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In the News - October 2011
November 07 | News Categories: Alumni Accomplishments | Anthropology | Centers | History | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology
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.
No, I Don’t Owe My Yoga Mat to Vivekananda
Religion Dispatchers October 4, 2011
Andrea R. Jain, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, analyzes an article by Ann Louise Bardach in the New York Times magazine called, “How Yoga Won the West”. Jain argues …
In the News - August 2011
September 12 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Geography | History | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic 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.
Reflections on summer readingThe Immanent Frame August 31, 2011In this compilation of summer reading Edward E. Curtis, IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies says, "Some of the books that I read this summer were for my fall course …
Liberal Arts Welcomes New Faculty
September 09 | News Categories: Communication Studies | English | Geography | History | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Religious Studies | World Languages and Cultures
This fall, Liberal Arts welcomed new full and part-time faculty across its departments and programs. The new full-time teaching faculty and those faculty accepting new appointments are listed below. Please click on the faculty member’s name to learn more about their interestsand background.
- Michael Brodrick, Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies
- Jennifer Bute, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
- Charmayne Champion-Shaw, Visiting Lecturer in Communication Studies/Office of American Indian Programs
- Tracy Donhardt, Visiting Lecturer in English
- Stephan Kory, Visiting Lecturer in Religious Studies
- Stephen A. LeBeau, Jr., Lecturer/Director of Public Speaking
- Amy Lynelle, Visiting Assistant Professor in French
- Jennifer Mahoney, Visiting Lecturer …
Cavanaugh Hall Celebrates 40 Years of Impact - September 23rd
August 29 | News Categories: African American and African Diaspora Studies | Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Event Announcements | Economics | English | General News | Geography | History | Institute for American Thought | Medical Humanities | Museum Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | World Languages and Cultures
Cavanaugh Hall will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an open house and reunion on Friday, September 23, 2011, 4:30-6:30 pm. The event will feature a special six-story exhibit, "Cavanaugh Hall: 40 Years of Impact," exploring the building’s history, a reception, and comments from Dean William Blomquist at 6:00 pm.
Originally conceived to be 9-stories tall with windows all around, Cavanaugh, the Lecture Center (now Lecture Hall) and the Library (now Taylor Hall) were the first undergraduate buildings on what became the IUPUI campus. Named in honor of Robert E. …
In the News - June 2011
June 30 | News Categories: Centers | Communication Studies | English | History | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Political Science | Religious Studies | Research
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.
More job opportunities available for college gradsWTHR.com 13 Eyewitness News May 18, 2011\The job outlook is the best it has been in four years for college graduates. That is the word from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. "I would say I am …
Liberal Arts Faculty/Staff Break Campus Campaign Record!
June 16 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Faculty and Staff | History | Institute for American Thought | Medical Humanities | Museum Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | World Languages and Cultures
133 Liberal Arts faculty and staff members contributed to the 2011 Liberal Arts IMPACT IUPUI Faculty and Staff Campaign raising $55,702.19 for scholarships, research, departmental and school initiatives, and events! Across campus 856 faculty and staff donors have given $340,898 during the campaign that ran from February 28th to May 31st. Thanks to the generosity and commitment of the faculty and staff it was a record-setting year of support for the School of Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts faculty and staff giving also broke a campus record, collectively giving more than any unit in the campaign’s recorded history.
A record number of faculty …
Bradbury Center Publications Provide New Insight into American Icon
March 30 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | English | Institute for American Thought | News | Research
Ray Bradbury is best known as the author of Fahrenheit 451, a book found in high school English curriculums across the country. Among science fiction scholars and enthusiasts, Ray Bradbury is revered as nothing less than an American icon, an artist and master of the short story in his chosen genres, science fiction, fantasy and horror. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for his "deeply influential" contributions to these genres. As the first center of its kind in the United States, the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at …
Liberal Arts Welcomes New Faculty and Staff for 2010-2011
October 07 | News Categories: Anthropology | Centers | Communication Studies | Economics | English | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | Philanthropic Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Sociology | World Languages and Cultures
This fall, Liberal Arts welcomed new full and part-time faculty across its departments and programs. From language acquisition and instruction to Economics and American Studies, the interests of these faculty span the humanities and social sciences. Several staff members also joined the Liberal Arts team. Please click on the individual’s name to learn more.
Full-Time Teaching Faculty/Full-Time Teaching Faculty in New Appointments
- Yaa Akosa Antwi, Assistant Professor of Economics
- André Buchenot, Assistant Professor of English
- Amy Bomke, Visiting Lecturer in Spanish
- Devin Bryson, Visiting Lecturer in French
- Chad Carmichael, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- Mary Ann Cohen, Visiting Lecturer in English
- Erin Engels, Lecturer in …
Peirce Edition Project Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
September 30 | News Categories: Centers | Grants | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy | Research
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The Peirce Edition Project (PEP), an IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI center located in the Institute for American Thought, has received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant provides the project, for research related to the works of the seminal American philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), with $140,000 in outright funds and $30,000 in matching funds over the next two years.
This grant will in part provide the salary for a full-time assistant textual editor. This faculty will, in collaboration with Textual Editor Jon Eller, …
Ray Bradbury Volume Named MLA Approved Edition
August 13 | News Categories: Centers | English | Institute for American Thought | Research
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, Vol. 1, a critical edition edited at The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, was recently awarded the seal of The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Committee on Scholarly Editions. This establishes and recognizes that the level of scholarship in the volume meets the highest professional standards. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, Vol. 1 will be published by Kent State University Press in the fall of 2010.
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies was established in the spring of 2007 by the IU School of Liberal Arts …
Faculty Couples Share 2010 Spirit of Philanthropy Award
June 09 | News Categories: Centers | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | World Languages and Cultures
The School of Liberal Arts honored philanthropic leaders Drs. Giles and Dolores Hoyt and Drs. Ruth and Eberhard Reichmann at the annual IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy Luncheon and Awards Ceremony this spring. Eberhard Reichmann, who died in October 2009, received the award posthumously.
The Spirit of Philanthropy awards recognize individuals, corporations, and foundations that have supported and contributed to university programs and departments through their gifts and voluntary service.
During the Campaign for IUPUI, the two couples partnered to create the Hoyt-Reichmann Faculty Chair in German American Studies and German Language and Culture in the School …
Shipps Gives “Last Lecture” - 4/30
April 27 | News Categories: Campus News | Event Announcements | History | Institute for American Thought | Lectures and Seminars | Religious Studies
Jan Shipps, professor emeritus of history and religious studies in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, will present the second annual Last Lecture at 1 p.m., Friday April 30, 2010, in the Lilly Auditorium of University Library. Shipps, also research associate at The Polis Center, is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The Last Lecture Series is presented by the Senior Academy and offers the university community the opportunity to hear reflections on life’s lessons and meaning from a …
Volume 8 of “Writing of Charles S. Peirce” Published
January 19 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy | Research
The Peirce Edition Project announces with great pride the publication of volume 8 of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition. Known as the founder of pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s most rigorous, versatile, and original thinkers. He has become a stimulating influence on philosophers, scientists, and humanists on every continent. He left behind a large corpus: more than 12,000 pages in publications and ten times as many …
Former College President to Head Institute for American Thought
June 22 | News Categories: Centers | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy
Dr. David Pfeifer will become Director of the Institute for American Thought (IAT) on July 1, 2009. The IAT is a unique research facility that unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists, and research holdings of the Peirce Edition Project, the Santayana Edition, the Frederick Douglass Papers Project, and the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies with related academic programs in American Studies, Professional Editing, and American philosophy.
Since 2005, Professor Pfeifer has been a faculty member in Philosophy at IUPUI. Previously, Pfeifer was on the faculty and an administrator at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. His thirty-one year …
Santayana Edition Releases “The Essential Santayana”
April 07 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | Institute for American Thought | Research
Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863-1952) became known as an American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. As a student and later a colleague at Harvard of William James and Josiah Royce he made a unique critical contribution to the tradition of American pragmatism and is recognized for his insights into the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and moral philosophy.
The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, edited by the Santayana Edition in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, presents a selection of Santayana’s most important and …
First of The New Ray Bradbury Review Available Now
November 12 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | English | Institute for American Thought | Research
An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authors *
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s career, Bradbury has birthed hundreds of stories and half a dozen novels, making him one of this country’s most anthologized authors. While his effect on the genres …
Science Fiction Giant’s Screenplay for Moby Dick Ends Half Century of “Invisibility”
October 29 | News Categories: Books by Faculty | Centers | English | Faculty and Staff | Institute for American Thought | Research
Unseen for 50 years, Ray Bradbury’s screenplay for John Huston’s 1956 film Moby Dick has been published with an introduction by William Touponce, Ph.D., director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI and an internationally known Bradbury scholar.
Bradbury is the recipient of a 2007 special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board for his "distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy."
"Bradbury, like Edgar Allan Poe, was initially not regarded as a canonical writer - one who should be taught in schools - …
Institute for American Thought Announces Lecture Series
February 07 | News Categories: Centers | Event Announcements | Institute for American Thought | Philosophy
The Liberal Arts’ Institute for American Thought (IAT) is proud to announce a spring lecture series featuring scholars from around the country and across the globe and considering philosophical topics ranging from pluralism to naturalism and semeiotics. Two of the lectures will also explore the thought of the nineteenth century psychologist and philosopher William James.
The IAT is a unique research facility bringing to IUPUI and Central Indiana an internationally acclaimed concentration of resources and scholarship that focuses on fundamental strongholds of American thought and culture. It unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists and research holdings of the Peirce Edition …
The newest addition to the critical editions edited at the Institute for American Thought is The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume One (1938-1943). Edited by William F. Touponce, the Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, and Jonathan R. Eller, the IAT’s senior textual editor, the edition is published by Kent State University Press. Inaugurating a series of volumes on this celebrated American science fiction and fantasy author, the edition bears the MLA’s seal of approval for scholarly editions.
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