State(s) of the Discipline(s) has been an ongoing exploration of the status and future of various creative fields, along with the ways that the constantly shifting landscape of knowledge-production affects teaching, learning, and research in higher education settings and society in general.
State(s) of the Discipline(s) is a distributed series—across time, space, modalities, and formats. Programs are flexible and fluid: from panel discussions to invited lectures in classes, from performances to dialogues and conversations, from round-tables to reflective essays by participants involved in different projects, from the creation of curricular programs to the generation of initiatives open to many stakeholders.
The topics explored in State(s) of the Discipline(s) episodes always engage with notions of interdisciplinarity. From historical perspectives to theoretical ones, from creative practice to pragmatic questions and policies at institutions, this container allows an ongoing, rigorous, nuanced, and expansive engagement with, and interrogation of, disciplinarities—and interdisciplinarities—and their institutional framings.
The durational aspect of this project is also in tune with what we deem most impactful and relevant when it comes to engaging with interdisciplinarity—a perpetual questioning, an unfurling that nourishes practice and theory, rather than any one attempt at an exhaustive manual.