Art&Arc 100: 10 Questions
30 leading minds from across campus engage in conversations about society’s big questions
Giving community members a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university, in the fall quarter of 2019, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture presents 10 Questions: Centennial Edition, an interdisciplinary course/public event series hybrid, featuring conversations with leading faculty, distinguished alumni, and experts from across the university and beyond. Every Tuesday evening for ten weeks, experts in disciplines as diverse as dance, psychology, astrophysics, Chicanx studies, law, philosophy, biology, and more will join choreographer and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Victoria Marks to explore one question each week.
As a marquee event for UCLA’s yearlong Centennial Celebration, the Centennial Edition of 10 Questions provides a platform for vibrant conversations that engage multiple disciplinary viewpoints, seeding greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge and knowledge production, while offering a robust framework in which to envision and activate the role that the university can play as it embarks on its next 100 years as the world’s leading public research university.
Both an upper division undergraduate course and a series of public conversations open to the broader community, "10 Questions” will provide a platform for vibrant conversations that engage multiple disciplinary viewpoints.
WATCH PAST SESSIONS:
| Oct. 1: | WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY? Emily Carter, sustainable energy expert and UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost; Peter Sellars, stage and festival director |
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| Oct. 8: | WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? Tyler Burge, philosopher; Shane Campbell-Staton, evolutionary biologist; Sylvan Oswald, theater artist |
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| Oct. 15: | WHAT IS JUSTICE? Funmilola Fagbamila, artist, playwright and activist; Jennifer Mnookin, evidence scholar and dean of UCLA School of Law; Stephanie Pincetl, founding director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities |
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| Oct. 22: | WHAT IS TRUTH? Vishal Jugdeo, artist; Jason Sexton, theologian and visiting research scholar at the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA; Eugene Volokh, First Amendment scholar |
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| Oct. 29: | WHAT IS LOVE? Thomas Bradbury, co-director of the UCLA Marriage Lab; Massimo Ciavolella, professor of Italian; Meryl Friedman, Director of Education & Special Initiatives for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA; David Roussève, choreographer, writer, director and performer |
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| Nov. 5: | WHAT IS NATURE? Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, disability justice and culture expert, bioethicist and humanities scholar; Rebeca Méndez, designer and artist; Evan Meyer, botanist and Assistant Director of UCLA's Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden |
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| Nov. 12: | WHAT IS CREATIVITY? Kyle Abraham, choreographer and artistic director of Abraham.In.Motion; Andrea Ghez, astrophysicist; Evan Sullivan, user experience designer |
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| Nov. 19: | WHAT IS COMMUNITY? Jennifer Ferro, president of KCRW; Kevin Kane, arts education and community arts scholar; Ananya Roy, social justice scholar |
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| Nov. 26: | WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP? Leisy Abrego, immigration rights movement scholar; Hiroshi Motomura, scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law; Marike Splint, theater artist and educator |
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| Dec. 3: | WHAT MATTERS? Ali Behdad, professor of literature and director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA; Kristy Edmunds, artist, curator and executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA; Michael Eselun, chaplain for the Simms-Mann/UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology |
Learn more and watch videos of sessions from the inaugural edition of the series.
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