ICS Fellow Lectures

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  Media Literacy, Democracy and the Schools

  Gregg Brownell

  Flyer for Fall 2003 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Gregg Brownell.

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  Globalization and Sexuality: Redrawing Racial and National Boundaries Through Discourses of Childbearing

  Eithne Luibheid

  Flyer for Spring 2003 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Eithne Luibheid.

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  "The Last Great Cause": The Spanish Civil War and Music of the Americas

  Carol Hess

  Flyer for Spring 2003 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Carol Hess.

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  The Countdown: Time Management and the Making of Modernity

  Hai Ren

  Flyer for Fall 2002 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Hai Ren.

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  Homophobia and the Mexican Working Class

  Robert Buffington

  Flyer for Spring 2002 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Robert Buffington.

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  Cultural Forces and the Construction of Widowhood

  Opportune Zongo

  Flyer for Fall 2002 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Opportune Zongo.

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  A Cultural Studies Reception Analysis of How Adolescent Girls and Boys Make Meaning of Idealized Images of Gender in Advertising

  Vickie Shields

  Flyer for Spring 2002 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Vickie Shields.

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  Building an Interpretive Repertoire in the Visual Arts: An Examination of Cultural Values in the Art of Richard Hamilton

  Rosalie Politsky

  Artists and educators struggle to deal effectively with modern and postmodern theory. Indeed, the proliferation of interpretive theory in past decades has made investigations into the visual arts problematic. Contemporary interpretive theories are not only dense and philosophically challenging, but their scope and complexity may overwhelm those who wish to apply these theories in practical, progressive ways.

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  A Father's Secrets

  Sharona Muir

  A Father's Secrets begins with Ben-Tov's discovery, after her father's death, that he built Israel's first rocket, and was part of a secret group of scientists who developed weaponry during Israel's war of independence in 1948. Traveling to Israel, Dr. Ben-Tov interviews the Science Corps, whose story has never been told for security reasons. She returns to the United States with an unexpected inheritance of both national and family histories. She delves into questions of identity, heritage, and memory, involving her own life as well as her father's career as a freelance medical inventor. Her odyssey leads her to a new understanding of the role of creative vision and of our relationship to the natural order.

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  The Cambridge Food Histories: The Long and Short of Them

  Ken Kiple

  Ten thousand years of food globalization connects the past to the present. Professor Ken Kiple's talk illustrates the origins of food globalization in the early Neolithic period, exploring how this globalization continues in history. He also explores the impact technological advances have had on human health while accelerating globalization.

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  Robert Marshall's Wilderness "Ideology"

  Philip Terrie

  Robert Marshall was one of the most important of early twentieth-century American conservationists. He was a founder of the wilderness Society, a committed progressive, and, as an employee of both the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior, a major designer of federal land policy. Using the case of Robert Marshall, Professor Terrie explores the connections between progressive politics and the emergence of a wilderness ideology in the American Environmental movement. The combination of Marshall's progressive politic and his commitment to wilderness provide a significant counter argument to recent theorizing among some environmental historians to the effect that the wilderness movement is elitist and anti-progressive.

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  The Z Files: Reflection on the Practical Implications of Views about Personal Identity

  Marvin Belzer

  Zoe Alexander, a 27-year old artist, believes she is the subject of a case study in chapter 7 of Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (Broadway, 1998), a book written by Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein. Zoe feels that her friend Epstein fumbled the analysis badly. Sure, like "Joe" (the case study), when "entering a new relationship [s]he already sees the seeds of his [her] discontent'' -- but more generally Epstein gets her totally wrong. Among the first of THE Z-FILES, then, is Zoe's e-mail to Epstein in which she sets him straight about herself. Along the way she takes the opportunity to criticize a number of his ideas about meditation, renunciation, solitude, identity, and relationships. Needing money, Zoe unfortunately was tempted to sell this very letter as fiction to a popular new magazine, Tricycle: Buddhist Review. Things might have worked out ok but for the appearance of Epstein's client, Joe Carson, who believes Zoe is trying to steal his thunder. --His thunder? Joe has been placing Personal ads citing Epstein's case study reference as his own. (Fox Mulder believes Joe Carson may be an extraterrestrial alien, which apparently is why the Z-files exist).

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  Trinidad Carnival: Performance and Hybridity as National Representation

  Ewart Skinner

  Dr. Ewart Skinner explores the international and national meanings of Trinidad Carnival, one of the major carnivals of the Western hemisphere. This celebration has evolved from a medieval pre-Lenten mockery of the sacred and the profane, to a derision of colonial elites, and now to a romping national festival with strong social and political overtones. As a national event with transformative power, Trinidad Carnival uses three kinds of performance: steel orchestras, calypso music, and performed costumery. Dr. Skinner discusses how each of these elements engages the national consciousness in a particular way and, through their interweaving during carnival, become a force in defining a national consensus on race, ethnicity, and politics.

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  The Great Families in Confucian Korea

  Fujiya Kawashima

  Professor Kawashi speaks on his current book-in-progress about the How .did the great families capitalize the new great families of Confucian Korea Confucian principle of merit to extend their influence? Where did the great families reside and how did they maintain their . How did they transform village power in Confucian Korea? communities into important , .

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  Imitative Techniques in Masses of the 15th Century

  Mary Natvig

  Flyer and paper of Mary Natvig discussion.

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  Gender Portrayals in Sport-Related Advertising: Print, Point-of-Purchase, and World Wide Web Versions of Women in Sport

  Jacquelyn Cuneen

  Dr. Cuneen informally discuss graduate school and research opportunities in sport management as well as current issues and trends in the profession of sport management.

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  Violence, Gender, and Drinking in the Early National United States

  Scott Martin

  This talk examines the role of domestic violence in shaping temperance reform and gender ideology. In July, 1815, Peter Lung, a Middletown, Connecticut laborer, argued fiercely with his wife, Lucy. Both were habitual drunkards and prone to violent confrontations, but on this occasion their quarrel ended tragically: Lucy died of numerous blows inflicted during the night. The publicity surrounding Peter's trial and his subsequent execution tells us much about changing public perceptions of drinking, violence, and gender in the early national United States. Published accounts minimized the importance of Mrs. Lung's intemperance to paint her as an innocent victim of her drunken husband's brutality. The Lung case pointed to a new, gendered understanding of drinking and domestic violence that emphasized male aggressiveness and female passivity.

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  Regenerating Cultural presence Tuning in Through Performance

  Robbie McCauley

  A lecture-workshop that explores performance as a process or tool that can penetrate silences, access language, and give us the courage to face new ideas

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  Re-Inventing American Childhood: How did the nineteenth century heart of the home become the twentieth century child of the state?

  Judith Sealander

  Professor Sealander outlines the major subject of 1 her current book-in-progress: state efforts to regulate children's work, education, health, and welfare. She demonstrates how a byzantine welter of laws and policies transformed the attitudes about children that Americans were supposed to support. Asking ''What have been the consequences of a twentieth century public reinvention of childhood," she suggests that by end of the twentieth century, coming of age had become a public ritual. It was and is one frequently in conflict with an earlier nineteenth century rhetoric that • glorified families, increased the responsibilities of mothers, and sentimentalized children as the heart of the home.

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  Post Regulation in the Late 90s: Environmental Strategies and Alternative Technologies

  Donald Scherer

  While industrialists are discovering the hidden costs of minimal compliance with environmental regulation, environmentalists assert that EPA regulations contain too many loopholes. Since government regulation pleases neither environmentalists nor the regulated industries, we have to think in new directions. Can financing alternative technology be superior to monitoring pollution? Can local communities play a role in creating cohesion out of decentralization? What are the best new strategies both on the level of local communities and alternative technologies?

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  From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism, 1967-1973

  Michael Staub

  Flyer for Fall 1998 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Michael Staub.

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  Feminism and Nationalism: The Philippines as a Case Study

  Delia Aguilar

  Flyer for Fall 1998 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Delia Aguilar.

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  The Making of Mestizaje: Ethnicity and Narrative in the Andean Region

  Federico Chalupa

  Mestizaje, the ideology of racial and/or cultural mixing, has played a profound role in the process of nation-making in the Andean region of South America since the mid-1800s. Professor Chalupa examines the intersections of ethnicity, social-self, and narrative in times of Republican fragmentation in the Andean countries of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Taking into consideration the conditions of production of the official ethnic order in the Andean region, Professor Chalupa exposes the ways in which the concept of mestizaje has been the site of multiple definitions and appropriations by the State, collectives, and individuals. For example, the Bolivian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian states have alternatively used the mestizaje for promoting racial miscegenation, for celebrating cultural hybridity as their national identity, and for proclaiming the existence of a colorblind social order.

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  Ensnared Destinies?: African Marketwomanry in the Slave Trade Era

  Lillian Ashcraft-Eason

  Did you ever wonder what African women were like before being transported into slavery and being culturally transformed? A virtually unexplored topic in American cultural studies is the transformation of African women into African Americans. A hearing from the women themselves would be an individual primary source for such discovery. "[However,] only a half dozen or so African women have bequeathed writings from the American colonial era that scholars can peruse. To locate images and perspectives if African women in traditional Africa and in the colonies, I explore sources from Africa, Europe and colonial America--ranging from mythic orature to secondary critical works. Using the long historical view, the interdisciplinary lenses of women's studies and policy studies, and cross-cultural analysis, ... [Lillian Ashcraft-Eason seeks] to give 17th- and 18th-century African women voice and agency" when she reconstructs their pre-Diaspora cosmologies and images as marketwomen in the slave trade era.

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  Impulsive Children on Psychostimulants: A National Scandal in the Making?

  Jaak Panksepp

  The use of psychostimulant drugs to control classroom behavior has risen dramatically in the past few decades, to the point where many believe it has become a national scandal. Such medical "solutions" for childhood problems, many of which may be socially created, may have widespread consequences for the future of our children. This talk explores whether the widespread medical treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders reflects an increase incidence of a neurological disorder in American children or an increased intolerance of childhood impulsivity. Professor Panksepp explores more natural ways to accommodate the ancient functions of the human brain - such as natural playful urges - with the educational expectations of society, suggesting proposals for alternative policies that might be pursued without resort to the use of mind-altering drugs.