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02/12/2024

In a world where viewers immersed in self-selected media environments often struggle to agree on the most basic facts, Eric Deggans offers a presentation outlining how TV will evolve in the future and how it will affect society.

01/25/2024

Course Spotlight!

The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 1964

Feb 29, 2024 at 7:00–8:30 p.m. EST

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

It was sixty years ago today (not quite but nearly!). Hard to grasp for those of us who remember it—not exactly “Yesterday” but certainly “All Those Years Ago.” It’s almost impossible for young people today to imagine a time when an entire generation watched the same live television program together—being profoundly changed by the same thing at the same moment.

And what a moment it was! Booked as an “act for the youngsters,” the Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (watched by 73 million viewers) was a true cultural watershed. Kids across America sat awkwardly by their parents that Sunday night, watching their world change while the adults rolled their eyes and made derisive comments (“How long do you think they will last?”).

It was a new world, and we knew it—not in retrospect, but in the moment. The world shifted on its axis and our time had begun. The Sixties were kickstarted, and the Beatles remained a central—and essential—presence in our world as the Beatleboomers blossomed into the counterculture and the Woodstock Generation.

This presentation will celebrate that pivotal moment in time, and the sheer joy of seeing the young and impossibly perfect Beatles for the very first time in America.

Glenn Gass is Provost and Rudy Professor Emeritus in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He created a series of courses on the history of rock music that were the first to be offered through a music school, and which are now the longest-running courses of their kind in the world.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

01/04/2024

IUAA Virtual Book Club!

Prepare for a literary journey in 2024 with the IUAA Virtual Book Club, your gateway to engaging reads and insightful discussions among alumni. Our first reading engagement in the new year begins with Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez starting January 5th.

But that’s not all! Elevate your reading experience by engaging with the author herself during a Livestream Author Talk on February 29th at 6:00 pm ET.

Leap into this opportunity by signing up here: https://www.pbc.guru/iu and prepare to explore the profound narratives that Take My Hand holds.

12/12/2023

IUAA Virtual Book Club!

Prepare for a literary journey in 2024 with the IUAA Virtual Book Club, your gateway to engaging reads and insightful discussions among alumni. Our first reading engagement in the new year begins with Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez starting January 5th.

But that’s not all! Elevate your reading experience by engaging with the author herself during a Livestream Author Talk on February 29th at 6:00 pm ET.

Leap into this opportunity by signing up here: https://www.pbc.guru/iu and prepare to explore the profound narratives that Take My Hand holds.

11/27/2023

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Why the American Civil War Will Always Be With Us

Wednesday, October 6; 7 p.m.–8 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

The Civil War will never go away. Myths about the period still endure, but historical scholarship has moved the significance of the War to the center of both our past and present. This conflict reveals our differences about the nature of political power, our struggles with slavery and race, the challenges of leadership, and the contested meaning of American democracy. Some of us have conceived great heroes and disreputable villains from this turbulent era of history. Others have developed different heroes, different notions of history teaching, and alternative choices for appropriate war monuments. Jim Madison will focus on the years 1861–1865 to address these connections between past and present and ask an essential question: “What is America?”.

About the Speaker:

James H. Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he served for four decades.

Jim’s books include Eli Lilly: A Life; Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II; Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana; A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America; and The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland. He has spoken to dozens of public audiences across the state.

Jim is the recipient of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Lifetime Author Achievement Award and the Indiana Historical Society’s Legends Award.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

11/13/2023

Course Spotlight!

Why the American Civil War Will Always Be With Us

Wednesday, October 6; 7 p.m.–8 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

The Civil War will never go away. Myths about the period still endure, but historical scholarship has moved the significance of the War to the center of both our past and present. This conflict reveals our differences about the nature of political power, our struggles with slavery and race, the challenges of leadership, and the contested meaning of American democracy. Some of us have conceived great heroes and disreputable villains from this turbulent era of history. Others have developed different heroes, different notions of history teaching, and alternative choices for appropriate war monuments. Jim Madison will focus on the years 1861–1865 to address these connections between past and present and ask an essential question: “What is America?”.

About the Speaker:

James H. Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he served for four decades.

Jim’s books include Eli Lilly: A Life; Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II; Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana; A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America; and The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland. He has spoken to dozens of public audiences across the state.

Jim is the recipient of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Lifetime Author Achievement Award and the Indiana Historical Society’s Legends Award.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

11/03/2023

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Preserving & Digitizing Historical Media

Tuesday, November 6; 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

It is crucial to preserve the older media formats that record historic events and cultural memories. Only through preservation can we continue sharing these significant pieces of our past with those in the present and future. Protecting and maintaining these unique—and sometimes fragile—records is a challenge, as we fight against time in the form of physical deterioration and the loss of older forms of technology required to view these pieces.

At IULMIA, we preserve, digitize, and incorporate historic media into classes. This session will highlight both the discovery and preservation of histories thought lost, thanks to one student’s research and interest in our Moving Image Preservation class. These unique 2” quad videos hold a variety of 1960s and 1970s CBS affiliate shows, a rare Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recording from 1962, and other news and entertainment programs no longer held by CBS, the Library of Congress, or other archives.

We will explain the preservation and digitization efforts required to save and share obsolete media, talk about how including students amplifies the work done at IULMIA, and discuss the creation of online exhibits highlighting this special content and our preservation efforts.

About the Speakers:

Rachael Stoeltje is the founding director of the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) and is the president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

Ben Parnin is the archivist for Digital Preservation at Purdue University Archive and Special Collections and worked for IULMIA during the time he acquired his MLS from IU.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

10/26/2023

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A Chat With Indiana’s First Female Attorney General

Tuesday, November 2; 7 p.m.–8 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

Pamela L. Carter, JD’84, LLD’99, has been a social worker, a corporate executive, an attorney, an elected official, and a director of for-profit and nonprofit boards. Her career is varied but connected by a common thread—service to others and the pursuit of excellence. Inspired by a childhood meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she has sought, throughout her career, to advance people’s rights in ways that strengthened the community overall.

Join us on September 19 for a conversation with Pamela Carter, moderated by Karen Bravo, Dean of the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law. In addition to revisiting impactful and transformative moments of Pamela’s life, a discussion surrounding the various opportunities for lawyers and other professionals to navigate their professions in a fast-changing world will be explored. There will be time at the end for Q&A.

About the Speakers:

Pamela Carter is chair of the board of Enbridge Inc., the largest energy and renewable company in North America, and serves on several other corporate and not-for-profit boards. She is the retired president of Cummins Distribution Business, and the former state attorney general of the state of Indiana, the first Black and female elected to this position in Indiana and in the United States.

Karen Bravo, Dean of the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law. A well-known international law scholar and expert in the study of human trafficking, Dean Bravo’s research interests include labor liberalization, personhood, slavery, and human trafficking. She is the founder and leader of the Slavery Past, Present and Future project. The interdisciplinary initiative brings together scholars of slavery from a multiplicity of disciplines.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

10/20/2023

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The Courts, the Second Amendment, and Public Safety

Tuesday, October 24; 7 p.m.–8 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

In 2008, the US Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to have a handgun in their home for self-defense, unrelated to any service in a "well-regulated Militia." The Court then left open for over a decade what other aspects of gun possession and use were constitutionally protected. In 2022, the Court rejoined the Second Amendment debate, striking down a New York law limiting who may carry fi****ms in public, and declaring public carry for self-defense part of our "core" Second Amendment rights.

In doing so, the Court announced that modern gun control measures will only be constitutional if a similar restriction existed in 1791, when the founding generation ratified the Second Amendment, or possibly 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment (which applies the Second Amendment to the states) was adopted.

Lower courts have struggled to apply this approach to a wide range of gun restrictions that gun owners and organizations are aiming to eliminate—including a longstanding federal ban on gun possession by persons under domestic violence restraining orders. The Fifth Circuit, citing the Supreme Court's originalist approach to the Second Amendment, struck down that ban, a ruling that the Supreme Court will review next term.

Is the Court's "originalist" approach to the Second Amendment (and the rest of the Constitution) right or wrong? Why? How should judges, who are not trained historians, resolve competing claims about what early American history shows? And what will this exercise mean for public safety in America, a country that recorded 647 mass shootings in 2022 and has counted over 400 so far in 2023?

Join Beth Cate, clinical associate professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, at exploring the Second Amendment, originalism, and its implications for 21st-century Americans.

About the Speaker:

Beth Cate is clinical associate professor of law and public affairs at the O'Neill School. Her teaching, service, and scholarly interests focus on constitutional and administrative law, data law and policy, and the intersection of law and religion. Her publications include a co-authored chapter on the Supreme Court and information privacy in Bulk Collection: Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data, edited by Fred H. Cate and James X. Dempsey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). As of January 2022, Professor Cate has been on leave serving as corporation counsel for the city of Bloomington.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

10/16/2023

Course Spotlight!

Preserving & Digitizing Historical Media

Tuesday, November 6; 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. ET

To register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

It is crucial to preserve the older media formats that record historic events and cultural memories. Only through preservation can we continue sharing these significant pieces of our past with those in the present and future. Protecting and maintaining these unique—and sometimes fragile—records is a challenge, as we fight against time in the form of physical deterioration and the loss of older forms of technology required to view these pieces.

At IULMIA, we preserve, digitize, and incorporate historic media into classes. This session will highlight both the discovery and preservation of histories thought lost, thanks to one student’s research and interest in our Moving Image Preservation class. These unique 2” quad videos hold a variety of 1960s and 1970s CBS affiliate shows, a rare Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recording from 1962, and other news and entertainment programs no longer held by CBS, the Library of Congress, or other archives.

We will explain the preservation and digitization efforts required to save and share obsolete media, talk about how including students amplifies the work done at IULMIA, and discuss the creation of online exhibits highlighting this special content and our preservation efforts.

About the Speakers:

Rachael Stoeltje is the founding director of the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) and is the president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA).

Ben Parnin is the archivist for Digital Preservation at Purdue University Archive and Special Collections and worked for IULMIA during the time he acquired his MLS from IU.

For more information and to register visit: https://alumni.iu.edu/events/lifelong-learning

10/10/2023

Calling all bookworms - Check out the IUAA Virtual Book Club!

Love to read? The IUAA Virtual Book Club is a great way to engage with fellow members from the comfort of your own home. Participation is free—all you have to do is purchase the book or borrow it from your local library.

Our next book, This Tender Land starts on 10-13-23.

To learn more and register visit: https://www.pbc.guru/iu

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