Remak returns to IAS post; Fellows working throughout IU

By Jayne Spencer

Remak Henry Remak, professor emeritus of Germanic studies, comparative literature and West European studies at IUB, has accepted an interim assignment as director of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Remak, who served as institute director from 1988 to 1994, replaces James Patterson, who retired at the end of the last academic year. The appointment is expected to last until the spring semester, at which time the institute will have chosen a new director.

External academic fellows for the year and their IU faculty sponsors are:

To Ngoc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Institute for Culture and Arts Studies within the Ministry of Information and Culture, Hanoi. An ethno musicologist and folklorist, his research encompasses the study of Vietnamese traditional music, dance and other performing arts, and the traditions of Thai music and dance. He will be in Indiana Nov. 2-19. Sponsor: Frank Proschan, folklore and anthropology, IUB.
Ngo Duc Thinh, professor of ethnology and folklore and director of the Institute of Folk Culture within the Vietnam National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, is a researcher of minorities in Laos and along the Lao-Vietnamese border, specializing in linguistics, archeology and folk costume. He will be a fellow Nov. 2-19. Sponsor: Frank Proschan.
Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and a distinguished literary critic in the field of modern poetry, with particular emphasis on the works of Wallace Stevens, will be a fellow the first two weeks of January. Sponsor: David Hertz, comparative literature, IUB.
William A. Friedman, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin, is one of the world's leading theorists in the field of many body nuclear reaction dynamics and hot nuclear matter. Faculty sponsor: Victor Viola, chemistry, Cyclotron Facility, IUB.
Xu Hua, professor of public health at the Chinese Foundation for the Prevention and Control of STD/AIDS, is an internationally recognized authority on social behaviors related to HIV transmission. He is currently in residence at the IU Kokomo campus. Faculty sponsor: Allen Anderson, SPEA, IUK.
Colin Legum, a former editor of the London Observer and founder of the Africa Contemporary Record and Middle East Contemporary Survey, was on the campuses earlier this month. Faculty sponsor: David Albright, Center on Global Change, IUB.
Margaret Legum, economist, writer and consultant on race relations and gender planning in South Africa, was on the campuses this month. Sponsor: David Albright.
Katheraine Perera, a linguist and administrator at the University of Manchester, England, was a visitor to the campuses earlier this month. Faculty sponsor: Sharon J. Hamilton, associate dean for external affairs, IUPUI.
Ken'ichi Ikeda, professor of psychology at the University of Tokyo, is spending the current academic year as a visiting scholar, working with his colleague, Robert Huckfeldt, political science, IUB, on a project involving the comparison of citizen politics in Japan and the United States.
Walther Zimmerli, professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg, Germany, will serve as a visiting scholar Oct 1-Dec. 15, completing the English translation of his book, Technology as Culture.