Landmark College Academic Speaker Series: Spring 2012
The Landmark College Academic Speaker Series enhances and promotes the College's intellectual environment and facilitates discussion of issues important to the community.
Theme for 2011-2012: Art, Empathy, and Social Change
Mission: The Landmark College Academic Speaker Series enhances and promotes the College's intellectual environment and facilitates discussion of important issues for the community.
Location: East Academic Building Auditorium: Landmark College, 1 River Road, Putney, Vermont. All presentations free and open to the public
Meg Mott (Feb 8, 7pm)
Title: On the Emancipation of Eagles:
Description:Less than two hundred years ago, African-Americans were considered too inferior to be dignified with civil rights. Not until the 1964 Civil Rights Act did Congress provide effective mechanisms for black Americans to assert their basic liberties. For the last sixty years, American environmentalists have argued that we should extend rights to natural objects, such as trees, rivers, and eagles. We'll consider the effect rights have on the political imagination and what it would look like to emancipate eagles and trees from the tyranny of landowners.
Rowland Brucken (Feb. 29, 7pm)
Title: Facing Horror: Responding to Human Rights Atrocities
Description: Human rights atrocities, whether called "genocide," "ethnic cleansing," or "crimes against humanity," fundamentally destroy not only the governments and economies of nations, but also the safety, wholeness, and integrity of their citizens. In such a terrifying environment, peoples around the world have come up with an array of complicated mechanisms to bring justice to survivors, to hold offenders accountable, and to prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy. Rowly Brucken outlines the strengths and weaknesses of using trials, truth commissions, indigenous processes, and amnesty laws in the aftermath of mass suffering.
Humberto Ramirez (March 28, 7pm)
Title: Feminism and Identity Politics in the Visual Arts: 1970 through 2010
Description: The lecture will present an overview of the practitioners and theories that constitute the development of 'Identity' as a trajectory in cultural theory and in the visual arts. Particular attention will be paid to feminist theory and women artists from the pivotal Womanhouse project to the 'Post-identity' politics characterizing our present condition.
John Willis (April 11, 7pm)
Title: How Might We Use Artistic Practice in Service?
Description: John Willis will be presenting his explorations in using photographic explorations, artistic process and education as a means of relating to others and attempting to make a positive contribution to the world.
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Supported in part by the Vermont Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities