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Faculty Excellence is a series which focuses on faculty members who excel in their field of study. Jean Harper wrote and directed the documentary 1:47 which premiered in Vivian Auditorium on April 4, 2008 She decided to make this documentary to show the younger Richmond residents the history of the downtown area along with some reasons for Richmond's current state.

 

Whether you’re interested in art, communication, English, history, criminal justice, political science, psychology, or sociology, you can prepare for a successful career at IU East. In the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, you will explore human experiences and behavior and learn to express those experiences through writing, speaking, and participating in the arts. You’ll study with caring faculty members who are experts in the field. When you graduate, you’ll have an IU degree, a broad liberal arts education, and the skills for a rewarding career. Education for a career; arts for a lifetime.

Our Mission Statement

“The mission of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is to explore the many dimensions of the human condition through teaching, scholarly and creative activities, and service. As a School of Indiana University East, Humanities and Social Sciences embodies and promotes all aspects of the campus mission. We especially endorse the campus commitment to diversity.”

 

Upcoming Events

"Hear and Now" Music Lecture and Concert Series

 

March 8th (4-5:15pm Springwood Hall Room217): Marc Jensen - Lecture, "Deep Listening: An Introduction. This workshop is an introduction to the Deep Listening sound meditation practices of composer Pauline Oliveros. As a fundamental skill for either musician or music enthusiast, Deep Listening teaches how to actively listen, through listening/sounding exercises, lightly guided sitting meditations, journaling, and gentle movement exercises. This practice helps cultivate disciplined attention to sound and a deeper kind of engagement with the experience of music. No prior musical training is necessary.

March 10th (2-3:15pm Springwood Hall Room 215/217): Zachary Crockett, Lecture "Music and Ritual" In this lecture, composer Zachary Crockett will discuss his aesthetic approach to music-making and describe Ritual #2 as one example.  Ritual and dance serve as means to directly access the primal, allowing people to greatly expand the depth of their meaning sets in an often shallow world.  Music can powerfully facilitate a ceremonialized experience of life.

March 10th (6-7:15pm Springwood Hall Room 217): James Holdman, Lecture "Arabic Improvisation" Western art music and Arabic art music share a common connection with ancient Greek music theory. While the West developed a rich harmonic language from these beginnings, musicians, composers, and theorists in the Arab world further developed its linear ideas, leading to advanced compositional and improvisational approaches based on the Greek idea of tetrachords. This led to the Arabic maqam concept as well as the use of non-tempered intervals common to the sound world of Arabic music. This talk will explore contemporary Arabic art music, the use of maqams ('modes'), and the characteristic microtonality found in this music.

March 11th (5-6:15pm Community Room): Marc Jensen, Art Opening: “Aeolian Wind Harps”

March 11th (7:30-10pm Vivian Auditorium): Marc Jensen Concert- Join us for a concert featuring the music of Marc Jensen. Jensen's music represents a West-coast flavored tapestry of free expressionist music in the post-John Cage tradition. Our own IU East music students will perform along with Dr. Jensen on four works composed in the last eight years: Interpenetration and Non-Obstruction, Anarchic Harmony, Bacteriophage Phi-X174, and Limitless Air.

March 12th (7:30-10pm Reid Presbyterian Church): earWorm is an improvisationally driven electroacoustic quartet of composer-performers featuring our own IU East Assistant Professor of Music, Elliott Miles McKinley. All of earWorm's music is performed live and presents an immediate and immersive experience of collective improvisation. The combined style is as varied as the ensemble’s collective musical experience, dancing within a panoply of free-form jazz, blues, minimalism, electronica, trance, hip-hop, ambient, funk, rock, latin, classical, world, folk, and nearly everywhere in-between.

Crossroads: A Reading Series

March 10 (7:00 Community Room)

Come out and hear creative writers from the Indiana University East campus and the Earlham College campus read their original works. This biannual event (now in its second year!) alternates between the Earlham Campus and the IUE campus, featuring faculty and students reading their original creative writing.

This spring's lineup of writers from IUE is: Mary Fell, Professor of English; current IUE students Lacey Rose Mosey, Cecile Dixon; and IUE alumna J. Melissa Blankenship. Contact Jean Harper for more details at jeharper@iue.edu

American Premiere of Elliot Miles McKinley's "April: Meditations for Orchestra"

March 13 (7:30 Civic Hall Performing Arts Center): The Richmond Symphony Orchestra is pleased to welcome once again to our “backyard” guest artist, Spencer Myer. Myer is sure to thrill the audience with Saint-Saëns Piano Concert No. 5. A Mozart overture and Brahms Symphony No. 3 set the mood for the American premiere performance of “April: Meditations for Orchestra” composed by Indiana University East faculty member, Elliott Miles McKinley. Truly an evening of musically-inspired emotions.

Annual Student Showcase

March 31 – April 29 (Meijer Artway): Cash awards totaling $500 will be given at the opening reception at 7:00pm on Wednesday, March 31. Students having taken courses in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Metalsmithing, Photography, 2-d or 3-d Design, Computer Graphics, Art & Design, or any studio or lecture art course in Fall ’09 or currently enrolled may enter. Contact your art professor for an entry form and details. Deadline for entry is Friday, March 20.

Journey to Vietnam and China

April 6 (4:00 pm Community Room): A year ago today, Dr. Joanne Passet was in the middle of her Fulbright semester at Nha Trang University in Vietnam. Join her for a slide-presentation and stories about her experiences in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.

Visiting Author: Scott Sanders

April 8th (6:30pm Vivian Auditorium): Award Winning Author Scott Sanders public reading. Scott Sanders spent his career at Indiana University, becoming a Distinguished Professor of English and earning the university’s highest teaching award. Among his twenty books are novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put (1993), Writing from the Center (1995), and Hunting for Hope (1998). His memoir, A Private History of Awe (2006), was nominated by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is A Conservationist Manifesto (2009), which envisions a shift from a culture based on consumption to one based on caretaking. Sanders has won the AWP Creative Nonfiction Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Lannan Literary Award, the Indiana Humanities Award, and the Mark Twain Award. In his writing he is concerned with our place in nature, the practice of community, the relationship between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, have reared two children in their hometown of Bloomington in the hardwood hill country of Indiana’s White River Valley. He will be on campus April 8th to conduct a writing workshop and give a reading. Contact TJ Rivard for more details at trivard@iue.edu.