George Lankford, professor emeritus of social science at Lyon College, Batesville, Ark., Wednesday (Nov. 11) will present his take on an enthno-astronomy view of how American Indian peoples understood the universe with his free, public presentation, "Footprints in the Stars," a 2009 IU College of Arts and Sciences "Evolution, Diversity and Change" Themester event.

A professor and an alumnus of Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology have been selected to share one of the most venerated awards in their field, the Chicago Folklore Prize.

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.

Pravina Shukla, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has been awarded the 2009 Millia Davenport Publication Award given by the Costume Society of America for her book The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India (2008, Indiana University Press).

For the past decade, IU's Traditional Arts Indiana (TAI) has been an active participant at the Indiana State Fair. This year, TAI has expanded its presence with a major exhibition in the Home and Family Arts Building at the fair that opens today (Aug. 7) and runs through Aug. 23, as well as hosting the Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest Saturday (Aug. 15). The Home and Family Arts Building exhibit features the works of more than 30 Hoosier folk artists, craftspeople and musicians.

The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music has been awarded a third grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, valued at $347,682, to continue its collaborative research and development project that will digitally preserve critically endangered sound recordings.

An IU professor's new book documents the important clothing decisions made by ordinary people in India and how they contribute to a high level of non-verbal communication in that vibrant society.

An IU professor's new book documents the important clothing decisions made by ordinary people in India and how they contribute to a high level of non-verbal communication in that vibrant society.

Indiana University folklore professor Richard Bauman has studied the acts of speaking and of silence as communicative modes among 16th century Quakers and Medieval Icelanders. He's also taken a keen ear to coon dog traders in East Texas and researching practical jokesters. Bauman recently was presented with the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award by the American Folklore Society.

IU Bloomington Libraries are publishing their first faculty-generated electronic journal, Museum Anthropology Review, which is dedicated to museum and material culture studies.

The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University have been awarded a $349,910 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue their collaborative research and development project that will digital preserve critically endangered sound recordings.

Richard Bauman, distinguished professor of folklore and chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded the 2006 Edward Sapir Book Prize for his co-authored work Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality.

A research team from Indiana University and the University of Michigan has received a $850,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to begin the implementation phase of a searchable online digital video archive that they have been developing since 2001.

The Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana -- a partnership of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Indiana Arts Commission -- are accepting entries for the Traditional Arts Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest. The competition, featuring some of Indiana's finest fiddlers, will take place on Saturday, Aug. 12 on the WFMS Free Stage at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.

Throughout his career, IUB Professor Henry Glassie has studied the cultures of traditional communities around the world. In his new book, The Stars of Ballymenone, Glassie decided to focus on the people in an impoverished Northern Irish community who "put pricks of brightness into the midst of that dark, stormy background."

Jason Baird Jackson, assistant professor of folklore and adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been appointed as the next editor for Museum Anthropology, the journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology. Museum Anthropology is the leading journal concerned with the study of museums and material culture.

The Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University have been awarded a $348,441 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a collaborative research and development project designed to create best practices and test emerging standards in the digital preservation of critically endangered sound recordings.

The Indiana State Fair and Traditional Arts Indiana -- a partnership of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Indiana Arts Commission -- are accepting entries for the Traditional Arts Indiana State Fair Fiddle Contest. The competition, featuring some of Indiana's finest fiddlers, will take place on Saturday, Aug. 14 on the WFMS Free Stage at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis.

Four Indiana University Bloomington professors have been awarded Guggenheim fellowships, the Guggenheim Foundation announced today (April 8). Professor of Central Eurasian Studies Christopher Beckwith, Professor Emeritus of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Mary Ellen Brown, Professor of Biology Ellen Ketterson and Distinguished Professor of Biology Loren Rieseberg are among the 2004 fellowship winners.

In a flourish of traditional drums, dancing and regalia, Native Americans will gather at Indiana University Bloomington on March 26-28 to share history, culture and arts at the Third Annual First Nations Pow Wow.