THE GRAWEMEYER COLLOQUIUM
Harnessing The Power of Ideas
About The Colloquium
The Grawemeyer Colloquium at the University of Louisville is a colloquium meeting with a namesake that follows The Grawemeyer Awards. This “colloquium” is not a typical symposium or showcase, although it may improve how your ideas are conveyed at the next one you attend. It is an annual celebration of the understanding and improvement of quality individual ideas and the works that stem from them, with the intention of gaining knowledge from the colloquium from exposure to multidisciplinary thought. Attendance is open to any of UofL’s students, scholars, researchers, mentors and faculty.
The annual academic colloquium is curated under The Executive Director of The Grawemeyer Awards through the University of Louisville’s Institutional Repository and is sponsored by The Grawemeyer Scholars Association. Whether these ideas are completed works or just exiting the proposal stage, they can be further developed from presenting with dialogue from a multidisciplinary audience and by writing a colloquium paper. The colloquium features undergraduate presenters from all disciplines with mentored research or juried works, where all represent a quality commitment to developing ideas by first submitting a colloquium paper for publication in The Grawemeyer Colloquium Papers.
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Open for submission, The Grawemeyer Colloquium is intended to allow its participants to benefit from the engagement in ideas across all the disciplines present.
It holds the ultimate goal to harness, improve, and celebrate “The Power of Ideas”
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Register to Attend: All Presenters & Attendees
**NOTE: Due to COVID-19, University Club has not been provided with a re-opening date. Therefore the 2020 Colloquium opening & Keynote address will be held virtually, open to campus, with Colloquium Papers submitted in the fall. An in-person reception and presentations will be delayed to a hybrid event in the Spring. Any papers should still be submitted in the fall and presenters can plan to prepare a physical or digital poster presentation for the spring. RSVP to the 2020 opening at the link below, a Microsoft Teams link will be provided on the RSVP Page and posted here on the week of Nov. 13th. See information on submitting a paper under the"make a submission" page.
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Welcome to The Grawemeyer Colloquium!
The first annual Grawemeyer Colloquium for 2020 is scheduled to be held Novemeber 14th, at 6:30pm. The Grawemeyer Colloquium is hosted by the University Club and Alumni Center. A dress-code of academic business formal to black-tie is recommended for this event. Those making a submission to present, or those planning to attend, must RSVP through the "RSVP" Engage link..
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We are happy to welcome as many attendees possible to The Colloquium, open to The University of Louisville. Limited space is available for reception and keynote address, and is made available on a first-registered-first-serve basis with priority given to those who are presenting and the faculty mentors of these individuals. Keynote addresses will be posted each year on the colloquium webpage. Any and all are welcome to attend presentations and discussions at The Grawemeyer Colloquium. Presenters must submit a colloquium paper for publication prior to presenting. See "Make a Submission" on the webpage.
Funding for this event is made available from the Grawemeyer Scholars Association and the University of Lousiville Student Government Association.
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*In addition to standard submissions, Faculty Keynote Speakers may elect to publish a colloquium paper on their speaking topic, and an open invitation for submissions & presentation is also extended to graduates and alumni of the Grawemeyer Scholars Association of any current institution or vocation. These submissions of graduate students, PhD candidates or professors, and other alumni may be based on the professional work of the alumnus, or as a colloquium paper of professional commentary in an academic area of interest in their field.
2020 GRAWEMEYER KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The Power of Ideas: "Plato's Myths: From the Cave to the Lost Continent"
An examination of Plato's inventive use of newly constructed myths to convey his Ideas, paralleled to how Jesus of Nazareth employed parables to embody the lessons of his teachings.
DR. JOHN HALE
Professor of Archeology
John R. Hale, PhD is an American archaeologist and historian. He is a highly regarded professor, field archeologist, and is the Director of the Liberal Studies Program at the University of Louisville. He has disseminated the Power of Ideas in archeology and history through lecturing widely for the public on topics in classicism, ancient history, and archeology and his archeological fieldwork has been featured in a number of documentary films for the Discovery Channel and the History channel.
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Dr. Hale received a B.A from Yale University in 1973 and Ph.D. in Archaeology from Cambridge University in 1979 with a dissertation on Bronze Age Boats of Scandinavia. He has since held numerous publications, and is an involved member of the Louisville community across disciplines. In addition to serving as President of the Kentucky Chapter Archaeological Institute of America since 1994, Dr. Hale has served as Director of Educational Programs and Concerts, Louisville Bach Society since 1983, and President and Founder of the Greater Louisville Rowing Foundation since 1992. He has a high degree of field experience including underwater archeology and is credited with discovering the mystery behind the Oracle of Delphi in Greece.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Part 1 Fall: November 13th, 2020. Virtual
OPENING REMARKS
6:30 PM
Opening remarks provided from colloquium hosts beginning at 6:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
6:45 PM to 7:45pm
Keynote address, focused on the power of an individual idea in the field of study, and the Power of Ideas of the field of the speaker
QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
7:45 to 8pm
A time for intermission and discussion with the keynote speaker, any questions may be asked though they should be addressed to the focus explained above.
MEETING ADJOURNS
7:45 to 8pm
Meeting adjourns into hiatus until a hybrid Spring reception and scholar presentations at University Club.
Part 2 Spring: TBD, 2021. Hybrid
RECEPTION & WELCOME
6:45pm to 7:45pm
Re-opening of the 2020-21 Grawemeyer Colloquium with a welcome and in-person reception at University Club. The keynote address will play in the background as presenters and attendees arrive
PRESENTATIONS & DISCUSSION
7:45pm to 9:30pm
Any scholars, researchers, and/or returning graduate students will provide presentations of works published in The Grawemeyer Colloquium Papers. In-person presentations must be masked, 6 ft apart, and limited to 10 persons per room (or other rated capacity of the facility) and may use a poster while streaming the presentations in the room online. Virtual presentations may use a powerpoint and screen-share. Presentations should be limited to 5 minutes each, and then allow for a time of interdisciplinary discussion. Virtual breakout-rooms may be used for presentations if necessary.
CLOSING REMARKS
9:30 pm
Close of the 2020-21 Grawemeyer Colloquium. All papers may be found published in the 2020-21 volume, with keynote address online.
THE PENDULUM MODEL
Celebrating “The Power of Ideas” is a core focus of The Grawemeyer Awards, and likewise, harnessing it through an exchange across disciplines is the focus of The Grawemeyer Colloquium.
The Power of Ideas is demonstrated by the pendulum emblem, akin to the Foucault Pendulum built by University of Louisville faculty and students located in Grawemeyer Hall. Its use has been across multiple disciplines- as was Charles Grawemeyer, and the interests of The Grawemeyer Awards at the University of Louisville providing awards across disciplines.
The ancient technologies the pendulum is derived from are the plumb bob and line. Most all societies in history have made use of a simple plumb bob weight, with a cord aligned vertically to level the construction of buildings and monuments. It is an inclusive tool as well as interdisciplinary, common in some way to the multiple origins of the human society in which each of us live. Today, you are still likely to find the same plumb bob and line used by most carpenters, surveyors, or other craftspeople. Set in motion as a pendulum, these became early devices for timekeeping. By the nineteenth century, they were used to refine earth’s gravitational constant by position, and with the study of Foucault’s pendulum, brought definitive proof of the earth's rotation.
As a metaphorical symbol of "The Power of Ideas", the virtues of pursuing both the edification for multi-faceted knowledge and advancement of individual knowledge & ideas serve as the supports that constitute the pendulum, where the plumb line represents individual thought adhered and rooted to those virtues. The line is tightened by the weight of individual ideas represented by the plumb. When the pendulum is lifted in pursuit of enlightenment it gains the potential for ideas, and when released it will take to motion representing “The Power of Ideas”
CONTACT US
The Grawemeyer Scholars Association,
Executive Director of the Grawemeyer Awards.Â
Rm. 209, Grawemeyer Hall,
2301 S. Third Street, University of Louisville
Louisvillle, Kentucky, 40208
502.852.0024
