2016 Annual Newsletter by Institute for Advanced Study

2016 Newsletter

The Institute for Advanced Study A Research Institute of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research Indiana University Bloomington The Institute for Advanced Study fosters the exploration of ideas at an early stage of development, promotes collaborative and interdisciplinary research, brings distinguished scholars, scientists, and artists to campus, and supports the myriad forms of research and creativity of associate professors as they advance towards promotion.

Institute for Advanced Study Staff Eileen Julien Director Professor, Comparative Literature, French and Italian, African Studies Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe Associate Director Kristina Downs Communications and Projects Manager Katlin Suiter Administrative Assistant

2016–2017 Advisory Committee Beth Buggenhagen Associate Professor, Anthropology Judah Cohen Associate Professor, Musicology and Jewish Studies Pnina Fichman Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Associate Professor, Informatics and Computing

Beth Gazley Director, Master of Public Affairs Program Professor, SPEA Christoph Irmscher Director, Wells Scholars Program Provost Professor, English Lauren M. MacLean Associate Professor, Political Science

Amar Flood Professor, Chemistry

Michael T. Martin Director, Black Film Center/Archive Professor, The Media School

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer Professor, Maurer School of Law

Catherine Pilachowski Daniel Kirkwood Chair Professor, Astronomy

Front Cover Page (clockwise): Hidden History Tours, New Orleans; Concert with Ani Kavafian, Visiting Fellow; Book Cover, A Tokyo Anthology:

Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis (courtesy of University of Hawai’i Press); “Dressing for Mardi Gras”, Mather’s Museum of World Cultures; Museum of Free People of Color, New Orleans; Phil Novack-Gottshall with Trilobite, Paleontology Collection.

Director’s Notes

Dear Colleagues and Friends, 2016 was an extraordinary year at IU’s Institute for Advanced Study. The IAS expanded by leaps and bounds.

Residential Fellows The IAS hosted four IUB associate professors as semester-long Residential Fellows: • • •

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Lingling Chen, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, “Novel Mechanisms for Developing Antimicrobial Therapeutics,” Spring 2016 Judah Cohen, Musicology, “Jews and Music in Nineteenth-Century America,” Spring 2016 Dionne Cross-Francis, Mathematics Education, “LIFE: A Professional Development Partnership between Lawrence Township Schools, Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS # 48), Fairview Elementary School,” Fall 2016 Ranu Samantrai, English, “After Empire: Decolonizing England,” Fall 2016

Fellows presented work-in-progress seminars in which invited faculty (including some colleagues who attended via video connection) offered feedback on their projects.

Photo courtesy of Indiana University

Attorney George P. Smith, Emeritus Professor of Law, was also an IAS Residential Fellow in Fall 2016. A native of Indiana, Professor Smith holds degrees from Indiana University, Columbia University, and the Hague Academie de Droit International, as well as an honorary degree from Indiana University. He has taught at Catholic University of America since 1977. With his boundless interests and energy, Professor Smith has also crisscrossed the world as a visiting scholar and lecturer and has garnered numerous distinctions and honors. Among his areas of specialization are the law, ethics, and human rights. He will return to IU in spring 2017, to offer a public lecture as one in a series of talks organized by the Henry H.H. Remak Seminar on “Dignity, Equality, and Social Justice.”

Visiting Fellows The IAS welcomed Visiting Fellows, scholars and performers nominated by IUB faculty for short term collaborations on scholarly projects, exhibits and performances: • • • • • •

Zhanna Chernova, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia, “Work and Family Balance in Contemporary Russia,” nominated by Sarah D. Phillips (Anthropology) Omar Victor Diop, Senegalese Photographer, “Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions,” nominated by Beth Buggenhagen (Anthropology) Ani Kavafian, Yale School of Music, “Ani Kavafian and Friends,” nominated by Kevork Mardirossian (Music) Michael Sauder, University of Iowa, “From the Ivory Tower to the Fertile Plains: The Spread and Interpretation of Public Ideas,” nominated by Timothy Hallett (Sociology) Elizabeth Wallfisch, Royal Academy of Music, “String Academy Chamber Orchestra and Violin Virtuosi,” nominated by Mimi Zweig (Music) Nancy A. Welsh, Penn State University, “Consumer Arbitration Clauses: An Opportunity for Real Dispute System Design and Procedural Justice?” nominated by Lisa Blomgren Amsler (SPEA)

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Director’s Notes Summer Repository Research Fellows The IAS sponsored five Summer Repository Research Fellows, each of whom explored the unique resources of specific IUB repositories, sometimes in collaboration with IUB associate professors: • • • • •

Michelle Ann Abate, The Ohio State University, worked with Heather Blair (Religious Studies), on collections at the Lilly Library Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri-St. Louis, worked with Lessie Jo Frazier (Gender Studies), at the IU Archives for research on May, 1968 Michael P. Gonella, Myaamia Research Center at Miami University, studied collections at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology and the IU Herbarium Philip M. Novack-Gottshall, Benedictine University of Lisle, Illinois, worked at the IU Paleontology Collection Paul Tyler, Old Town School of Folk Music of Chicago City Colleges, researched indigenous Indiana music and recordings at the Archives of Traditional Music at Traditional Arts Indiana and at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures

Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities, our three-week NEH-sponsored Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, drew twenty-four participants from across the U.S. to study the relationship between urban life and the arts, with a special emphasis on the aftermath of catastrophes, such as Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 and the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. (See page 12 for highlights.)

2016 Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities, NEH-sponsored Summer Institute

The IAS continues to support associate professors advancing toward promotion to full professor through our ever-expanding programs: promotion cohort working groups, roundtable discussion on issues related to the promotion process, the one-semester Residential Fellowships mentioned above (some now with course release), and funding through individual, collaborative, and conference research awards. In 2016, the IAS made 68 awards to IUB associate professors.

Bringing these many initiatives to fruition required countless hours of sweat and talent. It has been our good fortune and pleasure to have a skilled, creative, and congenial staff, the most recent of whom are Communications and Projects Manager Kristina Downs, and Administrative Assistant Katlin Suiter. Over the next few years, we look forward to hosting a symposium on “The Research University and the Lives of Faculty” and to marking IU’s bicentennial with an anthology of distinguished lectures and talks sponsored by the IAS over the years. The IAS continues to help generate and incubate ideas and to promote intellectual community. We welcome, we need your support, your suggestions, your participation!

Eileen Julien

Inside the IAS

Inside the IAS Staff Spotlight

Communications and Projects Manager Kristina Downs holds a M.A. in Folklore from George Mason University and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore at Indiana University. She previously taught at Northern Virginia Community College and has worked with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She is also the Managing Editor of The Journal of Folklore Research.

Administrative Assistant Katlin Suiter holds a B.S. in Arts Management from Indiana University. She is currently pursuing her Masters in both Arts Administration and Public Affairs through IU’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She worked at the Eskenazi Museum of Art for two years as an Events Coordinator, focusing on audience engagement and public programming. She also interned at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, coordinating and planning events.

In my case, the importance of these IAS research awards simply cannot be overstated. It was my IAS award that made possible my recording Canto America, which went on to receive a Grammy nomination this year in the Latin Jazz category. Need I say more? — Michael Spiro, Associate Professor of Music (Percussion), Jacobs School of Music

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— Catherine A. Pilachowski, IAS Board Member

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The Institute’s support of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship provides a foundation for the intellectual vitality of our campus.

Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellows Through the Eyes of IU Faculty Interview with Betsy Stirratt, Director and Curator, Grunwald Gallery of Art who, with IUB Associate Professor of Anthropology Beth Buggenhagen, co-hosted Visiting Fellow Omar Victor Diop, Senegalese Photographer, in September 2016

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) from self-portrait series Project Diaspora, 2014

IAS: What prompted you to undertake this collaboration? Beth Buggenhagen and I had mutual interest in the work of Omar Victor Diop. Beth had previously interviewed him in Dakar for her research. We were working with renowned photography curator and historian Deborah Willis to produce a show in September 2016 at the Grunwald Gallery. Diop was included in the list of artists for “Framing Beauty” and it was a natural fit that we would invite him to be part of the activities planned for the exhibit. His visit here allowed Beth to interview him as a continuation of her research and include him in many programs and activities. IAS: What impact does an international artist like Omar Victor Diop have on campus? What impact on your research or teaching to be able to interact with this artist one-on-one and in public forums, such as the panel discussion?

Because it is rather rare to invite an international artist to campus to spend a full week, interest in his visit was relatively high within the visual arts community. It is essential that we present the work and thoughts of artists from outside the U.S. to students and the public. Diop’s personal career trajectory was of much interest to attendees at the panels and lectures because he did not come to the visual arts through the typical channels. Photo courtesy of Omar Victor Diop and The Grunwald Gallery

His participation here greatly increased the interest in “Framing Beauty” because of the beauty of his images, the articulation of the background behind his work, and his interests as a photographer. IAS: What is the appeal of collaborative endeavors such as this one? Collaborations are essential for my work in organizing public exhibits and programs. Projects such as this have a much larger impact on viewers when faculty from a variety of disciplines are involved and can utilize the exhibits, panel discussions, lectures and informal talks for their courses and to engage their students. This collaborative effort allows us to articulate the importance of the integration of the visual arts and images with academic disciplines.

Ani Kavafian

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Her classes and concert opened the eyes and minds of faculty and students. It made all of us look for new, more innovative options in teaching and performing.

—Kevork Mardirossian, James H. Rudy Professor of Music (Violin) Faculty Host for Visting Fellow Ani Kavafian Photo courtesy of Ani Kavafian

Visiting Fellows

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—Mimi Zweig, Professor of Music (Violin, Viola); Director, Pre-College Strings

Elizabeth Wallfisch in concert

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Wallfisch’s interaction with the students and her performances enhanced everyone’s perspective on yet another way to approach Baroque music. We are looking forward to bringing her again in the future.

Interview with Timothy Hallett, IUB Associate Professor of Sociology on his research collaboration with Visiting Fellow Michael Sauder (University of Iowa) and Sociology PhD student Orla Stapleton IAS: How did your collaboration with Michael Sauder and Orla Stapleton begin? Mike and I originally became curious about public ideas when we observed the public success and attention given to Robert Putnam’s book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000). We were curious because the work had been panned in academia but was hugely successful in the media, in public discourse, and with policy makers. So we started to wonder, what makes a successful public idea? We began by focusing on Putnam’s book, but expanded our study to include additional works that made it into the public. IAS: What did your residency/collaboration at Indiana University allow you to accomplish? Michael Sauder’s presentation, “From the Ivory Tower to the Thanks to the residency, the three of us were able to work together Fertile Plains: The Spread and Interpretation of Public Ideas” and intensively. We were able to think about and talk through the data together, to collect feedback from colleagues at IU, to outline the draft for a paper, and we turned that outline into a presentation that was well-attended and that generated additional terrific comments. We have been able to take all of that and use it towards an actual draft of the paper that we will submit for presentation at the American Sociological Association meetings.

IAS: What is the takeaway for academics, presses, readers, or others about the role of media in the dissemination of social science ideas? The content of social science ideas matters, and some controversy about the ideas is good for the initial splash, but what is as important for the career of a public idea is how the media (and not necessarily academia) attach the idea to events that occur at a later point in time, events that could not be anticipated or controlled by the author of the original ideas. So the “trick” of a public idea is to have enough content to generate initial interest, but the idea needs to be flexible enough and adaptable enough so that it can be stretched to make sense of other events.

Henry H.H. Remak Seminar

Henry H.H. Remak Seminar “Dignity, Equality, and Social Justice”

Steve Sanders

The IAS is pleased to have relaunched the Remak Seminar and Distinguished Scholar Lecture during the 2016–17 academic year. These programs were established in 2010 to honor the late Henry H. H. Remak, former IAS Director (1988–94 and 1997–98). The Seminar enables a team of four to eight IUB scholars from multiple disciplines to meet regularly on campus throughout an academic year, collaborating on a specific theme and bringing prominent scholars, scientists, and artists to work with them. It is one of many IAS programs that facilitates collaborations among local faculty and visiting colleagues in a wide range of fields, and allows the IAS and IU to take an active part in national and international conversations. The focus of the 2016–2017 Remak Seminar is “Dignity, Equality, and Social Justice,” and it is led by IUB Professor Steve Sanders, associate professor in the Maurer School of Law where he teaches constitutional and family law as well as constitutional litigation. Sanders is also an affiliate faculty member in IU’s Department of Gender Studies, the Kinsey Institute, and the Department of Political Science. His scholarship focuses on questions arising from the 14th Amendment’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. Photo courtesy of Indiana University

In addition to scholarly publications, Sanders writes regularly for The Huffington Post, SCOTUSBlog, and other print and online media. He argues that while “dignity” is frequently invoked in discussions of human rights and politics, the concept itself has received relatively little attention. He notes that, “Critical examination of dignity can connect us with significant legal and philosophical debates of the past while informing discourse on urgent contemporary controversies such as institutional racism, criminal justice, immigration policy, voting rights, health policy, religious liberty and LGBT equality.” IAS Director Eileen Julien concurs, adding, “As we take the pulse of the world today, the 2016–17 seminar theme seems particularly timely, with the potential to engage broad sectors of the campus and Bloomington community.” The 2016–17 Remak Seminar Series kicked-off on November 10 with a video appearance by internationally acclaimed jurist and scholar Aharon Barak, former president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Barak discussed his book Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and Constitutional Right. As part of the series, an exhibition of materials from IU’s Lilly Library collections highlighting themes of human dignity reflected in law, literature, and other subject areas opened in early 2017. Future events will include public presentations by invited scholars and a Distinguished Scholar Lecture in later spring 2017 by Sanders. These programs will address issues of transgender equality, disability, race, and the jurisprudence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The group also plans to launch a website to make recordings of the programs available to the public, along with contextual information produced by the seminar. Joining Sanders as seminar participants are: • Cara Caddoo, assistant professor, History and Media School • Judith Failer, associate professor, Political Science • Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, professor and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow, Maurer School of Law; adjunct, Latino Studies and Political Science • Colin Johnson, associate professor, Gender Studies; adjunct, American Studies, History and Human Biology • Sheila Kennedy, professor (IUPUI), School of Public and Environmental Affairs; faculty fellow, Center for Religion and American Culture; adjunct, Political Science • Sean Nicholson-Crotty, professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs • Brian Powell, Rudy Professor and Chair, Sociology; affiliated faculty, Gender Studies and The Kinsey Institute

Branigin Lecture Public events for the Remak Seminar are posted on the IAS website and Facebook page and will be continually updated on the Maurer School of Law calendar You can view the video of Justice Barak’s discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zqoMmCrk0o

Branigin Lecture “The Geopolitics of Your Bathtub: Why Who Does Your Housework Matters” Since 1999, the Gene Lois Portteus Branigin Lecture Series has brought to the Bloomington campus distinguished interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and public figures from all fields.

Professor Enloe’s teaching and research have focused on the interplay of gender and politics in national and international arenas, including, for example, how international relations and masculinity are perceived as mutually constitutive; how women’s labor has been used to support the war-waging policies of governments; and how women have resisted and disrupted those efforts. Professor Enloe has held Fulbright awards in Malaysia and Guyana, guest professorships in Japan, Britain, Canada, and has lectured in Europe and Asia, as well as at universities around the U.S.

In addition to her public lecture, Professor Enloe met with invited graduate students at a lunch hosted by the IAS. She discussed individual students’ research and led a broad discussion on contemporary issues of gender and social justice.

Cynthia Enloe

In fall 2016, Hilary Kahn, assistant dean for strategic collaborations in the School of Global and International Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Global Change, nominated Professor Cynthia Enloe to be a Branigin Lecturer. Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her research examines gender, work, globalization, and militarism. Enloe began her lecture by tracing her own trajectory in grasping the connections between these seemingly disparate (and in her words “deceptive”) categories. She ultimately focused on migrant women who work as domestic laborers in the United States and drew examples from their experiences as a means of discussing larger geopolitical realities and inequalities. She described how millions of migrant women working in domestic fields have altered the political and gendered landscape by creating workers’ rights organizations. Hilary Kahn noted that “We could not ask for a more insightful and inventive scholar to help us explore the intersection of gender and geopolitics, which is a significant global issue that needs more attention and is particularly timely and relevant.”

Enloe is the author of fourteen books, including Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives; The Curious Feminist; Globalization and Militarism, and Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War. Her best known publication may be Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, published in 1990, with a second edition appearing in 2014. Enloe publishes also in the popular press, and her research has been featured on National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, C-Span and the BBC.

The Branigin Photo Courtesy of Cynthia Enloe Lecture Series is supported by an endowment from the estate of Indiana University alumna Gene Lois Portteus Branigin (1914– 1990). Branigin graduated from IU with a B.A. in English in 1934. She was a trustee of Franklin College where she established a Law Scholarship and Journalism Award in memory of her husband, Elba. She was also active in the IU Alumni Association and served on its Executive Council for three years. Her intention was that the IAS identify “experts in a variety of academic fields to visit Indiana University, to speak to and interact with faculty and students.” We gratefully acknowledge her foresight and generosity. Look for other Branigin Lectures on social justice in 2017–18.

Residential Fellow

Professor Emerita Sumie Jones: Translating Japan and Popular Culture: A Dialogue Between Access and Fidelity

By Zachary Scalzo, Graduate Assistant to Sumie Jones Sumie Jones, Residential Fellow at the IAS, is a IUB professor emerita of both Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has organized international conferences at IU, attended many others, and continues to build on an impressive publication history.

Sumie Jones

Jones’ current project is a three-volume compilation of Japanese urban literature in Photo courtesy of Sumie Jones English translation, under contract with the University of Hawai’i Press. Supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Toshiba International Foundation, in addition to IU, Jones has collected a wide variety of urban and popular Japanese texts, most of which have never been translated into English. Her three-volume anthology will provide both the scholar and the casual reader with comprehensive introductions to each work, allowing anyone to enjoy these translations without the weight of footnotes or other intrusions, and with an in-depth look at each period and diverse regional cultural and literary contexts.

Throughout the editorial process Jones and her co-editor for each volume coordinate editorial choices not only between themselves, but also with the editorial staff, individual translators, and an editorial board of experts in Japanese literature and culture. “Rather than severing the connection between these texts and their accompanying images, she works tirelessly to obtain the rights to manuscripts and other visual materials, thereby reproducing ...texts as the original [readers] experienced them,” explains Ali Frauman, one of the project’s chief assistants since 2014. Attention from both a visual and a textual perspective ensures that the works collected in these volumes are faithful to their original presentations which carry meaning beyond “literal” textual equivalence. Jones’ cooperative, multi-step approach to editing—which Frauman describes as the “dialogue...of the revision process”—ensures that the best possible translations, refined and skillful, will be presented to an American readership. Over the next three years, as part of her residency at the IAS, Jones aims to complete and publish the volume that covers the anthology’s earliest time period, Photo courtesy of Sumie Jones tentatively titled A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750. This volume, joining the alreadypublished and well-reviewed An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega City, 1750-1850 (2009), will focus on works concerning the cities of Kyoto and Osaka and feature poetry, prose, drama, graphic narratives, and texts that push against and between genres.

Jones and Assistants

The project is intended to make these texts visible and accessible, and it responds well to contemporary American interest in Japanese popular cultural forms. Including literary texts by both lesser-known writers and established authors, alongside image-based and commercial texts, the forthcoming volume, A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920 presents a range of genres: gōkan, Edo-style graphic novels, and panels from An Illustrated Ja-pun, a Meiji-period Mad magazine. The anthology highlights both written and visual representations. Just as important, it brings attention to popular literature and culture, often denigrated as subjects unworthy of serious consideration and study. As the only current assistant to the project without a background in Japan Studies, it seems to me that these diverse works shed considerable light on

Japanese intellectual and cultural production and correct its underrepresentation in the English-speaking world. Many of these works are available only in private collections and are typically neglected in literary studies. Readers may also begin to recognize the historical art forms that precede contemporary popular culture.

The Translation Seminar

Approaching Translation Theory and Practice

By Bill Johnston, Translation Seminar Co-organizer and IUB Professor of Comparative Literature

The Translation Seminar was started in 2001 by Professors Breon Mitchell and Sumie Jones, as a way of creating a community of literary translators and those interested in translation, around a series of talks by practicing translators. Throughout its existence the seminar has been marked by three things: first, the high quality of speakers, including many of the most prominent literary translators in the country; second, a strong orientation toward the practice of translation, focusing on specific projects and translation problems; and third, the informal, interactive nature of the seminar meetings, which take the form of an ongoing conversation among faculty, students, and members of the IU community. For the last two years the series has been co-organized by Russell Valentino (IUB-Slavics and Associate Dean for International Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences) and myself. In 2016 the Literary Translation Seminar series welcomed four speakers to campus. In March we were visited by Elizabeth Harris of the University of North Dakota, who spoke about her translation of Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies; in April, Sandra Smith spoke about her re-translation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider from the French. In the fall semester we enjoyed talks by Sibelan Forrester of Swarthmore College (Russian, Serbian, and Croatian) and Geoffrey Brock (Italian, French, and Spanish). The seminars have been enjoyed by participants and presenters alike. Zachary Scalzo, a doctoral student in Comparative Literature and frequent attendee, says that the speakers “create a relaxed environment with the audience,” and that “the feeling of a ‘low stakes’ conversation allows for really interesting and complex discussions of translation theory and practice,” while Elizabeth Harris, our March 2016 visitor, states: “My visit to Indiana to discuss my translation of Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies was very stimulating. I was holed up with this complex novel for so long, it was a real treat to be able to talk with others about some of the particulars of the translation, including the challenges of translating a book steeped in literary and cultural references and citations, as well as the nuances to translating the book’s complicated point of view and resulting variations in voice.”

Translation Seminar Speakers, 2016

Elizabeth Harris

Sandra Smith

Sibelan Forrester

Geoffrey Brock

Translating the Voice (or Voices) of a Dying Man in Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies: Considerations of Point of View in Fiction Translation

Translating Camus’ The Stranger

Poetry, Fiction and Scholarly Prose: A Slice of Translating Experience from Croatian, Russian and Serbian

Imitations and Departures

Photo courtesy of all Translation Seminar Speakers

Summer Repository Research Fellows

IAS Summer Repository Research Fellowship A Closer Look at IUB’s Collections

Phil-Novak-Gottshall

The second year of our Summer Repository Research Fellowship saw an expansion in both number of visitors and types of participating IUB repositories. Between May and August 2016, we hosted five visiting researchers in five different repositories. Each spent two weeks on campus, immersed in one or more collections of their choosing.

Paleobiologist Phil Novack-Gottshall from Benedictine University had visited IU’s Paleontology Collections prior to this trip and said, “The IU Paleontology Collections are truly world renowned, collected by generations of paleontologists, some as faculty, some as former students, and others by dedicated amateurs. The Department of Geological Sciences has remained one of the leading centers of field and specimen-based paleontological research in the world.” Novack-Gottshall was delighted by the collections access and the opportunity to work with IUPC staff. “Fossils are not the easiest specimens to manage; heavy, bulky, and sometimes requiring chemical and physical intervention to maintain. I was very pleased to see the very good accommodations they are maintained in: easy to access and work with, well lighted, and very well organized. I was also happy to see the excellent curators and support staff overseeing the collections, and enjoyed spending time with them. The IUPC remains in excellent hands, and this bodes very well for the future paleontologists (students and professional) who will be using them.”

Professor Novack-Gottshall and his undergraduate students have enjoyed additional analytical opportunities as a result of the IUPC-facilitated expansion of his database of fossil body sizes. This work has also laid the foundation for future collaborations. “My residency in the IU Paleontology Collection was a fantastic opportunity to collect critical data on the sizes of fossil marine animals,” he wrote. “Other museums have specimens of similar ages, but the IUPC ranks alone in the density of the fossils I needed and the opportunity to collect them in an efficient manner. I expect to plan future visits to the collections, and hope to interact more regularly with the faculty and researchers at IU as a result of my visit.”

Michael P. Gonella

Ethnobotanist Michael P. Gonella from Myaamia Center, Miami University studied collections at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology and the IU Herbarium. He described his project and visit, saying, “My work with the Myaamia people is to explore avenues of gaining more ethnobotanical information on their culture. I knew that the Glenn Black lab was the best place to find out more, from an archaeological perspective. Ethnoarchaeobotany had not been explored yet as a subject for the Myaamia, so it intrigued me to investigate this further using your collections. I found more information than I expected, and a more comprehensive ethnohistorical collection regarding regional tribes and the Myaamia than I predicted. This new ethnobotanical data relating to the Myaamia people will enrich the tribe’s database from which all cultural materials (curriculums, etc.) are derived. In addition, the new relationships that were made between the tribe and the lab are quite valuable, and we plan to work together again in the future.”

My residency in the IU Paleontology Collection was a fantastic opportunity to collect critical data on the sizes of fossil marine animals...I expect to plan future visits to the collections, and hope to interact more regularly with the faculty and researchers at IU as a result of my visit. —Phil Novack-Gottshall, Paleobologist and Summer Repository Fellow 2016

Paul Tyler

Deborah Cohen

Historian Deborah Cohen from the University of MissouriSt. Louis collaborated with Lessie Jo Frazier, IUB Associate Professor of Gender Studies, to conduct research in the IU Archives on sexual worldviews of the 1960s, pertaining to 1968 social movements in several places around the world. They gave a joint presentation at the IU Archives entitled “Researching: IU and the Global 1968.”

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Summer Repository Research Fellows

Ethnomusicologist Paul Tyler from Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago City Colleges worked in the Archives of Traditional Music, specifically with field recordings of musicians in Indiana. Dr. Tyler talked about his project to create a sonic portrait of the living music traditions nourished by Hoosier communities. The recordings will be compiled into a CD set with extensive liner notes, reflecting the geographic range, ethnic diversity, and historical depth of Indiana’s traditional music.

Michelle Ann Abate

Literary and Cultural Historian Michelle Ann Abate from The Ohio State University specializes in literature for children and young adults. While at IU, Abate collaborated with Heather Blair, IU Associate Professor of Religious Studies, to conduct research in collections of the Lilly Library. “I was really impressed with both the number and the variety of chapbooks that the library held,” Abate said, “Also, the Robert Klein comic book collection was an incredible treasure. It has many unusual and eclectic titles, which greatly interested me. I didn’t come to do work on comics—which is another one of my research areas—but I ended up spending quite a lot of time looking through its holdings. Just like the best research trips, you come looking for one set of materials and then you discover a whole other set of wonders.”

NEH Summer Institute

Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities

By Oana Panaïté, IUB Professor of French and Italian

The “Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities” Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, supported through a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, brought together twenty-one faculty, three graduate students from universities across the United States, and five faculty conveners, each leading two days of discussions centered around one city.

Hidden History Tours, Jackson Square

Inviting reflections on and against the stereotype of Africa as a fundamentally rural space where urbanism is a mere colonial import, Professor James Ogude (U Pretoria, Institute co-director) opened the proceedings with the crucial question: What is a city? The ensuing conversation around the history, cartography, and social life of the city of Nairobi (Kenya) was followed by a close examination, under the guidance of Prof. Grace Musila (Stellenbosch U), of the manifold aspects of life in Accra (Ghana) as reflected in literary and cinematic works that envision the city as a space that relies on, but also belies, the dichotomy of the insider (native, rich, heterosexual)/outsider (immigrant, poor, gay). Prof. Eileen Julien (IUB, Institute co-director) guided the participants through an intellectual exploration of post-Katrina New Orleans (US), where the layers of history and memory reveal a colonial and postcolonial archeology of alienation, suffering, struggle, and dispossession but also creation, invention, and re-affirmation. This history was brought home still more sharply by a short but illuminating trip Photo courtesy of Lat Joor Awa Gaye to New Orleans.

Hidden History Tours, 9th Ward

Upon returning to Bloomington, the Institute resumed its work under the direction of Professor Akin Adesokan (IUB) whose exploration of Lagos (Nigeria) and its sprawling urban space sparked a series of exchanges about the interrelation of urbanism, architecture, politics, and music. In discussing life and art in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) after the devastating 2010 earthquake, I invited participants to envision the city as a microcosm of the country, and its exceptional artistic production as a form of resistance to a history, written mostly by outsiders, that has become a synonym of catastrophe from the bloody primal scene of the first slave republic, proclaimed in 1804, to neo-liberal forms of predatory capitalism disguised as humanitarian work. In the last two days of the Institute, participants presented their own teaching or research projects, inspired and informed by the experience, and voiced their own constructive and critical feedback.

Photo courtesy of Lat Joor Awa Gaye

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I found this course extremely stimulating and challenging. Including cities in the Americas (New Orleans and Portau-Prince) as “African” cities was thought-provoking and created opportunities for analysis that would not have been possible had the parameters been set by urban life on the continent. Most of all, I Ioved engaging in a sustained conversation with the wonderful faculty leaders and participants from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions. It was a most productive and enriching experience! – Karen Bouwer, Professor and Coordinator, African Studies at the University of San Francisco

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Partnership: Luce/ACLS Project

Perceptions of Religion in an Uninformed World: Helping Journalism Do Its Job

By Elaine Monaghan, IUB Professor of Practice, Media School

When I started scouting campus for collaborators on a project that injects scholarship on religion and international affairs into the practice and teaching of journalism, I found an open door at the Institute for Advanced Study. I came to Bloomington after a twenty-one year hiatus in my academic life spent mainly in the sleepless world of international journalism. But any misconceptions I had about the pace of academia evaporated when I started looking for partners for Perceptions of Religion in an Uninformed World: Helping Journalism Do Its Job. IAS Director Eileen Julien immediately agreed to support the project, which last year, along with counterparts at Columbia University and Northeastern University, became a grantee of a new program at the American Council of Learned Societies in New York. I plan to collaborate on curricular content with faculty from multiple schools and departments including the Media School, religious studies, and international studies. Elaine Monaghan

It’s all the more meaningful to me to be building new connections among colleagues and students with the help of funds from Henry Luce, one of American journalism’s great historical figures, who was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc. The ACLS funds originated with a foundation that Luce set up in 1936 to honor his parents, who were missionary educators in China.

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My project for the Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs will bring journalism practitioners and religious and international studies scholars together in Bloomington for a symposium in summer 2018. Together they will examine best practices for journalism when asked to shine its light on complex stories that would benefit from scholarly contextualization. “Professor Monaghan’s project comes at a critical time,” says Julien, “and we look forward to working with her in \organizing interdisciplinary collaborations to help bring this project to fruition.”

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Neil Blackadder (Knox College) on translating contemporary German and French drama (April 17th)

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