Naked Space: Fall 2003 Gala Exhibit of Visual Sociology
invites you to join us as our special guests
at a display of Sociology of the Future.Please RSVP to 310-xxx-xxxx or jeannecurran@habermas.org
Loker Hall Student Union
Room Will Be Posted Wednesday, December 3, 2003, and Thursday, December 4, 2003
Exhibit Open from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Both Days.Scheduled performances and discussions throughout both days will be posted by Tuesday, November 25, 2003
on Sociology's Fall 2003 Gala Exhibit of Visual Sociology.Share our paintings, sculptures, photos, and performances, and join in discussions with our guests, local lawyers and elected officials, judges, social agency representatives, faculty and our present students who have prepared this gala as a way of asking you to come back and join your university in its mission to the community. Even if you can't join us at any time during the Fall Gala, we ask that you send us, or phone us, or e-mail us your current e-mail address, and any other contact changes, so that we can invite you to all our Galas and keep you in touch with our exciting events.
Meet old friends, new friends, people who are willing to guide you on a path to making our community aware of and equipping it to make better some of the social conditions we struggle with today. We share a tradition at CSUDH; we want to make that tradition work for all of us. Send us news of how you're doing, send us news of all the good things that happen, and we'll share the less happy times with you, too. Be a part of our network of our CSUDH Sociology Alums.
Who Are WE? We're a group of sociology (and other) students, staff, faculty, and a sprinkling of administration who want our Sociology Alumni to visit with us and stay in touch. We invite you to come and share our exhibit and our discussions, and stay in touch with us as we grow. We focused this semester on the theory of answerability (Bakhtin), the up front and personal recognition that whenever Person utters something there is always an Other to whom Person utters it: communication. And increasingly in the world today, Other answers with another, maybe even a new perspective. In the process of listening to each other in good faith to hear both Person and Other, we discover that we are changed. Somehow we see each other differently and we begin to build an interrelationship. That doesn't mean we agree with each other. Just that we are trying in good faith to understand each other as humans.
What's Naked Space? In today's world there is often little time and place for such intense attempts at understanding, even within our own families. So we took a part of Steve Riskin's theory that we have called Naked Space: Naked space is the space we keep free and open so that we can share our myriad experiences there without pre-judgment, without having to give rational arguments. Steve called it a vacant memory space, but we'd just spent a couple of weeks deep in difference over the Naked Lady mud flaps and the Barbie image, so Naked Space seemed to express what we were feeling, the good side of naked. We use art, music, dance all ways of expressing who we are. The students of the Gala Exhibit in Fall 2003 extend an invitation to all of you to join us in that Naked Space in which we explore freely, in trust, with the goal of understanding Person and Other as they try to build a peace in which we can all live, in which we each have a voice. Share this space with us as we share it with our university and our communities.