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Diversity Week 2011 - Raising Your Voice, Multicultural Center Oct 2011

Diversity Week 2011 - Raising Your Voice, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Center

Raise Your Voice: How Diverse Genres of HipHop, Spoken Word and Music Create a Culture of Nonviolence and Peace?

Dr. Paul de Mesquita, Professor, Psychology and Director Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies; and Performing Artists, Rudy Cabrera, Kaly the 5th Element, and Miss Lori. In contrast to a growing culture of violence so prevalent in all forms of mass media, this session will feature live performance artists presenting work in tribute to Gandhi and King, toward the goal of a peaceful inclusive multicultural "beloved community". Join us in interacting and dialoguing with the artists. Sponsored by the URI Center …


The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico May 2011

The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico

Senior Honors Projects

The Perpetual Creation and Provocation of the Self

Krista D’Amico

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English

This project consists of four related parts. The first part is a critical and creative work of prose in which I converse with the thought of two philosophers, namely Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze. This conversation enables me to present my own thought and subjectivity in relationship to a very important aspect of my life: music-making. The second part of my project is a critical essay in which I contemplate the work of another artist, Virginia Woolf, and the way that her credo Three Guineas (1938) …