Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square

Please note venue change for this presentation
The College of Arts and Humanities and the Kremen School of Education and Human Development present

Dr. William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago

Pay Attention and Be Astonished: Ethical Action and the Creation of the Public Square

Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 2-3:30 PM
Place: Satellite Students’ Union

Open and free to the public

3:30-4:30 Reception and Book signing
Dean's Gallery
Old Music Building

4:30-7:00 PM Film Screening Central Station (1998) and Discussion by Dr. Ayers, McLane 121

Central Station (1998). Director Walter Salles tells a profoundly moving tale of the human spirit. Inside Rio de Janeiro’s bustling Central Station, two very unlikely souls are about to become inextricably linked. When a young boy witnesses his mother’s accidental death, a lonely retired schoolteacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. Although initially distrustful of each other, the two form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil’s barren and remote northeast region in search of the boy’s father. Together, the two embark on a journey of the heart that restores the woman’s spirit and teaches the child precious life lessons. This highly acclaimed film received numerous awards, including a Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations. In Portuguese with English subtitles. 113 min.

Dr. William Ayers is founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate.

Ayers' articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. His has authored and co-authored several books including To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press, 1993), which was named Book of the Year in 1993 by Kappa Delta Pi and won the Witten Award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995.

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California State University Fresno

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Emily Kuroda, Award Winning Television, Stage, and Film Actress

Date: March 4, 2010

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Studio A in Speech Arts Building

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumna

Emily Kuroda
B.A. Theatre Arts 1977
Award Winning Television, Stage, and Film Actress

Emily Kuroda completed seven years as Mrs. Kim in Warner Brothers’ GILMORE GIRLS. She was also a series regular on UNDER ONE ROOF with Flavor Flav. Other television credits include GREY’S ANATOMY, SIX FEET UNDER, KING OF QUEENS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, THE PRACTICE, GENERAL HOSPITAL, PORT CHARLES, ER, THE DIVISION, THE AGENCY, PRESIDIO MED and ARLISS. Feature films include HOTEL FOR DOGS, THE SENSI, SHOP GIRL, MINORITY REPORT, STRANGER INSIDE, TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY, DAD, BROKEN WORDS, ABOUT LOVE (Emmy nominated), WORTH WINNING and the soon to be released PEEP WORLD and AUSSIE AND TED with Dean Caine.

Emily has performed in numerous plays including Luis Alfaro’s STRAIGHT AS A LINE at Playwrights Arena, directed by Jon Rivera, Chay Yew's RED at East West Players and WINTER PEOPLE at the Boston Court. Other theatres include Kirk Douglas Theatre, South Coast Rep, New York’s Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Doolittle Theater, Huntington Theater (Boston), Los Angeles Theater Center, Zephyr Theater, LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival.

She is the recipient of five Dramalogue Awards, a Garland Award for outstanding performance, an L.A. Ovation award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Playwrights Arena Award and the EWP Award for Outstanding Contribution to LA Theater.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/EmilyKuroda.htm





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José A. Díaz, DMA
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno

Good Enough

The Ethics Center Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture

Good Enough: Why is the “good enough” not good enough? by John Lachs

Date: February 11, 2010
Time: 5-6 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium

Lecture is Free and Open to the Public
Relaxed parking in the UBC parking lot only

Philosopher John Lachs reflects on our desire for perfection, which he connects with the longing for God and the experience of beauty. Suggesting that the ideal of moral perfection can be inhumane, Lachs concludes, “the fact that the world could be better does not imply that we are obliged to make it better.”

John Lachs is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of many books and articles, including most recently The Cost of Comfort (2010). He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. This presentation is based on his article, “Good Enough” in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

Sponsored by The Ethics Center at Fresno State, the Leon S. Peters Foundation, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and an IRA Grant

Contact Andrew Fiala: afiala@csufresno.edu or Ethics Center's website: http://www.csufresno.edu/ethicscenter

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumnus

Marcus Nance
B.A. Music 1988
Operatic and Broadway Singer, Film Actor

Date: January 28, 2010
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Place: Concert Hall

Described by the Toronto Star as "a major talent," Mr. Nance has performed on Broadway and sung concerts and leading roles with opera companies and orchestras in such venues as the New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, London, Toronto, Chicago, Santa Fe, Vancouver, and the Jazz Festivals of Ottowa and Toronto.

Marcus made his feature film debut as the singing accountant in the Mel Brooks movie The Producers and recently began hosting the cabaret series Divos and Divas with Marcus Nance at Statler's in Toronto.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/MarcusNance.htm

Distinguished Alumnus: Sidney B. Cox, B.A. Journalism 1952, Founder Cox Communications

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features:

Distinguished Alumnus: Sidney B. Cox, B.A. Journalism 1952, Founder Cox Communications

Date: November 5, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: McKee Fisk, room 242

Mr. Cox is an icon the field of public relations. After having worked as a reporter for KMJ Radio and TV and later for the Fresno Bee, Sid became Vice President of Producers Cotton Oil in 1960, and in 1988 he founded his own company, Cox Communications, a public relations consultancy.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/SidneyB.Cox.htm

Intellectual and Artistic Exploration

College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno

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Distinguished Alumna, Carmen Carey, CEO of CopperEye

Date: October 15, 2009
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Place: Peters Building, room 194

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumna:

Carmen Carey

B.A. Speech Communication 1991
M.A. Speech Communication 1992
CEO, CopperEye

Ms. Carmen became CEO of CopperEye, a software company based in Bath, United Kingdom in 2008. CopperEye is a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions. For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/ArtsandHumanitiesLectureSeries2009-2010_000.htm

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John Hultberg in Context

The distinguished artist John Hultberg,a strikingly good-looking and articulate man who should have been wildly successful, was not helped by a self-destructive instinct and an art that was slightly askew from his times. To understand how his art explored realities that are only now coming into being but which he instinctively anticipated we ahve to see what his colleagues were practicing and the sources of Hultberg's work in the history of western art.

Author or co-author of more than thirteen books and fifty articles on art, culture, poetry, and theology, Dr. Harry Rand serves as Senior Curator, Cultural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. He was formerly Chairman, Department of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture , National Museum of American Art. Dr. Rand has contributed to over thirty museum exhibitions and catalogues, has published numerous exhibition and book reviews, has lectured and taught at prestigious universities internationally, and is frequently cited in major sources.

Dr. Rand was the first art historian to participate in the annual Davos Conference of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum meetings in Washington. He was a Founding Council member of the World Arts Council and subsequent Steering Committee member. He has served on the Board of Directors, World Society for the Prevention of Trade in Stolen Art; the Austrian International Art Institute and its successor, the museum KunstHausWien, Vienna, Austria; the Museum Committee, Committee for the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. award for museum scholarship, and the Committee for the Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award for the College Art Association. Has served as a consultant to: The World Bank; Exodus Foundation; City of Phoenix, Arizona; Milwaukee Art Museum; the Cosanti Foundation; City of Fall River; National Academy of Sciences; Virlane Foundation; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Katz & Ranzman, etc. At the Smithsonian he served on the Provost's Committee on Human Studies.

Interdisciplinary Studies Program Advisory Committee, Program Committee for the Smithsonian 150th Birthday, and was Editorial Advisor, Smithsonian Studies in American Art.

John Hultberg's distinguished career spans over the five decades with numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His dark moody landscapes incorporating architectural and figurative elements almost belie a painting category. Considered a maverick painter, he forged a very original style of his own, which some have called Apocalyptic, Surreal, or Visionary.

Born in 1922 in Berkeley, California of Swedish parents, he attended Fresno State College where he earned a B.A. degre in English Literature. After serving as lieutenant with the United States Navy in the Pacific, he entered the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, where he studied painting with Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. He came to New York City in 1949 to study at the Art Student League with Will Barnet and Morris Kantor.

In 1954 he relocated to Paris where he was to join other expatriate artists. He exhibited in Europe and there met the art dealer Martha Jackson, who invited him to become part of her newly established international gallery in New York where he exhibited for over 20 years.

In 1955, Hultberg's career was officially launched with the award of First Prize for Oil Painting at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial in Washington D.C. Frequently reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, The Herald Tribune and Art News, Hultberg's work is represented in over 150 museums and public collections throughout the United States and abroad. These include The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; The Oakland Museum, The de Young Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California; The Corcoran Gallery, The Hirshhorn and The National Museum of American Art in London; The Museum of Modern Art in Malmo, Sweden; and The Salon de Mai in Paris.

Among other honors and awards, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts grants, three Pollack-Krasner Foundation grants and a Lee Krasner grant.

John Hultberg's personal papers, photographs, correspondence, writings, interviews, critical reviews, essays, monographs and poetry are on microfilm at the Archives of American Art in New York, Boston and San Francisco and at the Pompidou Archives in Paris.

by Dr. Harry Rand
Senior Curator
Smithsonian Institute
Speaking about American Artist John Hultberg
B.A. English Literature 1943 (1922-2005)