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Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years After Berlin 1989
August 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
Calling for student volunteers!
If you would like to get connected to a student group connected to the projects described below, come to the organizational meeting on Thursday, August 29, 7-8 pm in Pugh Hall 302 or contact Professor Will Hasty (hasty@ufl.edu).
This fall UF students and faculty continue a decade-long consideration of Walls and their cultural significance, with the Berlin Wall as the central focal point. This consideration began with the “Freedom without Walls” Campus Weeks events in 2009 and continued with the “Future of Freedom and Walls” Campus weeks events in 2017. These previous events had broad visibility on campus, locally, and globally via Facebook and YouTube publications of our events. The focal point in UF’s ongoing concern with Walls has continued to be the nexus between Freedom/Walls, poetry, music, drama, and the arts.
The events of the “Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30 Years after Berlin 1989” Campus Weeks include:
—Creative Walls Projects: Three student groups will be formed to create projects focusing on Border-Walls, Fire-Walls, and Sea-Walls respectively. The groups are encouraged to think and work creatively, innovatively, and inventively with these different kinds of Walls (whether as problems or solutions), how they have been used in the past, how they are being used now, and how they could/should be used to address likely problems and challenges of the future. Funding is available to offset some costs connected to materials used for the projects (for example: art materials such as brushes, paints, etc.; photo reproductions; regular and 3D printing costs; costs connected to displaying the projects, etc. If you have questions regarding funding for the creative projects, write to Will Hasty (hasty@ufl.edu). Projects will be displayed and presented by the groups during the November 14 Commemorative Evening.
—An Op Ed Writing Contest with cash awards: Starting with the Berlin Wall and lessons that can be drawn from its history, students are invited to suggest how best to set global-cultural limits 30 years after Berlin 1989, paying special attention to the roles to be played (or not) by different kinds of walls. First, second, and third prize winners to be announced at the Commemorative Evening on November 14.