4/19/23: UMF Symposium Day
Emery Community Arts Center Events
Free and open to the public
During Symposium Day, events and presentations featuring student research will take place across campus. Events listed below will take place in Emery Community Arts Center, a full campus-wide schedule can be found HERE.
-9:30am-10:00am: Education Student Showcase (Emery Lower Level Lobby)
Students in Dr. Cara Furman’s EDU 333 write “how the world came to be books” as a group project. Students begin this project by going outside and taking a picture of a natural item. They research this item. They read a number of folktales that tell the origin stories of particular plants and animals. Then they write their own about their item. Through this project they work through group dynamics, learn how to teach literacy, practice their own writing and drawing so they can teach writing better, and create an original story based on a natural item in Farmington that they can share with children. Participants will be students from EDU 333 Fall semester and EDU 333 Spring Semester. While primarily a visual display, students from the Spring Semester and a few interested from the Fall will sign up to walk visitors through our “museum.”
–12:00pm-1:00pm: TRUSTEE TALK (Emery Performance Space)
Dr. Cara Furman, Cultivating Classrooms that Belong to Everyone: Teaching from an Ethical Center
What does it mean to teach effectively and ethically? How are new teachers inducted into and supported in this work? This talk builds on a multi-year study of new teachers to first address how teachers live commitments to classrooms of belonging in daily decision-making and actions. It then zooms in on how teachers can live and fight for a culture of belonging amidst schools where it is not supported.
Cara E. Furman, PhD, is the 2022-2-23 Trustee Professor for the University of Maine at Farmington. A former public elementary school teacher and an associate professor of literacy education, she is co-author of Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice: Cultivating Practical Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools. She is passionate about teacher development as it intersects with inquiry, asset based inclusive teaching, and progressive literacy practices and can be reached at cara.furman@maine.edu
–1:00pm-2:00pm: “Empathy, Affect, Immersion, and Pedagogy: Rethinking the Experience of Video Games” (Emery Performance Space)
Although video games are popularly perceived as a space for recreation, recent scholarship has started to articulate how the experience of gaming is emotionally and intellectually generative. This panel will build on this body of scholarship to analyze the multitude of ways by which video games elicit complex responses from gamers that can be harnessed in productive ways in the context of literary studies, music composition, and education. Examining a body of games including The Last of Us, Sekiro, Pyre, Skyrim, and Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, this panel will articulate the diversity and richness that characterize the gaming experience.
Presenters: AJ Booth, Morgan Rogers, Zoe Norris, Kyle Thrace, Ashley Ward (moderated by Dr. Stephen Grandchamp) The five presenters are all students at the University of Maine at Farmington who enrolled in the Fall 2022 section of English 430 (Experimental Narrative in Video Games).
–2:00pm-3:30pm: BA in Visual Arts Senior Exhibition Artist Talks (Emery Flex Space Gallery)
Seniors in the Visual Arts Program will discuss their thesis art show, Primordial Soup. This exhibit features Elly Bernard, Jett Jordan, Gavyn Moreshead, Ana Rogers and Emma Wallace, and represents the culmination of their capstone research. The show includes sculpture, painting, drawing, digital art and animation, and engages themes of entertainment, horror, physical labor, and political agendas. Each student will give an artist talk that presents the ideas, research and processes that inspired their thesis work.
–4:00pm-5:00pm: A Reading by the Students in Advanced Fiction
(Emery Performance Space)
The students in Lewis Robinson’s current semester of ENG310-Advanced Fiction Writing will each read a three-minute excerpt from a work-in-progress. Throughout the spring, the students will facilitate their own “Portrait of the Artist” workshop in which they describe a source of inspiration (visual art, music, film, etc) before presenting their fiction. For this Symposium event, each student will choose a projected image to accompany their reading. Participating students include: Julia Anise, Horisun Antunee, Gwyn Ash, Adelle Belanger, Katherine Berube, Autumn Koors Foltz, Leo Goddard, Bekah Knights, Sean Maher, Jacob Mouser, Annie Newman, Alexis Sack, Haley Sewell, Ashley Ward, and Venus Wright.
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