Lecture Notes
Feb. 10-24, 2012
The Burlesque Erotics of Tyrannicide in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron and Benedetto Varchi's Storia fiorentina
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 217, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Marc Schachter, a visiting assistant professor of French at IU Bloomington, will extend scholars' recent observations of the 1537 assassination of Alessandro by addressing two other descriptions.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-5458 or ipiedmon@indiana.edu
Mapping the Thermal City: Built Landscapes, Urban Climatology, and a History of Heat in Tokyo
WHEN: Noon to 1:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10
WHERE: Ballantine Hall, 004, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker Scott O'Bryan, EALC and History, Bloomington, will examine the contemporary history of Tokyo as one of the premier examples of what is called the urban heat island effect -- and of scientific and official attempts to understand and represent this climatic phenomenon.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
easc@indiana.edu
Creating a more adaptable robot with multi-robot systems
WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10
WHERE: Lindley Hall, 102, Bloomington
WHAT: Michael Rubenstein, postdoctoral fellow in Radhika Nagpal's Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will describe the importance that shape has in a multi-robot system, and discuss work on an algorithm that allows a group of robots to autonomously self-assemble any desired connected shape.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
hauserk@indiana.edu
Colloquium speaker Christoph Irmscher
WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 003, Bloomington
WHAT: Christoph Irmscher, IU English department, discusses the exhilarating and often frustrating experience of spending so much time in the shadow of another man's life, specifically the life of Swiss-American scientist Louis Agassiz.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
parobert@indiana.edu
Photo by Joan Marcus
Tony Kushner
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13
WHERE: Fine Arts Auditorium, FA 015, Bloomington
WHAT: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner will deliver the latest in a series of lectures sponsored by the College Arts & Humanities Institute. Kushner's works tackle some of the most controversial subjects in contemporary history, such as AIDS ("Angels in America"), Afghanistan and the West ("Homebody/Kabul"), German fascism and Reaganism ("A Bright Room Called Day"), the rise of capitalism ("Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Browne"), and racism and the civil rights movement in the South ("Caroline, or Change").
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-1169 or cahi@indiana.edu
The Content of Hope
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16
WHERE: Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, 618 E. Third St., Bloomington
WHAT: Dr. Emily S. Beckman, a visiting scholar in the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program in the IU School of Liberal Arts and the IU School of Medicine at IUPUI, will present the results of a qualitative study of the meaning of hope expressed by patients at various stages of treatment for colon cancer.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-0262 or glmurray@indiana.edu
Francophony and ethnicity in a global Montreal
WHEN: 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16
WHERE: Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speakerHélène Blondeau, associate professor of French and linguistics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, reflects on the notion of Francophony in the context of Multicultural Montreal by integrating the dimensions of ethnicity and contact into the analysis of Montreal French.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-7958 or jauger@indiana.edu
"Inventing GI Joe Nisei: Loyalty, Citizenship, and the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans"
WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16
WHERE: Monroe County History Center, 202 E. Sixth St., Bloomington
WHAT: Ellen Wu, assistant professor in the IU Department of History, Asian American Studies Program, examines the consequences of the enlistment of Japanese-American internment camp prisoners into the U.S. armed forces during World War II.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
acc@indiana.edu
Delivering Justice in Rural China
WHEN: Noon to 1:15 p.m. Friday, Feb.17
WHERE: IU Ballantine Hall, 004, 1020 Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker Ethan Michelson, associate professor of sociology and law at Indiana University Bloomington, will attempt to synthesize independent research findings on grievances, disputes and the pursuit of justice by focusing particular attention on the help-seeking experiences of rural divorcées.
COST: Free and Open to the Public
INFORMATION: 812-855-3765 or easc@indiana.edu
David Margolick
WHEN: 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20
WHERE: Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker David Margolick will kick off the School of Journalism's spring speaker series. Margolick is the author of "Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock," which focuses on the women in an iconic civil-rights-era photograph taken by an IU photojournalism professor.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-6317 or bamoelle@indiana.edu
Henna 101
WHEN: 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20
WHERE: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th St., Bloomington
WHAT: Come to the Asian Culture Center to learn the ancient Indian art of henna designs. We will begin with a brief introduction about henna, its origins and different ways of application followed by hands-on experience.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
go.iu.edu/4tV
The Fukushima Disaster: Law, Politics, and Compensation in Japan
WHEN: 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23
HERE: Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave., Room 335, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker Eric Feldman, deputy dean for international affairs and professor of law at University of Pennsylvania Law School.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
