Workshops
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) will take place in Austin Texas and is the largest annual gathering of K-12 social studies classroom teachers, college and university faculty members, curriculum designers and specialists, district and state social studies supervisors, international educators, and social studies discipline leaders.
One of the featured events at this conference will be a panel discussion featuring Alan Canfora, Tom Grace and Roseann "Chic" Canfora. Both Alan and Tom were wounded on May 4, 1970, and Roseann was a witness and in the Prentice Hall parking lot when members of the Ohio National Guard fired their weapons for 13 seconds at unarmed students. Alan, Tom, and Roseann will share their stories and thoughts about that day and the state of student activism in the nation today.
For conference information: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen
Recognized as one of the greatest actresses of all time, Katharine Hepburn received 12 Best Actress nominations from the Motion Picture Academy—taking the award home four times. In addition to her stellar career on stage and screen, Hepburn became known for her distinct style, wearing trousers at a time when it still raised eyebrows. Her personal preference for relaxed, casual, but chic clothing led to a 1985 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
This exhibition, drawn from the collection of the Kent State University Museum, includes a range of costumes and fashions that were instrumental in shaping some of the most memorable characters Hepburn portrayed over her long career. Spotlighting over five decades of the star’s career, Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage & Screen provides a rich and entertaining look not only at the clothes that helped create indelible characters, but also at the importance of fashion in crafting the image of one of the most memorable performers of the 20th century.
For more information visit the Frick Pittsburgh's website.
The Kent State University currently has a piece on loan to the exhibition Paris, Capital of Fashion on view at the Museum at FIT in New York City. Soirée de Paris is a beautiful black velvet dress with white satin sash and bow that was designed by Yves Saint Laurent when he worked for Christian Dior in 1955. The dress became famous from a photograph taken by Richard Avedon for Harper's Bazaar which showed the model Dovima wearing the dress surrounded by elephants. The exhibition runs through January 4, 2020.
For more information see the Museum at FIT website.
As part of International Education Week, this year when Kent State commemorates the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, the Wick Poetry Center invites community members to contribute their voices to a Global Peace Poem. The Global Peace Poem builds meaningful opportunities for connection and reflections across divisions. Wick Teaching Artists will guide writers in a conversation and writing activity. The resulting lines will be a way to honor and respond to the events of May 4. Following the workshop, there will be an Open Mic. All are welcome to read or listen.
Curator Sara Hume will discuss quilt making, activism, and education with Denise Harrison, who is currently represented in the Ohio Quilt exhibition on view in Higbee Gallery. Harrison is a lecturer in the Department of Pan-African Studies.
Many people know Jeffrey Miller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that shows his body on the ground with a 14-year-old runaway screaming over him after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State University students, killing four, including Miller, and wounding nine others on May 4, 1970. What people may not know is Miller was from Plainview, New York. According to his mom, he had a great sense of humor and liked the Mets, music, math and motorcycles. In 1970, Miller had transferred to Kent State from Michigan State University. He died at the age of 20.
Guests of Kent State’s May 4 Visitors Center can learn more about Miller by visiting “Our Brother Jeff,” a new exhibition at the visitors center that honors Miller’s life. The exhibition will be on display from Oct. 19, 2019, to Feb. 29, 2020. Russ Miller, Jeff’s brother, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of Jeff’s personal items to the May 4 Visitors Center.
“The title of this exhibition is particularly poignant” said Mindy Farmer, Ph.D., director of the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State. “Jeff adored his older brother. He even followed him to Michigan State and became a brother in his fraternity. However, the politics of the times started to push them apart as Jeff grew increasingly disillusioned with the Vietnam War and became a ‘brother’ in the cause. It is a story of finding yourself and forging new relationships with friends and family that is so relatable. In this way, Jeff is like a brother to us all.”
“Our Brother Jeff” is the fourth and final exhibition in a series that pays tribute to the four lives lost on May 4, 1970 – Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder. The purpose behind these exhibitions is to focus not just on the deaths of these students, but on the lives that they lived and the people that they were.
“Too often, Sandy, Bill, Allison and Jeff are only known for their tragic deaths,” Farmer said. “We want to show that they lived interesting and full lives. And in many ways, their stories represent the divides of the era. Allison and Jeff were activists. Bill was a member of the ROTC, struggling with the meaning of the Vietnam War. Sandy was an honors student trying to get to class.”
The exhibition was designed by Glyphix Studio, a student-staffed design studio within Kent State’s School of Visual Communication Design, and curated by Lori Boes, assistant director of the May 4 Visitors Center.
For more information about the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State, visit www.kent.edu/may4visitorscenter.
This web app draws from the 110 oral histories in the Kent State University May 4th collection. It maps stories from those histories that describe memories of events at a particular place in Kent between May 1st and May 5th, 1970.
Sara Koopman (Asst. Prof. of Peace Studies) & Jen Mapes (Assoc. Prof of Geography) will share the process of creating the app & demonstrate its features. These include historic maps & photos of Kent in 1970, paired with stories of places from those who lived through the events surrounding the shooting.
We see these stories & map as a way of sharing a wide range of experiences by the Kent community. Our web app will encourage users to engage with these stories and add their own, allowing for greater understanding & reconciliation.
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.
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Our practices of moral accountability involve reactive attitudes in the general key of anger, such as resentment and indignation. In this talk, Dr. Wallace will argue that these attitudes involve forms of social power and will consider the implications of this fact for the understanding and assessment of reactive blame. There are characteristic pathologies of blame that are intelligible when we see it as the exercise of social power. But the connection to power also helps us to see why it is important that we have these reactions in our emotional repertoire. Dr. R Jay Wallace holds the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His visit to Kent State University is part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and is hosted by KSU Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Nu of Ohio) and the Department of Philosophy.
The Kent State University Philosophy Department has held a Philosophy Graduate Student Conference every year in memory of the events of May 4, 1970, since the inauguration of our graduate program in 1992–1993.
The conference is open to all areas of philosophy, and conference participants come to Kent from throughout North America.
