Lecture Notes
Feb. 22 to March 8, 2013
Research at the Mathers Lecture Series -- Curatorial Research with the Mathers Museum Eastern Cherokee Collections
WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22
WHERE: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington
WHAT: Jason Baird Jackson, director of the Mathers Museum and associate professor of folklore and American studies at IU, will discuss his ongoing, collaborative study of the Eastern Cherokee collections stewarded by the Mathers Museum.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-1696 or jakirk@indiana.edu
Crossing the Borders of Fiction: Do non-existent objects have bodies?
WHEN: 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22
WHERE: Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Francoise Lavocat, professor of comparative literature at Universite Paris III
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-6731 or abcalhour@indiana.edu
Lotus/The Power of Pattern Lecture/Discussion -- Symbols and Stories: Representing Native American Heroines
WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23
WHERE: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington
WHAT: From logos to film motifs, symbols and patterns abound. Even the stories we tell are filled with symbols and patterns. Kristina Downs, folklore student and researcher, will show us the patterns and symbols in the stories we tell and the representations we create of well-known Native American heroines like Sacagawea and Pocahontas.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-1696 or jakirk@indiana.edu
New Medium, New Audience: Family, Neighbors and Democracy on French Radio, 1935-1939
WHEN: 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25
WHERE: Ballantine Hall 204, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Joelle Neulander, associate professor of history at The Citadel, Charleston, S.C.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-7438 or bowlesb@indiana.edu
Primo Levi as Philosopher
WHEN: 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25
WHERE: State Room East, IMU, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Author and former Wesleyan University professor Berel Lang
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
mdeckard@indiana.edu
Owen Mundy -- Artist Lecture
WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27
WHERE: Eskenazi Hall, Herron School of Art and Design, Basile Auditorium, 735 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Owen Mundy, assistant professor of art at Florida State University, discusses his work and exhibition "Packet Switcher."
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION:
katzp@iupui.edu
24th Annual Joseph T. Taylor Symposium: "It Takes a City: Toward a Diverse and Humane Community"
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27
WHERE: 420 University Blvd., IUPUI Campus Center Room 450, Indianapolis
WHAT: The 24th Annual Joseph T. Taylor Symposium is offered in celebration of all Dr. Taylor stood for during his lifetime and stands as a lasting legacy to his vision and life work by hosting informed discussion on issues of concern in urban America.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: lstel@iupui.edu
"Listening" and "Talking" to Neurons: Clinical implications of glial dysregulation of pain, opioid actions & drugs of abuse
WHEN: 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27
WHERE: Multidisciplinary Science Building II, 702 N, Walnut Grove Ave., Gill Conference Room 102, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Linda R. Watkins, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-1930 or mtheodor@indiana.edu
External Affairs and Alumni Relations Specialist/Marketing Associate
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, March 1
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom, Room 100, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Cameron Davis, a longtime advocate for Great Lakes conservation and the top official advising the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Great Lakes. This event carries 7.0 hours of CLE credit plus 1 hour of Ethics credit (pending approval).
COST: Free to students, $100 for attorney w/CLE, $25 general admission
INFORMATION: 317-274-3100 or enlaw@iu.edu
Website Mothers: Reclaiming our Power as Parents
WHEN: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 1
WHERE: 420 University Blvd., IUPUI Campus Center Room 307, Indianapolis
WHAT: IUPUI professor Kim White-Mills explores the degree to which contemporary mothers adhere to the notion of intensive parenting and information available via the Internet. Has the keyboard replaced the doctor's office as mothers seek childrearing expertise?
COST: Free; RSVP with "White-Mills talk" in the subject line.
INFORMATION:
libarsvp@iupui.edu
Pearl Thieves and Perfect Order: A Mollusk's Perspective on Qing Manchuria
WHEN: Noon to 1:15 p.m. Friday, March 1
WHERE: 201 N. Indiana Ave, Center for the Study of Global Change, Seminar Room, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Jonathan Schlesinger, assistant professor in the Department of History at IU Bloomington
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-3765 or easc@indiana.edu
Fanny Wright and the Enlightenment's Unfinished Revolution
WHEN: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5
WHERE: 420 University Blvd., IUPUI Campus Center Room 268, Indianapolis
WHAT: Fanny Wright was a Scottish emigrant who braved the Indiana frontier -- a friend to Jefferson and Lafayette, an advocate for feminism, workers' rights and the abolition of slavery. This is the story of one woman's quest for universal equality in an age of slavery and oppression. Keynote speaker: IUPUI history professor Jason Kelly.
COST: Free; RSVP with "Kelly talk" in the subject line
INFORMATION:
libarsvp@iupui.edu
IP Practitioners-in-Residence: Microsoft Corp.
WHEN: Noon Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5 and 6
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law Room 213, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speakers: Andrew Sanders and Andrea Sander from Microsoft Corp.
COST: Free and open to the public; one hour of Indiana CLE applied for
INFORMATION: 812-856-1197 or allhess@indiana.edu
Symposium in honor of Brian Serot
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6
WHERE: Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, 2401 N. Milo Sampson Lane, Bloomington
WHAT: A one-day symposium honoring the late IU theoretical physicist Brian Serot (1955-2012). Presenters include J. Dirk Walecka, College of William & Mary and the Jefferson Laboratory; George Walker of Cleveland State University; Dick Furnstahl of Ohio State University; Ray Bishop of the University of Manchester; Chuck Horowitz of Indiana University; Jorge Piekarewicz of Florida State University; and Jim Napolitano of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
COST: Free and open to the public.
INFORMATION: 812-855-9365 or moywrigh@indiana.edu.
Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Colloquium
WHEN: 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 6
WHERE: Swain Hall West 119, Bloomington
WHAT: Tetsuo Matsui, professor at the Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo, will speak on "Exploring Extreme States of Matter," a discussion of our present understanding of the extreme states of matter as learned from the latest results of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions.
COST: Free and open to the public.
INFORMATION:
anfoley@indiana.edu
Cholinergic synaptic signaling in the thalamus
WHEN: 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 6
WHERE: MSBII, 702 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Michael Beierlein, University of Texas Medical School
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-1930 or meteodor@indiana.edu
An intervention account for the distribution of Main Clause Phenomena
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6
WHERE: Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Liliane Haegeman, Odysseus Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium, will explore two syntactic accounts for the distribution of Main Clause Phenomena.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-7958 or jauger@indiana.edu
The Relevance Games: Congress' Choice for Economic Substance Gamemakers
WHEN: 1:25 to 3:25 p.m. Thursday, March 7
WHERE: Maurer School of Law Room 216, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Charlene Luke, University of Florida Levin College of Law
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-6149 or llederma@indiana.edu
Workshop on Natural Resource Agreements
WHEN: 9 a.m. Friday, March 8
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law room 335, Bloomington
WHAT: This event will gather a group of experts from practice and academia to discuss the many tiers of agreements that precede and underlie natural resource extraction projects. It will focus on the role these agreements play in allocating the risks and potential benefits and harms of natural resource projects; and aim to understand how the various agreements that establish natural resource extraction projects can increase the likelihood that projects will be environmentally and socially sound, such that they contribute to human dignity and sustainable development.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu
Are We Willing to Trust Patients? Models of Responsibility, Consumerism and Blame
WHEN: 8:45 a.m. to 3 p. m. Friday, March 8
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom and Atrium, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: This year's symposium examines the extent to which patients are trusted as emerging models of health care and health care financing place greater emphasis on patient choice and engagement. Should patients be (more) responsible for the cost of their health care? Will emerging technologies and health care models result in patients acting more like consumers? Join keynote speaker, George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, for this year's Indiana Health Law Review Symposium and other experts.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 317-274-8945 or centerlh@iupui.edu
