Lecture Notes -- Oct. 2-31
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Oct. 1, 2009
Were Samurai the Secret to Thriving Cities?
Oct. 2, 12-1:30 p.m., Ballantine Hall 004, Bloomington -- What made Japanese cities thrive in the 17th century, when they were under the control of samurai rulers who professed an agrarian ideology hostile to the market? This lecture by Mary Elizabeth Berry, a specialist of Japanese history at University of California, Berkeley, invites us to think about where rulers live and how they calculate the arithmetic of prestige. This event is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies. Persons with disabilities attending this event who require assistance should contact 812-855-3765 in advance. For more information, visit http://www.iu.edu/~easc/ or e-mail easc@indiana.edu.
Effects of Deafness and Sign Language Use on Face Processing
Oct 2, 1:30 p.m., 1101 E. 10th St., Psychology 137, Bloomington --Teresa Mitchell, professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will discuss what happens to the brain and behavior when development differs from the norm, and how the course and outcome of that atypical development shed light on basic principles of developmental change. For more information about Mitchell, visit http://www.umassmed.edu/shriver/faculty/mitchell_t.cfm?start=0. This event is sponsored by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Evolution and Creationism
Oct. 2, 4-6 p.m., Woodburn 100, Bloomington -- What is the nature of the conflict between evolution and creationism, and why is it something uniquely American? This talk looks at the different sides and, taking an evolutionary approach, suggests that the conflict lies in American history. This lecture is by Michael Ruse, from Florida State University. For more information, e-mail hpscdept@indiana.edu or call 812-855-3622
Neural and perceptual dynamics in taste system
Oct. 2, 3:30 p.m., 1101 E. 10th St., PY 101, Bloomington -- Don Katz' research focuses on the neural dynamics of sensory processes over multiple time scales and the interaction and mass action of large populations of neurons. To read more about his work, visit http://people.brandeis.edu/~dbkatz/. This event is sponsored by the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences IU Bloomington.
Musicology in India: Traditions, Methods and Problems
Oct. 2, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Simon Music Building, Cook Music Library room M267, Bloomington -- Lewis Rowell, also an IU faculty member in the ethnomusicology and India studies programs, presents this lecture. He is the author of books and articles on time and rhythm, the history of music theory, the philosophy of music and the music of India and is a founding member of the Society for Music Theory. This event is sponsored by the Department of Musicology Colloquium Series. For more information, contact: musicpub@indiana.edu or call 812-855-9846.
Fritz Breithaupt
Cultures of Empathy
Oct. 2, 3 p.m., Dogwood Suite, Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington -- Fritz Breithaupt, the Henry H.H. Remak Distinguished Scholar for 2009-2010, is a participant in this year's Seminar of Empathy sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study. Breithaupt is a professor of Germanic studies and an expert in German and West European literature, philosophy and culture since the 18th century. For more information, contact Ivona Hedin at ihedin@indiana.edu or call 812-855-1513.
Composition Lessons with J.S. Bach: the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
Oct. 4, 4 p.m., Sweeney Hall, M015, Simon Music Building, Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington -- Don Freund, a professor of Composition at the IU Jacobs School of Music, will discuss Preludes and Fugues in A Major, A Minor, B-Flat Major, B-Flat Minor, B Major and B Minor in this lecture. This event is sponsored by Jacobs School of Music. For more information, e-mail musicpub@indiana.edu or call 812-855-9846. For more information about Freund, visit http://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/867.html.
Reflections on the Historiography of Modern Iraq
Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Welcome Reception at 5:30 p.m., IMU, University Club, Bloomington -- In this lecture, Peter Sluglett will expand upon recent historical writing about Iraq and will explore the various changes and new directions that have characterized historical writing in European languages. Sluglet is professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Utah. This event is sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/.
The Promise of Intellectual Intersections
Oct. 5, noon, Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington -- Richard B. Gunderman will explore the increasing importance of scholarly work on the margins between disciplines at a time when the production of knowledge is growing and when the need for universities to become more than the mere sum of their parts is increasing in this lecture. Gunderman is a professor in the Schools of Medicine and Liberal Arts at IUPUI. This event is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study. For more information, e-mail Ivona Hedin at ihedin@indiana.edu or call 812-855-1513.
Dealing with Hard Times: Popular Music During the Depression
Oct. 5, 7-8:30 p.m., Monroe County Library, Bloomington -- As a measure of today's economic uncertainty, the Great Depression provides a timely focus for Indiana University's fourth annual celebration of archives and special collections. This event is features Depression-era songs and singers who offered entertainment and escape, and gave voice to the all-too-harsh realities of the times. Panelists will explore folk and country music of the South and West, hard-knock Blues of the '30s, and escapist Broadway show tunes by composers such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Panelists are Glenn Gass, professor of music in the IU Jacobs School; Connie Cook Glen, lecturer in the Jacobs School; and Andrew Hollinden, clinical assistant professor of music in the Jacobs School.This event is co-sponsored by Jacobs School of Music and Monroe County Public Library. For more information, about this event, contact http://www.indiana.edu/~libevent/ or call 812-855-9846.
Uncertainty and the Search for Truth at Trial: Defining Prosecutorial 'Objectivity' in German Rape Case
Oct. 5, 12-1:30 p.m., Workshop, Tocqueville room, 513 North Park Ave., Bloomington -- This lecture is presented by Shawn Boyne, associate professor of law, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Boyne teaches evidence, criminal law, and comparative national security law at IUPUI. Boyne discusses whether the institution of the prosecution function in an inquisitorial system, namely Germany, constructs prosecutorial objectivity any differently than the American system. Unlike prosecutors in America's adversarial system, whom critics claim are driven by a "conviction mentality" and focus on "winning" at trial, in Germany's inquisitorial system, prosecutors are supposed to function as second judges dedicated to finding the objective truth. Copies of workshop papers can be found at http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/colloquia/colloquiumseries/index.php.
Programmed Cell Death and Lipid Asymmetry in C. elegans.
Oct. 5, 4 p.m., Jordan Hall 009, Bloomington -- Ding Xue, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado, will examine programmed cell death as a naturally occurring cellular process in which cells self-destruct by activation of an intrinsic suicide program. For more information about Xue, visit http://mcdb.colorado.edu/mcdb/xue/. For more information about the event, e-mail David Daleke at ddaleke@indiana.edu.
Comic Book Writer, Inventor and Theorist Will Have Students Marveling At The Past And Present Of Comics
Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, Bloomington
-- ScottMcCloud is one of the first and most vocal supporters of web comics, putting him at the forefront of the modern comic book industry. Considered by many as a Renaissance man of comics, McCloud has been touring the country and voicing his support of the Web as the "infinite canvas." Using the web as his sketchbook, McCloud translates his 2-D comics into an accessible and Web-based form. This event is sponsored by the Union Board. For more information, call 812-855-4682 or e-mail ubpr@indiana.edu.
Historic Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to U.S. Supreme Court
Oct. 6, 1 p.m., Wynne Courtroom, 375, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis -- Maria Pabon Lopez and Gerard Magliocca, professors of law, and alumna Ruth Rivera make up the panel which will discuss the historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. This event is co-sponsored by the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Latino Faculty Staff Association. For more information, e-mail Dean Matt Banker at mbanker@iupui.edu.
Acclaimed Poet and Memoirist Patricia Hampl
Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., University Library Lilly Auditorium, Bloomington -- Poet, memoirist, essayist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Patricia Hampl is the author of two collections of poetry and six memoirs, including The Florist's Daughter (2007). Hampl will also give a brief lecture on the art of autobiography at 3 p.m. in Campus Center 305, also on Oct. 8. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact tkirts@iupui.edu or visit http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/english/.
Measurements for the Masses
Oct. 8, 5:30-7 p.m., Indiana Memorial Union, Frangipani Room, Bloomington -- David E. Clemmer, the Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry, will give the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award lecture providing a brief history of how measurements of mass evolved and impacted the fields of physics and chemistry, and are now positioned to provide key information in the fields of biology and medicine. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture, contact Cyndi Connelley-Eskine, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, at cyconnel@indiana.edu or call 812-855-9973.
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
Oct. 8, 5:45 - 6:46 p.m., IU School of Education Wright Building Auditorium, Bloomington -- Renowned cognitive scientist Allan Collins will discuss his new book titled Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America. Collins is a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University. For more information, contact Daniel Hickey at dthickey@indiana.edu.
Write These Laws On Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling
Oct. 8, 4 - 5:30 p.m., Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, 618 Third St., Bloomington -- This event highlights the creative work and research by Rob Kunzman, associate professor at the IU School of Education. In his book, Write These Laws On Your Children, Kunzman studied six home-schooling families and followed their daily routines. Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions sponsors this event. For more information, contact Glenda Murray at glmurray@indiana.edu or call 812-855-0262.
The Fate of musica mundane within the Aristotelian Revolution of 13th- Century Paris
Oct. 9, 12:30 p.m., Simon Music Building, Cook Music Library Room M267, Bloomington -- Laura Weber is currently completing her Ph.D. at Yale University, and her research interests include the music of the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, with particular focus on the theory of antiquity and the Middle Ages, notational developments and early opera. This event is sponsored by Department of Musicology Colloquium Series. For more information, e-mail musicpub@indiana.edu or call 812-855-9846
Motor Neurons Require Motor Proteins: Molecular Motors, Axonal Transport, and Neurodegeneration
Oct. 12, 4 p.m., Jordan Hall 009, Bloomington -- Erika Holzbaur, Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the mechanisms of force production and motor function, mechanisms of cargo coupling and regulation, effects of dynein and dynactin on dynamics of the cytoskeleton, and the analysis of neurodegenerative diseases resulting from impairments in dynein/dynactin function. This event is sponsored by the Gill Center. For more information about Holzbaur, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/cbp/holzbaur.html.
Cognitive Science Colloquium
Wisdom of Crowds: Aggregating Retrieved Memories across Individuals
Oct. 12, 4 - 5 p.m., PY 101, Bloomington -- Mark Steyvers, associate professor at University of California, Irvine, will discuss a diverse set of topics in cognitive science such as episodic and semantic memory, dynamic decision making, causal reasoning and wisdom of crowds. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~clcl/Q733_WWW/.
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Oct. 12, at 7 p.m., IU Auditorium, 1211 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- The Indiana Memorial Union Board and the Secular Alliance of Indiana University will present a lecture by evolutionary biologist, author and atheist Richard Dawkins.
The event is free and open to the public. The lecture is part of the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Fall 2009 Themester, "Evolution, Diversity and Change," coinciding with Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous text On the Origin of Species. No ticket is required, and doors will open at 6 p.m. For information, call 812-855-4682 or email ubpr@indiana.edu.
Annual Fall CLE Program: Corporate Integrity -- Meeting Challenges and Doing the Right Thing
Oct. 13, 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Wynne Courtroom, 530 West New York St., Indianapolis -- Howard J. Young, Thomas M. Gallagher and Debra Wong Yan will discuss corporate integrity issues. The registration fee of $250 includes materials, refreshment breaks, parking and lunch. The program will carry six hours of Indiana CLE credit including 1.0 hour of ethics credit. Registrations must be received by Oct. 5. Cancellations after Oct. 7 will not be refunded. For more information, call 317-278-4789. On line registration is available at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/CLE/annualcle_reg.htm.
Stories from Angola: Ondjaki's Life and Books
Oct. 15, 4 p.m., Ballantine Hall 310, Bloomington -- Ndalu Almeida (Ondjaki), an acclaimed Angolan writer and filmmaker, will discuss his work and read from the English translation of his book, Bom dia camaradas! (Good Morning Comrades!), which is a compelling depiction of coming of age in Luanda in the 1980s from the perspective of an adolescent narrator. This event is sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study. For more information, contact Ivona Hedin at ihedin@indiana.edu or call 812-855-1513.
Living in a Community of Organizations: The Impact of Organizational Demographics on Children's Saturday Activities
Oct. 16, 12 - 1:30 p.m., Wells House, Bloomington -- Joseph Galaskiewicz, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, will discuss the fact that urban sociology has been hesitant to recognize that organizations of all kinds are important assets and liabilities for urban residents. This event is sponsored by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (Governance and Management Faculty), SPEA Doctoral Seminar and the Department of Sociology. For more information, contact Desma Jones, dlj6@indiana.edu or call 855-5971.
Between Science and Fiction: The Clone Concept in 20th-Century LIfe Sciences and Culture
Oct. 16, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Ballantine Hall 003, Bloomington -- Christina Brandt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will outline the history of the clone concept and utopian/dystopian views that were related to it through the 20th century. A special focus will be on the 1960s and 1970s discourse when the term "clone" entered the public sphere and scientific utopia as well as literary imaginations flourished around the figure of the human clone.This event is sponsored by the IUB Department of History and Philosophy of Science. For more information, contact parobert@indiana.edu.
Health Care Seminar
Oct. 22, 4-5:15 p.m., Poynter Center, 618 E. Third St., Bloomington -- Therapeutic decision making by parents on behalf of a child is a complicated matter -- much more so, however, when the medical intervention in question is contemplated for nonmedical (or nontherapeutic) reasons. Examples such interventions might be the removal of bone marrow (or a kidney) from one child to donate to her sibling, surgery to "Westernize" the eyes of an Asian child, or surgery to "correct" the "ambiguous" genitalia of an infant. Robert Crouch, a research assistant at the Poynter Center, will examine cases like these in order to articulate the moral contours of parental authority in making such decisions on behalf of a child. This event is sponsored by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. For more information, visit http://poynter.indiana.edu/medethics.shtml.
Donald Bloxham
The Final Solution in European Perspective
Oct. 23, 8 p.m., Wylie Hall 005, Bloomington -- Donald Bloxham is professor of modern history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The "Final Solution" occurred in an age of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Recent scholarship has shown the extent to which the murder of the Jews was related to other Nazi policies of destruction and deportation. Yet, this lecture suggests a wider view; it asks what light the crimes of other states before and during the Nazi period throw upon the Holocaust, both in terms of general patterns or logics of mass murder and in terms of more direct causal connections. This event is sponsored by Institute for Advanced Study. For more information, e-mail Ivona Hedin at ihedin@indiana.edu or call 812-855-1513.
Defending the Homeland within the Boundaries of the Law: Developing Coordinated Responses to Terrorism
Oct. 23, 2 - 4:45 p.m., Wynne Courtroom, Indianapolis -- Experts in the field of counter-terrorism will discuss topics related to Defending the Homeland within the Boundaries of the Law and Developing Coordinated Responses to Terrorism. The event will feature two panel discussions: Evaluating the Simulation: Dilemmas of Decision-Making and Looking Forward: Improving National Security. Two and a half hours of CLE credit available (pending approval). Parking available for a nominal fee in the Natatorium Garage. For more information, including information about panel members, visit http://indylaw.indiana.edu/news/events.cfm?eid=292 or e-mail Shaun Ingram at slingram@iupui.edu.
How will technological artifacts impact society
Oct. 24, 10-11 a.m., School of Fine Arts, room 102, Bloomington -- Leah Buechley, the High-Low Tech Group director for the MIT Media Lab and the creator of the LilyPad Arduino, which combines micro technology with embroidery, will discuss how traditional arts and crafts combined with new technologies can be used to empower students, hobbyists, artists and educators to explore new domains and spark new reactive communities. The event is sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Kylie Peppler of the School of Education and in coordination with Leslie Sharpe of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, IU Bloomington. For more information, contact Kylie Peppler at kpeppler@indiana.edu.
An evaluation of brain endocannabinoid signaling and addiction-related behaviors
Oct. 28, 4 p.m., Psychological and Brain Sciences, room PY 101, Bloomington -- This lecture by Loren Parson of The Scripps Research Institute will provide in vivo evidence that voluntary drug intake alters extracellular endocannabinoid levels in the rodent brain in a manner that modulates the motivation for continued drug intake. Data demonstrating altered endocannabinoid function following chronic drug exposure will also be presented along with evidence that this dysfunction contributes to excessive drug intake through negative reinforcement mechanisms. This event is sponsored by the Neuroscience Training Grant and the Gill Center. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~gillctr/speakers.shtml.
