September 2006 Newsletter
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Message from the Director
Branigin Lecturers
Fall 2006 Fellows and Scholars - Academic, and Visiting
IAS Seminars -History of the Book, and Translation
Society for Advanced Study
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
The line-up of Fellows, Visiting Scholars, and Branigin Lecturers this fall promises once again to be a very international affair with visitors coming from Germany, Australia, Taiwan, and Spain. The Institute is pleased to play a role in enabling our faculty to interact and collaborate in an interdisciplinary way with scholars from such wide-ranging locations. We plan to continue our experiment with making some of our activities more thematic. Last year we embarked upon the two themes of Chaos and Solitude. The Chaos theme enabled the Institute to play a facilitating role not only with faculty research and scholarship but as a way of launching a new center on campus dedicated to issues involving democracy in states previously torn by ethnic conflict and violence (The Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, www.indiana.edu/~ccdps). Last year’s workshop participants, who came from Burma, Liberia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, focused their work on Burma; this year’s workshop in October will focus on Liberia. As a spin-off of these workshops, we plan to organize in the coming weeks a new Institute seminar dedicated to democracy issues. The Solitude theme, which we are pursuing jointly with the College Arts and Humanities Institute, gets underway this semester with a visit from the poet Robert Pinsky. The goal of this thematic set of presentations is to produce a book dealing in an interdisciplinary way with issues of solitude.
We are excited about welcoming screenwriter and film producer Angelo Pizzo as a Branigin Lecturer this October (see Branign Lecturers section). Also in October, we look forward to the return of Justice Michael Kirby to our campus. Justice Kirby was our Branigin Lecturer in 2004.
As always, we appreciate your comments and suggestions regarding both future themes we might explore and, of course, research fellows we should invite to our campus. I hope I have a chance to see you at our public lectures and events this semester. We encourage you to visit our web site for up-to-date information about our scholars and activities.
Alfred C. Aman, Jr.
Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law and Director, IAS
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.
ANGELO PIZZO will be a Branigin Lecturer October 10-13, 2006. His lecture, Running the Gauntlet: from the Movie in My Mind to the Movie on the Screen, will be held on Tuesday, October 10, at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium (015). A separate lecture announcement will be circulated at a later date.
Angelo Pizzo is an accomplished screenwriter and film producer. The son of a Sicilian immigrant, he grew up in Bloomington, where he graduated from Indiana University in 1971 with a B.A. in Political Science. He then attended film school at the University of Southern California. After beginning his career at Warner Brothers Television, he moved to Time Life Films where he eventually became vice president for feature film production. His biggest success came in 1987 with the film Hoosiers (nominated for two Academy Awards), which he wrote and co-produced. The film is now in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry and has been declared by ESPN and USA Today the best sports film of all time. In 1993, Pizzo wrote and co-produced another successful film, Rudy. Both films were directed by his college roommate and close friend, David Anspaugh. Pizzo and Anspaugh also collaborated on their third film, The Game of Their Lives, released theatrically in 2005.
After thirty years in Southern California, Pizzo—who is also an avid reader and book collector—moved back to Bloomington, where he is pursuing new film projects and, along with his wife Greta, raising two young sons. In addition to working on films, he serves on boards of the Heartland Film Festival and the New Harmony Writers' Project. He also served on the former Indiana Film Commission.
Pizzo received an honorary doctorate from Franklin College and was its commencement speaker in 2002. He has been the recipient of the Thomas Hart Benton Award as a Distinguished Indiana University Alumnus and of the Governor's Arts Award for contributions to the arts. He was also named a Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest civilian honor given to a resident of Indiana.
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JUSTICE MICHAEL KIRBY, a Branigin Lecturer in 2004 and a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute, will return for another visit this October 15-18, 2006. His lecture on Alfred Kinsey and His Continuing Impact on the Human Rights of Sexual Minorities will be held at noon on Tuesday, October 17, in the Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union, IUB.
Justice Kirby received his Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Law degrees from the University of Sydney. From 1983 to 1984, he was a judge in the Federal Court of Australia and the youngest person ever appointed as a Federal Judge. He was then appointed President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the highest court in that state's legal system. In February of 1996, he was appointed to the High Court of Australia and has served on it ever since. He received Australia’s highest honor in 1991, when he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). He is also a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).
In the 1990s, Justice Kirby acted as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Human Rights in Cambodia and served on many other UN bodies. Justice Kirby is currently a member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Organisation, and the Global Panel on Human Rights of UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS). He was among the founders of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, an organization which played a prominent part in the ‘No Republic’ campaign during the lead-up to Australia’s 1999 republic referendum. Earlier this year, Justice Kirby received the 2006 NSW (New South Wales) Australian of the Year Award. He is recognized as an exceptionally eloquent and compelling speaker.
FALL 2006 FELLOWS and SCHOLARS
ACADEMIC FELLOWS
JENS SÜDEKUM, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany. His research interests center on international trade, economic geography, public sector economics, and labor economics. During his stay with the Institute, September 12-26, Südekum will collaborate with his sponsor, Gerhard Glomm, Economics, IUB, on a research project entitled ‘Cohesion Policies of the European Union’ and will consult with colleagues in Economics, Geography, West European Studies, and the School of Business at IUB and IUPUI. For further information, contact Gerhard Glomm (Gglomm@indiana.edu) or the Institute (812-855-3658).
ROBERT POTTER is Professor of Human Geography and Director of Research in the School of
Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, U.K. His current funded research is examining the
social dynamics of second generation West Indian migration and aspects of urban water provision and use in
the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Development
Studies and a member of the International Editorial Boards of the Third World Quarterly, Journal of Eastern
Caribbean Studies and Blackwell Geography Compass (a new online journal). His recently published books include:
Geographies of Development, Second Edition (with Binns, Elliott and Smith) 2004; The Contemporary Caribbean
(with Barker, Conway and Klak) 2004, (both Pearson-Prentice Hall); The Experience of Return Migration: Caribbean
Perspectives (with Conway and Phillips) 2005, Ashgate; The Companion to Development Studies (with Desai) 2002
(Hodder-Arnold and Oxford University Press); and Doing Development Research, 2006 (with Desai) (Sage Publishers).
Potter was a fellow of the Institute in March/April 2006 and will return for a follow-up visit for one week this November
to collaborate on research articles with his sponsor, Dennis Conway, Geography, IUB
(Conway@indiana.edu).
VISITING SCHOLARS
Summer 2006
ANDRÉS BETANCOR, Professor of Administrative Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He returned to the Institute this summer to continue his work on the American administrative law system and on regulatory agencies in particular (e.g., the Enron case).
Fall 2006
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 will spend this fall and January of 2007 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, spent the summer 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). She will continue her stay in the fall, 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.
JANET SORENSEN, Associate Professor of English, IUB, is spending her 2006 sabbatical year at the Institute working on a book entitled "Vulgar Tongues: Revaluing the Language of the Particular in Eighteenth-Century British Writing." Her work in the fall comprises a chapter on the language of British sailors, especially as represented in William Falconer's once highly-popular poem, “The Shipwreck.”
MEG WESLING, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California San Diego, is recipient of a Faculty Career Development Grant and will spend her fall and early spring semesters at the Institute working on her book, Educated Subjects: The Pedagogy of Empire in U.S. Literature.
IAS SEMINARS
THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR
THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK SEMINAR continues this fall, in its eighth year, with talks on Fernandez de Oviedo, Europe's First Chronicler of America, by Kathleen Myers (Spanish and Portuguese, IUB); on Writing the French Nation in the Age of Richelieu, by Robert Schneider (History, IUB); and on Stud Books of Late 18th-Century England, by Richard Nash (English, IUB). Off-campus speakers scheduled for the fall are Nicholson Baker, author of Double Fold and essays on library matters in The Size of Thoughts, who will present material from a new book, and Timothy Raylor (English, Carleton College) who will be talking on the text of Hobbes's Leviathan.
A separate announcement will be distributed later in the semester when the precise schedule has been established. It will also be posted on the Institute website. For more information about the Seminar, contact Peter Lindenbaum (lindenba@indiana.edu) or Joel Silver
(silverj@indiana.edu).
TRANSLATION SEMINAR
(All sessions will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Lilly Library Lounge)
Thursday, October 12
William Jay Smith (Cummington, Mass.) will read from his translations and his own poetry, which have existed in creative symbiosis throughout his distinguished career. Smith was born in 1918 in Winnfield, Louisiana. He studied at Washington University, Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (the position now known as the U.S. Poet Laureate) from 1968 until 1970. He has been a member of The Academy of Arts and Letters since 1975 and is its former vice-president for literature. Smith, noted for his translations, has won awards from the French Academy, the Swedish Academy, and the Hungarian government. He has written ten collections of poetry, including his most recent collection, The Cherokee Lottery (Curbstone Press, 2000). Two of his collections were nominated for the National Book Award.
Tuesday, October 24
Suzanne Jill Levine (UC Santa Barbara): Traces of Translation in the Archive. Levine is a translator and professor of Latin American literature and translation studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Her published translations, beginning in 1970, include the works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Three Trapped Tigers, View of Dawn in the Tropics, Infante’s Inferno); Manuel Puig (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, The Buenos Aires Affair, Tropical Night Falling); Severo Sarduy (From Cuba with a Song, Cobra, Maitreya); Adolfo Bioy Casares (Plan for Escape, Asleep in the Sun, Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata); Jose Donoso; Julio Cortazar; Carlos Fuentes; Jorge Luis Borges and many other important Latin American writers.
Thursday, November 9
TBA
Thursday, November 30
Cola Franzen (Cambridge, Mass.): Translating at the Edges. 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 Argentinian-born writer Alicia Borinksy. Other authors whose work she translates regularly include Saúl Yurkievich (Argentinian), 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, December 14
TBA
For further information, contact:
Breon Mitchell (mitchell@indiana.edu)
Sumie Jones (joness@indiana.edu)
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, a longtime member and supporter of the Society. This year’s Distinguished Lecture will be given by Professor James H. Madison, the Thomas Milton Miller and Kathryn Owens Miller Professor of History at IUB, who will speak on What We’ve Learned about World War II. The annual meeting, dinner, and lecture will be held on Friday, September 29. For more information about this event, the Society and its activities, please check our website or call 812-855-3658.
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