Did you know it is estimated that 1 in 3 children in Monroe County will be abused or neglected before the age of 18?

You are invited to a Town Hall Meeting on Child Abuse. This public gathering will bring together community leaders, stakeholders, and other interested persons from the Monroe County area for a discussion of this important topic. The purpose of this event is to increase public awareness of how we can respond as a community to the needs of victims of child abuse and neglect.

Participants will also learn about opportunities to get involved in dealing with child abuse prevention and response issues. This event is organized by CASA, the volunteer driven Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children organization of Monroe County. Join us to learn how you can act and help.

Questions about security and violence permeate the philosophical and political tradition as they lay the foundation for theories of authority and care. Moreover, as thinking about security and violence operates in ways both physical and symbolic, law can be seen as a locus of negotiation between them. The symposium will address the current debate on the national and international politics of security, globalization and war, the distribution of violence along social, racial and gender lines, and the philosophical and cultural foundations of the law.

9 am: Welcome, Oana Panaïté (French & Italian)

9:30 am: John Hamilton (German / Comparative Literature, Harvard Univ.), “Liberalism, Libertinage, and the Limits of Security: Laclos and the Charlie Hebdo Massacre.”

Abstract: The terroristic attacks that recently horrified the world have occasioned reflection on public security and civic liberties. The primary issue, which concerns the relationship between security and liberalism, is hardly new, but rather persistently informs all modern political thought. In turning to Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses, the notorious libertine novel of the 18th century, innovative insights may be gained in regard to today’s attempts in balancing safety and freedom.

John Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard, is the author of Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity and the Classical Tradition (2004), Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (2008), and Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care (2013), in addition to numerous articles: on Lessing, Hölderlin, Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Büchner, Heine, Kafka, Thomas Mann, and Böll; Pindar, Cicero, and Horace; Balzac, Gautier, Valéry, Roger Caillois, and Pascal Quignard.

10:45 am: Coffee Break

11 am: Chantal Mouffe (Politics and International Relations, Univ. of Westminster), “Politics and Violence: An Agonistic Approach.”

Abstract: In this lecture, I will present my agonistic model and examine how it deals with the challenge confronting democracy when the ineradicable of antagonism is acknowledged.

Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster in London. She has taught and researched in many universities in Europe, North America and South America, and she is a corresponding member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the editor of Gramsci and Marxist Theory (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1979), Dimensions of Radical Democracy. Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (Verso, London, 1992), Deconstruction and Pragmatism ( Routledge, 1996) and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (Verso, London, 1999); the co-author with Ernesto Laclau of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics ( Verso, London, 1985) and the author of The Return of the Political (Verso, London, 1993) The Democratic Paradox (Verso, London, 2000), On the Political (Routledge, London, 2005) and Agonistics. Thinking the World Politically (Verso 2013).

12:15 – 2:30 pm: Lunch

2:30 pm: Elizabeth Anker (English, Cornell Univ.), “The Human Rights Turn, or the Political Will of Critical Theory.”
Abstract: Many humanities fields are currently witnessing a reaction against the negativity of critique, hermeneutic suspicion, and the deflationary impulses of theory, and this talk locates the human rights turn within this broader climate of methodological self-questioning. For many, human rights have represented an escape from the sense of a political impasse within theory. This talk cautions against the interrelated risks of viewing human rights through the lens of idealism or utopianism; of merely repurposing established analytics within poststructuralist theory under the guise of human rights; of deploying human rights in ways that reinforce what I refer to as the “political minimalism” of much critique; or of endorsing human rights in ways that circumvent questions of cultural particularity and neo-imperialism.

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor in the English Department at Cornell University and Associate Member of the Faculty of Cornell Law School. Her first book is Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (2012). She is currently working on two book projects. The first, Our Constitutional Metaphors: Law, Culture, and the Management of Crisis, looks to literature, architecture, and film to study popular metaphors for constitutions, examining how they resolve challenges to democracy. Second, she is writing a book on Human Rights and Critical Theory that explores the “human rights turn.”

3:45 pm: Coffee Break

4 – 5:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion
Akin Adesokan (Comparative Literature)
William Rasch (Germanic Studies / International Studies)
Jon Simons (Communication and Culture)
Susan Williams (Law School)

The symposium is sponsored by the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities, the College Arts & Humanities Institute, the Office of the Vice-President for International Affairs, the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French & Italian, the Dept. of International Studies, and the Dept. of Political Science, all at Indiana University.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

Spring workshops in the Old Tobacco Barn, Solsberry, IN

FAIRIES! Create a fairy house plus many whimsical props for your very own garden. This workshop is created for the child/adult team. Lunch is served. Registration is required. (April 1) www.oldtobaccobarn.com/workshops

Concurrent with the opening of the museum for the 2015 season, as well as the annual heirloom seed sale, the Wylie House will be hosting the Bloomington Water Color Society’s exhibit featuring paintings inspired by a visit to the museum last summer. Hours are extended on Saturday, March 7 until 4pm. The paintings will be displayed in the Education Center and will remain on exhibit through April. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the artwork during our regular open hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10m-2pm.

Join us for the IU School of Medicine’s annual FREE community health fair!! We are excited to hold our event for yet another year. There’s something for all ages – adults can get their blood sugar tested, kids can learn to suture, and everyone can learn about diet, exercise, smoking cessation, and more! We hope you’ll join us for this event that has something for everyone of all ages!

It’s Girls Inc.’s birthday and you’re invited to our party! Come and celebrate with us! Learn about all the different and fun activities we offer here at Girls Inc. We’ll have science, art, music, food, and so much more! Guests will also get an exclusive look at our recently updated program center!

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of the studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles. To gain professional experience, exhibiting students participate in the planning of their shows and installation of their pieces.

BFA 3 will open on Wednesday, April 8 and continue through Saturday, April 11. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 10 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. This exhibition features the work of Sara Bradley (Photography), Cassandra Harner (Digital Art), and Emily Mungovan (Graphic Design).

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Three young hoodlums at large in Rome at night encounter something of the world of decadence and privilege that was to be explored in La dolce vita: cheap backstreets and rich apartments, prostitutes and queers as well as the wastelands of the Roman countryside. Here, with a script by Pasolini and a wonderful French and Italian cast, Rome and around is seen from below, by outsiders and losers, and with a harsh, unforgiving eye. Contains mature content. In Italian language with English subtitles.(35mm presentation)

35mm film print provided courtesy of Istituto Luce Cinecittà.

Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild, and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black-and-white cinematography and stylized set design, Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians, and German Huns converge during World War I. (35mm presentation)