29. « Особенности диалекта и социолекта в творчестве Н. С. Лескова » [Dialect and Sociolect in the Wo... (42:02)

Date:
2019-04-15
Summary:
Colorful and vibrant language distinguishes the oeuvre of Nikolai Leskov, “the most Russian of Russian writers” in the assessment of D. S. Mirsky and many others. This presentation addresses the language of Leskov’s oeuvre from various perspectives: connections with Leskov’s biography, critical reception, and, with reference to Leskov’s“The Sealed Angel,” its principal features and dialectical inconsistencies. Ani Abrahamyan is a PhD student in Russian Literature at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Russian literature and the work of Nikolai Leskov, especially the strengths and limitations in his embodiment of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

39. "Besame Mucho" & "Strange Music" (04:31)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
MacWatters, Virginia, 1912-2005
Summary:
Soprano Virginia MacWatters was known not only for her impressive operatic career during which she performed in opera houses throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, but also for her dedication to teaching. In 1957 she joined the voice faculty of the Indiana University School of Music where she remained until her retirement in 1982. Besame Mucho was originally a Spanish song adapted to English about love, which MacWatters put her own touch on it beautifully.

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

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

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

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

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

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

51. "Contentless" Digital Collections (59:07)

Date:
2015-10-14
Main contributors:
Cowan, William, Floyd, Randall, Pierce, Daniel
Summary:
Generally, when we think of a digital collection or repository, we think of digital images, ebooks, audio and video files. But some important digital collections, such a bibliographies, don't have content per se but consist of metadata describing a physical object such as a book, a digital object such as an audio recording or an event such as an opera performance. Not surprisingly, this kind of "contentless" digital object is dependent on metadata to describe it. And while we have standards for bibliographic entries in books and articles, we need more complex metadata for digital bibliographic entries. For the past several months, the Library Technology Software Development group has been working on exactly how to represent these contentless digital objects in our Fedora digital repository using the Hydra based software development environment. Using The Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database as a sample, we will discuss the work we have done to create a general bibliographic tool for the Fedora Digital Repository.

54. "DIVING CHAMPIONS ON FILM" (ONE METER SPRINGBOARD) (11:46)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Summary:
Film produced by Hobie Billingsley, IU Swimming and Diving coach from 1959-1989, that focuses on various national, world, and Olympic diving champions. Featuring Ken Sitzberger, Rick Gilbert, Win Young, Jim Henry, Luis Nino de Rivera, and Jon Hahnfeldt. Hobie Billingsley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_Billingsley Ken Sitzberger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Sitzberger Rick Gilbert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Gilbert Win Young: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Young Jim Henry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henry_(diver) Luis Nino de Rivera: https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/search-awards/honoree.shtml?honoreeID=3675

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

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

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

Date:
2012-01-17
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
A little over 30 years ago, a doctor told Sharon Hauss to put her infant son in an institution. Sharon’s response, “He’s my son. I couldn’t do it.” Her son, Michael Ely, went on to be fully included in school. Using part of a script he wrote for the theatrical presentation “I Am You,” Michael talks about graduating from high school and college. Michael says, “It would be nice if people would get to know me as a person before they decide what I am capable of doing.” Sharon and Michael were interviewed in 2016.

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

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

71. "It's only the beginning" (10:15)

Date:
1951
Summary:
Describes the importance of industrial research in satisfying consumer needs and meeting competition. Shows through animation the large expenditure of time and money that has gone into the development of nylon, as well as into unsuccessful attempts to develop new products.

72. "It's the humidity" (13:04)

Date:
1962
Summary:
Uses common everyday examples of the effects of humidity to introduce and explain this idea. Shows Kay, an attractive teenager, and her adventures with a violin, a stuck drawer, and drying off at the pool as these processes are influenced by the humidity. Animates an explanation of dew, relative humidity, and dew point. Shows and explains several weather instruments for measuring humidity.

86. "Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark" from The Comedy of Errors (04:46)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
MacWatters, Virginia, 1912-2005
Summary:
Soprano Virginia MacWatters was known not only for her impressive operatic career during which she performed in opera houses throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, but also for her dedication to teaching. In 1957 she joined the voice faculty of the Indiana University School of Music where she remained until her retirement in 1982. “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark” is one of the most famous pieces composed by Henry Rowley Bishop, which was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

87. "Masculine, Feminine or Androgynous?" Not for Women Only (22:27)

Date:
1976
Summary:
Polly Bergen and Frank Field talk with Dr. Eugene Hoff, M.D., Ph.D. on WNBC. Dr. Eugene Hoff, a psychiatrist trained at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, worked with the Harry Benjamin Practice, and later opened her own private practice in transgender care. Dr. Hoff herself went through sexual reassignment surgery in the late 1970's. Her archives are inclusive of her professional records and documentation, book reviews, correspondences and essays. Also included are TV appearances, notably an award-winning episode from the NBC show, "Not for Women Only," produced by Madeline Amgott, hosted by Polly Bergen and Frank Fields. An interview by Lynn Redgrave and Frank Fields as Jeanne commenced her transition was titled, "Becoming Jeanne…A Search for Sexual Identity" and was broadcasted by NBC on 30 June 1978. "Becoming Jeanne" won the prestigious Ohio State Broadcasting award in 1979, and Madeline Amgott was nominated for an Emmy award.

93. "Reminisce-In" Optometric Historical Society (3:15:44)

Date:
1972-06-20
Main contributors:
Optometric Historical Society
Summary:
These tapes are an oral history of Optometrists, active or retired at the time, both in the United States and from abroad. The tapes delve into topics such as important innovators in the field, publications, politics, and personal anecdotes.

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

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