State of the Arts is a landmark creative convening that explores the role of the arts in the constructions of culture, community, public discourse, and social justice.
I will present this paper paper as part of the Maritime History from below conference at The Huntington, which will be held on Nov. 3-4, 2023. This two-day conference offers new stories of humankind’s relationship to the sea, including the experiences of sailors, transported prisoners, enslaved people, and Indigenous Americans.
Image: Edward Moran, A Valley in the Sea off the Coast of Great Britain. 1862. oil on canvas. 40-1/2 x 64 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Martha Delzell Memorial Fund, 70.5
At long last, three of our favorite things—books, booze and science—are coming together in a monthly book club for the scientifically curious! This group meets monthly in Indianapolis to talk about recent popular science books. A local scientist whose research relates to the book topic joins to share insights and help guide the conversation.
At long last, three of our favorite things—books, booze and science—are coming together in a monthly book club for the scientifically curious! This group meets monthly in Indianapolis to talk about recent popular science books. A local scientist whose research relates to the book topic joins to share insights and help guide the conversation.
Attend a public talk by art historian T. J. Demos, founder of the Center for Creative Ecologies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, about the intersections of contemporary art, radical politics, and ecology.
This presentation offers a reading of select aesthetic practices that connect with climate justice — specifically the analysis of climate propagandas by Jonas Staal, the forensic racial justice investigations of Imani Jacqueline Brown and Forensic Architecture, and the Indigenous futurism of T.J. Cuthand.
This event will occur from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, in Eskenazi Hall’s Basile Auditorium.
It is organized by Uranchimeg Tsultem, assistant professor of art history and Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies, and fully funded by IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows program. The Indiana Council on World Affairs is a collaborating partner.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer on contemporary art, global politics, and ecology. He is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, and his essays have appeared in magazines, journals, and catalogues worldwide. His published work centers broadly on the conjunction of art and politics, examining the ability of artistic practice to invent innovative and experimental strategies that challenge dominant social, political, and economic conventions.
ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS
Two brief presentations will follow Demos’s talk, and the event will conclude with a Q&A. Among the presenters are:
Jason M. Kelly, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of History, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Director
Uranchimeg “Orna” Tsultem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History, Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair in International Studies, Herron School of Art + Design
Stefan Petranek, Associate Professor of Foundations and Photography, Herron School of Art + Design
EVENT PARKING
Parking for Eskenazi Hall is free in the Sports Complex Garage adjacent to Eskenazi Hall or on levels 5 and 6 of the Riverwalk Garage, courtesy of The Great Frame Up in Indianapolis and Carmel, with a special code from the galleries.
As an institution of higher education, Indiana University encourages and supports the free and civil exchange of ideas and academic freedom and regularly invites speakers from diverse perspectives to our campuses. Visit freespeech.iu.edu for more information.
Free
Earth Day Art Model (https://earthdayartmodel.org/) is an online, interactive, global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day.
Join Indiana Humanities on Wednesday, March 29, as we ask the question “Are We Being Good Ancestors?” during a special Unearthed-themed Chew on This. Sign up for one of eight locations around the state where you’ll share a meal and a fun, insightful conversation with other curious Hoosiers. Each table will be led by an expert facilitator, someone to help us grapple with questions about humanity’s legacy and how to imagine an uncertain future. Your ticket price includes your meal and an unforgettably engaging experience.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
53rd Annual Meeting
9–11 March 2023
St. Louis, Missouri
Panel: “L’homme mêle et confond les climats”: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Anthropocene
[German Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (DGEJ)]
Room: Regency F
Chair: Jürgen OVERHOFF, Universität Münster
1. Tim ZUMHOF, Universität Trier, Germany, and Nicole BALZER, University of Münster, Germany, “Rousseau’s Critique of the Anthropocene and the Legacy of Enlightenment: A New Materialist Perspective”
2. Célia ABELE, Princeton University, “‘J’aperçois une manufacture de bas’: Industry, Colonies, and Nature in Rousseau’s ‘Seventh Promenade’”
3. Giulia PACINI, William & Mary, “Deforestation and the French Climate Literature of François-Antoine Rauch and Jean-Baptiste Rougier de la Bergerie”
4. James SWENSON, Rutgers University, “A Rediscovered Text by Rousseau on the Notion of Climate”
5. Jason KELLY, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, “Making ‘Nature’ in the Anthropocene”
6. Charlee BEZILLA, George Washington University, “L’art de ‘se circonscrire’: Rousseau on Living in the Anthropocene”
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Chair: Stephen Sloan, Executive Director, Oral History Association; Director of Institute for Oral History, Baylor University
Co-Chair: Richa Raj, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Mary Marshall Clark, Director, Columbia Center for Oral History Research, Columbia University
Doug Boyd, Director. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky
Jason M. Kelly, Director, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute
Emily Leiserson, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute
This presentation will explore the concept of an “Anthropocenic consciousness” and the ways that it helps us conceptualize historical understandings of environmental change.
This presentation uses the framework of “slow disasters” to consider the ways in which the theory and practice of digital public history is transforming in the wake of climate change and global pandemics. This presentation will focus on the work of The COVID-19 Oral History Project—a partner project of the Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive—as well as digital public history projects associated with The Anthropocenes Network.
Under the title "Enlightenment and Anthropocene", the interdisciplinary conference continues the Reckahn conference on research into the Enlightenment and opens it up to a wide range of possible questions. Both the concrete projects of the so-called public enlightenment and overarching questions about the enlightened determination of the relationship between man and nature are discussed.
Granfalloon 2022 will be presented concurrently with the Indiana University Writers Conference and the Bloomington Handmade Market. Events will take place in venues on campus and around downtown Bloomington. The festival offers engaging creative experiences from art and theater to film, live music, crafts, writing, puppets, a Nature Tour of the Century, and more.
At long last, three of our favorite things—books, booze and science—are coming together in a monthly book club for the scientifically curious! This group meets monthly in Indianapolis to talk about recent popular science books. A local scientist whose research relates to the book topic joins to share insights and help guide the conversation.
This event brings together representatives from Region V EPA as well as researchers, non-profits, and community participants working for Environmental Justice in Indiana.
This moderated panel discussion features instructors from various institutions and disciplines who use multicultural and inclusive pedagogies that have improved learning and success for their students. Panelists will share examples of classroom scenarios that demonstrate multicultural teaching, discuss strategies for designing a class or a course that embodies multicultural teaching, and articulate challenging experiences encountered in their work and how they responded. You will have opportunities throughout the session to ask questions and share your own experiences with multicultural teaching.
On Friday, January 28, 2022 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Professor Kelly will give a virtual presentation about his work on “Transdisciplinarity, Public Scholarship, and the Anthropocene.” In this presentation, Professor Jason Kelly will discuss the necessity of reimagining scholarly collaboration and public scholarship in and for the Anthropocene. In doing so, it argues for the importance of a transdisciplinarity rooted in self-reflexivity, critique, and community engagement—and the implications for the 21st-century university.
Join Mary Mattingly (marymattingly.com), Dana Levy (danalevy.net), Katlyn Brumfield (katlynbrumfieldart.com), and Jason M. Kelly (jasonmkelly.com) for a discussion of John Green's new book, The Anthropocene Reviewed.
This workshop will inform faculty about IUPUI Centers and Institutes (C & I). C & I Directors will present brief descriptions of their respective Center or Institute and then the moderator will help guide discussion on a range of questions.
The Anthropocene Debate and (Post-)Covid-19 Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion
The Radical Reading Circle is IUPUI's reading circle hosted by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and IUPUI's Lasana Kazembe and Jason Kelly. Each month, the Radical Reading Circle offers a space for discussion, exchange, and exploration of critical and transformative ideas. Participants should arrive prepared to approach controversial subjects with an open and respectful voice. These events are free and open to all, so please invite your friends and colleagues.
Since March, over 150 archivists, faculty, staff, students, teachers, and public history practitioners and organizations have been working together on an international COVID-19 digital archive called A Journal of the Plague Year (JOTPY). As of August 2020, we have over 8,000 crowdsourced objects in our archive, and we anticipated accelerated growth this fall as K-20 instructors use the archive in their classrooms, many with modules we’ve created. This roundtable offers transparency about our process and decision-making and creates the opportunity for open peer-review.
This 90-minute event will begin with faculty panelists sharing their strategies for keeping students engaged with each other and their classmates. We will then break out into groups, depending on the topic we're most interested in discussing. After group discussion, we will return to report briefly any new ideas, tools or strategies we learned.
Crisis of any kind, be it human-made or natural, leaves deep impact on human kind. It often takes generations to recover from the impacts, if at all, and the scars remain deep. Floods, droughts and famines, earthquakes, tsunamis and pandemics, the tales of despair and resilience are told and recounted one generation after another. Similarly, crisis/es emerging out of displacement due to wars, communal and ethnic violence, developmental projects etc., leave tales for future generations to learn from. Compounding this, often an authoritarian state and rigid laws could also lead to crisis/es, particularly for marginalised sections of the societies be it the farmers, students, people belonging to minority communities, the tribals and the Dalits. Rigid social customs and segregation/discrimination based on caste, gender, class, ethnicity and religion could lead to crisis also. Narratives through oral histories can help us be aware of the multiple dimensions to crisis/es such as natural, human- induced, political and state induced, along with the coping mechanisms people adopted and the tales of struggles and perseverance of the people. Such narratives and oral histories can help to check such crisis/es and also help form coping mechanisms. With the country having faced multiple crises both pre- and post-independence, the sixth OHAI annual conference will reflect on “Crisis, Community and Oral History” through talks, presentations and invites relevant submissions on the topic.
The Radical Reading Circle is IUPUI's reading circle hosted by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library and IUPUI's Lasana Kazembe and Jason Kelly. Each month, the Radical Reading Circle offers a space for discussion, exchange, and exploration of critical and transformative ideas. Participants should arrive prepared to approach controversial subjects with an open and respectful voice. These events are free and open to all, so please invite your friends and colleagues.
This presentation examines the Worcester election of 1747. Putting the poll book, the registry of freemen, a manuscript map, petitions, porcelain, and prints in dialogue, it elucidates the complex ways that party rivalry played out at midcentury and the broader political culture of the West Midlands.
Ana Bento, Assistant Professor of Public Health, IU Bloomington
Gabe Filippelli, Professor of Science, IUPUI
Jason M. Kelly, Professor of History, IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
Karo Omodior, Assistant Professor of Public Health, IU Bloomington
This panel includes faculty/administrators representing three separate campuses of Indiana University who have been spearheading different humanities initiatives and outreach efforts. Speakers examine how their offices have strengthened institutional support for and engagement with the humanities, both within and outside of the university. They discuss how their efforts have strengthened campus research culture for students and faculty alike, built bridges between the university and their surrounding communities, and integrated the humanities into the daily lives of communities across the state. At a time when the humanities face multiple different crossroads, the impacts of the efforts of these scholar-administrators demonstrate different institutional approaches to the humanities that offer both models and toolkits for others hoping to strengthen the agency, value (and valuation), and visibility of the humanities.
Panelists: Deborah Cohn, Indiana University Bloomington; Ed Comentale, Indiana University Bloomington; Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus; Jason Kelly, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
The Covid-19 Oral History Project has partnered with Journal of the Plague Year to make Covid-19 oral histories available to the public. In this workshop, academics and oral historians Kathy Nasstrom, Jason M. Kelly, and Doug Boyd will discuss the process of interpreting and analyzing Covid-19 Oral Histories
The Reading Circle is open to all and offers a space to discuss, exchange and explore critical and transformative ideas. It embraces the restless, fugitive intellect and creative witness of radical artists such as Kurt Vonnegut, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and countless others and embraces diplomacy, inquiry and promotes the spirit of critical, democratic engagement. During these critical times it is more important than ever to think, to probe, to question, to smile, and to hope.
