PeaceWorks

Join the College of Arts and Humanities as we explore and celebrate peace through curricular and artistic activities. In addition to the events below, twelve of our courses will have a "peace" theme this semester.

PeaceWorks represents a collective effort in the College of Arts and Humanities to teach and program across disciplines. We seek to encourage UW-Parkside students to take advantage of the many cultural opportunities offered by the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts and Humanities, affectionately known as the Rita, each week. To foster cross pollination amongst disciplines, we chose a theme, PeaceWorks, to encourage collaboration. Twelve instructors from Communication to Art History to English to Composition will teach on the topic of peace, broadly defined. At the same time, we have planned some ten events that also deal in one way or another with peace or its absence—war. Due to this advanced planning, professors in CAH may integrate these Rita activities into their classes. The PeaceWorks events also are open to the public.

Why the theme of peace, now? Because the violence caused by the enmity that has shaken our world in the last few years, months, and weeks crushes the soul. The images horrify. Words fail. The carnage wrought in Nice last summer wasn’t exceptional for those fleeing and enduring the devastation of the war in Syria or South Sudan. It is against that background that we chose the theme-year—PeaceWorks—for the college last spring. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work at it,” said Eleanor Roosevelt in 1951. Let our work begin, today.