Nominations, cont’d.

In the interest of consolidating all the names in one place, I’ve taken the liberty of doing so, culling from the various posts and comments, plus adding a few more:

Anthony Kelley and Jennifer Jenkins (they could even do a “team” keynote presentation). They co-taught a course last fall in the law school with law professor Jamie Boyle on “Music Composition: Borrowing and the Law.” Very interdisciplinary and a great fit for our topic. Boyle and Jenkins are featured in the graphic comic “Bound By Law”: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ about documentary film making, fair use, and intellectual property and copyright issues. A sequel is supposedly coming out on music featuring Kelley.

MUSIC AND LAW:

Anthony Kelley is a professor in Music: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Music/faculty/antk
For an interesting discussion of musical borrowing, see “The Splendid Thievery of Anthony Kelley”

Jennifer Jenkins directs the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and is a lecturing fellow in the law school, specializing in intellectual property law: http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/jenkins/

COMICS:

Brooke McEldowney: Wikipedia article on him, which links to further Wikipedia articles on his two comic strips
9 Chickweed Lane (his main comic strip, the one seen ’round the world)
Pibgorn (his online-only comic strip – featuring a re-working of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream)

ENVIRONMENT AND ART:

Bryant Holsenbeck, environmental artist from Durham www.bryantholsenbeck.com/
Does workshops to make your own journals.

Noah Scalin, graphic design professor at VCU, specializes in socially conscious design
alrdesign.com (read his philosophy)
noahs@alrdesign.com

elin o’hara slavick
(teaches at UNC, does strong/political work)
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic/

HUMANITIES

Franklin Humanities Institute’s “Recycle” seminar fellows: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0708.php

Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture, AAAS, co-convener of FHI “Recycle” Seminar:
In order to attack old assumptions of the relationship between “high” and “low” culture I consider the ways that cultural texts and icons are recycled in the service of popular art. For example, the music industry reformulates previously recorded songs and random mass media utterings for contemporary consumption through the practice of sampling and remixing. This practice has been particularly common in hip-hop, which can be described as a sonic collage brilliantly exhibiting producers’ broad musical palate. Sampling and remixing also extends to the recycling of popular iconography and vernacular language use, including figures like the “pimp” (and the act of pimping) and pejoratives like the word “nigger”.

Pedro Lasch, Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts, FHI Faculty Fellow in “Recycle” seminar: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/pedro.lasch

and also: George Gopen (English)

ENVIRONMENT AND WATER – THE DROUGHT
Possibly city or NSOE folks involved in the Durham town hall meeting on the drought earlier in January. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-watertownhall2.html

For example, among others:
Bill Holman, senior visiting fellow at the Nicholas School

Ted Voorhees, Durham’s deputy city manager: theodore.voorhees@durhamnc.gov

PHYSICAL (MATERIAL) RECYCLING

George W. Roberts, retired professor of chemical and biomolecular Engineering, and/or Dr. Saad A. Khan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering (NCSU): http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/feb/025.html

EXPERIENTIAL RECYCLING (PSYCHOLOGY):Beth Marsh (psychology) - works on human memory
Roberto Cabeza (psychology) - works on neural correlates of memory and cognition
Kevin LaBar (psychology) - works on the cognitive neuroscience of emotional learning and memory

Keynote nomination

In the interest of nominating people from my own household who happen to be internationally syndicated cartoonists, I nominate my father, Brooke McEldowney. One of his more recent projects within his comic strip “Pibgorn” was a reworking of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which involved the recycling of Shakespeare for purposes graphic, artistic and comic.

For more information:
Wikipedia article on him, which links to further Wikipedia articles on his two comic strips (I recommend checking those out before you check out the strips themselves)
9 Chickweed Lane (his main comic strip, the one seen ’round the world)
Pibgorn (his online-only comic strip)

(edit: oh, yeah. This was me, Nicola. Bonus points if you guessed.)

More on keynote speakers

On the topic of recycling and the connection to the environment, here are some possibilities for keynote speakers, courtesy of my friend Tom Buhrman. He’s currently working on an environmental art exhibition called “re|THINK” (got your “re” in there, Lisa!) to encourage visual artists to design posters to encourage Carolinians to care about and protect the environment. When I mentioned our symposium topic to me, he suggested a few possible speakers. Some are artists, others are professors, some are local, some are not (from Tom’s email to me):

(1) Bryant Holsenbeck
(environmental artist from Durham)
www.bryantholsenbeck.com/
Does workshops to make your own journals.

(2) Noah Scalin, graphic design professor at VCU, specializes in socially
conscious design
alrdesign.com (read his philosophy)
noahs@alrdesign.com
*** Noah is one of the AIGA judges (for the re|THINK show), and his design philosophy is
outstanding — not just thinking about sustainability, but about
political choices in general.

(3) Amy Chapman-Braun
www.brauncreative.com
amy@brauncreative.com
creative director, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth
Sciences at Duke
*** One of our AIGA judges. Our only local judge.

(4) elin o’hara slavick
(teaches at UNC, does strong/political work)
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic/

(5) This show of political posters is similar to our concerns.
Any of the 3 curators would probably be good.
http://www.thegraphicimperative.org/

(6) Mike Salter
(designer/visual artist I used to know, he used to live in NC, now
lives/teaches/creates in Oregon)
http://www.copyrightsalter.com/
http://art-uo.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=faculty&page=msalter
*** One of our AIGA judges. Uses recycled materials/objects. Special
note: did some of the wall murals in the Duke Coffeehouse.

(7) Marc Alt (NYC) or Phil Hamlett (SF), Co-Chairs AIGA Center for
Sustainable Design

(8) Jonah Sachs, founder/ pres. of Free Range Studios, design firm
specializing in socially conscious design
Named to Fast Company’s Fast 50: 50 Profit-driven solutions for what
ails the planet (along with Arnold Schwarzeneggar & Nike)
Lots of experience/ awards in environmental and social change
http://www.freerangestudios.com

Also, we could consider some of the fellows in the Franklin Humanities Institute’s “Recycle” seminar as possible keynote speakers:

http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0708.php

Franklin Humanities Institute Co-Conveners “Recycle” Seminar:

Neil De Marchi, Professor of Economics, has interests in the emergence of art and financial markets and cultural economics.

Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies works on black popular culture, black feminist and queer theory and black intellectual production.

Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, works on art, architecture and material culture from late antiquity to modernity.

Duke Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellows:

Pedro Lasch, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Peter M. McIsaac, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literature
Rebecca L. Stein, Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology
Susan G. Sterrett, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Kenneth J. Surin, Professor and Chair, Program in Literature

Duke Professional School Faculty Fellow:

Catherine Fisk, Professor, School of Law

UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts & Humanities (IAH) Exchange Fellow:

Richard Langston, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Duke Library Fellow:

Ernest “Erik” Zitser, PhD, Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, Bostock/Perkins Library

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Jane E. Anderson, PhD (2003), Law, University of New South Wales
Andrew Russell, PhD (2007), History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

- Tori

USP “Recycle” Symposium group topic possibilities

Symposium Planning Seminar Recap (Jan. 14, 2008)

At this past Monday’s seminar, we discussed ways in which our current work could be viewed (or not) through the lens of “recycle,” our theme for this year’s symposium. The above link is a recap of ideas proposed, which could be largely grouped into 3 broad categories, as Roxanne suggested, Materials, Ideas, and Experiences.

PLEASE REVIEW AND RESPOND IF INTERESTED IN COORDINATING ON ANY PROPOSED PANELS OR PROPOSE NEW TOPICS.

Ideally, we’ll have 3 group presentations. Each group will be comprised of undergraduate, graduate, and professional school Unis, working together.

Suggestions for keynote speakers also welcome! At Monday’s seminar, the following names were bandied about:

Beth Marsh (psychology)
Roberto Cabeza (psychology)
Kevin LaBar (psychology)
George Gopen (English)

Please feel free to elaborate on the merits of the proposed speakers and/or to propose others.

~ Tori