Please join us on Thursday April 30th for the next Art, Community, Environment workshop event:
Asian Ecologies: A Roundtable Conversation on Current Research
April 30th
5-7pm
Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Seminar Room)
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by April 24th via email to <gregruffing@u.northwestern.edu>.
The roundtable discussion is moderated by Yuthika Sharma, Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, and will feature research presentations by:
Corey Byrnes, Associate Professor of Chinese Culture, Northwestern University
On threat and environmental humanities in and beyond Asian studies
Ray Buckner, PhD Candidate, Religious Studies, Northwestern University
On flowers, garland makers, and discard in contemporary Bangkok
Soyoon Ryu, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
On land-based thought and communal artistic practices in 1970s-80s Korea
ART, COMMUNITY, AND ENVIRONMENT is a Kaplan Research Workshop co-convened by Rebecca Zorach, Department of Art History, and Hollyamber Kennedy, Department of Art History. Greg Ruffing is the Graduate Student Assistant. This research workshop brings together faculty and graduate students interested in the intersections among art and architectural practice, environmental studies, and communities. We seek to broaden definitions of knowledge production beyond the academic to include Indigenous and oppositional knowledge, collaborative practice, reparative design, and activist research. We hope to learn from both historical studies and from current, “front-line” experiences, asking how they create democratic and non-hierarchical knowledge communities, and what potential for social, artistic, and environmental efficacy they possess.
Cost: FREE
Greg Ruffing
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