By Sean Olson, University Relations
UNCG will host a conference on graduate-level research in the arts.
The Graduate Research in the Arts Today (GReAT) conference will be held April 21 at various classrooms and venues on campus. All conference events are free, but an RSVP is required for the keynote address. Click here to RSVP by email. The conference will begin at 9 a.m. with coffee and a continental breakfast in the lobby of the Department of Dance in the Health and Human Perfomance Building.
The conference will include presentations, panels and a keynote address by Ellen Dissanayake, an independent scholar, writer and lecturer who considers arts to be part of the elemental human experience and human nature. Her books include “What is Art For?” (1988), “Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why” (1992) and “Art & Intimacy: How the Arts Began” (2000), all of which are published by the University of Washington Press. Since 2002, Dissanayake has been visiting scholar at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“This conference will celebrate curiosity, imagination and excellence in graduate arts and arts-related curricula, creative work and scholarship at UNCG,” said Dr. Larry Lavender, head of the Department of Dance and GReAT conference coordinator. “Knowing that we are stronger together than we are apart, faculty and graduate students in the arts and arts-related disciplines seek to build new bridges between and among their respective areas and with off-campus partners in the community.”
Conference organizers are also seeking proposals for papers, panels, demonstrations and topic talks. The deadline for submission was March 3.
For more information on the conference, call the sponsor, ArtsLink at 336-256-2601, or email the GReAT conference organizers.
