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February 2006 Newsletter

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Branigin Lecturers
Spring 2005 Fellows and Scholars - Academic, Distinguished, and Visiting
IAS Seminars - Global, History of the Book, and Translation
Governing Board
Society for Advanced Study

UPDATE

The 2005 fall semester was an exciting and productive time for the Institute.  We hosted several international fellows and scholars from Germany, France, England, China, Nigeria, and Denmark.  We also welcomed our former Branigin Lecturer, photojournalist Peter Turnley, who visited us this time as a Distinguished Citizen Fellow.  Peter is now working on a book of the early photographs which he and his brother, David Turnley, took while growing up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  The book will be published by the IU Press in 2007.  David Turnley will visit the Institute as a Branigin Lecturer in April and Peter will accompany him to finish the book.  During his November visit at IUB, Peter Turnley presented a wonderful lecture, Photography—Visual Story Telling and Visual Authorship: An Exploration of the Photo-Essay.  He also spent three days at IPFW, where he gave two lectures and a presentation in his old high school. 

In late November, the Institute hosted another Branigin Lecturer, John Crowley, an acclaimed novelist and documentary film writer and producer.  During his week on campus, John lectured on Practicing the Arts of Peace and interacted with numerous faculty members and students (his lecture is now available on our website). 

In the spring semester, the Institute will host two Branigin Lecturers:  Martin E. Marty, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious History at the University of Chicago; and David Turnley , a prominent Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist.  Several new nominations are still in the works.

Two of our seminars, History of the Book and Translation, will continue to meet this spring.  We also hope to resume the activities of the Global Seminar as well as to launch a new seminar on the subject of Chaos and Solitude.  The Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, located in the IUB School of Law, will organize its second international workshop on constitutional reforms in failing or failed states this coming summer. The Institute will again underwrite the project by providing finances for its participants. 

We hope you will join us for all our events.

 

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.

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 the 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 27, 2006. His lecture, The Hard Line and All the Other Lines in Religion: Globally and Domestically will be held on Tuesday, February 28, at 7 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 120. For more information, call the Institute.

DAVID TURNLEY is 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. He will visit the Institute in late April (the date will be announced later).

 

SPRING 2005 FELLOWS and SCHOLARS

ACADEMIC FELLOWS

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. 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. Professor Jennings already spent three weeks at the Institute in March/April of 2005 and will return for a week to continue his work on Tocqueville's letters. For further information, contact his primary sponsor, Aurelian Craiutu (acraiutu@indiana.edu) or the Institute (855-3658).

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 (812/855-1513).

 

DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN FELLOWS

JOACHIM KRAUSE is Professor of International Relations at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany and Director of the Institute for Security Policy. His primary research expertise lies in the fields of national security and international affairs.  He received his degrees in Political Science and Law from the University of Hamburg (M.A.), Free University in Berlin (Ph.D.), and Bonn University (venia legendi/habilitation).  He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Research Institute of the German Society of Foreign Affairs and of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the world's most important think tank dealing with security affairs.  Between 1993 and 2001, Krause was Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the German Society of Foreign Relations, which moved from Bonn to Berlin after German unification.  In 1986-87 he was Resident Fellow at the Institute for East-West-Security Studies in New York, in 1988-89 a member of the German delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, and in 1991 consultant to a United Nations Special Commission.  In 2002-2003, he held the Steven Muller Chair of German Studies at the Bologna Center of the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Joachim Krause will be a Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute from February 1 to 25, 2006. His lecture, Europe and the United States:  A German Perspective, will be held on Wednesday, February 15, at noon in the Moot Court, IUB School of Law .

PETER TURNLEY is a prominent photojournalist, born in Ft. Wayne, IN, and the brother of David Turnley. A former Branigin Lecturer and Distinguished Citizen Fellow of the Institute (see our 2005 Newsletters), 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. The date of Peter's visit will be announced later.

 

VISITING SCHOLARS

JANET SORENSEN, English, IUB. During her 2006 sabbatical year, Professor Sorensen will be working on an article and several book chapters, all having to do with the idea of British, English and Scottish national popular cultures constructed in ballad collections, representations of provincial languages, and naval dictionaries and songs.

 

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.  For more information, contact the Institute.

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, will resume its activities later this semester. Its schedule will be announced separately and will also be posted on the IAS web site. 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

Spring 2006
(All sessions will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m . at the Lilly Library Lounge )

Tuesday, April 4

Charles Fox , Faculty of Letters ( Ritsumeikan University , Kyoto ) – Translating 18 th -Century Comic Fiction from Japan .

Thursday, April 27

Suzanne Jill Levine , Professor of Latin American Literature and Translation Studies (UC Santa Barbara ) – Traces of Translation in the Archive.

Thursday, May 11

Rob Wechsler , former lawyer, currently government advocate ( New Haven , CT ) – Skirting the Outskirts of Literature.

Thursday, May 25

Ronald Christ , Professor Emeritus of Rutgers University, former Director of the Literature Program, and Editor of Review at the Center for Inter-American Relations (Santa Fe, NM) – The Translator as Editor .

Thursday, June 8

Ernest Bernhardt , Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature (IUB) – Paronomastics and Intertextuals: What to do with Puns, Allusions, and Quotations.

 

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

 

 

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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