Have you seen “Dance Your PhD” (or if you haven’t, find it now!) and wondered how you might consider alternative ways to share research with the world? Or collaborated with experts from different fields and explored the most effective ways to present your joint work?
In this session, faculty will share their vision, (collaborative) process, and approach to choosing different channels/media to disseminate their discoveries. We explore how seemingly disparate connections and collaborations can reveal new ways of approaching ideas and information, and help people understand research outside their fields.
Allen Turner,
Senior Professional Lecturer
Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
Allen Turner is a game designer, storyteller, artist, author, composer and performer who has been involved in storytelling and education most of his adult life. He teaches game and design at DePaul University and runs the DePaul Originals Game Studio. He believes in the power of play and story as fundamental, powerful medicines which shape our sense of self, relationships, and our connection to the cosmos.
As a storyteller he often tells myths and legends within the Native American community in Chicago. He has provided cultural performances for the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public, the Illinois Teachers Conference, Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, and myriad other organizations and institutions. He extols play as a learning tool by educating teachers, via workshops, on how to bring games and game-like learning into their classrooms to give students a sense of progression and purpose and as rites of passage.
Most recently Allen has published Ehdrigohr, a tabletop, dark fantasy, roleplaying game that explores tribal themes and allegorical battles with depression, solitude, identity, and erasure. More info on that and other projects can be found at council-of-fools.com/blog.
As a performer he enjoys exploring the narrative power of dance as a space of personal ritual and transformation via various forms of folkloric dance. His motions pull from all of his heritages and experiences with various teachers becoming a fluid blend of Raqs Sharqi, Butoh, West African, and North American Men’s Traditional and Omaha (Grass) dances.
A creator of music he explores creating psychedelic, dreamy soundscapes and danceable rhythms under the auspices of the Council OF Fools Rhythm Council.
Lisa Dush,
Associate Professor, Director
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Lisa Dush is an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, where she teaches courses in professional and digital writing. She also serves as Faculty Director of HumanitiesX: DePaul’s Experiential Humanities Collaborative and coordinates DePaul’s Graduate Certificate in Strategic Writing and Advancement for Nonprofits.