Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. Wounded Galaxies 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Symposium and Series of events Feb 5, 2018-Feb 11, 2018 Bloomington, Indiana The Sixties were a turbulent period, characterized by major revolutions in scholarship, politics, culture and the… Read more »
Guest post by Michelle Spencer. With the release of The Beguiled this summer marking Sofia Coppola’s sixth feature film, it seemed an opportune time to revisit her directorial debut. Recently, she won Best Director at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, making her the second female director to win in the festival’s seventy year history. Before… Read more »
Sarah Lasley’s “The Imagemaker” premieres tonight at the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive Screening Room as part of The Body & Transcendence: a night of films by women directors. Julie Rooney, whose work will also screen this evening, conversed with Lasley about her new film and the themes that resonate through the films in the program…. Read more »
Guest post by Jessica Davis Tagg, IU Cinema Events and Operations Manager. One of the most incredible parts of my job is that I have the opportunity to work with the IU Cinema Volunteer Ambassadors day-in and day-out. We count on members of the IU Cinema Usher Corps for so many things that may not… Read more »
Jane and Jay Jorgensen: “From the moment we agreed to endow the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, we have never looked back. We are so proud of all the accomplishments the staff has achieved and so thrilled the student response has been so rewarding. We feel this project has been a win/win for EVERYONE!” On IU… Read more »
Guest post by Steve Hussung. The history of math, as often told, is very white. And this is not a true telling: there are stories of different kinds of people woven throughout the history of mathematics. For one (of many), algebra was invented in Asia, not in Europe. Today the field is becoming more and more… Read more »