¡Hola a todo/as! I am Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, a Professor of Latin American literatures and cultures in the Romance and Classical Studies Department. My main area of specialization is Indigenous studies of Latin America, with special attention to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexualities in the 16th-19th centuries. I also work on the intertextuality b…[Read more]

What a great find…and local! I love that article because it gives a range of examples from interpretive to expository. I’m usually drawn to the explicit explanations 😛  so I really loved the butterfly puppetry. I would love to talk with some of our dance faculty/students/staff about how they feel about this work.

What did you think about the…[Read more]

Whoa, cool.

Your description of the collaboration made me think of a group based mostly at Central Michigan University where they have the theater students design costumes, choreography, and lighting for various scientific processes. This article is about the formation of sand dunes:…[Read more]

Thanks for posting those Julie! I think it is interesting how they list STEAM careers as available for these fellowships, but it comes across as STEM…If anyone is interested in applying for one of these, let Julie and I know and I bet we could help with the framing.

Hello everyone! Please to meet you. My name is Mark Sullivan and I am  a composer, photographer, curator, and educator. I have taught music composition, computer music, photography, and aesthetic theory over the last three decades at MSU. Alongside the formal teaching, I have worked on several outreach and informal education projects, working…[Read more]

Similar development on illustrating comics through AI: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/comics/dall-e-midjourney-ai-illustrated-comics-220166.html

Stephen, Michael,

Thank you for the reading recommendations.

Have you read Keltner’s Born to Be Good (https://wwnorton.com/books/Born-to-Be-Good/)?  Some neat sections on empathy.

This (relatively new) article from Carmine Starnino on AI poetics is an interesting and accessible overview on the topic: https://thewalrus.ca/ai-poetry/

I have not seen it either, but my sister runs a bookstore and gave me an advanced galley of a book by Dacher Keltner called, “Awe: The new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life.” I think it has some great thoughts about how these types of experiences can make you question what you know and to grow in new directions. …[Read more]

Love the discussion of curiosity and wonder in this excerpt. This is from 2018. Is the report out yet? I couldn’t find it.

Hello Everyone! So excited to meet you all this Wednedsay. My name is Pia Banzhaf. I am an artist, educator, and scholar. My research in puppetry arts investigates the cognition, namely the predictive framework of our neocortex, involved in the perception of performing objects that display lifelike and biological motion. I am convinced that…[Read more]