Branigin Lecturers

The Media and American Politics
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Thomas B. Edsall is the political editor of the Huffington Post and Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. From 1981 to 2006, he was a political reporter at the Washington Post where he covered national politics, including presidential elections, the House and Senate, lobbying, tax policy, demographic trends, social welfare, the politics of race and ethnicity, and organized labor. Prior to his work at the Washington Post, Edsall reported for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal. He has contributed television and radio commentary to CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, FOX, and NPR. He is the author of Chain Reaction and Building Red America and has written extensively for magazines, including American Prospect, The Atlantic Monthly, Civilization, Dissent, Harper's, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and Washington Monthly.

Partnership with Nature: Women and the Environment
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Carolyn Merchant is Chancellor’s Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley. She is a prominent scholar whose work focuses on American environmental and cultural history in the overall context of Western history, philosophy, and the history of science. Among her most influential books are her groundbreaking monograph, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980); The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (2002; 2nd ed. 2007); and Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003). The author of numerous articles on the history of science, environmental history, and women and the environment, Merchant has been awarded multiple NEH and NSF grants as well as Guggenheim and McArthur fellowships.

In Praise of Overreading
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COLIN J. DAVIS is Professor of French at the School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. His principal research focuses on twentieth-century French literature, thought, and film.

Torture, Democracy, and Our Future
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DARIUS REJALI is Professor of Political Science at Reed College and an internationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation. His recent book, Torture and Democracy (Princeton, 2007), is a trenchant account of the use of torture by democracies in the 20th century and has won the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association.

The Bush Legacy and the 2008 Elections
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GARY C. JACOBSON is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego whose research areas encompass congressional elections, American politics, and American political parties. Among his books are: Politics of Congressional Elections; A Divider, Not a Uniter: George W. Bush and the American People; and Money in Congressional Elections.

The Shape of the Campaign: Composition and Dynamics in the 2008 Election
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CHARLES H. FRANKLIN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies statistical methods, elections and public opinion. His articles on partisanship, public opinion, the Supreme Court, and U.S. Senate elections have appeared in major journals. His current work focuses on Bayesian (probabilistic) models of election campaigns and polling data.

The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents
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ROBERT DALLEK is a prominent historian specializing in the study of American presidents and U.S. diplomacy. He is a former Professor of History at Boston University, Columbia, UCLA, Oxford, Dartmouth, and Stanford. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1980 and many other awards for his scholarship and teaching. Among his numerous books are acclaimed biographies of Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and, most recently, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (2007).

McClellan Street
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PETER TURNLEY is a world-renowned photojournalist who for the past twenty years has worked in more than eighty-five countries and has documented nearly every major international news event. He has photographed the aftermath of 9/11 as well as conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Iraq, and the Middle East .

In the late 1970s, Turnley worked as assistant to the French photographer Robert Doisneau. Turnley's work-inspired by photographers such as Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, and Josef Koudelka-has been exhibited worldwide. He has received numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad as well as awards and citations from World Press Photo and from the Pictures of the Year competition of the University of Missouri .  

From 1984 to 2001, Turnley worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. His photographs have appeared on its cover forty three times. Over the years, his work has also been featured in numerous national and international publications, including LIFE, Stern, Paris Match, National Geographic, The London Sunday Observer, Geo, Le Figaro, Le Monde, VSD , and Double Take .

Since completing a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard in 2000-2001, Turnley has been a contributing editor for Harper's magazine, publishing an eight-page photo-essay every three months. He teaches two workshops a year for the Maine Photographic Workshops and a workshop in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival. In addition to the Neiman Fellowship, he has received honorary doctorates from the School of Social Research in New York and from Saint Francis College in Indiana . He has published five books: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan Street . Turnley lives in New York and Paris.

The Nature and Importance of Business Ethics: How Can A Research University Help Improve Ethics?
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WALLACE BAKER is an international partner in the Baker & McKenzie Law firm which has seventy offices in thirty eight countries. He lives in Paris and is member of the Paris and Illinois Bars (LLB from Harvard Law School, 1949-1952). He holds Doctor of Laws, University of Brussels, 1959-1961 and Licence en Droit, University of Paris, 1970-1972. Baker is currently engaged in research for and advice to companies in risk management relating to the rapidly developing field of corporate responsibility (the triple-bottom-line). Since 1990 he has also been active at MIT in creating and developing the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD – http://gssd.mit.edu/), a knowledge meta-networking system to generate and communicate the best information related to achieving sustainable social and economic development. He has written on subjects such as corporate social responsibility, business ethics, the GSSD, the Kyoto Protocol, and emissions trading. He served as Chairman of a UNESCO symposium in December 1998 on Business Ethics. More recently, he has been involved in studies on how UNESCO can work with companies in order to fulfill its mission of education for all and promotion of ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility including protecting the environment.

Wallace Baker discussed the origins of ethics and examined various ethical questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The central inquiry of his paper is whether it makes a difference if businesses in a community act ethically. He raised a number of questions: Do ethics vary in time and in different cultures? Does ethical conduct pay? What is the relation of ethics to justice? How can a research university improve business ethics?

Anti-Americanisms in World Politics
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PETER KATEZENSTEIN is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research area encompasses the fields of international relations and comparative politics (political economy, security and culture in both Europe and Asia, with specific concentrations on Germany and Japan). His current work focuses on the role of anti-Americanism, religion and popular culture, and regionalism in world politics, as well as changes in German politics. In 1987 Katzenstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science. He has held numerous visiting fellowships and serves on the editorial boards and academic advisory boards of several journals and organizations both in the United States and abroad. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than twenty books and has written over eighty papers and book chapters. Among his recent books are: Anti-Americanism in World Politics, coedited with Robert O. Keohane and in preparation for Cornell University Press (2006); Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge University Press, (2006), coedited with Timothy A. Byrnes; Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi; A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Cornell University Press, 2005); and Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency (Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2005 Katzenstein was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching. Peter Katzenstein will be at the Institute April 1-5, 2007.

Anti-Americanisms are politically significant even when their consequences may not be readily apparent in the short-term. They are rooted in the multiple modernities of a global civilization as well as in the polyvalent character of the United States

Alfred Kinsey and His Continuing Impact on the Human Rights of Sexual Minorities
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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 13-16, 2006.  His lecture on Alfred Kinsey and His Continuing Impact on the Human Rights of Sexual Minorities will be held at 2:00 pm on Saturday, October 14th, in State Room East, 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 ‘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.

Running the Gauntlet: From the Movie in My Mind to the Movie on the Screen
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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.

Lecture Outline - The Hardline and All Other Lines in Religion: Globally and Domestically (text)

The Hardline and All Other Lines in Religion: Globally and Domestically (view in RealPlayer)

Around the world, contrary to Enlightenment-era expectations that religion would disappear or that surviving religions would be soft-line, reasonable, and tolerant, religion is back in full force. And much of the energy is along the "hard line" in all the religions. This lecture will include report on the trends, attempts to account for them, and some envisionings of strategies for the future.

Practicing the Arts of Peace (text only)

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 198, his fantasy novel, Little, Big, won the World Fantasy Award and earned him a fast-growing circle of fans (Harold Bloom and Ursula LeGuin among them). Among his other works of fiction are: Three Novels, AEgypt, Great Work of Time (which won another World Fantasy Award), Love and Sleep, The Translator, and, most recently Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land.

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. He was a Branigin Lecturer November 29-December 3, 2005.

Moments of the Human Condition: A Visual Tour of World Affairs and the Family of Man during the Past Twenty Five Years (view in RealPlayer)

PETER TURNLEY is a world-renowned photojournalist who for the past twenty years has worked in more than eighty-five countries and has documented nearly every major international news event. He has photographed the aftermath of 9/11 as well as conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Iraq, and the Middle East .

In the late 1970s, Turnley worked as assistant to the French photographer Robert Doisneau. Turnley's work-inspired by photographers such as Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, and Josef Koudelka-has been exhibited worldwide. He has received numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad as well as awards and citations from World Press Photo and from the Pictures of the Year competition of the University of Missouri .  

From 1984 to 2001, Turnley worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. His photographs have appeared on its cover forty three times. Over the years, his work has also been featured in numerous national and international publications, including LIFE, Stern, Paris Match, National Geographic, The London Sunday Observer, Geo, Le Figaro, Le Monde, VSD , and Double Take .

Since completing a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard in 2000-2001, Turnley has been a contributing editor for Harper's magazine, publishing an eight-page photo-essay every three months. He teaches two workshops a year for the Maine Photographic Workshops and a workshop in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnival. In addition to the Neiman Fellowship, he has received honorary doctorates from the School of Social Research in New York and from Saint Francis College in Indiana . He has published four books: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, and Parisians . Turnley lives in New York and Paris.

Interviews with Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley's Interview on WTIU's Weekly Special (Jan. 18th 2007)
Interview with Peter Turnley published in IU Home Pages (April 8th, 2005)

Creative to the End: Staging Aging (view in RealPlayer)

Linda Hutcheon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and a renowned literary and cultural critic best known for her extensive writings on postmodern theory and feminism. Her research interests also extend into art, architecture, and modern philosophy. Michael Hutcheon is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Together, they have co-written three books on opera (Opera: Desire, Disease, Death , 1999; Bodily Charm: Living Opera , 2000; Opera: The Art of Dying , 2004). By combining literary and scientific discussions, they engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of operatic languages and metaphors from historical and cultural points of view. They probe such subjects as disease, death and the art of dying, desire, and representations of the operatic body both on stage and among audiences.

The Origin of Brown (listen with RealPlayer)

Judge Robert L. Carter was hired as an assistant to NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall in 1952 and stayed on as lawyer for the NAACP for twenty four years. During that time he argued twenty two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, twenty one of which he won. He also successfully argued such famous cases as Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and in NAACP b. Alabama in 1958. In 1972, Judge Carter was appointed a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southen District of New York; in 1986, he assumed senior status. He has held adjunct faculty positions at University of Michigan, NYU, Yale, and was Regents Lecturer at UCLA. He has been a strong advocate of equal rights and has served on the boards of a wide variety of social organizations - among them the Northside Center for Child Development, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, and Amercian Civil Liberties Union. In 2004, he was awarded the Springarn Medal, the NAACP's highest honor designed to highlight distinguished merit and achievement among African Americans.

Terrorism: Global Response of the Courts (view in Windows MediaPlayer)

Justice Michael Kirby has served on the High Court of Australia since 1996 and has been a judge since 1975, serving on the Federal Court of Australia and as President of the Courts of Appeal of New South Wales and the Solomon Islands. In the 1990s, he served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Human Rights in Cambodia and 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).

Leaves of Grass (view in RealPlayer)

Fred Hersch is a world renowned jazz pianist, composer, and educator living New York City who has received many prestigious awards and grants, including a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. He has released over twenty albums as a solo artist or bandleader, two of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. His collaborators include such star performers as Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Toots Thielemans, Charlie Haden, Dawn Upshaw, Bill T. Jones, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jeffrey Kahane, Art Farmer, and Renee Fleming. He has recorded over fifty of his compositions for such labels as BMG, Nonesuch, Harmonia, Mundi, Palmetto, Concord Jazz, Enja, and Chesky. Leaves of Grass premiered in April of 2003 with Kurt Elling and Norma Winstone (voice).

Additionally, follow this link to the National Public Radio website to hear the audio recording of Hersch's Leaves of Grass performed at Carnegie Hall .

The Media Torrent and the Erosion of Democracy

Todd Gitlin, Professor of Sociology & Journalism at Columbia University, is a public intellectual and author of numerous books,  including The Twilight of Common Dreams and The Sixties: Years of Hope and Days of Rage.  He is former president of the Students for a Democratic Society, has taught at Berkeley and NYU, and is North America's Editor of Open Democracy. He writes regularly for DISSENT and a variety of general journals of opinion. Gitlin was a Branigin Lecturer with the Institute from November 4 through 8, 2002. (Unfortunately, due to problems with audiotaping, Todd Gitlin's lecture, The Media Torrent and the Erosion of Democracy, scheduled for Wednesday, November 6, was not taped.  Instead, we taped :
A Conversation With Todd Gitlin , which took place on Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 8 pm in IUB University Club.)

Darwin and Design: From Natural Theology to Applied Biology

Robert T. Pennock, Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Science and Technology Studies at Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University.  Pennock's book, Tower of Babel:  The Evidence against the New Creationism (MIT, 2000) offers a philosopher of science's full-length discussion, explanation, and cogent refutation of the perspective espoused by creationism, creation-science, or what is sometimes referred to as intelligent-design theory.  Based on considerable contact with some of the primary proponents of creationism, Pennock, finally, distinguishes between public scientific knowledge and private religious beliefs:  "Science is neither God nor devil, but profoundly human.  It is not infallible.  It cannot answer every question.  It reveals nothing of possible supernatural realms.  It is simply the best method that we evolved, natural creatures have yet discovered for finding our way around this natural world" (377).

"Seeing the Disabled: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography"

Rosemarie Garland Thomson combines feminist theory and American Studies to offer a humanistic critique of what she identifies as the "extraordinary" body, the body that differs from the culturally constructed norm or normate.  Her 1997 book-Extraordinary Bodies:  Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature--explores, among other things, the enormous popular appeal of the "freak" show in the United States between l840 and l940 when the "freak" became medicalized, privatized, and pathologized.  Of the  "shows" in general, she suggests, "These collective cultural rituals provided dilemmas of classification and definition upon which the throng of spectators could hone the skills needed to tame world and self in the ambitious project of American self-making" (59).  She has become a leading figure in the development of  Disability Studies in the Humanities.

"The Last Time Tere Danced a Rumba..."

Ruth Behar is an Anthropology Professor from the University of Michigan. Behar has received a number of awards including a MacArthur grant; has written extensively on Latina/o culture and experience (including that of her own family - a Jewish Cuban family), and has published a number of poems.

"Poetry and Police in Eighteenth Century Paris"

Robert Darnton is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History and Director of the Program in European Studies at Princeton University. Author of the books on the Enlightenment and 18th century France, recipient of numerous awards including Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, Darnton was President of the American Historical Association in 1999, the same year he was named Chevalier, French Legion of Honor.

"Geographical Knowledges/Political Powers"

David Harvey is currently Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Senior Research Fellow, St. Peter's College, Oxford; Miliband Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics.  Among his research interests are geography and social theory; urban political economy and urbanization in advanced capitalist countries; architecture and urban planning; environmental philosophies; ecological movements; geographies of difference; utopianism.

Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy

Chantal Mouffe was a Quintin Hogg Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Westminster (London). A political theorist, she has written commentaries on contempary liberal political philosophy, offered critiques of the works of various theorists (Rorty, Derrida), and produced new strategies for thinking through the dilemmas of radical politics in the postmodern era. Mouffe is best known for Gramsci and Marxist Theory, Hegemony, and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau) and The Return of the Political.

Psychoanalysis between Judiasm and Christianity

Professor Slovaj Zizek has focused his academic attention on psychoanalytical, philosophical, and cultural criticism; widely published in a variety of languages, his The Sublime Object of Ideology has been particularly influential. Politically active in the alternative movement in Slovenia during the 1980s, Zizek was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in the first multi-party elections in 1990.

"The Stage and the Page..."

Roger Chartier was the Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University. He has served as visiting professor at a number of universities and has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. His historical works have been widely translated; see most particularly Cultural History: Between Practices and Representation (1988), Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer (1995), and On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices (1997).