Reading Room: Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work

Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
https://toolkit.press

“The motives that drive this kind of work are broad, ranging from desire to survival, or even a combination of the two, from the joy that may emerge from working with others to fostering a sense of belonging for our own self-preservation. In doing this work that is so counter to the ideologies and frameworks we encounter in our day-to-day lives, we insist on the need to embrace our fundamental interconnectivity and interdependence as human beings. We do this by honoring multiple perspectives, picking up the slack when others can’t, understanding that individual wellness is a collective responsibility, challenging one another, sharing our power, and more.”

2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit

Opportunity: 2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit
https://a2ru.org/event/2022-emerging-creatives-student-summit/

As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA may select two student representatives. Please contact mark.callahan@uga.edu for more information about how to participate.

a2ru is now accepting student teams from member institutions to participate in the 2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, an intensive interdisciplinary working summit with experts and fellow students from across the country. Student teams must consist of one student from an arts-based discipline and one student from a non-arts-based discipline.

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Mini Grants Fall 2021

Organoids

Organoids is a collaborative research project for prototypes and methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures which are developed from pluripotent stem cells.

Project participants

Nadja Zeltner, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology faculty
Alexander Bucksch, Plant Biology faculty
Eileen Wallace, Art faculty
Mable Fox, Engineering faculty
Martijn van Wagtendonk, Art faculty

Queer Space: Athens, GA

Queer Space: Athens, GA uncovers a UGA theatre director’s love story, a lesbian linguist’s presence on campus, and guitarist Ricky Wilson’s time in the B-52s to name a few. Tour sites include places on UGA’s campus as well as downtown Athens where the queer community has come together (and butted heads) over time.

Project participants

Caro Caden, Theatre and Film Studies undergraduate student
Callan Berry, History undergraduate student
John Jardin, UGA English alumnus
Collin Hendley, Theatre and Film Studies undergraduate student
J.W. Chin, NYU alumnus
George Contini, Theatre and Film Studies faculty
Fran Teague, English faculty
Josie Leimbach, Women’s Studies faculty

Reading Room: SNAAP Research Symposium

2021 SNAAP Research Symposium Recordings
https://snaaparts.org/findings/presentations

The SNAAP Research Symposium brings together researchers, administrators, faculty members, students, and policymakers to learn about recent research about the lives and careers of arts graduates using the rich SNAAP database.

The mission of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) is to maximize the success and impact of creatives in society by driving evidence-informed change in training and illuminating the value of arts and design education. For information visit:
https://snaaparts.org

Integrative Conservation Conference

Integrative Conservation Conference
February 3-5, 2022

https://integrativeconservationconference.weebly.com

ICC 2022 will focus on decolonizing conservation research and practice. This theme recognizes the importance of engaging with how conservation historically and presently contributes to the disruption and erasure of Indigenous histories, livelihoods, wellbeing, and ways of being on and with the land.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sherry Pictou

https://www.dal.ca/faculty/law/faculty-staff/our-faculty/sherry-pictou.html

http://westorytheland.ca

Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw woman from L’sɨtkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia. She is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance at the Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law and the School of Public Administration. She is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. More recently, she became the first woman Honorary District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq. She is a member of the IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, Social Justice for Indigenous Women, Indigenous women’s role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems.

Film screening and discussion supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.

a2ru 2021 National Conference

2021 a2ru National Conference
Sharing Stories: The Case for Art
November 3 – 5

Online
https://a2ru.org/event/2021-a2ru-national-conference-sharing-stories-the-case-for-art/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA will cover registration costs for a limited number of a2ru conference participants.

The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) advances the full range of arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society.

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