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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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| 2010 SAS Conference |
Second Annual Conference on Spirituality and the Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Concordia University
Ann Arbor, MI
Sessions run Noon-4:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: 4:30 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: John U. Bacon
John U. Bacon has written for Time, The New York Times, and ESPN Magazine, among others.. He has authored five books on business and sports, the most recent being Bo's Lasting Lessons, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal business best-seller. Bacon has taught at Miami of Ohio, Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and the University of Michigan. In 2009, he was awarded Michigan's Golden Apple Award, and his course was named one of "America's Ten Hottest Classes" by The Daily Beast.
The conference will function as the culmination of the Kreft Arts Program’s annual season of activities, and its primary focus will center on this year’s theme: “Creative Adaptation.” How does the adaptation or modification of earlier forms, methods, or works become a creative act in itself? What are the ways in which our disciplines are rooted in a “useable past” while addressing a new condition, a new technology, a new audience, a new era? What can we learn from the way scholars, teachers, artists, thinkers of all kinds respond to and appropriate their precursors? The arts and sciences address this issue formally and thematically in many and profound ways—in literary, artistic, and musical creation, in theological and philosophical discourse, in educational methodology. This issue forces us to consider goals and directions: what is the nature and purpose of the liberal arts themselves and how can they adapt themselves to the way we live now? What place do they have in our lives as Christians in the 21st century?
Conference on Spirituality and the Arts & Sciences
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| 12:15 – 12:40 Welcome and Plenary Address -- Kreft Center Black Box Theatre |
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Mark Looker, Professor of English
“I'll Be Seeing You: Double Vision in the Arts and Sciences” |
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| 12:45 – 1:45 Panel A (Krieger Hall, Room 106): |
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Staying Alive: Expression and Preservation
Neal Migan, Assistant Professor of English
Naomi Stephens: “Painful Inspiration and Fatal Distraction in Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther”
Christina Strauchman: “Storytelling, Guises and Cunning: Adaptation for Preservation in Homer’s The Odyssey”
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| 12:45 – 1:45 Panel B (Kreft Art Gallery): |
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Flute Fusion: Bach and Mozart
Brian Altevogt, Assistant Professor of Music
Holly Clemans and Deborah Rebeck Ash: “German Musical Innovations, Creatively Revised” |
| 12:45 – 1:45 Panel C (Krieger Hall, Room 101): |
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Of Endurance and Balance
Beth Steinkellner, Associate Professor of Art
Alicia Drier: “Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story: Two Timeless Classics, One Tragic Story”
Jennifer Freudenburg: “A Frog in the Kettle”
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| 1:50 – 2:50 Panel D (Krieger Hall, Room 106): |
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With and against the Current: William Shakespeare and Jane Austen
Eleanor Larmouth, Visiting Professor of Education
Rachael Quinlan: “Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet: Respectfully Risky”
Ruth Boeder: “Vampires and Vicars: The Gothic and the Heroic in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”
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| 1:50 – 2:50 Panel E (Krieger Hall, Room 107): |
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Of City and Country, and Women and Men
Philip Penhallegon, Assistant Professor of Religion
Aram Kushigian: “Pictures of New York City: Alfred Hitchcock and Spike Lee”
Sarah Schimm: “Ivanhoe: Urfried and Rebecca, Two Sides of the Same Coin”
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| 1:50 – 2:50 Panel F (Kreft Center Art Gallery): |
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Creative Adaptation in the Arts
Chris Niemiec, Assistant Professor of Art
Chris Niemiec, “Adapting American Icons in the Artist’s Studio”
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| 1:50 – 2:50 Panel G (Krieger Hall, Room 101): |
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Living off the Land: Regeneration and the Spirit
Carl Rockrohr, Assistant Professor of Religion & Dean, School of Religious Studies and Social Sciences
Dale Kleimola: “The Story of Two Congregations: Experiencing Adaptation Through Trauma”
Richard Zeile: “Good Friday: The Church’s Memorial Garden” |
| 2:55 – 3:55 Panel H (Krieger Hall, Room 106): |
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Urban and Emotional Contemplation
Robert Campbell, Assistant Professor of English
Andrew McComas: “Representing the City in Film”
Christina MacKenzie: “A Study of Melancholy in John Keats’ Poetry and Letters” |
| 2:55 – 3:55 Panel I (Krieger Hall, Room 107): |
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Matters of Conscience: What’s a Man to Do?
Michael Kalmes: Associate Professor of Political Science
Kayla Paulsen: “Mirandola, Milton, and Marlowe: Adaptations on the Theme of Free Will”
David Schmitt: “Milton’s Creative Adaptation of Scripture in Paradise Regained” |
| 2:55 – 3:55 Panel J (Krieger Hall, Room 101): |
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Topographies of the Screen and of the Mind
Mark Looker, Professor of English
Tyler Schlitzkus: “Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks: The Epic Duo”
Alex Schlump: “The Adaptation of Nature in William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’”
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| 4:00 – 4:30 Reception (Kreft Art Gallery) |
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| 4:30 – 5:30 Keynote Address (Kreft Center Black Box Theatre): |
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Title: “Finding your way, with help from Bo Schembechler and Cirque du Soleil”
John U. Bacon, The University of Michigan
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About Concordia:
Concordia University Ann Arbor is a private, Christian liberal arts institution of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Concordia offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in an environment focused on the individual student. Concordia is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Concordia’s Family Life Program is approved by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). The athletics program has helped Concordia receive the recognition of a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Champions of Character institution. Concordia is located at 4090 Geddes Road in Ann Arbor, MI. For more information, visit: www.cuaa.edu |
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