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Includes internationally related events

Wednesday, February 4
Presentation on Human Rights and International Security
When:  3:30
Where: Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU
What:  Sabelo Gumedze, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Security in Pretoria, South Africa, will speak on "Human Rights and International Security.”  His visit  is part of a seminar entitled "New Faces of International Security in the 21st Century" that is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Global Change and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Wednesday, February 4
Central Eurasian Colloquium – Real Absence: Picturing God in Islamic Art
When: 4:00 p.m.
Where:  Indiana Memorial Union, Persimmon Room
What:  This presentation examines the ways in which Persian and Turkish artists have attempted to represent God-or at least convey a sense of the divine-in their paintings produced from ca. 1300 to today. Drawing upon a rich variety of Islamic exegetical, theological, and poetical texts that describe God as theophanous, radiant, fragrant, and transcendental, painters developed their own lexicon of form to contribute to the broader discourse over God's nature and character. As newly uncovered visual materials make clear, painters and calligraphers used calculated devices and visual cues, including light and veil metaphors as well as moderate anthropomorphisms, to convey the deistic sum (tawhid) of God in pictorial terms. In doing so by their own creative means, artists were successful in underscoring and reaffirming the seeming paradox that a numinous presence can be marked as much by its omnipresent Reality as by its ostensible Absence.  Presentation will be given by Christiane Gruber Professor of Islamic Art, Indiana University.  Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served.

Thursday, February 5
ISNetworld Information Session
When: 6:00pm
Where: Yogi’s
What:  This is a wonderful opportunity to meet ISNetworld recruiters and to learn of career opportunities in our Associate Profession Development Program and our Associate Internships as we continue our exponential growth.  Please feel free to contact Alexandra Sardarian via phone at 214.303.4912 or via email at asardarian@isnetworld.com for further information

Thursday, February 5
IPAA Movie Night: "After the Wedding"
When: 7:00pm
Where: IMU Grad Pad
What:  Jacob has dedicated his life to helping street kids in India. When the orphanage he's in charge of is under the threat of closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jorgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. But there are certain conditions attached. Jacob must come to Denmark. And he must attend the wedding of Jorgen's daughter. The wedding becomes a landmark meeting between past and future and puts Jacob in the dilemma of his life.  Snacks will be provided!

Friday, February 6
Department of Criminal Justice Open House
When: 9:00am to 4:00pm
Where: Outside of Sycamore Hall 302 (third floor). 
What:  While this open house is primarily for interested students to come learn more about our department and the different opportunities available to them, advisors, please feel free to swing by to check things out, pick up handouts, and mingle as well.  Light refreshments will be served. 
To schedule an advising appointment: (812) 855-9325
2009 summer abroad in Amsterdam! 
Application deadline: February 2, 2009 
For more information see: www.indiana.edu/~overseas/flyers/amsterdam.html

Friday, February 6
East Asian Colloquium- “Conflict in China”
When: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where:  Ballantine Hall 004
What: In recent years the IU Bloomington campus has become home to a growing group of scholars pursuing research on various dimensions of conflict and state strategies for managing conflict in China. What, if any, are the synergistic possibilities of this unique coalescence? Is it a harbinger of a new Indiana "school" of Chinese conflict studies? Does interdisciplinarity (including political science, history, sociology, and law), methodological diversity (including archival, ethnographic, interview, and survey research techniques), topical diversity (including urban labor, rural disputes, ethnic and minority relations, and criminal justice), and temporal diversity (including mid-Qing, Republican, Mao-era, and contemporary China) facilitate or stymie such institutional "branding"? Before considering the possibilities posed by this unique confluence of scholarship, each panelist will introduce her or his conflict-related research.  (Light refreshments will be served. You are also welcome to bring your own
lunch.)

Saturday, February 7
Information Session for a Service Learning Trip to Latin America
When: 4:00 pm
Where: IMU Starbucks
What: My name is Elizabeth Cockrell.  I am a senior at IU and I am looking for students in your department to join me in volunteering abroad in Latin America this spring break. I'm organizing a service-learning trip to Guatemala.  The trip is going to be a combination of meaningful agricultural volunteer work, educational activities, and some enriching excursions.  The group will be working very closely with a community-based non-profit organization to ensure that the volunteer work we do will actually have a serious positive impact.  And it's going to be fun.  We'll be in a charming Guatemalan city that has a lot of culture, and additionally we are going to do some leisure activities such as hiking an active volcano.  I can be reached at ecockrel@indiana.edu if anybody has any immediate questions or wants additional information before the meeting on Saturday. 

Saturday, February 7
East Asian Film Series:  Three Times (Hou Hsiao Hsien, Taiwan, 2005, 135 min.)
When: 7:00pm
Where: Woodburn Hall 101
What: Three Times follows a timeless couple in love as, enacted by the same performers, they take on different identities through three separate time periods.  In “A Time for Love,” Chen (Chang Chen) meets May (Shu Qi) at his favorite pool hall. It is 1966, and their fleeting, dreamy romance is not defined as much by words as by the smoky atmosphere and the radio hits of the time. Then, the film flows smoothly into “A Time for Freedom,” a solemn drama of a concubine and her master in 1911. The man is obsessed with his nation’s freedom yet incapable of giving freedom or emotional security to his beloved. The third segment, “A Time for Youth,” shifts from an era of stately quiet to chaotic, contemporary Taipei. Jing, an epileptic singer, lives through the emotional chaos of her youth, sharing her love with a woman and a man. Weaving contrasting cinematic syntaxes and poignant fragments of time into a highly evocative narrative, Hou plays with the idea of reincarnation—the characters bear not only a consistent physical appearance but also the memories of other lives.  In Mandarin with English subtitles.
For further information, contact the East Asian Studies Center at 855-3765 or at easc@indiana.edu.

Tuesday, February 10
The Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies Internship/Job Fair
When: 10:30-1pm
Where: HPER Gym 163. 
What:  Come prepared to meet with potential internship or seasonal summer job employers.  Dress professionally and bring copies of your resume! This is a great networking event and a perfect chance to secure your summer internship or summer job.  Email Dr. Julie Knapp julknapp@indiana.edu  if you have questions about the event. See attached for the flyer… or visit the website to see participating companies… (more added each day)!  http://www.indiana.edu/~recpark/news/jobfair.shtml

Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
Lunch talk: Class, Culture, and the British miners' Strike of 1986 . When:  12-1:15 pm
Where:  Poplars 628, IU Bloomington
What: A Labor Studies brown bag lunch talk, with slides: “Class, Culture, and the British miners' Strike of 1986: Implications for the Contemporary Labor Movement.”  David Hakken carried out two anthropological studies of class, culture, and worker education in Sheffield England, one nine years before and the second nine years after the miners' strike, arguably the watershed event in working class activism in the second half of twentieth century Britain.  After teaching for 25 years at the State University of New York Institute of Technology and for Cornell Labor Studies Extension, Hakken is currently teaching social informatics at IU in Bloomington.  Bring your lunch or a snack if you like.  (No food or drink will be provided.)  Poplars is at 400 East 7th St. between Grant and Dunn, and there is usually parking in 2 hour zones all around this block.  Watch out for Residential Zones on neighboring blocks. 

Tuesday, February 24
United States Public Interest Research Group Interview
United States Public Interest Research Group will be interviewing on campus, and is particularly interested in recruiting IU students.
Resume Submission Deadline: 2/22/2009
Summary of Qualifications:

• Permanent Resident / U.S. Citizen
• Graduation Range: 5/1/2009 - 12/31/2009           
• Senior  
• Bachelor's Degree
• Interested in: Advocacy & Political Organization/Lobbying

About U.S. PIRG
If you’re looking for a powerful experience that helps change America for the better, consider U.S. PIRG (United States Public Interest Research Group). U.S. PIRG is a federation of state-based, nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that work for the public interest on issues ranging from our nation’s energy policy to the state of our health care system to the strength of our democracy. Our professional staff focus on finding good ideas and pushing for real change, even when a powerful interest stands in the way. We’ve built a 30-year track record of overcoming these obstacles to achieve real results, due in part to the fact that we hire dozens of smart, talented staff and give them plenty of responsibility from day one on the job.
Apply via myIUCareers.com

Wednesday, February 18
Wings of Defeat - Film and Director's talk
When: 7:00-7:30 p.m. Director's talk, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Screening, 9:00-9:30 p.m.  Q&A with director
Where: Rawles Hall 100, Indiana University Bloomington
What: Documentary filmmaker Risa Morimoto will screen her 2007 documentary Wings of Defeat, which reevaluates the experiences and legacy of Japan's suicide pilots of World War II, the legendary kamikaze, and features intimate interviews with surviving kamikaze. Upon learning of her uncle's secret past as a kamikaze pilot, the Japanese American Morimoto was inspired to interview former kamikaze pilots-now in their 80s-who thoughtfully recall and share their fears, their ambivalence, their patriotism, and their guilt as survivors, when thousands of their comrades perished during Japan's most desperate hour at the end of World War II. Co-produced by Japanese-born writer Linda Hoaglund, the documentary is a rare opportunity to hear the perspectives of those who trained for, flew, and survived suicide missions, as well as Americans who survived such attacks.  Please visit the Web site at
http://www.iub.edu/~easc/programs/special/wings.shtml.

Tuesday, March 31
CIA
When: 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Where:  Career Development Center
What:  National Clandestine Service (NCS) Career Opportunities.  Make a world of difference.  The CIA’s Clandestine Service is the cutting-edge of American Intelligence. It is an elite corps, providing vital information needed by US policymakers, the military and law enforcement services to protect the national security interests of the American people. For the extraordinary person who wants more than just a job, the Clandestine Service offers a unique career — a way of life that challenges the deepest resources of an individual’s intelligence, self reliance and responsibility.  Clandestine Service Trainee Program (CST)—Core Collector Positions

To Apply: Submit a resume online at www.cia.gov