CONFERENCE ON SPIRITUALITY IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

 

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Fourth Annual Student/Faculty Conference on Spirituality in the Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, March 20   Sessions run 12:30- 5:00 p.m.

Various locations on campus to be announced.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Mirror Images: Reflections on/of the Arts and Sciences.” In an ancient but still potent metaphor, art “holds the mirror up to nature.” But if this is true even now, how do the arts and sciences reflect the world in which we live, and what kind of image do they give back to us? Do they distort or clarify? On another level, how do the arts and sciences “reflect” one another in terms of influence, echo, and variation? And finally, how are the brain and the mind engaged when we “reflect,” in the sense of giving serious and thoughtful concentration to a subject?

Associate Dean for Research and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Moje is Associate Dean for Research and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. She also serves as a Faculty Associate in the University’s Institute for Social Research, and a Faculty Affiliate in Latino/a Studies. Moje studies how youth make culture and enact identities from their home and community literacies, and from ethnic cultures, popular cultures, and school cultures. She has authored or edited four books and numerous book chapters, as well as articles in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, Review of Research in Education, Reading Research Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Research in the Teaching of English, Urban Review, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Science Education. Her research projects have been funded by the Carnegie Corporation, International Reading Association, National Academy of Education, National Institutes of Health/Office of Vocational and Adult Education/Institute of Education Sciences, National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. Moje is currently serving on the National Academy of Science/National Research Council’s Committee on Learning—Adolescent and Adult Literacy; the PISA Steering Committee; the William T. Grant Foundation’s Scholar Selection Committee; and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. A Concordia University graduate, Moje was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2005.