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No full textMaterials: Alcohol Marker and Graphite on Bristol Board
Dimensions: 24 x 19 inches
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1014/thumbnail.jp
Religious Ideology
No full textMaterials: Watercolor and pencil
Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches
Project Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart and Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1005/thumbnail.jp
Mega Plaza
No full textMaterials: Acrylic, wood, and found material
Dimensions: 45 x 47 x 83 inches
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad and Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1038/thumbnail.jp
Gurukrupa Roadlines
No full textMaterials: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 15 inches
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad and Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1037/thumbnail.jp
Dermatopathology on the brain (Brain)
No full textMaterials: Plastic, fabric, steel, wire, acrylic
Dimensions: 1 x 1 feet
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1042/thumbnail.jp
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No full textMaterials: Unprinted digital file
Dimensions: variable
Project Advisor: Tony Conrad and John A. Shimon
Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1047/thumbnail.jp
24th Annual Richard A. Harrison Symposium: A Celebration of Student Research and Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Get PDFThe Harrison Symposium celebrates independent and collaborative student research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The Harrison is usually held as an annual conference in May, but this year’s shift to remote teaching and the new coronavirus pandemic eliminated the opportunity for in-person presentations. Instead of cancelling the event, students nominated by faculty members were invited either to participate in next year’s Harrison, or to contribute to the volume you are now reading. Reimagining the Harrison as a written artifact was inspired by the 1997 Harrison Symposium. In the early years of the conference, the Dean of Faculty Richard A. Harrison (1991-1997) published the proceedings of the symposium – formerly known as the Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium though the event was later renamed in Harrison’s honor – as a collection of papers. Margaret E. Madden, then Associate Dean of the Faculty, notes in the introduction to the 1998 proceedings that “Faculty members and departments on campus who received the first symposium collection were pleased to have some visible record of the high level of accomplishments of humanities and social science students, whose products are often not as visible as those students of the performing arts or sciences.” I hope that this version of the Harrison will also serve as a way to publicly and communally celebrate the wide-ranging and incisive research undertaken by students at Lawrence
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott’s Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph
No full textThis lecture on Berenice Abbott’s “Tri-Boro Barber School” was recorded in November 2020. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the Freshman Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Beth A. Zinsli, graduated from Lawrence in 2002 and went on to receive a master’s and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since returning to Lawrence in 2013, she has served the university as Curator of the Wriston Art Galleries, Assistant Professor of Art History, and Director of the Museum Studies IA Program. She has written on contemporary art and exhibitions in Cuba, and is also interested in the interdisciplinary potential of the university art museum
The Importance of Failure
Get PDFAmy A. Ongiri isn’t shy about telling you she’s failed at various things in life.
But, then, so have you. So has everyone. And yet we are reticent to speak of it, to examine it, to embrace it.
Ongiri, the Jill Beck Director of Film Studies and associate professor of film studies at Lawrence University, calls that a missed opportunity. She’ll delve into the idea of embracing failure when she delivers the school’s annual Honors Convocation address, “The Importance of Failure.”
The Honors Convocation, which publicly recognizes students and faculty recipients of awards and prizes for excellence in the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, languages, music, athletics, and service to others, was to be held in Memorial Chapel. But due to campus facilities being closed and physical distancing practices being in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was instead pre-recorded and presented online at 11:10 a.m. May 28.
Yes, at an event to honor great successes, failure will take center stage.
Ongiri will tell the audience that we grow from failure, and we need to be comfortable talking about that. That’s a particularly appropriate message for young people to hear as they set out on journeys full of uncertainty. Take chances. Be willing to fail.
“There’s a lot of stigma around failure and it is especially hard to fail as a young person because you are just learning about it as an experience,” Ongiri said.
What students will discover, Ongiri said, is that there is no road map for understanding or negotiating that experience. Some failures are big and bold. Others are slight and nuanced. All are part of the jagged, crooked, unpredictable path of life.
“As a culture, we have tended to value winning over all other experiences but we are all going to fail a lot in life, and we need to learn early on what it means and how to think about it,” Ongiri said.
As we mature, understanding failure and the strength that can come from it begins to make more sense. But that doesn’t mean we’re any more eager to speak of it.
“By the time you’re in your 50s, as I am, you have probably failed a lot at a wide variety of things,” Ongiri said. “But we don’t tend to value or talk about our failures as much as we do our successes.”
Ongiri, who joined the Lawrence faculty in 2014 after more than a decade on the English faculty at the University of Florida, holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree from the University of Texas, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her scholarship interests have focused on African American literature and culture, film studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of the 2009 book, Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic.
She points to scholars such Judith Halberstam, Timothy DuWhite, and Scott Sandage as sources of insight and reflection on the topic of failure and the cultural dynamic at play. That sort of guidance is valuable at any time, but perhaps even more so as we navigate through the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The global pandemic has not only provided a case study in notable failures around health care and public infrastructure, it has given us the time to reflect on what it all means,” Ongiri said. “It has also given us the chance to reconsider what states of being associated with failure, such as loneliness, mean to us individually and collectively as a culture.