�鶹��Ƶ Symposium Strives for Actual Change in a Virtual Setting</h1> <article> <h1>�鶹��Ƶ Symposium Strives for Actual Change in a Virtual Setting</h1> <p>eburnett — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:14:10 +0000</p> <span>�鶹��Ƶ Symposium Strives for Actual Change in a Virtual Setting</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-05-18T10:14:10-04:00" title="Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 10:14">Tue, 05/18/2021 - 10:14</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Events of the past year have taught us that meaningful change is possible even in dark times.</p> <p>The same notion applies to the Crafting Change Symposium, a fully virtual series of presentations, concerts, panel discussions, and workshops, through which teachers—from kindergarten through college level—and artist-makers from a wide array of disciplines share their creative approaches to exploring science, humanities, art, and more, with an emphasis on inclusion.</p> <p>The four-week symposium opens Tuesday, May 25, and continues through Saturday, June 19, with multiple programs scheduled each week—all of them free. It's designed for artists and educators—and continuing education credit is available—but it’s also intended for students, scholars, and others with a passion for fostering change.</p> <p>A complete schedule of events can be found at the Crafting Change website.</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-right"> <figcaption>Abby Aresty (photo by Tanya-Rosen Jones '97)</figcaption> </figure> <p>The symposium is hosted by �鶹��Ƶ’s Center for Convergence, or <a href="/studioc">StudiOC</a>, where theme-based learning communities address some of the world’s greatest challenges through interdisciplinary approaches. It was devised by <a href="/node/49256">Abby Aresty</a>, technical director of the conservatory’s <a href="/node/33031">TIMARA Department</a> and a StudiOC teacher.</p> <p>Envisioned prior to the rise of COVID-19, Crafting Change initially was slated to take two forms: a weekend event on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM); and another focusing on the intersections of traditional craft and technology experienced by artists and designers.</p> <p>"Since I first conceived of this project, it has transformed several times over before reaching its final form, which we will all experience together over the course of the next month,” says Aresty. “And from that initial spark, the symposium has developed in new, exciting ways.” In particular, she praises the collaborative effort of numerous current students and recent graduates of �鶹��Ƶ’s TIMARA Department—short for Technology in Music and Related Arts—who have been pivotal in creating Crafting Change.</p> <p>"TIMARA is known for its incredible capacity for interdisciplinary work, and this symposium really tests the limits of what could be called a <em>related art</em>,” Aresty says.</p> <p>Panels and presentations will focus on topics including crisis-informed teaching, creative approaches to learning, and more. Most programs last between 75 and 90 minutes and take place at midday, late afternoon, or evening.</p> <p>It all starts May 25 with the first in a series of Micro Maker events, a 3 p.m. presentation by Ari Melenciano, a creative technologist at Google's Creative Lab and professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Graduate Program.</p> <p>Future Micro Maker Series installments include sessions with Cornell University Professor Cindy Kao, who founded and directs the Hybrid Body Lab for the development of wearable technology (May 27 at 3 p.m.); University of Tokyo engineering professor Jie Qi, a multidisciplinary designer, inventor, and entrepreneur (June 1 at 3 p.m.); and textile designer, technologist, and researcher Audrey Briot, a specialist on the impact of new technologies on textile preservation (June 8 at 3 p.m.).</p> <p>Other facets of the symposium include:</p> <p>• Lightning Lunchtime Panels, in which guests discuss compelling topics that merge technology, artistry, education, and inclusion (various dates)</p> <p>• A Crafting Sound Concert and panel discussion, through which artists examine value systems inherent in various sound technologies and ways in which new audiences can be engaged through creative sound-making practices (May 28 at 7:30 p.m.)</p> <p>• A Micro Maker Mixer, where creatives of all stripes can take part in an informal show-and-tell session (June 3 at 4:30 p.m.)</p> <p>• A panel discussion featuring participants in the SmART Futures exhibition, co-hosted by Lorain County Community College (June 11 at 7:30 p.m.)</p> <p>• “Making, Knowing, Learning,” a weekend workshop and panel in which artist-teachers discuss making as a form of critical inquiry that can be employed to explore the life cycle of the objects we make and those that have been crafted throughout the ages (June 12 at 1 p.m.). The panel includes Columbia University historian Pamela Smith, a specialist in craft and craftspeople of early modern Europe</p> <p>• A “Sonic Arcade” that showcases audio and visual creations by current students, alumni, and others—including the �鶹��Ƶ Synthesizer Ensemble and Chilean artist Constanza Piña (June 18 at 7:30 p.m.)</p> <p>The Crafting Change Symposium is supported by �鶹��Ƶ; the StudiOC grant from the <a href="https://mellon.org/">Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</a>; TIMARA; the <a href="/bcsl">Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Research</a>; <a href="https://www.artsoberlin.org/">�鶹��Ƶ Center for the Arts</a>; <a href="https://www.lorainccc.edu/">Lorain County Community College</a> (LCCC); the <a href="https://oac.ohio.gov/">Ohio Arts Council</a>; and a Multi-Institutional Innovation grant to �鶹��Ƶ and LCCC from <a href="https://bttop.org/">Bringing Theory to Practice</a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Beginning May 25, Crafting Change presents four weeks of innovative thinking for teachers, students, artists, and others—all of it free.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2021-05-18T12:00:00Z">Tue, 05/18/2021 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Erich Burnett</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2959">StudiOC</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2387">Conservatory Summer Programs</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=33031">TIMARA</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/abby-aresty" hreflang="und">Abby Aresty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/contemporary-music" hreflang="und">Contemporary Music</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">courtesy TIMARA</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Connecting Across Campuses: Collaboration Exposes �鶹��Ƶ Students to Makerspace Culture</h1> <p>anagy — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:54:43 +0000</p> <span>Connecting Across Campuses: Collaboration Exposes �鶹��Ƶ Students to Makerspace Culture</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-10-28T15:54:43-04:00" title="Monday, October 28, 2019 - 15:54">Mon, 10/28/2019 - 15:54</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A collaboration that began this fall is encouraging shared problem solving and dialogue between students at �鶹��Ƶ and nearby Lorain County Community College (LCCC). </p> <p>�鶹��Ƶ was awarded a Multi-Institutional Innovation Grant from Bringing Theory to Practice to carry out a partnership between the �鶹��Ƶ Center for Convergence (StudiOC) and the Campana Center for Ideation and Invention at LCCC. The project, “4D Liberal Arts,” brings together two different learning populations to explore the history and future of technology through cross-disciplinary curricula and applied, hands-on activities that connect theory and practice. </p> <p>The Campana Center Fab Lab at LCCC is the second in the country, modeled after the program at MIT. The lab features 3-D printing, laser cutting, and CNC machine routing, with a staff of experts who can guide users in each of the tools and equipment. �鶹��Ƶ’s StudiOC is a curricular program that aims to equip students with the intellectual skills to address the complex, seemingly intractable problems of our era through cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Campana Center and StudiOC have a shared commitment to testing new curricular and educational models. The partnership exposes �鶹��Ƶ students to makerspace education and provides opportunities to think critically and engage with materials, while LCCC students benefit from a liberal arts and humanities approach to studying topics by examining them in a historical, cultural, and ethical contexts.</p> <p>By partnering makerspace learning with cross-disciplinary liberal arts, students from both institutions collaborate to explore problems—particularly technology-driven change—from different angles. </p> <h2>The fourth dimension</h2> <p>The project’s title evokes both speculation of a fourth dimension and 4-D (shape-morphing) printing, which is considered the next frontier in digital fabrication, explains Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Laura Baudot. “It captures what is innovative and potentially transformative about this model of collaboration between a private residential liberal arts college and a community college. �鶹��Ƶ and LCCC have complementary needs and strengths. What kind of positive social transformation can happen when �鶹��Ƶ and LCCC share resources and bring their very different student populations together to explore, in theoretical and hands-on ways, new technology and its implications for the future of work, social interactions, and embodied experience?”</p> <h3>Cross-disciplinary partnerships</h3> <p>Fall 2019 course partnerships include:</p> <ul> <li>A “Correspondence Across Campus” project with Wendy Kozol, professor of comparative American studies, and Kim Karshner, professor of English at LCCC, with support from Ed Vermue, head of special collections at �鶹��Ƶ. Students in this course are trading hand-made postcards with pre-assigned prompts designed and printed in �鶹��Ƶ’s letterpress studio. Karshner’s fiction students are using the letterpress studio and special collections to study the history of book design. Through workshops, students are thinking about how the written word is changed with graphics and other design elements.</li> <li>Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton’s advanced creative writing students are completing exercises in writing about real-world people they know and admire. The class is working with Fab Lab instructor Ryan Coorigan to create fabric silhouettes of their subjects. The fabric is dipped in resin and allowed to harden so it can be mounted. </li> <li>In the StudiOC course cluster Recasting Innovation, offered by Barton, Associate Professor of History Ellen Wurtzel, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Handman-Lopez, students are creating full or partial body or face casts in plaster and using materials from the Fab Lab to build a piece that reflects their thinking and engagement with physicality.</li> <li>Students in the Reimagining Maker Cultures cluster, taught by TIMARA Lecturer Abby Aresty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris, are visiting the Fab Lab to think about design and disability and designing their own prosthetic listening devices.</li> <li>Handman-Lopez and Gregory Little, associate professor of Art at LCCC, are collaborating on a project at the intersection of choreography and technology. Little’s 3-D animation students are visiting �鶹��Ƶ to join Lopez’s choreography students in experimenting with a range of low-tech motion capture technologies, primarily the Google Tilt Brush application.</li> </ul> <h3>Making the most of makerspace</h3> <p>Aresty says the Fab Lab is an important resource open to the community that not enough people know about. “The first time I went there was on my own to make labels for the studio, but I quickly started collaborating with them on other projects,” Aresty says. “That type of interdisciplinary environment is very much in sync with the incredible collaborations that come out of StudiOC, where you’re looking at themes from different disciplinary perspectives. You’re able to bring these concepts to life in an incredible way. The fact that this is the second Fab Lab in the nation and less than 30 minutes away from us in pretty amazing. All of the �鶹��Ƶ students that I know who have found their way there have been super excited to discover those resources.” </p> <p>First-year Hannah Humphrey, a student in Kozol’s “Justice in America?” first-year seminar, has enjoyed engaging with LCCC students through the postcard project, which she says has helped dismantle assumptions about both schools. The assignment was to create a postcard in the context of mail art that in some way described themselves or some type of self-expression. Students could respond to each other in writing only but choose to add some type of visual element.</p> <p>“I decided to take a bunch of photos that were representative of me or influenced me and paste them on the card. It was cool to hear from students at the LCCC because I used to attend Lakeland Community College in my hometown of Eastlake, Ohio,” Humphrey says. “There is a stigma around going to community college, while at the same time we put private school up on a pedestal. I think programs like this are important for connecting across that divide,” says Humphrey, an intended math and political science double major. </p> <p>Meredith Warden, also a first-year, learned that LCCC has a diversity in terms of students’ age and reasons for pursuing a degree. </p> <p>“The postcard project is a great way to connect �鶹��Ƶ students with the broader community in Lorain County,” says Warden, who is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “This experience has been valuable, especially for �鶹��Ƶ students coming from different backgrounds.” </p> <p>LCCC’s Karshner envisioned the postcard project as a way to bridge the two campuses. </p> <p>“When we made our field trip to the letterpress studio, I was surprised to learn that only one of my students had been to �鶹��Ƶ before,” Karshner says. “I think the value for my students is to know that coming to �鶹��Ƶ College might be a possibility for them in the future, and I think both campuses have valuable resources to share.”</p> <p>View the<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHU4B3R" target="_blank"> Flickr album</a> <span aria-hidden="true" class="fa fa-external-link"></span> for photos of the 4D Collaboration workshops.</p> <p> </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-10-28T12:00:00Z">Mon, 10/28/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Makerspace learning meets liberal arts as �鶹��Ƶ joins forces with Lorain County Community College.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2959">StudiOC</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2583">College of Arts and Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">�鶹��Ƶ students visit the Campana Center for Ideation and Invention at Lorain County Community College in October.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-flex-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden vertical-spacing--basic field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div id="obj-28795" class="paragraph paragraph--type--para-el-photo-gallery paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="section--photo-gallery o-flex--photo-gallery"> <p class="header-tag">Photo Gallery</p> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid"> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery--overlay"> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery--overlay__content"> <h2> 4D Liberal Arts Collaboration </h2> <button class="btn js-modal" data-modal-prefix-class="fullscreen" data-modal-content-id="28795" data-modal-background-click="disabled"> View photo gallery </button> </div> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> <div class="o-flex--photo-gallery__grid__img-wrapper"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="28795" class="photo-gallery-wrapper"> <div class="photo-gallery"> <div class="photo-gallery__slides"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">The Campana Center for Ideation and Invention at Lorain County Community College. </span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Michael Hartman</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">TIMARA Technical Directory Abby Aresty works with �鶹��Ƶ students in the Fab Lab at LCCC.</span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Michael Hartman</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">Students in Emily Barton's advanced creative writing class.</span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Michael Hartman</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__wrapper"> <figure class="photo-gallery__slide"> <div class="photo-gallery__slide__image"> </div> <figcaption> <span class="figure__caption">Assistant Professor Emily Barton's advanced creative writing class worked with the Fab Lab to create silhouettes out of fabric that were dipped in resin and then mounted on boards. </span> <span class="figure__credit">Photo credit: Michael Hartman</span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="photo-gallery__navbar"> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> <figure class="photo-gallery__navbar__item"> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Envisioning Electroinclusivity</h1> <p>eburnett — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:37:15 +0000</p> <span>Envisioning Electroinclusivity</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-09-30T10:37:15-04:00" title="Monday, September 30, 2019 - 10:37">Mon, 09/30/2019 - 10:37</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>�鶹��Ƶ’s ties to computer music extend to the late 1960s and to groundbreaking faculty composer Olly Wilson, who established a forward-looking curriculum that far surpassed the sounds emanating from most other college campuses of the era.</p> <p>In 1969, the first courses that would eventually become TIMARA—shorthand for Technology in Music and Related Arts—were offered at �鶹��Ƶ. Twenty years later, TIMARA conferred its first degree.</p> <p>Now 50 years after those initial courses, TIMARA is celebrating its milestone anniversary with a series of events taking place throughout the 2019-20 academic year and involving many TIMARA devotees, from faculty to alumni to current students.</p> <p>The festivities begin October 4 and 5 with the <a href="https://sites.google.com/oberlin.edu/crafting-sound-symposium/about?authuser=0">Crafting Sound Symposium</a>, coordinated by TIMARA Technical Director and Lecturer <a href="/node/49256">Abby Aresty</a>. The celebration continues with events in November and March of 2020.</p> <p>The Crafting Sound Symposium is intended to cast a critical eye toward the technologies of sound, including an examination of value systems that tend to accompany these technologies and exploration of various alternatives to traditional sound technology and the ways they might engage new audiences.</p> <p>Numerous events on Friday and Saturday culminate in a <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_crafting_sound_concert">concert on Saturday evening</a> in the Birenbaum Innovation and Performance Space, in the lower level of the Hotel at �鶹��Ƶ (10 E. College St.).</p> <p>“The maker movement in general has been criticized over time for emphasizing particular kinds of makers over another…a sort of male nerd culture,” says Aresty, who is teaching a fall course called Reimagining Maker Culture(s): from Fabrication to Curation. The class is part of �鶹��Ƶ’s StudiOC Learning Community, which offers innovative curricular study opportunities that unite disciplines from across the college and conservatory.</p> <p>“A lot of researchers over time have tried to bring electronics to existing communities of crafters. The question is, if you use these other types of technologies, do you have a broader reach by making electronics more about craft and less about abstract principles? It’s an interesting space to explore.”</p> <p>Aresty was joined in coordinating the symposium by <a href="/node/31126">Kyle Hartzell</a>, an educational technologist and digital media engineer who works in �鶹��Ƶ’s Cinema Studies Department and the Center for Information Technology.</p> <p>The weekend opens with <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_sonic_super-buffet">Sonic Super-Buffet</a>, a celebration of interactive exhibits, instruments, and installations by TIMARA faculty, students, and other local artists. It happens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 4, in the Birenbaum.</p> <p>“The idea is to give a little bit of a preview of the technologies people will be using in their concert on Saturday as well as some projects you won’t see on Saturday,” says Aresty. “It’s a very hands-on event. You can try things out and make sounds yourself.”</p> <p>Saturday, October 5, offers a full day of activities. The complete schedule is as follows:</p> <p></p> <p>(An RSVP is required for both workshops; scan the QR code at right for details.) </p> <p>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5</p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_robotic_percussion">Robotic Percussion Workshop</a><br> 10 a.m. | TIMARA Makerspace & Gallery<br> Artist Jimmy Kuehnle use Arduino microcontrollers, simple code, common objects, and lots of hot glue to rig up basic servomotor robotic drum machines that lay the foundation for more complex future explorations and advancement.</p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_paper_circuits_for_audio">Paper Circuits for Audio Workshop</a><br> 1 p.m. | TIMARA Makerspace & Gallery<br> Sound artist Jess Rowland explores how to design and build flexible, flat, embedded circuitry for paper speakers and other non-traditional sound-making surfaces.</p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_miscellaneous_electronic_bits">Miscellaneous Electronic Bits</a><br> 4 p.m. | Black Box Theatre (above Apollo Theatre)<br> This panel discussion focuses on various guest artists’ creative uses of technology, with emphasis on gendered and sociopolitical dynamics related to these technologies. Asha Tamirisa '10, Jess Rowland, Afroditi Psarra, and Jimmy Kuehnle will take part.</p> <p><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/crafting_sound_symposium_crafting_sound_concert">Crafting Sound Concert</a><br> 7:30 p.m. | The Birenbaum<br> The symposium concludes with a concert featuring works by Asha Tamirisa, Afroditi Psarra, and Jess Rowland, as well as various student artists.</p> <p>“The whole weekend is intended for anyone who’s interested in technology in general and craft arts. It’s going to be really wonky—it’s very <em>TIMARA-esque</em>,” Aresty says with a smile. “I think there’s going to be something for everyone. If folks aren’t sure, they can always come Friday night and check out some things. If you like what you see, then you can experience a lot more on Saturday!”</p> <p>The 50th anniversary celebration continues with the <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/timara_50th_anniversary_concert">Kaleidosonic Music Festival</a>, created by TIMARA associate professor <a href="/node/7016">Tom Lopez ’89</a> and scheduled for Saturday, November 16. Spring semester includes <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/timara_50th_anniversary_exquisite_electrophonics">Exquisite Electrophonics</a> on Saturday, March 7, and <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/timara_50th_anniversary_sound_in_the_round">Sound in the Round</a> on Sunday, March 8.</p> <p>Visit the <a href="http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/">TIMARA website</a> for additional details.</p> <p>The Crafting Sound Symposium is supported by the Center for Convergence (StudiOC) at �鶹��Ƶ College and by the Office of Alumni Relations.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-09-30T12:00:00Z">Mon, 09/30/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Erich Burnett</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>TIMARA begins a yearlong celebration with the Crafting Sound Symposium Oct. 4-5.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=3317">TIMARA 50th Anniversary Celebration</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2959">StudiOC</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=33031">TIMARA</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25256">Cinema and Media</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/abby-aresty" hreflang="und">Abby Aresty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/contemporary-music" hreflang="und">Contemporary Music</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">TIMARA faculty and staff Eli Stine, Abby Aresty, Tom Lopez, Aurie Hsu, and Peter Swendsen (from left) are gearing up for a big year.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Tanya Rosen-Jones '97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center Naming</h1> <p>eulrich — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:06:41 +0000</p> <span>Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center Naming</span> <span><span>eulrich</span></span> <span><time datetime="2018-09-26T16:06:41-04:00" title="Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 16:06">Wed, 09/26/2018 - 16:06</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Formerly the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE), the Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center has been renamed in honor of <a href="/node/123276" target="_blank">the late mother of Robert Lemle ’75</a>, who was a lifelong champion of the arts and education and dedicated her life to helping others.</p> <p>Now located in the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center, the Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center is an on-campus nexus for collaborative learning and reflection between faculty and teaching staff. The center fosters a culture of self-reflection and cohesive, interdependent learning through programming that brings together faculty and staff to share their teaching practices and perspectives.</p> <p>One such programming initiative is the <a href="/node/123281" target="_blank">Faculty Teaching Fellows program</a>, which pairs faculty and teaching staff seeking advice on their pedagogy with an experienced faculty member. Faculty Teaching fellows are drawn from the arts and humanities, natural sciences and mathematics, social and behavioral sciences, and the Conservatory of Music. Teaching fellows have committed to making themselves available for classroom observation, one-on-one consultation, and opening their classes for scheduled visits from interested colleagues.</p> <p>Lunch Breakthrough, another programming initiative, brings together members of the �鶹��Ƶ community to share novel ideas—big or small—related to teaching, the curriculum, and programming from 12:30-1:15 p.m. on Thursdays in StudiOC. Programming this fall will include the themes “Career Preparation within the Academic Department,” “Makerspaces and Liberal Arts,” and “StudiOC/Learning Community Curricular Model.” Lunch will be catered by the Hotel at �鶹��Ƶ.</p> <p>Teacher/Scholar Works in Progress Talks allow �鶹��Ƶ faculty to share their current projects—scholarly, artistic, and activist—with teaching faculty and staff. The talks provide an opportunity for faculty to workshop new ideas, teach colleagues about their work, practice a talk, test out new course ideas, and reflect on how their research/performance/activism and teaching complement each other. Talks will take place from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Fridays, followed by a Q&A from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with wine and cheese.</p> <p>Additional workshops through the Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center will include “Syllabus Design” and “Mentoring,” which are in collaboration with the Center for Learning, Education and Research in the Sciences and the Academic Advising Resource Center.</p> <p><a class="view-more" href="/node/4546" target="_blank">Browse Gertrude B. Lemle Center website</a></p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2018-09-26T12:00:00Z">Wed, 09/26/2018 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Communications Staff</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center, formerly the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE), is named after the late Gertrude B. Lemle and will offer programming in memory of her legacy.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2959">StudiOC</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2597">Faculty and Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Entrance to the Gertrude B. Lemle Center in StudiOC.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Tanya Rosen-Jones ’97</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Rethinking Sports as Scholarship</h1> <p>tsloan — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:32:21 +0000</p> <span>Rethinking Sports as Scholarship</span> <span><span>tsloan</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-11-07T15:32:21-05:00" title="Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 15:32">Tue, 11/07/2017 - 15:32</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p dir="ltr">The name of English Professor Yago Colás’s course, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sports, derives its title from Wallace Stevens’ poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Stevens’ work is divided into 13 stanzas, each of which describes the experience of seeing a blackbird from a different perspective. This approach to understanding a subject through a wide range of lenses underscores the primary goal of Colás’s class.</p> <p dir="ltr">As part of the <a href="/news/tackling-society%E2%80%99s-greatest-challenges-studioc">course cluster</a>, Sports, Culture, and Society, Colás’s syllabus explores philosophy, literary and cultural study, sociology, economics, and science to analyze sports and their cultural significance. His course is <a href="/studioc/sports-culture-and-society">taught in conjunction</a> with Associate Professor of Sociology Daphne John’s Sports: Contested Contests, and Sport and Community, led by Associate Head Men’s Basketball Coach Tim McCrory.</p> <p dir="ltr">“About seven years ago, I got a bit tired of doing literary studies,” Colás says of his transition into focusing on sports as an academic concept. “At the same time, I was thinking about what I’d always really been passionate about, and it was athletics—both as an athlete and as a spectator. I realized that the tools I’d acquired to do literary studies were useful in thinking about sports culture and thinking about sports as a machine, that among other things, generates cultural forms, narratives, images, and quantitative discourses.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The course material challenges students to reconsider preconceived notions about sports, whether existing beliefs lean toward relishing sports culture or wishing it didn’t exist at all. The topic is pertinent to �鶹��Ƶ’s student body, which often grapples with everything from the role that athletics plays in campus culture to if student-athletes should replicate protests occurring on the national stage. The idea is not so much to change people’s minds, but rather, for students to appreciate just how far-reaching sports are in our society.</p> <p dir="ltr">“There is an assumption that intellectualism and sports don't go together, that somehow sports can't stand for itself in the classroom,” says first-year Leah Ross, who is enrolled in Colás’s course this semester and is currently working on strengthening support networks for women athletes within the college. “Yago has forced us, as a class, to push beyond our relationship with athletics as it pertains to physicality. He has encouraged a critical and mental focus, one that has developed into a deeply personal questioning of my own sports habits, values, and purpose.”</p> <p dir="ltr">One of the most important aspects of the course and its accompanying out-of-class events is that students have the opportunity to engage in discourse about the subject no matter where they fall on the love-hate sports spectrum. As part of this effort, Colás has brought notable figures to campus such as NPR and ESPN commentator <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/dont_believe_the_type_kevin_blackistone_at_oberlin_college#.WgDT_BNSz-Y">Kevin Blackistone</a>, and held multiple forums, including, “Hate Sports? We Want to Hear About It.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Outside of the classroom, the course cluster’s community-based learning component partners students with local public schools and youth recreation programs, where they have the opportunity to tutor, coach, and teach. Already, they are developing intramural leagues, pairing student-athletes with mentees, and facilitating sports such as lacrosse and field hockey, which may not be offered or accessible to youth within the community.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The community-based learning gives students a real-life opportunity to experience different aspects of an academic course, and helps them better apply what they learn to an actual action,” says McCrory. “Students are in the community so they really have a sense of what’s going on. �鶹��Ƶ College to them not only means the college but the community too.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The cluster’s <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/dr_marcia_mount_shoop_eracing_the_lines_marks_of_white_culture_in_college_sports#.WgHQJRNSz-Y">next affiliated event</a> is Marcia Mount Shoop’s talk, “(E)Racing the Lines: Marks of White Culture in College Sports,” this Thursday. The free, public lecture will discuss how white privilege and culture “help to cultivate and entrench racialized disadvantages in ways that are often invisible in college sports.”</p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2017-11-07T12:00:00Z">Tue, 11/07/2017 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Tyler Sloan ’17</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Whether you’re a die-hard fan or go into hiding during the Super Bowl, chances are you have an opinion on sports. A new course this fall, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sports, provides an innovative platform to talk about sports’ dynamic role in society.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2959">StudiOC</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2583">College of Arts and Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2771">Athletics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2382">Community Service</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/daphne-john" hreflang="und">Daphne John</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/english" hreflang="und">English</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/sociology" hreflang="und">Sociology</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Colás teaching his Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sports course in StudiOC.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Yevhen Gulenko</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>