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SUMMARY:Responding to Troubling Times: The Urgency of Collaborations Between Academics and Artists
LOCATION:Fritz-Reuter-Saal
DESCRIPTION:Various parts of Southeast Asia are faced with intensifying soc
 ial and political challenges. Amid these troubling times, academics, especi
 ally those working on human rights, conflict, and peace, are confronted wit
 h the task of finding better means to communicate their knowledge with all 
 its nuances and complexities. There is the challenge of making their work a
 ccessible to audiences that do not have the patience nor time to delve into
  such nuances and complexities, and that of making their material available
  and comprehensible—in terms of language and form—to a broader audience, ac
 ross age groups. These conditions are particularly pressing for publicly en
 gaged scholars who aim to forge understanding in the midst of polarizing an
 d hate-filled discourses and attitudes. One way to do this is through more 
 creative means of communicating their knowledge. \n\nMeanwhile, the work of
  artists such as photographers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance art
 ists, and fiction writers have had the power to arouse people’s curiosity a
 nd imagination while questioning and engaging the status quo. Time and agai
 n, different artistic works have been instrumental in elevating awareness a
 nd emotion in turbulent times. Therefore, artists and their works provide t
 he initial invitation to look and to question, as their works can be widely
  accessible. These creative productions can be further enriched and informe
 d by materials and perspectives drawn from careful research and analyses—ma
 terials and perspectives that academics can provide. \n\nThere is thus enor
 mous potential for reaching a broader audience and shaping public opinion a
 nd debate through collaborations and intersections between academics and ar
 tists, while keeping in mind that such collaborations are subject to simila
 r problematics of representation and comprehension of context as any form o
 f knowledge production. \n\nThis roundtable discussion will therefore bring
  together artists and academics from various parts of Southeast Asia who ha
 ve collaborated on certain pressing issues in their respective countries, t
 o tackle the following questions: What are the advantages of such collabora
 tions? What challenges did they face? What strategies did they employ to ov
 ercome these challenges? How has the public responded to their collaborativ
 e work? And, what lessons can we glean from these experiences that other ac
 ademics and artists may draw from for their own collaborations?\n\nKindly s
 ponsored by Umverteilen! Stiftung für eine, solidarische Welt.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/responding-to-troubling-times-the-urgency-of-collaborations-between-academics-and-artists
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190911T133000
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