Affiliated Units
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
2004-05 Programming |
| Cultural contact and cultural
conflict have long been crucial to our country's own identities, but since
9/11 relationships between the United States and culture complexes abroad,
as well as within its own borders, have dominated news headlines.
Cultures in Contact/Cultures in Conflict was a rich and diverse
programming series that celebrated cultural exchange and explored cultural
discord. Questions
raised and discussed through this program included: How do we write about
cultural connections and conflicts? What can we learn about connections and
conflicts with other cultures through art and performance? What does a study
of language reveal about intercultural relationships? What is the
relationship between culture and terrorism? And finally, What do rituals and
celebrations of cultures, specifically the celebration of carnival, tell us
about ourselves and others?
Cosponsors for this program included the ISU Colleges of Design, Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB), the Art and Design, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, and Philosophy and Religious Studies departments, the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, the Institute for World Affairs, the Latino/a Studies Program, the Linguistics Program, the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, the Quentin Johnson Lecture Fund, the University Museums, Humanities Iowa, the India Cultural Association of Central Iowa, the Iowa Arts Council, and the Octagon Center for the Arts. |
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Events:
September 2, 2004, 8pm, Memorial Union Sun Room
Lecture: Writing, Exile, and Cunning
André Aciman
September 10-12, 2004, 8pm, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames
Lecture: Symposium: Interpreting India--
Multiple Views, Multiple Voices
August 6-October 3, 2004, Octagon Center for the Arts
Exhibit: Aspects of India
September 23, 2004, 8pm, Memorial Union Sun Room
Lecture: Writing a Life
Esmeralda Santiago
October 11, 2004, 7pm, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State Center, Scheman Building
Lecture: Tú no sabe inglé: Languages on the (Latin) American Literary Map
Rosemary Feal
November 4, 2004, 7pm, Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
Lecture: Race, Gender, and Spirit: Reclaiming Lost Histories through Art
Alison Saar
December 2, 2004, 8pm, Memorial Union Sun Room
Quentin Johnson Lecture:
Alien Corn: Agriculture and Intercultural Communication
Ron Scollon
February 2, 2005, 8pm, Great Hall, Memorial Union
Lecture: The Kongo South: Roots of Black Dance, Gesture, and Music
Robert Farris Thompson
February 23, 2005, 8pm, Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union
Lecture: Islam and Democracy
John Esposito
March 25, 2005, 8am-5pm, The Gallery, Memorial Union
Symposium: The Cultures of Carnival
Barry Jean Ancelet, The Unbearable Lightness of Begging
James Gill, Mardi Gras and Politics in New Orleans
James Green, Gender Benders and Carnival Queens: The Homosexual Appropriation of Brazilian Carnival
Samuel Kinser, Atomizing the Festive Cycle: Can Carnival Survive?
Thomas Nussbaumer, Carnival Music and Customs in the Austrian and Italian Alps: Between Tradition and Innovation
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