Writing for the Public: How to Share Your Scholarly Work With Ordinary People
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Writing for the Public: How to Share Your Scholarly Work With Ordinary People
RDE Faculty Retreat Spring 2021 with workshop conveners Ian Bogost (Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology) and Christopher Schaberg (Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans).
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This workshop is offered as part of Washington University’s RDE Initiative (Redefining Doctoral Education in the Humanities, or “Ready”). RDE focuses on supporting faculty efforts to develop the best pedagogical practices in graduate education for instilling capacities essential for success — such as writing for the public — both within academia and in the world beyond. Faculty Workshops are offered once per year on a different topic.
To Do Without People: Moyra Davey’s Impossible Renunciation
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To Do Without People: Moyra Davey’s Impossible Renunciation
Jenny Wu, MA student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology - New Perspectives lecture series
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The work of Moyra Davey is invested with individual subjectivity and autobiography. The distinct absence of any figures, however, in her photographs from 2003—along with Davey’s choice to focus attention instead on space, in its “empty,” uninhabited variations—harkens back to the decade in the artist’s life (roughly 1984–94) when, burdened by the notion of “image theft,” Davey retreated from the genre of portraiture. This talk by Jenny Wu, MA student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, will situate four of Davey’s photographs from the collection of the Kemper Art Museum within the artist’s most recently published meditations on craft and discuss her unpeopled interiors in relation to issues of ownership, medium, and the representation of time and space.
