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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 | Friday, October 10, 2008
Please note: Times and locations subject to change. Free.
The public is invited. General Seating.
9:00 a.m.
A Young Composer Commutes the World from Killdeer
Troy Sterling Nies, BSC Alum, A Composer from Killdeer, North Dakota
Nies lives in North Dakota while composing for the entertainment industry
abroad. He'll explain what it means to be a composer in today's venue and
the different opportunities and avenues one could take. This will be mixed
with examples of his material, video, audio, and personal experiences. To
learn more, go to troysterling.com.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Amy Juhala
The Civil Religion of View-MasterTM
Patrick Luber, University of North Dakota Faculty
View-Master stereographs, with their brilliant color and three-dimensional illusion, are an icon of 1950s American popular culture. On the surface these images mirror the playfulness frequently associated with this era. However, the fields of photographic theory and cultural studies reveal everyday objects from material culture including the View-Master, can transcend the category of mere entertainment. This paper examines how View-Master, particularly when contextualized within the domestic environment, helped to construct, reinforce, and perpetuate the traditional belief systems of America's "civil religion."
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium.
Hosted by: Josh Kern
Are We Preparing Our Students To Be Educated People in the 21st Century?
Larry R. Peterson, North Dakota State University Faculty; Anne Kelsch, University of North Dakota Faculty; Robert E. Kibler, Minot State University Faculty and Jayne Kiner, Bismarck State College Faculty
Are we preparing our students to be educated for the 21st Century? What do we know about this generation's learning style? What does this suggest for general education? What is essential for all college students to learn? Is the NDUS meeting needs of the new century? What are some of the current national trends in general education? Does North Dakota's general education model reflect the new national initiatives and should we revisit the NDUS Common General Education Requirements policy?
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Mike McCormack
The Pillowman
Paula Lindekugel-Willis, Minot State University Faculty and students
Award winning Irish playwright, Martin McDonagh explores censorship, creative responsibility and violence in this contemporary comedy drama. Cuttings will be presented from all three acts, and there can be an audience/actors/directors discussion after the performance.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by: Dan Rogers
The Gendered Frontier: Transgressing Gender Borders in 19th Century North Dakota
Michelle Sauer, University of North Dakota Faculty
Kimberlee Johnson, Minot State University Student (BSC Alum)
Ft. Mandan was home to a laundress known as Mrs. Nash who was married to the most handsome man in the regiment, Corporal John Noonan, her third husband. A shocking discovery was made after her unexpected death--male genitals, which caused to her to be labeled a "freak" or "hermaphrodite" and her husband as "gay" or "duped." The attention apparently drove Noonan to suicide. There have been a few avid debates, so here is discussed what's in the archives.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Theresa Felderman.
10:00 a.m.
The Pleasure Quarter: Poetry Inspired by Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints
Deborah Ford, Dickinson State University Faculty
Focusing on the Ukiyo-e art of the 18th and 19th centuries of Japan, this scholar looks at representations of the courtesans from the Freer and Sacker gallery holdings at the Smithsonian. She has written a Japanese style poem, called waka, for each scroll or woodblock print represented in the image shown via Power Point. Waka is a type of poem that has 31 syllables. Her poetry captures a fresh sense of each piece to create harmony between old and new, Japanese and Western.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium
Hosted by: Michelle Lindblom.
Reading of Original Work by Oral Interpretation Students
Dan Rogers, Bismarck State Faculty: Niizh Makwa (Two Bears), Playwright; Oral Interpretation Students TBA
Four Holes in the Sky is an original play by local writer Niizh Makwa. Students will read and thus reveal one process a script undergoes on its way to the stage.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall
Hosted by: Dan Rogers.
Reading from Danilo Kis: A Poet from the Great Plains of Serbia
John K. Cox, North Dakota State University Faculty
Danilo Kis (1935-1989) is a towering literary figure of Balkan and Eastern European culture. Less than half of Kis' corpus can be read in English, so Cox is now publishing translations. Kis lived much of his life in self-exile in Paris. A few of his topics include the Holocaust on the great plains of northern Serbia and the politics of anti-Semitism, fascism, and Stalinism. The message for us today is the struggle of the individual against the authoritarian abuse of power and the implacability of fate. Kis' humanism overwhelms his reader.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Drake Carter
Performance, I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Leesa M. Levy, soprano, Valley City State University, and Matthew Patnode, saxophone, North Dakota State University
Children incarcerated in the Terrezen (Czech) concentration camp from 1941-1944 wrote poems which became lyrics for today's critically acclaimed composer Lori Laitman. Most of the children died in Auschwitz before their seventeenth birthdays. Remarkable this poetry--the children seemed to see beyond the moment and the atrocities they witnessed. Music by Laitman, with the timbres of saxophone and soprano, along with consonant and dissonant elements, illuminates the children's voices.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: Dawn Hagerott
The Ethics of History ¦ Continued
Dennis Cooley, John Helgeland, John Cox, North Dakota State University Faculty
History and historians are not objective if we are to believe that the victors are those who write the histories. Although subjectivity is a necessary element in all historical research, some of it should concern us in certain situations. For example, the use of terms to describe a situation will influence how people think about it and the conclusions they draw. Sometimes the intent is to deceive; other times, to be negligent. This panel will examine how facts have been manipulated and how one should go about being an ethical historian.
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Mike McCormack
11:00 a.m.
Cancer, Rape, Neglect, Death: Is There Truth in Metaphor?
Elly Williams, University of North Dakota Faculty
Devon Daly, Danielle Droske, Thomas Harlow, Laurel Hurst, UND Undergraduate Students
Lying: An Autobiographical Memoir by Lauren Slater makes us think about the way we hold onto our beliefs, even though they may be hurting us, and how we hold fast to our defenses, even when they, too, are hurting us. Sometimes by telling a story we can tell what is in our hearts in a way that we can't by telling the facts. This presentation gives us permission to construct our own stories and language. The students' lying autobiographies demonstrate how truth and lies share emotional pain no matter what the balance of memory and imagination. Slater wrote that "Surrender is the means by which we gain, not lose, our lives. We know this, and that is why we have bad backs and pulled necks and throbbing pain between our shoulder blades."
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall
Hosted by: Josh Kern
Goodbye Willie: The Story Behind the Last Legal Public Execution in North Dakota
and the Subsequent Abolition of Capital Punishment
Gregory D. Carlson, Minot State University-Bottineau
The 1903 case of Willie Ross illustrates the impacts of the swiftness or delay of justice and of increased media coverage. The abolition of capital punishment will be put into a broader context discussing national and local issues. Five factors contributed to the abolition of capital punishment in this state.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium
Hosted by: Mike Porter
Green Jade and Road Men: Translations, Commentary, and Poems from China
David Solheim, Dickinson State University Faculty
David Solheim was the North Dakota Statehood Centennial Poet for the 1989 celebration and today is Associate State Poet Laureate. He will read from his forthcoming book Green Jade and Road Men: Translations, Commentary, and Poems from China. The titles of his other poetry books are West River and The Landscape Listens.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Amy Juhala.
Musical Interpretations of Sprung Rhythm, Inscape and Instress
Found in Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Daniel Pinkham
Robert Jones, Voice, North Dakota State University Faculty and Eric Jones
British Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) is credited with developing sprung rhythm in poetry. Jones shows how sprung rhythm expands harmonic vocabulary and cadence in word and music.
This term refers to measuring of lines according to stress, rather than the traditional accented syllable. Sprung rhythm frequently sounds abrupt yet captures intense energy. Hopkins coined the terms inscape and instress, or sound-textures and vivid imagery more able to capture the subject.
Location: Leach Music Center, Room 177
Hosted by: John Weiss
1:00 p.m.
Dance! Alcohol Awareness Through the Arts Program
Pattie Carr, Dickinson State University Faculty and students TBA
Students and faculty write, light, design costume, choreograph, and perform these lyrical and modern dances. DSU's Alcohol Awareness Through the Arts Program began in 2003 and soon began sponsoring student driven art with the goal to create discussion about underage and binge drinking. Dance, theatre, music, poetry, film and visual arts at DSU have fostered students' critical and reflective thinking about health rather than destruction. Several grants continue this program which has been presented at state, regional, and national meetings.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by:
Beyond Your Own Backyard: Psychic Space Reconfigured as Harsh Reality
Elly Williams, University of North Dakota Faculty
Laura Bury, Luke Geiver, Jennifer Groucutt, Brian Maxwell, UND Graduate Students
This panel interrogates these questions of literature: What happens when a place begins to challenge characters? What happens when landscape inhibits growth or stagnates the possibility of epiphany? A myriad of possibilities reside in that concept called place, how location can be positive and invigorate a character. Or the opposite. For example, and there are many more the panel will discuss, think of the college co-ed who wants to attend a large university but is forced to stay at the college in her stifling hometown. What is the spirit of place for her in a town where everyone knows her family history?
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Josh Kern
Joseph Roth, Jewish-Austrian Journalist and Novelist
Thomas Carter, North Dakota State University Graduate Student; BSC Alum
A contribution to the scant amount of secondary literature available in English on Joseph Roth, this study will show how this writer of novels, short stories, and newspaper articles died in exile in Paris in 1939 as a convinced monarchist, when as a young man he had identified himself as a Socialist, signing early articles under the name "Red Roth." His change in ideology is attributed to his perceived failure of the socialist revolution in Central and Eastern Europe.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Drake Carter
Heather McCormack, BSC Alum
Managing Editor of Library Journal Book Review and Editor of LJ Online Reviews
Born and raised in Bismarck and now a proud New Yorker of ten years, McCormack will share how she maximized her liberal arts education at BSC and Moorhead State University to go from a student editor and writer to a seasoned magazine professional with a first novel in the works. She will pay particular attention to the challenges and rewards of working in the print and online worlds at the same time and, time permitting, read a chapter or two from her North Dakota-inspired novel, The Nowhere in the Middle.
Location: NECE 3rd floor auditorium.
Hosted by: Karen Bauer.
2:00 p.m.
The Trisected Eagle: Polish Nationalism in the Post-Partitioned Era
Dan McCollum, North Dakota State University Graduate Student
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was destroyed by three invading powers in 1795, and an independent Republic of Poland did not reemerge until the end of World War I with the collapse of the Russian, German, and Austrian Empires. McCollum traces the development of nationalism in Poland between those two epic events, examining a predominant aristocratic ideology that found home among the peasant classes.
Location: Prairie Room, Student Union Lower Level
Hosted by: Josh Kern
Two Councils of Arts and Humanities
Jan Webb, North Dakota Council on the Arts Executive Director
Jan Jury, former North Dakota Humanities Council Executive Director
Join Jan Jury and Jan Webb as they discuss the future of the arts and humanities organizations in North Dakota. They will explore what leadership means, what groups will require of their leaders in years to come, and where these leaders will come from. They will also briefly discuss the various programs and grants available through the ND Humanities Council and the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
Location: 4th Floor NECE
Hosted by: Carol Cashman
Be the Blog: Myself as a Test Subject
Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State College of Science Faculty
As an eternal optimist, Priebe will recommend why students and faculty should use a blog. Students can keep blogs for class or out-of-class work, teachers can teach via blogs, and together there are class blogs. She will share her experience with class requirements and the good and the bad of the medium.
Location: NECE 3dr floor auditorium
Hosted by: Jane Schreck
The Business of Fancy Dancing || A Film Presentation
Written and Directed by Sherman Alexie
A poetic story of growth, death and the choices that define us, the movie reunites Spokane Reservation best friends Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) sixteen years after their high school graduation. Beginning with a brief flashback to the young men's enthusiastic look to the unlimited
future, the film mirrors both Aristotle and Seymour as they leave the "rez" for college in Seattle. Though these co-valedictorians left the rez for the white world in an identical state of excitement, their success in Seattle differs dramatically.
Location: Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall.
Hosted by: Amy Juhala
3:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Exhibit Reception-Faculty Reception
The art exhibit features both faculty and student work from around the state. Both Gannon Gallery in the BSC Library and the Elsa Forde Gallery in Schafer Hall will hold the works. The exhibit time is October 4-18 during regular business hours. To celebrate this exhibit and to give a place for faculty to socialize, the reception will be in the new foyer area of Schafer Hall, main floor. The reception is not just for faculty, however, it's for anyone who care to join in viewing art. Soft drinks and cookies will be served.
Location: Schafer Hall foyer
Hosted by: BSC Art Faculty