Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? Conference Announcement

The American Council of Colleges and Universities (AACU) has announced this conference, to be held on November 3-5 in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the announcement, the themes of the conference are

1. The arts and humanities engaged by big questions, both contemporary and enduring
2. The arts and humanities practiced extensively across the curriculum, engaging creativity, critical thinking, inquiry and analysis, and an array of literacies
3. The arts and humanities as human expression, anchored through active involvement in civic life, in local and global communities, addressing real-world challenges across people’s lives
4. The arts and humanities in synthesis and advanced accomplishment, demonstrated through application and performance, using new pedagogies and forms of assessment

Details are available at http://www.aacu.org/meetings/ah11/index.cfm