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Download As Pages COLLEGE ARTS + HUMANITIES INSTITUTE THE year ahead // 2020 - 2021 CONTACT INFORMATION Administration + Staff: Deborah Cohn Alex Teschmacher College Arts + Humanities Institute (CAHI) Interim Director (2020) Assistant to the Director 1211 E. Atwater Avenue Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Bloomington, IN 47401-3703 Alex Lichtenstein Luca Fitzgerald Web: cahi.indiana.edu Interim Associate Director (2020) Operations Assistant Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: (812) 856-1169 Jonathan Elmer Erin Kelley Twitter: @cahi_iu Director (on leave during 2020) Program Manager, Platform Instagram: @cahi_iub Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Facebook: fb.com/CollegeArtsAndHumanitiesInstitute Alexandra Burlingame Fiscal Officer Email: [email protected] Advisory Board: Nick Cullather Osamu James Nakagawa History, International Studies Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Joan Hawkins Ellen Wu The Media School History, Asian American Studies THE YEAR AHEAD // 2020 - 2021 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR 2 DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS 8 WORKSHOPS + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 16 MEET THE AUTHORS + ARTISTS 21 CAHI RESEARCH FELLOWS 27 FACULTY FELLOWSHIP + GRANT RECIPIENTS 36 GRADUATE TRAVEL AWARD RECIPIENTS 38 FACULTY FELLOWSHIP + GRANT OPPORTUNITIES 40 GRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD OPPORTUNITIES 42 Edited by Deborah Cohn, Alex Lichtenstein, Luca Fitzgerald, and Alex Teschmacher. Cover image: Osamu James Nakagawa, Gama 009, 2010, from the series Gama Caves. For more about Professor Nakagawa and his work, see page 24. Copyright © 2020 The Trustees of Indiana University. All rights reserved. in improving the student experience at IUB—a task requiring LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR even more logistics and creativity nowadays— and in public outreach around the state of Indiana and the Midwest. Thanks Dear Colleagues, to the support we receive, and the dynamism of the colleagues with whom we collaborate, CAHI occupies a central place in a We are in a far different place now than we were a year ago. vibrant ecosystem of artistic undertaking, humanistic inquiry, COVID-19 turned our world upside-down this past year. It has and public-facing programming that speaks to crucial issues continued to transform and shape every aspect of our work and of our time. lives, and to exacerbate prior inequities. The killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others, have further Like everyone else this year, we have had to shift gears and modal- shaken us to the core. Throughout these difficult times, it has ities, but our programming remains robust. In October, Imraan been a privilege to work with Ed Comentale, Associate Vice Coovadia, author of novels such as High Low In-between and The Provost for the Arts and Humanities, and Dina Okamoto and Institute for Taxi Poetry, as well as several non-fiction and schol- Michelle Moyd, Director and Associate Director of the Center arly works, gave a talk on his current non-fiction work, Revolution for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, on “Confronting and Non-Violence in Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela. In the spring, Racism,” an important online series of talks and conversations Carolyn Forché, award-winning poet, memoirist, human rights that has had local, national, and international resonance. activist, and translator, will speak to us about her 2019 memoir, What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, There is much more work to be done, and it is good to know that and her recent poetry collection, In the Lateness of the World our partnerships—with the IU Arts and Humanities Council, with (2020). Also in the spring, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, the Canada CRRES, and others—are working well. It is also important to 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University, will acknowledge the ongoing support for our work from the College present in our Distinguished Scholar series. Her work in Critical and the Campus. We are grateful to Rick van Kooten, Execu- Data Studies is timely and crucial: she pushes us to heed the tive Dean of the College of Arts + Sciences, and Paul Gutjahr, power of algorithms and big data in fostering discrimination and Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, for their support misinformation, and offers tools for countering these trends. of our mission, including, most importantly, our efforts to help colleagues and students carry out their work during these difficult We are also excited to share the work of our colleagues with you times. Provost Lauren Robel continues her staunch support for in our Meet the Author/Meet the Artist series, which starting Arts and Humanities research and creative practice, and her office this year we are undertaking in collaboration with IU’s Arts and endorses and underwrites a central role for Arts and Humanities Humanities Council. On the eve of the November election, Sarah 2 CAHI’s Interim Director, Deborah Cohn (right), with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar, in September, 2019. Edmands Martin (Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design) In November, we will hear National Book Critics Circle Award-win- presented on her current project, Ongoing Matter: Democracy, ning poet Ross Gay (English) speak about his 2020 book-length Design, and the Mueller Report, a collection of poster designs that poem, Be Holding, and engage with J. Kameron Carter (Religious identify the threats to democracy named in the Mueller Report. Studies) in a free-ranging conversation that will touch upon 3 poetry and far more. In December, Alisha Jones (Folklore and symposia, and lectures in support of faculty research—virtual this Ethnomusicology), will speak to us about her new book, Flaming?: academic year, and, conditions permitting, in-person next year. The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Please check out our website for details. CAHI also continues to Performance, which explores archetypes of masculinity in the be an active member of the Humanities Without Walls Consortium music ministry of historically-black Protestant churches. In Febru- (HWW), linking fifteen universities in the Midwest. We will soon be ary, Osamu James Nakagawa (Eskenazi School of Art, Architec- sending out an announcement of a competition for seed money to ture + Design), whose work appears on the cover and throughout help faculty develop proposals for research projects around major the pages of this booklet, will talk about his recent experimental questions that require humanities- and arts-based collaborative photography, as well as his artistic trajectory and methods. His approaches, so please keep an eye out for this. presentation is timed to coincide with his co-curated exhibition, Photographic Occurrences, which will open at the newly-reno- Each year, CAHI also organizes one or more events focusing on vated Maxwell Hall gallery in February. Diane Reilly (Art History) professional development. In October, Suzanne Ortega, President will also show and tell about her recent book, The Cistercian of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), Hironao Okahana, Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France, a study Vice President at CGS, and Jim Grossman, Executive Director attempting to bring to life the sensory complexity—text, image, of the American Historical Association (AHA), led a workshop, song—that animated monastic life and its rituals of belief. “Open Knowledge: Expanding Our Definition of Scholarship.” The workshop probed the nature of humanistic inquiry, engaging with CAHI’s core mission is to support research in the arts and human- questions of what constitutes scholarship, how new forms of ities in the College, and our grants and fellowships are a primary scholarship can be evaluated, the relationship between this work mechanism for doing just this. We can start with what has not and the broader public, and more. changed: We will continue to offer our Research Fellowships and the CAHI/Kinsey Fellowship, which provide faculty with course Another collaboration between CAHI and the IU Arts and Human- releases to conduct research (this booklet profiles our new CAHI ities Council is Platform, a research laboratory in arts and human- Fellows and their projects). Given the many COVID-related uncer- ities supported by the Mellon Foundation, OVPR, and the Office tainties and travel restrictions, however, we have had to reinvent of the Provost. The program’s Indiana Studies team supports some of our awards. Rather than offering funding for research initiatives that explore what makes Indiana unique, such as “Indi- travel, for example, we have opened our grant competitions to ana Switchgrass,” an online artist showcase, and a symposium in a variety of other forms of assistance that enable faculty and the spring of 2021. The Global Popular Music Team, in turn, will graduate students to pursue their research and creative projects. Please note also that funding is still available for workshops, Opposite page: Renovations nearing completion at Maxwell Hall. October, 2020. 4 host a virtual speaker series that probes the unique ways that music communicates and is communicated in the digital age—a topic made particularly poignant by the current global pandemic—and will also examine the intersection of music with carceral states around the world. This fall, CAHI will take the exciting step of moving into Maxwell Hall, where we will form part of the newly-established Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts and Humanities. Here, CAHI will join IUB’s Arts and Humanities Council, the Center for Rural Engagement, IU Corps, and Traditional Arts Indiana, as well as several other units, and collectively foster research and creative activity that is multidisciplinary, public-facing, and socially responsive. Renovations to Maxwell Hall are now being completed thanks to funding from a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and vital additional support from the campus, the provost, and Gayle Cook, whose generosity extends to support for our programming and other initiatives. We are extremely grateful to Ms. Cook for this opportunity.
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