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"Conversations online" is produced by Byron K. Smith
Periodically Home Pages, the newspaper for IU faculty and staff, brings you audio interviews with notable commentators from around the world.
- Dave Fleming and L. Jean Camp
- April 2008
Join host Dave Fleming in conversation with L.Jean Camp, associate professor of informatics at the IU School of Informatics. Camp's research agenda has centered on the intersection
of security and society, particularly on the intersection of security and economics. She is the author of Economics of Identity Theft: Causes, Consequences and Possible Cures.
Identity-based signatures, security systems, protection programs and new forms of ID theft that might be in society's future are among the topics discussed.
- Michael Conway and Katrina vanden Heuvel
- November 2007
Join Michael Conway, professor of journalism on the IU Bloomington campus, in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation.
Vanden Heuvel was in Bloomington earlier this fall on a speaking engagement at the IU School of Journalism.
- Regina Smyth and Stephen Cohen
- September 2007
Regina Smyth, an IUB political science professor and author of Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without
Foundation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics, 2006) converses with IU alumnus Stephen Cohen. Cohen is professor of Slavic and Russian studies at New York
University. His first book was Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution, a political biography that served as the foundation for his views on the importance of history for interpreting current
events.
- Dennis James and Greg Waller
- October 2006
IU alumnus Dennis James, who began his career accompanying silent film screenings while a student in the late 1960s, returns to his favorite haunt, the IU Auditorium in Bloomington, to accompany the 1925 Lon Chaney-Mary Philbin classic,
- Jim Weigand and Dave Fleming
- April 2006
Join Jim Weigand, a former dean of the IU School of Continuing Studies and a professor emeritus of education, as he discusses science education, lifelong learning and the benefits of laughter.
- Bass-baritone Giorgio Tozzi
- February 2006
Join Giorgio Tozzi, IU Distinguished Professor emeritus of music, and WFIU music critic George Walker. Tozzi, a leading bass-baritone with the Metropolitan Opera from 1953-1973, has sung more than 400 performances in Italian, French, German and English, in major opera houses throughout the world during his career.
- The national heritage area movement
- December 2005
Join Gerald Adelmann, executive director of the Openlands Project, in conversation with Scott Sanders, IU Distinguished Professor of English, as they discuss the national
heritage area movement, the Midwest's legacy to the country and other topics related to environmental preservation.
- Public policy, organizational structure and management practice
- November 2005
Join Alice Rivlin, a Brookings Institution scholar and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, in conversation with Bill McGregor, a SPEA professor at IU whose research focuses on public policy, organizational structure and management practice. Rivlin, who spent part of her youth in Bloomington, is the daughter of the late Allan Mitchell, who served as chair of the IUB Department of Physics.
- Why Africa matters—urgent Issues, critical policies, practical solutions
- October 2005
Join Melvin Foote, founder and chief executive officer of the Constituency for Africa, in conversation with Osita Afoaku, director of outreach in the African Studies Program and a professor of public policy at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). Constituency for Africa is a coalition of U.S.-based organizations and groups committed to the progress and empowerment of Africa and African people worldwide. Foote was SPEA's Neal-Marshall Lecturer earlier this month, speaking on the topic of "Why Africa Matters to the U.S.: Urgent Issues, Critical Policies, Practical Solutions." Afoaku's research interests are in human rights, sustainable development, democratization and state reconstruction in Africa, U.S.-African/Third World relations.
- Evolution, creation science and intelligent design
- September 2005
Eugenie Scott talks about teaching evolution, creation science and intelligent design with Rudolf Raff, IU Distinguished Professor of biology. Scott is executive director of the National Center for Science Education and a prominent proponent for the teaching of evolution in school classrooms. Raff teaches evolutionary developmental biology.
- Hunger--still 'a battle that can be won'
- July 2005
Join Judith Lewis of the U.N. World Food Programme in conversation with IU political scientist Brian Winchester, director of the IU Center for the Study for Global Change.
Music man- June 2005
Join IU's legendary Harvey Phillips as he talks about the tuba, his years teaching at the IU School of Music in Bloomington and the founding of TUBASANTAS, with journalist Mary Campbell.
A visit with photojournalist Peter Turnley- April 2005
œThe Phantom of the Opera,
Join Claude Cookman, an IUB professor of journalism, in conversation with documentary photojournalist Peter Turnley, a Branigin Lecturer at IU's Institute for Advanced Study.
Modern printmaking in the U.S.- March
2005
Nan Brewer, the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of works on paper at the IU Art Museum, talks with printmaker and Distinguished Professor Rudy Pozzatti. His work is housed in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Toronto Museum of Art and Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
- Contemporary Islamic thoughts
- February
2005
Join IU Kokomo historian
Alan Safianow in conversation with Islamic culture
scholar Johannes J. G. Jansen of the University
of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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In this insightful exchange, the two discuss
Islamic and Christian fundamentalism, the role
of women in Islam and Islamic-Jewish relations,
among other topics. Jansen, the author of The
Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism, was
a visitor to the Kokomo campus last month in
conjunction with the American Democracy Project.
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All that jazz
- January
2005
A member of n a two-part "Conversation online,"
IU jazz legend David
Baker discusses his early musical influences and
training, his years at the IU School of Music
in Bloomington and the history of the jazz scene
in Indiana with WFIU jazz radio host Joe Bourne.
To complement Baker's commentary, the audiostream
â features music from Dizzy Gillespie and Slide
Hampton. Part
II, which goes online Jan. 28, will feature
the music of Wes Montgomery, Artie Shaw and, of
course, Baker himself.
Baker,
a trombonist, cellist and composer, is a Distinguished
Professor of music and chair of the Department
of Jazz Studies. His honors include nominations
for the Pulitzer Prize and the Grammy Award,
and Down Beat magazine's New Star Award, the
Jazz Education Hall of Fame Award, the National
Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award
and the NEA American Jazz Masters Award. In
2001, he was designated an Indiana Living Legend
by the Indiana Historical Society.
Bourne began his career in public radio nearly
30 years ago and is currently producer/host of
the daily jazz program, ust You and Me,
for NPR-affiliate WFIU.
Part I
Part II
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Contemporary drummer Max Weinberg on his life
work
- November
2004
A member of Bruce Springsteen’s legendary
E Street Band since 1973 and music director and
band leader of the Max Weinberg Seven for NBC’s
Late Night with Conan O’Brien since
1993, Max Weinberg is one of the most renowned
drummers in contemporary music. At the invitation
of the Union Board, he visited the IU Bloomington
campus shortly before the 2004 presidential election,
having just returned from the road with Springsteen
and other artists in the Vote for Change concert
tour. In a conversation with IU rock 'n' roll
historian Glenn Gass, Weinberg discussed
his early musical influences, his years with Springsteen
€ and his work as a political activist. Gass, who
is a composer, wrote the textbook, A History
of Rock Music, and originated the nation's
first for-credit history of rock 'n' roll class
at the IU School of Music.
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- Inspiring
Civic Engagement
- October
2004
Join SPEA professor Les Lenkowsky, former
CEO of the federal Corporation for National and
Community Service, as he discusses strategies
for recruiting youthful voters with Philadelphia
Inquirer syndicated columnist Jane Eisner.
Eisner is the author of the new book, Taking
Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved
in our Democracy (Beacon Press).
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- Developing
a sense of place
- September
2004
During a 40-year career, Henry Glassie,
College Professor of folklore at IU Bloomington,
has studied the culture of traditional communities
around the world. Drawn equally to stories, music,
architecture and art, Glassie has documented his
wide-ranging fieldwork in award-winning books
on life in rural Virginia, Northern Ireland, Turkey
and Bangladesh. While his work has influenced
scholars of numerous fields, Glassie sees himself
as a student—eager to learn from the people
whose lives and work he has been privileged to
share. In this segment of “Conversations
online,” Glassie discusses his highly
personal approach to culture, landscape and history
with Eric Sandweiss, associate professor
of history at IUB and the editor of the Indiana
Magazine of History.
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- Transitioning
to a residential college
- July
2004
For members of the Class of 2008, the great divide
between the high school and the college experiences
can be large, foreboding and full of pitfalls.
It can also be a jumping off point to a rich and
fulfilling academic future. Good news: IU has
support staff on all campuses to help make the
transition.
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- E-mail
privacy at IU
- June
2004
Fred Cate, Distinguished Professor of law
at the School of Law-Bloomington, joins his wife,
Beth Cate, associate university counsel,
in a conversation that outlines the parameters
of Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act.
Specifically, the couple offers their insights
concerning assertions that IU E-mail could potentially
be classified as public record.
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- Peter
Davis, Patric O'Meara discuss social and political
issues of South Africa
- May
2004
Producer, director and documentarian Peter
Davis became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid
movement in South Africa 20 years ago. Davis has
produced more than 30 full-length documentary
films on social and political issues, including
South Africa: the White Laager, a history
of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance,
an historic account of African rebellion against
white rule up to the student uprising of 1976;
Winnie Mandela and Remember Mandela, which
was shown on the first day of the Democratic National
Convention in Atlanta in 1988. When Davis visited
the Bloomington campus in April, Patrick O'Meara,
dean of international programs at IU and a native
South African, talked with him about South Africa's
history and re-birth.
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- Lewis
Hyde and the wonder of story-telling
- April
2004
When Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes
This World: Mischief, Myth and Art was published,
Margaret Atwood referred to the book as a “masterpiece
of wondering; of pertinent story-telling; of pondering.”
Join Hyde and author Scott Russell Sanders,
IU Distinguished Professor of English, for an
engaging exchange on the art, craft and wonder
of story-telling. Hyde was a visitor to the IU
Bloomington campus in February as part of the
annual celebration of Arts Week.
- ET,
are you there?
- March
2004
UFO sightings, moon walks, Mars roving, perhaps
even, alien-inspired prehistoric art, fascinate,
inspire and fuel our sense of wonder about the
possibilities of intelligent civilation on other
worlds. Jill Tarter, research director
of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Institute (SETI) was the Konopinski Memorial Lecturer
in Physics this month at IU Bloomington. Listen
to her conversation with colleague Caty Pilachowski,
the inaugural Kirkwood Chair of atronomy at IU.
- Winona
LaDuke
- January
2004
Winona LaDuke, program director for Honor
the Earth, is perhaps best known for her run on
the Green Party ticket as the vice presidential
choice of Ralph Nader in the hotly contested 2000
election. LaDuke was a visitor to the IPFW campus
as a speaker for Fort Wayne’s prestigious
Omnibus Lecture Series. She discusses politics,
the environment and her activism in the Native
American community with IU radio producer Dave
Fleming.
Giovanni, poetry, Mars and man- December
2003
IU Kokomo English instructor Carla Farmer Stouse
converses with her friend, the poet Nikki Giovanni,
who talks about her "zoo project"--
a personal study undertaken while undergoing cancer
treatment--of man’s role in the ecosystem
called Earth and in the universe. Giovanni’s
project has included tours of zoos and preserves
and a scholarly assessment of Charles Darwin’s
Origin of Species. Her questions: Are humans not
the "dinosaurs of today?" How do humans
conduct their lives, get along with other life
forms and share living space? What role does "luck"
play in species survival? Giovanni also discusses
her current book projects, her passionate belief
that man must travel to Mars before 2020 and her
plans to travel the world by ship in 2006.
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- A
marriage of two civilizations
- October
2003
How
can Western norms and Muslim values be balanced?
That’s the question addressed by IU Professor
Nazif Shahrani, director of the Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at IU Bloomington,
and Professor Ali Mazrui, director of the
Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State
University of New York, Binghamton. The two held
a topical conversation during a recent meeting
of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists,
held on the IU Bloomington campus. You will hear
first the voice of Professor Shahrani.
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- Lee
Hamilton speaks on America's foreign policy
- March,
2003
Lee Hamilton, a congressional expert on
foreign affairs, discussed the burdens and opportunities
that come to this country as a result of its "superpower"
status. He currently directs the IU Center on
Congress at IU Bloomington and the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Washington,
D.C.
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- Sex
and the Feminist Revolution
- February,
2003
Gloria Steinem was a visitor on the IU
East, the IU South Bend and the IU Bloomington
campuses this semester. If you weren’t able
to hear her speak, tune in to this audiostream,
recorded Feb. 6 on the Bloomington campus. Steinem
gave the keynote address “Sex and the Feminist
Revolution” in conjunction with the 50th
anniversary of the publication of Alfred Kinsey’s
research on female sexuality. Answers to questions
from the audience may be heard at the end of her
address.
- 'Eco-warrior'
Robert F Kennedy Jr.
- October
2002
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become known
as an “eco-warrior” in some circles
for the work he has done in successfully prosecuting
governments and companies for pollution of the
Hudson River and the Long Island Sound. Prosecuting
attorney for the watchdog environmental group
Hudson Riverkeeper Inc., Kennedy recently visited
the IPFW campus as part of its Omnibus Lecture
Series. While in Fort Wayne, he spoke with Jennifer
Bosk, director of alumni relations at IPFW.
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Oscar
Arias on moral leadership and the prospects for
global peace- September
2002
As part of the Patten Foundation Lectures, Nobel
laureate Oscar Arias talks to Scott
Sanders, distinguished professor of English
about moral and ethical leadership. Arias, the
former president of Costa Rica who in 1987 negotiated
a peace plan for an unstable Central America,
says the motto of his political career goes like
this: "Tell people what they need to know, not
what they want to hear."
- Wells
meets Shostakovich
- Historical
conversation
In conjunction with the Herman B Wells
100th birthday celebration, to be held June 7
at the Wells Plaza in Bloomington, IU Home
Pages presents a 12-minute audiostreamed interview
with Wells that was recorded in 1990 and recalls
his trip to Moscow 40 years earlier when he met
composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Nature
vs. nurture: the talk in birdtown- April
2002
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For most people, the chirping of birds is the
language of springtime. For us, bird song hints
of unfolding leaves, blooming gardens, whispering
breezes. But what are these chatty birds really
gossiping about? Well, it’s not necessarily
that poetic.IU’s Meredith West is
professor of psychology and biology, and along
with her post-doctoral student, Dave White,
she tells us all about what those birds are really
saying. West studies bird language and behavior
at her aviaries just north of Bloomington. Much
of her work has focused on starlings and their
mimicry abilities, and the behavior of cowbirds,
whose parents employ a sort of nanny system. That
is, they lay their eggs in the nests of other
birds species to be hatched and raised. So the
question here is, how do they know they’re
cowbirds?
A pow wow in Bloomington- March
2002
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Charlie Nelms, vice president
for student development and diversity at Indiana
University, and Wesley Thomas, an IU Bloomington
anthropologist and organizer of the campus' inaugural
pow wow, scheduled March 28-30, discuss the event
and its importance to highlighting the history,
culture and arts of American Indian tribes across
the country.
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John
Updike - February
2002
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John Updike has created some of American
literature's most memorable antiheroes, so wouldn't
you love to know who his heroes are today? Find
out in this interview between Updike and IPFW's
Lidan Lin, assistant professor of literature.
A
visit with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee- January
2002
- What
roles would they have loved to play? How do young
African American actors get started in the business
today? Is the notion of a Black National Theatre
practical or even feasible? These are just a few
of the questions John McCluskey Jr., professor
of Afro-American Studies and English at IU Bloomington,
asked award-winning actors and civil rights activists
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
War
and remembrance - December 2001
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one time, public memorials were built in a grand
classical style well after the event or person
intended to be commemorated had passed into history.
In the wake of 9/11, discussion of public memorial
has developed a new immediacy. New York Times
chief art critic Michael Kimmelman talks
about recent memorial art: Rachel Whitebread's
Holocaust monument in Vienna, Maya Lin's design
for the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma City National
Memorial in a conversation with Betsy Stiratt,
director of the IU School of Fine Arts Gallery
in Bloomington. Kimmelman was IU's inaugural Dorit
and Gerald Paul lecturer in Jewish culture and
arts.
When
bad things happen to good people - October
2001
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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner discusses the content
of his books,
When Bad Things Happen to Good People,
and Living a Life That Matters, in a conversation
with Kathleen Gilbert, a faculty member
in the IU Bloomington Department of Applied Health
Science and a researcher on the subject of bereavement.
Kushner was a speaker at the Polis Center-sponsored
Spirit & Place Festival in Indianapolis in November 2001.
The sound of
silence... - April
2001
Marcel Marceau, the world-famous French
mime, discusses his unique art form in an interview
with IUB anthropology professor Anya Royce.
Marceau, a legend in his field, was on the IUB
campus in April for two public lectures and class
visits arranged through the Department of Theatre
and Drama as part of the Ralph L. Collins Memorial
Lecture series.
Wendy
Wasserstein - March
2001
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IPFW's Susan Domer in conversation with
playwright Wendy Wasserstein as she reminisces
about her life in the theater. Wasserstein first
gained fame in 1978 with her off-Broadway "Uncommon
Women and Others," a saga of her years at Mount
Holyoke College in the late '60s. The play would
propel the early careers of Swoozie Kurtz, Meryl
Streep, Glenn Close and Jill Eikenberry. Wasserstein
discusses her Seven Sisters' years, her "voice"
as a writer and her new book of essays to be published
this spring. She appeared recently at an IPFW
Omnibus Lecture.
If
music be the food of love... - February
2001
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The Beatles have been a staple of the young and
young at heart for more than 40 years, and a new
album, The Beatles 1, with an associated interactive
Web site, indicate that all things old are new
again. Rock fan Jonathan Plucker, who teaches
learning, cognition and instruction at the IU
€ School of Education and is a recent recipient
of a Mensa Education and Research Foundation prize
for research related to human intelligence, chats
with rock historian Glenn
Gass. Gass, who is a composer, wrote the textbook
A History of Rock Music and originated the nation's
first for-credit history of rock 'n roll class
at the IU School of Music. How does pop music
have the power to convey emotion, express the
inexplicable and defy time? Listen to this conversational
duet and find out.
Anxiety
is your friend! Oh, really? -
December 2000
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Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness
Institute at IU Southeast, and Kathleen Gilbert,
associate professor of applied health science
at IU Bloomington, talk about shyness, the art
of "small talk" and coping skills for that demanding
social circuit called "the holidays."
A
conversation with musician Ray Charles
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November 2000
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Ray Charles at the piano as the opening
credits ran for the TV sit-com Designing Women?
It's a musical moment on Charles' mind, too. He
can't go anywhere in the world without playing
his rendition of IU alumnus Hoagy Carmichael's
Georgia On My Mind. IU broadcast producer Byron
Smith interviews Charles, who appeared in
concert on the IU Bloomington campus Oct. 27.
Deciding
how to vote -
October 2000
- Why
do Americans vote the way they do? Some reasons
may surprise you. Join IU historian James Madison as he interviews
political scientist Bob Huckfeldt,
IU Endowed Professor of human studies. Huckfeldt
has been involved in a number of national and
cross-national studies evaluating the ways in
which citizens process political information in
a democracy.
A
conversation with South African dramatist Athol
Fugard
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September 2000
- Bruce
Burgun of the IUB Department of Theatre and
Drama discusses the art and practice of theater
in the 21st century with distinguished South African
playwright, director and actor Athol Fugard
who served as the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar
Professor. The Fugard papers are housed at IU's
Lilly Library.
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