NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT SYMPOSIUM: Arts + Activism
The Steinhardt School of
Education
Department of Art and Arts Professions
New York University
Professor Hiroshi Sunairi
and Ombretta Agró
would like to invite you to
the following two-session symposium on nuclear disarmament, activism and the arts.
Friday, April 15, 2005
Einstein
Auditorium
First floor
of the NYU Barney Building
Department of
Art & Art Professions
34
Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY
About the speakers
FIRST SESSION
3:30
- 5:30 PM: Education for Nuclear Disarmament
Facilitator:
Monika Szymurska
Guest
speakers: John Burroughs, David Clark, Kathleen Sullivan, Eric Ritz
Six
decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity continues
to live under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Despite the
efforts to control and abolish these genocidal weapons, the world faces a
growing risk of a cascade of proliferation. Drawing
from their experience as educators and activists, the panelists
will reflect on the importance of promoting education and awareness
in the context of the nuclear age.
SECOND SESSION
6
- 8 PM: The Nuclear Age and the Arts
Facilitator:
Kathleen Sullivan
Guest
speakers: Ombretta Agrò, Joy Garnett, Dominic McGill, Nobuho Nagasawa, Hiroshi Sunairi,
This
panel will explore the ways by which artists may contribute to define and
develop a new critical approach in the context of the nuclear
age, one that is triggered by accessing the visual and interpretive
arts. The panelists invited to speak have explored these issues
from various angles in their work within the arena of contemporary
art and will address the complex links between contemporary
art and the existence of nuclear weapons.
Co-sponsorship:
GRACE-Global Resource Action Center for the Environment and Educators
for Social Responsibility-ESR Metro, members of the Abolition 2000
network