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Ninth Annual
Quest for Community: A Call to Action
"Art and Innovation: Diverse Visions of Community"
The Quest Conference, hosted annually by Wright State University, explores diversity issues in higher education. On Friday, April 17, 2009, higher education professionals, students, and community members from across the state will gather to begin conversations regarding race, gender, and class via artistic and innovative explorations that engage the whole person, inclusive environments, programs, and curricula; explore initiatives to improve campus climate; and strategize opportunities for educational access and success, especially for traditionally underrepresented populations.
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Please join us as we kick off the Quest Conference with a Presidential Lecture Series event...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
7:00 p.m
Reza Aslan
CBS News Middle East Analyst, best-selling author, and expert on Islam
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Friday, April 17, 2009
9:00–10:00 a.m.
Keynote Speaker - Nikki Giovanni
Poet and professor of English |
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| For more information, please visit the Quest Conference Speakers' page. |
Conference Theme
The 2009 Quest for Community conference theme is “Art and Innovation: Diverse Visions of Community.”
The conference keynote address, presentations, and conference attendees will address the following questions:
- How is a sense of art and innovation relevant to the academic disciplines?
- How can art and innovation inspire the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—to benefit the community?
- How are art and the process of scientific discovery linked?
- How are art and/or innovation employed in the work of the disciplines to create community and enhance the quality of community life?
- How can art and innovation be used to forge connections among disconnected individuals within a community?
- How can we broaden our notion of art and innovation in order to accurately reflect the great diversity of a community?
- How can art serve as a vehicle for difficult conversations about gender, race, class, and sexual identity in our community?
- How is our vision of community restricted by notions of what art is and who is an artist?
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