Center Workshops

Center workshops include members of the Center, specialists from across the campus, and visiting scholars and artists. Structured in a two-phase sequence, the workshops focus on a particular topic: in the first year, participants analyze materials from a variety of fields; in the second phase, participants present examples of their own work in progress, eliciting comments and critiques from practitioners who share an interest in the topic but whose modes of inquiry and interpretation, as well as forms of presentation, differ.

Memory Workshop, 2004-06. Chaired by Associate Professor of Anthropology and History, Paul Eiss, this workshop included neuroscientists, psychologists, artists, actors, anthropologists, historians, and scholars of comparative literature, with a total of between eight and ten participants at each session. Sessions included a study of brain waves, an engagement with the techniques a painter uses to "remember" the model when she turns to her canvas, and an analysis of the politics of memory an archive instantiates.

Public Arts Workshop, 2006-08. Chaired by Professor of English, Jon Klancher, the Public Arts Workshop began in September 2006. Constructed in the same way as the Memory Workshop, during its first year members of the workshop will discuss various interpretations of the meaning and the role of art in a public space, in diverse historical periods and cultural settings. The workshop will also act as advisory to the Center's Archive of Controversy in the Arts project and to the Public Arts Committee on campus, chaired by Hilary Robinson, Dean of the College of Fine Arts.

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