Co-creating with a Southern Landscape

Professor Pat Drake, Dean, College of Education, invites you to participate in the 2014 Diamond Series.

Presented by Jayson Cooper, Co-creating with a Southern Landscape looks at how educators can interact with place, and engage in conversations with the landscape, community and beyond.

Drawing upon performative narratives, the presentation will address various themes, including:

• how the arts enrich and sustain place, community and identity
• the challenges of enacting a place-based, 'southern' view
• negotiating academic and personal pursuits within the ever-changing, cultural field.

This place-based arts approach allows the fluid, contested, and interconnected cultural field to be the vehicle for performative life writing and pedagogy.