Arts in the One World

March 9, 2010 by Marcia G. Yerman

How the arts and social services compose, consider, and translate community
We are looking at how the sense of home ­ the ways it is defined and enacted ­ is useful as a political and esthetic argument for fidelity, trust, immanence, the safe store of memory and the reconstitution of identity. (As against? in dialogue with? industry and the nation-state.)
AOW is an annual gathering; this is our fifth convening. We pull together students, faculty, practitioners and activists across disciplines, from immediate and international communities, framing presentations and conversations open to the school and the general public. We explore various ways artistic, political, and historical purposes intersect (through reconciliation, the recovery of historical memory, and advocacy for justice).
Our partner in hosting the conference is the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (Rwanda) ­ where the Tutsi Genocide is researched, testimony is gathered, negationism is resisted, and social space for survivors is afforded
March 17 - March 21 at Brown University                                                                                                                                                                                       Providence, Rhode Island
Tentative Conference Schedule