101. Adaptation Strategies: A Poor Man's Solution? (1:06:43)

Date:
2010-10-12
Main contributors:
Jean Palutikof
Summary:
This presentation looks at what we must do to adapt to climate change-the size of the threat, and what we can do. It attempts to answer two fundamental questions: first, how must our lifestyle change in order to live with climate change and, second, can developing countries limit their emissions as they strive to improve living standards?
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metadata (4), transcript (775)

102. Analyzing ordinal data with metric models: What could possibly go wrong? (1:14:09)

Date:
2018-03-23
Main contributors:
John K. Kruschke
Summary:
(With co-author Torrin M. Liddell, Research and Statistics Analyst, Public Defender Commission, Indianapolis) We surveyed all articles in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General that mentioned the term "Likert," and found that 100% of the articles that analyzed ordinal data did so using a metric model. We demonstrate that analyzing ordinal data as if they were metric can systematically lead to errors. We demonstrate false alarms (i.e., detecting an effect where none exists, Type~I errors) and failures to detect effects (i.e., loss of power, Type~II errors). We demonstrate systematic inversions of effects, for which treating ordinal data as metric indicates the opposite ordering of means than the true ordering of means. We show the same problems --- false alarms, misses, and inversions --- for interactions in factorial designs and for trend analyses in regression. We demonstrate that averaging across multiple ordinal measurements does not solve or even ameliorate these problems. We provide simple graphical explanations of why these mistakes occur. Moreover, we point out that there is no sure-fire way to detect these problems by treating the ordinal values as metric, and instead we advocate use of ordered-probit models (or similar) because they will better describe the data. Finally, although frequentist approaches to some ordered-probit models are available, we use Bayesian methods because of their flexibility in specifying models and their richness and accuracy in providing parameter estimates.
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metadata (29), transcript (984)

103. The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (1:24:07)

Date:
2014-09-11
Main contributors:
John Searle
Summary:
The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguistic representations. For this reason, they all have logical, propositional structures. John Searle will explain how they are created and maintained by certain sorts of speech acts and thus explain the nature of human civilization.
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metadata (6), transcript (1032)

105. Deanna Jones Interview (1:50:43)

Date:
2024-06-07
Main contributors:
Jones, Deanna, Larimer, Angeline R.
Summary:
Oral history interview with Deanna Jones conducted by Angeline Larimer on June 7, 2024. Jones discusses her path to recovery and work as a substance use disorder peer recovery coach for Project POINT at Eskenzai Health and at previous organizations. Project POINT (Planned Outreach, Intervention, Naloxone, and Treatment) is a team of certified peer recovery coaches who offer wrap-around services for patients who present to Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital's Michael & Susan Smith Emergency Department with a substance use disorder. This project works to remove the barriers to recovery by connecting patients to treatment facilities, insurance, transportation, medication-assisted treatment and many other services.
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metadata (11), transcript (1287)

106. Eldon F. Lundquist Memorial Lecture, presented by Henry A. Kissinger (1:34:13)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Summary:
The first Eldon F. Lundquist Memorial Lecture, presented by Indiana University at South Bend and the Indiana University Foundation. Features welcoming remarks by Gerald E. Herriman, acting chancellor and dean of faculties, Indiana University South Bend; an introduction by Hon. John Brademas, majority whip, United States House of Representatives; and a lecture by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger.
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metadata (15), transcript (696)

112. Sadie and the Sadists: A Reading of New Poems and Song Lyrics (1:14:15)

Date:
2017-09-27
Main contributors:
Muldoon, Paul
Summary:
In addition to his interest in the lyric poem, which he has now been exploring for fifty years, Paul Muldoon is drawn to the shadowy domain of the song lyric. His reading tonight focuses on new poems and songs, as well as work included in the recently published Selected Poems 1968-2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Sadie and the Sadists (Eyewear).
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metadata (12), transcript (562)

113. Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis (1:50:51)

Date:
2011-01-27
Main contributors:
Nancy Fraser
Summary:
Nancy Fraser Nancy Fraser Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Grammars of Struggle in Capitalist Crisis Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Rawles Hall 100 In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's conception of the double movement. Seeking to expand his idea of a two-sided conflict between partisans of deregulated markets and proponents of social protection, she will incorporate a third pole of social movement, aimed at emancipation. The result will be a revised understanding of the grammar of social conflict that better reflects the social struggles of the twenty-first century.
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metadata (6), transcript (1102)

114. Nature, Labor, Money: Flashpoints of Capitalist Crisis in the 21st Century (1:20:51)

Date:
2011-01-25
Main contributors:
Nancy Fraser
Summary:
The thought of Karl Polanyi can shed some much-needed critical light on the present crisis of neoliberalism. His 1944 book, The Great Transformation, traced a previous crisis of capitalism to efforts to commodify land, labor, and money. In Polanyi's view, it was the attempt to turn these three fundamental bases of human society into objects of exchange on self-regulating markets that triggered a crisis of multiple dimensions, not just economic and financial, but also ecological, social, and political. The effects were so destabilizing as to spark an ongoing counter-movement aimed at protecting society and nature from the ravages of the market. The end result was fascism and world war. Although developed for an earlier era, Polanyi's diagnosis is relevant today. Our crisis, too, can be fruitfully analyzed as a great transformation, in which a new round of efforts to commodify land, labor, and money is sparking a new round of counter-movements for social protection. Yet despite its evident merits, such an approach fails to capture the full range of social injustices and social struggles in contemporary capitalism. Thus, Polanyi's framework needs to be reconstructed in a form that is adequate for critical theorizing in the twenty-first century. In this lecture, Fraser will examine Polanyi's concept of fictitious commodification. After proposing a post-metaphysical reinterpretation of this concept, she will use it to analyze burgeoning markets in nature, reproductive labor, and finance as flashpoints of the current crisis of neoliberalism. The result will be a revised understanding of commodification that better grasps both the system dynamics and the normative deficits of contemporary capitalism.
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115. Sociogenomics and the Dynamic Genome: A New Perspective on Nature and Nurture (1:12:43)

Date:
2019-03-19
Main contributors:
Robinson, Gene
Summary:
This lecture will describe the roots of sociogenomics and how it provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between genes and social behavior. The key discoveries underlying this framework will be discussed: 1) Brain gene expression is closely linked with behavior, across time scales, from physiological to evolutionary; 2) Environmentally induced changes in gene expression mediate changes in behavior; and 3) The relationship between genes and behavior is highly conserved, from animals to humans.
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metadata (11), transcript (994)

117. Steve Sweitzer Oral History (2:05:55)

Date:
2024-04-03
Main contributors:
Sweitzer, Steve
Summary:
Steve Sweitzer was interviewed by Jack Lindner for the Oral History Collection on April, 4 2024.
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metadata (2), transcript (1657)

118. Vern + Evelyn - What's Your Beef? (live) 1/20/83; Lost Baggage (Live) 2/10/83; Car Rental 2/17/83... (2:03:06)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Varjian, Leon, 1951-2015
Summary:
After leaving IU, 1970s campus prankster and graduate student Leon Varjian continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he continued his fun-loving ways. While living in Madison, Varjian and his friends co-produced local public-access cable television show The Vern & Evelyn Show at the Madison Community Access Center beginning in January 1980. The show starred two live mice (named Vern and Evelyn) and a cast of supporting actors (humans and mice) in a variety of humorous storylines. Show skits satirized politics, religion, and popular culture; music was provided by local bands such as Spooner (later the band became Garbage); and interviews with special guests included the likes of Allen Ginsberg. Collection of V&E show skits from different 1983 episodes.
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119. African American Intellectuals in Europe in the Interwar Period (1:06:02)

Date:
2009-01-20
Main contributors:
Werner Sollors
Summary:
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.
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metadata (19), transcript (887)

120. Grant Application Workshop for Early-Career Social Scientists (2:47:09)

Date:
2018-09-28
Main contributors:
Werum, Regina
Summary:
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.
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metadata (6), transcript (1449)