“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and that they dwell therein.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“The Whole Business of Man is The Arts.” – William Blake

2^nd Annual Undergraduate Conference

Presented by the English Club @ ASU

Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14^th, 2009

Arizona State University // Tempe, AZ

Artists and Activists United for Change

6:00-8:00 PM, Carson Ballroom, ASU Old Main Bldg, Tempe Campus

featuring performance by spoken word artist DIVINE and talks by
ASU School of Music and Dance Faculty Kay Norton and Pegge Vissicaro

 
Free and open to the public
 Download event flyer: PDF

   
Keynote Panelists

Mark Lussier, Professor of English, Arizona State University

Carlyn Sikes, Director of Yoga and Yoga Teacher Training, Scottsdale Community College

Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Chair and Professor of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Arizona State University, and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

This year’s undergraduate conference, presented by the English Club @ ASU, seeks to deconstruct the divisions between art and scholarship, writing and criticism, academia and society, music and life. The conference aims to bring together a creative and vibrant community of thinkers. To this end, we eschew distinctions between academics and thinkers who work outside the university or college structure. We wish to create an event that gets people talking about how the things we do (Art, Literature, Ethnic Studies, Theory, Philosophy, History, Classics, Music, Science, etc.) can stand as transformative experiences that become praxis, changing the ways we live our lives in challenging times. The conference is unique in its emphasis on intellectual community unity that necessarily transgresses disciplinary boundaries. Panels will consist of speakers from various disciplines. Some panels will include both artists/creative writers and aspiring scholars.