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Request for nominations for Graduate Student Workshop
On February 25/26 2008 BGSU, with generous sponsorship from the College of Arts and Sciences, is hosting a campus visit with
Jan Cohen-Cruz Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. This national consortium of colleges and universities is committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.
Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence. It includes:
- Scholarly and creative work jointly planned and carried out by university and community partners;
- Intellectual work that produces a public good;
- Artistic, critical, and historical work that contributes to public debates;
- Efforts to expand the place of public scholarship in higher education itself, including the development of new programs and
research on the successes of such efforts.
Public scholarship in the arts and humanities integrates all the missions of higher education: research, teaching, service,
and public engagement.
Monday, February 25th 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Publicly Active Graduate Education (P.A.G.E.) Workshop
BTSU 308
An Interactive Workshop with Imagining America Director, Jan Cohen-Cruz
(Sponsored by the Graduate College)
Graduate and selected advanced undergraduate student nominations are now being requested from all Chairs, Deans and Directors
receiving this announcement. Nominations of advanced undergraduates who intend to purse a career as a faculty member or community
based scholars will also be considered on special request. Additional slots are reserved for graduate students from other
regional institutions.
What is "Publicly Active Graduate Education"? How does our academic scholarship activate our civic engagement, and vice versa?
When theory and practice unite in community-based projects led by graduate students, what are the implications for graduate
students, for the communities involved, and for graduate education?
In coming together for a formal workshop with Jan Cohen Cruz, graduate student participants will have the opportunity to explore
these questions with a leading scholar and learn more about Imagining America and the PAGE Fellows program. Additionally,
each student participant will be asked to share a brief description of his or her own public scholarship and creative work
with the hope of fostering new interdisciplinary collaborations within and beyond the BGSU campus.
Every year, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites graduate students in the arts, humanities, and
design with a demonstrated interest in public engagement to apply to be P.A.G.E. (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellows
at Imagining America’s national conference. Fellows attend a day-long, pre-conference “PAGE Summit” devoted to building the
theoretical and practical language with which to articulate their own public scholarship; attend the general conference sessions;
and have opportunities for individual mentorship with leaders in the field of public cultural practice; and are invited to
participate in the conference’s poster session. Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs have been PAGE
Fellows. Fellows receive cash stipends towards the expenses of attending the conference, and have their conference registration
fee waived.
For further information about Imagining America and the P.A.G.E Fellows Program visit www.imaginingamerica.org. The current issue of IA News, No.9 Fall 07, (downloadable from the Imagining America website) includes the 2007 PAGE Summit
Reading List. All workshop participants will be responsible for these readings prior to the workshop. For further questions about this workshop please contact Kate Collins, BGSU Department of Theater and Film at 419-372-9448,
katec@bgsu.edu
Required Readings for Workshop
Cantor, Nancy and Lavine, Steven, “Taking Public Scholarship Seriously.” Chronicle of Higher Education (9 June 2006): B40.
http://0-chronicle.com.maurice.bgsu.edu/weekly/v52/i40/40b02001.htm
Cohen-Cruz. Jan, “When the Gown Goes to Town: The Reciprocal Rewards of Fieldwork for Artists.” Theatre Topics 11. 1 (March
2001): 55-62.
http://0-journals.ohiolink.edu.maurice.bgsu.edu/ejc/article.cgi?issn=10863346&issue=v11i0001&article=55_wtggttrroffa
Sanchez, George J., “Crossing Figueroa: The Tangled Web of Diversity and Democracy.” Foreseeable Futures, Working Papers from
Imagining America. (Fall 2005).
https://ctools.umich.edu/access/content/group/1106364909396-12033726/Sanchez_G_CrossingFigueroa.pdf
Scobey, David, “Putting the Academy in Its Place.” Place 14.2 (Spring 2002): 50-55.
http://www.artsofcitizenship.umich.edu/about/02102000.html
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