2012 Branigin Lecture Series

From Robert Capa to the iPhone: How the Photojournalism of War Has (and Has Not) Changed

David Campbell

Thursday, February 2, 2012; Woodburn Hall 009, Bloomington

David Campbell is an independent, internationally known scholar and multimedia producer; former Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK; and Associate Director of the Durham Center for Advanced Photographic Studies. He is currently a member of the Durham Center for Advanced Photographic Studies. He served also as Director for the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests encompass cultural geography, political theory, and visual culture, with particular focus on documentary and photojournalistic practices. He has authored several books and more than fifty book chapters and essays; in recent years, he has also produced exhibitions and multimedia projects. Campbell gave a Branigin Lecture, "From Robert Capa to the iPhone: How the Photojournalism of War Has (and Has Not) Changed." He was a guest speaker for the 2011-2012 Remak New Knowledge Seminar on In/Visibility of America’s Wars. In addition, he visited classes and meet informally with faculty and students. His visit was co-sponsored by the Center for Integrated Photographic Studies and by the interdisciplinary research forum on “Images and Public Culture: Understanding Images Across the Humanities.” He visited the Institute February 2–4, 2012.

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Home Education: A Mirror for Differences in Educational Politics

Christian Beck

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4:00 p.m, Georgian Room, IMU, Bloomington

What are common ideas and practices among homeschoolers? In what ways does homeschooling vary according to context? What does the phenomenon of homeschooling tell us about educational politics more broadly? Special attention will be paid to the European context and Nordic countries in particular.

Christian W. Beck is Professor of Educational Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a leading scholar in the area of sociology of education with a particular attention to “home education” (or homeschooling) in the European context, its meaning and purpose. In addition to his Branigin lecture, Beck will participated in the Institute-sponsored mini-workshop on “Homeschooling” organized by Professor Robert Kunzman in the School of Education.

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Detroit: Then and Now

Tiya Miles

Monday, October 15, 2012, State Room East IMU, Bloomington

Is Detroit a potentially fruitful test case of postindustrial urbanism or a frightening cautionary tale? Can community members and their academic partners find ways to build constructive change on the ground? This presentation explores the notion that the challenges Detroit faces in the present may hold similarities to the challenges the settlement confronted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when recently incorporated Detroit was a new kind of place within the American geopolitical landscape. Through a reconstruction of Detroit in its early decades, this presentation considers the question of whether understanding Detroit then can help to shape visionary thinking and action for Detroit now.

Tiya Miles is Professor in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Department of History, and Native American Studies Program at the University of Michigan. In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" Fellowship. Her research interests include African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories and literatures; African American women’s history; American culture; and the histories, feminist theories, and life experiences of women of color in the United States. She is the author of two award winning books: The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (2010) and Ties that Bind: the Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005). Her visit was co-sponsored by African American & African Diaspora Studies.

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