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Synopsis
The Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences's Themester program is a focused and multi-faceted inquiry into a variety of topics that change each fall semester. It fosters the exchange of ideas and connects the issues our faculty teach in the classroom to our students lives through courses, lectures, exhibits, films, and more.
Episodes
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Shrouded In Memory
01/10/2019 Duration: 29minDr. Rich Shiffrin, head of Indiana University's Memory and Perception Laboratory speaks about his storied career and what questions remain about our own brains. Spoiler alert: there’s a lot of them. This is an episode from the Remembering and Forgetting Podcast series presented by Themester and the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Living with Ghosts
01/10/2019 Duration: 28minHistorian Dr. Mark Roseman discusses his extensive research on the Holocaust and other genocides. He explains that tragedies like this are more relevant today than many of us might like to admit. This is an episode from the Remembering and Forgetting Podcast series presented by Themester and the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Making a Nation
01/10/2019 Duration: 33minHistorian Dr. Alex Lichtenstein discusses what parts of history we remember, why, and the importance of asking about the past. This is an episode from the Remembering and Forgetting Podcast series presented by Themester and the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Memory in Motion
01/10/2019 Duration: 30minLiz Shea, director of the Contemporary Dance Program here at Indiana University, discusses somatic dance and how to use dance to train memory. This is an episode from the Remembering and Forgetting Podcast series presented by Themester and the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Good Mourning
01/10/2019 Duration: 32minDr. Robert Dobler talks about the myriad ways that we grieve. He describes how we can see shrines and altars all around us from vinyl records to Facebook posts. This is an episode from the Remembering and Forgetting Podcast series presented by Themester and the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Becoming Human
27/09/2018 Duration: 28minDr. Jeanne Sept takes us on a journey from animal to human. Dr. Sept, a professor in the Anthropology department, looks at our evolution from our earliest hominid ancestors to modern-day humans. By examining our past, she takes us on a journey that will help us understand who we are today and who we may become in the future.
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You Are What You Eat
27/09/2018 Duration: 22minDr. Michael Wasserman wants you to know that you are what you eat. As a researcher in the Anthropology Department, he studies how hominid’s diets influence their behavior and change throughout the millennia. He looks at the diets of gorillas and how human interference is gradually beginning to change their behavior. He also examines human diets throughout our development and how a growing population is impacting what we eat.
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Rats!
27/09/2018 Duration: 20minDr. Jonathan Crystal wants to know how rats think. Dr. Crystal is a professor in the Department of psychological and Brain Sciences, and he studies how rats think and learn and how they’re affected by degenerative neurological diseases. He hopes to use this information to better understand how those neurological issues, such as Alzheimer’s, affect humans.
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“Petted Things”
27/09/2018 Duration: 22minDr. Ivan Kreilkamp studies pets. As a professor in the English Department, he researches animal representation in Victorian-era literature, with a special focus on the domestication of dogs and other pets. He also studies the earliest days of the animal rights movement and how it influenced literature of the era (and vice versa).
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Sneaky Snakes
27/09/2018 Duration: 28minDr. Brandon Barker wants to know why we distrust snakes. As a folklorist and professor in the Folklore Department, Dr. Barker examines the myths we build around animals and why we attach humanistic characteristics to them. He also looks at how these myths have influenced our modern perceptions of animals.
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Losing Ground
27/09/2018 Duration: 24minDr. Stephanie Kane studies water. As a professor in the School of Global and International studies, she researches how humans interact with waterways and flooding and how they shape the development of our living spaces and economies. This semester, she’s teaching a class on the political ecology of the arctic circle. Dr. Kane looks at how animals and humans are adapting in a region that’s in a constant state of flux and environmental turmoil.
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Otherness Podcast
27/09/2017 Duration: 27minDiversity and difference are at the heart of many contemporary social challenges. Changing demographics provoke national debates about citizenship and basic human rights. Humans and associated global economic activity contribute to the spread of invasive species and declines in native biodiversity. Colleges and universities struggle to recruit and retain diverse faculty and students. Efforts to develop collective responses to these and other challenges are often stymied by increasing political polarization, decreasing empathy, and the entrenchment of difference. This podcast series is created from the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Difference Podcast
27/09/2017 Duration: 25minDiversity and difference are at the heart of many contemporary social challenges. Changing demographics provoke national debates about citizenship and basic human rights. Humans and associated global economic activity contribute to the spread of invasive species and declines in native biodiversity. Colleges and universities struggle to recruit and retain diverse faculty and students. Efforts to develop collective responses to these and other challenges are often stymied by increasing political polarization, decreasing empathy, and the entrenchment of difference. This podcast series is created from the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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Diversity Podcast
27/09/2017 Duration: 24minDiversity and difference are at the heart of many contemporary social challenges. Changing demographics provoke national debates about citizenship and basic human rights. Humans and associated global economic activity contribute to the spread of invasive species and declines in native biodiversity. Colleges and universities struggle to recruit and retain diverse faculty and students. Efforts to develop collective responses to these and other challenges are often stymied by increasing political polarization, decreasing empathy, and the entrenchment of difference. This podcast series is created from the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University.
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A Thing of Beauty – Spider Web
07/09/2016 Duration: 29minBiologist and photographer Roger Hangarter and artist and curator Betsy Stirratt are long-time collaborators who share an idea of beauty as an experience found in nature. Together they discuss a photograph of a spider web taken by Hangarter during an ordinary walk in the woods. They examine beauty as a phenomenon that inspires both scientists and artists, and find common ground in the pursuit of mystery and light.
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A Thing of Beauty – Corset
06/09/2016 Duration: 26minKate Rowold is a professor of fashion design and a leading expert in the social and aesthetic history of Western fashion. Her chosen object of beauty, a corset from IU’s Sage Collection, reveals the tension between ever-shifting perceptions of beauty and the natural body, and the role of fashion as an instrument of cultural conformity and gatekeeping.
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A Thing of Beauty – River Cane Basket
06/09/2016 Duration: 22minFolklorist and ethnographer Jason Jackson has a refined eye and a passion for discovering beauty in everyday objects. When asked to choose a “thing of beauty,” Jackson selected a woven basket made by Cherokee artist Rowena Bradley in the 1970s.The basket’s unique beauty, as Jackson sees it, derives not only from the artistry reflected in the object, but from a complex web of history and meaning surrounding it.
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A Thing of Beauty – Falsified Beauty
06/09/2016 Duration: 30minA recent encounter with a gorgeously illustrated compilation of Shakespeare forgeries, housed in IU’s Lilly Library, prompts MacKay’s strange tale of falsified beauty. In the years following the “discovery” (around 1795) of William Henry Ireland’s forged manuscripts, their presence played a surprising role in the construction of an idealized vision of Shakespeare that is still embraced today.
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A Thing of Beauty – The Milky Way
06/09/2016 Duration: 31minA professed historian of the Milky Way, astronomer Catherine Pilachowski exalts the beauty of the ancient spiral galaxy that we call – at least in a galactic sense – home. She describes the glorious physical beauty of the Milky Way, and the beauty inherent in the work of science that leads to new knowledge of its history and future.