Socially Engaged Art

A roundtable discussion presented in conjunction with On the Same Page.

UC Berkeley panelists:

The discussion will be actively moderated by producer and screenwriter James Schamus.

The panelists will address such questions as whether (or how) art can effect social change, the notion of "speaking truth to power," and how best to think through the perhaps contradictory relationship between aesthetics and ethical commitments. Given the enormity of the challenges we face today, how crucial is it that artists and writers play an explicit role through their art in shaping public discussion about those challenges?

4:00-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall