53. Herder, the Grimm Brothers, and Richard Dorson’s Antiquarians: A New Look (57:33)

Date:
2018-10
Main contributors:
de Caro, Frank
Summary:
Richard Dorson was right seeing the antiquarians as the precursors of the study of folklore. Many of them recorded information on “traditions.” However, he did not really understand the rationale behind their work, mixed up in Tudor politics, especially the religious aspects. (The “first” work on folklore in English is an anti-“Puritan” tract.) When Herder and the Grimm Brothers came along in the 18th and early 19th centuries, there was already a body of lore in English which could be transferred to fit in with their ideas. The Grimm Brothers, and the “antiquary-folklorist” Thomas Wight are responsible for developing ideas about survivals, an idea to influence folklore and anthropology for 75 years.

54. DeCurtis, Anthony, Author, Journalist, Music Critic & IU Alum (29:13)

Date:
2018-04-04
Main contributors:
DeCurtis, Anthony, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 87, we feature an early-release episode of a mini-series from the College of Arts and Sciences featuring three alumni who received awards from the College this year. This episode is about award-winning author, journalist, and music critic Anthony DeCurtis.

55. Folklore Professor, Robert Dobler, Discusses the Dead (23:39)

Date:
2018-10-31
Main contributors:
Dobler, Robert, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Episode 102 is our second annual student Halloween edition of the show. Last year, we told you IU’s best legends in Episode 67. This year, we are a little more serious, talking with professor Robert Dobler about the ways we experience, commemorate, and avoid death.

56. Indiana University Sleep Walk (05:08)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Docherty, Carrie, Lalevich, Steven, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Hoosier Five host Janae Cummings talks about the Indiana University Sleep Walk and the Sleep Great IU! Challenge with Carrie Docherty from the IU School of Public Health and Steven Lalevich from Healthy IU.

57. AMP-lifying IU’s media collections with the Audiovisual Metadata Platform (56:56)

Date:
2018-11-28
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon, Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
In recent years, concern over the longevity of physical audio and video (AV) formats due to media degradation and obsolescence, combined with decreasing cost of digital storage, have led libraries and archives to embark on projects to digitize recordings for purposes of long-term preservation and improved access. IU's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) is one of those projects, estimated to digitize 325,000 audio and video items and 25,000 film items overall. Beyond digitization, in order to facilitate discovery and research use, AV materials must also be described, but many items and collections lack sufficient metadata. Join us to learn more about a planned project at IU with experts from University of Texas at Austin School of Information and AVP to create a technology platform and workflow to support the incremental application of both automated and human-based processes to create and augment metadata at large scales for AV collections. The project is called AMP: Audiovisual Metadata Platform.

58. Bernie Eagan's Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:26)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Eagan, Bernie
Summary:
Video bio of Bernie Eagan, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018; This Beech Grove, Indiana, native was born blind, but he didn’t let that stop him from pursuing a love of music and entertainment. After graduating from the Indiana School for the Blind in 1975, Bernie Eagan went on to Ball State University where he graduated with a degree in Radio and Television Communications. He then accepted a position as a programming consultant at WWHC-FM (now WMXQ-FM) and was hired part-time at WERK-AM. Eagan began working at Emmis Communications’s WENS-FM in Indianapolis, becoming music director and assistant program director while hosting afternoon drive from 1984 to 2002 and a Friday night retro show 1999-2002. Eagan later hosted mornings and afternoons on WXYB-FM, Indianapolis. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

59. On Air with IER: Episode 1 (16:12)

Date:
2018-11-05
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: you could be living in a toxic home and not even know it, and one of the nation's top animal conservation awards is based in Indianapolis.

60. On Air with IER: Episode 2 (20:53)

Date:
2018-11-12
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: A team of Indianapolis artists are using shapes and open spaces to teach about the environment, and people are raising chickens in their backyards.

62. On Air with IER: Episode 4 (11:34)

Date:
2018-11-26
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Many Hoosiers don't realize they are feeling the effects of climate change every day. Hear why scientists in Indiana say the changes will adversely affect current and future generations of Hoosiers.

63. On Air with IER: Episode 5 (19:06)

Date:
2018-12-03
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Two plans submitted by consecutive administrations, the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and the Trump administration's Affordable Clean Energy Rule, have different views on how the nation should regulate power plant emissions. Hear why both sides say their plan is better for the U.S.

64. On Air with IER: Episode 6 (15:51)

Date:
2018-12-10
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: Citizen scientists help make sure your waterways stay healthy, and researchers find out if people are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly beer.

65. On Air with IER: Episode 7 (15:40)

Date:
2018-12-17
Main contributors:
Edwards, Beth, Saenz, Enrique
Summary:
This week: A Chinese law threatens to reduce the number of endangered Amur tigers in the wild, and your choice of Christmas tree could make a significant environmental and economic difference.

68. Databases, Enclaves and Repositories for Research (1:02:36)

Date:
2018-02-20
Main contributors:
Esen Tuna and Alan Walsh
Summary:
This workshop will cover managing research data with RDC and the Restricted-Access Data Remote Server (RADaRS); databases and enclaves; and the role of IU ScholarWorks for data.

70. Lotus World Music & Arts Festival with Sunni Fass & Rob Simonds (20:29)

Date:
2018-09-26
Main contributors:
Fass, Sunni, Simonds, Rob, Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, Dean Shanahan discusses the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival with Executive Director Sunni Fass and Interim Artistic Director Rob Simonds. Listen to learn about the history of the festival, how Lotus cultivates the acts, and what artists that will be performing this year.

71. Professor Bernard Fraga Explains the Gap in Voter Turnout (30:20)

Date:
2018-11-07
Main contributors:
Fraga, Bernard, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 103, Dean Jim Shanahan is joined by Bernard Fraga, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Tune in to hear about Fraga's research on voter turnout rates, political polls, and gerrymandering and redistricting.

72. Francis, Terri, Director of IU's Black Film Center/Archive (25:45)

Date:
2018-09-05
Main contributors:
Francis, Terri, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 94, Associate professor Terri Francis and Dean Shanahan discuss the Black Film Center/Archive’s Michael Shultz film series (including To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Cooley High, Krush Groove and Car Wash), Francis’s upcoming book about the cinematic career of Josephine Baker, and the realities of Afrosurrealism.

73. Conversation with Mike Frisch and Palagummi Sainath (1:39:39)

Date:
2018-10
Main contributors:
Frisch, Mike; Sainath, Palagummi
Summary:
Two major innovators in digital cultural documentation meet for a conversation on goals, methods, frameworks, and business models. Michael Frisch, Professor Emeritus of the University of Buffalo and former president of both the Oral History Association and the American Studies Association, has recently created a consulting firm, Randforce Associates, to develop software for indexing and annotating audio and video documentation. P. Sainath received the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award (the “Asian Nobel”) for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciousness.” He is Founder-Editor of the crowdfunded, volunteer-sustained People’s Archive of Rural India.

74. Correspondence Audits: Design Issues and Practical Examples (1:53:21)

Date:
2018-09-07
Main contributors:
Gaddis, S. Michael
Summary:
During the past decade, field experiments in the social and behavioral sciences have gained in popularity as the internet has made implementing experiments easier, cheaper, and faster. However, although researchers may have a conceptual knowledge of how experiments work, the actual experience of implementing a field experiment for the first time is often frustrating and time consuming. Researchers without prior experience often struggle with a number of issues such as navigating IRB, obtaining true random sampling and assignment, understanding blocking, and interpreting different types of treatment effects. The initial learning curve may be steep but the rewards are plentiful as experiments produce highly valued original data, lend themselves to causal analysis in ways that traditional survey data cannot, and become easier to implement as a researcher’s experience level increases. This talk will introduce social scientists to the basics of a particular type of field experiment -- the correspondence audit -- and walk through a number of design issues that first time users often struggle with. Dr. Gaddis will provide practical examples from his own and others' work to illuminate some of the pitfalls of this method and help the audience gain confidence in embarking on their own field experiments.

76. Historical Performance, Volume 1 (1:02:57)

Date:
2018-05-30
Main contributors:
George Barth, Edward Higginbottom
Summary:
Higginbottom article: parody settings of operatic French overtures by Jean-Baptiste Lully (contemporaneous to the composer's lifetime). George Barth article: historical recordings dating chiefly from the early-twentieth century, with modern style-parody recordings deriving from late-nineteenth century style.

77. Intro to Humanities Data: Simple Visualizations for Complex Arguments (1:16:32)

Date:
2018-01-23
Main contributors:
Giroux, Stacey, Partlow, Mia
Summary:
There are many tools and platforms for creating data visualizations, but in order to ensure they communicate in an effective way, your visualizations must be grounded in the appropriate quantitative methods. In this workshop, we will present some problematic humanities datasets and case studies, and use them to walk through the structure and assumptions your data will need to meet in order to create effective data visualizations. Introductory quantitative methods and vocabularies will be presented.

78. Media and Discourse Analysis (1:36:31)

Date:
2018-09-14
Main contributors:
Graber, Kathryn
Summary:
For both theoretical and logistical reasons, many social scientists turn to media texts—archival newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, podcasts, Twitter feeds, etc.—to understand the society that produced them. It may seem easy, because as a regular consumer and producer of media, you are already constantly analyzing the mediated discourse around you: parsing sentences, assessing the veracity of a claim, and making judgments as to the authority, intelligence, and background of a writer or speaker. But how might you denaturalize your “native” media literacy and go about this in a more systematic and rigorous way? In this hands-on workshop, we will sample some of the key methods for analyzing mediated discourse: transcription, critical discourse analysis, building and working with a corpus, capturing digital circulation, and multimodal analysis. Some examples will come from Russian media, but this workshop is open to all IU graduate students.

79. Forming Foundations—Building Relationships in the Private Sector (53:02)

Date:
2018-10
Main contributors:
Gura, Catherine; Hurley, Maureen; McPeake, Cristin; Miller, Paula; Zulewski, Caitlin
Summary:
As government funding tightens, folklorists are turning to the private sector for funding. However, we come up against funders who do not understand folklore or the value of funding folklore projects. Participate in a discussion with grantors from business, corporate, private, and family foundations about how to create partnerships for successful fundraising. How do we engage and inform potential funders about the impact of supporting folklore projects that benefit a diverse and inclusive audience?

80. Diana Hadley, MA'80 (03:21)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Hadley, Diana
Summary:
Diana Hadley has dedicated her career to educating and advocating for new generations of journalists. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Purdue in 1971, Hadley took a job at Mooresville High School, where she taught English, speech and journalism for more than 30 years. Despite having no journalism experience, she was assigned to advise the school’s newspaper and teach a journalism course. Incidentally, that was perhaps the single most significant assignment of her life. “It was the best thing I did, and it was a happy accident,” she said. Through teaching and advising, she developed an admiration for journalism, which inspired her to pursue a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. It took eight years to complete. Although it was challenging to continue to teach, advise publications and earn a master’s degree, dean Richard Gray and advisor Mary Benedict scheduled classes after 4 p.m. and during the summer, allowing Hadley to attend. The rich experience forged a loyalty to IU and the High School Journalism Institute she maintained for the rest of her career. Hadley spent 10 years advising Mooresville’s television news outlet, 23 advising the school’s yearbook staff and all 33 advising its newspaper staff. Hadley established the school’s television news outlet when the school received a gift of free broadcast equipment. She developed a broadcast class in which students produced the morning and afternoon announcements. She came to school at 6:30 a.m. every day to supervise her students. In 1986, Hadley received the Indiana High School Press Association’s Ella Sengenberger Adviser of the Year award. In 1996, she was named Distinguished Adviser of the Year by the Dow Jones News Fund. In 2000, she was a finalist for the Indiana Department of Education’s Teacher of the Year award. In 2004, after retiring from Mooresville, Hadley began a part-time job at Franklin College as assistant director of IHSPA and part-time instructor in Franklin’s journalism school. She eventually became director of IHSPA and served in that role for 13 years. Though she didn’t directly advise a high school newspaper or yearbook staff, Hadley continued to dedicate herself to improving the field of high school journalism. She corresponded with high school journalism advisors seeking advice and trekked across Indiana to assist teachers and advisors as they struggled through administrative hassles, freedom of press issues and any other problem that might plague a high school newspaper. Hadley also started a First Amendment Day at the Statehouse each March — giving up to 400 high school students the opportunity to observe the legislative process — and coordinated the evaluation of hundreds of newspapers and yearbooks to create an annual statewide awards program. She also taught at IU’s High School Journalism Institute for more than 30 summers. Hadley retired from IHSPA in 2017. Hadley has received honors and recognition from the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame, the Indiana State Teachers Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Indiana Department of Education, the Independent Colleges of Indiana and the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana/National Federation of Press Women. In 2017, she received a Sagamore of the Wabash.

81. Reciprocal Impacts: MDPI, MCO, and MARC (37:34)

Date:
2018-02-07
Main contributors:
Hahn, Michelle
Summary:
"Metadata is a love note to the future" mused Jason Scott, archivist for the Internet Archive. Librarians and archivists cultivate metadata standards and practices to shape the future of resource description...so what does the metadata in our past say to us now? And what do our standards and decisions say to our descendants? IU’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) and new Avalon-based Media Collections Online (MCO) have brought to light both issues and opportunities related to metadata creation and upkeep, impacting how we view our legacy data and how we create new data. The decisions and projects intended to improve and enrich this vast repository will be discussed, as well as suggestions for other institutions interested in taking on similar projects.

82. Metadata in the Third Dimension: Describing 3D digital objects for access and preservation (55:28)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Hardesty, Juliet
Summary:
3D digitization, born-digital 3D objects, and Virtual Reality (VR) - the techniques to create these kinds of items and the access and scholarly research applications for these items within libraries and cultural heritage institutions are becoming more real (and less virtual) as costs come down and technical equipment becomes more friendly to use. IU already has 3D digital collections that are actively growing. We need a way to describe these items so they are discoverable and accessible for research use, even when that means extremely large files that can require specialized software to recreate or evaluate the models. We also need to be able to preserve 3D digital and VR objects. This talk will consider how we can accomplish these goals, the work currently occurring among libraries and cultural heritage institutions, and how best to apply metadata in the third dimension.

83. Wounded Galaxies 1968: Paris, Prague, Chicago (25:20)

Date:
2018-02-07
Main contributors:
Hawkins, Joan, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 79, Dean Shanahan speaks to Joan Hawkins, associate professor at the IU Media School, about the Wounded Galaxies festival and symposium. Wounded Galaxies: 1968 – Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach is a festival and symposium produced by The Burroughs Century Ltd., welcoming scholars, writers, artists, archivists, filmmakers, performers, and others interested in exploring the intellectual and aesthetic legacy of 1968, during its 50th Anniversary year. The festival subtitle is a translation of the French slogan “Sous les pavés, la plage!,” a popular resistance graffiti in France Mai ’68 that refers to both the sand beneath cobblestones lifted by students to hurl at police as well as the ‘Situationist’ conviction that the streets–the expression of capital and consumption–could be rediscovered by abandoning a regimented life.

84. Introduction to Python for Social Scientists (1:08:53)

Date:
2018-02-09
Main contributors:
Helge-Johannes Marahrens
Summary:
Python has become the lead instrument for Data Scientists to collect, clean, and analyze data. As a general purpose programming language, Python is flexible and well-suited to handle large datasets. This workshop is designed for Social Scientists, who are interested in using Python, but have no idea where to start. Our goal is to "de-mystify" Python and to teach Social Scientists how to manipulate and examine data that deviate from the clean, rectangular survey format. Computers with Python pre-loaded are available in the SSRC on a first-come, first-served basis. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to programming. No experience required.

85. Helmke, Paul & Lisa-Marie Napoli Talk Student Voters and the Midterm Elections (27:58)

Date:
2018-10-03
Main contributors:
Helmke, Paul, Napoli, Lisa-Marie, Shanahan, James
Summary:
"The thing that people forget, is that most elections are actually decided by the people that don't vote." Professor Paul Helmke, Associate Director of P.A.C.E. Lisa-Marie Napoli, and Dean Shanahan talk about the importance of midterm elections, beating Purdue in the Big Ten Voting Challenge, and the power of student voters.

86. Al Hobbs' Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:23)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Hobbs, Al
Summary:
Video bio of Al Hobbs, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2018; After attending high school in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside Muhammad Ali, Al Hobbs moved in 1960 to Indianapolis with the intentions of continuing his education at Butler University. However, due to lack of tuition money, Hobbs instead got a job at a local grocery store. It was from here that he made his way into radio and the rest is history. Hobbs spent more than 20 years at WTLC-FM where he became popular from hosting a gospel music program. Right as he was beginning to retire from radio, he founded the Aleho gospel recording label and issued dozens of albums within a decade. Hobbs was also responsible for founding the Indiana Black Expo’s StarQuest talent search. --Information from the Indianapolis Star

87. Professor of Rock & Roll Andy Hollinden (30:25)

Date:
2018-12-05
Main contributors:
Hollinden, Andy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 106, Dean Shanahan talks with Jacobs School of Music Senior Lecturer Andy Hollinden. Known as the "Professor of Rock & Roll," Hollinden talks about his love affair with music, his admiration of Frank Zappa, and teaching the next generation about music legends.

88. Imperfect attendance: Trends in digital scholarship outreach and activities at Indiana University... (53:32)

Date:
2018-02-21
Main contributors:
Homenda, Nick
Summary:
The Indiana University Libraries Scholars' Commons opened in 2014, offering a place for hands-on training sessions and presentation series such as the Digital Library Brown Bag Series. Additionally, groups and departments from within and outside the Libraries began offering consultation sessions in the Scholars' Commons, often discussing the same topics as these events with faculty, staff members, and students. Throughout this time, various streams of data were collected in the form of sign-in sheets, post-event surveys, and consultation tracking forms. Could these data sets be used to tell us more than just the numbers of attendees? In late 2017, Erika Jenns, former Scholarly Engagement Librarian, and I conducted analyses on approximately three years of data collected from consultation, presentation, and workshop events held in the Indiana University Libraries Scholars' Commons. This presentation will highlight trends gleaned from these findings and will attempt to answer questions such as: What is the best time to offer a workshop? Who is attending consultation sessions, presentations, and workshops at the Indiana University Libraries? What tools and technologies could be taught more frequently in workshops due to high interest in consultation sessions? This builds upon previous analyses by Michelle Dalmau, Head of Digital Collections Services, that compares local digital scholarship activities with data from a 2014 Ithaka S+R report on digital humanities at four research institutions, including Indiana University. This presentation will also detail how all of this analysis can be used to inform future programming development and approaches to consultations in the Scholars' Commons.

89. ‘Who Isn’t Having Trouble Logging In?’: Lessons learned from Digital Scholarship Outreach to Unde... (55:21)

Date:
2018-10-31
Main contributors:
Homenda, Nick, Meiman, Meg
Summary:
Have you ever wondered what it's like to troubleshoot 100 simultaneous account creation problems in an undergraduate lecture hall? Recently, undergraduate humanities courses at Indiana University Bloomington have shown increased interest in incorporating activities and assignments designed to enrich students' understanding of the course material, foster their creativity, and allow them to learn techniques and technologies associated with digital scholarship. Nick Homenda and Meg Meiman worked with two undergraduate courses in American history and art history, partnering with IUB faculty members interested in retooling course assignments using the open source digital exhibition software Omeka . This presentation will describe the collaborative process developing these assignments and highlight the ways we engaged with instructors and students to expose them to concepts such as digital exhibition design, web development methodologies, visual literacy, and responsible (fair) use of digital resources. Additionally, we will talk about our failures and successes, and offer recommendations for librarians, faculty, and students interested in working collaboratively on future digital exhibition projects.

90. Tangible Outcomes: Makerspace Programming and Digital Scholarship Outreach (53:26)

Date:
2018-10-03
Main contributors:
Homenda, Nick, Nay, Leanne
Summary:
Shortly after the Indiana University Libraries Scholars' Commons opened in 2014, they established the “Maker Cart”: a mobile makerspace designed to foster creativity and learning around the Bloomington campus without being tied to a specific space. Over the past four years, makerspace outreach has grown to a regularly-occurring workshop series, “Maker Mondays,” which has included an introduction to analog synthesis using littleBits kits, creating original animated short films by painting and etching the film itself, and animating GIFs using Photoshop. This series has recently included workshops developed collaboratively with librarians who offer digital scholarship programming. Makerspace workshops using this model facilitate community building by interacting directly with interested attendees. Interested interdisciplinary attendees and instructors attend or offer these workshops out of curiosity and interest rather than a specific research need. They feature tangible learning outcomes to be constructed over the course of an hour: an original film, musical composition, or screen-printed object, for example. This presentation will showcase some of the makerspace skills and technologies featured in the Maker Mondays series, discuss how these partnerships have advanced digital scholarship outreach at Indiana University, and offer a forecast for IU Libraries makerspace initiatives into the future.

91. Richard Horwitz, BA'63, MS'64 (03:12)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Horwitz, Richard
Summary:
Richard Horwitz’s photojournalism career was born of a series of right decisions made at the right time. It was a career that took him to all 50 states and 76 countries, that traversed multiple technological paradigm shifts in the photography and media worlds, and that supplied him more than an ordinary lifetime’s worth of adventures. Horwitz, who grew up in Illinois, planned to study astronomy in college. A high school advisor suggested he consider Indiana University. That’s when he made what he considers to be the first of his right decisions: He visited, fell in love immediately and ultimately enrolled. Having learned to shoot photos in high school, Horwitz joined the Arbutusyearbook as a staff photographer and quickly began to dedicate more time to his work there than to his regular classes. Concurrently, he found his dreams of pursuing astronomy soured by required math courses. His next major decision came: During his sophomore year, Horwitz spoke to department chairman John Stempel about changing his major from astronomy to journalism. It would require extra work, but it was worth it. “I don’t know where I would be today if I had stayed in astronomy,” Horwitz said. Horwitz also freelanced for the Associated Press, photographing sports and other assignments. After earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1963 and his master’s degree in education with an audiovisual communication specialization in 1964, he took a full-time job with the AP in New York City. But the big city lifestyle wasn’t for him, so when a position on the Washington photo desk opened up, he applied for it — just in time for the Watergate scandal. In 1989, after decades of work in New York, Washington, Boston and Chicago, he became the AP’s European photo network director, a position that took him to London. The photojournalism profession evolved significantly during Horwitz’s 27-year career. As a college student and young AP photographer, Horwitz shot his work on film and transmitted photos via wire. His final assignment with the AP was to establish a commercial picture agency using the AP satellite to deliver digital pictures to newsrooms. Most of the job of picture editor is behind the scenes: assigning photographers, coordinating with stories, choosing pictures, writing captions and transmitting photos. Sometimes he also picked up a camera. Horwitz said the most rewarding part of his career was always the adventures. In 1976, a cargo tanker ship broke in half and sank off Nantucket. His aerial view was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In the midst of it all, his passion for astronomy found its place. He’s traveled to photograph a total of 15 eclipses, most notably a 1972 eclipse off the African coast and a 1979 eclipse in Canada. Both were used on the front page of The New York Times. He witnessed Apollo 11’s takeoff for the first moon landing. And there wasn’t a mite of math involved.

92. "I Was a Feisty Mother" - Mary Lou Melloy (06:45)

Date:
2018-01-29
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“You don’t have the right to deny them the opportunity to try this.” Mary Lou Melloy's daughter, Cindy, was born in 1958. Doctors told the family they should put Cindy in a residential facility. Mary Lou and her husband, Don, had other plans for their daughter. In this clip, Mary Lou discusses the work it took to get Cindy accepted into public school. After completing school in Indianapolis, Cindy went to a workshop for a while until she landed a community job. Although Mary Lou was initially hesitant about a community job, in the end she said it was a wonderful opportunity for her daughter. Mary Lou started encouraging other parents to let go of their fears and give their children the opportunity to find a job in the community. She was interviewed in 2017.

93. Betty Williams - Learning About the ADA (01:58)

Date:
2018-06-05
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“I was learning something about that Title and how we could apply it to the community in which we lived in and how it can help people's lives.” When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passed, Betty Williams wanted to learn more about how the new law could help people with disabilities become equal members of their community. She arranged monthly meetings with an expert to discuss the legislation. “Every time I went in I was learning. I was learning a new Title each time,” recalls Betty. She is an award-winning leader in the self-advocacy movement, having served as president of both Self-Advocates of Indiana and the national organization Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered. The interview was recorded at the 2009 Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities Conference.

94. Bettye Dunham Interview (1:05:00)

Date:
2018-03-26
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
Bettye Dunham got her start in the disability field in 1975. She was a support person to an Indiana University student needing assistance with note taking and studying. Bettye says, “The things I learned from Chris really endeared me to the field.” Bettye went on to work 19 years at Developmental Services in Columbus, Indiana where she started a workshop program in Jennings County. This workshop would include residents from Muscatutuck State Developmental Center. “The VR counselors and I interviewed around 300 individuals, three to 400 individuals, residents of Muscatatuck…that was probably one of the most interesting points in my career…Talking with them about how they felt about being there, what their dreams and hopes were,” explained Bettye. Eventually, they hired around 20 people to work in the Jennings workshop. At the time of her 2013 interview, Bettye had been the C.E.O. of Rauch in New Albany, Indiana for over 20 years. Rauch started in 1953. Bettye says, “There were parents that had children with disabilities, all different ages of disabilities that came together. And they said, you know, there ought to be something. There ought to be some service or something that can help our children down the road and help them develop.” Bettye explains several of the services Rauch has offered including a sheltered workshop, American Sign Language, Healthy Families program, and community opportunities. She also addresses the challenges the agency has faced over the years. “To me, one of the most significant steps in the history of our field in Indiana was that 317 Task Force and putting some blueprints in place for what the future of services should look like,” explains Bettye. Kathy Davis, who was the Secretary of Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) at that time, chaired the 317 Task Force. Bettye on was on the 317 Task Force and talks about a few of the outcomes. In her interview, Bettye also discusses supported employment, natural supports, and the changes she has seen in the disability field over the years. One struggle Bettye sees is health care. She says, “One of the future challenges is going to be what happens to managed care and health care and how our population survives through that change, if that change comes about.”

95. Danielle and Diane Pitmon - The Love Grows Stronger (05:34)

Date:
2018-06-05
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“It’s a relationship that’s based on what’s inside, not outside, and what’s in our minds and our heart.” When Danielle and Diane Pitmon were interviewed in 2018, they had been married as husband and wife for 18 years. They now share their life as wife and wife. In 2015, Danielle had something to tell Diane. “I was so scared she would leave me, hate me forever, all of that. But I just couldn't hide it anymore.” Diane experienced various emotions but after taking time to think about it said, “I love you no matter who you are.” Danielle and Diane share how their love for each has grown stronger over the past few years. Danielle says, “I think our relationship has definitely blossomed and grown even more. And it's just, we're inseparable.”

96. Don Melloy - Development of The Arc Chapters (06:09)

Date:
2018-02-16
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“They asked me to work on the objective of developing an Arc in every county in Indiana,” says Don Melloy. Don would take off after to work to travel around the state meeting with parents and community members. He would discuss the benefits of establishing a local Arc. To Don’s surprise, he found some groups of parents were not interested in talking with other groups of parents. The original focus of The Arc was to provide programming to children with disabilities who were excluded from public schools. Don says the United Way and other non-profit organizations were instrumental in funding many of the early initiatives of the local Arc agencies.

97. Dr. Mary Ciccarelli Interview (1:09:00)

Date:
2018-05-10
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“It's an interesting question to ask, how I got interested in the field of disability services,” states Dr. Mary Ciccarelli. When Dr. Ciccarelli began her training in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s, there was little specific attention paid to disabilities. As an internist and pediatrician, Dr. Ciccarelli found it harder to accommodate all her patients. Other pediatricians, who took care of youth with special health care needs, were transitioning patients to her practice. She decided she needed to find a better way of doing things. As a result, Dr. Ciccarelli collaborated with IPIN, Indiana Parent Information Network, on a pilot project funded by Indiana Maternal Child Health to develop transition services for youth with disabilities. Dr. Ciccarelli discusses the challenges families face when moving from pediatric to adult care. It can be frightening for parents to let go and support their children to become more autonomous in making health care decisions. As a person moves from pediatric care to adult health care services, there may be a need to redefine the individual’s care team. In addition, billing codes and language in mental health services differs between pediatrics and the adult service system. “How do we improve healthy opportunities for persons with disabilities in our state?” Dr. Ciccarelli talks about her experience working with Special Olympics of Indiana athletes. For the past few years, she has assisted with providing health-screenings for the athletes at the State Games. Dr. Ciccarelli discusses the need to educate people with disabilities and caregivers on how to live healthier lives. To better serve patients with disabilities, Dr. Ciccarelli describes the training IU medical students receive. “I think there's better methods today than there were in the late '70's,” Today, the Indiana School of Medicine curriculum includes training on the culture of disability, rights of people with disabilities, and teaming with other professionals. Dr. Ciccarelli says, “I think we'll see evolution and improvement. I hope, in the readiness of our graduates in caring for people with disabilities.” Dr. Ciccarelli is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is director of the Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood (CYACC), which provides resources to youth ages 11 to 22 with special health care needs. She was interviewed in 2018.

98. Jamie Beck and Dan Stewart - Making History in Indiana (04:19)

Date:
2018-10-25
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“It was my time to play my part in the circle of life.” On June 13, 2018, Jamie Beck became the first person in Indiana to have her guardianship terminated and a Supported Decision-Making agreement put in place. Jamie had been adjudged as incapacitated eight years prior. With no parent living, Dan Stewart, president of Achieva Resources Corp., Inc., was appointed as her permanent legal guardian. Jamie was placed in a nursing home. By the time the Wayne County Superior Court judge granted her petition, 28 year-old Jamie was employed in Muncie and living in an apartment with a roommate. In this interview excerpt, Jamie and Dan discuss the process and the challenges leading up to Jamie’s historic accomplishment. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 380 into law on April 24, 2019. The law recognizes Supported Decision-Making Agreements as a valid way for someone to demonstrate decision-making capacity in Indiana and requires Supported Decision-Making and other less restrictive alternatives to be considered before the court will appoint a guardian. “I believe I am capable of doing it on my own, but with help,” Jamie told the judge. She and Dan were interviewed on October 25, 2018.

99. Karen Vaughn - Opening Doors to Access for All (03:35)

Date:
2018-06-22
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“When I was young I knew nothing about any legislative activities or laws that would allow an individual with a disability to have any kind of civil rights because I stayed in several nursing homes and at that time, there were no patients' rights,” states Karen Vaughn. In 2009, Karen Vaughn visited the Story Tent at the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities conference and shared what she learned when she attended Partners in Policymaking and Disabilities Rights Education Defense Fund training in 1992. She took that information and assisted state parks with their ADA compliance plans.

100. Lawrence Carter-Long Interview (27:57)

Date:
2018-10-01
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"There's a new crop of people that are saying, wait a minute, I'm not ashamed of anything. I don't need to distance myself from anything. In fact, I am a disabled person first." In this interview, Lawrence Carter-Long discusses his views on the evolution from people-first to identity-first language, and changes in the way disability is depicted in the media. "With more disabled people being creative behind-the-scenes," using new, more direct digital outlets, he has noticed that the stories we are seeing have more complexity, depth and authenticity. "The gatekeepers no longer have the same types of power." Public Affairs Specialist for the National Council on Disability at the time he was interviewed in 2015, Lawrence grew up in Indianapolis and Terre Haute. He was program coordinator for the Disabilities Network of New York City when he undertook the Gimp Project, a collaboration with dance choreographer Heidi Latsky. As a young person, Lawrence says modern dance was never an option for him. "It wouldn't even enter my consciousness because of my physicality and because of having cerebral palsy." However, he recalls a theater teacher at North Vigo High School in Terre Haute, Indiana who was pivotal in encouraging him "to do things that I wouldn't have imagined possible." Lawrence also discusses disability and film, talking about his experience curating and co-hosting the Turner Classic Movies festival, The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film. The 2012 series reached 87 million people. "It was a fantastic opportunity to look back as a way to position ourselves and to say, how do we want to move forward." Earlier, Lawrence laid the groundwork for The Projected Image with a successful, experimental festival in New York City, "Dis This." He was interviewed at the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities conference in Indianapolis.