CEAH Lecture / Reception

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	September 10, 2008 ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities opens lecture series After honoring its 2008 award winners, Iowa State University's Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH) will open its six-event fall lecture series with a presentation by Cornell University's Scott Peters. Both events will take place Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Memorial Union on campus. The Campanile Room will be the location of the opening reception, beginning at 6:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., the CEAH will sponsor Peters' lecture on "Cultivating and Sustaining Democratic Publics: Civic Professionalism and the Pursuit of Sustainability in the Arts and Humanities," in the Sun Room. Both events are free and open to the public. The opening reception will highlight Iowa State faculty members who have received one of several awards or grants from CEAH including the Imaging Iowa Public Scholarship grant, the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Graduate Award, the Phyllis J. Lepke Endowed Graduate Award, and the Fellows for Scholarship and Creative Activity. Peters, an associate professor of educational studies at Cornell University in New York, will discuss how American higher education's social role, its function in a democracy and its public mission; its public purposes and public work are not straightforward empirical facts. He will raise and examine these questions in relation to the global challenge of pursuing sustainability. A faculty member in Cornell's Department of Education since 1999, Peters' research program is centered on a critical examination of the social, political and cultural identities, roles, purposes, and work of academic origins and early development of the national land-grant system's agricultural extension work. The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities supports distinction in humanistic scholarship and artistic create at Iowa State University.