PHC Programs
<p>
</p>
<div id="breadcrumb">
<div id="breadcrumb">
<ul>
</ul>
<div id="breadcrumb">
<ul>
<li class="first bu"><a href="programs.php" title="PHC Programs">PHC Programs</a></li>
<li><a href="programscolloquy.php" title="Colloquy Series">Colloquy Series</a></li>
<li><a href="programsgrants.php" title="Grants and Fellowships">Grants and Fellowships</a></li>
<li><a href="programsgraduate.php" title="Graduate Seminar">Graduate Seminar</a></li>
<li><a href="programscollaborative.php" title="Collaborative Projects">Collaborative Projects</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<h2>First Humanities and Public Life Annual Lecture</h2><br />
The Humanities and Public Life Annual Lecture Series features renowned scholars in the field of humanities outreach and engagement. The first lecture of the series was presented by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Professor at Syracuse University and Director of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.imaginingamerica.org">Imagining America</a>, a national consortium of universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities and design. The title of her lecture was "What Do We See?" A Year Directing Imagining America."<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<img width="100" align="right" style="border: 1px solid ;" alt="Cruz photo" src="/uploads/Cruz1.gif" /></span></span><br />
Jan Cohen-Cruz is a scholar, practitioner, and teacher of grassroots, socially-grounded, and activist art. As a professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts from the late 1980s until 2007, Cohen-Cruz produced community-based arts projects with students including one on community gardens and another on gentrification. In the mid-1990s, Jan co-directed Tisch's AmeriCorps on violence reduction through the arts. She co-ordinated the Drama Department's minor in applied theatre and directed Tisch's Office of Community Connections. She is among the founders of NYU's Department and Center of Art and Public Policy. In 2006-2007, she co-conceptualized and co-initiated HOME, New Orleans, collaborating with Xavier, Dillard, and Tulane Universities, local artists including the VESTIGES Project, and residents of four neighborhoods, experimenting with art's role in the revitalization of "home" as dwelling, neighborhood, and that city itself. Her international research includes art in times of conflict in South Africa and the former Yugoslavia. In addition to serving as Director of Imagining America, Jan is a University Professor at Syracuse University and is writing a book on performance and social justice.<br />
<br />
The lecture was organized in collaboration with the MSU College of Arts and Letters' Outreach and Engagement Reception on September 23 in the Kellogg Center. The reception showcased information, video clips, photographs, scholarship and creative activity stemming from new and ongoing outreach and engagement projects across the College. The reception took place in Big Ten BC from 5-7 p.m. and the lecture will started at 7 p.m. in the Kellogg Auditorium.<br />
<br />
The <a href="../../../images/Humanities_Reception_&_Lecture.pdf">event poster</a> is available, as is the <a title="EventProgram" href="../../../uploads/AL%20Outreach%20Insert%20%282%29%20FINAL%20COHEN-CRUZ%20PROGRAM.pdf">event program</a>.<br />
<br />
First Humanities and Public Life Annual Lecture
The Humanities and Public Life Annual Lecture Series features renowned scholars in the field of humanities outreach and engagement. The first lecture of the series was presented by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Professor at Syracuse University and Director of
Imagining America, a national consortium of universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities and design. The title of her lecture was "What Do We See?" A Year Directing Imagining America."
Jan Cohen-Cruz is a scholar, practitioner, and teacher of grassroots, socially-grounded, and activist art. As a professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts from the late 1980s until 2007, Cohen-Cruz produced community-based arts projects with students including one on community gardens and another on gentrification. In the mid-1990s, Jan co-directed Tisch's AmeriCorps on violence reduction through the arts. She co-ordinated the Drama Department's minor in applied theatre and directed Tisch's Office of Community Connections. She is among the founders of NYU's Department and Center of Art and Public Policy. In 2006-2007, she co-conceptualized and co-initiated HOME, New Orleans, collaborating with Xavier, Dillard, and Tulane Universities, local artists including the VESTIGES Project, and residents of four neighborhoods, experimenting with art's role in the revitalization of "home" as dwelling, neighborhood, and that city itself. Her international research includes art in times of conflict in South Africa and the former Yugoslavia. In addition to serving as Director of Imagining America, Jan is a University Professor at Syracuse University and is writing a book on performance and social justice.
The lecture was organized in collaboration with the MSU College of Arts and Letters' Outreach and Engagement Reception on September 23 in the Kellogg Center. The reception showcased information, video clips, photographs, scholarship and creative activity stemming from new and ongoing outreach and engagement projects across the College. The reception took place in Big Ten BC from 5-7 p.m. and the lecture will started at 7 p.m. in the Kellogg Auditorium.
The
event poster is available, as is the
event program.
