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Conferences
p.a.v.e. Inaugural Symposium on Entrepreneurship and
the Arts. The Herberger College of the Arts School
of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University is
hosting its first Symposium on Entrepreneurship and
the Arts November 7th and 8th, 2008 in Tempe, Arizona.
The Self-Employment in the Arts conferences
(SEA) are in the planning stages for the '08-'09
academic year. It is shaping up to be another banner
year for the conference. You can read Amy's interview
here.
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour brings
the country's top young entrepreneurs to college
campuses to spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Note:
Not Arts specific.
The Conference for Community Arts
Education - Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2008. Philadelphia,
Pa.
Association for Cultural Economics
International - June 12-15, 2008. Boston Ma.
International Council for Small
Business (ICSB) - A Holistic Model of Entrepreneurial
Education: A Colloquium – June 20 & 21, 2008.
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.
This should be a great conference for those interested
in campus-wide efforts.
Creativity, Curiosity and Collaboration: A
Conference Series - The University of Wyoming is
playing a leading role in a national, cross-institutional
conversation that seeks to reposition “Creativity,
Curiosity and Collaboration” at the center of 21st century
education. This year-long dialogue begins with
ReVisioning the (W)hole II: Curious Intersections
(September 23-25, 2008) and culminates with Teaching
Creativity (February 24-26 2009). Both will be held on
the University of Wyoming campus.
Lead by keynote speakers Richard E. Miller – Chair and
Professor of English, Rutgers University, and author of
As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher
Education (Cornell University Press, 1998) and
Writing at the End of the World (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2005). This four conference series brings
together a teaching institution in rural Pennsylvania, a
research intensive university on the frontier, and a
Carnegie I research university in the Northeast corridor to
re-envision the future of public education.
Creativity, Curiosity and Collaboration will
provide a blueprint for transforming the Arts and
Humanities into an arena for cultivating the creative and
imaginative powers that reside at the heart of the
entrepreneur, the inventor, and the artist. Among the
outcomes of this dialogue, a cross-institutional
collaborative team will seek to build on its early success
with developing an Arts and Humanities-based social
entrepreneurial pedagogy. The goal of this pedagogy is to
inspire undergraduates to move beyond the act of
acknowledging the existence of social problems to the
pursuit of viable solutions, however partial, to those same
problems. As we conceive it, this pedagogy embraces the
civic-mindedness of service-learning, the high intellectual
and performance standards of the academic community, and
the open-ended creative energy of the entrepreneur, the
inventor, and the artist. Consciously conceived of as
providing a concrete alternative to the idea that the
fundamental role of the those working in the Arts and the
Humanities is to assume an oppositional stance in relation
to contemporary society, Creativity, Curiosity and
Collaboration will thus document how the Arts and the
Humanities can be transformed into a space for providing
undergraduates with direct access to the creative side of
problem-solving and thus how to lay the foundation for an
entrepreneurial relationship to the future.
Schedule
“ReVisioning the (W)hole II: Curious
Intersections”: University of Wyoming – September 23-25,
2008
“Symposium on Creativity and Collaboration”: Millersville
University of Pennsylvania – 17 October 2008
“Make Your Life a Work of Art”: Rutgers University, The
State University of New Jersey - 18 October 2008
“Teaching Creativity: What the academy can learn from
entrepreneurs, inventors and artists”: University of
Wyoming – February 24-26, 2009
Blogs
Lisa Canning - Entrepreneur the Arts
