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Course Info
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Dates: Saturday, April 4th
Time: 9:00 - 5:00
Location: Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall
Earlybrid Non-credit fee: $100 if mail or fax your regsitration by March 20
Noncredit fee: $125 after March 20
Lewis Hyde's Keynote address only: $25, 10 am
**Continuing Education Credit: 1 SH, an additional $80
Registration Form
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The Gift and the Commons:
Creativity and the Public Good with Lewis Hyde
 THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED
The Gift, Lewis Hyde’s groundbreaking study of creativity, explores the meaning of art in a market driven society. Hyde asks questions central to the lives of artists as well as teachers and others who serve the public good: How do we discover work that satisfies beyond financial compensation? What is the artist's role in a consumer culture? What are our norms for reciprocity and how do gifts create bonds in communities? Hyde’s current project extends these questions to the realm of the "cultural commons" – "that vast store of unowned ideas, inventions, and works of art we have inherited from the past, and that we continue to create." As we debate "intellectual property," cultural "piracy," and what counts as shared "cultural literacy," these issues take on renewed urgency.
Lewis Hyde will join us to consider these questions. Before and after his keynote address, Northwest Writing Institute faculty Joanne Mulcahy, will facilitate a day of writing about gifts, the creative spirit, and our shared cultural past and imagined future.
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes This World, which uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. A MacArthur Fellow, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED
Special opportunity: If you are unable to attend the whole day event, come for Lewis Hyde's keynote address starting at 10am. This is open to the public for only $25!
**Continuing education credit: One semester hour of graduate level continuing education credit may be earned by attending the Saturday workshop and two evening sessions, Thursdays, April 2 and 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Credit: CEED 866 1 SH, an additional $80
This event is co-sponsored by the Oregon Writing Project.
Read what the New York Times has to say about Lewis Hyde:
November 16, 2009
What Is Art For? by Daniel B. Smith
"The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out - and became a literary cult figure in the process."
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