Acting, Singing, Dancing, and So Forth: Theatre (Research) in the University

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-269
Author(s):  
W. B. Worthen
Keyword(s):  
Life Forms ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Martha Graham ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
The University

About midway through Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel Oryx and Crake, the protagonist Jimmy (later known as Snowman, survivor of a genetically engineered global epidemic induced by his childhood friend, Crake) leaves home for the university, or in this case for the Martha Graham Academy. In a culture driven by the collusion of technology and capital it's not surprising that the best students are sent to lavish technical universities (Crake attends the Watson–Crick Institute), while arts and humanities students listlessly rusticate at Martha Graham, learning the pointless yet “vital arts” of “acting, singing, dancing, and so forth” and how to deploy them in the service of commodity culture (Jimmy's skill with language leads him to major in Applied Rhetoric, eventually writing advertising copy for Crake's new life forms). Like much else in Oryx and Crake, Atwood's vision jibes chillingly enough with the rhetoric of today's corporate university: compared to jet propulsion, cancer research, or even the battle of Appomattox (on my campus, history is a social science), the arts and humanities can be made to seem “like studying Latin, or book binding: pleasant to contemplate in its way, but no longer central to anything” (187).

scholarly journals Income Outcome: Life in the Corporate University

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
General Management ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Modes Of Life ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Replication

Higher education on the corporate model imagines students as consumers, choosing between knowledge products and brands. It imagines itself liberating the university from the dictates of the State/tradition/aristocratic self-replication, and putting it in the hands of its democratic stakeholders. It therefore naturally subscribes to the general management principles and practices of global corporate culture. These principles – transparency, accountability, efficiency – are hard to argue with in principle. But an abstract argument in political economy comes down to earth in the challenges facing the arts and humanities, after the ‘Education Revolution’, to justify their modes of life.

scholarly journals CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass ◽  
Ali Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Life

In Us-Them-Us, several artists affiliated with the University of Calgary, and an invited poet, adopt perspectives, usually associated with that of being agents provocateur. Key themes, issues, images, symbols, and slogans associated with postcoloniality and postmodernity are well illustrated in particularly, vivid ways. Thank you Jennifer Eiserman, for working closely with the contributors, in order to, produce a special issue which highlights well established traditions of the arts and humanities. This CPI Special Issue holds up for scrutiny, central aspects of our troubling contemporary and historical life worlds.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Infodemic: A New Historicist Analysis of Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uzma Imtiaz ◽  
Fatima Humda ◽  
Rabia Ramzan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
Bio Engineering

This research intends to explore the current calamitous situation of Covid-19 in the context of <i>Oryx and Crake</i>, mirroring how Covid-19 and <i>Oryx and Crake</i> are linked through the perception of unification and the consciousness of the world as a whole by holding the entire world hostage. It vigorously examines the disease being presented as a weapon of mass destruction, followed by a conspiracy theory, the reality of the present and fancy of the future, generating a feeling of mingled contradiction, a psychological aspect, and stout human response to the unpredicted as some shared themes between the two. The potential strength of the New Historicism was found applicable in contextualizing COVID-19 and <i>Oryx and Crake</i>, which explore and project forward the biotechnological, social, political, cultural, economic, and climatic givens of the pandemic ridden world. It involves a parallel study of a literary work, interpreting events as the products of time. The textual interpretation was based on observation of historical context to see how following pandemics of the past may allow today’s world to detect the fundamental causes of such diseases. Understanding the pandemic through intellectual history highlighted the consequences of unscrupulous exploitation of bio-engineering threats, a sense of uncertainty, fear, and insecurity, biotech corporations, and marketing genetically engineered life forms.

Transborder Immigrant Tool

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Fernanda Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Border Crossers ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a Border Disturbance Art Performance that discusses the physical and virtual limits of the U.S.–Mexico frontier. It was developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) with the funding of the Arts and Humanities Grant 2007–2008 at the University of California in San Diego. The project uses an inexpensive GPS-enabled cell phone and a custom piece of software, the Virtual Hiker Algorithm, to guide border crossers in the desert. The crossing of the U.S.–Mexico border can be deadly due to the severe conditions of the environment; once in the Mexican desert, the software installed in the cell phone directs the immigrant toward the nearest aid site, be that water, first aid or law enforcement, along with other contextual navigational information. According to the EDT, the Transborder Immigrant Tool was created with the aim of reappropriating widely available technology to be used as a form of humanitarian aid, as well as offering a tactical intervention of distraction and disturbance in the order of transnational corridors. In addition to the navigational capabilities of the Tool, the performative effect is also provided through poetry made available on the screen of the cell phone. It is with this poetry that the artists attempt to rescue a sense of hospitality and to alleviate the difficulties of the journey.

scholarly journals Forced to flee: A multi-disciplinary conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (904) ◽  
pp. 421-432
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Council ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The University

“Forced to Flee” was a multidisciplinary two-day conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises, jointly organized by SOAS University of London, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Exeter, the British Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It brought together some sixty researchers, independent and UK government policy-makers, and senior humanitarian practitioners.

scholarly journals The Inside-Out Museum/The Inside-Out University

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Walter Hood ◽  
Shannon Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Experience ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Oakland Museum Of California ◽  
Inside Out

From their origins, the University of California, Berkeley and The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) were established in different geographical, cultural, and political contexts. In a course sponsored by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, artist, designer and Landscape Architecture Professor Walter Hood asks students to examine the museum and its neighborhoods in order to come up with proposals for change. He works on projects ranging from city-scale master plans to site plans to art installations and is known for his focus on the human element in design. UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, Shannon Jackson, recently spoke with Walter Hood at his Oakland studio about how the arts and humanities and design can work together to illuminate urban experience. This is the accounting of the conversation.

scholarly journals Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885–1955

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN ◽  
HEIKE JÖNS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Field Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

AbstractThis article considers the role of overseas academic travel in the development of the modern research university, with particular reference to the University of Cambridge from the 1880s to the 1950s. The Cambridge academic community, relatively sedentary at the beginning of this period, became progressively more mobile and globalized through the early twentieth century, facilitated by regular research sabbaticals. The culture of research travel diffused at varying rates, and with differing consequences, across the arts and humanities and the field, laboratory and theoretical sciences, reshaping disciplinary identities and practices in the process. The nature of research travel also changed as the genteel scholarly excursion was replaced by the purposeful, output-orientated expedition.

scholarly journals A Decade of Teaching the Course Aging & the Arts: Reflecting on Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Interdisciplinary Program ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

Abstract In 2010, the University of Utah Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program first offered GERON 5240/6240: Aging and the Arts. This course was developed to enrich program curricula by addressing a gap in content specific to the arts and humanities. The purpose of this presentation is to focus on identifying the opportunities and challenges experienced teaching this course over the past decade. Opportunities will highlight competency mapping, internal and external partnerships, the benefits of bridging disciplines, and innovation in teaching and problem-solving. Challenges experienced include addressing various needs (online learning, undergraduate and graduate levels, multiple disciplines), tuition differentials, and varying levels of enrollment. A stand-alone course is one method of increasing humanities, arts, and cultural gerontology within curricula. It has the potential of enhancing student interest in gerontology while also demonstrating how the arts and humanities can improve work across disciplines.

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Katerina Talianni ◽  
Eleni Ira Panourgia ◽  
Jack Walker ◽  
Roxana Karam
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Research Network ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea’s first issue “Computational tools and digital methods in creative practices” germinated from a series of research focuses that began in 2016 when the research network (sIREN) was established by PhD students in Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. sIREN's aim is to create a dialogue between several fields and promote new perceptions of research based on diverse methodological approaches. It seeks to form a platform of communication among arts and other disciplines, technologies and digital media, theory, practice and collaboration. For this, we organised a series seminars-workshops during the academic year 2016-2017 that brought together invited speakers from the University of Edinburgh (across Edinburgh College of Art, School of Education, School of Informatics, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and School of Geosciences), the University of Warwick (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies), the University of Newcastle (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) and the National Library of Scotland, followed by an international conference in May 2017, which included an interactive format of hands-on workshops, papers and a performance session.

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