Recycle Symposium Keynote Speaker Nominations, cont’d.

In the interest of consolidating all the names in one place, I’ve taken the liberty of doing so, culling from the various posts and comments, plus adding a few more:

Anthony Kelley and Jennifer Jenkins (they could even do a “team” keynote presentation). They co-taught a course last fall in the law school with law professor Jamie Boyle on “Music Composition: Borrowing and the Law.” Very interdisciplinary and a great fit for our topic. Boyle and Jenkins are featured in the graphic comic “Bound By Law”: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/ about documentary film making, fair use, and intellectual property and copyright issues. A sequel is supposedly coming out on music featuring Kelley.

MUSIC AND LAW:

Anthony Kelley is a professor in Music: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Music/faculty/antk
For an interesting discussion of musical borrowing, see “The Splendid Thievery of Anthony Kelley”

Jennifer Jenkins directs the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and is a lecturing fellow in the law school, specializing in intellectual property law: http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/jenkins/

COMICS:

Brooke McEldowney: Wikipedia article on him, which links to further Wikipedia articles on his two comic strips
9 Chickweed Lane (his main comic strip, the one seen ’round the world)
Pibgorn (his online-only comic strip – featuring a re-working of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream)

ENVIRONMENT AND ART:

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

Noah Scalin, graphic design professor at VCU, specializes in socially conscious design
alrdesign.com (read his philosophy)
noahs@alrdesign.com

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

HUMANITIES

Franklin Humanities Institute’s “Recycle” seminar fellows: http://jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/seminar/sem0708.php

Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture, AAAS, co-convener of FHI “Recycle” Seminar:
In order to attack old assumptions of the relationship between “high” and “low” culture I consider the ways that cultural texts and icons are recycled in the service of popular art. For example, the music industry reformulates previously recorded songs and random mass media utterings for contemporary consumption through the practice of sampling and remixing. This practice has been particularly common in hip-hop, which can be described as a sonic collage brilliantly exhibiting producers’ broad musical palate. Sampling and remixing also extends to the recycling of popular iconography and vernacular language use, including figures like the “pimp” (and the act of pimping) and pejoratives like the word “nigger”.

Pedro Lasch, Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts, FHI Faculty Fellow in “Recycle” seminar: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/pedro.lasch

and also: George Gopen (English)

ENVIRONMENT AND WATER – THE DROUGHT
Possibly city or NSOE folks involved in the Durham town hall meeting on the drought earlier in January. http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/ns-watertownhall2.html

For example, among others:
Bill Holman, senior visiting fellow at the Nicholas School

Ted Voorhees, Durham’s deputy city manager: theodore.voorhees@durhamnc.gov

PHYSICAL (MATERIAL) RECYCLING

George W. Roberts, retired professor of chemical and biomolecular Engineering, and/or Dr. Saad A. Khan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering (NCSU): http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/feb/025.html

EXPERIENTIAL RECYCLING (PSYCHOLOGY):Beth Marsh (psychology) – works on human memory
Roberto Cabeza (psychology) – works on neural correlates of memory and cognition
Kevin LaBar (psychology) – works on the cognitive neuroscience of emotional learning and memory