Spring 2016 Center for the Study of Diversity Brown Bag Series
Diversity Brown Bags are informal discussions led by faculty and affiliates of the Center for the Study of Diversity. In selected lunch sessions throughout the semester, winners of the Center's Diversity Research Grants share the progress of their award-funded projects. Other sessions feature faculty, researchers, and administrators exchanging ideas and research updates about diversity topics, approaches, data, and concepts.
Spring 2016 Series
Our Spring 2016 Brown Bag Series takes place on select Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:15 in the Faculty Commons located in 116 Pearson Hall. Beverages and cookies provided; bring your own lunch. All are welcome.
Lynnette Overby, Professor of Theatre
"Making Visible the Invisible through Arts Based Research Projects"
Since 2011, Professor Overby has been involved in several arts based research projects in collaboration with literary historian, Gabrielle Foreman, and additional choreographers, poets, musicians, and visual artists. Arts-based reserach is defined as "an effort to extend beyond the limiting constraints of discursive communication in order to express meaning that otherwise would be ineffable" (Barone and Eisner, 2012). This is different from research activity in which the arts are used as data for answering a traditional research question. Choreography, poetry, music, and visual art fall into the realm of arts-based research if the artwork focuses on issues that make a difference to society. This presentation will share examples drawn from three productions including "Sketches: The Life of Harriet E. Wilson in Dance, Poetry, and Music" (2012), "Dave the Potter" (2014), and "Same Story, Different Countries" (2016). The performance examples focus on issues of race and culture, and will be discussed in terms of arts-based research assessment criteria of incisiveness, concision, coherence, generativity, and illumination.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:00pm to 1:15am
Pearson Hall, Room 116
Pearson Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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