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Wells, Herman B., Indiana University. University Chancellor.
Summary:
Herman B Wells was named acting president of Indiana University in 1937 and then president the following year. He served as president until June 30, 1962. After his retirement from the role of president, IU created the position of University Chancellor, a position which Dr. Wells held until his death in 2000.
Recording of Herman B Wells' speech at the Granville Wells High School commencement in Jamestown, Indiana, on May 23, 1971.
An advertisement for Wembley ties in which a jingle plays as a man tries on the product and a woman stands intrigued next to him. A male narrator addresses the camera about Wembley's new "muted hues" product line. Submitted for the Clio Awards.
An advertisement for Wembley ties in which an animated valet describes losing his job after his employer discovers the Wembley guide matching ties to suit color. Submitted for Clio Awards category Apparel.
Over the past half-century, no one has written more probingly or more influentially about the relations between culture and agriculture than Wendell Berry. His essays, short stories, novels, and poems have ranged eloquently over such subjects as marriage, community, work, farming, and the encompassing order we call nature. Mr. Berry will read selections from this powerful body of work.
Over the past half-century, no one has written more probingly or more influentially about the relations between culture and agriculture than Wendell Berry. His essays, short stories, novels, and poems have ranged eloquently over such subjects as marriage, community, work, farming, and the encompassing order we call nature. Mr. Berry will read selections from this powerful body of work.
In the period that witnessed the rise of communism and its transformation into Stalinism, the emergence of fascism, and two momentous "interwar wars," numerous African American intellectuals met their counterparts in Europe. Encounters include: Counte Cullen and Claire Goll (Paris), Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and George Grosz (Paris, Berlin, Moscow), McKay, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Leon Trotsky (Soviet Union), Horace Cayton and Nancy Cunard (Paris and Hamburg),Alain Locke and the "Black Watch on the Rhine" (French-occupied Rhineland), Langston Hughes, James Yates, and the Spanish Civil War,and W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany. Common human misunderstandings create a comedy of intellectuals against the climate of political violence in interwar Europe.
This workshop will include an introduction to proposal writing and best practices, as well as a discussion of funding opportunities for social science and social science methodology.
This session will introduce aspiring and current graduate students to the process of grant-writing, as well as to funding opportunities aimed at graduate students in various phases of their professional development. This workshop was offered in partnership with the Schuessler Institute for Social Research and the Department of Sociology, as part of a larger, two-day workshop. These presentation slides include materials for all of Dr. Werum's presentations.
"Think Before You Act: Alcohol Misuse," made by Wesley Kopis, was selected as a runner up winning video in "Safety Together: An Archival Remix Contest" organized by Indiana University Libraries.
In Spring 2024, IU Libraries launched its second ever archival remix contest, "Safer Together," a donor-funded contest from IU Libraries Moving Image Archive. In response to the alarming number of IUB students who reported binge drinking and consuming hard alcohol, participants were invited to create a short, compelling video using archival footage to raise awareness about alcohol misuse.
All videos were judged by a Review Board in categories of originality, quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of raising awareness around alcohol misuse.
As a runner-up, Wesley received a prize of $500!
Full website: https://libraries.indiana.edu/safer-together
Public Lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks in the Showers City Hall as part of Bloomington's Black History Month. The lecture was followed by a reception in the lobby of City Hall. The lecture video available here was edited together from the camera footage.
Classroom lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks to students in Fred McElroy's "Survey for the Culture of Black Americans" course (AAADS A150) offered by Indiana University's Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. The lecture took place in Jordan Hall 124. The lecture video available here was edited together from the camera footage.
Classroom lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks to students in Monika Herzig's "Music Industry II" course (SPEA A336) offered by Indiana University's Arts Administration Program. The lecture took place in Ballantine Hall 242. Note: the very beginning of Herzig's class introduction was not recorded. The lecture video available here was edited together from the camera footage.
Public lecture by Logan H. Westbrooks in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall as the opening event of Indiana University's "Black History Month." The lecture was followed by a reception in the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, Bridgwaters Lounge. The lecture was shot using two separate cameras and lasted for approximately 75 min. The lecture video available here was edited together from the three video files of main camera footage.
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. He received his BA from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Western's research examines trends in American economic inequality and the growth of the US penal population. These topics are joined by an interest in the shifting landscape of American poverty over the last 40 years. He is the author of Punishment and Inequality in America (2007) and served as Vice-Chair of a consensus panel of the National Academy of Sciences on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. His new book is called Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (2018). Western is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academies of Science.
To gain information for the spring remediation project, United States Geological Survey (USGS) fieldworker Harvie Pollard conducted fieldwork at the spring site. The video shows camera logging and measuring the spring’s flow in gallons per minute.
An advertisement for Westinghouse light bulbs in which a man and a woman are in bed at night. The woman asks the man to turn off the lamp. He tries to turn it off and unplugs the lamp but the light bulb stays lit. The woman tells "Henry" to turn it off again and again. The man hides the bulb in the in a box and in a closet. The bulb stays lit. Dialogue and narration are in French.
An advertisement for Westinghouse appliances including washing machine, stove, dryer, refrigerator, and dishwasher. Advertisements features cast of "I Love Lucy." Ricky appears on screen talking to Fred about what they remember about the year 1949. Then Lucy and Ethel are in an appliance store looking at 1959 Westinghouse appliances with marked with 1949 prices. The spokesperson, Betty Furness, gives a through description of each appliance and various upgrades since 1949, ending by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
An advertisement for Westinghouse light bulbs in which Westinghouse spokesperson, Betty Furness, stands in a living room and describes the newly shaped light bulb and ends by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
An advertisement for Westinghouse Empress Laundromat and Dryer in which spokesperson, Betty Furness, gives a through description of the compact 25-inch washer machine and dryer. Advertisement starts with an image of the New York City skyline with test reading, "BIG NEWS FOR NEW YORK.". The spokesperson discusses the challenges of living in a small apartment but the new Westinghouse machines are smaller and can stack. She ends by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
An advertisement for a Westinghouse dishwasher in which Fred, from the cast of the TV show "I Love Lucy," washes dishes with Little Ricky. Little Ricky asks Fred why he doesn't use a dishwasher. Fred complains. Then Westinghouse spokesperson, Betty Furness, speaks about the portable dishwasher and ends by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
An advertisement for Westinghouse in which spokesperson, Betty Furness, starts by interviewing a woman with children outside of a grocery store in Pearl River, NY. The woman says she does not have enough space to keep her groceries and meat cold for more than a few days. Then the spokesperson in a kitchen demonstrates then large storage capacity of the Westinghouse refrigerator, including the meat keeper which keeps meat fresh for 7 days and ends by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
An advertisement for a Westinghouse refrigerator in which Fred and Ethel, from the cast of the TV show "I Love Lucy," discuss the frost in their freezer. Then they go to a sound stage to check out the new Westinghouse refrigerator with spokesperson Betty Furness. Fred inspects the new freezer with a magnifying glass then waits and waits before inspecting it again revealing it's frost free. Betty Furness ends by saying, "You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse."
Poster presented at the Indiana University Medical Student Program for Research and Scholarship (IMPRS) Research Symposium held on July 27-28, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
This week, we’ll hear from Nancy Wexler, a leading geneticist and neuropsychologist whose research led to the identification of the Huntington’s disease gene. Her research has also led to the discovery of the genes responsible for familial Alzheimer’s disease, kidney cancer, two types of neurofibromatosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dwarfism.
In spring 2016, Wexler received the inaugural Hermann J. Muller Award, which is named for a renowned geneticist, a Nobel Laureate, a social activist and an esteemed IU Bloomington faculty member (1945-67). The Muller award and lecture series recognizes luminary international geneticists whose discoveries, like Muller’s, have or are making a significant impact on the field of genetics and society.
George Walker interview with David Ebbinghouse about the Grunwald Gallery exhibition "Core Samples: A Retrospective," which features Ebbinghouse's work. It includes an in-depth description of the show from Ebbinghouse.
From the records of the Grunwald Gallery of Art. Since 1983, the Grunwald Gallery of Art, formerly the School of Fine Arts Gallery (SoFA), has presented contemporary works by both professional and student artists in a special exhibition format. Recordings found in the collection include audio-cassettes, video-cassettes, and DVDs of lectures, exhibitions, and interviews related to the Gallery.
Poster presented at the Indiana University Medical Student Program for Research and Scholarship (IMPRS) Research Symposium held on July 27-28, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and film recordings on all IU campuses by the IU Bicentennial in 2020. Digitization began in mid-2015 and has now digitized more than 320,000 objects using more than 10 petabytes of storage. After digitization, every object in MDPI has to be verified to be stored correctly, checked for format conformance, processed into derivatives, and finally, distributed to a streaming video server. Conceptually, the process is straightforward, but like many things, the devil is in the details. The post-digitization processing has continually evolved since its inception in early 2015. Initially implemented to handle a couple of audio formats and processing a few terabytes of data per day, over the last few years it has been enhanced to handle peak transfers of more than 35 terabytes daily with more than 20 formats across audio, video, and film. This presentation details how some of the implementation decisions have held up over time, such as using a tape library as primary storage and using an object state machine for object tracking, as well as some of the growing pains encountered as the system was scaled up. In addition, there is a discussion covering some of the surprises that have been encountered along the way.
The MDPI project posed a tremendous technical challenge: digitize and process around 280,000 audio and video assets by the University’s bicentennial. The first objects began processing in June 2015 and by the summer of 2016, the major problems had been worked out and the processing was proceeding smoothly.
Then the discussions of film processing began.
In theory, processing film is the same as audio and video. On paper, it seems easier: even though the time allotted is less than A/V, there are only 25,000 reels to process.
In reality, however, it is a very different beast. An hour of film scanned at 2K resolution is 20x larger than an hour of video. When a film is scanned at 4K, it is 80x larger than video. Additionally, the film preservation master consists of not just a few files, like we see in audio or video, but thousands of files: a picture for every frame. Like all preservation masters, these files must be validated.
This session will address the challenges and solutions that were needed for the back end processing to be able to process film efficiently.
The process of converting the digitized MDPI media into something that can be used for web delivery is conceptually simple: transcode each one into derivatives and transfer them to the delivery system. However, like most things, the devil is in the details. Data corruption, tape latency, and managing large amounts of data are just a few of the problems which must be overcome.
This session will follow the steps that MDPI digital objects take during processing and explore the solutions used to create a system which must reliably process hundreds of hours of audio and video content daily.
An advertisement for White Owl cigars set in a French street cafe with French music. The scene depicts an American couple at a table who are interrupted by a French man who is taken by the smell of the White Owl cigar the man is smoking, the woman had initially thought the French man was coming onto her.
A couple are sitting at a French café when a Frenchman begins to eye them causing the wife to be unsettle. When the Frenchman approaches the table the thing, he was eyeing was the White Owl cigars the man was smoking.
Better known by his air name Jay Carpenter, Dave White was born in Indianapolis. He attended Mooresville High School where he helped with the school’s weekly radio program and the student produced news programs which were seen in classrooms---that was cutting edge technology for the late 19 sixties.
Dave attended Franklin College where he became manager of WFCI radio. While attending Franklin, he also began working for the local commercial station WIFN. He was there five years, during which he married the love of his life Roberta.
His radio connections led to working at Gateway a county wide rehabilitation agency. He progressed to Executive Director while having side jobs producing public affairs programs on WIFE radio and WISH TV. Children Jennifer and Josh grew up to follow in their dad’s footsteps-Jennifer in rehabilitation and Josh in media.
Dave’s heart was still in broadcasting and after five years at Gateway he worked brief stints at WATI, WNTS, and WFMS. He moved on to become Operations Manager and Program Director at radio stations WXIR FM and WBRI AM. As morning drive host he helped the stations raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Compassion International and other charities. At WXIR, he produced and co-hosted the radio station’s TV program “Power Source” for 10 years on WHMB TV while continuing with his program on WISH TV.
He was at WXIR and WBRI for 20 years. He was a host and producer at WISH TV for a total of 28 years.
His work took his to China, Thailand, Isreal, former Soviet countries and Haiti.
In 1993 he received a commendation from Governor Evan Buy for his community service. He also has been recognized for his theatre work and serving the Church Federation.
In 2002, with son Josh graduating from Franklin College, they formed DreamVision Media Partners. DreamVision primarily does production for not-for-profit groups. Over the last 20 years Dave has helped create over 200 video biographies for the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame at the Indiana State Museum.
After over 50 years of radio and TV production, Dave is enjoying retirement while serving as President of the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers. He and Roberta have traveled to the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Mediterranean. And enjoy outtings with Josh, Mara (Mare-uh) and grandson Sebastian.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
Discussion of the legacy of HIV/AIDS activist Ryan White featuring his mother, Jeanne White Ginder, and Martin B. Kleiman, MD (Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Ryan White Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine) held on October 22, 2007. The event was sponsored by the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts and features documentary footage of Ryan White.
Wrapping up our tour of community gardens, Curtis Whittaker tells us the story of Faith Farms in the Emerson neighborhood of Gary, Indiana. Over the past nine years, a team from Progressive Community Church has turned a small patch of land into an expansive collection of year-round growing spaces that produce thousands of pounds of produce for a food-insecure community. They've also organized a Junior Master Gardner program and CSA box subscription.
IER story: https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/from-blight-to-light
Faith Farms Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faithcdc/
“Telemedicine: A Journey Through the Evolution of Translational Research”
During this presentation, President Whitten discussed her experiences as a research faculty member focused on telemedicine, new technologies and communication, and the social impacts and effects of health technologies. She examined the evolution of collaborative translational research projects from their initial acceptance and application to the analysis of their efficacy and outcomes, and, ideally, their formal adoption as policy and/or practice. And, she also discussed her vision for the role translational research can play at Indiana University and on the IUPUI campus in the years to come.
In the second episode of our land defender series, we talk with land defender Marvin Wilcox and Front Line Defenders representative Adam Shapiro. They walk us through Marvin's story, in which agricultural producers in Panama take on the state and a transnational fruit company to protect their land and health, as well as the patterns commonly encountered by land defenders around the world.
If you have any thoughts or questions about the show, you can tweet at us or send an email to itcpod@iu.edu.
Resources:
ASAMBLEA NACIONAL Ley Nº 55
2019 Dublin Platform Testimony - Marvin Wilcox, Panama
Banapiña: Espada de Damócles sobre los productores del Barú
We spoke with Dr. Jerry Wilde, a professor of educational psychology and dean of the School of Education at Indiana University - East, about the challenges of the last year for parents and children of all ages. While we're still in the early days of understanding individual impacts, he says, there are some lessons to be learned and measures we can all take going forward.
Here is the opinion piece we mentioned: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/loca…07_story.html
Also, there's new Dutch research that suggests some people are thriving: www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/03/som…-research-shows/
Begins with a short summary of American attitudes to the War in Europe and how the U.S. underestimated the militaristic tendencies of the Japanese. Argues that the Chinese have been fighting World War II longer than any other allied nation and should be considered one of America's chief allies. Describes America's effort to supply allied nations in the Pacific with war materials. The desperate need of the Chinese people is stressed. Scenes include the carrying of supplies over the Burma Road and the bombing of Chinese cities.
In this presentation, Professor Wilkerson discusses his research that focuses on the uses of technology to advance social work practice and education. In the area of practice, he's interested in ways to improve the delivery of online support as an aspect of psychoeducation. He also works on the delivery of online mental health services through rural public libraries and looks for methods to best infuse digital practice into the social work curriculum.
Professor Wilkerson's research focuses on the uses of technology to advance social work practice and education. In the area of practice, he's interested in ways to improve the delivery of online support as an aspect of psychoeducation. He also works on the delivery of online mental health services through rural public libraries and looks for methods to best infuse digital practice into the social work curriculum.
Alma Wilkes, retired Gary School System teacher and nutritionist, discusses the healing properties of the sulfur in the Chase Street spring water. She drinks the spring water to alleviate water retention. She says, "I started drinking the water and my ankle stopped swelling."
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.
Alma Wilkes, retired Gary School System teacher and nutritionist, discusses the vegetation around the Chase Street Spring. She notes that watercress grows around the well, and that it is still thriving in January. She says, "I think that's a treasure...Watercress is really, really healthy."
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.
Kay Westhues interviews Alma Wilkes at her home in Gary, Indiana, on January 10, 2020. Wilkes is a retired high school teacher for the Gary School System. She taught Home Economics (Family and Consumer Sciences) and Nutrition & Wellness at Westside High School for 10 years, and Clothing & Textiles at Roosevelt High School for an additional 10 years. Her passion is nutrition, and she discusses the health benefits of spring water--in particular, sulfur. She describes why she gathers drinking water from the spring. She is also a member of the Gary Food Council and talks about their plans to improve the spring. 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
A narrator recites a couple of lines from the Charge of the Light Brigade and recounts how throughout British military history soldiers carried a Wilkinson sword. The narrator then states how Wilkinson razors have inherited the same quality as the swords they produce.
A tour of a museum reveals the prominent figures and soldiers that have carried Wilkinson swords throughout history. A narrator explains that Wilkinson’s tradition of quality sword making has carried on to their production of razorblades.
Will Stewart (Birmingham, Alabama)
Originally from Alabama, Will Stewart spent many years living in Nashville as a songwriter, front man, and lead guitarist. When he returned to Birmingham, he released his full-length solo debut, County Seat, in 2017. “Caught somewhere between the worlds of country and electrified rock,” as a songwriter he tried to turn the landscape of his home state into music. Co-produced with Les Nuby (who also engineered and mixed the album) and recorded in a series of live takes, County Seat nods to a number of songwriters who sing about the beauty of their homeland without glossing over its imperfections. There are electrified moments influenced by Neil Young, guitar arpeggios influenced by R.E.M., some Dylan-style aesthetics, as well as the modern-day take on folk by Hiss Golden Messenger. Steward intended his first full-length release as a solo artist to be a rallying cry from a Son of the South who, having returned home after a long trip, looks at his birthplace with renewed eyes.
Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/18/2020.
The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College is a pivotal institution in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. It is the only indigenous tertiary level institution in the Federation and was a primary post-independence establishment intended to provide the manpower for the developing country (which is the smallest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere) for economic development. The Federation gained independence from Britain in 1983 and the College was established in 1988. Policy makers envisaged an institution that would provide training for middle managers, build human resource expertise in different sectors of the economy, and offer first year university courses in collaboration with the University of the West Indies. There is no systematic documentation of the history of the establishment or impact of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College, and the risk that this history could be lost is high, as the policymakers and others involved are of advanced age or deceased.
Libraries are committed to preservation, including preservation of institutional knowledge and community histories, because we recognize the importance of these histories to communities and the cultural and scholarly record. Large institutions like Indiana University have the staff and resources for collecting, organizing, preserving and making accessible, records “documenting the institution’s origins and development and the activities and achievements of its officers, faculty, students, alumni and benefactors.” However, many smaller institutions do not have the resources to collect and preserve these histories for posterity. A collaborative research grant will facilitate a partnership between IU Bloomington Libraries and the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (the College or CFBC) in St. Kitts and Nevis to research, document and build a digital history of the College, and use this collaboration as a case study to propose a model for collaboration between institutions of different sizes and resource levels.
On Good Morning's SKNs Connections, Jamie and Kortensia connect with Willa Liburd Tavernier. Willa hails from our twin-island Federation. She is currently a Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at Indiana University. Recently, Willa spearheaded the launch of an open-source digital resource collection called “Land, Wealth, Liberation,” She speaks more about it and her experiences with racism in this powerful and insightful interview.
Willi Carlisle (Izard County, Arkansas)
Willi Carlisle is a folksinger and writer from the Ozark hills. He performs internationally at places like the Kennedy Center and the Ozark Folk Center and has spent many years living in an intentional community near Fox, Arkansas. With years of collecting folklore and playing/calling square dances, Willi is a multi-faceted writer, performer and instrumentalist. He plays banjo, accordion, fiddle and guitar, and has toured extensively and performed with Dom Flemons, Mary Gauthier, Los Texmaniacs, Cory Branan, Carson McHone, and more. Willi prefers to perform songs for the oldest reasons: love, heartache, and joy. His albums, Too Nice to Mean Much and To Tell You the Truth have garnered critical success.
Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/04/2020.
To a remarkable extent, our understanding of the natural world is built from a small set of very deep ideas. I’ll try to give some sense for the nature of these ideas, for their power and scope. I will also try to explain what we mean by “understanding” in several different contexts, and why these successes give us (measured) confidence that more complex problems may yet yield to our search for understanding. Finally, I’ll say a few words about the cultural gaps that separate scientists who have mastery of these theoretical ideas from other scientists, from the generally educated public, and from the polity as a whole. It is not too much to claim that our future quality of life will depend, crucially, on our ability to bridge these gaps by teaching.
Experiments have uncovered many of the mechanisms at work in the machinery of life, but there still is no theoretical framework that ties these discoveries together. A hint about how to construct such a theory comes from the fact that many biological systems operate very near the limits of what the laws of physics allow: from bacteria navigating toward a source of food to the optics of an insect’s eye, from decision-making by cells in a developing embryo to aspects of human perception, important aspects of life’s mechanisms are nearly as good they can be, in a sense that physics makes precise. This proximity to perfection provides us with the ingredients for a theoretical physics of life, and I will explore this idea, hopefully providing an appreciation for some of life’s most striking and surprising phenomena.
Opening sessions of the Art, Race, Space Symposium, January 25, 2013, School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana. Recorded lectures include: "Welcome" by William Blomquist, "Introductory Remarks" by Modupe Labode, and "Inspirations: Musing on What Monuments, Memorials, Public Art, and Public Space, Inspire Me" by Fred Wilson. Symposium program sheet available from: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/31106.
1998 NSRC/SFSU Conference "Kinsey at 50" -- A gathering of contemporary luminaries in the field of sex research, discussing Kinsey's work 50 years on in society.
Digital technology is changing everything in our lives, including the ways in which we study, learn, teach, and create knowledge in the university. While these changes have been slower to come in the humanities, they are now well established and accelerating, with significant implications for teaching and research. What are the new opportunities afforded by the development of digital tools and platforms for humanists? What new fields of inquiry have opened for humanists as a result of the explosion of digital technology? And how should humanists understand and respond to the growing power and influence of the technical disciplines in shaping the priorities of the contemporary university?
Presented by Dr. William D. Adams, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of the IU Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities 2017-18 Speaker Series, which had the theme "Making the Arts & Humanities."
William Deneen, Preston E. James, Ph.D, Syracuse University, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Summary:
See description for color version GC0944. Surveys life in Mexico in 1961 with its overshadowing influences of the past. Depicts Mexico as an old country with new ideas as the basis for cultural and economic extremes. Illustrates the rise of a middle class society as Mexico attempts development through educational and industrial means. Shows the vast extremes of native Indian villages with primitive open-air markets and methods of farming in contrast with modern manufacturing cities with beautiful parks, fine theaters, office buildings, and luxurious seaside resorts.
These lectures cover methods for obtaining visual displays of quantitative information. They discuss ways to, quite literally, look at data. This is important because graphical representations avoid some of the restrictive assumptions and simplistic models that are often encountered in empirical analyses. These methods are very useful in the social sciences, where the robustness characteristics of traditional statistical techniques often are pushed to their limits. The lectures focus primarily on introductory concepts and graphical displays for univariate data, then move on to graphs for bivariate, multivariate, and categorical data. The main objective is to help you learn to construct a pictorial abstraction that highlights the salient aspects of your data without distorting any features or imposing undue assumptions.
Would you like to draw pictures of your data in ways that reveal structures not obvious from inspection of the data values alone? Multidimensional scaling (MDS) can accomplish that objective. MDS produces a “map” of stimuli based on information about the “proximities” among them. The stimuli are any objects of interest to the researcher (e.g., presidential candidates for a political scientist, consumer products for a market researcher, occupations for a sociologist), and many types of information can be interpreted as proximities (e.g., correlations, similarity judgments, profile dissimilarities, etc.). MDS methods have many potential applications in empirical research. They can be used to simplify the contents of large complex datasets, model similarities among sets of objects, estimate the cognitive structures underlying survey responses, and optimize the measurement characteristics of qualitative observations. MDS can be generalized to show individual differences across distinct data sources (e.g., subsets of survey respondents or data collected at different time points), and can be adapted to represent respondent preferences among a set of stimuli (i.e., “ideal points” models). This workshop provides an introduction to MDS. It is intended for a general audience and does not assume prior experience with MDS or familiarity with advanced statistical methods beyond basic regression analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: The basic idea of MDS; the general estimation procedure; interpretation of results; different varieties of MDS; and software options for performing MDS analyses.
Interested in refreshing your quantitative skills or learning a new method that will aid in your research? Whether you are a faculty member or a graduate student, a great place to accomplish both tasks is the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). ICPSR offers both month-long and 3-5 day short courses. All month-long courses and many of the short courses are offered at the University of Michigan, though several short courses are offered at different institutions throughout the country, including right here at Indiana University (and hosted by WIM!). Who better to provide you information about ICPSR than the Director of the Summer Program himself? Dr. Jacoby will provide a brief description of the ICPSR Summer Program and answer your questions in this hour-long informational session following his WIM presentation on multidimensional scaling. You are welcome to attend both, or only this informational session. Come have all your questions answered by the person who knows more about the Summer Program than anyone else!
William Harris, Vivianne Crowley, Michigan City Public Library
Summary:
"Getting There: Oral Histories about transportation in Michigan City" is a series of oral histories, focusing on the railroads and aviation in Michigan City. This project was initiated and administered by the Michigan City Public Library, co-sponsored by the LaPorte County Historical Society, and funded through an Indiana Heritage Research Grant from 1993-1994.
Interview of William Harris, conducted by Vivianne Crowley. Harris touches on his experience as a Pullman rail car engineer.
William J. Thiele, William Bruckner, Jack Chertok, Lee Van Cleef, Kenneth Tobey, Henry Morgan, Keith Richards, Lyle Talbot, Peter Hanson, Teaching Film Custodians
Summary:
Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of an episode of the Cavalcade of America television series, "Duel at the OK Corral" (season 2, episode 20), which originally aired March 9th, 1954 on ABC-TV. This film highlights the efforts of Marshall Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen. Earp's activities in Dodge City, Kansas, in Deadwood, South Dakota, and in Tombstone, Arizona are featured.
These lectures cover methods for obtaining visual displays of quantitative information. They discuss ways to, quite literally, look at data. This is important because graphical representations avoid some of the restrictive assumptions and simplistic models that are often encountered in empirical analyses. These methods are very useful in the social sciences, where the robustness characteristics of traditional statistical techniques often are pushed to their limits. The lectures focus primarily on introductory concepts and graphical displays for univariate data, then move on to graphs for bivariate, multivariate, and categorical data. The main objective is to help you learn to construct a pictorial abstraction that highlights the salient aspects of your data without distorting any features or imposing undue assumptions.
William Morrison, John Clayton, American Academy of Asian Studies
Summary:
Portrays the highlights of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Indicates some of the factors that shaped his philosophy of non-violence and shows some of the instances in which his philosophy was put into action. Shows also how Gandhi's pronouncements and activities became an influence in the life of India as a nation.
Produced by the American Academy of Asian Studies of the College of the Pacific. A documentary of the life of Gandhi based on newsreel footage and still photographs.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Lecture by Óscar Arias Sánchez, former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The discussion centers around the ideal qualities of leaders in the 21st century, examining the values which underpin successful and transformative leadership for a society.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Lecture by former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias Sánchez. Sánchez illustrates his vision and values for a future world, and discusses some criticisms he has with the current state of world affairs.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Continuation of a Q&A session with Donna J. Haraway, from one of her two lectures in 1991. The Q&A focuses around questions of mortality and the AIDS crisis, and the way in which the biological self is understood.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Video Recording of a lecture by Alexander W. Astin on novel ways of evaluating student success in higher education.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Q&A Session with Amartya Sen after his lecture. Questions are on aspects of his arguments around identity and conflict, and how they relate to current American policy both at home and abroad.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Lecture by Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize of Economics. Sen discusses the negative effects of fatalism as a mindset and how it leads to government passivity, as well as distancing of identity which is caused by class and economic means, and the negative effects which rigid class structures have upon a society and the preventable suffering they cause. Sen analyzes the constructive forces of social divisions alongside their alienating forces as well.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Amartya Sen discusses the sources and consequences of ethnic strife in India, and the ways in which social divisions can be overcome.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Conclusion of the lecture "India: Bits and Pieces and Beyond" by Amartya Sen. The rest of the lecture can be found at the following link: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/qn59qm03z
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Performance of Beowulf in original Old English, with Lyre accompaniment.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Prominent musical scholar and concert pianist Charles Rosen speaks in this lecture, giving an analysis of the history of western music, focusing on the 19th century, its influences, movements, and styles. He prefaces this discussion with a recap of 18th century music to give some more context.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Q&A session with Charles Rosen after he finishes his lecture. Includes analysis of the use of trills and repetition in the establishment of tone in 19th century pieces.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Charles Rosen discusses the relationship of emotion to music throughout history. Rosen challenges the understanding of music as having personal sentiment, and the evolution of attitudes towards sentiment in music over history.
The William T. Patten Foundation was founded at Indiana University in May 1931 by Indiana University alumnus William T. Patten. The Foundation hosts scholars from various institutions and disciplines to give lectures in his/her area of expertise. Audiovisual materials from the Patten Foundation records includes audio or video recording of lectures.
Charles Rosen discusses analytical and thematic questions around the pieces that Rosen examines in his lecture.
