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This Month's Upcoming Events

Here's a look at this month's events from NELC and our associates. We hope you'll take advantage of the great opportunities offered at IU!

October

Branigin Lecture
Fekade Azeze, Folklorist
From Blood Feuds to Peace: Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Ethiopia
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011
3:00-4:30 pm
Performance and Lecture Hall
800 N. Indiana Ave.
For more information, click here.

"Faces of Fieldwork" Exhibit Opening Reception
Tuesday, 11 October, 2011
5:00-6:00 pm, Mathers Museum of World Cultures

For more information, click here.
 
American Folklore Society 2011 Annual Meeting
Plenary Lecture

"War, Peace, and the Folklorist's Mission
Henry Glassie, Emeritus (NELC), Indiana University
Wednesday, 12 October, 2011
8:00-9:00 pm
Alumni Hall, IMU

For information on the conference and its theme, please go here.

 

Folklore in Jerusalem Between War and (no) Peace: The Jerusalem Project 1991-2011
Wednesday, 12 October, 2011
Mathers Museum of World Cultures

Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. scholars will address the terms of engagement that emerge and diverge in the occupied/disputed/contested city of Jerusalem.

For more information, please go here.

 

Musical Instruments of the Silk Road
October 15-December 18

IU Art Museum
Special Exhibitions Gallery, the Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery

Beautiful to see as well as to hear, these meticulously crafted instruments represent the musical heritage of the cultures along the Silk Road---a historic trade route that spanned a vast area from China across Asia and all the way to North Africa, connecting people of diverse lands.

Concert and Conversation
Sunday, October 16, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor
Shahyar Daneshgar of the Silk Road Institute
reception following 4:00-5:00 p.m.

 

Middle East/Central Asia Career Night

Tuesday, October 18
6:30 – 8:30 PM

Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union

Learn from IU students, faculty, alumni, and career professionals who specialize in Middle Eastern/Central Asian studies, languages, and cultures.

Panelists will:
· Share their experiences from abroad
· Provide advice regarding your time at Indiana University
· Offer strategies for those seeking international work and discuss job openings


Attendants should RSVP through myIUcareers account accessible through IUCareers.com


Film Screening: The Infidel
October 25th, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
IMU Persimmon Room

2010 British ethnic comedy that seeks to examine both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism through the harrowing identity crises of Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili). The film was written by Jewish-born comedian David Baddiel. “The comedy is about relationships between communities, stereotypes, ideas that Muslims have about Jews and Jews have about Muslims,” said Baddiel. “Essentially it’s culture clash comedy. In my film there are virtually no jokes about, as it were, religion itself. I treat religion fairly reverentially because it suited the narrative to do so.”
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