Projects and Events
Projects
 | Common Reading and Viewing Experience (CRVE) The CRVE introduces students new to Emerson College to intellectual work in which close-reading, creative expression, critical thinking, and reasoned argument are central to the Emerson experience. Students will read books, view excerpts from selected films, attend a dramatic reading, and participate in a panel discussion of experts during Orientation. Other related events will take place throughout the academic year. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts; the Department of Performing Arts; the Department of Writing Literature and Publishing; the Office of Student life; the Department of Journalism; the Office of Academic Affairs; Orientation; and the Library) |
 | Learning Portals Emerson College has embarked on a multi-year project to design and build an interactive and customizable Web portal that will support college–wide initiatives in multimodal literacy and integrative learning. The project’s main goal will be to develop a set of standards for Web portal technologies that will integrate with the College’s existing systems for database and Web content management, and that will allow customization to the needs of specific program areas and/or specific workgroups. Over the next three years, the College will develop a “toolkit” of proprietary, non-proprietary, and locally developed Web applications to support teaching and learning and to extend and make more coherent the interactive resources available to faculty and students. (Made possible by a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation) |
 | Works in Progress Circle The Works in Progress Circle offers an informal space for faculty to discuss their research and creative projects with other faculty and students, and for students to better understand the scholarly and artistic pursuits of their professors. Those interested in attending are asked to download and read the assigned texts, and participate in the roundtable discussion. All Works in Progress Circle Events are open to students and faculty. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Moving Out/Moving In Moving Out/Moving In worked with fourteen children (aged 8-13) from Villa Victoria, a residential community in the South End of Boston serving families of largely Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage. The subject of the course was "ethnogenesis," the process of becoming American. The principal focus was on the questions provoked by "moving out" of one's own country and "moving in" to another, on the deeper question of the psychosocial journey of moving out and into one's self, one's culture, one's community. By looking at these transformational experiences, we developed an introspective gaze into our own lives, asking ourselves, "Y tú, ¿qué" |
 | Invisible Cities When taking Invisible Cities, students engage in a process of personal, cultural, political, and historical research gathering. Mapping, collaborative writing, photography, drawing, audio and video recording allow students to communicate their research and their experiences of a particular city site. |
 | Young Achievers The Charles Beard Communication Exploration introduces youth to arts and communication fields of study and occupations. This includes television production, print and broadcast journalism, stage and theater production, Internet and new media production, and video and film production among others. (Co-Sponsored with the Center for Diversity in the Communication Industries, in partnership with the YMCA Black Achievers Program) |
 | City in Transition City in Transition is a three-year initiative at Emerson College that promotes and supports events, activities, courses, and programs that address issues of urban life, urban culture, and the relationship of the College to its surrounding communities. This will be addressed from a variety of different standpoints, including questions of urbanization, immigration, the history and politics of urban communities, civic engagement and citizenship, representations of the city, emerging media and public information, documenting urban life, ethnic, racial and cultural difference, and the rise of the global city. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
Sponsored Events
 | Floating Points 4: Participatory Media (Event III) April 25, 2007 Wagner James Au (an embedded journalist in Second Life), Pathfinder Linden (Community Manager for Linden Lab), and John (Craig) Freeman, (Second Life artist) discussed "The Art of Living a Second Life." The panel was moderated by Eric Gordon. Called "the biggest digital art installation in the world" (Warren Ellis), Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). Spanning more than 42,000 acres in real-world scale — larger than metropolitan Boston — Second Life is second home to over 2 million "residents," many of whom collaboratively create its content. This third and final event of the annual series was part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs, the School of the Arts, VMA; Turbulence.org and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA)) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable with Cher Knight: The Alternative Museum/Alternative to Museums April 12, 2007 The museum has long called into question the tensions between public and private audiences. As an institution born out of the personal collections of royalty and wealthy aristocrats, it has morphed into a purposefully public space that nonetheless many potential visitors still find off-putting and intimidating. This consideration of museum alternatives is excerpted from a chapter that asks why the museum--and by extension the gallery--exists as the undisputed host for art, but remains fairly unexplored territory for public art. Is it merely a venue or an entrance fee that mark the distinctions between "art" and "public art"? If so, than how might the museum become part of public art's expanded terrain? If not, can we better articulate genuine differences between a public space and the private institution, or should we even try to renegotiate those boundaries? (Co-sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Alexander April 4, 2007 Elizabeth Alexander is Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University and has published four books of poems: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001) and, most recently, American Sublime (2005), which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her short stories and critical prose have been widely published in such periodicals and journals as Signs, The Paris Review, and The Washington Post. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago, the George Kent Award, given by Gwendolyn Brooks, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She is an inaugural recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr., Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.” (Co-sponsored by the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing; the Honors Program; the Office of Academic Affairs; and funds from the Cecil and Helen Rose Ethics in Communication Award) |
 | Floating Points 4: Participatory Media (Event II) March 28, 2007 Author and theorist, McKenzie Wark, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City, discusses “Gamer Theory,” an experiment in the collaborative writing of theory in “Gamer Theory from Screen to Page.” Author David Weinberger, a Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society fellow, examined how we are overturning the old assumptions about who is an authority, who is an expert, and who gets to decide what's worth knowing in “Everything is Miscellaneous.” (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs, the School of the Arts, VMA; Turbulence.org and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA)) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable with Elizabeth Whitney: Performance Studies and the Artist-Scholar March 22, 2007 Performance Studies, as an academic discipline, operates on the assumption that notions of “performance” and “scholarship” are inherently contested, and that these contestations offer fluid possibilities for understanding the place of the practitioner in the academy, the place of theory in aesthetic practice, and the place of aesthetic practice in theoretical inquiry. Among today’s hot academic buzzwords, the term artist-scholar stands out as a seemingly useful way to challenge institutionalized binaries of theory/practice. This autoethnographic project documents and discusses what insights the performance practitioner can offer the field of performance studies. Specifically, Elizabeth Whitney argued that the work of the touring artist is paradigmatic for the field of Performance Studies. (Co-sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Floating Points 4: Participatory Media (Event I) February 28, 2007 Educator and technocultural theorist Ulises Mejias, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, assessed whether sociable web media could live up to their promise of reinvigorating the public sphere in "Networked participation: Wisdom of crowds or stupidity of masses?" Media theorist, artist, and activist Trebor Scholz, founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), investigated the affordances of sociable web media by looking at examples of the different intensities and motivations for participation and their effects in "The Participatory Challenge." (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs, the School of the Arts, VMA; Turbulence.org and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA)) |
 | Spring Honors Lecture with Joy James: What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation February 27, 2007 Dr. Joy James is Chair of African-American Studies at Williams College where she teaches critical race and gender theory. Her publications include: Resisting State Violence: Gender, Race, and Radicalism in US Culture; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, and, most recently, Warfare: Prison & the American Homeland. (Co-Sponsored by the Honors Program) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with Roy Kamada: Where the Body Parts Come From: Dis(re)membering History in Dirty Pretty Things February, 21, 2007 In the film Dirty Pretty Things, the bodies of postcolonial subjects living in urban London are being literally harvested for body parts that are then sold to high market bidders. Roy Kamada's paper considers how Stephen Frears' film unpacks problematic essentialisms that have accrued around the figure of the urban postcolonial and critiques the inhered spectrality of these subjects. Kamada also offers a critique of Frears' film as ultimately failing in its attempt to critique the urban and metropolitan effects of globalization and neo-colonization by positing New York as a new "new" destination that lies beyond the failed metropolis of London. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | S. Bear Bergman: Solo Performance February 20, 2007 S. Bear Bergman performed “Monday Night in Westerbork.” The show focused on the theater group at Westerbork concentration camp, where many cabaret performers from Amsterdam were sent, told through Bear’s contemporary queer/transgender personal narratives. (Co-Sponsored with PRISM, EAGLE, the Center for Spiritual Life; with Hillel-New England and Keschet) |
 | Semel Gold: Explorations in Music December 13, 2006 “Semel Gold” was a coffeehouse presentation of new songs created and performed by the students of IN 303: Poetry and Song, co-taught by Basil Cleveland and Scott Wheeler |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with Nigel Gibson: Demanding Dignity: The Shackdwellers Challenge to Post-Apartheid South Africa December 7, 2006 This discussion of post-apartheid South Africa was led by the Director of the Honors Program, Nigel Gibson. The July 9, 2006 front page of South Africa’s Sunday Times reports that South Africa is ranked fourth among the countries with the fastest growing dollar millionaires. The Porsche importer told the Sunday Times that Black executive demand had led him to increase the supply of Porches from 250 to 400 and the Aston Martin dealership has sold 40 cars (with prices up to half a million U.S. dollars) since January.12 of the 40 buyers were Black. Presumably the other Astons were bought by the white rich who have profited enormously in post-apartheid South Africa. But the promises of the anti-apartheid struggle have not been realized by for a majority of black South Africans. Among the urban poor, new social movements, like the shackdwellers in Durban, speak of a second stage of struggle against apartheid, directly challenging the political priorities of the local authorities and the African National Congress government while also imagining alternative post-apartheid futures. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Maasai Cultural Performance November 15, 2006 Maasai culture came to life in the Semel Theater, when representatives from SIMOO (Simba Maasai Outreach Organization) brought their performance of song, dance, and storytelling to the Emerson community. The performers are briefly touring New England before returning to their native Kenya. Discussion following the performance illustrated some of the Maasai belief systems in the contexts of gender issues, conflict resolution, family, ties to the land, and rites of passage. SIMOO was brought to Boston by the Cambridge-based organization, Cultural Survival. (Co-sponsored with the Performing Arts department, Emerson Peace and Social Justice, the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, the Center for Diversity in the Communications Industries, and the Honors Program) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with John Bell: Playing with Stuff: Dynamics of Performance with Objects, Puppets, and Masks November 2, 2006 Assistant Professor John Bell led the discussion based on "Playing with Stuff", the introductory chapter to his forthcoming book, American Puppet Modernism (Palgrave/Macmillan). The book covers 150 years of puppet, mask, and performing object performance in the United States, from Euro-American encounters with indigenous performance practices of the Hopi and Pueblo peoples, to the innovations of the mid-twentieth-century, and the combination of primitive and technically advanced object performances which mark contemporary American culture. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with Flora Gonzalez and Sam Binkley: Cuba in the Millennium October 25, 2006 Professor Flora Gonzalez discussed her new book, Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts. Assistant Professor Sam Binkley discussed his recent photographic research in Havana. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Common Reading and Viewing Experience (CRVE): El Che: The Making of an Image Fall 2006 The purpose of the Common Reading and Viewing Experience is twofold. First, it introduces incoming students to the intellectual work of Emerson College, in which critical thinking, close-reading, and argument are central. Second, it identifies what makes that process particularly Emersonian: the pleasure of not only reading about or seeing great works, but also, making your own. This year’s reading is The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey, by Ernesto Che Guevara, and the viewing is KordaVisión, directed by Hector Cruz Sandoval. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs and the School of the Arts) |
 | The Day My God Died: Screening and Discussion April 25, 2006 This documentary, narrated by Tim Robbins and Winona Ryder, weaves together the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade. The film also introduces us to the heroes of the movement to abolish child sex slavery: non-profit organizations which rescue and care for former sex slaves. The discussion was led by a representative from The Emancipation Network (TEN), a non-profit organization created to help combat human trafficking and to raise awareness in the US. (Co-Sponsored with Honors Program, and Emerson Peace & Social Justice (EPSJ)) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with Tracey Stark: Dignity of the Particular: Adorno on Kant's Aesthetics April 13, 2006 Assistant Professor Tracey Stark led this discussion from her paper "Dignity of the Particular: Adorno on Kant's Aesthetics." She argues that Adorno's turn to Kant's Critique of Judgment is not a turn away from politics into the realm of idealized aesthetics, but instead represents a way to confront political problems in an emancipatory way, that is, to offer a model of politics which refuses to reduce the particular to the universal. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Works in Progress Roundtable Discussion with Emily Kearns: Travel, Self, and Other: Exploring Travel as Ritual, Ego Loss, and Reconstruction March 23, 2006 Dr. Emily Kearns suggests that as ritual, travel facilitates a constructive process paralleling childhood ego development. Travel provides the opportunity for individuals to experience loss of the familiar and reestablish a Self. This work is informed by Dr. Kearns’ ethnographic work and travel in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Tibet. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing (Part II) March 15, 2006 "Ubiquitous Computing" is the phenomenon of computing and wireless capabilities integrating into the fabric of everyday life such that the technologies become indistinguishable from everyday activities. This second of two “Floating Points 3” session focused on artist-thinkers, Adam Greenfield, Beatriz da Costa and Brooke Singer, and Michelle Teran, who question and confront the ongoing development of networked objects and work creatively to subvert them. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs, the School of the Arts, and the Department of Visual and Media Arts) |
 | Mardi Gras: Made in China: Screening and Discussion with filmmaker David Redmon March 15, 2006 This film follows the production and consumption of Mardi Gras beads from the factory in China to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, poignantly exposing the inequities of globalization. First-time director David Redmon cleverly illuminates the clash of cultures by juxtaposing American excess and consumer culture against the harsh life of the Chinese factory worker. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, and the Honors Program) |
 | Works In Progress Roundtable Discussion with Erika Williams, the politics of cultural segregation, Why the Music ‘Put [Him] All A-Tune’: Wagner's Lohengrin and the Politics of Cultural Segregation in Du Bois's ‘Of the Coming of John’ February 16, 2006 Scholar-in-Residence Erika Williams analyzed the significance of Du Bois's use of Wagner's opera Lohengrin as an inter-text for his short story "Of the Coming of John." In constructing a fuller account of aestheticism's role in the production of black subjectivity, discussion participants gained a fuller sense of the debate about the merits of black nationalism. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | August Sun (Ira Madiyama): Screening and Discussion February 13, 2006 The story of Prasanna Vithanage’s film, involving three narratives of the film unfold simultaneously, is a quest for life by ordinary people swept up in the torrents of war. Following the film documentary filmmaker Robert Crusz, and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Fyona Neloufer Sharain led a discussion on negotiating ethnicity, war, and reconciliation. (Co-Sponsored with Multicultural Student Affairs (AHANA) with PRISM, the School of the Arts, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, ASIA, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Floating Points 3: Ubiquitous Computing (Part I) February 8, 2006 "Ubiquitous Computing" is the phenomenon of computing and wireless capabilities integrating into the fabric of everyday life such that the technologies become indistinguishable from everyday activities. This first of two “Floating Points 3” session focused on artist-thinkers, Mark Goulthorpe, Susan Kozel, and Chris Salter, who work collaboratively with research teams to produce environments and systems that respond to human presence. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts, the School of the Arts, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Works In Progress Roundtable Discussion with Sam Binkley: Consuming Aquarius: Loosening Up in the Crisis Decade December 15, 2005 Assistant Professor Sam Binkley, led this Works in Progress discussion based on his new book Consuming Aquarius: Loosening Up in the Crisis Decade. Binkley study traces the influence of a post-60’s, post-radical, lifestyle oriented counterculture on the countercultural consumption patterns and lifestyle literature from the 1970’s, and the emergence of lifestyle identities among the American middle class. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Poetry and Song Coffeehouse December 13, 2005 The students of IN303: Poetry and Song performed their work in the Semel Theatre. Like the year before, this event was a wild success! |
 | Pepón Osorio and Villa Victoria: Connecting the Community to Contemporary Art & La Casa de la Cultura/Center for Latino Arts (CLA) December 13, 2005 This event included an Art Gallery Reception for Moving Out/Moving In, a collaborative art exhibit by Villa Victoria youth and Emerson students, and an interactive presentation with installation artist Pepón Osorio. Osorio’s work challenges the contemporary art world by bringing high conceptual art into communities where it is typically least accessible. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Performing Arts, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Barnaby Evans: The Art of WaterFire December 7, 2005 Barnaby Evans, the artist and creator of WaterFire Providence, presented a lecture and Q&A session on the Waterfire processions. Evans works in many media including site-specific sculpture installations, photography, film, garden design, architectural projects, writing and conceptual works. (Sponsored by the Newpathways Program) |
 | Doing Well by Doing Good: Arts in Social Change November 16, 2005 This free and casual luncheon was a great way to explore the idea of working for social change and make connections in the field. Featured artists, Jaclyn Friedman, Robbie McCauley and Adam Schatten, shared insight about working through different media within nonprofits in the field of social change. (Co-Sponsored with Alumni Relations, Career Services, and the Office of Service Learning) |
 | Alternative Freedom: Screening and Panel Discussion November 14, 2005 Understanding how freedom of speech corresponds with property rights is an essential skill for anyone making, producing, and even consuming media. This screening of Alternative Freedom, a documentary video by Twila Raftu and Shaun Cronin was followed by a discussion between the two filmmakers and copyright lawyer Laura Quilter. (Co-Sponsored with School of the Arts with the Digital Media Group, the Department of Visual and Media Arts, and Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Works In Progress Roundtable Discussion with Eric Gordon: Becoming Data: Mapping, Navigation and Loss in the Networked Culture November 7, 2005 Learning how to organize and access content within culture’s new technological scaffolding suggests a need on the part of consumers to accept and appropriate into daily practice the changing definition of content. Using Michel Gondry’s recent film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eric Gordon, Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, led this discussion on the networked experience in the digital age. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Fall Honors Lecture with Michael Klare: Iraq, Katrina, and the Global Struggle Over Oil October 26, 2005 Michael T. Klare is Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies in Amherst, Mass., and is currently teaching at Hampshire College. The defense columnist for The Nation, Professor Klare’s most recent books are Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum, and Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. (Sponsored by the Honors Program) |
 | Regie Cabico: Poetry Slam Workshop and Performance October 19 & 20, 2005 A. magazine counted him among the hottest up and coming Asian American stand-up comics. Regie has competed in four national poetry slams, has won MTV's Free Your Mind competition and membership in Team Mouth Almighty from NYC. Cabico was also featured on the PBS series "In the Life," and is a founding member of the Asian Arts Collective. (Co-Sponsored with PRISM, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Works In Progress Roundtable Discussion with Stuart Ewen: Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences October 17, 2005 The discussion, facilitated by the Works In Progress Circle, centered on Professor Ewen’s new book, Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences. Stuart Ewen is professor of media studies at Hunter College, CUNY and author of PR!, All Consuming Images and many other books and articles on media, public relations, consumer culture and advertising history. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Common Reading and Viewing Experience (CRVE): Enacting Freedom: Individual Choice and Collective Responsibility Fall 2005 The purpose of the Common Reading and Viewing Experience is twofold. First, it introduces incoming students to the intellectual work of Emerson College, in which critical thinking, close-reading, and argument are central. Second, it identifies what makes that process particularly Emersonian: the pleasure of not only reading about or seeing great works, but also, making your own. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs and the School of Communication) |
 | Floating Points 2: Networked Art in Public Spaces Spring 2005 In Networked Art in Public Spaces, artists discussed and showed how they employ wireless technologies to take their work off the desktop computer and into the streets. Topics included real-time, data-based storytelling; networked activism; location, space, and place; and games and play. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts, the School of the Arts, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Foucault Now: A Roundtable with Martin Perkins of the Foucault Society April 20, 2005 In an informal setting, Martin Parkins of the Foucault Society met with students, faculty and staff to discuss the contemporary relevance of the work of Michel Foucault, author of Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality. Discussion applied Foucault’s writings on panopticism, discourse, discipline and sexuality to a range of issues from sexual politics, globalization, media and communications to the ongoing discipline of student life at Emerson College. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, and the Department of Visual and Media Arts) |
 | Reflection on Practice: Exoticism, Desire and Fieldwork March 30, 2005 Cultural anthropologist Eileen Walsh shared the result of her work with the Mosuo, a Tibetan matrilineal community. The Mosuo have received much attention from both the government and the tourist industry because of government and popular media representations of their society as "matriarchal" and without marriage. Prof. Walsh explores the effects of representation and ethnic tourism on the gendered identities of the Mosuo, and on labor patterns in this area. (Sponsored by the Honors Program) |
 | Community Partnership Summit April 1, 2005 The Community Partnership Summit will be held April 1, 2005 at Emerson College to bring together higher education institutions and youth-serving community organizations in the greater Boston area for a day of discussion, networking, analysis and collaboration focusing on the benefits of partnerships between these institutions. The theme, Reimagining the Village, reflects our goal to bring higher education institutions and youth-serving community organizations together. |
 | Living Theatre: A Day in the Life of a City March 14-19, 2005 During the Living Theatres week-long residency at Emerson College, workshop participant collectively created a play based on issues of the Boston community. According to Living Theatre member (and Emerson alumnus) Jerry Goralnick, A Day in the Life of the City was a ritualistic coming together of the community to discuss the themes and issues immediately important in our lives. (Co-Sponsored with the School of the Arts, Department of Performing Arts, and PRISM) |
 | Who Owns Public Space? March 18, 2005 PRISM (Perspectives on Race, Identity, Sexuality, and Multiculturalism) held this annual conference to explore the policing, commercialization, and creative reclaiming of public space. Though governments and corporations attempt to define and limit access to urban public spaces, citizens of all kinds work to reclaim the public space as a social right. Professors, activists, and performers shared their expertise and experience. (Co-Sponsored with PRISM, Student Life, the School of the Arts, SGA and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | The Labyrinth Project December 7, 2004 The presentation, by project organizers Marsha Kinder and Scott Mahoy, described the body of work produced by the Labyrinth Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative which explores interactive narrative . They have produced a series of award-winning museum installations and DVD-ROMs that feature a discursive interplay between history and fiction, past and present, stories and archives, people and places. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts) |
 | About Baghdad September 30, 2004 Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to find ask Iraqis think and feel about the post-war situation and the complex relationship between the US and Iraq. Iraqis speak of past horrors and present fears. Reflections on the traumatic legacy of dictatorship, sanctions, and war reflect the resilience and humanity of a people who were for decades dehumanized and disappeared behind Saddam’s image. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts, the Department of Organizational and Political Communication, and PRISM) |
 | Manit@ Migrante April 30, 2004 A bilingual interactive multimedia performance featuring masks, music, video, food, and spectacle! An exploration of migrations and globalization! A challenge to ethnic racial class gender political oppression! All world citizens of all ages welcome! (Co-Sponsored with the Honors Program, and the Department of Performing Arts) |
 | Floating Points: net art now Spring 2004 Floating Points is a speaker series examining some of the current critical areas being explored by net-based artists: interactivity, visualization, Internet protocol, software art, generative art, mapping, and games. The series considers contemporary theoretical and conceptual issues in net art, challenging notions of the art object, the artist and the audience. (Co-Sponsored with the Department of Visual and Media Arts, and the Office of Academic Affairs) |
 | Noam Chomsky: Propaganda and War November 24, 2003 Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, scholar, and political analyst. Chomsky joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955, and in 1976 was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and other contemporary political issues. (Co-Sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs) |
