Guest post by Isabel Nieves. Themester intern Isabel Nieves had a conversation with Samuel D. Kassow, a professor in the Department of History at Trinity College. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, Who Will Write Our History. The film recounts the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and his mission to create an archive that documented the… Read more »
Guest post by Noelle Ibrahim. Themester intern Noelle Ibrahim had a conversation with Jonathan Risner, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at IU. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, Au hasard Balthazar. (This interview was edited and condensed.) What do you find compelling about this film? If I’m going to relate it to… Read more »
Guest post by Noelle Ibrahim. Themester intern Noelle Ibrahim had a conversation with Stephanie Kane, an International Studies professor at IU. They discussed the central tensions captured in the upcoming Themester film, Angry Inuk. Dr. Kane’s new course, INTL-I 302 Arctic Encounters: Animals, People and Ships, explores the ever-evolving Arctic sphere and competing interests within the… Read more »
Guest post by Michael Crandol. It only took a ten-second YouTube clip from The Fantasy of Deer Warrior to convince me that I had to track down this movie at any cost. It was a scene familiar from countless grindhouse martial arts flicks. The fierce young male hero, clutching the dying body of his elderly… Read more »
Guest post by David Stringer. We live in a world filled with cultural and biological diversity, which is nowhere more vividly on display than in so-called language hotspots – parts of the planet with extremely rich variation in languages, which are also almost invariably places with extremely high biodiversity. Take, for example, the island of… Read more »
Guest post by Alex Armijos and Hannah Boomershine. Themester interns Alex Armijos and Hannah Boomershine had a conversation with Alex Lichtenstein, a professor of history at IU. They discussed the social context of the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, which inspired the 2016 Oscar-nominated film, Loving. Lichtenstein’s work examines the intersection of labor history and… Read more »