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Faculty/Student Visual Arts Exhibition Oct. 4-18
From October 4-18, the 2008 Arts and Humanities Summit will host an art exhibition featuring both faculty and student works. The exhibition will take place in the Gannon Gallery at the BSC Library and the Elsa Forde Gallery in Schafer Hall. Click here for hours those facilities are open.
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Day Events at BSC Campus | Thursday, October 9, 2008
Please note: Times and locations subject to change. Free.
The public is invited. General Seating.
9:00 a.m.
Beyond Plot Summaries: The Literature Class as a Looking Glass
Jessica Santini, University of North Dakota Graduate Student; BSC Adjunct Faculty; BSC Alum
Cultural models inform our everyday decisions and actions, and they should be the main objective of literature classes in general education programs, rather than content that emphasizes memorization and identification. What are cultural models? And how do they inform our values, our decisions and opinions? This looking glass answers that literature studies could focus more on students examining their own personal lives and that here is an opportunistic space to encourage students to identify the sum of past experiences and ideas that drive their own decisions and judgments, what author/educator James Paul Gee calls "cultural models."
Location: Prairie Room, lower level Student Union
Hosted by: AnnMarie Kajencki.
Racing Memories
Patti Kurtz, Minot State University Faculty
Kurtz will read the first chapter of her contemporary novel, Racing Memories, a book for teens. A work in progress, the novel focuses on Kenzie Hartmann's dream to enter Teen Speed Special races at the local Speedway. Her father refuses to allow any of his children to have anything to do with auto racing because of his own history with the sport, and then a rival moves to town to complicate matters more.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Tom Stein.
Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah, Blee-Blee-Blee: The Future of Digital Sound and Musical Performance
Michael Wittgraf and Ronnie Ingle, University of North Dakota Faculty
Recent computer technology and digital musical instruments have opened more possibilities for interactive performance. These two will demonstrate digital instruments used for decades that imitate trumpets, tubas, and so on. Then they will demonstrate live digital sound processing (DSP) using KYMA X software which employs graphic and text programming. The heart of this technology is the hardware which contains up to 28 processors allowing for limitless possibilities. The challenge is creating natural and meaningful sounds in the computer world that we understand in the acoustic world. These two will perform the work they composed for KYMA X with surround sound and visual display.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by: Lynette Borjeson-Painter
The Music Business...That Was Then…This Is Now
Greg Nelson, BSC Alum, Music Composer
A brief history and examination of the conventional music business model, how it is changing, with personal experiences and tips for career evaluation. Nelson has produced recordings for Christian and theatrical artists, such as Sandi Patty, Amy Grant, Kathie Lee Gifford, and the American Boychoir. Nelson moved in 1978 from North Dakota to Los Angeles and has been involved in a world of music, traveling as a musician, serving as the first director of publishing for Sparrow Records, studying copyright management, arranging, orchestrating, developing and owning multiple song catalogues, working with songwriters, writing songs, producing music recordings for artists/multiple artist projects and supervising film music. After moving to Nashville, Nelson produced 7 Grammy Award Winning Albums with 13 Grammy nominations, 26 Dove Awards and scores of nominations. Additionally, his groundbreaking concept of song manipulation called "SongMap" developed by the Internet Technologies division of LifeWay Christian Resources will be featured on the LifewayWorship.com website. Most recently, he has begun to organize Christian Translation Resources, a non-profit company that seeks to develop a repository of every hymn and worship song in multiple languages, including indigenous music (back translated into English) from every available language source around the world.
Location: NECE, 3rd floor auditorium
Hosted by: Barb Jirges
Greg Gagnon, Sebastian Braun, Birgit Hans, University of North Dakota Faculty; Dr. David Gipp, President, United Tribes Technical College
Faculty of the Indian Studies Department have written an interdisciplinary textbook focusing on the culture and history of the northern plains. From perspectives of anthropology, history, and literature, the book gives the reader opportunity and responsibility to read a collage of overlapping and perhaps disagreeing ideas. The book reinforces that cultural and personal identities, politics, values and relationships are situational. The authors will present how interdisciplinary writing is conceptualized and executed.
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Wendy Pank
10:30 a.m.
Marketing the Sacred: Commodifying American Indian Cultural Imagery
Lucy Ganje, University of North Dakota Faculty
Native American imagery has long been used to sell products from beer to butter, tobacco to toys, sports to tourism. This marketing strategy allows non-Indian Americans to claim a false history and identity. An expert of art/graphic design, Ganje will discuss the fantasy and romantic pictures as they regard the "Sioux" in predominantly Non-Indian America. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people of the northern plains were especially burdened, due in part to their resistance to Euro-American intrusion into their homelands. This paper will examine how the University of North Dakota uses American Indian imagery to create an identity and a "brand" built on betrayal and historical revisionism.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium.
Hosted by: Brian Hushagen
Politics and Animation: Hubley, Hilberman, Disney, and H.U.A.C.
Joel Jonientz, University of North Dakota Faculty
Walt Disney Corporation met competition when United Productions of America began releasing films written by a new generation. This new generation, not businessmen, but college-trained fine artists were interested in making a statement. John Hubley and David Hilberman worked for Disney and were active in the labor strike against Disney's studio in 1941. Disney believed that Communist agitators, specifically Hilberman, had infiltrated his studio and caused the strike. Later, after Hubley and Hilberman left Disney for UPA, their films became calls for egalitarian society. Disney cooperated with the House on Unamerican Activities testifying against his former employees. Hubley and Hilberman became unemployable, and political animation rested until the end of the 20th Century.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Pat Luber
Township 55 North
Royce Blackburn, Piano, University of North Dakota Faculty
This cycle of five songs called Township 55 North was composed by Michael Wittgraf for Royce Blackburn. Inspired by the history records of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, the music portrays a few of their important events, such as selling the first land in Wyoming to a private party, the Pan-American Exposition, President McKinley's assassination of 1901, and Theodore Roosevelt's first address as President. The cycle tells a dramatic story about a difficult period in U.S. History.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Kris Larson
Among Friends A Concert of Vocal Chamber Music
NDSU Faculty Chamber Players: Virginia Sublett, soprano; Robert Groves, piano; Elizabeth Chausse, flute; Michael Thrasher, clarinet; Benjamin Sung, violin
Although the pairing of voice with piano seems ideal and almost obvious to listeners today, it represents only one aspect of vocal chamber music. The popularity of the voice/piano combination overtook that of voice and continuo (with or without other instruments) in the late 18th and early 19th century, and song reigned alongside opera as the primary vocal art form for more than 100 years. Arnold Schoenberg's groundbreaking Pierrot Lunaire (1912) for voice and five instruments helped reawaken composers' enthusiasm for vocal chamber music, and there has been a remarkable flowering of such pieces since then. Today's program presents works for voice and instruments from the Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Post-Modern musical eras, and takes its inspiration from the idea of chamber music as a friendly collaboration.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by: Jane Schulz
1:00 p.m.
Genetically Engineered Human-Animal Chimeras and Lives Worth Living
Dennis Cooley, North Dakota State University Faculty
As the genetic engineering of human-animal chimeras forges new boundaries, more questions about its moral permissibility will arise. Here is an argument for why it is morally permissible to create human-animal chimeras to be used for organ transplants, to have medical procedures such as pre-clinical testing, and to research into understanding why transplanted cells localize and differentiate in a host, all for the benefit of human life.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium.
Hosted by: Jean Rolandelli.
The Cliff's Edge: Songs of a Psychotic:
An Introduction to the Works of American Female Composer Margaret Garwood
Anne Christopherson, University of North Dakota Faculty
Recital/Lecture
Born in 1927, Margaret Garwood is a lesser-known, self-taught composer with a gift for lyrical melody and musical color. A trained concert pianist, she did not begin writing operas, songs, and other works until her mid-thirties. "The Cliff's Edge," is a song cycle using poems written by Eithne Tabor who was a young patient in a mental hospital in 1950. Garwood chose specific poems to describe a woman's descent into madness. The music is technically advanced and emotionally demanding of the performer who leads the listener through a disturbed young woman's inner life.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall
Hosted by: Carol Cashman
Students Read Their Own Writing
AnnMarie Kajencki, Bismarck State College Faculty and Students TBA
Fall and spring, students study and write fiction in Creative Writing, with many of their works being published in Figments of the Imagination, the two-year college's literary and arts publication. To prompt new ways of expression, students perform a dialogue that is not quite a fight, they finish unfinished sentences, or they describe projected images. These fun prompts exhibit the joys and powers of the written word upon a reader.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Ann Marie Kajencki
Who's on Second? The Possibilities of Second Life as a Tool for Visual Artists
Jennifer Nelson, University of North Dakota Faculty
Since the creation of the first prehistoric drawings, image-makers have devised more sophisticated methods to construct visual messages. Through this evolution, we now find ourselves confronted by a virtual counterpart to our visual world in the form of Linden Lab's 3-D virtual world, or Second Life. In recent months, much has been written about the potential and limitations of this resource for educational institutions. Colleges and universities are purchasing "virtual land" in Second Life for various uses. Case Western Reserve University has constructed a virtual campus for recruiting students, and the University of Florida in Gainesville conducts distance-learning courses in Second Life classrooms. Nelson asks: "How do we integrate the discipline of art, which is largely defined by its creation of visual messages, into a world that is a visual message"?
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Pat Luber
2:30 p.m.
Slavery Seen Through Another Lens
Cassandra Ptacek, North Dakota State University Student
In the United States, slavery carries grim images of labor, oppression, and second class citizenry. These negative connotations affect how many Americans understand the institution of slavery and helped develop our modern idea of race. However, other cultures in history have developed completely different views of slavery that resulted in different societal constructs. The contrasts offer a lens to view cultural and societal differences.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level.
Hosted by: Perry Hornbacher
News Investigating with Results
Michelle Roberts, BSC Alum, Investigative Reporter, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.
Roberts is a member of the newspaper's investigative team, focusing on human
services policy and child and family issues. In 2006, her investigative
series on the Oregon state psychiatric hospital forced state officials to
announce plans to shut down the 120-year-old facility. The same series
informed and inspired newspaper editorials THAT won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize
for Editorial Writing. Roberts shared the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking
News reporting. In addition to her work at the paper, Roberts writes for
several national magazines, including Working Mother and Woman's Day. Over
the past several years, she's worked closely with The Carter Center in
Atlanta, Ga., on projects ranging from mental health news coverage to
serving as a key speaker and delegate at The Carter Center International
Conference on the Right to Public Information.
She will discuss her writing, memorable stories, the role writers play in
protecting democracy, access to information and how to channel creativity
into a high-powered career.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Karen Bauer.
Dickinson State University Percussion Ensemble
Cindy Abts, Dickinson State University Faculty and Students TBA
This small ensemble will perform traditional and contemporary works with titles such as "Terra-Cotta Warriors" by James Campbell; "Square Dance" by Takayoshi Yoshioka; "Okho" by Iannis Xenakis, and "Uneven Souls" by Susan Powell. Title for the collage concert is "Uneven Souls" by Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by: John Darling
The Power of Arts Advocacy
Beth Gigante Klingenstein, Valley City State University Faculty
The power of one person with passion for the arts has the potential to make a significant difference in the community where he or she lives. Arts are part of a healthy community, whether large or small. Partnerships with arts groups, city commissions, public schools, and service organizations will be discussed, as well as avenues for fundraising. Embrace and advocate the arts! Advocates create musicians, artists, and lovers.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium.
Hosted by: Trudy Riehl
You Didn't Have To Be There Transgressive Truths: Autobiography as Gossip or Gospel?
Elly Williams and Heidi Czerwiec, University of North Dakota Faculty & Evan Nelson, UND Graduate Student
The school of writing known as Confessionalism occupied a brief period in American literary history but cast a long shadow across creative writing. Authors characterized as Confessional have been Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Memoirs are rapidly gaining popularity by fiction readers, and the demands of the audience have changed assumptions of authenticity and accuracy. These three writers are negotiating the territory of autobiographical material and hope to demonstrate devotion to art and imagination, rather than the accuracy of memory.
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Kitty Netzer
3:30 p.m.
Vocal Master Class
Virginia Sublett, North Dakota State University Voice Professor
Virginia Sublett, a voice professor from NDSU, will work individually with BSC vocal students in an open classroom setting. Please come to see a master at work as Virginia addresses current vocal issues with young singers. This is a wonderful example of how the Arts and Humanities Summit goes across collegiate barriers and bridges the gap with students and instructors.
Location: Leach Music Center 177
5:00 p.m.
ND Legislature's Committee on Higher Education Reception
Bismarck State College President Larry C. Skogen is inviting the North
Dakota Legislative Higher Education Committee to a reception on Thursday,
October 9, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. on the 4th floor of the National Energy
Center of Excellence. President Skogen also extends a special invitation to
Summit & BSC faculty to attend this reception with the legislators.
Location: 4th floor NECE Building
Hosted by: BSC President Larry Skogen