Lecture Notes
April 14-May 4, 2008
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
April 14, 12-1:30 p.m., 513 N. Park Ave., Bloomington -- Dr. E. G. Nadeau, Cooperative Development Services, Madison, Wisc., presents "The Next Two Million Acres: A Community-based Strategy for Increasing Family Forest Management in Wisconsin." This report has two primary purposes: To review and evaluate activities carried out under the Wisconsin Healthy Forest Program (WHFP) from September 2005 through September 2007; and to make recommendations for increasing management of private forest land in Wisconsin. The recommendations are derived from the WHFP pilot program and from other recent developments related to private forest management in the state. Wisconsin already has one of the highest rates of private forest management in the United States, thanks in large part to the effectiveness of the Wisconsin Managed Forest Law. But there is plenty of room to improve the environmental, social and economic benefits of sustainable forest management on family forestland. This report proposes several public and private initiatives that together could add two million acres of sustainably managed private forestland in Wisconsin by 2020. For more information, contact ghiggins@indiana.edu.
Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
April 14, 4 p.m., Indiana Memorial Union Walnut Room, Bloomington -- Susan Mann, professor of history at the University of California Davis, will present some preliminary findings from her research on a book for undergraduates, which is organized around three themes: family and state, body and person and modernity and globalization. The talk will explore ways to integrate sexuality into our understanding of historical change in China, and ask what we gain in doing so, by focusing on a few selected examples. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/index.shtml.
The Suzan-Lori Parks Show
April 14, 5:30 p.m., Ruth N. Halls Theatre, Bloomington -- Spend a high energy, funny and inspirational evening with a MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient who is also the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks tells stories from her adventures in the world of writing and will read from her work, discuss how art can be a force for positive world change, and often offer on the spot writing workshop-style advice for aspiring artists of all ages. For more information, visit http://theatre.indiana.edu.
Michael Beschloss
April 14, 7 p.m., IU Auditorium, Bloomington -- Historian Michael Beschloss wraps up the School of Journalism Spring Speaker Series. Author of eight books, including the recent bestseller The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, Beschloss addresses current election issues through the lens of his own work as an author-historian examining presidents' actions and reactions during pivotal points in their tenures. In addition to his writing, Beschloss is the presidential historian for NBC News and is a regular commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. For more information, visit http://journalism.indiana.edu.
Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering
April 16, 4 p.m., Swain West 119, Bloomington -- Vladamir M. Shalaev, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University, will present the Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquium "Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering." Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus enabling a family of new "meta-devices." Shalaev will review this emerging field and significant progress in developing metamaterials for the optical part of the spectrum. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/.
Rethinking Race in the Americas: Anthropology, Politics and Policy
April 17-18, Law School Moot Court Room, Bloomington -- The Department of Anthropology, in celebration of its 60th anniversary, will be hosting a conference titled "Rethinking Race in the Americas: Anthropology, Politics, and Policy." This symposium will bring to Indiana University an internationally renowned group of scholars from diverse sub-fields within the discipline of anthropology to present their latest research and debate the concept of race, its relation to anthropology, and its relevance to the politics of the present across the Americas. For more information and a schedule of speakers, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/rethinkingrace/.
How Search is Going Mobile and the Implications for Information Seeking
April 18, 2-3:30 p.m., Wells Library Room LI001, Bloomington -- This lecture will start with the proposition that the act of searching for information while sitting at a desk is a special case of information seeking, and that 50 years of research on search could be marginalized by the coming of mobile information access. The aim of information seeking research should be to "bring the information to where the questions are": axiomatically, the greatest proportions of questions arise when people are mobile and engaged in some activity. If this proposition is true, then information science should be focused on situational search, as transferring current text retrieval services onto a mobile device does not produce sufficiently compelling results. This lecture will explore situational search and geographic relevance in the light of the continuing revolution in mobile device usage and explore the implications for information seeking with examples from current projects at City University, London, and the new Journal of Location Based Services. For more information, visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2008-spring/138.
Why is Graphics Hardware so Fast? Implications for Computing
April 18, 3-4 p.m., Lindley Hall 102, Bloomington -- Over the last few years graphics processors (or GPUs) have been increasing faster than Moore's Law. Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University, will describe some of the techniques used in GPUs to achieve high performance, describe several programming environments have been developed over the years to program GPUs, including Brook and Sequoia. Finally, Hanrahan will speculate on how GPUs and CPUs may converge and the impact on computing. For more information, visit http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/colloquia/default.asp?id=771.
Animal Behavior Colloquium
April 18, 4 p.m., Myers Hall 130, Bloomington -- Michael Gorman, University of California-San Diego, will present "By the light of the slivery moon: Nighttime illumination and circadian plasticity." For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/.
Art in Nature: the Case for Astrology
April 18, 4-6 p.m., Ballantine 003, Bloomington -- Mary Quinlan, Northern Illinois University, presents "Art in Nature: the Case for Astrology." Many of the great works of art and architecture in the Italian Renaissance were based on a scientific understanding of the connections between the heavens and the earth. St. Peter's Basilica, the great villa of the Farnese family at Caprarola and the Sala dei Pontefici in the Vatican Palace are examples of this phenomenon. This talk will examine how the issues of science, especially astronomy and astrology, were understood to function within the artworks. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/.
Sunken Cities and Shipwrecks: The Growing World of Underwater Museums
April 18, 5:30-7 p.m., Mathers Museum, Bloomington -- Ever imagined having to gear up in a scuba outfit in order to tour a museum? "Sunken Cities and Shipwrecks: The Growing World of Underwater Museums," an exhibit that introduces visitors to a new kind of museum, will open April 18 at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. During the opening reception, Charles Beeker, director of the Academic Diving Program and Underwater Science at IU, will present a brief lecture on "Underwater Living Museums in the Sea: The IU Model for Resource Protection." For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/exhibits/under.html.
Three Days of Anarchy
April 18, 6 p.m., Wylie Hall 015, Bloomington -- Join director Vito Zagarrio for a screening of Tre giorni d'anarchia (Three Days of Anarchy). After the film, presented in Italian with English subtitles, Zagarrio will answer questions about the movie. Set in Sicily, July 1943, Three Days of Anarchy shows a little town shocked by the news that American troops have landed in Italy. Fascism is over, but the Americans have not yet arrived here. For three days, the population lives a sort of Utopia, in the absence of the authority. For more information, call 812-855-5458.
The 38th Annual Haring Symposium
April 18-19, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington -- The Marketing Department at the Kelley School of Business will be hosting the 38th Haring Symposium. The symposium is a unique gathering of marketing doctoral candidates by invitation only from some of the leading business schools in North America. It is designed to provide doctoral students in marketing with a forum to present and discuss their research in a professional meeting environment. It also provides the opportunity for students to interact with some of the leading scholars in marketing. For more information, visit http://www.kelley.iu.edu/Marketing/News/events/page11582.html.
Sustain IU
April 19, 12-3 p.m., the Indiana Memorial Union Whittenberger Auditorium, Bloomington -- SustainIU is a community event focused on promoting sustainability within Bloomington. The event will consist of two components: a series of panel discussions about sustainability at Indiana University and the Sustainability Expo. The panels will feature IU administrators, faculty and staff, as well as representatives from local government and members of the community. The Sustainability Expo will take place at SPROUTS Garden at the corner of Eighth Street and Fess Avenue immediately following the panel discussions. The Expo will consist of a diverse gathering of student groups, community groups, academic departments and other organizations presenting eco-educational, interactive displays focused on climate sustainability at Indiana University. For more information, contact sustainIU@gmail.com.
Sustainability Across Sectors
April 21, 5 p.m., SPEA Atrium, 1315 E. 10th St., Bloomington -- Join an engaging panel discussion with sustainability experts Mike Molnar, director of Environmental Policy & Sustainable Development at Cummins Inc. in Columbus, Ind.; John Hamilton, chair of the City of Bloomington Sustainability Commission and president of City First Enterprises; and moderator, Professor Phil Stevens. The session, "Sustainability Across Sectors," will address public and private sector aspects of sustainability. How do governments ensure their actions promote sustainability while rewarding businesses that do the same? Does sustainability make sense across sectors? Come to the session to gain new insights on these and other questions. For more information, visit http://www.spea.indiana.edu/home/.
Abriendo Puertas: "Opening Doors" for Latino Families and their Children with Disabilities
April 21, 5:30 p.m., School of Education Auditorium, Bloomington -- Vivian Correa, distinguished professor of early childhood and special education at Clemson University, will speak about Latino families and their children with disabilities as the inaugural Nancy Harvey Bishop Lecture on Families and Children at Risk. Correa has worked with young children with disabilities and their families in early intervention programs since 1975. Correa's areas of expertise are in early childhood special education, bilingual/special education, multicultural education, unified teacher
education and working with Latino families. For more information, contact ccarney@indiana.edu.
TRACES Traveling Buseum
April 22, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., IU East Whitewater Hall Parking Lot, Richmond -- "Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany" is housed in a converted school bus and illustrates the history of the wartime prisoners through narrative text, multimedia and artifacts. The Indiana University East Campus Library and Morrisson-Reeves Library are sponsoring this event. For more information, call 765-973-8311.
The $5 Masterpiece: Marketing Regionalism to the Masses
April 23, 12:15-1 p.m., IU Art Museum, first floor, Bloomington -- An advertisement for the Associated American Artists declaring it "Incredible, but True!" encouraged average Americans to collect affordable, original artworks by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and 65 other struggling artists. Nan Brewer, Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, will discuss the mass marketing of these "people's" treasures and how it spread the style and subjects associated with Regionalism. For more information, visit http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu.
Sexual Health Seminar
April 24, 12 p.m., the Indiana Memorial Union Distinguished Alumni Room, Bloomington -- Dolores Albarracin, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a seminar on "A Test of Major Assumptions About Behavior Change: A Comprehensive Look at the Effects of HIV Prevention Interventions Since the Beginning of the Epidemic." The talk is sponsored be the Center for Sexual Health, Department of Telecommunications and Kinsey Institute. For more information, visit http://www.sexualhealth.indiana.edu.
"Performing Pride: Culture, Collective Identity and the Buraky Liberation Festival"
April 25, 12 p.m., Ballantine 004, Bloomington -- When a member of a minority group accepts and internalizes negative definitions ascribed by the majority society, a social movement organization must build a sense of pride in membership as a central part of movement actions. For the burakumin in Japan, an ethnically Japanese yet discriminated-against minority group, The Buraku Liberation League (BLL, the largest social movement organization for the rights of the burakumin) seeks to build a collective identity and a sense of pride in membership and, at the same time, challenge majority discrimination and prejudice. Christopher Bondy, DePauw University, researches education, identity and social movements, and he has spent several years living and working in buraku districts in Japan and several schools that serve them. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/eaq/eaq07-08/Apr_25/bondy.html.
Women in Chemistry Research Symposium
April 25, 1-3 p.m., IUPUI Campus Center 405, Indianapolis -- As long as there has been chemistry, women have made contributions that affect everyday life. Learn from women who are breaking new scientific ground today. Scientists from Dow AgroSciences and faculty from the School of Science will present four research talks. They will explore (1) the strategy and results for identifying a set of chemistry actionable anthranilate synthase inhibitors; (2) gene targeting and strategies to achieve targeted DNA double stranded breaks; (3) insect juvenile hormone metabolism and plant protein prenylation; and (4) water chemistry and the chemical relationships among contaminants and the fate and transport of those contaminants. For more information, visit http://www.science.iupui.edu.
Defining Information Science
April 25, 2-3:30 p.m., Wells Library Room LI001, Bloomington -- This is a talk for word people. Over the past half-century, many authors have wrestled with the task of succinctly defining the field of information science to which the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology is addressed. Howard D. White, professor emeritus at Drexel University, will look critically at some of their formulations, in particular those that overreach and those that are muddled, vague or obscure. The goal is to characterize the field in a way that is clear, concise and evidence-based. For more information, visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2008-spring/133.
Animal Behavior Colloquium
April 25, 4 p.m., the Indiana Memorial Union Solarium, Bloomington -- Irving Zucker, University of California-Berkley, will present "Why we study 'weird' species and two sexes." For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/.
Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana Murals at 75: Public Art and the Public University
April 25-26, Woodburn Hall 100, Bloomington -- This public conference celebrating the 75th anniversary of Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana Murals will examine these monumental works' lasting contribution to American public art, their place in the Indiana University cultural landscape and their history of controversy. For more information and a complete conference schedule, visit http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/special_exhibitions/benton/index.html.
What is the Role of University Publishing in a Digital Age?
April 28, 4 p.m., the Indiana Memorial Union Frangipani Room, Bloomington -- To what extent should IU take responsibility for the dissemination of the scholarship and research produced here? What opportunities does the digital age provide scholars to heighten the impact and visibility of their research? Laura Brown, senior advisor, Ithaka and former president of Oxford University Press, USA, will discuss these questions. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~idah/.
Twistors in a Cosmological Setting
April 30, 4 p.m., the Indiana Memorial Union Whittenberger Auditorium, Bloomington -- Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford University will present "Twistors in a Cosmological Setting." Inspired by recent work by E. Witten and others, twistor theory has begun to find a new role in high-energy physics. The theory is specifically tuned (though not exclusively) to treating particles without mass, and it calls upon mathematical ideas of many-variable complex analysis and cohomology. This talk outlines the main ideas (using many visual illustrations), and some new work will be presented showing how the theory fits elegantly into a cosmological setting, where a positive cosmological constant ("dark energy") is taken into account. Professor Penrose's lecture is the 18th annual Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Public Lecture. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys.
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