Why does art evoke an hedonic response? As artists, Psychology Professors Steve Palmer and Art Shimamura have long been interested in what happens when we view art. They will share insights from their new book, Aesthetic Science, and seek your responses to their photography.
Professor Shannon Jackson welcomes participants to a day-long symposium co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative (http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu) and the Arts Research Center (http://arts.berkeley.edu).
The first session, "Creativity and 'Class': Bay Area Urban Experiments" features Andy Wang of the 5M Project/Forest City; Deborah Cullinan of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Elvin Padilla of the 950 Center for Art & Education. Professor Margaret Crawford (Architecture) is moderator and discussant.
This session was part of of Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts & Public Space, co-sponsored by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative (http://globalurbanhumanities.berkeley.edu) and the Arts Research Center (http://arts.berkeley.edu).
Political Awakenings
Harry Kreisler, Executive Director Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Conversations Host and Executive Producer Harry Kreisler discusses his new book, "Political Awakenings," and tells the story of the Conversations series. Kreisler traces the origins of program, describes his vision of the craft of interviewing, and talks about the ways technology dramatically increased access to the CWH program creating a global audience. He then discusses the origin of the book and its content. Choosing twenty interviews from the 485 in the Conversations archive he focused on those interviewees that stand out because they came to see their world in a radically different way, with important implications for The World. They embraced ideas and actions that implied an alternative way of perceiving politics. In this context, politics means more than party affiliation; it refers to an understanding of power relations. They applied these insights in a variety of arenas, whether world affairs, the
role of women in society, the impact on the environment of human behavior. In their own lives, the insights of these guests didnt just happen but were the consequences of life experiences that helped clarify the way things held together—moments of political awakening.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/
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