More on keynote speakers

On the topic of recycling and the connection to the environment, here are some possibilities for keynote speakers, courtesy of my friend Tom Buhrman. He’s currently working on an environmental art exhibition called “re|THINK” (got your “re” in there, Lisa!) to encourage visual artists to design posters to encourage Carolinians to care about and protect the environment. When I mentioned our symposium topic to me, he suggested a few possible speakers. Some are artists, others are professors, some are local, some are not (from Tom’s email to me):

(1) Bryant Holsenbeck
(environmental artist from Durham)
www.bryantholsenbeck.com/
Does workshops to make your own journals.

(2) Noah Scalin, graphic design professor at VCU, specializes in socially
conscious design
alrdesign.com (read his philosophy)
noahs@alrdesign.com
*** Noah is one of the AIGA judges (for the re|THINK show), and his design philosophy is
outstanding — not just thinking about sustainability, but about
political choices in general.

(3) Amy Chapman-Braun
www.brauncreative.com
amy@brauncreative.com
creative director, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth
Sciences at Duke
*** One of our AIGA judges. Our only local judge.

(4) elin o’hara slavick
(teaches at UNC, does strong/political work)
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic/

(5) This show of political posters is similar to our concerns.
Any of the 3 curators would probably be good.
http://www.thegraphicimperative.org/

(6) Mike Salter
(designer/visual artist I used to know, he used to live in NC, now
lives/teaches/creates in Oregon)
http://www.copyrightsalter.com/
http://art-uo.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=faculty&page=msalter
*** One of our AIGA judges. Uses recycled materials/objects. Special
note: did some of the wall murals in the Duke Coffeehouse.

(7) Marc Alt (NYC) or Phil Hamlett (SF), Co-Chairs AIGA Center for
Sustainable Design

(8) Jonah Sachs, founder/ pres. of Free Range Studios, design firm
specializing in socially conscious design
Named to Fast Company’s Fast 50: 50 Profit-driven solutions for what
ails the planet (along with Arnold Schwarzeneggar & Nike)
Lots of experience/ awards in environmental and social change
http://www.freerangestudios.com

Also, we could consider some of the fellows in the Franklin Humanities Institute’s “Recycle” seminar as possible keynote speakers:

http://jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0708.php

Franklin Humanities Institute Co-Conveners “Recycle” Seminar:

Neil De Marchi, Professor of Economics, has interests in the emergence of art and financial markets and cultural economics.

Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Program in African and African-American Studies works on black popular culture, black feminist and queer theory and black intellectual production.

Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, works on art, architecture and material culture from late antiquity to modernity.

Duke Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellows:

Pedro Lasch, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Peter M. McIsaac, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Germanic Languages and Literature
Rebecca L. Stein, Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology
Susan G. Sterrett, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Kenneth J. Surin, Professor and Chair, Program in Literature

Duke Professional School Faculty Fellow:

Catherine Fisk, Professor, School of Law

UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts & Humanities (IAH) Exchange Fellow:

Richard Langston, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Duke Library Fellow:

Ernest “Erik” Zitser, PhD, Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies, Bostock/Perkins Library

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Jane E. Anderson, PhD (2003), Law, University of New South Wales
Andrew Russell, PhD (2007), History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

– Tori