Lecture Notes
October 8-21
'Assessing the Symbiotic Relationship Between Ghanaians and African Americans in the Diaspora'
Oct. 10, 12 noon, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Bridgwaters Lounge, Bloomington -- Hassan Wahab, a master's degree candidate in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, presents "Assessing the Symbiotic Relationship Between Ghanaians and African Americans in the Diaspora" as part of the Second Wednesday Brown Bag Lecture Series. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~afroamer/.
Alternative Education Issues
Oct. 10, 1:30 p.m., the IMU Dogwood Room, Bloomington -- The Center for Evaluation and Education Policy will host a panel discussion focusing on both state and national issues related to alternative education. Panelists include Dr. Ronald Barnes, Indiana University School of Education; Dr. Chris Chalker, Simon Youth Foundation; Ms. Molly Chamberlin, Indiana Department of Education; Mr. John Loflin, Alternative Education Consultant; and Ms. Elizabeth McGovern, School of Academic and Career Development, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation. Questions to be considered will include: Is there still a need for alternative schools given the proliferation of charter and magnet schools? The student population of alternative schools is often stereotyped as the "throw away kids" -- students who want to drop out, discipline problem students and teen mothers -- is this an accurate portrayal of the student population? How can this myth be dispelled to ensure that all children count? For more information, visit http://ceep.indiana.edu.
'Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with neutrinos'
Oct. 10, 3:30 p.m., Swain West 119, Bloomington -- Rex Tayloe will host Bill Louis of Los Alamos National Lab who will present "Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with neutrinos" as part of the ongoing Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquia Series. Neutrinos are one of the dominant particles of the universe; however, despite recent progress, much is left to learn about their properties and interactions. The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab was designed to be a definitive test of the LSND evidence for neutrino oscillations and has recently reported first results of a search for electron-neutrino appearance in a muon-neutrino beam. Using a 40-foot spherical tank filled with 800 tons of mineral oil in the Booster neutrino beam at Fermilab, no significant excess of events above background is observed for reconstructed neutrino energies above 475 MeV. The data are consistent with no oscillations within a two-neutrino appearance-only oscillation model. However, an unexplained excess of events is observed for reconstructed neutrino energies below 475 MeV. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys.
'Learning with Hope; Teaching with Joy'
Oct. 10, 4:30 p.m., University Library Auditorium, 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis -- Sharon Hamilton, Chancellor's Professor of English and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, will present "Learning with Hope; Teaching with Joy." The joy of exuberant discovery, "aha" moments and new intellectual connections can be quickly lost when students cannot translate that learning meaningfully into their vision of the future. Building on the neuroscience of joyful education, hope theory, insights from faculty and students at IUPUI, and her own sixty-three years of learning, Sharon Hamilton will combine research, theory and story to talk about the importance of learning with hope and teaching with joy. For more information, contact aaspeak@iupui.edu.
'Crisis at Central High: Looking Back After Fifty Years'
Oct. 10, 7 p.m., School of Education Auditorium, Bloomington -- Earlier this year, after three decades of research, Elizabeth Jacoway published a book, Turn Away Thy Son, on the events that took place fifty years ago this fall in Little Rock, Arkansas, when nine black students tried to integrate Central High School. Governor Orval Faubus called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering the school. President Eisenhower sent in army troops to ensure they did go into the building. Inside the book, Jacoway takes readers into the inner workings of the circumstances. For more information, contact ccarney@indiana.edu.
'Repairs Ahead: American Foreign Policy in the Post-Bush Era'
Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., Rawles Hall 100, Bloomington -- Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State will speak as part of the Patten Lecture Series. Talbott believes that with the Iraq war well on its way to becoming a debacle of unprecedented proportions and U.S. standing in the world at an all-time low, it is not surprising that the 2008 presidential campaign is focusing to an unusual extent on foreign policy. After assessing the Bush record and putting it in the historical context of the last fifty years, Talbott will offer suggestions on how the next President can meet the triple challenge he or she will inherit -- repairing the damage that Bush's brand of unilateralism has inflicted on the national interest, re-establishing American leadership of the international community and addressing two urgent threats to the planet: nuclear proliferation and climate change. For more information, visit http://patten.indiana.edu/.
International News Panel Discussion
Oct. 11, 3 p.m., Ernie Pyle Hall 203, Bloomington -- Hear what German journalists have to say about U.S. news coverage, and how it differs from journalistic work in Europe. Join us for a panel discussion featuring three veteran German broadcast journalists visiting IU as part of the RIAS German Broadcast Journalists Exchange Program. This will be an opportunity for you to hear about and ask questions about German and European perspectives on news coverage of major current topics. For more information, visit http://www.journalism.indiana.edu.
'Privacy, Public Space and Non-Governmental Surveillance'
Oct. 11, 3-5:30 p.m., the IMU State Room East, Bloomington -- Richard De George of University of Kansas will present the last "Privacy and Technology" seminar. Professor De George will discuss issues about what is public and what is private, what is ethically permissible in surveillance, how to apply the private/public distinction to the Internet (think Facebook) and how we are threatened by commercial surveillance. The seminar begins with discussion of a case study at 3 p.m. The lecture is at 4 p.m., followed by a response from Peter Finn, professor in the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and further discussion. For more information, visit http://poynter.indiana.edu/privacy.shtml.
'India, America and the World'
Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Rawles Hall 100, Bloomington -- Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State will speak as part of the Patten Lecture Series. The discussion of "India, America, and the World" addresses Talbott's concern that the largest and oldest democracies on earth have emerged from the decades of estrangement that afflicted their relations during the Cold War. Indian leaders have talked of the U.S. as a "natural ally," while American ones have spoken of a "strategic partnership." There is a solid basis for optimism, but there are also reasons for concern. The ongoing debate in India over America's willingness to provide nuclear technology underscores what is likely to be a continuing source of tension. So is India's reluctance to help the U.S. put pressure on Iran. Drawing on his experience as President Clinton's special envoy for dealing with India in the 1990s, Talbott will evaluate India's emergence as a potential global power with former Foreign Minister of India, Jaswant Singh -- with whom Talbott worked intensively for several years in the 1990s. This lecture promises to be a lively discussion about the current relationship between India and the U.S. For more information, visit http://patten.indiana.edu/.
'One speck of Imperfection...'
Oct. 12, 4-5 p.m., 800 E. Third St., room 100, Bloomington -- Erica Cooper will present her dissertation, "One 'speck' of Imperfection, Invisible Blackness, and The One-Drop Rule in Plessy v. Ferguson and Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana: A rhetorical approach to examining legal narratives." Using Critical Race Theory, from law, and McGee's notion of the ideograph, from Communication studies, Cooper will show how racial identity (race), whiteness and blackness operate as ideographs in legal discourse. These ideographs, critical to the survival of the one-drop doctrine, are designed to maintain a racist ideology through the establishment of racial hierarchies. Cooper will conduct this ideographic study by using Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Jane Doe v. State [of Louisiana] (1983) as her primary texts of analysis. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/.
'Globalization and Midsize Cities in Modern China'
Oct. 12, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Cavanaugh Hall 508, Indianapolis -- Xin Zhang, associate professor of history, will present "Globalization and Midsize Cities in Modern China" as part of the Sabbatical Speaker Series. In the year before the Olympics debut in China, Professor Zhang's research is timely and informative. Come hear how China is changing. For more information and to RSVP, contact anjhill@iupui.edu.
'Virus Evolution'
Oct. 15, 4 p.m., the IMU Whittenberger Auditorium, Bloomington -- The James P. Holland Memorial Lecture Series presents "Virus Evolution" by Dr. Paul Turner, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Turner's research includes the evolution of viruses; virus ecology and genetics; and the evolution of infectious diseases. For more information, visit http://development.bio.indiana.edu/holland_lecture.htm.
Rapid Climate Change
Oct. 17, 4:30 p.m., University Library Auditorium, 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis -- Human societies are closely tied to the natural resources that sustain them, including agricultural production. Gabriel Filippelli, professor of earth sciences, will explore climate change, how it has affected food production for societies in the past as well as how it may affect current and future societies in a world impacted by human-induced global warming and how policy-makers armed with sound science can minimize the societal impacts of climate change. For more information, contact aaspeak@iupui.edu.
'Mechanism of Motivated Reasoning? Analogical Perception of Discrimination Disputes'
Oct. 18, 4 p.m., IU School of Law-Bloomington Faculty Conference Room, Bloomington -- Professor Eileen Braman, political science, will present the workshop "Mechanism of Motivated Reasoning? Analogical Perception of Discrimination Disputes," sponsored by the Center for Law, Society and Culture. For more information, contact grossber@indiana.edu.
Kinsey Institute Research Panel
Oct. 18 7-8:30 p.m., Monroe County Public Library, 303 E. Kirkwood, Bloomington -- To mark the 60th anniversary, researchers from The Kinsey Institute will present current projects and discuss pressing issues in sexual health and sex behavior. For more information, visit http://www.kinseyinstitute.org.
'Harry Potter and the Culture of the Copy' (Warning! Not Endorsed by J. K. Rowling)
Oct. 19, 4-5 p.m., 800 E. Third St., room 100, Bloomington -- Ted Striphas, department of communication and culture, will present "Harry Potter and the Culture of the Copy." Almost as spellbinding as the popular Harry Potter books are his rights holders' efforts to micromanage the release of each new installment, to police the appropriation of copyrighted and trademarked Potter material in a global context and to defend themselves against allegations of having made illegal use of other people's ideas. The success of the Potter book series thus raises important questions about originality, propriety, reproducibility and the global flow of commodities in the late age of print. Who gets to define what counts as an acceptable or unacceptable appropriation of another's intellectual property? What happens to popular artifacts once they move across geographical boundaries and into new legal and political-economic contexts? Harry Potter has much to tell us about the ways in which the arcana of intellectual property and industry-specific security and logistical concerns have come to infiltrate broader practices of everyday life. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~cmcl/.
'Neuregulin-ErbB Signaling in the Nervous System'
Oct. 22, 4 p.m., Kelley School of Business 1008, Bloomington -- Dr. Cary Lai, Scripps Research Institute, will present "Neuregulin-ErbB Signaling in the Nervous System" as part of the Neuroscience Colloquium. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~neurosci/.
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