Monday, March 5, 12:15-1:30 PM, Ballantine 004

Maria Bucur, “Women Empowered? Reflections on Women’s Conception of Autonomy in Communist Romania.”

2012 Bill and Frances Julian Program for Inter- and Intra Faith Understanding

A PANEL DISCUSSION
Who Are The (Real) Chosen People?
The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Monday, March 5, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union

A panel discussion featuring Professor Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism & Islam at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. He received his rabbinic ordination from HUC-JIR in 1982. IU panel participants include Professors Constance Furey, Kevin Jaques, and Shaul Magid.

This event is free and open to the public. If you have a disability and need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.

Please contact the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at 812-855-0453 or iujsp@indiana.edu

“The Darwin Economy”

The Indiana University Department of History invites you attend the 24th annual Paul V. McNutt lecture featuring distinguished author, professor and speaker, Dr. Robert H. Frank.
TIME: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 / 7:30pm
PLACE: Indiana Memorial Union
University Club Presidents’ Room

Questions?
email: blaharve@indiana.edu or call 812-855-3236.

If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-3236.

The annual McNutt Lecture honors Paul V. McNutt, who was dean of the Indiana University School of Law from 1925 to 1933, then became Indiana’s governor and later served as U.S. high commissioner to the Philippines, director of the Federal Security Agency and chairman of the War Manpower Commission during World War II.

Robert Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University and a monthly contributor to the “Economic Scene” column in The New York Times. He has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, and Professor of American Civilization at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In addition to his most recent book, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, Frank’s works include Passions within Reason, Luxury Fever, and What Price the Moral High Ground? His 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Frank holds a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley.

HGSA POTLUCK DINNER

Date:  Friday, August 27 (i.e., THIS Friday)
When:  5:30 PM – 8ish PM
Where:  Bridgewater Lounge in the Neal-Marshall Center

What:  Please join us for the Nth annual HGSA beginning-of-the-new-year, first-year-welcome, kick-off, no-holds-barred (Fn1) Potluck dinner on Friday, which will be held in the Bridgewater Lounge in the Neal-Marshall Center on campus.  The Center is located at 275 North Jordan Avenue – essentially on the southwest corner of the Jordan/7^th Street intersection.  For those arriving by car, there will not be valet service this year (budget cuts are hitting us all very hard), but convenient parking can be found in the Jordan Avenue parking garage, just south of, and across the street from, the Center.  While rumor has it that permit parking is not being enforced strictly before Monday, the Jordan Avenue garage is always free on the weekends, starting at 5:00 PM on Friday.

New students:  No need for you to bring anything; this one is on us.

Returning students:  Please bring a culinary treat to share with the rest of the HGSA.  Plates, utensils, cups, etc. will be provided.  Apparently there is a kitchenette for anyone who needs to warm a dish or plug in a crockpot.  Be creative (but safe)!

Fn1:       Unfortunately, we cannot serve alcohol at the event.  Sorry.

AFTER PARTY

When:  Immediately following the Dinner
Where:  The Vid (105 West 7^th Street)

What:  Also keeping with tradition, the party will migrate to the Vid following dinner.  Returning students surely know where it is by now, but for new students, the entrance is on Walnut (even though the address is 7^th street), just north of Brothers’, which is a slightly more ostentatious venue.  When you go through the unmarked door and up the narrow stairway, you will in fact be in the right place.  (Bad music would be another giveaway, but to each their own.)  For those driving, street and paid-garage parking are the rule here.  I personally have never paid to park in a Bloomington city parking garage – a few minutes of looking usually results in finding an open spot on the street.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email your friendly HGSA social coordinators, Mary Werden (mwerden@indiana.edu) and/or me, Scott Reynolds (screynol@indiana.edu).

Mentor and Mentee Luncheon: Monday, August 23. Invitations will be sent directly to HGSA mentors.

HGSA General Meeting & Field Lunches: Wednesday, August 25, 10:00 am, Ballantine Hall 204. Professor Watts, our Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), will join us at 11:15 for a Q&A session. Field lunches will follow shortly thereafter.

HGSA Potluck and Happy Hour: Friday, August 27, 5:30 pm. Join us for a potluck in the Bridgewater Lounge at the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center (275 N. Jordan Avenue). We’ll probably adjourn for drinks afterward at The Vid (The Video Saloon) or Nick’s.

DGS-hosted Mentor and Mentee Reception: Sunday, August 29, 3-6 pm, at the home of Professor Watts. Invitations will be sent directly to HGSA mentors.

Mentor and Mentee Luncheon: Monday, August 24, 12:15 pm, BH004. Invitations will be sent directly to HGSA mentors.

HGSA General Meeting & Field Lunches: Wednesday, August 26, 10:30 am, History House. Professor Watts, our new Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), will join us at 11:15 for a Q&A session.

HGSA Potluck and Happy Hour: 5:30 potluck at History House followed by an HGSA happy hour at 7:30 at The Video Saloon.

DGS-hosted Mentor and Mentee Reception: Sunday, August 30, 3-6 pm, home of Professor Watts. Invitations will be sent directly to HGSA mentors.

The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University is the official group representing graduate students in the IU History Department. The HGSA consults with faculty regarding issues of importance to IU students, organizes social events throughout the year, and sponsors the yearly Paul Lucas Conference in History.

We encourage you to browse our website using the links above. Don’t miss our calendar of HGSA and history-related events at IU on the right side of your screen. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at histgrad@indiana.edu.

The 2008 year has officially begun, and with it come a crop of new faces, new officers, and new features. Some of these features require forum registration (for HGSA members only).

Sept. 2008 Primary Source Contents

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