Community and Civil Discourse: Perspectives from the Liberal Arts
A 4-part lecture series to share information and create dialogue about community--how different communities are formed, maintained and perpetuated as well as what impact these communities have on civil, civic discourse.
THURSDAY, MARCH 18 - 7:00 pm
Session 4: Aesthetics, Transformations, Interventions
"Unquiet Earth: Memorial, Transformation and Bearing Witness to the Lynching Tree in Bryan Stevenson's Legacy Museum"
Mr. Kevin Allton, Instructor of English
"Buero Vallejo and the Curative Power of Metaphor in Spain's Time of Silence”
Dr. David Hitchcock, Professor of Spanish
“The Monumental Shift in Memorial Design: How Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial Altered the Discourse of Collective Remembering”
Ms. Sara Christianson Blair, Professor of Art
“Performance Art as Intervention”
Dr. Lindsay Greer, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
“Songs in Time of Need”
Mr. Dan Craig, Associate Professor of Music
For more information or should you require disability-related accommodations in order to participate, please contact Dr. Leigh Anne Howard, Chair, Department of Communications at lahoward@usi.edu
All though zoom by clicking: https://usi.zoom.us/s/91294092725