Archive for August, 2007

August 30, 31, and September 2 — Dance and video inspired by Steve Reich’s “Different Trains”

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

One of the most beautiful works of minimalist composition is Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” connecting train travel in an earlier America with the trains that transported Jews and others across Europe during the Holocaust. Expect to be moved by Susurrus’s production at IndyFringe. (more…)

August 30, 31, and September 2 — Dance and video inspired by Steve Reich’s “Different Trains”

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

One of the most beautiful works of minimalist composition is Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” connecting train travel in an earlier America with the trains that transported Jews and others across Europe during the Holocaust. Expect to be moved by Susurrus’s production at IndyFringe. (more…)

September 1 and 2 — Moral implications of patriotism and pacifism in “War to End All Wars”

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Two flag-waving army psychiatrists face off against a young war-hero turned pacifist in a World War I hospital … see the IndyFringe performance of “War to End All Wars” (more…)

September 1 and 2 — Moral implications of patriotism and pacifism in “War to End All Wars”

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Two flag-waving army psychiatrists face off against a young war-hero turned pacifist in a World War I hospital … see the IndyFringe performance of “War to End All Wars” (more…)

Through September 2 — Flock to the Indy Fringe Festival!

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

No matter how tired and stodgy you may be feeling, there’s no better way to awaken your sleeping hipster than the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, which is engulfing the Massachusetts Ave Arts District through September 2. (more…)

September 14 — Michael Snodgrass examines the effects of immigration on the Mexican state of Jalisco (and perhaps on Indiana)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

No other Mexican state has had a longer and more intimate experience crossing North than Jalisco … with effects both positive and negative. In “Across the Border and Back Again: the History of Emigration and Return Migration in Jalisco, Mexico,” one of the finest young historians of Mexican labor in the US, Michael Snodgrass of IUPUI, discusses lessons we can draw today. (more…)

September 17 — Alvin Rosenfeld on “The New Jewish Anti-Zionism”

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Indiana University Jewish Studies Program founder Alvin Rosenfeld kicked off a stormy debate among Jews and Goyim with his essay “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” … and things got stormier when the New York Times wrote an article about Rosenfeld for which it later had to apologize. Hear for yourself what is at stake when the Jewish Community Relations Council host a talk by Rosenfeld. (more…)

September 18 — Does Christianity have a future in Europe?

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

“Does Christianity have a future in Europe?” Of course it does … but is that future bright, bleak, or something different? Dutch philosopher Evert van der Zweerde explores. (more…)

September 19 — The Media’s Role in the Combat Zone in Iraq

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Gordon Trowbridge explains which is worse for a reporter, being embedded in Iraq or in DC. (more…)

September 20 — Leonard Slatkin, much more than just a name on FM classical radio!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

No American conductor since has had a greater impact on music education than Leonard Slatkin … plus he is a Hoosier (he studied at Indiana University). (more…)