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Donna E. West- The Operation of Secondness in Attentional Schemas

April 18, 2013 / / No comments
Charles Sanders Peirce
The Peirce Seminar Series Presents
 
Donna E. West
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Spanish
State University of New York, Cortland
The Operation of Secondness in Attentional Schemas
This lecture will demonstrate the primacy of Peirce’s category of Secondness in the formation of early concepts. The premise is that without expression in Secondness (actualization as experience), pure feeling in Firstness is untenable. While at first glance these claims may appear to be inconsonant with Peirce’s assertions regarding the preeminence of Firstness, in point of fact they afford a unifying scaffold to integrate his phenomenological, epistemological and metaphysical systems. In particular, Secondness initially materializes as an inchoate resistance – a continuous being over non-being in the scheme of human experience; and later its resistance becomes an active, interactionistic force.
The case will be made that the semiosis of Index validates the Secondness before Firstness paradigm. Index’s emergence as the first sign relation is convincing proof of the Secondness before Firstness assertion. Empirical evidence that early location constitutes the initial attribute assigned to Objects, together with its distinctly attentional character, makes plain the foundational place of Secondness in constructing representational systems. This line of reasoning suggests that attentional signs (in Secondness), such as visual source, path and goal indicators, are more ontologically primary than are signs of qualities (in Firstness), such as color and shape.
Finally, Peirce’s core definition of index – primarily the requirement of existential compatibility between Index and Object – will be examined in light of other, less tangible uses of Index. Accordingly findings at more advanced developmental stages show how Index is extended to displaced referents or to referents which are abstract/non-existent. In fact, the universal requirement that tangible attentional Indexes in their early use be associated with hidden or absent Objects further instantiates the primacy of Secondness in the course of semeiosis.
Thursday, 18 April 2013
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
ES0016
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David Craig- Beyond Public vs. Private: Health Care as a Social Good

April 16, 2013 / / No comments
David Craig

Workshop in Multidisciplinary Philanthropic Studies (WIMPS)

PRESENTS
David Craig
Religious Studies Department
IUPUI
Beyond Public vs. Private:
Health Care as a Social Good
 
Abstract:

 

As an ethicist trespassing on the realms of health economics and health policy, I propose that health care in the United States is neither a private good nor a public good.  The economic distinction between private goods and public goods, as I understand it, fits closely with the theory that sees the provision of public goods through state programs as a response to market failures and the provision of additional public goods through nonprofit organizations as a further response to government failures.  This theory gets the historical story backward in the case of health care in the United States.  I look to core values in the mission statements of nonprofit health care providers and to public values in federal health policies to argue that U.S. health care is a social good, the product of extensive social investments of philanthropic service and public funding.  These investments establish, in turn, new social norms and cultural expectations that help determine how the good of health care is produced and distributed.  In other words, social commitments to moral values predetermine the empirical workings of U.S. health care.  These lessons may apply to other nonprofit sectors, too.

 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
ES (Education/Social Work Building) 2101, IUPUI

For more information, please see the attached flier, or email Marty Sulek at msulek@umail.iu.edu.

Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program
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Upcoming Lectures at IU Bloomington

April 8, 2013 / / No comments

April 5 to 19, 2013

Indiana Journal of Law & Social Equality symposium
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 5
WHERE: Law School Room 335 Faculty Conference Room, Bloomington
WHAT: Indiana Journal of Law & Social Equality Annual Symposium: “Social Equality: Looking Forward and Looking Back”
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: smithco@indiana.edu

From Philosophy to Paleography, or The Annoying Duty to Share History With the Past
WHEN: Noon to 1:15 p.m. Friday, April 5
WHERE: 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Ballantine Hall, Room 004, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Bob Eno, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at IU Bloomington
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-3765 or easc@indiana.edu

The Chairs of Chester Cornett
WHEN: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6
WHERE: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 N. Indiana Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures will present a series of conversations with curators, researchers, students and scholars from a variety of disciplines who study and explore the museum’s rich collections.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-6873 or mathers@indiana.edu

A Life in the Law: From Military Commissions to the Indiana Supreme Court
WHEN: Noon Monday, April 8
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law Room 123, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturch@indiana.edu

I manoscritti provenzali in Italia
WHEN: 4 p.m. Monday, April 8
WHERE: Slocum Room, Lilly Library, 1200 E. Seventh St., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker Carlo Pulsoni, professor of romance philology at the University of Perugia, will discuss the Italian manuscripts containing works in Old Occitan.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-7035 or hstorey@indiana.edu

Innovations in Law School Pedagogy
WHEN: 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom (Room 100), Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Provost Lauren Robel
COST: Free and open to the public; Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., in the Law School Atrium
INFORMATION: cleavera@iupui.edu

LL.M. 10th Anniversary Celebration: International Legal Education in the 21st Century: Preparing Lawyers to Meet Global Challenges
WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom (Room 100), Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Honorable Judge Patricia Riley, Indiana Court of Appeals
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: pcaparas@iu.edu

Louise Melling, ACLU: “The New Age of Abortion Restrictions: Listen Up! It’s About You”
WHEN: Noon Wednesday, April 10
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law Room 123, Bloomington
WHAT: Louise Melling, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director and director of the ACLU Center for Liberty, will discuss the status of abortion restrictions and how they compromise our rights and well-being today, 40 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade — as well as what is to come.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-4044 or kturchi@indiana.edu

Principles in Drug Discovery
WHEN: 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 10
WHERE: Indiana University MSBII Building 702 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Dr. Betty Bei Yao, associate director at Abbvie (formerly Abbott Laboratories), where she has more than 15 years of experience in developing neuroscience-related therapeutic targets.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-1930 or mtheodor@indiana.edu

Three Remarkable Women
WHEN: 5:15 p.m. Thursday, April 11
WHERE: Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 102, Indiana University 1201 E. Seventh St. Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Mary D. Sheriff
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-2597 or nritsma@indiana.edu

Human Rights and Authorship Norms: Comparative Traditions
WHEN: 5 p.m. Thursday, April 11
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom 100, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the co-director of DePaul University College of Law Center for Jewish Law and Judiac Studies
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: kgalster@iupui.edu

The Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11
WHERE: University Library Lilly Auditorium, 755 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Donald Ray Pollockauhor of the story collection Knockemstiff
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 317-274-8929 or tkirts@iupui.edu

Law & Society Center Workshop
WHEN: 4 p.m. Thursday, April 11
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law Room 335, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Kathie Hendley, University of Wisconsin
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-856-0434 or jkrishna@indiana.edu

Business and Human Rights: What’s the Board Got to Do With It?
WHEN: 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Friday, April 12
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom (Room 100), Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Professor Jena martin, West Virginia University college of Law
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: pcaparas@iu.edu

Memories & Reminiscences
WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 12
WHERE: Fine Arts 015, Indiana University, Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Judy Dater, recipient of numerous photography awards, has exhibited her work throughout the United States and internationally, and her photographs are widely published.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-7686 or catjohns@indiana.edu

Bizarre Foods Fair
WHEN: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 13
WHERE: Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington
WHAT: Presentations and demonstrations highlighting the students’ research will be complemented by a variety of food.
COST: Free and open to the public, but tickets are required and must be picked up at the museum by April 12.
INFORMATION: 812-855-1696 or mathers@indiana.edu

Fuchs Lecture Series Speaker: Former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard
WHEN: Noon Monday, April 15
WHERE: IU Maurer School of Law Room 335, Bloomington
WHAT: Former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard will deliver the Ralph F. Fuchs Lecture, “Does the Country Have Too Many Lawyers, or Not Enough?” Shepard was recently named chair of the American Bar Association’s new Task Force on the Future of Legal Education, so his remarks will be especially timely and useful.
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-2075 or ivanderc@indiana.edu
Engaging North Korea and Iran: A public forum exploring what a strategy of engagement looks like
WHEN: 5 to 6:45 p.m. Thursday, April 18
WHERE: Wynne Courtroom 100, Inlow Hall, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis
WHAT: The IU McKinney School of Law, IUPUI Office of International Affairs, Indiana University Pan-Asia Institute and Portland State University welcome a panel of experts from the US, Europe, Asia & Australia to explore what a strategy of engagement looks like.
COST: Free and open to the public; pending approval CLE: 1.75 hours
INFORMATION: pcaparas@iu.edu

Toxic Symbiosis: Achieving Structural Justice in the Healthcare System
WHEN: 4 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 18
WHERE: The Poynter Center, 618 E. Third St., Bloomington
WHAT: Keynote speaker: Milton Fisk, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
COST: Free and open to the public
INFORMATION: 812-855-0261 or eayoung@indiana.edu

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Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Forensic Science

April 2, 2013 / / No comments

“Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Forensic Science” will be presented by practicing forensic scientist David Zauner at the Indiana Medical History Museum on Saturday, April 20th, at 4PM.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immensely popular Victorian character, Sherlock Holmes, was the first fictional detective to explicitly base his solutions of cases on observation, science, and deductive reasoning. Many of the stories include accounts of Holmes’ detailed examinations of crime scenes and pieces of evidence.

David Zauner, a member of the Indianapolis Sherlock Holmes society, The Illustrious Clients, and a practicing forensic scientist, will explore how the Holmes stories reflect applications of scientific principles to criminal investigations in the late Victorian era and how forensic science has developed since that time to its present state.

 

Email HoosierVSA@gmail.com to RSVP or with any questions.

Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program

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Opening reception for the exhibition Why Guantánamo? and lecture “Speaking of Guantánamo”

March 29, 2013 / / No comments
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
IUPUI Campus Center: Cultural Arts Gallery and Room 450A
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. David and Indianapolis attorney Richard Kammen discuss their experiences defending post-9/11 Guantánamo detainees  and discuss the issues raised in these cases.
Opening Reception: 6:00-7:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Cultural Arts Gallery, 2ndfloor of the IUPUI Campus Center. View the exhibition and meet the IUPUI students who created it.
“Speaking of Guantanamo”: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2013, IUPUI Campus Center, Room 450A
Graduate students from the museum studies and public history programs at the  IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI were among the 100 students at 11 universities across the country that  developed the exhibition, Why Guantánamo?    The exhibition explores the century-long history of the US naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and is a project of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, which seeks to build public awareness of, and foster dialogue on the future of this place and the policies it shapes.
The lecture “Speaking of Guantánamo” will mark the exhibition’s opening and feature two Indiana jurists who have extensive experience defending detainees held in Guantánamo Bay. Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven H. David was the Chief Defense Counsel to the Office of Military Commissions from 2007-2010.  He oversaw the defense team for post-9/11 detainees in Guantánamo. Indianapolis attorney Richard Kammen is the civilian learned counsel responsible for defending Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Al-Nashiri. Al-Nashiri is accused of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. IU McKinney School of Law professor George Edwards will moderate the discussion.
     In 2012, 21 IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI graduate students in the Museum Studies and Public History programs created two panels for Why Guantánamo?  Students were responsible for researching, writing, and selecting the photographs for the panels.  Those in the “Introduction to Museum Studies” class produced the panel “Arts of Detention,” and students in the “Guantánamo Project” class produced the panel “Guantánamo Hits Home.” Students who helped develop these panels in the traveling exhibit will be on hand to talk to guests.
Paid parking is available in the Vermont Street parking garage, which is connected to the IUPUI Campus Center:http://parking.iupui.edu/visitors.do
The IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery is free and open to the public Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday 1-7 p.m.
Why Guantánamo? will be on exhibition from April 10 – May 12, 2013
Sponsors of the exhibit’s appearance at IUPUI include: the museum studies program, the public history program, the history department, and the international studies program, all units of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, and the Museum Studies Club.
The Guantánamo Public Memory Project seeks to build public awareness of the century-long history of the US naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and foster dialogue on the future of this place and the policies it shapes. Coordinated from Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Project has developed a traveling exhibit, online story collection, curricula,  public dialogues, and more through  collaboration and debates with diverse stakeholders. First launched in 2009 by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, the Project is now developed by a growing number of universities, organizations, and individuals according to common principles while engaged in ongoing debate on the possibilities and pitfalls of “remembering” Guantánamo. The project was supported by the participating universities and by the Open Society Foundations, Libra Foundation, and the New York Council on the Humanities.
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Dr. Samuel Kahn-Side Constraints and Hazy People: What Ethics is Really About

March 21, 2013 / / No comments
ethics

The Philosophy Club at IUPUI presents:
Side Constraints and Hazy People: What Ethics is Really About
Dr. Samuel Kahn
Department of Philosophy
IUPUI

This talk is aimed at a general audience. I begin by taking aim at ethical optimizers, people who believe that we ought always to choose the action that maximally produces some good such as happiness. I offer two arguments, one about suiting an action to an actor and one about positioning, to show that optimizing often produces sub-optimific results. I suggest that accepting these arguments leads one down the road of seeing ethics as providing general heuristics and side constraints rather than rigorist prescriptions. But general heuristics and side constraints about what? I use this question to transition into the second part of the talk, in which I discuss vagueness with regard to our most basic ethical concept, personhood, and how we ought to behave to the hazy and not-quite persons in our lives.
Friday 22 March
4:00 PM-5:45 PM
CE 307

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Art, Race, Space Symposium broadcasts available online

March 13, 2013 / / No comments
Fred Wilson

Archived Web broadcasts of the Art, Race, Space Symposium, sponsored Jan. 25 by the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and the Museum Studies Program in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, are available for viewing on the WCTY Government Access Channel 16 website. Eight recorded presentations from the symposium are listed in the Special Events section of the Channel 16 On-Demand Video Archive.

The symposium, supported by a grant from the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, emerged out of the necessity to revisit artist Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum,” a proposed sculpture for the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. The project was canceled in 2011 because of controversy surrounding Wilson’s appropriation of a freed slave figure from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.

Several artists and scholars from around the country joined leaders from Indianapolis’ arts and culture sector as symposium presenters, including Wilson, who discussed “Inspirations: Musing on What Monuments, Memorials, Public Art, and Public Space Inspire Me,” as the symposium’s opening session.

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We Are City [IMPORT]

March 8, 2013 / / No comments

We Are City Poster

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Oliver Blank visits IUPUI on April 17

March 6, 2013 / / No comments

Oliver Blank
April 17, 2013
12-1 pm
IUPUI Eskenazi 111a

Oliver Blank is a composer who currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. Blank builds what he terms “sound toys”, creates public installations, and symphonic cinematic music. He is a partner at the Civic Center in New Orleans, where individuals strive to reconfigure public spaces into creative outlets for the arts and to give ordinary places a new sense of creativity and wonder. Blank is a graduate of Goldsmiths College’s Master of Music Programme. His compositions have been featured at London’s Design Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, and Helsinki’s Taidehalli.  For more information, visit Oliver Blank’s website at http://mroliverblank.com.

co-sponsored by We Are City

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Nearest Guest Parking Garage Sport Complex Garage (XD)

 

 

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James Reeves, Author of The Road to Somewhere at IUPUI on March 21, 2013

March 6, 2013 / / No comments

James Reeves
March 21, 2013
7-8 pm
IUPUI Lecture Hall (LE) 105

 James Reeves is a writer, designer, educator, and self-proclaimed motorist. Reeves, who attended the University of Michigan in the film and design program and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, has held many different occupations in his search for happiness in life (23 part time jobs to be exact). After graduating, he taught classes at the Pratt Institute and the Parson’s School of Design, developed a K-12 design program in Brooklyn, and also taught elementary, middle, and high school. Reeve’s most recent publication, The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir, has been hailed by Andre Dubus III (author of House of Sand and Fog) as, “a tantalizing 21st century cross between James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and he regards Reeves as a “new and important American voice.” His book, which is based on his experiences as a traveler across America and his search for a meaningful adult life, reveals an America that hides under the surface. James Reeves is currently a partner at the Civic Center in New Orleans, which is also where he currently resides. The Civic Center is a creative studio that was designed to aid in the retransformation of public spaces into creative, interactive places. For more information on Reeves, visit his website at http://bigamericannight.com/.

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