Editors: A full agenda of the colloquium with times and locations of panels is available on the Web at .
Artists, professors, students and musicians will gather at the University of Colorado at Boulder March 7-9 for the colloquium "Cultural Memory and Sites of Tradition."
Presented by the Center for Humanities and the Arts at CU-Boulder, the colloquium, which is free and open to the public, will delve into cultural memory and traditions through an array of topics including the history of bluegrass music, Japanese traditions, the Renaissance, organ donations and memorials in America.
"As we begin a new millennium with a society seemingly devoted to the new and the now, and a world order pursuing globalization over and against local cultures, questions about cultural memory and tradition are ever more pressing," said Jeffrey Cox, director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts.
"As an information society we are able to store vast amounts of cultural memory and record every tradition, yet we seem concerned we are losing our traditions, destroying other traditions or simply losing touch with the past."
Keynote speakers at the colloquium will include Trinh Minh-ha, who will present her latest film "The Fourth Dimension;" Sabine MacCormack of the University of Michigan, who will speak about pre-Columbian South American culture; and Joseph Roach of Yale University, who will speak about memory.
Founded in 1997, the Center for Humanities and the Arts focuses on the
study of humanities and artistic creation with the goal of raising the profile of the arts and humanities on the CU-Boulder campus. Each year the center selects a theme around which it organizes a year-long list of activities, including a faculty and graduate student seminar, a lecture series and a spring colloquium.
The colloquium is co-sponsored by the President's Fund for the Humanities, the Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching program, the College of Music and the American Music Research Center.
For more information about the colloquium, including a full agenda of panel titles, times and locations, call (303) 492-1423 or visit the Web site at .