The Ethics of Inspiration: Honoring Ancestors and Influences

From the venue:

One of the Center's aims is to bring thoughtful people into conversation, so they talk through their efforts to be conscientious in a particular domain. This event arose from the thought that "appropriation" is a term to mark a failure of appropriately acknowledging one's creative sources, where "appropriate" might involve showing respect for, being generous with, even honoring the source, whether a person or a tradition.

The founding question for this event is thus: Beyond honest credits, how does one acknowledge, even honor the artists and cultural traditions that any artist inevitably relies upon in generating their own work?