Ethics Week 2015 Brochure

Friday Literary Arts Steve Tigner

ETHICS ON AN EPIC SCALE The literary arts in western culture begin with epic poetry, and the great epic poets remain paradigm practitioners of the arts. Homer, with whom the western literary tradition begins, composed in Greek, and his Iliad established paFerns and standards for Virgil, Dante and Milton, who were to follow him, writing in Latin, vernacular Italian and English. All would adapt specific verse forms for their epic tasks, begin their epics in medias res (as Horace put it), and all would make striking use of epic similes.

And the great Latin, Italian and English epics would also follow Homer in addressing monumental maFers of imperial or cosmic concern. All would confront hubris and greed, conquest and defeat, loyalty and betrayal, love and lust, life and death -­‐‑-­‐‑ living on the edge. In addition to worldly adventures, all included underworld adventures as well.

Ethics Week 2015 Ethics and the Arts A BROAD EXPLORATION OF ETHICAL QUESTIONS

Sponsored by the Department of Religion Presented by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Chautauqua

WEEK FOUR THE HALL OF PHILOSOPHY 9:30 - 10:30 MONDAY - FRIDAY

Steve Tigner began his career teaching high school physics and chemistry in Newark NY, retired as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy from the University of Toledo in 1990, then taught “Cultural Foundations for Educators” or 17 years at Boston University before finally retiring in 2007. He now lives happily with his wife Gwen as a year-­‐‑round Chautauquan. For the past several years he has led a popular Winter Classics Series at the Turner Community Center for Chautauqua’s winter community.

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

— Archbishop Desmond Tutu AT THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION

Week Four

Culture is “the form of religion” which era, by era, expresses “intimate movement of the soul.”

Monday Theater

Andrew Borba Mr. Borba is in his 7th season as Associate Artistic Director and his 11th summer at the Chautauqua Theater Company.

As an actor at CTC he has performed in Arcadia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, The Just, All My Sons, Frankenstein and Dracula. Outside of CTC, Andrew has performed in theaters around the country including South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Globe Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (4 seasons), Theater @ Boston Court, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, Long Wharf, Delaware Theatre Company and many others. In the summer of 2014 Andrew conceived and created the multidisciplinary Inter-­‐‑Arts work “Go West! The Mythology of American Expansion.” On film he can be seen in F. Gary Gray’s upcoming Straight Ou+a Compton, Taken 3 (2014), and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) as well as David Duchovny’s new series Aquarius.

He has had recurring and guest appearances on over 30 television series and numerous films.

Andrew currently teaches Shakespeare and advanced Acting at USC, is a cum laude graduate of Brown University and received his M.F.A. from New York University. He has also taught at Juilliard, New York University, University of Tennessee and The David Kagen School. Against all probability he lives in Los Angeles.

Tuesday Architecture William Laubscher

Mr. Laubscher has over 50 years of experience in the design and construction industry. Presently Mr. Laubscher is involved in designing and managing residential and commercial projects in and around The Chautauqua Institution, New York. He is a Registered Architect in New York. Mr. Laubscher enjoys Oil Painting, Pen & Ink drawing, Woodworking and gardening.

He has been married to his wife Carole for fifty years and they have three children and eight grandchildren.

He was President of a major Midwest architectural engineering firm and after merging with URS Corporation in 1984 became involved with the overall management of the worldwide Corporation. He became involved with acquisitions and integration throughout the United States and abroad, particularly in the Pacific Basin -­‐‑ Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has served as Project Principal for such diversified major projects as billion dollar K-­‐‑12 programs and College/University Educational Facilities, office buildings, health care and financial institutions. He designed diverse projects around the world such as the New Generation Teaching Hospital in Algiers and a palace for Royalty in Brunei.

Wednesday Visual Arts Audrey Kay Dowling Audrey Kay Dowling was born in Jamestown, NY in 1952.

She received her BS degree in Art Education from SUNY New Palg and her MS in Education degree from SUNY Fredonia. She lives with her husband, Donald, in Westfield, NY and they have two grown sons, Joseph and Forrest. Audrey and Donald currently operate their business, Portage Hill Art Gallery which is located on Highway 394. In addition to teaching art in public schools she has taught privately for the last 25 years.

During this time she became very active in the New York State Gifted Education Organization (AGATE) of which she is the current Past President. She also served as the regional representative to the State Education Department for Gifted Education and presented to the NYS Board of Regents on this topic.

Audrey has maintained a very active art career throughout her life and has been involved in the formation and served on the boards of many local arts organizations. Her award winning work has been accepted into many juried shows, including several national ones. She was recently featured in a one-­‐‑woman held in May at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown.

Thursday Music Dr. David Levy David B. Levy, Professor of Music, Director of Flow House, Vienna, and Associate Dean for Faculty Governance, has been at Wake Forest since 1976. He has served as faculty member in the Department of Music, departmental chair, and President of the Faculty Senate. He teaches courses in music history and pursues research on 19th Century Music with a special focus on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. He has published widely in his field both nationally and internationally and is the author of a monograph, Beethoven: the Ninth Symphony (Yale UP, 2003). As Associate Dean for Faculty Governance, David has oversight of the standing faculty committees, serves as secretary for the Committee on Academic Affairs, and presides over Honors and Ethics hearings.