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- Date:
- 2019-04-06
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University
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- Date:
- 2019-08-02
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University
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- Date:
- 2019-01-18
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University
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- Date:
- 2019-11-20
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities , Sylvia Fernandez
- Summary:
- Toxic discourses towards the Mexico-United States borderland and its communities have continuously altered history, social dynamics, culture, among other things that are part of this region. Meanwhile, by utilizing digital companions such as digital maps, it is possible to contest to these kind of narratives that invisibilized borderlands’ dynamics. According to Annita Lucchesi, “The power of mapping is that there is so much power in it. It doesn’t necessarily have to be oppressive…It can be liberating. It can be healing. It can be empowering, especially when it’s being used by people who have been historically oppressed” (“Mapping MMIWG” 2019). By taking into consideration Lucchesi’s argument, this workshop will work in a hands-on experience with archival material and public data to create maps that challenge toxic discourses and colonial cultural records. Taking into consideration projects such as Borderlands Archives Cartography and Torn Apart / Separados, this workshop will go over the creation process of activism projects through the use of mapping technology. Participants will work with archival material and public data, will gain ethical and critical skills to the incorporation of humanities studies with digital companions, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to create activism mapping resources.
- Date:
- 2019-11-20
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
- Summary:
- Working in public, and with the public, can enable scholars to build vital, sustainable research communities, both within their fields, with other scholars in different fields, and with folks off-campus who care about the kinds of work that we do. By finding ways to connect with a broad range of publics, in a range of different registers, and in ways that allow for meaningful response, we can create the possibilities for far more substantial public participation in and engagement with the humanities, and with the academy more broadly. This workshop will focus on ways of envisioning the publics with whom we work and the questions that public engagement surfaces.
- Date:
- 2019-01-28
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Mary Borgo Ton, Kalani Craig
- Summary:
- Interested in using network analysis in your research or teaching? Come to this hands-on session where we will deal with the basics of cleaning and formatting your data and loading it into the simple network visualization app Google Fusion Tables. We'll conclude by discussing (and demonstrating) how this as well as analog approaches to network analysis can work in the classroom. Participants will need a laptop.
- Date:
- 2019-11-20
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities, Sylvia Fernandez
- Summary:
- While cartography is a colonialist product when unrepresented individuals or communities utilize and recreate these tools they serve to contest a colonial cultural record. With respect to U.S.-Mexico borderlands, toxic discourses have continuously altered its history, social dynamics, culture, local and binational relationships. This presentation brings to the forefront initiatives that create alternative cartographies that challenge colonialist impositions such as: Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), a transborderlands project dedicated to locate, map and facilitate access to nineteenth and mid-twentieth century U.S.-Mexico borderlands newspapers; and Torn Apart / Separados, a mobilized humanities project that intervenes in the United States’ immigration debates with data narratives illuminating the effects of the government’s policy of separating families and the infrastructure subtending immigration enforcement. These initiatives use GIS tools to interpret data and archival material in new ways, enabling to see patterns otherwise invisible in static maps. BAC and Torn Apart digital maps and visualizations pose new questions contest established narratives, creates alternative forms of mapping and activate a knowledge production shaped from the ground-up. With this in mind, these alternative cartographies function as a historical and cultural record of the present and become resources to resist impositions in the future.
- Date:
- 2019-05-02
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
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- Date:
- 2019-02-05
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Daniel Story, Kalani Craig
- Summary:
- Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, some basic visualization and analysis options, and how to locate points in your network in geographic space. Participants will need a laptop with Gephi already installed.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, David S. Ferriero
- Summary:
- Ferriero will discuss the planning process for a major exhibit on the Vietnam War within the context of the mission of the National Archives. Particular focus will be on how the principles of Open Government—transparency, collaboration, and participation—impacted that process. Building on the success of the National Archives Citizen Archivist Project, Ferriero will share how the lessons learned have influenced his agency’s approach to exhibit and education planning, with an emphasis on the exhibit commemorating the Vietnam War. Remembering Vietnam is a media-rich exploration the Vietnam War, featuring interviews with Americans and Vietnamese veterans and civilians with firsthand experience of the war’s events as well as historic analysis. It is a fascinating collection of newly discovered and iconic original documents, images, film footage, and artifacts that illuminate 12 critical episodes in the war that divided the peoples of both the United States and Vietnam, covering the period 1946 to 1975. The exhibit encourages visitors to answer these questions: Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? Why was the war so long? Why was it so controversial? The sacrifices made by veterans and their families, the magnitude of death and destruction, and the war’s lasting effects require no less. Remembering Vietnam is a resource for refreshing our collective memory. National Archives records trace the policies and decisions made by the architects of the conflict. Its collection of evidence provides an opportunity for new insight and greater understanding of one of the most consequential wars in American history.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Edward Linenthal
- Summary:
- The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued through both World Wars and the Korean War and gained intensity with the erosion of popular support for the war in Vietnam. The “dope and dementia,” “quagmire,” and “atrocity producing context” narrative templates clashed with traditional patriotic narratives of America at war.
- Date:
- 2019-10-03
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ellen Wu, Himani Bhatt
- Summary:
- OVERREPRESENTED places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making, policy, and democracy in age of affirmative action. Three burning questions animate this study. First, how and why has “Asian American” taken hold as a salient social, political, and legal identity from the 1960s onward? Second, how and why have Asian Americans been left out of the category of the “underrepresented minority” even as they have been treated by the state as a racial minority group? Third, what have been the consequences of this omission, both intended and unintended? Contemporaries have viewed Asian Americans as an “overrepresented” minority in a double sense: first, as an economically privileged minority racial group that has not needed new rights and programs to guarantee equal opportunity, and second, as too successful and therefore a threat to white privilege. In other words, Asian Americans have been thought of as ostensibly different than other “underrepresented” minorities. The peculiar standing of Asian Americans as “overrepresented” has much to teach us about the fundamental importance of Asian Americans and Asia to the recalibration of the nation’s racial order and political alignments since the 1960s.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Heather Stur
- Summary:
- For as much as has been written and produced about the Vietnam War, the voices telling the story have remained much the same. Historians and journalists have privileged American male combat veterans of the war and high-ranking U.S. policymakers, while in Vietnam, the official state story is one of U.S. imperialists versus Vietnamese freedom fighters. Lost in these tellings of the story was South Vietnamese veterans and their families, anticommunist Vietnamese citizens, political activists of all stripes in South Vietnam, American women who served in the war, U.S. support or rear echelon troops, U.S. Embassy employees, and troops of the "free world" forces in Vietnam. These voices are crucial for understanding how the conflict developed and played out, what its consequences were, and what its legacies are.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, John Bodnar
- Summary:
- This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war that tended to uphold noble ideals validating the nation's war effort and thepossibility that war could actually produce laudable traits andmore tragic stories that refused to efface the confusion and pain military conflict imposed upon individuals. As such, it will explore the problem of memory and trauma and the significant tension soldiers faced when they attempted to recreate their experience for a public audience that could not know what it had been like. The part of the paper devoted to World War II will focus on the fiction of Norman Maile and the autobiography of William Manchester--both combat vets. Mailer's renowned novel, The Naked and the Dead, recast the "Good War" in a highly critical light that exposed the deep strain of violence that he felt marked American society and explained why it spared no expense in bringing ruin to the Japanese. Manchester acknowledged the violence and carnage but sought to extract from it tales of heroic men and who cared deeply for each other. Such narratives contrast sharply with those coming from the experience of Vietnam. Vets like Ron Kovic, Tim O'Brien and others mounted withering attacks on any notion that patriotic service could result in anything positive or nurture admirable character traits. In some ways the World War II stories were actually more conflicted than those formed in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. The final part of this brief paper will explore the outpouring of literature produced by men who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Again, significant differences are evident among the fighters themselves. A greater effort is made in this most recent contest to restore some faith in traditional patriotic ideals. This effort has had some success but has been hotly contested by tales that absolutely reject any attempt to use patriotic honor to wipe out the memory of pain and loss.
- Date:
- 2019-10-01
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau
- Summary:
- While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts at the very beginning of a project. we will walk participants through what digital publications are (moving behind articles and monographs to peer-reviewed datasets and visualizations), how to present these in peer-review and promotion settings, and how to craft a project that takes these publication types and needs to account during the early, mid, and late- research stages. From practical data-management and storage concerns to the more intellectually challenging questions of how to frame the disciplinary outcomes of digital projects to our readers and peers, we will send participants home with a project plan and set of campus resources to support that plan.
- Date:
- 2019-09-25
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau
- Summary:
- We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collaborating with editors over email. When these digital environments are harnessed thoughtfully and critically, we can use digital methods to showcase the research and creative work we do every day in our classrooms. This workshop will explore classroom-based digital activities that provide students with hands-on experience using mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, and 3D rendering to support arts & humanities questions. We'll also engage participants in several white-board and sticky-note versions of these activities that use analog methods to enhance understanding of the digital world in which our students move.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kathryn Tomasek
- Summary:
- When students transcribe and mark up primary sources, they learn the kind of close reading that is necessary for historical interpretation. When their professors teach transcription and markup, they can discover new research projects and make an impact on their fields. In 2004, Tomasek began to work with colleagues in the Wheaton College Archives and in Library and Information Services to build transcription and markup into an undergraduate course in nineteenth-century U.S. Women’s History. They used a scaffolded assignment that allowed students to build on skills developed throughout the semester, and students reported real investment in the life of the daughter of a Baptist minister whose journal they transcribed and marked up. Summer interns who did similar work with the pocket diaries and travel journal of Eliza Baylies Wheaton, a member of the institution’s founding family, did extra unassigned work tracking down the graves of people mentioned in the documents in town cemeteries. By 2009, the Wheaton team had developed a successful model for teaching students close reading, but they had run out of “easy” documents like journals and pocket diaries. So Tomasek and her colleagues turned to the daybook kept by a member of the institution’s founding family. A student research assistant who attended DHSI and took the Introduction to TEI course with Tomasek became the local expert and assisted in teaching a module focused on transcription and markup of the daybook. As is always the case, some students took to the assignment more readily than others. Pairing students to work on a page spread worked better than asking individual students to take on the work themselves. Successful students found stories in their page spreads and wrote real historical depictions of the facts and their significance. Tomasek, her library partners, and the student assistant taught the module for two years before receiving a Start-Up award for further investigation of markup for account books from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. This award marked a transition in Tomasek’s research agenda to a focus on account books as humanities sources and the value of digital scholarly editions for reuse by other researchers. The small community of practice that began in summer 2011 expanded with the help of a Bilateral Digital Humanities award from the German Research Foundation and the NEH in 2015. Tomasek found the use of the classroom module to be slower than ideal for producing a full edition of the day book, and she transitioned to more intensive work with summer interns in 2015. A group of those interns completed a first-run transcription and markup of the daybook in 2016, and an alpha version is part of a data set that includes excerpts from the Financial Papers of George Washington, accounts from the Stagville plantation in North Carolina, Matthew Carey’s Printers File, and accounts of the Uihlein family, founders of the Schlitz brewing company.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kurt Luther
- Summary:
- Stories of war are complex, varied, powerful, and fundamentally human. Thus, crowdsourcing can be a natural fit for deepening our understanding of war, both by scaling up research efforts and by providing compelling learning experiences. Yet, few crowdsourced history projects help the public to do more than read, collect, or transcribe primary sources. In this talk, I present three examples of augmenting crowdsourcing efforts with computational techniques to enable deeper public engagement and more advanced historical analysis around stories of war. In “Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era,” funded by the NHPRC, we explore how crowdsourcing and natural language processing (NLP) tools help participants learn historical thinking skills while connecting American Civil War-era documents to scholarly topics of interest. In “Civil War Photo Sleuth,” funded by the NSF, we combine crowdsourcing with face recognition technology to help participants rediscover the lost identities of photographs of American Civil War soldiers and sailors. And in “The American Soldier in World War II,” funded by the NEH, we bring together crowdsourcing, NLP, and visualization to help participants explore the attitudes of American GIs in their own words. Across all three projects, I discuss broader principles for designing tools, interfaces, and online communities to support more meaningful and valuable crowdsourced contributions to scholarship about war and conflict.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Larry Berman
- Summary:
- I have been writing about Vietnam since 1982 and learned much about the war and peace from participants on both sides of the brutal conflict. In my presentation, I want to share how participants in the war from the so-called “winning side” have helped me to better understand not just the war, but also the sense of loss that is often shared with those on the “losing side”. This despair for “what might have been” or “hope and vanquished reality” unites both sides. I am especially interested in participants’ stories as told in memoirs, oral histories and personal interviews. For this presentation, I will focus on those individuals with whom I have engaged in extensive and multiple interviews/discussions and who, with one exception, have also produced memoirs from their experiences in war. The one exception is Pham Xuan An, whose memories and stories are recorded in my book Perfect Spy. Each of these participants helped me understand the war through the eyes of a Vietnamese and altered my own narrative for how I speak and write about the war.
- Date:
- 2019-01-15
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Lisa Silvestri
- Summary:
- With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaking, six word war stories, podcasting, and documentary film. Telling War’s mission is to cultivate creative opportunities for veterans to tell their story. This presentation will review some of the project’s initial outcomes. For example, when participating veterans used the ancient art of papermaking to transform their uniforms into paper then bind into book form, they were able to access stories often untold in the public sphere. The books they created held personal imagery and artifacts from their time in the service. The papermaking process allowed them to metabolize and story their experiences. In other cases, veterans wrote six word war stories following in the legacy of Hemmingway’s famous six word short story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Although brief, these first-person memoirs captured aspects of deployment–from the everyday to the extreme–that shifted the communicative priority from eloquence to essence. By sharing these examples and others, this presentation argues that in order to enrich collective knowledge and memory of war, the stories told and heard about war must be expanded and diversified.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Rebecca Wingo
- Summary:
- The History Harvest is a community-centered, student-driven archival project that empowers community voices through material-based oral histories. Over the course of a semester, History Harvest students partner with a community to run an event in which community members bring artifacts of significance. Students record community members as they tell stories about their objects and digitize the artifacts for a shared online archive. The community members then take their items back home; there is no acquisition. This one-day event is a bit like Antiques Roadshow, except everything is valuable. More than a singular event, however, the History Harvest can be a litmus test for the success of a community partnership.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ron Osgood, Patrick C. Shih
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ron Osgood, Patrick C. Shih
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-09-26
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Sara Duke, Michelle Dalmau
- Summary:
- Digital methods such as mapping, data visualization and network analysis offer opportunities to interrogate, explore, and answer research questions. What underlies each of these digital methods are data and the processes required to translate arts and humanities evidence into manipulatable data structures. In this workshop, we will explore the concept of “collections as data” and the implications of data normalization to facilitate computational based research or creative outputs. We will discuss the types of decisions you'll encounter when representing your humanities evidence in a digital environment and best practices for structuring your research data for use in a number of digital tools.
- Date:
- 2019-05-21
- Main contributors:
- James Cole
- Summary:
- This interactive webinar will provide an introduction to the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE). The webinar will describe options for survey administration, data use, and reporting. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions, as well hear how their colleagues at other CSU campuses plan on using BCSSE.
- Date:
- 2019-03-26
- Main contributors:
- James Cole
- Summary:
- This webinar will provide an introduction to the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE). BCSSE has worked with colleges and universities across the US and Canada to collect important information about incoming students' experiences and expectations for college. Since 2007, nearly 900,000 entering students at more than 500 institutions have completed the survey. BCSSE results have been used in many ways including: academic advising; retention efforts; first-year program design and evaluation; accreditation self-studies; faculty and staff development; and other uses. Starting in 2019, BCSSE will include questions targeting three distinct groups of entering students: (a) recent high school graduates, (b) transfer students, and (c) delayed-entry students (those who graduated from high school three or more years ago and expect to transfer fewer than 12 credits).
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- James, David
- Summary:
- Video bio of David James, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2019
- Date:
- 2019-10-21
- Main contributors:
- Jane Doe, John Doe, This and that
- Summary:
230. Port Triumph (58:38)
- Date:
- 2019-08-01
- Main contributors:
- Jeffrey Gould
- Summary:
- During the 1970s, El Salvador boasted a vast shrimp industry, and nearly all of the 3700 tons that it exported each year made its way to the United States. As shrimp was transitioning away from luxury status, few Americans were likely to give much thought to how the shrimp reached their plates. Fewer still would ever have heard of the story of Puerto el Triunfo – Port Triumph in English – and the drama of the shrimp industry's rise and fall. Yet now, with consciousness of food at an all-time high, and concerns about fair trade and sustainability much on the public mind, it is time to tell this remarkable story. Puerto el Triunfo is a microcosm that throws into sharp relief some of the most powerful forces shaping Central America, and more broadly, the obstacles facing organized labor worldwide. In the 1970s, the 1500 organized workers of the port – mostly women – thanks to their struggles and to the profitability of the Salvadoran shrimp industry were amongst the more privileged laborers in the country. By the latter part of the decade, their hopes for a dignified life for their children seemed on the verge of realization. In 1980, brutal state repression eliminated union leaders or drove them into exile. After a few years, the unions reorganized. By the 1990s, however, the collapse of the industry had extinguished the hopes of the port workers. Our story reveals the internal functioning of the unions, including intense gender conflict and sheds light on their early forms of resistance to the neo-liberal inspired transformation of labor relations that emerged on a global scale during the 1980s. Often known as the flexibilization of labor, management typically has striven to cut costs by reducing the permanent labor force to whom it must pay benefits, employing a temporary, "casual," workers who lack fundamental labor rights. In 1987, the fishermen's union launched one of the longest strikes in the history of the world labor movement against such management tactics. The collapse of the strike in 1990 coincided with the demise the largest shrimp company in Central America. Puerto el Triunfo will attract viewers in part because of the raw power of the story and because the small-scale intimacy of our tale will put a human face to the impersonal forces of globalization, tropical deindustrialization and environmental decay. Port Triumph was a finalist at the Central American International Film Festival and nominated for Best Cinematography at Queens World Film Festival
- Date:
- 2019-01-31
- Main contributors:
- Jenny Bass, Becca Costello
- Summary:
- Marriage Equality: Stories from the Heartland is an on-going project dedicated to recording stories from same-sex couples about their journeys into marriage. Sponsored by the Indiana University’s Department of Gender Studies, the Office for Vice President for Research New Frontiers program, and the IU Bloomington Arts and Humanities Council. - WFHB Marriage Equality Stories from the Heartland
- Date:
- 2019-04-09
- Main contributors:
- Jillian Kinzie
- Summary:
- This webinar discusses how California State University campuses can utalize NSSE data to meet their Graduation Initiative 2025 goals.
- Date:
- 2019-08-27
- Main contributors:
- Jillian Kinzie, Robert M. Gonyea
- Summary:
- We hope you’re eagerly poring over your NSSE 2019 results. Bob Gonyea and Jillian Kinzie will review the reports and provide strategies for utilizing and disseminating your results. NSSE webinars are live and interactive, providing participants the opportunity to ask questions via polls and text chat. When you register for the webinar you’ll be invited to submit questions in advance. Register here to participate.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Joanna Chromik, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- This project examines publicly available statements about sex and sex work in light of the #MeToo movement and in response to the passing of the FOSTA-SESTA. It focuses on the online efforts of sex-work advocates against the passing of the SESTA, and how those efforts affect the public deliberative democratic process, especially with the rise of Democratic Socialist candidates, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who oppose the legislation. I want to consider how coalition building between different activist groups online contributes to new methods of rhetorical invention that can push outward to influence the public process of deliberation.
- Date:
- 2020-09-01
- Main contributors:
- John Paul Ito
- Summary:
- The collection includes three kinds of material. There are original audio recordings of specific passages that demonstrate the ways of performing them discussed in Focal Impulse Theory. (There is also one brief excerpt from a commercial recording that is not widely available.) There are original video recordings; some have content similar to the audio recordings, and some demonstrate general ways of performing discussed in the text.
- Date:
- 2019-10-21
- Main contributors:
- Jon Kay
- Summary:
- This is a documentary short about a rice basketmaker in Nandan County in Guangxi, China. Born in 1957, Li Guicai makes baskets in Huaili Village, a Baiku Yao community. As a teen, he split bamboo for a local basketmaker and learned the trade through watching the older artisan work. Mr. Li now weaves for family and friends and to sell in the village. He specializes in making baskets to hold sticky rice. The documentary was shot and edited by Jon Kay, with a Canon 90D DSLR Camera and a Rode stereo microphone.
237. Oral History excerpt: "I didn't know that everybody didn't go to the well when I was a kid" (00:25)
- Date:
- 2019-10-31
- Main contributors:
- Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
- Summary:
- Betty Earlene Jordan describes the Small Farms community's use of the Chase Street spring when she was a child. She says that the spring was "all [she] ever knew, growing up." Because she saw so many people using the spring, she was surprised to learn that "everybody didn't go to the well." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-10-31
- Main contributors:
- Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
- Summary:
- Betty Earlene Jordan, who grew up in the community of Black Oak in Lake County, Indiana, talks about how, at a physical therapy appointment earlier that day, she spoke with two people who had very different opinions about the taste of the Chase Street spring water. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Water Quality and Taste for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-10-31
- Main contributors:
- Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
- Summary:
- Betty Earlene Jordan discusses how the use of plastic increased the amount of littering at the Chase Street spring. "I think that if people were out there and they had a container that maybe wasn't as clean as they thought it should have been, or if it was bent up too badly," she says, "they would just...throw it." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-10-31
- Main contributors:
- Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
- Summary:
- Betty Earlene Jordan describes the amount of work involved with using a spring as a primary water source. "It was a lot of work," she says. "Because we would fill the car up with those jugs and that water is heavy." She recalls how she once carried four jugs at once, and that her mother scolded her for carrying too many. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-10-31
- Main contributors:
- Jordan, Betty Earlene (narrator)
- Summary:
- Kay Westhues interviews Betty Earlene Jordan at the Lake County Library, Merrillville Branch, in Merrillville, IN, on October 31, 2019. Jordan grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township. Her family depended on the spring for drinking water in the 1960s-70s. She shares her memories of that experience, and describes the community of Small Farms and Black Oak during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
- Date:
- 2019-05-01
- Main contributors:
- Juan Eduardo Wolf
- Summary:
- This collection of videos to accompany the book, Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora, provides examples of the different ways of styling Blackness as described in the book. Styling Blackness as Afro-descendant appears in a 2009 Pascua de los Negros performance; styling Blackness as Criollo appears during Lumbanga's celebration of the 2009 Dia de la Mujer Afro as well as Oro Negro's performance of the baile de tierra during a Chilean Independence parade; styling Blackness as Moreno appears in a presentation by the Hijos de Azapa during the 2008 Fiesta Chica of the Virgen de las Peñas; styling Blackness as Indigenous appears during the 2009 Carnaval Andino with morenada and caporales performances.
- Date:
- 2019-09-12
- Main contributors:
- Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
- Summary:
- Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts & humanities practitioners through mapping, data mining, network analysis, data visualization, 3D rendering, computationally aided vision and other digital methods in a variety of disciplines and tachle some of the critical issues for digital arts & humanities practitioners. We'll also provide a clear list of IU resources that can support these efforts. Finally, we'll all engage in a practical white-board-based activity that doesn't require digital tools to demonstrate how analog methods can enhance understanding of some of these digital-methods applications in a variety of environments (including the classroom).
- Date:
- 2020
- Main contributors:
- Keefer, Patricia
- Summary:
- Pat outlines her motivations for getting involved with the youth vote, her activism at the time, the youth vote's path from Congress to Supreme Court to constitutional amendment, and the Nixon signing ceremony.
- Date:
- 2019-12-06
- Main contributors:
- Kellams, Dina, Monaghan, Elaine
- Summary:
- With the anniversary of Indiana University's Bicentennial just around the corner, it makes sense to talk with someone who has expertise on the subject of the history of IU. In this week's episode, host Elaine Monaghan tours the Indiana University Archives with Dina Kellams, director of University Archives, to learn about how the archives work, IU's campus after World War II, a misplaced engagement ring, and Herman B Wells' Christmas tradition.
- Date:
- 2019-12-05
- Main contributors:
- Kiberd, Emily, Porges, Stephen
- Summary:
- Highly stressful situations can lead to an inability to act and respond. These feelings have long-lasting impacts that affect people well afterward. However, as you’ll hear, this is not the result of some inadequacy, but an ancient neurological response. Stephen Porges, Ph.D. is a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. With more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Porges pioneered the Polyvagal Theory which links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of the physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Porges explains what Polyvagal Theory is and how it relates to all of us on a physiological level. According to this approach, stress has little if anything to do with our physical state, and everything to do with our emotional and psychological wellbeing. We talk about how Polyvagal Theory helps explain a state in between stress and unstress in which we actually disassociate from our surroundings as a result of trauma. We then talk about how to handle the effects of this neurological response. It may lead to an inability to fully engage with people and feelings of shame and inadequacy. However, proper narrative framing, self-compassion, and even intentional breathing can help to make shifts towards recovery. How might an understanding of Polyvagal Theory change the way you interact with other people? Let’s talk about it in the comments below. In this episode How trauma can trigger a reflex that leads to an inability to act The ways that stress and trauma impact future relationships How to cope with the lasting effects of trauma The power of breath for helping to regulate parts of the nervous system Ways to make others feel safe simply by using your voice The link between feelings of safety and creativity Technological innovations that may reduce inflammation of the vagal nerve Quotes “I would say that the nervous system is much more rational in its decision-making properties and we have to be very careful about imposing a simplistic worldview on it and trying to make everything fit that simplicity.” [1:43] “This whole act of going into immobilization or inability to recruit fight-flight is a powerful reaction that many people have experienced. But once they experience it, they don’t know how to make sense of it.” [9:47] “Breath is really a wonderful gift because when we manipulate our breathing we can change the tone of our autonomic nervous system. And if we change that tone, even for short periods of time, we can experience the world differently for those moments.” [16:52] “What we really want is to enable people to be better witnesses of their own body and to become more self-aware and compassionate to respect those bodily feelings.” [48:38] original description from: https://urbanwellnessclinic.com/dr-stephen-porges-polyvagal-theory/
- Date:
- 2019-02-07
- Main contributors:
- Kyle Fasset, Allison BrckaLorenz
- Summary:
- The library is open—in this webinar, we’ll learn to better read our faculty using data from the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). We’ll share results from some of FSSE research’s greatest hits discussing what we’ve found when asking questions such as ‘teachers or researchers?’ ‘STEM or non-STEM?’ ‘general education or non-general education?’ and ‘equitable or inequitable?’ We’ll also provide tips for people interested in their own FSSE analyses responding to questions such as ‘disaggregate or aggregate?’ ‘scales or items?’ and ‘modules or core?’ Join us in discussing these questions and more as we better get to know our faculty with FSSE.
248. Powwow (05:20)
- Date:
- 2019-04-12
- Main contributors:
- Landin, Scout
- Summary:
- The Sample: Under sunny early-April skies, IU's First Nations Educational & Cultural Center hosted its Eighth Annual Traditional Powwow. For years, this has been an event where native students can celebrate and non-native students can learn. This year, we chat with recent grad Scout Landin about the jingle dress and why she came back to town for this IU tradition.
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- Lasater, Michael (artist)
- Summary:
- A boy with a brass instrument stands watching a hurdy-gurdy (barrel organ) man as he turns the handle of his instrument. Although they occupy the same frame, they are separated by a flickering, nearly transparent veil, mirrored in the scratchy, phonograph-like audio track. Above this sound a voice recites lines from D.H. Lawrence’s "The Ship of Death." –Michael Lasater
- Date:
- 2019-12-06
- Main contributors:
- Less, Greg, Morse, Ian
- Summary:
- What does a Tesla have to do with red mud and white seaweed in Indonesia? What stands in the way of solid state batteries? How can you tell what's really powering your electric vehicle? In this episode, we work through trends and complications in the technology that could deliver transportation powered by renewable energy. 3:30 - Greg Less of the University of Michigan Energy Institute's Battery Lab 14:30 - Ian Morse with a story about nickel mining in Indonesia
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Lino Mioni, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- This project is part of my ongoing doctoral research which investigates the establishment of recipe collections and cookbooksas a genre in the early days of print. Building from the anonymous recipe collections from the Italian peninsula of the XIII and XIV centuries, Maestro Martino’s manuscript Libro de Arte Coquinaria– composed in the second half of the XV century– lead to the monumental treatises of the XVI century, Messisbugo’s Banchetti (1549) and Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera (1570). I analyze these cookbooks through a network analysis of ingredients in order to study historic culinary practices, gustatory culture, and the cookbooks as a form.
- Date:
- 2019-05-30
- Main contributors:
- Lipschultz, Nancy, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- This week, Dean Shanahan talks with Nancy Lipschultz, Associate Professor of Voice and Speech in the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance. Lipschultz shares insight into regional dialects, how she coaches professionals, and gives the dean a quick lesson on Cockney English.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Ida Lloyd shares her memory of gathering water from the Chase Street Spring in the wintertime. She discusses the ever-flowing, never-freezing nature of the artesian well and describes the difficulty of gathering water in the winter. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Ida Lloyd was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana, and moved to the Small Farms at age ten. In this excerpt, she contends that East Chicago was more inclusive than Gary. She says about Small Farms, "You come here and you're separated--all Blacks in this area...and whites in that area. And then you had, the schools...we were integrated, but you weren't really integrated." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Ida L. Lloyd discusses her memories of growing up in Small Farms, after moving there at age ten from East Chicago. She explains why she preferred East Chicago to Small Farms. She says, "We hated it in a sense that you didn't have the freedom. You didn't have the sidewalks, running water, like you should, like we had in East Chicago." Lloyd also shares a story about how residents of East Chicago would combat hot summer nights by spending the night on the Lake Michigan beach to keep cool. This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Lloyd, Ida L. (narrator)
- Summary:
- Kay Westhues interviews Ida L. Lloyd at her home in the Glen Park neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Lloyd shares her experience of moving to Small Farms from East Chicago in 1950, when she was a child. Her family drew water from the spring in the winter, when the pump at their house would freeze. She describes and contrasts her memories of life in East Chicago and Small Farms. She talks about her family's roots in Alabama and her grandfather, who was in the first graduating class at Tuskegee University. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
- Date:
- 2019-05-15
- Main contributors:
- Lorenzo-Luaces, Lorenzo, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- Assistant Professor of the Psychological and Brian Sciences Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces discusses depression, psychotherapy, and the potentials of online treatment for mental illness.
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- Lupear, Linda
- Summary:
- Video bio of Linda Lupear, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2019; Linda Lupear’s career as a television journalist spans nearly four decades. After graduating from Butler University, she joined the newsroom at WISH-TV to become one of the first women hired as a general assignment news reporter in the Indianapolis market. She stayed at WISH-TV for seven years before moving to WRTV-TV in 1973, where she would spend the next 24 years. During her tenure at WRTV-TV, Lupear focused on the local education beat and established a health beat to explore medical and hospital issues, problems and trends. She also covered major federal prosecutions including the Kimberlin bombing trial and the Tony Kiritsis trial, as well as scored a number of exclusive interviews and stories including with Roger Drollinger right before he turned himself in for the murder of four brothers in Hollandsburg, Indiana, in 1977. Her more than three-decade career as a reporter in Indianapolis made her one of the longest serving women reporters in the city and state. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
- Date:
- 2020
- Main contributors:
- MacGowan, Ian
- Summary:
- Ian MacGowan starts by talking about the year 1968, reactions and protests to the Vietnam War, and the general atmosphere of chaos and anger. He then discusses the atmosphere in Washington, DC, and his involvement with the Youth Franchise Coalition. The interview also covers Ian's political background. A chronology of events specifically related to the 26th Amendment begins with the date June 17, 1970 at 26:42, and reactions to the inclusion in the Voting Rights Act of an amendment to lower the voting age to 18. Ian is then asked to discuss the date June 22, 1970 at 29:02 and reactions to President Nixon's signing of the VRA. At 31:50, Ian is asked to comment on the December 21 Supreme Court ruling in the case Oregon v. Mitchell. At 34:42, there is discussion of the constitutional amendment, and at 37:20, Ian's take on President Nixon signing the amendment. Short Q&A's start at 39:45.
- Date:
- 2019-02-06
- Main contributors:
- Macrina, Alison, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- For the great many of us confounded by issues of cybersecurity, Dean Shanahan and founder of the Library Freedom Project Alison Macrina work through everything from Facebook to the NSA and web browsing to texting. Macrina is set to visit IU Feb. 14 as part of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research speaker series, co-hosted with the Center of Excellence for Women in Technology.
- Date:
- 2020-02-09
- Main contributors:
- Maharis, Mercedes
- Summary:
- Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused. His traumatic journey finds him caught between prison officials and board members, who place him in a mental double bind, unable to fulfill conflicting requirements to make parole so that he can get the medical care he needs to survive. Includes revealing statistics 2007 - 2019 about death during prison custody for Nevada sex offenders, as compared to total deaths in custody. WARNING: MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS AND CHILDREN. a mercedes maharis film. 6 minutes.
- Date:
- 2019-02-01
- Main contributors:
- Marahrens, Helge-Johannes
- Summary:
- In recent years, social scientists have increased their efforts to access new datasets from the web or from large databases. An easy way to access such data are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This workshop introduces techniques for working with APIs in Python to retrieve data from sources such as Wikipedia or The New York Times. It is intended for researchers who are new to working with APIs, but are familiar with Python or have completed the Introduction to Python workshop. In this workshop, we will retrieve data from the ProPublica Congress API. If you plan to follow along the code scripts, please take a few minutes to request a personal API key before the workshop: https://www.propublica.org/datastore/api/propublica-congress-api. Computers with Python 3 and libraries (requests, json, pandas, matplotlib, bs4, wikipedia) pre-loaded are available in the SSRC on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Date:
- 2019-11-01
- Main contributors:
- Marahrens, Helge-Johannes
- 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.
- Date:
- 2019-02-15
- Main contributors:
- Marahrens, Helge-Johannes
- Summary:
- Textual data are central to the social sciences. However, they often require several pre-processing steps before they can be utilized for statistical analyses. This workshop introduces a range of Python tools to clean, organize, and analyze textual data. It is intended for researchers who are new to working with textual data, but are familiar with Python or have completed the Introduction to Python workshop. Computers with Python pre-loaded are available in the SSRC on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Date:
- 2019-09-27
- Main contributors:
- Marizán, Paola, Shanahan, Jim, Eosco, Gina, Berardelli, Jeff
- Summary:
- With rising and warming ocean waters, hurricanes are on track to intensify. This change means greater risk for people in the path and greater need for effective long- and short-term risk communication. But the story of the hurricane doesn't stop with the radar, or the rescues, or la renuncia, or the rebuild. To understand the chatter around hurricane season, the team talks this week with a meteorologist, a risk communications specialist and a podcast host whose family lived through Hurricane Maria. 2:45 - Update on "Huracán Maria changed my family's life" with Paola Marizán from ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest? 16:45 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Gina Eosco from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 27:45 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Jeff Berardelli from Columbia University and CBS News
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- Marv Pixton
- Summary:
- Air Force pilot Marv Pixton tells his story about flying into Khe Sanh.
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- Mary Borgo Ton
- Summary:
- This video remediates some of the interactive features of the Shining Lights website. It includes a walkthrough of some of the most interactive and visually interesting pages on the website.
- Date:
- 2019-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Mary Borgo Ton, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
- Summary:
- Giving a poster presentation for a class or a conference? In the throes of a research project and need some clarity? This workshop explores poster design as a tool for organizing your research and presenting the results. We’ll discuss project management techniques that not only lead to dynamic and engaging posters but can also help you write papers, articles, and strong grant applications. We’ll share tips for designing your poster as well as identify easy-to-use design tools and on-campus printing resources. Bring a project or an idea to practice with!
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
- Summary:
- Exnar McIntosh-Burt discusses her upbringing in Small Farms, highlighting specific schools that she attended. She describes her childhood as "many years of wonderful growing up." McIntosh-Burt came from a family of 18 children. She shares that the neighborhood was a very tight-knit community, stating, "We raised each other... A very close-knitted family on the Small Farm." This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
- Date:
- 2019-04-03
- Main contributors:
- Meiman, Meg
- Summary:
- For some undergraduate students, it can be increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in an online environment. On top of this, students can be so overwhelmed by the massive amount of information that they have problems finding and identifying accurate information for their research. Enter the Critical Thinking Online Toolkit. As a series of assignments and modules in Canvas, this Toolkit provides materials for instructors across all IU campuses to help students hone their information literacy skills: identify and evaluate valid sources of information, synthesize that information, and construct and communicate knowledge for their academic work and everyday lives. Come learn about more about the Toolkit: what it is, where it is, and how it’s helping instructors across IU campuses engage their students to navigate and critically assess information in an online environment.
271. ICAN at IU (05:56)
- Date:
- 2019-11-08
- Main contributors:
- Melchi, Mallory
- Summary:
- The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, Mallory Melchi and Hudson sit down with us to talk about the work that they do with the Indiana Canine Assistance Network. Mallory does important work as both the president of the organization at IU and as one of its volunteer service dog trainers. Hudson is also doing important work-- becoming the best service dog he can be.
- Date:
- 2019-09-20
- Main contributors:
- Melendez, Alice, McCabe, Janet, Geiger, Nathan, Hirji, Zahra, Johnson, Nathanael
- Summary:
- September 20 is the first day of the Global Climate Strike. It's an event that follows the rise of youth organizations like the Sunrise Movement and Zero Hour, a full year of Fridays for Future school strikes and CNN's 7-hour climate change town hall marathon. At every level of society, people have gotten involved in the politics of the environment. In this episode, the team talks with activists, a communication scientist and journalists to find out how much of a difference any of it can make. 4:30 - Louisville, Kentucky, Global Climate Strike and Extinction Rebellion story, featuring Alice Melendez 12:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and IU environmental communications scientist Nathan Geiger 20:15 - interview between Janet McCabe, Zahra Hirji of BuzzFeed News and Nathanael Johnson of Grist
- Date:
- 2019-02-20
- Main contributors:
- Messbarger, Rebecca Marie
- Summary:
- Lecture delivered by Rebecca Messbarger, PhD (Director of Medical Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis) on February 20, 2019.
- Date:
- 2019-01-18
- Main contributors:
- Mize, Trenton
- Summary:
- Experimental designs remain the gold standard for assessing causality; perhaps because of this, the use of experiments has grown rapidly in most social science fields such as economics, political science, sociology, and others. While laboratory studies remain popular in some fields, there is increasing interest in bringing the power of experimental designs to more diverse samples. Survey experiments offer the capability to assess causality in a broad range of samples, including targeted samples of specific populations or in large-scale nationally representative samples. The rise of online workplaces and the TESS program offer the ability to bring these samples to applied researchers at a minimal cost, greatly expanding the possibilities for research. This workshop will focus on how to design quality survey experiments, giving researchers the tools to implement best practices. I will also advocate for survey experiments as a tool for tests of intersectionality and other theoretical questions requiring diverse samples.
- Date:
- 2019-09-13
- Main contributors:
- Monaghan, Elaine
- Summary:
- Welcome back! In our first episode of Season 5, we chat about the importance of radio with new host and Professor of Practice at IU's Media School, Elaine Monaghan. We hope you're as excited as we are for what's ahead.
- Date:
- 2019-11-15
- Main contributors:
- Monaghan, Elaine, Kolovou, Tatiana
- Summary:
- Developing good communication skills is increasingly hard in such a fast-paced and globalized world. Is it okay to put emojis in professional emails? How should we address bosses and professors? Is it better to call or email? This week, host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Tatiana Kolovou, Senior Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business, to discuss how we can communicate effectively and appropriately.
- Date:
- 2019-10-04
- Main contributors:
- Monaghan, Elaine, Shackleford, Scott, McGinnis, Mike, Ostrom, Elinor
- Summary:
- In this episode of Through The Gates, our host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Scott Shackleford and Mike McGinnis to reflect on the life and work of Elinor Ostrom. Elinor was a member of the faculty at IU and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009. For a list of events honoring her legacy visit ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/index.html
278. Watt, Steve (21:17)
- Date:
- 2019-11-01
- Main contributors:
- Monaghan, Elaine, Watt, Steve
- Summary:
- In anticipation of The Worlds of John Wick Conference happening November 7-9th, our host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Steve Watt to talk about the franchise and the world-building that makes it so notable.
- Date:
- 2019-03-15
- Main contributors:
- Moren, Teri, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- What’s next for IU Women’s basketball after winning the WNIT championships last spring? Dean Shanahan sits down with head coach Teri Moren to talk about the future of the team, her coaching philosophy, and the changing face of collegiate basketball.
- Date:
- 2019-02-01
- Main contributors:
- Naroff, Dylan
- Summary:
- The Sample: Being a musician is all about balance. Knowing your notes while looking at the bigger picture of the score. Perfecting your performance as an individual artist while harmonizing with an orchestra. For IU student Dylan Naroff, it's about finding his own sound in the hustle and bustle of life at Jacobs School of Music.
- Date:
- 2019-05-17
- Main contributors:
- Nicolas Valazza, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- In 1950, the U.S. Customs seized various materials that Alfred Kinsey was trying to import from Europe, a circumstance that led to the federal court case “United States v. 31 Photographs etc.” Among these controversial objects were books, engravings, and photographs that were deemed “obscene” according to the legal standard of the time. In 1957, thanks to the support of the IU President Herman B. Wells and a group of lawyers involved in civil liberties activities, the Kinsey Institute won the case and was able to recover the books and artworks, which are now part of its library. The verdict of this trial greatly contributed to redefine the notion of “obscenity” in legal terms, by creating an exception for the purpose of study and research, and thus consolidating academic freedom. This interdisciplinary project, at the crossroads of literary and legal studies, will develop a digital collection of books and artworks that were seized by U.S. Customs and then apply to this corpus tools of text mining and analysis meant to identify patterns that lead to the accusation of obscenity.
- Date:
- 2019-01-23
- Main contributors:
- Osgood, Ron, Shih, Patrick
- Summary:
- The Vietnam War/American War Oral History project aims to identify engaging ways to bring scholars and the general public in direct contact with the lived experiences of both American and Vietnamese combatants or civilians who participated in the Vietnam War/American War. The projects goal is record, preserve/archive, and make accessible to the public oral history interviews with those who fought and others who were impacted (including unheard voices) on all sides of the Vietnam War/American War in Vietnam and to emphasize listening across difference. The project has evolved from initial concept through several prototype versions of the interface and advanced capabilities. In summer 2018, a funded symposium brought scholars and technology experts to campus to consult with the project team as we prepare for national funding opportunities. https://idahweb.webtest.iu.edu/news-events/_events/2017-18/symposium/conflict-civic-engagement.html A demonstration of the website capabilities and a discussion on future enhancements, including crowdsourcing, community engagement and user contribution will be covered during the brown bag.
- Date:
- 2019-04-05
- Main contributors:
- Parker, Chris
- Summary:
- Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment: When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the worker's domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are: 1) what guidance to deliver, and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms?systems that allow users in developing economies to deposit, transfer, and withdraw money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to sub-optimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money operator, we perform a randomized controlled trial with 4,771 agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of how much electronic currency to stock are less likely to stock out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the program and not offered in-person training do not experience changes in stockouts or rebalances. We observe no evidence of learning or fatigue. Agent-level heterogeneity in the treatment effects shows that the agents who handle substantially more customer deposits than withdrawals benefit most from the intervention. || When Transparency Fails: Bias and Financial Incentives in Ridesharing Platforms: Passenger discrimination in transportation systems is a well-documented phenomenon. With the advent and success of ridesharing platforms, such as Lyft, Uber and Via, there has been hope that discrimination against under-represented minorities may be reduced. However, early evidence has suggested the existance of bias in ridesharing platforms. Several platforms responded by reducing operational transparency through the removal of information about the rider's gender and race from the ride request presented to drivers. However, following this change, bias may still manifest after a request is accepted, at which point the rider's picture is displayed, through driver cancelation. Our primary research question is to what extent a rider's gender, race, and perception of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights impact cancelation rates on ridesharing platforms. We investigate this through a large field experiment using a major ridesharing platform in North America. By manipulating rider names and profile pictures, we observe drivers' patterns of behavior in accepting and canceling rides. Our results confirm that bias at the ride request stage has been eliminated. However, at the cancelation stage, racial and LGBT biases are persistent, while biases related to gender appear to have been eliminated. We also explore whether dynamic pricing moderates (through increased pay to drivers) or exacerbates (by signaling that there are many riders, allowing drivers to be more selective) these biases. We find a moderating effect of peak pricing, with consistently lower biased behavior.
- Date:
- 2019-09-06
- Main contributors:
- Parrington, Mark, Davydova, Angelina, Birdy, Kate, McCabe, Janet, Clement, Joel, Alexander, Edward, Shanahan, James, Fresco, Nancy
- Summary:
- The World Meteorological Organization labeled summer 2019's arctic and boreal wildland fires "unprecedented." In the first episode of In This Climate, Janet, Jim and Emily explore with scientists and policy experts how and why this circumpolar fire season was so significant and what we can do moving forward. 7:00 - Siberian wildfire story, featuring Mark Parrington, Angelina Davydova and Kate Birdy 13:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and Joel Clement, with contributions from Edward Alexander 28:15 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Nancy Fresco
- Date:
- 2019-08-05
- Main contributors:
- Paul Kriese, Beth South
- Summary:
- Interview of professor emeritus of political science Paul Kriese. Dr. Kriese identifies as asexual and discovered his identity later in life.
- Date:
- 2019-09-20
- Main contributors:
- Pescosolido, Bernice
- Summary:
- This week on Through The Gates, Elaine sits down to discuss how to combat the stigma of mental health on IU's campus with professor Bernice Pescosolido. Professor Pescosolido leads the on-campus initiative called You Bring Change to Mind at IU.
- Date:
- 2019-02-20
- Main contributors:
- Pisano, Linda, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- In the throes of awards season, commentary on celebrity fashion choices runs rampant. This week, Professor Linda Pisano, chair of the Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance department, talks costume design, style trends, and how we can contextualize red carpet fashion.
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- This is an interview of Dr. Stephen Porges by Dr. David Berceli discussing the concepts of "spirituality" from a Polyvagal perspective. It is divided into 18 subcategories in order to be inclusive of this topic from the perspectives of science, psychology and various systems of belief. https://www.stephenporges.com/ https://traumaprevention.com/
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Can cultivating brain function help develop empathy? Here what Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD has to say.
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Stress, trauma and anxiety are all-to-common conditions in today's society. Join Functional Podiatrist and Human Movement Specialist Dr Emily Splichal as she explores concepts in the stress response inspired by Dr Stephen Porges work and the Polyvagal Theory. Gain a better understanding of the fight, flight and freeze responses and how improper processing of these primal responses can lead to chronic pain, anxiety, muscular tension and postural imbalances. Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DickHiuBvkA
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Dr. Stephen Porges | Revolutionising our understanding of autonomic physiology Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_1HdPNZxc
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- In a conversation with Gunther Schmidt, MD, Prof. Stephen Porges illustrates his approach and they discuss implications for psychotherapy. Homepage von Prof. Stephen Porges (with concrete explications of the theory): http://www.stephenporges.com Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-Y2_eMfgw
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Prof. Stephen Porges, the originator of the polyvagal theory illustrates his scientific approach in a conversation with Dr. Gunther Schmidt. They discuss the evolutionary emergence of the polyvagal system, name implications for psychotherapy and give hints for the understanding of psychological trauma. In the video, Prof. Stephen Porges briefly summarizes his work. Elaborate illustration can be found on his website. Prof. Stephen Porges website: http://www.stephenporges.com Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLEAlhBHPM
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- This interview "Stephen Porges: Resilience" is part of the series "Hardwiring Happiness: The 7 Essential Strengths with Rick Hanson," originally hosted by en*theos. Get Free Weekly Tips for Greater Happiness, Calm, and Confidence Sign up Now at: https://www.rickhanson.net/writings/just-one-thing/ Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeN4mWATl9g
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- The Polivagal Theory Buy the Videos online at the www.uk.international-isc.com Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AbSUYFUuQk
- Date:
- 2019-08-07
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Are you a caregiver who is on the verge of burnout? What is the difference between the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system? What happens if I misread a person's face, especially my partner? Listen to this fascinating interview with Polyvagal theory's founder, Stephen Porges. Shownotes: (1:45) Episode 116: Polyvagal theory, safety in relationships. (4:26) Why knowing how to read other people matters. (9:50) How our physiology affects how we perceive others, and how others perceive us. (17:50) Arguments from a biological perspective. (20:15) Co-regulation. (25:05) How learning can be affected by a teacher’s physiology. (27:40) Reading an audience when speaking in public. (32:15) DPIR enrollment. (34:10) Difference between the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system. (42:05) How stress affects to our bodies. (50:00) About depression. (55:45) About exercise. (56:50) How taking care of others can impact your life. (1:01:20) Final thoughts. (1:06:40) Action Step. Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rCIYQVHF4
- Date:
- 2019-09-16
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- http://plantyourself.com/340 Stephen Porges' body of work has informed my coaching as much as anything else. My exploration and use of Polyvagal Theory to help clients shift undesirable behavior patterns feels like a superpower. I wish more coaches - especially, but not limited to, health coaches - knew about his work, and understood how to apply it. Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQrgf1SKeU
- Date:
- 2019-10-10
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Talk Time host Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen discusses trauma and the Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges. Dr. Stephen Porges' shares key finds from his research about the neuroscience of emotions, attachment, communication and emotional regulation. Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kgO3HOP8VQ
- Date:
- 2019-03-07
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- Bulletproof Radio welcomes scientist Dr. Stephen Porges back to the show. He's known for his deep and profound understanding of the human nervous system and its application to real-life clinical settings. Dr. Porges created the Polyvagal Theory, which explains the workings of the vagal nerve and links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior. He has authored and co-authored several books on the subject. For 25 years, his Polyvagal Theory has been leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. One of my favorite episodes of Bulletproof Radio was #264 when he and I talked about this theory. I encourage you to listen to that episode and check out the two Bulletproof Blog articles. I was so impressed with his research that I included it in my new book Game Changers, specifically Law #44, which is “Gratitude is Stronger than Fear.” Dr. Porges also is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™, which currently is used by more than 1200 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement. In this new episode, we explore how sound, safety, environment and gratitude are all intimately connected to our nervous system circuitry. “Your body, in safe environments, will start to spontaneously optimize those circuits,” explains Dr. Porges. “We need to structure narratives that have a degree of positivity, so that our nervous system doesn't feel too scared to evaluate it.” We’ll be making links between Dr. Stephen’s work and fascinating brain-body interactions, often deeply rooted in our ancient biology. We introduce “neuroception,” find out how to structure environments for those who struggle with sensory processing issues, better understand how hearing frequencies affect adults and kids differently, and learn how to control our own heart rate variability. If you like this video, subscribe to Bulletproof on YouTube today, where you'll find full-length episodes of Bulletproof Radio to watch and listen to, interviews with thought leaders in mindfulness, health, nutrition, science, and biohacking. Also, one simple hack - Bulletproof Coffee - try making it at home - here's the recipe! https://blog.bulletproof.com/bulletpr... Bulletproof Radio is one of the top ranked Podcasts on iTunes! You can subscribe by clicking here:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Connect with us on social media for quick updates and the newest biohacks: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bulletproof Twitter - @bpnutrition Pinterest - http://www.pinterest.com/bppins Instagram - www.instagram.com/bulletproof // instagram.com/dave.asprey #daveasprey #bulletproof #biohacking Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4NnJ6eJPjg
- Date:
- 2019-09-22
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W.
- Summary:
- The Polyvagal Theory explained by Stephen Porges himself and his son Seth Porges