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Call for Graduate Fellows: 'Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life'
Posted on: 04/23/2006
ENGAGING THROUGH PLACE
IMAGINING AMERICA: ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC LIFE
SIXTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 6–8, 2006
COLUMBUS, OHIO
CO-SPONSORED AND HOSTED BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
***CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS***
What is "Publicly Active Graduate Education"? How does our research support our public activity, and vice versa? When theory and practice unite in community-based projects led by graduate students, what are the implications—for graduate students, for the communities involved, and for graduate education? Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites graduate students in the arts, humanities, and design with a demonstrated interest in public scholarship to apply to be P.A.G.E. (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellows at Imagining America’s 2006 national
conference. In addition to participating in regular conference activities, Fellows will attend a pre-conference “PAGE Institute” devoted to building the theoretical and practical language with which to articulate their own public scholarship; will join in a conversation aimed at defining and envisioning pathways to publicly active graduate education; will have an opportunity for individual mentorship with leaders in the field of public cultural practice;
and will be invited to participate in the conference’s poster session.
Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs in the arts, humanities, and design are eligible to be PAGE Fellows. Fellows will receive $300 towards the expenses of attending the conference, and will have their conference registration fee waived. To apply, send a letter of interest and a CV by July 1, 2006 to: Sylvia Gale, PAGE Program Director, sylviag@mail.utexas.edu. Application materials may be sent electronically, or can be mailed to: Sylvia Gale, Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, PO Box 7219, Austin, Texas 78713-7219.
CONFERENCE THEME: ENGAGING THROUGH PLACE
Where is a discipline? How is publicly active education re-mapping knowledge? Who are the new civic professionals and citizen scholars? What does it mean to create a ‘city of learning’? To imagine new democratic spaces? How are communities responding to a world in which places are both local and global? How do we “put the university in its place” through the humanities, arts and design?
Place has many dimensions for individuals and institutions committed to public scholarship and art, active citizenship, and engaged learning. Place is an important dimension of public engagement in higher education. Universities are places that are shaped by engagement with and access to particular publics—publics that are rooted in the histories of specific localities.
Scholars and artists undertake projects that are “about place.” They also work “in place.” Since every project has a unique geography, they work often in a “shuttle zone” defined by spatial mobility among multiple communities or sites. For individuals, moving between places means moving between roles and rhetorics. For universities, engagement means developing new bridging structures: centers
and programs, innovations within departments and disciplines, student-led initiatives. Community institutions are also grappling with place. Like universities, they are developing structures and practices to support civic collaborations. Schools and museums, public libraries and community theaters, government agencies and nonprofits, activist networks and faith-based organizations, national associations and foundations—all are acutely aware of being “stewards of place” and of negotiating multiple sites of engagement.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
In addition to PAGE-sponsored activities, Imagining America’s national conference will feature keynotes by leading public scholars and public artists, sessions presenting the work of whole project teams, and workshops on policy efforts, including the Imagining America Tenure Team initiative, designed to develop tenure policies that support the new public scholarship.
ABOUT IMAGINING AMERICA
Based at the University of Michigan, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) is a consortium of 80 colleges and universities founded in 1999. IA’s mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design by working for structural change in higher education. IA supports publicly-engaged academic work in the cultural disciplines through conferences, research and policy initiatives, web resources, models for programs and collaboration, and publications.
For more information, go to www.ia.umich.edu.
--
Rick Livingston
Associate Director
Institute for Collaborative Research
and Public Humanities
Ohio State University
Tel: 614-247-6763 (ICRPH)
Fax: 614-292-6707
Livingston.28@osu.edu
IMAGINING AMERICA: ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN PUBLIC LIFE
SIXTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 6–8, 2006
COLUMBUS, OHIO
CO-SPONSORED AND HOSTED BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
***CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS***
What is "Publicly Active Graduate Education"? How does our research support our public activity, and vice versa? When theory and practice unite in community-based projects led by graduate students, what are the implications—for graduate students, for the communities involved, and for graduate education? Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites graduate students in the arts, humanities, and design with a demonstrated interest in public scholarship to apply to be P.A.G.E. (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellows at Imagining America’s 2006 national
conference. In addition to participating in regular conference activities, Fellows will attend a pre-conference “PAGE Institute” devoted to building the theoretical and practical language with which to articulate their own public scholarship; will join in a conversation aimed at defining and envisioning pathways to publicly active graduate education; will have an opportunity for individual mentorship with leaders in the field of public cultural practice;
and will be invited to participate in the conference’s poster session.
Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs in the arts, humanities, and design are eligible to be PAGE Fellows. Fellows will receive $300 towards the expenses of attending the conference, and will have their conference registration fee waived. To apply, send a letter of interest and a CV by July 1, 2006 to: Sylvia Gale, PAGE Program Director, sylviag@mail.utexas.edu. Application materials may be sent electronically, or can be mailed to: Sylvia Gale, Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, PO Box 7219, Austin, Texas 78713-7219.
CONFERENCE THEME: ENGAGING THROUGH PLACE
Where is a discipline? How is publicly active education re-mapping knowledge? Who are the new civic professionals and citizen scholars? What does it mean to create a ‘city of learning’? To imagine new democratic spaces? How are communities responding to a world in which places are both local and global? How do we “put the university in its place” through the humanities, arts and design?
Place has many dimensions for individuals and institutions committed to public scholarship and art, active citizenship, and engaged learning. Place is an important dimension of public engagement in higher education. Universities are places that are shaped by engagement with and access to particular publics—publics that are rooted in the histories of specific localities.
Scholars and artists undertake projects that are “about place.” They also work “in place.” Since every project has a unique geography, they work often in a “shuttle zone” defined by spatial mobility among multiple communities or sites. For individuals, moving between places means moving between roles and rhetorics. For universities, engagement means developing new bridging structures: centers
and programs, innovations within departments and disciplines, student-led initiatives. Community institutions are also grappling with place. Like universities, they are developing structures and practices to support civic collaborations. Schools and museums, public libraries and community theaters, government agencies and nonprofits, activist networks and faith-based organizations, national associations and foundations—all are acutely aware of being “stewards of place” and of negotiating multiple sites of engagement.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
In addition to PAGE-sponsored activities, Imagining America’s national conference will feature keynotes by leading public scholars and public artists, sessions presenting the work of whole project teams, and workshops on policy efforts, including the Imagining America Tenure Team initiative, designed to develop tenure policies that support the new public scholarship.
ABOUT IMAGINING AMERICA
Based at the University of Michigan, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) is a consortium of 80 colleges and universities founded in 1999. IA’s mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design by working for structural change in higher education. IA supports publicly-engaged academic work in the cultural disciplines through conferences, research and policy initiatives, web resources, models for programs and collaboration, and publications.
For more information, go to www.ia.umich.edu.
--
Rick Livingston
Associate Director
Institute for Collaborative Research
and Public Humanities
Ohio State University
Tel: 614-247-6763 (ICRPH)
Fax: 614-292-6707
Livingston.28@osu.edu
