College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at San Diego State University的动态

#Research is a creative process, and learning is a social activity. Our inter-university teaching project “Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry” combines these two values by bringing together #historians from the #UniversityofZurich and #artists from the #ZurichUniversityoftheArts (#ZHdK) around practical assignments, and by encouraging conceptual, exploratory and multi-media approaches to historical research. In our class this spring, students explore various ways of observing, questioning and analyzing that are shaped by different media. What is an #archive? What interests and power relations have left their mark on the records of the past? How do our possibilities as artists and historians change when we tap into new tools and media? The didactical methods developed as part of this project should encourage students to situate the #humanities in a wider epistemic space characterized by unequal historical experiences and cultures of knowledge. I'm honored that this project has been awarded an #Open_InnovationGrant, and I can't wait to bring it to the classroom with my wonderful Co-Teachers Nina Willimann and Mayumi Arai from #ZHdK! https://willimannarai.net/

For students worldwide, who aspire to advance their education without spending a dime on 'Post-Graduate' programs, yet wish to explore courses before committing to enrollment at an Indian university, the 'e-PG Pathshala' website offers an empowering online platform with free courses for your exploration! Welcome to India! ?? The 'e-PG Pathshala' website is a platform offering high-quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content across various subjects in the social sciences, arts, fine arts, humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, and more. It's an initiative of MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA under it's @National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), executed by the University Grants Commission (UGC). It's designed to support postgraduate education and includes features like e-Adhyayan for e-Books, UGC MOOCs for online courses, and e-Pathya for offline access. Whereever you are around the world, please forward this post to your alma-mater universities, favorite professors/lecturers, and last but not least, your friends and well-wishers for their consideration! Hopefully, their research on such academic programs could result in new courses making their way into your university curricula! #NEP2020 #lastmilegraduate #villagegraduate PS: There may be some drawbacks; please feel free to report them and share any feedback on the 'e-PG Pathshala' website or directly with the university/professor administering the course for further consideration and improvement. I am in no way affiliated with them; I am only reposting here for the benefit of students from around the world eager to pursue tertiary studies. #VishwaguruBharat #pgcourses #OneWorldOneFuture #IndiaTechade #ViksitBharat UNESCO #EducationDivide

On #ToolsServicesThursday, browse the Journal of Digital History! A joint initiative between Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) - University of Luxembourg and de Gruyter, it serves as a forum for critical debate and discussion in the field of digital history by offering an innovative publication platform and promoting a new form of data-driven scholarship and of transmedial storytelling in the historical sciences. As an international peer-reviewed open access journal, the JDH sets new standards in history publishing based on a novel multi-layered approach. ? Learn more and join the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/eRgBpwMU

SO important to encourage arts careers for young people.

CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference: Performativity and Agonistic Pluralism in a Mediatised Age: Towards a Synthetic Approach. Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague; 23-25 May 2025. Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025. For the full call for papers, see: https://lnkd.in/dc_aa6Nr #cfp #callforpapers #academia #academic #conference #englishstudies #irishstudies #americanstudies #literature #fiction #irishliterature #culturalstudies #research #humanities

Call for papers for the workshop on "History Teaching and Public Memory of Recent Past. Experiences and perspectives from South East Europe" This workshop aims to bring together educators, administrators and scholars to discuss the role of history education in public memory in South East Europe. The workshop takes place ?? 16-17 October 2024 ?? Podgorica, Montenegro ?? Deadline for abstracts is 21?April 2024 For further information on the workshop and how to participate, please see ? https://lnkd.in/gXfX-4Bu The workshop is organized by the collective research project "Postwar Memory Generations. Contested memory, historical narratives and history education in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia", which is funded by VELUX FONDEN. For further information about the researchproject, please see ? https://lnkd.in/eC5sQFUZ #publicmemory #historyteaching #southeasteurope #research

Thinking about museum collections, the messages they send, the way they are used to promote concepts and narratives that are biased and misleading. I've posted about this before, but it is still the case that when you go to the Centers & Institutes page for the University of St. Thomas and click on the link for the American Museum of Asmat Art - you don't get to go to a page dedicated to that entity - try it... https://lnkd.in/guwEXCs You end up elsewhere at the Visual Arts at St. Thomas - which is all about the art history department. The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries recommends that museums are not placed under the authority of one department, but rather be under the university as a whole. This is to discourage conflict of interest - like having a department use the museum to promote itself... In an academic setting using collections this way messages that the source or the culture that produced the objects is secondary - not the real focus. . . something that can be used to promote or draw attention to something else. That's not a good lesson to teach.

This lecture is a part of my effort as an art historian and an academic to foster ways of looking at visual histories through so-called niche perspectives. It was first delivered at AUD in the SOAS faculty lecture series. With some additions, it was later presented at "Imagining Asian Art in Transition: Symposium on Modern and Contemporary Asian Art" at USM, Penang. Another edited version was presented at XII International Conference on Critical Education, 3-6 July 2024, at Ankara University. As a scholar who is invested in decolonial methodologies, the repetition of the topic is intentional. The process of decolonization and nurturing of Global Art Histories is the most pressing need for the discipline. Presenting the lecture to a diverse audience globally allows me to initiate a dialogue locally at various regional venues, where it can be further explored, especially on an undergrad level. Because the process of critical thinking should start early. The final version of this lecture would be published in the ADAC Research Journal of UHE.

Happy to contribute to the latest issue of Dichotomy Student Journal UDM SACD with my article, 'From Social Condensers to Microrayons'. In this essay I explore microrayons as places for gathering while comparing them to Ginzburg’s social condensers, something I mention a lot in my writing. This was an opportunity to further explore some of the ideas I have already touched upon in my thesis. Here's a small excerpt: "The architectural world is oversaturated with buzz terms like building a community or promoting social interaction, but nowhere has it been taken so literally as in the Soviet Union. After the revolution and adoption of socialist form of governance they had the task of developing a new typology for a new type of society with a completely new set of ideals. Now a space for gathering was needed. Soviet Constructivists described it as a social condenser - a structure that would help its residents to embody the socialist ideals, shedding the old hierarchies and promoting personal development. However, investigating Soviet-era housing in Post-Soviet states, more specifically microrayons, it seems like they are more for passing through than lingering. So what happened to the idea of socially equitable spaces? Were ideological errors or execution at fault?" You can read the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/dpJCZE_F