International Arts Conference Schedule

SESSION ONE

Chair:    Papa Kojo Essuman Yamoah (Conference Committee)

Mitko Toshev

1.Visual Art as Research: Artistic Practice Between Creation, Cognition, and Meaning.

Chad D. Curtis

2.When Code Meets Clay: Emergence and Material Intelligence in Digital Fabrication.

Tika Simone

3.Rest as Resistance: Creative Sovereignty as a Tool for Diasporic Healing & Cultural Futures.

Fotima Taylor

4.Aesthetics of Emptiness in Caspar David Friedrich’s The Monk by the Sea,

SESSION TWO                                                            Baker Theater

Chair:     Tika Simone  

Colleen Barnes

1.Resilience through Collaboration: Reimagining Dance Education Beyond the Politics of Scarcity.

Benjamin Quarshie, PhD and Henry Ofosu Ameyaw (PhD)

2.Contextualising Ghanaian Traditional Festivals as Embodied Gestural Semiotics and Mobile Ephemeral Museums within Contemporary Art and Glocal Tourism.

Zhazirakhan Akhymbekova

3.Enhancing Student Imagination through Visualization of Auditory Sounds.

Vladimir L. Marchenkov

4.Polyphonic Thinking as a Philosophical Model for Cross-Cultural Musical Creativity.

SESSION THREE                                                      Baker Theater

Chair:     Colleen Barnes

Johanna Andrea Amaya Conejo

1.CARNAVAL DE NEGROS Y BLANCOS EN PASTO, COLOMBIA: Interdisciplinary Technologies of Memory.

Ruchi Pathak

2.Seeing Through the Arts: A Multimodal Transmediation Practice with Poetics.

Roshni Ramanan and Prof. Deepak Paramashivan

3.The Changing Semiotics of Dance Pedagogy through Bharatanāṭyam.

Papa Kojo Essuman Yamoah

4. Citizen Voices in Fante Ghanaian Highlife: Kofi Kinaata and the Linguistic Artistry of Citizenship.

SESSION ONE

Chair:   Graci Kelley
Radmila Esina

1. Constructing the Working Body.

Samuel Elikem Nyamuame (PHD)

2. Just Improvise: The Impact of Entertainment-Driven Practices on Ghanaian Drum Music Instruction and Performance.

Kwame Takyi Danquah

3. Children, Creativity, and Employment Pathways: A Case Study of The Effutu Talent Show in Winneba, Ghana.

Joseph Luckett

4. Nature’s Stage: Using Digital Innovation to Amplify Global Arts in Rural Communities.

SESSION TWO                                                     Baker Theater

Chair:    Johanna Andrea Amaya Conejo

Joy Davis

1.Crossing Waters: Artist Exchange as Model for Equitable Cultural Dialogue."

Graci Kelley

2. Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues.

Fotima Taylor

3. Violence, Power, and the Desert Sublime in Delacroix and Fromentin.

Edy R. Panjaitan

4.  Interdisciplinary Performance: Ritual Knowledge and the Magical Sound of Gondang Sabangunan.

SESSION THREE                                                   Baker Theater

Chair:   Edy R. Panjaitan

Noble Jesse Glikpoe

1. The procession of the Basabasa god: An idol worship or a performance? A case of the Aboakyir festival among the people of Efuttu.

Dylan Haynes

2.  Remembering the Past, Witnessing the Present, Envisioning the Future: Appalachian Women’s Labor in Documentary Film.

Richardson Commey Fio

3.The Contributions of Popular Musicians to Nation Building and Democracy in Ghana’s 4th Republic.

Najmeh “Sara” Pirahmadian

4.Mis/Understanding Reframing Language Barriers and Miscommunication Through Interactive Art+Design.

SESSION TEN

Chair:    Papa Kojo Essuman Yamoah

Divine Kwasi Gbagbo, PhD

1.Modernizing Tradition: Innovation and Performance Culture in Ewe Borborbor Dance-Drum.

Ernest Elikplim Kwabla  Adonoo

2.Transmission of Drumming among the Anlo‑Ewe: The Case of the Agbodo/Amuzu Family of Hatsukorfe, Denu. Volta Region, Ghana.

3. Ufuoma Onobrakpeya,

The History Of Art Workshops In Nigeria: The Role Of Art Education Through The Harmattan Workshop In Delta –State, Nigeria."

Nana Amowee Dawson,

4. Sankɔfa Symphony: A Visual–Musical Journey through Ghanaian Childhood, Folklore, and Becoming.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER                                     Baker Theater

Chair and Introduction:  Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Dean, The Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts

Keynote:  Hon. Abla Dzifa Gomashie

Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, and MP for Ketu South, Ghana   Topic: FUSE: The Intersection of Art, Culture, and Innovation

SESSION SIX                                      Schoonover Center 450

Chair: Alterio Anthony

Courtney Koestler, Ph.D. & Catie Perez-Strohmeyer

1.   In Community There is Power: Creating Justice-Oriented Art for Social Change

SESSION SEVEN                                             Putnam Hall 134

Chair: Travis Gatling

Nii - Yete Yartey and Alidu Alhassan1. Discover the Rhythms of Northern Ghana: A Workshop with the Dagbamba 

SESSION THIRTEEN                                         Putnam Hall 134 

Chair: Hunter-Valentine

Qais Assali

1.     Branding Conflict: Critical Ikebana and Live Art as Pedagogical Resistance

Chair: Hunter-Valentine & Travis Gatling Putnam Hall 134

Ishmael Konney

2.   Afrodance is the dance, Afrobeats is the music

Chair: Tresa Randall

3.   Angela Meleca                                              Putnam Hall 231

Return on Art™: Measuring Human Transformation through Creativity and Cultural Engagement."

Chair:       Christi Camper Moore                   Putnam Hall 335

Dr. Kofi Anthonio and Patience Nana Akua Anthonio4.  Vocalising Rhythms, Textualising Tradition: Innovative Approaches to Teaching African Traditional Dance”

SESSION FOUR                                                         Baker 217

Chair:     Ishmael Konney

Chiradip Sarkar

2.   LECTURE DEMONSTRARTION

Indian Classical Music Duet