Identity Themed Events
White Privilege and Catholic Social TeachingAlex Mikulich, Research Fellow on race and poverty at the Jesuit Social Research Institute, Loyola University New Orleans.Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost. Jazz Has a Dream - MLKFriday & Saturday, January 15th & 16th, 2010 Co-sponsored by the Justice and the Arts Initiative, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
Segregated Sunday: Race, Ethnicity and the U.S. Church
Please bring your lunch; Refreshments and Beverages will be served. Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
LGBTQ Allies Network
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Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Using Student Data to Demonstrate Institutional Impact
2:45 - 4:00 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen by January 25th.
The best way to show institutional impact is to monitor change in college student development in terms of changing behaviors, values, and skills. This requires following the same students, or finding other ways to monitor their development. Student interviews and focus groups also provide unique insight into how students experience classroom and out-classroom activies and what they acquire from both experiences. Key examples will be discussed.
Creating Diverse Learning Environment: Campus Climate, Practices and Outcomes
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen by January 25th.
Dr. Hurtado will discuss the latest research on understanding diverse learning environments for student success. She will discuss a new conceptual framework that ties together campus climate, faculty and staff practices, and outcomes that address habits of mind for life long learning, multicultural competencies, and factors associated with student retention.
Sylvia Hurtado is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. Just prior to coming to UCLA, she served as Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Dr. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education. She has served on numerous editorial boards for journals in education and served on the boards for the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the Higher Learning Commission, and is past-President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Black Issues In Higher Education named her among the top 15 influential faculty whose work has had an impact on the academy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and A.B. from Princeton University in Sociology.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the School of Education, the Sociology Department, and the Student Affairs Assessment Committee.
Troy Duster
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Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at NYU
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Race in a Post-Genomic Era versus Genomics in a Post-Racial Era
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Forbes Family Conf. Room, Lucas Hall 126
Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen by February 3rd.
The revolution in molecular genetics captured the media and the public's imagination for much of the last quarter of the 20th century. Now we are accustomed to news about the genetic basis of a full range of human attributes, conditions, and disorders. The potential impact of this revolution on how individuals, members of families and social groups think about one other is profound, and we already can point to demonstrable impact on how we avoid, insure, stigmatize, and explain each other.Professor Duster's presentation will focus on several of these developments, including the new technologies that are or soon will be speeding the development of new classificatory systems of humans who are at greater or lesser risk for certain health problems; technologies that claim to be able to predict genetic ancestry along lines of continental origin; -and some developments in forensic work that have the strong potential to reinforce old ways of thinking about ethnic and racial essentialisms.
Whitewashing Diversity in Academia: What's Behind the Strong Resistance to Multiculturalism?
5:30 - 7:00 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center
Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen by February 3rd.
Troy Duster earned his B.S. degree in journalism from University of California, Los Angeles and an M.A. degree and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.The last decade's experiences with issues of multiculturalism and diversity now are far enough along that we can begin to see the fault lines. The predictable sources of resistance are very much in place, but there have been a few surprises. While the military, the corporate world, and segments of industry have accommodated in various ways to an increasingly diverse workforce, the "higher learning" of the academy has been among the most intransigent sites to effectively thwart change, despite a notable transformation of the composition of the matriculating students. Why would one of the society's most liberal bastions have turned out to be among its most conservative when it comes to "embracing diversity?" Part of the answer lies in some deep-seated ideas about the hierarchy of cultures that go back two centuries.
Duster became professor of sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. He is also the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1970. In 2004, he served a one-year term as President of the American Sociological Association. Duster's research and writing have ranged across a variety of subject areas: the sociology of law, science, deviance, inequality, race and education. In 1970, his first book, The Legislation of Morality: Drugs, Crime, and Law became a classic in the drug field.
Duster is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003), which won the Benjamin Hooks Award and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2004. Among his other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics; an honorary Doctor of Letters from Williams College; and the Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. With his siblings, Duster has established the Ida B. Wells Foundation, which gives awards to journalists and researchers working in Wells' tradition of writing and speaking out for civil rights, civil liberties and social justice.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Biology Department, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, the School of Education, and the Sociology Department.
Difficult Dialogue: Appropriate This!
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
3:45 - 5 pm
Parlor B, Benson Center
From hip hop culture to orientalism. What is cultural appropriation? "When is your interest in other cultures Appreciation? Posturing? Offensive? Come and join in on the discussion!
Facilitated by Perlita Dicochea, Ethnic Studies Program, and AJ Howell-Williams, Undergraduate Admissions.
RSVP required to Pauline Nguyen no later than Friday, February 12th.
Marilyn Chin - Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
5 pm
St Clare Room, (Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library)
Marilyn Chin is the author of three collections of poetry: Dwarf Bamboo, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Chin has won two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship, and numerous residencies. Her work can be found in a variety of anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry and The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry. She co-directs the MFA program at San Diego State University.
Does Race Still Matter?
Ethnic Studies 40th Anniversary Panel 3:
Does Race Still Matter? The (R)Evolution of Ethnic Studies in America
Monday, March 1st, 2010
2-4 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
What is the current state of the field of Ethnic Studies since the activism efforts by students of color during the 1960s? Ethnic Studies faculty speak on the transformations with regard to its foundations, pedagogy, and future directions in the current racial climate in the United States.
Panelists:
Professor Michael Omi, Ethnic Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Professor Lorena Oropeza, History Department, UC Davis
Professor Shawn Ginwright, Africana Department, San Francisco State University
Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
Women of Color Network:
Round Table Chat with Students, Faculty and Staff
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
12-1:30 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
What has been your personal experience on campus? What have been your joys and struggles? Make connections, share experiences and meet other women of color on campus. Join students, faculty and staff for a dialogue on campus climate and other current topics relevant to the Women of Color Network.
Discussion will be facilitated by Mary Ho, Program Director, Office for Multicultural Learning.
RSVP required to Pauline Nguyen no later than Thursday, February 24th.
Joint initiative from the Women's and Gender Studies, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
