10 Questions: What is Memory?
The KCET 10 Questions publication series is a collaboration with the UCLA Arts 10 Questions event series, an interdisciplinary course/public event series featuring conversations with leading scholars that provides both students and the public a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university.
Every Tuesday for ten weeks, UCLA faculty members from disciplines as diverse as dance, medicine, photography, astrophysics, athletics, Chicana and Chicano studies, law, philosophy and religious studies will join UCLA Arts Dean Brett Steele to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? and What is freedom? The goal is to stimulate dialogue and exchange, and to seed a greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge production in the 21st century. We present a discussion primer for each week's session to get the conversation started.
This week, Darnell Hunt, Kelsey Martin, and Peter Sellars will join Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question, "What is Memory?"
Dean of the UCLA Social Sciences Division and Professor in the Department of Sociology Darnell Hunt is a renowned scholar of race, media and culture. Hunt is a professor of sociology and African-American studies and is the lead author of the Bunche Center’s Hollywood Diversity Report, an annual series that examines the relationship between diversity and profit in the entertainment industry. Prior to coming to UCLA, he was chair of the sociology faculty at the University of Southern California. He has written and edited several publications, including “Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots': Race, Seeing, and Resistance” and “Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.” He has served as a member of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations Academic Advisory Board and as UCLA’s representative to the Association of American Colleges and Universities. |
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Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor in the Departments of Biological Chemistry and Biobehavioral Sciences Kelsey Martin was inspired to pursue a medical career by her experience as a Peace Corps volunteer. In addition to serving in her current appointments, Dr. Martin has been Chair of Department of Biological Chemistry and Co-Director of the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program. Martin has been a leader in UCLA’s drive to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation among scientists in neuroscience and other brain-related research. Her research focuses on how the brain stores memories. She has received numerous awards, including a W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research Program Award, the Jordi Folch-Pi Award from the American Society for Neurochemistry and the Daniel X. Freedman Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. |
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Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance Peter Sellars has gained international renown for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces and for collaborative projects with an extraordinary range of creative artists. He has several staged operas and has collaborated on the creation of many works with composer John Adams. Sellars has led major arts festivals, including the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals and the 2002 Adelaide Arts Festival. He is a resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival, and was a Mentor for the Rolex Arts Initiative. Sellars is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize for contributions to European culture, the Gish Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014 he was awarded the prestigious Polar Music Prize and named Artist of the Year by Musical America. |
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— Oct. 30, 2018
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the KCET website.
Art&Arc100: 10 Questions sessions will be held on Tuesdays through December 4 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Glorya Kaufman Hall theater (room 200). Free and open to the public (RSVP required). Pay by space parking available on campus adjacent to Kaufman Hall (Structure 4).
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