Photo Credit: Maria Letsiou, Biophilia (detail), 2015, from the Art Supports Education – Fulbright Alumni Art Series.
Fulbright Greece & Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS)
Annual Lecture
Creative Pedagogies for a Future World: A Conversation with Carol Becker
Thursday, 25 April @ 6:30 pm–7:45 pm EEST
Online event hosted via Zoom
with
Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts
Konstantinos Ioannidis, Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Athens School of Fine Arts
Theodora Tsimpouki, Professor of American Literature and Culture, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Event Description: Fulbright Greece and HELAAS invited three Fulbright alumni to participate in an online exchange. Carol Becker will engage in conversation with Konstantinos Ioannidis and Theodora Tsimpouki about the role creativity and critical thinking can play in higher education: How might they contribute to a culture of social responsibility and community engagement within higher education institutions to affect society at large? Professor Becker will also reflect on what artists can teach us, her role leading two major art schools, her romance with Greece, and her future plans for writing, teaching, and research.
Registration required – click HERE
The Zoom link for the event will be sent to you by Wednesday April 24, 2024.
Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts, U.S.; Fulbright alumna
Prior to her time at Columbia, she was Dean of Faculty and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her PhD in English and American Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change; The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety; Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art; Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production and most recently a memoir/essay entitled Losing Helen. She works closely with the World Economic Forum on issues of art, culture and leadership and serves on their World Arts Forum Foundation Board.
Konstantinos Ioannidis, Associate Professor of Theory and Criticism, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece; Fulbright alumnus.
His essays have appeared in numerous scholarly volumes and journals. His publications include the books Contemporary Greek Photography, (futura & Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008) and Three at Sea (MIET, 2018) a book he co-authored with Emmanouela Kantzia. More recently he published the book An “exquisitely hybrid art”: poetics of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century (futura, 2019) with which he was awarded the State Award for Essay and Criticism (2020). Over the past three years he has been conducting research on a body of photographs of prisoners held in the Smyrna Central Prison (1919-1922), a research he continued as a Fulbright Scholar at the Clark Art Institute (USA) during the summer 2022. Ioannidis is the principal investigator of the research program TECHNO-LOGIA and a member of the General Assembly of HFRI (Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).
Theodora Tsimpouki, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Fulbright alumna.
She specializes in American realism, modernism and contemporary literature, the 1960s, theories of space and contemporary literary theory. She has co-edited a number of edited volumes, the most recent of which are American Studies after Postmodernism (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2023). She is also one of the chief editors of Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Literature, Culture, and Media (https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/). She is currently president of the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS).