carnivorous plants of the Americas, Europe, and Asia ). From 2000 to October of 2004, Legendre taught and conducted research at the Centre for Horticulture and Plant Sciences (CHAPS) at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. During his stay with the Institute, July 25–August 12, Legendre collaborated with his primary sponsor, Douglas Darnowski (ddarnows@ius.edu), Biology, IU Southeast on an ongoing research project– the glandular hairs of trigger plants and the effects of soil constituents on the development of Australian carnivorous plants, he also consulted with colleagues in Biology at IUB. For more information, contact Professor Darnowski or the Institute.
MENG XIANGDONG , Senior Physician and Director of the Institute of STD/AIDS Prevention and Control in the Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Changchun, P.R. China, is one of the leading Chinese researchers in AIDS prevention and treatment. He was a Fellow of the Institute for two weeks in February 2005 and will return on September 20 th for two weeks to continue his collaboration with his primary sponsor, Allen Anderson (allander@indiana.edu), SPEA, IUB, and with his IUB colleagues in SPEA and East Asian Studies as well as with his IUK colleagues in the School of Nursing. For further information, contact Professor Anderson or the Institute.
ROBERT POTTER, Professor of Human Geography and Director of The Research School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, U.K., is a scholar whose research areas extend into urban geography and geographies of development, the contemporary Caribbean, and cities and planning in the Developing World. His ongoing and past interests also include global forces and local urban responses, focusing on the development of compound urban regions and the evolution of planning imperatives in the neo-liberal world order. During his three-week visit in March/April of 2006, Potter will work with his primary sponsor, Dennis Conway (conway@indiana.edu), Geography, IUB, and consult with colleagues in Geography, International Studies, the Population Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Latino Studies Program at IUB and IUPUI campuses. For further information, contact Professor Conway or the Institute.
VISITING SCHOLARS
GERALD BALDASTY, Professor and Chair of Communications and Women’s Studies, U. of Washington, Seattle, has returned to the Institute for a month (August/September) to continue his work on media and ideology; specifically, on the way in which the news defined gender roles in the early 1900s.
LARS SKOV HENRIKSEN, Associate Professor of Social Studies and Organization at Aalborg University, Denmark, will spend the fall semester at the Institute, working on his project, ‘The Role of Civil Society in the Nordic Welfare Societies,’ and consulting with IUB colleagues in SPEA.
BARBARA SKINNER, Assistant Professor of History at Indiana State University in Terre Haute (formerly at Adelphi University in New York ), is a recipient of an NEH fellowship for 2005/2006. During her stay at the Institute in the summer and fall semester of 2005, she is working on completing her monograph entitled “Faith and Identity: The Suppression of the Uniate Church in the Russian Empire, 1772-1839.”
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 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. In the spring semester, the subject of discussion was Organizing Knowledges in the Context of Globalization: Knowledge Superstructures. The seminar will meet again this fall. For more information, contact the Institute.
HISTORY OF THE BOOK
THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR, sponsored by the Institute and supported in part by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, begins its seventh year of operation this semester with two sessions in September. The first one will be led by Mark Greengrass (Professor of History, U. of Sheffield, U.K. ) on Monday, September 12. He will speak on Samuel Hartlib and the Technologies of Learning in Seventeenth-Century England. On Monday, September 19, Donald Krummel (Library & Information Science, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will speak on The Bibliography of Babel. Other speakers scheduled so far include: David Nord (Journalism, IUB) will speak on Religious Reading in Early Nineteenth-Century America: Expectations and Experience; Sarah Knott (History, IUB) will speak on American Periodicals of the 1790s; and Jeffrey Galbraith (English, IUB) will speak on Poetical Miscellanies and Partisan Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England—Thomas D'Urphy's Purging of Melancholy, 1710-20. Dates of the later sessions will be announced shortly in a separate flier and will be posted on the Institute website. All sessions will be held on Mondays in the Lilly Library Lounge from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
For more information about the Seminar, contact Peter Lindenbaum (lindenba@indiana.edu), Joel Silver (silverj@indiana.edu), or Paul Gutjahr (pgutjahr@indiana.edu).
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
Fall 2005 Schedule
(All sessions will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m . at the Lilly Library Lounge)
Thursday, September 15
Betsy Rosenberg (Jerusalem) will discuss her career translating such major Hebrew writers as David Grossman, Aharon Appelfeld and Michael Govrin.
Thursday, October 27
Jill Schoolman (Publisher of Archipelago Books, Brooklyn ) will speak on their new venture in publishing translations of major works of fiction from around the world.
Bill Johnston (IUB) will read from his translation of Magdalena Tulli’s “Parts of Speech” (Archipelago Books, 2005).
Thursday, November 17
TBA
Thursday, December 1
Michael Henry Heim (UCLA), the most recent recipient of the Kurt and Helen Wolff Prize for Literary Translation, will talk about translation from multiple languages, based on his own experiences translating novels and plays from Russian, Czech, Hungarian, and German, among others.
For further information, contact Breon Mitchell (mitchell@indiana.edu) or Sumie Jones (joness@indiana.edu).
LIFE WRITING SEMINAR
The LIFE WRITING SEMINAR is an interdisciplinary faculty seminar uniting those interested in any phase of life writing. The seminar will not meet this fall but will resume meetings in the spring of 2006. For further information contact the convener, John Eakin (eakin@indiana.edu).
MODERNIST EXCHANGE
THE MODERNIST EXCHANGE SEMINAR will resume its meetings in the spring of 2006.
2005 IAS GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS
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Geoffrey Conrad (
conrad@indiana.edu), Office of Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculties, IUB (Bryan 104) ex officio;
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Charles Gallmeier (
cgallmei@iun.edu), Sociology, IUN (Sociology, Lindenwood 232);
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lan Sandstrom (
sandstro@ipfw.edu), Anthropology, IUFW (Sociology & Anthropology, KT G11H);
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*Christa Zorn (
czorn@ius.edu), School of Arts & Letters, IU Southeast (KV-200D).
SOCIETY FOR ADVANCED STUDY
The Society’s support makes possible many of our 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 The Herman B Wells Distinguished Lecture honoring the late Chancellor and former president of IU who was long a member and supporter of the Society.
This year’s annual dinner and lecture will be held on Friday, October 14. The Distinguished Lecturer will be Professor Thomas Gieryn, Sociology, IUB who will speak on “Truth-Spots” (some places lend credibility to claims and legitimacy to beliefs. Oedipus went to Delphi to learn his fate. These days, where do we go for truth?) For information about this event and the Society, please contact the Institute.
