Forwarded from Lynn Book, Wake Forest U.:

Creativity: Worlds in the Making
A National Symposium at Wake Forest University
March 18 – 20, 2009
Wake Forest University - Winston-Salem, NC, USA

An Initiative from the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts
and the Program for Creativity and Innovation (PCI)

Call for Submissions: Deadline October 1, 2008

For more information please email: creativity@wfu.edu
or contact Lynn Book, Director of PCI, bookl@wfu.edu

Overview: This interactive symposium is designed to position creative engagement as a core literacy in today’s global environment and to model fresh, critical perspectives for creative research, collaboration and outcomes, between and among diverse disciplines and communities. The objective of the symposium is to stimulate new thinking about what creativity is, how it is practiced across cultural domains and what its potential applications can be, especially in relation to humane and sustainable outcomes and impact. Diverse perspectives from dynamic scholars and practitioners in the arts, humanities, sciences and entrepreneurship will pose questions and challenges about the role that creativity plays in higher education and in society through its capacity to shape dynamic and interdependent future ‘worlds’. The interactive format of “Creativity: Worlds in the Making” combines keynote speakers, traditional panel presentations, innovative performance and exhibitions with participatory working sessions.

Featured guests include: Harvard biochemist, author of "Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation" and social entrepreneur David Edwards who will engage us with provocative ideas on the creativity imperative. Pioneering performance artist and MacArthur “genius” award recipient, Meredith Monk, will give a centerpiece concert in the Secrest Artist Series and closing keynote address. They are joined by a growing number of daring creativity leaders including Josh Frieman, an astrophysicist at Fermilab and researcher for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , award winning innovative filmmaker, poet and author Abigail Child, and one of North Carolina’s newest arts mavericks, Emil Kang, executive director of Carolina Performing Arts at Chapel Hill. Others TBA.

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