Lecture Notes
March 16 to 30, 2012
The Jerome Hall Lecture: "Clark Kerr and Me: The Future of Public Legal Education"
WHEN: Noon Wednesday, March 21
WHERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., Moot Court Room, Bloomington
WHAT: The Jerome Hall Lecture, featuring Rachel Moran, dean of the UCLA School of Law. Moran will speak on the future of public legal education.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
Evolution in the 21st Century: Science, Education and Politics
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21
WHERE: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Panelists will include distinguished geologist Walter Alvarez and, from IU, anthropologists Kathy Schick, Nick Toth and Geoff Conrad; biologists Elizabeth Raff and Rudolf Raff; geologist Lisa Pratt; and physicist Timothy Londergan.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
kaschick@indiana.edu
Conducting Research in Kinship-Based, Traditional Societies
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 22
WHERE: Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, 618 E. Third St., Bloomington
WHAT: Kathryn Coe, professor and Lilly Scholar in the social and behavioral sciences division in the IUPUI Department of Public Health, will discuss key characteristics of kinship-based, traditional societies and the unintended consequences of conducting research in such communities based on the assumption that they have something to learn from us.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-0262 or glmurray@indiana.edu
Mao in Tibetan Disguise: History, Excessive Truths and Ethnographic Theory
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 22
WHERE: Woodburn Hall, 009, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Carole McGranahan, associate professor of anthropology and history at the University of Colorado
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-360-7601 or leejiy@indiana.edu
Spring 2012 Colloquium: Disaggregating Legitimacy: Rule Following vs. Public Opinion
WHEN: Noon Thursday, March 22
WHERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., Room 120, Bloomington
WHAT: Spring 2012 Colloquium with professor Eileen Braman, IU Department of Political Science
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
Conference on China and Global Governance
WHEN: All day event, March 22 to 24
WHERE: Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 513 N. Park Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: The purpose of this conference is to advance understanding of the extent and significance of Chinese involvement in the major areas of economic global governance and to promote greater engagement and cooperation among national governments, industry, scholars and other stakeholders from around the world. Among those speaking at the conference will be Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom.
COST: Free, registration is required
INFORMATION: 812-856-0451 or rccpb@indiana.edu
Ce phallus que nous lisons: Écriture phallocentrique vs. écriture masculine au 21ème siècle
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 23
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 217, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: In this talk, given in French, Ph.D. candidate Audrey Dobrenn will discuss four contemporary French-language authors and how they treat the topic of masculinity and male sexuality.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-5458 or ipiedmon@indiana.edu
Big History: A Bridge Between the Humanities and Sciences
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 26
WHERE: Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Walter Alvarez, professor emeritus of earth and space science at the University of California Berkeley, will discuss "Big History," a new field that aims to tie everything in our planet's past into a coherent understanding of the grand sweep and character of history.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
kaschick@indiana.edu
Author meets reader: Is Marriage for White People?
WHEN: Noon, March 29
WHERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., Room 335
WHAT: Professor Richard Banks, Stanford Law School, will discuss his new book, "Is Marriage for White People?"
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
The European Union and Why It Matters to the Midwest
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 30
WHERE: Wiekamp Hall 1285, IU South Bend, 1800 Mishawaka Ave., South Bend
WHAT: The workshop will be led by Indiana University South Bend professor of comparative politics Neovi Karakatsanis and IUSB professor of political geography Gabriel Popescu.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-3832 or bbeyer@indiana.edu
Colloquium speaker J.D. Trout
WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 30
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 003, Bloomington
WHAT: J.D. Trout, departments of philosophy and psychology at Loyola University, Chicago, argues that scientific realism should explain such great leaps of theoretical progress by appealing to insights and circumstances that are radically epistemically contingent -- conditions like geographic, economic or psychological "accidents" or luck.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
parobert@indiana.edu
