Tuesday, Jan 17 7:00p
at 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Free and open to the public.
Phone: (206) 543-3920
When Antanas Mockus was elected Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, in 1995, it was one of the most dangerous cities in the hemisphere. As mayor he did something unexpected to address urban crime and financial instability: he turned toward the arts and humanities. The effects of his creative thinking would reduce homicides by 70%, traffic accidents by more than half, and triple tax revenues for municipal public works.
Taking Bogota as an example, Doris Sommer discusses how community-based educators, activists, artists, and intellectuals are combining politics and pedagogy in civic cultural experiments to engage publics in acts of community building and in democratic social change.
Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Professor of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. She also serves as Director of Cultural Agents, an organization at Harvard committed to promoting the arts and humanities, creativity and scholarship, as social resources for the development of communities worldwide. She is the author of Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004), Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (1999), and is completing Ripple Effects: The Work of Art in the World.
When Antanas Mockus was elected Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, in 1995, it was one of the most dangerous cities in the hemisphere. As mayor he did something unexpected to address urban crime and financial instability: he turned toward the arts and humanities. The effects of his creative thinking would reduce homicides by 70%, traffic accidents by more than half, and triple tax revenues for municipal public works.
Taking Bogota as an example, Doris Sommer discusses how community-based educators, activists, artists, and intellectuals are combining politics and pedagogy in civic cultural experiments to engage publics in acts of community building and in democratic social change.
Sommer is Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Professor of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. She also serves as Director of Cultural Agents, an organization at Harvard committed to promoting the arts and humanities, creativity and scholarship, as social resources for the development of communities worldwide. She is the author of Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004), Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas (1999), and is completing Ripple Effects: The Work of Art in the World.
Ripple Effects is part of the Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities series at UW.
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