Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since we’ve ‘seen’ each other, but the blog is back! Now that the summer break is over and the semester is in full swing you’ll begin seeing more posts crop up. Have something you want to write about and share? Email your idea or post to me at…… Read more »
A&H Council Interns: What is one thing you are looking forward to this semester?
For many of the interns they’ve, like most of us, spent the last two years indoors and finding themselves innovating on how to continue on with their daily life as normally as possible. With a new year comes new goals, aspirations, and hopes. While we will likely have to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic for…… Read more »
Cabinet of Curiosities: An Interview with Su A Chae
As part of the Spring 2022 Korea Remixed festival, “Cabinet of Curiosities” is the current exhibition (January 4-28, 2022) in the Cook Center Gallery featuring paintings by Indiana University alumna and adjunct professor of painting, Su A Chae. Chae received an MFA in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington and an MA and a BA in…… Read more »
“HUSA” By Corey Jones
The History Undergraduate Student Association, or HUSA for short, is a place where students who are interested in history of any form can get together to share this interest. The club’s overall goal is to foster a greater sense of community between history students and faculty. Events at HUSA typically happen about twice a month…… Read more »
“Academic Robes” by Corey Jones
For this upcoming First Thursday, tomorrow Nov. 4th, I was assigned to do research on the history of academic robes in light of the inauguration of IU’s new President, Pamela Whitten. First things first, academic robes have their earliest roots in the church. In early Medieval Europe, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries when the…… Read more »
Bringing Back the Bison
With the recent news that Indiana University is reviving the old Bison mascot for the College of Arts and Sciences, I thought that it would be interesting to research the history of mascots at IU. For the longest time Indiana University has been known as the Hoosiers, but what has represented the Hoosiers has long…… Read more »
An Introduction to the Arts and Humanities Council Fall 2021 Team
With the new semester comes new members of the Arts and Humanities Council. Since you’ll be seeing all of us not only post on the blog but at events throughout the year we wanted to take a chance to introduce ourselves. Now, while we could have done the usual three interesting facts about ourselves like…… Read more »
Songs to Describe a Semester
Despite the once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that continues to shape our lives it seems that this semester marks a milestone for many of us as we trickle back into normalcy. In many facets of life, from beginnings to ends, we often turn a focus to arts for expression, and in that same vein, I decided to ask…… Read more »