1. “Between Large Scale Infrastructures and Local Communities: Informal Roads as Agents of Change” (54:17)

Date:
2019-10-17
Summary:
Dr. Vera Kuklina, Research Professor, Department of Geography, George Washington University While the impact of large infrastructural projects on Siberia’s people and environment has increasingly been gaining attention, important issues related to local infrastructures are less known. Taking the Evenki village Vershina Khandy as an example, Vera Kuklina’s research explores the relationship between different scales of local indigenous communities, extractive industries, and the state. With the introduction of infrastructural development and new transportation technologies, some traditional routes are being used as a base for public road construction, while others are being replaced by new elements: geological clear-cuts, forestry roads, and service roads, and as such, are informally used by motorized vehicles. These informal roads continue to serve as mediators between the village and large-scale infrastructural projects (e.g., the Baikal-Amur Mainline during the Soviet period, and more recently the Power of Siberia gas pipeline construction). The analysis and observations in this talk are based on materials gathered during summer 2019 field work, which included interviews with local leaders, hunters, and fishermen; travelling by different transportation modes; and participation in local subsistence activities. Besides her post at GWU, Vera Kuklina is also Senior Research Associate at the V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include urbanization of indigenous people, traditional land use, socio-ecological systems, cultural geographies of infrastructure and remoteness.

2. "Black Leadership in the Music Industry" Lecture (49:03)

Date:
2013-02-05
Main contributors:
Westbrooks, Logan
Summary:
Public Lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks in the Showers City Hall as part of Bloomington's Black History Month. The lecture was followed by a reception in the lobby of City Hall. The lecture video available here was edited together from the camera footage.

3. "Bustin' Loose: Breaking Racial Barriers in the Music Industry" Lecture at Neal Marshall Black Cu... (1:02:57)

Date:
2013-02-04
Main contributors:
Westbrooks, Logan, Maultsby, Portia K.
Summary:
Public lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall as the opening event of Indiana University's "Black History Month." The lecture was followed by a reception in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, Bridgwaters Lounge. The lecture was shot using two separate cameras and lasted for approximately 75 min. The lecture video available here was edited together from the three video files of main camera footage.

4. "Environmental Challenges, Policies, and Grass-Roots Campaigns in Today's Russia" (1:26:38)

Date:
2019-02-15
Summary:
Visiting environmental journalist Angelina Davydova speaks about environmental problems and challenges in Russia, the policies to tackle them, and the civil society initiatives and movements that have grown to face them. Davydova is currently based at UC Davis as a Humphrey Fellow. She was a past Reuters Foundation fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University (2006) and head of the German-Russian Office of Environmental Information (www.rnei.de). Since 2008 Davydova has been an observer of the UN Climate negotiation process (UNFCCC) and regularly publishes her work in Russian and international media (including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Conversation, Open Democracy, and Science Magazine). Davydova is also the curator of a two-year media training program, “Water Stories,” which features stories dedicated to water issues in Central Asia.

5. "I Learned Like Everyone Else Did" (03:58)

Date:
2013-12-03
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"We didn't want a nursing home saying, we are a Center for Independent Living, we're eligible for that money." David Nelson talks about the establishment of Centers for Independent Living (CILs) in Indiana. He describes a successful effort in Indiana to ensure federal funds went to the state's genuine CILs, federally defined as "consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agencies for the provision of an array of Independent Living services to individuals with significant disabilities." "We got a state statute that took care of that problem. That was a big deal. There are states that I know of that have had their money go to places they should not," David observes. Some years later, he says, Indiana's General Assembly created a budget line item for CILs. Interviewed in 2013, David had been executive director of the League for the Blind and Disabled in Fort Wayne (now known as The League) for 23 years. The League serves 11 of Indiana's northeast counties. He talks about the League's history in the context of the national Independent Living movement. CILs originated with Title VII of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Indiana was a late-comer, "almost a stepchild" of the movement, David recalls. He credits Nancy Griffin, John Cardwell, and Al Tolbert as instrumental in the development of the state's CILs. The League had begun as a single-disability entity known as the Allen County League for the Blind. While cleaning and moving boxes upon his arrival there in 1990, David found original news articles confirming stories he'd heard about its early history. Aging newspaper clippings described Helen Keller's visit to Fort Wayne in 1949, an event that resulted in the founding of the organization. In 1981, the League received federal funding to become the first CIL in Indiana. David served on the statewide Indiana Council on Independent Living and was its chairperson for three years. He also discusses Indiana's vocational rehabilitation agency in the late 1970s, when he was hired there as a counselor. "Vocational Rehabilitation was the Cadillac of state employment at that time." It was well funded and was probably making a more positive impact than it is today, says David. With support of individuals' educational expenses, their business start-ups, and medical procedures needed to improve functional capacities, "we invested in people with disabilities pretty heavily."</p><p><a style="font-size: 1em;" href="https://www.indianadisabilityhistory.org/items/show/243" target="_top">Read David Nelson interview transcript</a>.</p>

7. "Russian Odysseys" Part 1 (14:37)

Date:
2019-09-25
Summary:
Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia Open Panel Discussion. Stephen Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch interviewed by their wives: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Janet Rabinowitch.

8. "Russian Odysseys" Part 2 (1:12:00)

Date:
2019-09-25
Summary:
Stephen F. Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch Reflect on Six (plus!) Decades of Scholarly and Personal Engagement with Russia Open Panel Discussion. Stephen Cohen and Alexander Rabinowitch interviewed by their wives: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Janet Rabinowitch.

9. “Sensing” Place: Habit Change in the Mobile, Connected Present (44:33)

Date:
2020-11-18
Main contributors:
Heidi Rae Cooley
Summary:
We live in an age when mobile touchscreen devices are customarily “on” and in-hand. As a consequence, we frequently engage in practices that involve documenting the self in motion, our geolocational beads (or arrows) locating us and guiding us to destinations of interest (e.g., ATMs, gas stations, restaurants, friend’s houses). These are the sorts of habits our technologies engender. And I contend that, in doing so, they help form and regulate conduct in a nonconscious, habitual—even neurophysiological—manner. In which case, it is at the nonconscious level of existence that habit change needs to work. In this talk, I will draw on American pragmatist Charles Sanders Pierce’s account of habit change to discuss how our geolocative devices might orient us differently in relation to the landscapes and urban terrains we traverse. To provide example of what habit change might look like in the mobile, connected present, I discuss three collaborative mapping projects in whose design and development I have participated. These projects—Augusta App, Ghosts of the Horseshoe, and Ward One App—have afforded me opportunities to explore how the very mechanisms through which technologies of connectivity and location awareness shape habit might also serve as vehicles for re-appropriating social, political histories and practices in the service of habit change.

10. “Through the Wilds: Industrialism and River Life in the Siberian North” (1:10:00)

Date:
2019-10-17
Main contributors:
REEI, Russian Studies Workshop
Summary:
Craig Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.The Lower Tunguska—a tributary in Siberia that flows into the great Yenisei river—was identified several decades ago as a potential site for a massive hydroelectric dam. If the dam were to be built, it would dramatically transform the river and dislocate thousands of people who live in the flood zone. To this day the dam has not been built, as a result, an entire generation of villagers has had to learn to dwell in the suspended temporality of a deferred catastrophe. Regardless of the construction, drift, and crash of industrial projects, indigenous Evenkis in the area have maintained and adapted their traditional lifeways under dramatically different forms of government and social life. The indeterminacies of future of events—especially catastrophe and planned landscape transformation on grand industrial scales—challenge Evenkis to adapt in a chaotic world and call upon scholars to attend to the entanglements of hope, dread, and anticipation.Craig Campbell’s second book, Agitating Images: Photography Against History in Indigenous Siberiawas published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2014. He is currently working on the cultural history of an unbuilt hydro-electric dam in Central Siberia, the weird time of a shadow, re-mediations of socialist encounters, and the aesthetics of damaged, degraded, and manipulated photographs. Craig is a member several curatorial groups including Ethnographic Terminalia and Writing with Light, the later explores the persistent mattering of photography and photo-essays to cultural anthropology.

11. #1 Dr. Smelser N.D. Bicentennial Session I (1:03:09)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Lecture giving Dr. Smelser's understanding of the American Revolution, with his interpretation of the events of the revolution and their meaning for today. Smelser tries to give an unbiased view of the revolution.

12. #113: Cannon, What's News and What's Not, final (36:14)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Finalized verison of a Poynter Center report on how the news is reported in America, including decisions on how newsworthy topics are determined.

13. #1: Open Faculty Forum, "Ethics of Teaching, Evaluating, and Relating with Students" (1:02:16)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Forum on the ethics of teaching in a university setting. The discussion includes prepared statements from several faculty members, and discussion on subjects around the ethics of teaching.

14. #244: Ruckelshaus, EPA (28:59)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Interview with William Ruckelshaus in his capacity as the first director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The interview discusses the ways in which the presidency does and does not address environmental problems, and how American society may need to change to protect the environment.

15. #390: Richard Valeriani II (23:42)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Q&A session with Richard Valeriani, a white house press correspondent between the 1960s and 1970s. Discussion concentrates on the Watergate scandal, including media attitudes over the development of the scandal.

16. #469: Robert Bartley, The Editorial (30:19)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Discussion with Robert Bartley about the importance of journalists in shaping public policy. Bartley discusses how journalists can shape public policy in negative ways depending on the way in which they do so.

17. #524: Robert Bartley, The Pathology of Perception (21:10)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Interview with Robert Bartley about bias in the public perception of institutions towards their failures.

18. #534: Gitta Bauer, Covering Racial Strife (23:25)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Interview with Gitta Bauer. Bauer discusses her international perspective on American race relations. This includes how she covers issues of race in America for a German audience.

19. #584: Konetzka & Smith, Science Panel (1:00:27)

Date:
1975-04-22
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. A discussion on the ethics of research into genetic modification and engineering. Emphasis is put on genetic research involving fetuses, and government regulation of research using them. The two scientists on the panel are Dr. Walter Konetzka, professor of microbiology at IU, and Dr. David Smith, a professor of Religious studies at IU.

20. #612: George Reedy I, President and Press (30:05)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Poynter Center
Summary:
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Interview with George Reedy, White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson from 1964-1965. The interview focuses on Reedy's recently published book 'Twilight of the Presidency', which advances the idea that the presidency is an institution in decline, and identifies the reasons for this decline.