{"id":8147,"date":"2014-04-08T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:00:41","slug":"giuffre-discusses-creativity-at-tedxmilehigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2014\/04\/giuffre-discusses-creativity-at-tedxmilehigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuffre Discusses Creativity at TEDxMileHigh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathy Giuffre<\/p><\/div>\n

Kathy Giuffre, associate professor of sociology, presented her work at the \u201cTEDxMileHigh: Women | Values + Instincts\u201d event at Denver\u2019s Newman Center on Nov. 16.\u00a0 The event featured some of Colorado\u2019s most innovative, brilliant, and passionate women \u2014 women who are pushing the boundaries and making huge impacts in science, sociology, artistry, health, and education.<\/p>\n

Giuffre, billed as a \u201ccreative maven\u201d on the TEDxMileHigh website, discussed \u201cGenerous Women: Creativity and Social Networks.\u201d The presentation was based on her research on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific, where she spent a sabbatical year studying the artists. Giuffre also took a CC sociology class to Rarotonga for two weeks in 2007 to study Polynesian culture.<\/p>\n

In her talk, Giuffre focused on the role women play in fostering the arts, especially the ways in which they work to build social networks that support innovation. \u201cThis is tied to traditional Polynesian values of generosity that the women I studied really espoused,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n