Summer 2020 Course Spotlight: Engaged Citizenship

"The field of arts and civic engagement is not yet a scholarly trend although its social impact and academic potential highlight a very productive heuristic perspective both for interdisciplinary research and social participation. Engaging art forms like political poster design, urban art festivals and documentary theatre are possible ways to engage society in various aspects such as supporting vulnerable groups, raising political awareness, creating inclusive platforms, recovering historical memory and increasing cultural relations and exchange. Within the Engaged Citizenship Summer Class, we've been discussing with the students among other topics relevant cases of arts and civic engagement in global and local contexts, especially referring to the cases of arts and political participation and the Covid-19 challenges for engaging art activities, 'A Dinner on Zoom' by Richard Nelson among them. In their own final presentations, the students in turn reflected on the political impact of visual art in Afghanistan and political performance in Hungary and Russia."

To see a snippet of Shtalenkova's presentation on arts engagement during Covid-19, head to @BardCCE on Instagram! And find the presentation resources included below: