[UPDATE: a video of the Symposium is available on the College of Arts and Humanities web site.]
SUNY Fredonia’s College of Arts and Humanities will host its Spring 2010 Symposium under the theme “The Human Response to Adversity.” The presentation will take place on Thursday, April 29, in Rosch Recital Hall, from 2 to 4 p.m.; light refreshments will be served afterwards. The event is free and open to all campus and community members.
The spring symposium will feature the following presentations:
* Linda Brigance, associate professor of communication , will present “Kennedy, Camelot and Cynicism: Making Sense of a Collective Tragedy,” a discussion of the American public’s adoption of the Camelot myth as a framework for remembering the presidency of John. F. Kennedy and as a catharsis for collective grief following his assassination
* Ann Carden, associate professor of communication, will present “Four Dead in Ohio: The Evolution of Kent State’s Reaction Response to May 4, 1970,” a discussion of Carden’s research that uses the historic Kent state shootings of 1970 as a model to propose that tourists are driven to cultural and historical sites because of a real or perceived emotional or nostalgic relationship they have with the destination.
* David Rose and Ann Park, assistant professors of the School of Music , will present “From Tragedy To Music To Performance: Reaction to 9/11,” including a performance of Mook Nyum, a work written by Park in response to the September 11 tragedy. The Korean title translates to English as “Moment of Silence.”
* Andrew Cullison, assistant professor of philosophy, will present “Natural Disasters and the Existence of God,” a discussion of three contemporary responses to the argument that God is incompatible with the existence of natural evil (e.g. earthquakes, famines, plagues and other natural disasters).
For more information about the Arts and Humanities Spring 2010 Symposium, contact Dr. John Kijinski, dean of Arts and Humanities, at 716-673-3174 or John.Kijinski@Fredonia.edu.
