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Friday, September 20th, 12:00pm
Wells Hall B-Wing Atrium
Spartans Inspire Success 2019 Homecoming
College of Arts & Letters Homecoming Sweet & Greet
The College of Arts & Letters invites you to join us for our newest tradition—Homecoming Sweet & Greet. Visit our tent located at the Summer Circle Courtyard between Kresge Art Center and the Auditorium. Enjoy cider and donuts. Win items from the College with our raffle prize wheel. Reconnect with faculty, alumni, and student ambassadors from Excel Network and Citizen Scholars.
Families welcome!
Help us plan how much cider and donuts we’ll be serving–please RSVP by September 18 https://msu-sweet-greet19.eventbrite.com
2:30-4:00 pm Sweet & Greet
6:00 Parade steps off
A conversation with Religious Studies faculty members and undergraduate students.
REL faculty members: Dr. Amy DeRogatis, Dr. Mohammad Khalil, Dr. David Stowe, and Dr. Morgan Shipley
Friday, October 4th, 12:00pm, A306 Wells Hall
Please save the date for the fall Creative Writing Faculty reading, featuring alum Kate Birdsall, Hannah Ensor, and Teresa Milbrodt, to be held Monday, October 7, 7 pm, in the LookOut! Gallery (second floor Snyder-Phillips Hall). Join us in celebrating the work of these new colleagues. The event is free and open to the public.
Science as Experience: A New Approach to Science Communication
Megan Halpern draws on Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience to develop a model that can reshape how we research, practice, and evaluate science communication. Drawing on her work in art-science collaboration and design-inspired public engagement with science and technology, Halpern illustrates three principles of her model. First, experiences are cumulative rather than transformative, second, that context shapes experiences; and third, that ultimately, audiences have agency in shaping the meanings they draw from their interactions with scientific content. Finally, Halpern offers insights into how to develop projects from an experience perspective.
Coffee and Cookies provided.
Plan to stay after the lecture for additional coffee and networking time.
Speaker: Dr. Staci Perryman-Clark – Associate Professor, Department of English, Western Michigan University
Drawing from her research and experiences designing and building partnerships between WAC, faculty development, and diversity and inclusion programming, Perryman-Clark describes the ways in which such collaborations can forward the mission of the CCCC’s Students’ Right to Their Own Language Resolution, supporting enrollment and retention efforts while also enhancing diversity and inclusion initiatives at the institutional level.
Mikayla
by Mikayla Frick
Couture Season F/W 19 and S/S 20
360 degree Live Runway Footage
SEMI-FORMAL EVENT
Release of the New S/S ’20 Couture Catalog
Shot by Jenna DiClemente
Opportunity to Network with Mikayla and Other Designers
Featured ATD Students:
Jenna Wood
Noel Thomas
Emma Stubbs
Miquel Rodriguez
FREE
open to the public
Speaker: Dr. Felix Kronenburg
The basic blueprint of the physical classroom has not
changed all that much in over a century, even as new
teaching methods and approaches, new technologies,
and new interdisciplinary insights into better ways to
support learning have greatly advanced during that same
timeframe. Do we still need physical learning spaces in
this age of ubiquitous computing? If we do, how can we
design and build them so that they will be able to adapt
to new educational transformations? Dr. Kronenberg
will give insights into and solutions from the new
interdisciplinary field of learning space design.
The Department of English and Creative Writing Program Presents: WALTON MUYUMBA
Author of The Show and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism(University of Chicago Press), Dr. Walton Muyumba is an Associate Professor of American and African Diasporic Literature and Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Bloomington. Currently, he is finishing a book about contemporary American literary art and popular music, while also building projects on John Edgar Wideman’s literary works and ethnic American art in the age of terrorism. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics Circle Award and regularly writes book reviews for The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune and other outlets.
PROFESSIONALIZATION IN CREATIVE WRITING & APPLYING TO THE MFA
Thursday, November 21, 1 pm.
Natural Sciences Building Room 145
PRESENTATION ON JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
Friday, November 22, 3 pm.
Wells Hall B243
The Department of English and Creative Writing Program Presents: WALTON MUYUMBA
Author of The Show and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism(University of Chicago Press), Dr. Walton Muyumba is an Associate Professor of American and African Diasporic Literature and Director of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Bloomington. Currently, he is finishing a book about contemporary American literary art and popular music, while also building projects on John Edgar Wideman’s literary works and ethnic American art in the age of terrorism. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics Circle Award and regularly writes book reviews for The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune and other outlets.
PROFESSIONALIZATION IN CREATIVE WRITING & APPLYING TO THE MFA
Thursday, November 21, 1 pm.
Natural Sciences Building Room 145
PRESENTATION ON JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN
Friday, November 22, 3 pm.
Wells Hall B243