Capturing Emotion in Graphic Memoir A Talk by Tom Hart Thursday, March 21 from 7-8:30pm EA 1011, IU South Bend

Graphic Storytelling: IU South Bend Students and Professors Share their Comics Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:00-5:15 Fireside rooms (adjacent to the Grille) This panel will feature students Frankie Spring (ENGLISH MAJOR), Amy Gardine (ENGLISH M.A. STUDENT), Miguel Canda (FINE ARTS MAJOR) as well as faculty members John Thompson and Jeff Horwat. The panelists will share… Read more »

Comics and Storytelling: IU South Bend Students and Professors Share their Comics Thursday, Feb. 28                 4-5:15pm              Fireside Room, Admin Building, IU South Bend Everybody says “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Do artists/authors agree?   Not Yet Dead Talks (TEDx Indiana University South Bend) Friday, Mar. 8                       7-8:30pm              Education & Arts 1011, IU… Read more »

In partnership with the Mishawaka Penn Harris Public Library and REAL Services, Inc., IU South Bend announces the next NEA Big Read title: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, written by Roz Chast, a longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, is a “tour de force” (Elle), “remarkable” (San Francisco Chronicle), “revelatory” (Kirkus), “deeply poignant and… Read more »

The 1960s will be explored by Tom Murphy, Ph.D., History Professor, IU South Bend, in his presentation “John Wayne’s America & Its Discontents.” As with many other decades, cultural changes skyrocketed during the ‘60s. The legacy of World War II, the presence of the Cold War, and the Civil Rights and other social justice movements… Read more »

Did you know that the Studebaker Museum has a vehicle in their collection that was used in the Vietnam War and then brought back to the states? Come learn more about the local automobile industry’s involvement in foreign wars (and get a good taste of the local brewing industry’s product) at this month’s History on… Read more »

Part of the Big Read St. Joe project is to share the history, the art, and the memories of soldiers with the community. We have put together an exhibit at the Schurz Library on the campus of IU South Bend, But a community is more than a physical space, and this exhibit is now visible… Read more »

The IU South Bend student paper, The Preface, has a nice review of the exhibit currently on display at the Schurz Library lobby. Read it here.  The exhibit is also mentioned in the South Bend Tribune. See it soon for yourself.  

[excerpted from Inside IU] Indiana University professor emeritus Ron Osgood was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968, but his time in the Navy didn’t fully shape his understanding of the war. That came some four decades later, when Osgood began production on his 2010 PBS documentary “My Vietnam, Your Iraq.” This year, he released his… Read more »

In this excerpt from a conversation, Gina M. Pérez, author of Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream, and Zoë H. Wool, author of After War: Weight of Life at Walter Reed, discuss the moral, political, and personal stakes of US militarism. And this is one of the most challenging things about doing this… Read more »