Ethic and the Arts Conference, Lincoln Center, Arizona State University, October 2001

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Lincoln Center Annual Ethics Conference 2001: Ethics and the Arts

ALL CONFERENCE EVENTS WILL BE HELD AT THE TEMPE MISSION
PALMS, 60 E FIFTH STREET (MILL AND FIFTH IN DOWNTOWN
TEMPE) THERE IS A PARKING GARAGE LOCATED JUST EAST OF
THE HOTEL ON THE NORTH SIDE OF FIFTH STREET. PLEASE CALL
480-894-1400 FOR DETAILED DIRECTIONS.

SUNDAY - OCTOBER 28, 2001

Noon --2:00 PM Registration

1:45 PM Welcome

2:00 - 4:00 PM Opening Plenary Panel/Roundtable Session
THE ETHICS OF CONTENT:
More than a Movie, More than an Exhibit, More than a Performance: Decency,
Offense, and Harm: Who is Responsible?

Panel
Eduardo Kac - Transgenic (bioart) Artist
Guillermo Gomez-Pena - Performance Artist
Roger Copeland - Theater/Dance Critic; Professor, Theater and Dance, Oberlin
College
J. David Williams - Film Producer
Tony Berg - Record Producer, Virgin Records
Joel-Peter Witkin - Artist (Photographer)
Miguel Valenti - Film Producer
Laurie Trotta - Media and Social Issues Writer
Marjorie Heins - Free Expression Policy Project,
National Coalition Against Censorship
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack - Exec Dir, ASU Public Events
James Weinstein - Professor of Law, ASU
Robert Wills - Dean, College of Fine Arts, ASU
Kyle Lawson - Art Critic, Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen - Art Critic, Arizona Republic
Ken LaFave - Art Critic, Arizona Republic
Alan Sears - President, Alliance Defense Fund
Bob Peters - President, Morality in Media
Moderator: Lisa Newton --Director, Center for Applied Ethics, Fairfield
University

4:15 - 5:15 PM
Breakout Sessions for ASU students directed by ASU faculty

5:00 - 6:15 PM Reception

6:30 - 7:30 PM Dinner

7:30 - 10:00 PM VALUES IN FILM

7:30 - 8:30 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Sherman Alexie
Screenwriter, Poet, Author, Director, and Producer

8:30 - 10:00 PM A CONVERSATION BETWEEN PEOPLE IN THE FILM INDUSTRY,
CRITICS, AND A PHILOSOPHER on VALUES IN FILM

Philosopher - Noel Carroll - University of Wisconsin
Critics - Peter Lehman - Professor of Humanities, ASU
Jay Boyer - Professor of English, ASU
Discussants:
Sherman Alexie - Screenwriter, Poet, Author, Director, Producer
Miguel Valenti - Film ProducerN. Bird Runningwater - Programmer, Sundance
Film Festival and Director of Native American Programs, Sundance Institute
J. David Williams - Film Producer


MONDAY - OCTOBER 29, 2001

8:30 AM Showing of the documentary film, "Quartzite's Fall: A Wilderness
Tale",
directed and produced by Kristin Atwell

9:30 AM - Noon: Concurrent Panel Sessions

a. Art as an Agent of Social Change - A Panel Discussion Led by a
Philosopher and
a Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Richard Shusterman - Temple University
Critic - Ted Pease - Utah State University
Panel
Edgar Heap of Birds - Artist
Guillermo Gomez-Pena - Performance Artist
Tim Miller - Performance Artist
Paul Friedlander - Author of The Social History of Rock and Roll (Rock and
Roll Hall
of Fame) and Professor, California State University, Chico
Deborah Wong - Ethnomusicologist, UC, Riverside
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack - Exec Dir, ASU Public Events
Robert Wills - Dean, College of Fine Arts, ASU
Fred Corey - Associate Dean, College of Public Programs, ASU
Jeff McMahon - Institute for Studies in the Arts, ASU

b. In the Name of Art: "Can Moral and Aesthetic Judgments be Completely
Disentangled?" - A Panel Discussion Led by a Philosopher and a
Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Mary Devereaux - UC, San Diego
Critic - Neil Hickey - Columbia University

Panel
Eduardo Kac - Transgenic (bioart) Artist
Daniel Nagrin - Dancer & Choreographer
Joel-Peter Witkin - Artist
Ann Ludwig - Professor of Dance, ASU
Deborah Lefkowitz - Documentary Filmmaker
Shelley Cohn - Exec Dir, Arizona Commission on the Arts
Anthony Gully - Professor of Art, ASU
Alan Light - Spin Magazine

Noon - 1:30 PM: LUNCH with KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rory Kennedy Documentary Filmmaker

1:45 - 4:15 PM: Concurrent Panel Sessions

c. Feminists Face the Arts - A Panel Discussion Led by a Philosopher and a
Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Peg Brand - Indiana University
Critic - Eleanor Heartney - Art in America

Panel
Carolyn Korsmeyer - Philosophy Professor, University of Buffalo
Adelheid Mers - Artist and Art Theorist, Professor, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
Joanna Frueh - Art Critic, Performance Artist, Professor of Art History,
University of
Nevada, Reno
Jean Robertson - Art Critic, Professor of Art History, Herron School of Art,
Indianapolis
Tanya Augsburg - Performance Scholar and Lecturer, Bachelor of
Interdisciplinary
Studies, ASU



d. The Appropriation of the Ritual Objects of One Culture as Museum/Gallery
Objects in Another - A Panel Discussion Led by a Philosopher and a
Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Noel Carroll - Professor, University of Wisconsin
Critic - Richard Handler - Professor, University of Virginia
Panel
Rebecca Tsosie - Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics, ASU
Michael Tsosie - Creative Services Director, Atlatl, Inc.
Leigh Kuwanwisiwma - Hopi Cultural Center
Alice Kaufman - Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association
Peter Welsh - Anthropology Professor, Museum Studies, ASU
Jannelle Warren-Findley - Public History Professor, ASU

4:30 - 6:00 Plenary Session: Issues Confronting Contemporary Indian Artists

Panel
Edgar Heap of Birds - Artist, University of Oklahoma
Margaret Wood - Artist
David Johns - Artist
Marcus Zilliox - Artist
Margaret Archuleta - Curator of Fine Art, Heard Museum
Carol Lujan - Director, American Indian Studies, ASU
Jennifer McNutt - Curator of Contemporary Art, Eiteljorg Museum of American
Indians
and Western Art
Mary Jo Watson - Professor of Art History, U of Oklahoma
Moderator: Andrea Hanley Twist - Executive Director, Atlatl, Inc.

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

8:00 PM

PERFORMANCE OF GUS EDWARDS' NEW PLAY, BLACK WOMAN BLUES,
FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION WITH THE AUTHOR

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2001

9:30 AM - NOON: Concurrent Panel Sessions

e. Art Effects - "Does Art Really Incite Behavior?" - A Panel Discussion Led
by a
Philosopher and a Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Joan McGregor, Professor of Philosophy, ASU
Critic - Joshua Rose, Phoenix Art Institute
Panel
Muriel Magenta - Professor of Art, ASU
Roger Copeland - Theater/Dance Critic; Professor, Theater and Dance, Oberlin
College
Tim Miller - Performance Artist
Peter Lehman - Professor of Humanities, ASU
Rene T.A. Lysloff - Musicologist, UC, Riverside
Timothy Jackson - Music Theorist, North Texas University
Neil Malamuth - Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Marjorie Heins - Free Expression Policy Project, National Coalition Against
Censorship
Linda Park-Fuller - Professor of Communications, ASU
Alan Light - Spin Magazine

f. Fakes, Forgeries and Reproductions: The Ethical Management of the
Business
of Art - A Panel Discussion Led by a Philosopher and a Journalist/Critic

Philosopher - Michael Wreen, Marquette University
Critic - Peter Landesman
Panel
Kenton Harris - Philosopher & Choreographer, Florida International
University
Claudia Brown - Professor, School of Art, ASU
{Other panel members being arranged}

NOON - 1:30 PM Lunch with KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Anna Deavere Smith
Playwright, Actor, Professor

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