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April 30 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Campus News | Centers | Faculty and Staff | World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun was recently honored for her exemplary public service activities and presented with the Distinguished Public Service Award by Dr. Ann Albuyeh during the annual Africa Conference, held on March 30-April 2, 2012 at the University of Texas at Austin.
According to the conference organizers, the Distinguished Public Service award "is for scholars with considerable managerial and administrative skills whose decisions have impacted the way we all do our …
April 20 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | English | Faculty and Staff | Philanthropic Studies | Student Accomplishments | Women's Studies
The 2012 Women’s Leadership Awards recently honored three IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI faculty members. Nancy M. Robertson, (History, Philanthropic Studies, Director of Women’s Studies Program) was awarded the Veteran Faculty Award and Ronda Henry Anthony (English, Africana Studies, Director of Olaniyan Scholars Program) received the Faculty Newcomer Award. Amy Jones Richardson (Assistant Director of Recruitment, Retention, And Academic Services) was honored with the 2012 IUPUI Inspirational Woman Award. Liberal Arts students Sarah Nathan and Kimberly …
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Ticket prices for the performances of The History of Cardenio this month at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have been reduced.
Cardenio, a “lost play” by William Shakespeare and his younger contemporary John Fletcher, is the inaugural performance in the new IUPUI Campus Center Theater. Florida State University professor Gary Taylor has recreated and reimagined the script for the play, directed by IUPUI associate professor Terri Bourus, who teaches in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.
Tickets are now $10 for students, $20 for general admission, and $15 for groups of …
March 08 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | Campus News | Communication Studies | Event Announcements | English | Faculty and Staff | Geography | History | Individualized Major Program | International | Lectures and Seminars | Museum Studies | News | Opportunities | Philanthropic Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | World Languages and Cultures
Tickets are now on sale at IUPUI for the April performances of The History of Cardenio, a “lost play” by William Shakespeare and his younger contemporary John Fletcher. The play is recreated and reimagined by Professor Gary Taylor, a prize-winning editor of both Shakespeare and Fletcher, and directed by IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI Associate Professor of English drama, Terri Bourus.
The world premiere of the reconstructed play is the result of 20 years of research by Taylor, who presented a public reading of his most advanced and refined iteration of the script at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London …
March 05 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | English | History | Political Science | Religious Studies
Experts from Liberal Arts departments and centers are regularly cited in the local, national, and international media. A selection from online sources provides a sampling of the types of issues and kinds of research Liberal Arts faculty are called upon to talk about in the public sphere. Also included is general Liberal Arts news covered by the media.
Super Bowl Economics
NUVO, February 1, 2012
Football fans have been eager for the chance to experience a hometown Super Bowl since the completion of Lucas Oil Stadium nearly four years ago. The Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board says the National Football League is likely …
February 28 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Books by Faculty | Faculty and Staff | Women's Studies
Two newly released books on contemporary Africa—one on its economic ties to other nations, the other on women’s roles to family and society—reveal intricate relationships affecting the continent’s sustained growth and development. The volumes are Gender, Sexuality, and Mothering in Africa (Africa World Press) and Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa (University of Rochester Press).
The books are edited by Professor Bessie House-Soremekun, director of Africana studies in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Toyin Falola, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
“Recent …
February 16 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Faculty and Staff | International | Religious Studies | Research
Edward E. Curtis IV, professor of religious studies in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has co-founded the Journal of Africana Religions, the world’s only refereed journal devoted to research on the religions of African-descended people in global perspective.
“This journal signifies a rich coming-of-age in the study of African and African Diasporic studies,” said scholar, author and activist Cornel West.
Pennsylvania State University Press will publish the Journal of Africana Religions quarterly in both print and electronic form starting in January 2013. The journal will focus on the religious …
February 13 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | History | Museum Studies | Political Science | Religious Studies
Experts from Liberal Arts departments and centers are regularly cited in the local, national, and international media. A selection from online sources provides a sampling of the types of issues and kinds of research Liberal Arts faculty are called upon to talk about in the public sphere. Also included is general Liberal Arts news covered by the media.
Politics Infuse White Case
The Indianapolis Star, January 4, 2012A judge ruled Secretary of State Charlie White ineligible to run for Secretary of State in 2010 because he was registered to vote in a precinct where he did not live. This decision means White …
September 21 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | International | Opportunities
The Africana Studies Program in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will launch a new speaker series on Monday, September 26, 2011, with presentations by prominent Africanist scholars Dr. Toyin Falola and Dr. Ademola Dasylva.
Dr. Toyin Falola (pictured at left) will speak on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 9:00 AM in the School of Informatics, IT Room 265 at 535 W. Michigan Road on the topic of "African Politics and Society in the Contemporary Period." …
September 06 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Faculty and Staff | International | Political Science | Women's Studies
William Blomquist, dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), has appointed Bessie House-Soremekun, Ph.D., as the new director for the Africana Studies Program. House-Soremekun assumes the position previously held by Monroe Little, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and founding director of the Africana Studies program, who recently stepped down after directing the program for 30 years.
House-Soremekun is also the Public Scholar in African-American Studies, Civic Engagement and Entrepreneurship; professor of political science; professor of Africana studies; and the founding executive director of the Center for Global …
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