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- Arts, humanities, design consortium moves its headquarters to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in July
- Campus will host the national organization鈥檚 17th annual conference Oct. 12-14
- Organizers seek creative sessions that engage with Communities, Arts, Lands and Learning, or CALL
Imagining America, the arts, humanities and design consortium that is moving its headquarters to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis on July 1, will make its presence known in a big way three months later when the university hosts the consortium鈥檚 17th annual conference, Oct. 12-14.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis is among more than 100 academic institutions and cultural organizations in the consortium. Its full name is Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and it鈥檚 moving here from Syracuse University, as announced last June.
The consortium recently issued a for the national conference, seeking creative sessions that engage with Communities, Arts, Lands and Learning, or C.A.L.L. for short. Imagining America invites proposals across formats, including performance and dialogue, pecha kucha, roundtable, media and poster sessions. Site-specific workshops are being developed through a local organizing process. The proposal deadline is March 20.
鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to be the host for the next Imagining America conference,鈥 said Brett Snyder, associate professor of design and conference co-organizer. 鈥淭his year鈥檚 C.A.L.L. comes out of rich discussions we鈥檝e had between faculty, students, staff and community members.
鈥淲e鈥檝e talked about how engaged and active our students and faculty are, the methods we鈥檙e excited to share, our eagerness to learn and challenge the status quo, and finally, our pride in sharing local and regional sites of culture as well as sites of conflict and contradiction.鈥
Launched in 1999 at a White House conference on the democratic role of arts and humanities, Imagining America was first based at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before moving to Syracuse University in 2007. 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis will serve at the hosting partner for Imagining America on a renewable, five-year term.
Imagining America鈥檚 network of artists, designers, scholars and community members convene in a different host city annually to imagine education鈥檚 future through the lens of the cultural disciplines, which highlight the arts, humanities and design, but invite interactive engagement with all fields. Through an immersive three-day experience, the conference will tackle issues that matter to the local region, while also furthering the national discourse around public scholarship.
To join one of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 information sessions on creating a proposal, contact Stephanie Maroney by email.
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