Communication and Culture

Controversial sex columnist Dan Savage will speak at Indiana University Bloomington Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at Alumni Hall at the IMU in honor of SEXploration week at IU. This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Indiana Memorial Union Board and Pure Romance Inc.
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So far, the communication strategies being employed by health care officials to warn people about the dangers of the 2009 H1N1 virus and needed precautions have been effective, according to an IU professor of communication and culture and an expert on rhetoric.
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Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.
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John Louis Lucaites, professor of rhetoric and public culture and adjunct professor of American studies at Indiana University, is the co-recipient of the 2008 James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, as well the Diamond Anniversary Book Award.
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The inaugural Film Indiana conference, "Screening Shorts," at Indiana University Bloomington next weekend (Sept. 14-16) will showcase the university's film archives and cinema-related collections.
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Movie buffs can step back in time and enjoy another year of classic films through the popular Golden Age of Hollywood series, thanks to a new partnership between the Indiana University Office of the Provost, Moveable Feast of the Arts Program and Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The fall film series begins on Tuesday (Sept. 12) at 1:30 pm with the showing of The Pajama Game starring Doris Day. Admission is free.
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