Institute for Creative Inquiry - Colloquia
At these informal presentations, which take place six times throughout the year, a faculty, staff member, or invited guest discusses a multidisciplinary project on which they are currently working. Past presenters have explored a wide range of topics. Because our audience is made up of interested colleagues from across the university, the interchange among the disciplines is both fascinating and instructive. Colloquia generally take place on the third Wednesday of the month in ICI (Roop 208) from noon to 1:00 p.m.
Upcoming Colloquium
Previous Colloquia
Fall 2019
Nefin Dinc - Antoine the Fortunate: Original Light on WWI from a Newly Discovered Memoir
Erica Cavanagh - The Photographs in the House: How Two Images Opened a Hidden World
Harold Butner - Linking Across Worlds - Tales from “Physics of Science Fiction”
Spring 2019
Vanessa Rouillon – Albert R. Lee, “A Man of Substance, One of Illinois’ Finest Traditions”
Emily York and Shannon Conley – Envisioning Futures Across Disciplines
David Peterson – How to Think Outside the Box: Mapping Divergent Thinking
Fall 2018
Idelle Cooper – Seeing Evolutionary Change: Nature seem through the Lenses of Art and Biology
Jennifer Byrne – Identity, Ethics and Volunteerism with Endagered Species
Gregg Henriques – Creating a Visual Model of Human Knowledge
Spring 2018
Rob Mertens – Patterns of the Cosmos: Making Meaning in Textiles
David Ehrenpreis – Learning from the Bauhaus to the Stanford d.School
Gianluca De Fazio – Documenting and Mapping Lynching in Virginia
Fall 2017
Pam Johnson - A Century of Harrisonburg Clothing
Karen Thomas and Robin Lyttle - Preserving African-American History in Harrisonburg
Evan Friss and Andrew Witmer - Why Digital History?
Spring 2017
Shaun Wright - Engaging Campus and Community through a Documentary Film Festival
Jim Sochacki - Using Visual Models to Understand the Past and the Future
Lisa Porter - Community Research and the Many Voices of Harrisonburg Project
Fall 2016
Jacob Mayiani - ERAMAT "Mind your Cattle": The Culturally Anchored Eco-Game
Steve Bobbitt - Principles of Play in Action at UREC
Hannah Smith - Playwork Practice: Children's Play and Public Policy
Spring 2016
Elizabeth Brown - Reconnecting the Liberal Arts and STEM
Vanessa Rouillon - First-Year Students Recover History and Write in the Archives
Bradley Andrick and Kevin Borg - Spatial History in the Public Square
Fall 2015
Polly Black - Fostering Entrepreneurial Thinking
Laurie Baefsky - Integrating the Arts Across Disciplines
Laura Taalman - Makerspaces in Education
Spring 2015
Edwin O’Shea - Is Seeing Believing in Geometry? An Illustrated edition of Euclid's Elements
Kate Trammell and Sharon Babcock - The Embodied Learning Project
Sean McCarthy - Designing Media Prototypes: The Shenandoah Living Arc
Fall 2014
Rebecca Silberman - Inhabiting the Uncanny: Animated Dolls and Micro-Sets
Anne Stewart - The Power of Play
Meredith Conti - Contemporary Visual Depictions of the Lincoln Assassination
Spring 2014
Terry Brino-Dean - Stunt Runners and Momentary Performance
Grace Wyngaard - Using Art to Reveal the Complexities of Biological Models
Melissa Aleman - Family Photos and Storytelling Multicultural Homes
Fall 2013
Jun Bum Shin - Embracing Interactivity
Dawn McCusker - Revival of the Fittest: Letterpress and Book Arts in the 21st Century
Zack Bortolot - Enhancing the View from Above: Colorizing Historic Aerial Photographs
Spring 2013
Katie Quertermous - Crocheting a Plane: Using Physical Models to Visualize Hyperbolic Geometry
Laura Taalman - Spiral Knots: Patterns, Invariants, and Exploratory Mathematics
Maureen Shanahan - Modernist Robots and Post-Modern Realities
Fall 2012
Dawn McCusker - Revival of the Fittest: Letterpress and Book Arts in the 21st Century
Howard Lubert - Getting Angry Six Times A Week: Editorial Cartoons as Political Argument
Spring 2012
Robert Nagel - Using Visualization in Engineering Design Education
Chuck Heckman - A Visual Approach to Math Education
Henry Way - Political Visions of America: Images of Place in Online Campaigning
Fall 2011
Kate Stevens - The 21st Century Museum: How Technology is Changing the Museum World
Daniel Robinson - The World in Stereo
Nicholas de Warren - The Lives of Others: The Imaginary Self and Virtual Reality
Spring 2011
Alex Bannigan - Imaging Biology
Roger Thelwell - Mathematics: A Visual Feast
David Ehrenpreis - Examining a hand-painted alphabet book
Fall 2010
Kathy Takayama - Creative Acts of the Mind in Science + Art
James Wilson - Visualizing Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions through Historical GIS
Tony Hartshorn - A Carbon "Breathing" Visualizing Shenandoah Valley Respiration
Spring 2010
Julia Wertz - Writing Comics
William Knorpp - Inference Mapping: Diagramming Arguments and Objections
Kevin Hegg and Andreas Knab - Discover, Organize, and Experience Multimedia with MDID3
Fall 2009
Michael Singer - Regenerative Design in the Public Realm Lecture
David Bernstein - Visualization in Transportation Modeling
Helmut Kraenzle - Visualizing Worldwide Container Movement with GIS Simulation
Bob Kolvoord - Mapping a Difference in the Google Spatial World