2009-2010 Branigin Lecturers, Fellows and Scholars

Branigin Lecturers

Supported by an endowment from the estate of IU-B alumna Gene Lois Porteus Branigin, this series of lectures brings to the Bloomington campus interdisciplinary scholars whose work is provocative and challenging. 

	Jeremy Horder is Professor of Criminal Law at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and Law Commissioner for England and Wales. His research interests include law reform, the historical and philosophical foundations of criminal law, and criminal law theory. Among his scholarly publications are Provocation and Responsibility (OUP 1992), Excusing Crime (OUP, 2004), and over thirty articles. During his visit to the Institute, September 19-26, 2009, he will give a Branigin Lecture, "Law Commissions, Experts and Law Reform: the Case of Homicide," on Wednesday, September 23, at 7 p.m. in the Moot Court Room, Mauer School of Law, IU Bloomington. He will also present a colloquium, "Philosophy and Morality in the Courtroom: Defenses in Criminal Law," on Monday, September 21, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Maurer School of Law's Faculty Conference Room (3rd floor).
	Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History, U. of Edinburgh. His research areas are war crimes trials, international humanitarian law, colonialism and imperialism, the memory of atrocity, postwar reconstruction, and humanitarian intervention. During his visit to the Institute, October 18-25, 2009, he will give a Branigin Lecture, The Final Solution in European Perspective, on Friday, October 23, at 8:00pm in Wylie Hall 005, IU Bloomington.
	Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth are Professors of Biology and Psychology respectively, U. of Pennsylvania. For the past three decades, Cheney and Seyfarth have studied the communication, cognition, emotions, and social behavior of vervet monkeys and baboons in Africa. They pioneered the use of microphones and loudspeakers in the field to record and then play back the communicative signals in monkeys. They are authors of the acclaimed book How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species (1990). During their visit to the Institute, November 3-6, 2009, they will give a Branigin Lecture, The Evolution of Social Cognition, on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Myers Hall 130, IU Bloomington. They will also participate in the IAS-sponsored seminar on empathy.
	Lawrence Buell is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard U., and one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics writing today. His interests include environmental(ist) discourses, issues of cultural nationalism, and comparatist approaches to American literary study including transatlantic and postcolonial models of inquiry. He is an expert on the 19th century, particularly on the antebellum era. Among his books are: Literary Transcendentalism (1973); The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing; Formation of American Culture (1995); Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Beyond (2001); Emerson (2003); and The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005). In 2001 Buell’s Writing for an Endangered World was awarded the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations' Cawelti Prize. Emerson won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism. In 2007, Buell won the Jay Hubbell Award for lifetime contributions to American literary studies. He will visit the Institute April 18-23, 2010 and will lecture on environment and memory (tba).

Visiting Fellows

Itzhak Zilcha, Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University, is a pioneer in developing both of today’s main analytical tools of Macroeconomics and Growth Theory. His research areas also include public economics, international economics, and the economics of information, risk, and insurance. During his visit to the Institute (August 30-September 12), Zilcha will collaborate with his primary sponsor, Michael Kaganovich (mkaganov@indiana.edu), Economics, IUB, on a research project focusing on the medical component of intergenerational transfers, such as Medicare, which provides healthcare services to the old while funded in large part by the payroll taxes of the working population. He will also consult with other colleagues in economics on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. His lecture, Improvement in Information and Private Investment in Education, will be held on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 4:00pm in Wylie Hall 005, IU Bloomington.

Andrzej Rychard, Director of the Center of Social Studies, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, is an internationally recognized scholar for his work on post-communist societies and institutional transformation. During his visit, September 5-18, 2009, Rychard will work with his primary sponsor, Jack Bielasiak (bielasia@indiana.edu), Political Science, IUB on a collaborative research project entitled “Political Exclusion and Economic Inclusion in Contemporary Poland in Comparative Perspective.” He will also consult with colleagues in Political Science, History, Sociology, the Consortium on Democracy, the Russian and East European Institute, and the Polish Studies Center. His lecture, Political, Economic and Civic Participation in Contemporary Poland, will be held on Monday, September 14, 2009 at 4:00pm in the Dogwood, Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington.

Naoko Yamada is a visiting researcher at the Department of Tourism, Conventions, and Event Management in the School of Physical Education and Tourism Management (SPETM), IUPUI. Her research areas includes ecotourism, heritage tourism, environmental communication/interpretation, visitor behavior, and program evaluation. She is currently working on two research projects: “A Cross-National Comparison of Ecotourism Policies of China, Korea, and Japan” and “Quality of Life of Indianapolis Residents.” During her two-week Visiting Fellowship in September of 2009, she will collaborate with her primary sponsor, Jinmoo Heo, SPETM, IUPUI, and several other colleagues in the School.

Paul Sniderman, is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and an acclaimed scholar in the fields of political psychology and American politics. He was a visiting fellow of the Institute in 1993 and again in April of 2009. Sniderman will continue his 2009 fellowship in September (14-19) and resume his collaboration with his primary sponsor, Edward Carmines (carmines@indiana.edu), Political Science, IUB, on their new project, “Reassessing the Role of Race in American Politics.” He will also consult with colleagues in political science and sociology. His lecture, Islamophobia and Liberal Democracies in Western Europe, which will focus on public support for the rights of muslim immigrants in western Europe, will be held on Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4:00pm in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union, IU Bloomington.

Dieter Ebert is Professor and Chair of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in the Zoological Institute, Basel University, Switzerland. He is a prominent biologist doing pioneering work on the evolution of parasites and pathogens and their effects on host populations. During his month-long visit to the Institute in September, he will collaborate with his primary sponsor, Curtis Lively (clively@indiana.edu), Biology, IUB and consult with other colleagues in biology. His lecture, Antagonistic Coevolution, will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 4:00pm in Myers Hall 130, IU Bloomington.

Constance Dinapoli is Assistant Professor at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and a former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. During her two one-week visits to the Institute (October 8-14 and January 10-16) , Professor Dinapoli will work with modern dance faculty and students from the Department of Kinesiology on the staging of two seminal works of Paul Taylor, Aureole and 3 Epitaphs. Both works will be performed in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Drama on January 15 and 16 of 2010. For more information contact Elizabeth Shea (eshea@indiana.edu), Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Coordinator of the Contemporary Dance Program, or the Institute.

Ndalu Almeida (Ondjaki) is an acclaimed Angolan writer and filmmaker who has published numerous novels, shorts stories, poems, and children's books. He has received literary prizes in Angola and Portugal and was recently awarded the Italian Grinzane Cavour prize for Africa in the young writer category in Ethiopia. His work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. In 2006, together with the Angolan filmmaker Kiluanje Liberdade, Ondjaki co-directed a documentary film, “Oxala Cresçam Pitangas” (“Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow”), depicting the diversity of daily life in a finally peaceful Luanda, thirty years after independence. His lecture, Stories from Angola: Ondjaki's Life and Books, will be held on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in Ballantine Hall 310, IU Bloomington. For more information, please contact his primary sponsor, Marissa Moorman (moorman@indiana.edu), History, IUB, or the Institute.

Olga Filippovais Associate Professor of Sociology at Kharkiv National University and a pioneer of socio-cultural anthropology in the Ukraine. Her research interests include post-communist societies (the Ukraine in particular) and post-socialist transformations, globalization, transnationalism, identity, citizenship, social (re)construction, cyber-ethnography, and childhood. She will spend a month at the Institute (October 25-November 24) collaborating on a research project, “Anthropology at the Crossroads: Globalization and Its Discontents in the Post-Soviet City,” with her primary sponsor, Sarah Phillips, Anthropology, IUB. She will also consult with colleagues in Anthropology, the Russian and East European Institute, and History. On Tuesday, November 17, she will lecture on Identity in an Unrecognized State: A Transnistrian Museum as a Public Space of History Representation and Identity Construction at 1:00-2:15 p.m. in the Oak Room, Tree Suites, Indiana Memorial Union. For more information contact her primary sponsor Sarah Phillips (sadphill@indiana.edu), Anthropology, IUB, or the Institute.

Robert Chaudenson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) and a leading specialist in French-based Creole languages throughout in the world. He is also an expert on language-planning issues in developing countries where French is an official language, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of the only thorough lexicological study of A French-based Creole language, Le lexique du parler créole de la Réunion, 2 vol. (1974), a book that has been reviewed in a dozen journals in Europe and North America. In addition, Chaudenson has written twenty books or monographs and 200 articles, as well as edited and contributed to numerous collective volumes in his field. He will visit the Institute November 10-15 to collaborate with his primary sponsor Albert Valdman, Rudy Professor Emeritus of French & Italian and of Linguistics, IUB, and with colleagues in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); the Departments of French & Italian and African Studies; the School of Education; and the Creole Institute. He will also visit several classes and make a plenary presentation at the 2009 Conference of the Haitian Studies Association sponsored by the Creole Institute and CLACS. For more information, contact Albert Valdman (valdman@indiana.edu) or the Institute.

Residential Fellows

Sumie Jones, Professor Emerita of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Communication & Culture, IUB, will spend the academic year 2009/2010 at the Institute completing a three-volume anthology of Early Modern Japanese Literature: Research and Translation; the project she began five years ago with support from the NEH and the Toshiba International Foundation.

William Schuerman, Professor of Political Science, IUB, will spend his 2009/2010 sabbatical year at the Institute working on his new book on Radicalism, Religion, and the Roots of Realism.

Sarah Knott, Assistant Professor of History, IUB, will be on research leave in the spring of 2010 working at the Institute on completing her second book, Witnessing American revolution: America, France, Haiti.