Soyang
Park, Ph.D. 2006-07 CAS/Humanities Center/History Fellow
Research talk
4:30
PM
Giant
Eagle Auditorium
Baker Hall A51
(Lower Level)
Monday
12th
Susan
Somers-Willett, Ph.D.
2006-07 CAS Fellow Poetry Reading
Maggie
Murph Cafe
Hunt Library
Wednesday
14th
Bring
Your Own Brain (BYOB) Series
Robert Cavalier, Teaching Professor,
Department of Philosophy A Campus Deliberative Poll about "Public Art
on Campus"
12:00
Noon
Baker
Hall 154R
Thursday
15th
Center
lunch meeting
12:00
Noon
Baker
Hall 154R
Thursday
22nd
CAS
Perspectives on the Arts in Society Series Moustafa Bayoumi, Lecture
Disco Infernos: Music and Torture in the "war on terror"
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center
4:30
PM
Giant
Eagle Auditorium
Baker Hall A51
(Lower Level)
Erwin
Steinberg Auditorium
Baker Hall A53
(Lower Level)
BYOBrain
Brown Bag Series. Carnegie Mellon faculty share their artistic
and research projects funded by Center for the Arts in Society faculty
grants. Bring your own lunch. Beverages and dessert provided.
Moustafa Bayoumi is an associate
professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York
(CUNY). He is the co-editor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage) and has
published articles in The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Village
Voice, Transition, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Souls, Arab Studies
Quarterly, and many other periodicals. He also serves on the editorial
committee of Middle East Report and is a columnist for the Progressive
Media Project, an initiative of the Progressive magazine through which
his op-eds regularly appear nationwide. His book How Does It Feel to Be
a Problem? Being Young and Arab in Brooklyn, New York, is forthcoming
from The Penguin Press. His talk, entitled “Disco Infernos: Music
and Torture in the ‘war on terror,’” will explore the
implications of the use of music as a means of torture. The talk is co-sponsored
by Carnegie Mellon’s Humanities Center.
You're
Not the Boss of Me! Copyright & Transgression — A two-day
festival of performances, screenings and lectures (begins 6:00 PM Friday
in the Great Hall, College of Fine Arts).
At the You're Not the Boss of Me! festival, artists, lawyers, filmmakers
and even a television executive will discuss copyright, criminality, fair
use and transgression in contemporary American culture as they relate
to issues of cultural ownership and heritage in an informal and open forum.
Organized by the School of Art and co-sponsored by the following: Carnegie
Mellon University - School of Art, the Center for the Arts in Society,
the Entertainment Technology Center, Master of Arts Management Program,
School of Music, Vice Provost for Education; the Andy Warhol Museum; Brillo
Box; Pittsburgh Filmmakers; the law firm of NIRO, SCAVONE, HALLER &
NIRO.
For more information: http://www.yourenotthebossofme.info
f295
Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes.
This event assembles several of the world's foremost artists,
photographers, writers and researchers to engage in discussion and debate
regarding the rising use of alternative photographic methods in an age
of increasingly sophisticated technological means. This multi-day event
offers public lectures, round-table discussions and question-answer sessions,
and hands-on workshops held in conjunction with local Pittsburgh area
arts organizations.
The Center
for the Arts in Society hosts two round-table discussions on Friday, focusing
on contemporary artists using lensless imaging techniques, the "DIY
aesthetic," and the use of "alt-process" techniques.
Symposium partners include F295, Society for Contemporary Craft, The Mattress
Factory, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, The Center for Alternative and Historic
Processes, and The Daguerrian Society.
