[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines

[Gonul Pultar]

From: "Hall, James" <jhall2 at nc.ua.edu>


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

31st Annual Association for Integrative Studies Conference
October 8th - 11th , 2009
Hosted by the University of Alabama
Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines

Dramatic changes in the knowledge economy make urgent approaches to
learning, scholarship, and engagement that activate the creative 
capacities of higher education communities. From Richard Florida's 
accounts of the emergence and dominance of a new "creative class" to 
Daniel Pink's insistence that "right brainers will rule," scholars and 
students alike are being encouraged to discern and highlight the role 
that creativity can and should play in giving meaning and depth to 
learning and understanding. This not only means celebrating and 
enhancing  the traditional role of the arts in building cohesive 
learning communities, but a fuller investigation of how the paradigm of 
creativity can lead to a compelling vision of integration and 
interdisciplinarity.

To facilitate this consideration, we welcome proposals for presentations 
in multiple formats, including, but not limited to, roundtable 
discussions, integrated panels, single papers, and performances that 
address issues such as:

· Creativity as Core Educational Value - creativity as assessment
outcome; arts participation and general education; creative capacity as
distinct intelligence; creativity and empathy; creativity as 
introduction to diversity; creativity and the integrative learning 
process; creativity and interdisciplinarity; leadership and the arts; 
the arts in the non-arts classroom; creativity and professionalism

· Creativity and Collaboration - building innovative campus 
collaborations amongst artists and engineers, scientists, designers, and
others; creativity as a paradigm to bridge the "divisions" of 
humanities, natural and social sciences; interdisciplinary research on 
creativity; creativity, entrepreneurship and career development; 
invention, innovation, and economic growth

· Creativity as a Means of Integrating Campus and Community
Economies - community/campus arts partnerships; confronting deficiencies 
in K12 arts education; supporting students as arts entrepreneurs; 
creativity and community renewal; creativity and the knowledge economy; 
culture as an economic base

While the program committee welcomes the sharing of best practices, we 
are especially interested in presentations, events and conversations 
that self-consciously consider the complex and dynamic relationship 
among creativity, interdisciplinarity, and integrative learning.   As 
always, the Association for Integrative Studies welcomes more general 
presentations that advance its mission to promote the interchange of 
ideas among scholars and administrators in all of the arts and sciences 
on intellectual and organizational issues related to advancing 
integrative and interdisciplinary studies.

Proposals (250 words) should be sent to AISconference at bama.ua.edu by 
April 1st, 2009, and we expect respond to proposal writers by May 15th, 
2009.


James C. Hall
Director, New College
University of Alabama
<jhall2 at nc.ua.edu>