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- Date:
- 2015-08-18
- Summary:
- Folklorist Jon Kay made this short documentary for the exhibition, "Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker." The exhibit explored the work of Viki Graber a willow basketmaker from Goshen, Indiana. Viki learned willow basket weaving at the age of twelve from her father, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2009 National Heritage Fellow. Where once her family plied their talents to make utilitarian workbaskets, Viki makes baskets for collectors and to sell at art shows and galleries. While using the same tools and methods as her great-grandfather, Viki's keen sense of color and innovative designs have elevated her family's craft to a new aesthetic level. Sponsored by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences as part of their Fall 2015 Themester @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, the exhibition and the video were on display at the museum from August 18 through December 20, 2015.
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Lasater, Michael (artist)
- Summary:
- The genesis of Mise-en-scène is the Stravinsky/Cocteau treatment of Oedipus Rex, first performed in 1927. I have been familiar with this composition from many encounters, including performances as a member of the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and later studying it along with Stravinsky's Persephone in David Diamond’s class in twentieth-century music at Juilliard. I was struck by Stravinsky’s intended mise-en-scène in which the soloists stand immobile in a niched frieze, a two-dimensional proscenium. I also loved his choice of Latin as a means of arresting the Oedipus story in stone –– a text as much ritual and object as narrative –– and his intentional use of so many stylistic references –– a Dada collage. In Mise-en-scène my personae ––Creon, Iocasta and Oedipus –– are set immobile in a triptych, a flat, painterly proscenium. I’ve written Latin texts as one might write lines for a libretto, but I do not intend that these texts be read as narrative. Instead, I’ve treated the texts as visual objects like the partial Latin inscriptions one sees on temple ruins. In Oracula, the text flows by so rapidly that it is all but unreadable. In Timeo and Ecce, the text is glimpsed in fragments –– one can discover shards of the Oedipus narrative, and if one knows the story, one can close the rest of the drama. The panels--three sketches--serve the same function. –Michael Lasater
- Date:
- 2015-06-09
- Main contributors:
- Kassel, Carol, Pechekhonova, Ekaterina, Lovins, Daniel
- Summary:
- Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P3A: Integrating with External Systems.
25. Alcina (2:17:44)
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2015-10-17
- Main contributors:
- Williams, Michael Ann, Turner, Kay
- Summary:
- More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of this era have been realized, especially in areas of cross-disciplinary research. This address will look specifically at how attitudes toward historical scholarship have changed within the discipline of folklore and how we have constructed our own disciplinary histories during this postrevolutionary phase. Finally, the address will look to the future and whether we are reconstructing our past in our current graduate training in the discipline.
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
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- Date:
- 2015-06-09
- Main contributors:
- Dunn, Jon W., Minton Morris, Carol, Walters, Carolyn, Nixon, William, Field, Adam, Knowles, Claire
- Summary:
- Opening session at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes remarks by Jon Dunn (Organizing Committee Chair), Carol Minton Morris (Steering Committee Co-Chair), Carolyn Walters (Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries, Indiana University), William Nixon (Program Committee Co-Chair), Adam Field (Developer Challenge Co-Chair) and Claire Knowles (Developer Challenge Co-Chair).
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Mimi Zweig
- Summary:
- Mimi Zweig, Professor of Music (Violin, Viola) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, delivers a lecture to students of the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- See Other Contributors
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- Date:
- 2015-10-16
- Main contributors:
- Blei, David
- Summary:
- Probabilistic topic models provide a suite of tools for analyzing large document collections. Topic modeling algorithms discover the latent themes that underlie the documents and identify how each document exhibits those themes. Topic modeling can be used to help explore, summarize, and form predictions about documents. Topic modeling ideas have been adapted to many domains, including images, music, networks, genomics, and neuroscience. Traditional topic modeling algorithms analyze a document collection and estimate its latent thematic structure. However, many collections contain an additional type of data: how people use the documents. For example, readers click on articles in a newspaper website, scientists place articles in their personal libraries, and lawmakers vote on a collection of bills. Behavior data is essential both for making predictions about users (such as for a recommendation system) and for understanding how a collection and its users are organized. In this talk, I will review the basics of topic modeling and describe our recent research on collaborative topic models, models that simultaneously analyze a collection of texts and its corresponding user behavior. We studied collaborative topic models on 80,000 scientists' libraries from Mendeley and 100,000 users' click data from the arXiv. Collaborative topic models enable interpretable recommendation systems, capturing scientists' preferences and pointing them to articles of interest. Further, these models can organize the articles according to the discovered patterns of readership. For example, we can identify articles that are important within a field and articles that transcend disciplinary boundaries. More broadly, topic modeling is a case study in the large field of applied probabilistic modeling. Finally, I will survey some recent advances in this field. I will show how modern probabilistic modeling gives data scientists a rich language for expressing statistical assumptions and scalable algorithms for uncovering hidden patterns in massive data.
- Date:
- 2015-08-22
- Main contributors:
- Mauri Williamson (Master), Jon Kay (Director), Shaun Williams (Production and Editing), Geoff Guernsey and Olivia Smiley (Music), Andrew Wei (Recorder of Music), Jessy Yancey and Mark Evans (Additional Footage),Traditional Arts Indiana
- Summary:
- Thanks to Mauri Williamson, the Pioneer Village has become one of the most popular and beloved activities of the Indiana State Fair. The Village celebrates Indiana’s agricultural heritage through displaying antique tractors and farm implements, as well as by hosting old-time craft and farm-life demonstrations. The roots of the Village date to 1961 when Mauri, then the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association secretary, brought a collection of farming artifacts from the university to create an educational display at the Indiana State Fair. In 1968, the Village began to grow when the Fair built a barn dedicated to housing its unique collection. From fiddling and quilting to threshing and storytelling, today the Pioneer Village features dozens of musicians, artisans, and demonstrators who share their talents with fairgoers. More than just the founder of the Pioneer Village, for over 54 years Mauri Williamson has worked to make the Village a memorable experience for countless Hoosiers. The Indiana State Fair Master Award was established to recognize long-time fair participants, who share their knowledge and talents at the Fair. Indiana University's Traditional Arts Indiana and Indiana State Fair are Honored to name Mauri Williamson the 2015 Indiana State Fair Master.
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Jessica Raposo, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Caryle Bailey
- Summary:
- 2015 Victorian Song-Camp Singers (all children’s voices used with parental permission): Heather Metzger, age 8 Grace Stewart, age 9 Mary Jetmore, age 9 Kristen Urich, age 10 Eden Judd, age 10 Malory Bolser, age 10 Ben Schweitzer, age 10 Graham Milligan, age 11 Madeline Stults, age 12 Luke Schweitzer, age 12 Heidi Metzger, age 13 Grace Blakely, age 13 Natalie Milligan, age 13 Annetta Itnyre, age 13 Natalie Pegg, age 13 Alexa Turner, age 15 Solo: Annetta Itnyre, ages 8-11 Duets “Jesus bids of shine” & “Gentle Jesus, meek & mild”: Madelyn Brunton & Annetta Itnyre, age 8 Rest of Duets: Lydia Shively and Annetta Itnyre, ages 14 & 13 Unison & Parts: Children’s Hymn Choir, June 2015, *Jessica Raposo, director; Caryle Bailey, pianist
- Date:
- 2015-06-17
- Main contributors:
- Indiana Disability History Project
- Summary:
- "When Mark left high school there was no plan," recalls his father. Mark Hublar went to work at a sheltered workshop. Today he is a motivational speaker who is asked to address audiences around the U.S. In these video interview excerpts, Mark and his father Al Hublar have a conversation about Mark's employment history and his path towards his dream job. Mark graduated New Albany High School in 1983. After working for Rauch Industries, he was hired by a family business, McDonald's, and Walmart, with a stint as a family caregiver in between. At the age of 49, Mark returned to school, attending Jefferson Community & Technical College so that he could study public speaking. Mark and his father were interviewed in New Albany, Indiana on May 8, 2017.
- Date:
- 2015-06-10
- Main contributors:
- Newman, Linda D.
- Summary:
- Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P6A: Repository Rants and Raves.
36. Why FRBRoo and CIDOC CRM are great for expressing (Linked, Open) Ethnographic Research Data (27:02)
- Date:
- 2015-06-09
- Main contributors:
- Le Faive, Rosemary
- Summary:
- Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P1A: Linked Open Data (LOD).
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Brinkman, Del
- Summary:
- Del Brinkman has had a distinguished career in journalism and university teaching and administration. He began his career in 1954 on the staff of The Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette and retired in 2002 as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also helped shape journalism education through work with an accrediting organization and with a national journalism foundation. Brinkman was born in Olpe, Kansas, and earned his bachelor’s degree in English and social science from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. After writing for the Emporia paper, Brinkman taught at Leavenworth (Kansas) High School and was on the journalism faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He taught journalism at Indiana University and was a tenured faculty member at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Brinkman was on the faculty at University of Kansas for 23 years starting in 1970, served as dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism there for 11 years and was vice chancellor for academic affairs for seven years. He left KU in 1993 and served seven years as director of journalism programs for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. In this role, Brinkman was responsible for managing an annual grant budget, screening grant requests, evaluating funded projects and developing new initiatives and projects. In 2001, Brinkman left this position and began his duties as the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Throughout his career, he also was active in journalism education curriculum development and national accreditation policy-making. He was president of the accreditation committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He served as president of the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award club in 1986. Brinkman was honored several times for his work. In 2003, he received the Dean’s Award from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2012, Brinkman was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. Brinkman earned his master’s degree in journalism and political science from IU in 1963 and returned to Bloomington in 1971 for his doctorate in mass communications and political science. During his time at IU, he was a counselor for the High School Journalism Institute and has said in interviews that he enjoyed taking theater courses. He was awarded the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1971. Brinkman lives in Bloomington with his wife, Carolyn, and remains involved in IU Journalism activities. He is a member of Rotary International, the Ernie Pyle Society, Bloomington Press Club, IU Journalism Alumni Board and the IU Student Publications Board.
- Date:
- 2015
- Main contributors:
- Angotti, Joseph
- Summary:
- Joseph Angotti’s career took him from student news director of Indiana University’s WFIU newscast to senior vice president for news at NBC and the chairmanship of the broadcast program at Northwestern University. Born a bakery manager’s son in Gary, Indiana, Angotti received his undergraduate degree in education from IU in 1961. He had taken a few journalism courses as an undergraduate, and he cultivated his interest in journalism further by earning his master’s degree in telecommunications at IU. In 1962, Angotti landed his first job in television at WHAS-TV in Louisville. From that point on, his rise in the industry was rapid. In 1966, he moved to WMAQ-TV, Chicago’s NBC-owned affiliate, where he was both producer and on-air reporter for its Gary bureau. In 1968, he became an NBC network producer, covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he was tear-gassed during the street protests. In 1972, Angotti was promoted to a producer slot in New York City with NBC Nightly News. He soon became executive producer of the weekend newscast with anchor Tom Brokaw. Angotti was awarded a national Emmy in 1975 for co-producing a series about world hunger and was chief political producer for the network’s election coverage in 1976. Working with John Chancellor, anchor of the weeknight NBC Nightly News, Angotti was the newscast’s executive producer from 1977 to 1980. Angotti later was named the senior vice president for news at NBC, overseeing coverage of presidential conventions and debates, space shuttle launches and landings, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In June 1989, Angotti was in Bloomington for IU professor Richard Yoakam’s retirement party, but had to rush off to return to New York to oversee NBC’s coverage of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He was an early protégé of Yoakam, who had developed and launched IU’s broadcast journalism program. In 1992, Angotti left NBC and formed his own company, which produced coverage of events such as the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote, filmed and edited a series of programs in Eastern Europe, From Marx to Markets, which were filmed, edited and broadcast in Eastern Europe. Next, Angotti took his knowledge to the classroom. From 1993 to1998, he was the chair of communication studies for the University of Miami’s School of Communication and was founding director of its Center for Advancement of Modern Media. In 1999, Angotti was named chair of the broadcast program at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and taught there for the following six years. He also founded the Northwestern News Network, which produced weekly newscasts for Chicago area TV stations. He continues to teach journalism at Monmouth College in Illinois. In 2006, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.
- Date:
- 2015-06-19
- Main contributors:
- Indiana Disability History Project
- Summary:
- “The shot that was heard around the world for people with disabilities,” is how one of Tom Olin’s photographic images has been described. As part of the ADA at 25 Legacy Tour, the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana hosted an exhibit of Tom Olin’s work. On June 19, 2015, Tom gave a public talk in association with the exhibition. He was also present as the driver of the touring ADA Legacy bus. It made Indiana stops in Bloomington, Monticello, and Indianapolis during a national tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Tom has become widely known for the powerful advocacy of his photography focusing on the disability rights movement. In this videotaped talk, he discusses how he became involved in documenting the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities, and provides information about photographs in the exhibit. Some of the iconic photographs he discusses include images of the event now referred to as the Capitol Crawl. Depicting the landmark protest where people got out of their wheelchairs to ascend the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, it became “the shot that was heard around the world.” The action on March 12, 1990 was initiated by the activist organization ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit ). Tom identifies disability leaders at the protest and points out that his eight-year-old niece, Jennifer Keelan, is among those shown crawling up the steps. Tom explains that even though the “Crawl” took place just a few months before the ADA was passed into law, there were numerous attempts being made to weaken its provisions. “In Congress, you had the Senate and the House conferring on the bill that was to be. And they had all these different ways of how they thought the bill should look like.” Tom also describes photographs in the exhibit documenting other ADAPT actions in Memphis and at the federal building in Atlanta. It’s up to us, he says, to make sure the work of grassroots activists continues. “I see things happening. You know, I'm really impressed with a lot of young people.”
- Date:
- 2015-12-06
- Main contributors:
- Indiana Disability History Project
- Summary:
- "The initiative on livable communities is one that I was super excited about, because I think to me that's where the disability community should be." Suellen Jackson-Boner discusses the direction that the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities was taking when she retired in 2015. Interviewed in that year, Suellen had been the Council's executive director for 35 years. She recalls the early days of the agency, which is mandated by the 1975 Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, but was strictly an advisory body at that point. After effecting a funding transition that allowed the agency to become independent in its activities, community employment was an early focus. "At that time, supported employment was just beginning across this country" and the goal was "to show that this was very viable, that people with severe disabilities could actually work." The cooperation of four state agencies to create this initiative in the early 1980s was remarkable, Suellen points out. Early group homes, another Council emphasis, were an important vehicle for getting people out of institutions. The Council went on to serve as a catalyst for supported living and home ownership by people with disabilities. Suellen talks about how the Council has promoted leadership among people with disabilities, building their capacities to make change, through support of early self-advocacy groups and such programs as Partners in Policymaking. Prior to passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, "the staff was heavily involved in working toward organizing people" to effect its passage. Then it sponsored trainings to educate people, particularly people with disabilities, about what the legislation entails and how to use it as an advocate. Count Us IN was a 2002 Council project surveying the accessibility of polling places. Employing people with disabilities as surveyors, thousands of polling places were assessed on election day, with support and follow-up from the Secretary of State's office. The Council's annual statewide conference on disability "has grown year after year and brought in a lot of people from all over the state and sometimes even neighboring states," Suellen recounts.