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Community Learning Day
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
The Arts and Social Responsibility
Keynote Speaker
Tim O'Brien
Author of The Things They Carried and July,
July
Kendall Hall Main Theatre at 12:30 p.m.
Panel Discussions
Brower Student Center at 2:15 p.m.
- An Afternoon with Sue Coe, Visual
Journalist
BSC 202 East - Agents Provocateurs: Theatre Artists
Speak Out About Social Responsibility
BSC 211 - Documentarians and Social Responsibility:
Challenges for the 21st Century
BSC 202 West
Tim O'Brien, Author
TIM
O'BRIEN was born in 1946 in Austin, Minnesota, and spent most of
his youth in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota. He graduated summa
cum laude from Macalester College in 1968. From February
1969, to Marhc 1970, he served as infantryman with the U.S. Army
in Vietnam, after which he pursued graduate studies in Government
at Harvard University. He worked as a national affairs reporter
for The Washington Post from 1973 to 1974. Tim O'Brien
is the author of Going After Cacciato , which received
the National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried ,
which received France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and which
was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book
Critics Circle Award. In the Lake of the Woods , a work
of fiction published in 1994, received the James Fenimore Cooper
Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named best
novel of the year by Time magazine. Mr. O'Brien's other
books are If I Die in a Combat Zone , Northern Lights , The
Nuclear Age , and Tomcat in Love . His short fiction
has appeared in numerous literary and popular magazines, including The
New Yorker , Esquire , Harper's , The
Atlantic , Playboy , and Ploughshares ,
and in several editions of The Best American Short Stories and
The O. Henry Prize Stories. In 1987, Mr. O'Brien received the National
Magazine Award for his short story, "The Things They Carried," and
in 1999 the same story was selected for inclusion in The Best American
Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike. Mr. O'Brien
is the recipient of literary awards from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment
for the Arts. He has been elected to both the Society of American
Historians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. O'Brien
currently holds the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Chair in Creative
Writing at Southwest Texas State University.
An Afternoon with Sue Coe, Visual Journalist
BSC 202 East
Sue Coe has spent her 30-year career in the United States taking a stand on social problems through her controversial work, hoping not to shock, but to educate, influence and inspire change and action. Her artwork, illustrations and books address issues such as apartheid, AIDS, animal rights, the Ku Klux Klan, Ethiopian famine and terrorism in Northern Ireland . Coe's work is featured in museums worldwide, including New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Art and the Oxford Museum of Modern Art.
Moderated by Jayne Zanglein, School of Business
Co-sponsored by School of Education ; School of Business, School of Culture & Society; and School of Art , Music & Media.
Agents Provocateurs: Theatre Artists Speak Out About Social
Responsibility
BSC 211
Do theatre artists have a special responsibility to address issues of social/political concern? Why or why not?
This panel features William Mastrosimone, award-winning playwright (Extremities; Bang, Bang, You're Dead; and Afghan Women, to be produced this October at the Passage Theatre, Trenton); June Balenger, artistic director of passage theatre; David White, managing director of Passage Theatre; Sheila Callaghan, playwright and TCNJ alumnae and adjunct professor (The Hunger Waltz, to be produced off-Broadway in January); and Miche Braden, performance artist (portrays Bessie Smith in a one-woman performance).
Moderated by Lincoln Konkle, Department of English
Coordinated by Jean Konzal, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
Documentarians and Social Responsibility: Challenges for
the 21st Century
BSC 202 West
The panelists will include the following:
Shira Golding,Film Festival and Outreach Coordinator for the nonprofit organization MediaRights.org, which promotes the use of documentary film as a tool for social change by connecting filmmakers, activists, teachers, librarians and nonprofits. Shira makes films with the group QuickFlicks and is Co-Founder of Activist Media for Better Living and NiceKicks.org. shira@mediarights.org
Lorna Johnson, teaches documentary production at The College of New Jersey and is currently working on the completion of " Freedom Road " a documentary about women in the New Jersey prison system.
Moderated by Susan Ryan, Department of Communication Studies.
Sponsored by Committee for Cultural and Intellectual Community.
For more information, please contact Nino Scarpati at 609-771-2449 or at scarpati@tcnj.edu or Gem Perkins at 609-771-3112 or at perkinsg@tcnj.edu.
