BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18694-24c8467ee5ef88eb733ffc413cd1167b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260414T053749Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260318T173000 SUMMARY:Arts and Activism DESCRIPTION:\nThis year the CALS spring symposium focuses on the urgent way in which artists and scholars across disciplines create and/or advoc ate for art that combines artistic expression with advocacy for art that combines artistic expression with advocacy to promote awareness and soc ial and political change at a moment when colleges and universities\, an d the humanities writ large\, are facing overwhelming challenges that un dermine\, rather than enable\, the work of activist arts and scholarship . Five panelists including four Penn State colleagues and an external in vited panelist will remark upon the manifold ways in which they\, and th e arts and/or scholarship they create\, intersect with the symposium top ic. Each panelist will have ten minutes to deliver an opening remark\, t o be followed by thirty minutes of Q &\; A with the audience.\n\nPane lists:\n\n* Mimi Khúc: Writer\, Artist\, Activist\, and Teacher of Thing s Unwell\n\n* Julia Spicher Kasdof: Liberal Arts Professor of English an d Director of Creative Writing\, Penn State\n\n* Matt Tierney: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Digital Culture and Media Init iative\, Penn State\n\n* Elizabeth Gray: Associate Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature and Coordinator of the Public Humanities Fellows hip Program at The Humanities Institute\, Penn State\n\n* Lonnie Graham: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Visual Art\, Penn State\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/arts-and-activism/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This year the C ALS spring symposium focuses on the urgent way in which artists and scho lars across disciplines create and/or advocate for art that combines art istic expression with advocacy for art that combines artistic expression with advocacy to promote awareness and social and political change at a moment when colleges and universities, and the humanities writ large, a re facing overwhelming challenges that undermine, rather than enable, th e work of activist arts and scholarship. Five panelists including four P enn State colleagues and an external invited panelist will remark upon t he manifold ways in which they, and the arts and/or scholarship they cre ate, intersect with the symposium topic. Each panelist will have ten min utes to deliver an opening remark, to be followed by thirty minutes of Q & A with the audience.

Panelists:

* Mimi Khúc: Writer, Artist, Activist, and Teacher of Things Unwell

* Julia Spicher Kas dof: Liberal Arts Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, Penn State

* Matt Tierney: Associate Professor of English and Dir ector of the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Penn State

* El izabeth Gray: Associate Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature and Coordinator of the Public Humanities Fellowship Program at The Humaniti es Institute, Penn State

* Lonnie Graham: Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Visual Art, Penn State

For more details: https://events.la.psu.ed u/event/arts-and-activism/

LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR