2010-2011 Legacies Events
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Art and Poetry from Native California
Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
Saturday, October 2nd - Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Visiting hours: 11 am - 4 pm (Tuesday through Sunday)
De Saisset Museum
Like the state of California itself, California native peoples are remarkably diverse with more than 300 languages and distinct geographical centers shaping communities, traditions, ideologies, and ceremonies. Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry from Native California brings together California Native artists and poets in an extraordinary multimedia exhibition. Organized in four thematic sections, the exhibit illustrates how culture, history, ancestry, and story have shaped each of us, regardless of our heritage.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
Legacies and the Mexican Revolution in the Arts Symposium - Opening Reception
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
4 - 5 pm
St. Clare Room (Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library)
A reception to introduce the campus-wide diversity theme,
Legacies, with special guest, the Honorable Mexican Consul General David Figueroa Ortega. A presentation and book display will follow in the Multicultural Reading Area. For more information, please contact
Mary Ho at 408-551-7171.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
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LGBTQ Lecture: Matt Richardson
Monday, October 18th, 2010
4 - 5:30 pm
St. Clare Room (Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library)
Remembering the Disremembered: Black Memory and the Forgotten Queer.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP by October 13, 2010.
Coordinated by Women's and Gender Studies Program.
The History of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
5 - 7 pm
Williman Room (Benson Memorial Center)
Dr. Ramón Chacón, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies.
For more information and reservations, please contact Marie Brancati at 408-554-2301.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
The Novels of the Mexican Revolution
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
5 - 7 pm
Williman Room (Benson Memorial Center)
Dr. Juan Velasco, Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages and Literatures.
For more information and reservations, please contact Marie Brancati at 408-554-2301.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
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"Monsenor, The Last Journey of Oscar Romero" screening
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
7:30 pm
Recital Hall (Music & Dance Building)
In commemoration of 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the documentary "Monsenor, The Last Journey of Oscar Romero" will be screened for the first time in the Bay Area. The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles.
For more information, please contact Ana Maria Pineda.
This event is made possible by a Bannan Grant from the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, and is co-sponsored by the Justice and the Arts Initiative, Center for Performing Arts, Religious Studies Department, Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries, Latin American Studies Program, Campus Ministry, Ethnic Studies Program, Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Law School.
Music at Noon
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
12 noon
Recital Hall (Music & Dance Building)
A performance featuring the work of Mexican composers and performers, as interpreted by our students and special guest artists.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
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Difficult Dialogue: Banning of Ethnic Studies
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
3:45 - 5 pm
Williman Room (Benson Memorial Center)
Conversation facilitated by Dr. Courtney Mohler, Ethnic Studies Program.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP by October 27th.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning and the Ethnic Studies Program.
Musical Tribute to the Mexican Revolution
Tuesday, November 9th 2010
7 - 9 pm
Recital Hall (Music & Dance Building)
Paco Padilla, a native son of Tlaquepaque, is an internationally acclaimed composer and performer of the modern Mexican folk music-inspired genre known as nuevo cancion or "new song". For more information and reservations, please contact Marie Brancati at 408-554-2301.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
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The Storm That Swept Mexico
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
5 pm
Recital Hall (Music & Dance Building)
The Mexican Revolution, the first major political and social revolution of the 20th century, changed the course of Mexican history. This NEH-funded documentary produced by Raymond Telles and Kenn Rubin and narrated by Luis Valdez, tells the gripping story of the revolution, its causes, and its legacy. For more information and reservations, please contact Marie Brancati at 408-554-2301.
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, and the Center for Performing Arts.
Anita Amirrezvani
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
5 - 8 pm
de Saisset Museum
Author of the historical novel, The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani, an Iranian-American novelist will give a reading and talk. The novel offers readers wonderful insights into Iran's history as well as women's issues and is an elegy to all the wonderful but anonymous artists who created some of the world's most famous and beautiful Persian rugs. For more information, please contact Cynthia Mahamdi.
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
Guadalupe Celebration
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
2 - 4 pm
Mission Santa Clara de Asis on the SCU campus
Admission is free and open to the public.
Please join us at the annual celebration of "La Virgen del Tepeyac: The Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe" which will take place on Sunday, December 5, 2010 in the Mission Church. All are invited to be a part of this celebration in drama, dance, and song that tells the story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The performance will be in Spanish with English commentary throughout. A reception will follow in the Willeman Room, Benson Center. This wonderful re-enactment is made possible through the collaboration of Teatro Corazon of Sacred Heart Parish and Santa Clara University students.
For more information, please contact Dr. Ana María Pineda, RSM at (408) 554-6958, Lulu Santana at (408) 554-4639, or Rosa Guerra-Sarabia at (408) 554-5011.
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Immersion Trip: Puebla, Mexico
Saturday, December 11th - Monday, December 20th, 2010
12 - 1:30 pm
Williman Room (Benson Memorial Center)
The Santa Clara delegation will spend ten days in the state of Puebla learning with and from community leaders. Santa Clara University will partner with Community Links International (www.commlinks.org), whose mission is to connect the local with the global and help us reflect on how our consumption patterns, lifestyle, values, and choices have a blobal impact. We will explore issues of politics, culture, and faith through relationships we will build with families through our homestays.
For more information, please contact Valerie Sarma.
Sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.
Stitching Stories of Survival and Grace in a Peruvian Shantytown - Exhibit
Friday, January 14th, 2011 - Friday, April 1st, 2011
Multicultural Reading Area (University Library)
Stitching Stories of Miracles and Memories is an exhibition that features embroidered and appliquéd fabric pictures called cuadros, created by the women of two art cooperatives, Manos Anchashinas and Compacto Humano, located in Pamplona Alta, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.
In cooperation with our campus-wide diversity theme, Legacies, we celebrate and explore the Legacies of these women, in the form of their created visual narratives that depict their previous life in the countryside, experiences of migration, and current realities in the shantytowns.
Co-sponsored by the University Library and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces
Saturday, January 15th - Friday, March 11th, 2011
Visiting hours: 11 am - 4 pm (Tuesday through Sunday)
De Saisset Museum
This traveling exhibition features more than thirty works of art that explore the veil in its broadest and most universal contexts. Organized into three thematic sections - The Sacred Veil, The Sensuous Veil, and The Sociopolitical Veil - the show aims to transcend current cliches and stereotypes of Islamic practices and to investigate the importance of the veil throughout human history. They represent diverse backgrounds, spiritual practices, and points of view.
Sponsored by De Saisset Museum.
MLK Night 2011
Reclaiming Our Voice: The Journey of a Road Less Traveled
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Doors open 6:30 pm
Show begins 7 pm
Mayer Theatre
General Admission $12
Igwebuike members $10
Tickets available in Benson Center.
For more information, please contact Kareema Thomas at (408) 613-7861.
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Posing Beauty in African American Culture - Debra Willis
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
4 - 5:30 pm
St. Clare Room (Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library)
Debra Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her presentation will focus on her work as a curator of African American photography and her own photographic work regarding ideas of beauty and on portraiture.
Coordinated by the Women's and Gender Studies.
Monday, January 24th, 2011
6:30- 8 pm
Recital Hall (Music and Dance Building)
This documentary recount the empowering story of how the Vietnamese community turns a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future. After Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents impressively rise to the challenges by returning and rebuilding before most neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have their new homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill just two miles away. Q&A with Director, S. Leo Chiang will follow the screening. Screening time: 67 minutes.
Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific Student Union, CAAM, the Vietnamese Student Association, the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
Bannan Visitor: Guillermo Cuéllar
Salvadoran composer of the "Misa Popular Salvadoreña"
Concert (FREE)
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
7 pm
Mission Church
Misa en Español (Mass in Spanish)
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
3 pm
Mission Church
Co-sponsored by Campus Ministry, Justice in the Arts Initiative, and the Ignatian Center.
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Miracles, Memories and Images of Paradise: Stitching Stories of Survival and Grace in a Peruvian Shantytown
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
4 - 5:30 pm
Saint Clare Room (Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library)
Join us as we hear from Rebecca Davis, curator of the exhibit and doctoral candidate in art and religion at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.
Co-sponsored by the University Library, and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
Bannan Grant: Poetry and Mural Art in Celebration of Monsenor Romero
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
4 - 5:30 pm
St. Clare Room (Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library)
Presenters: Professors Ana Maria Pineda, RSM and Juan Velasco
Images in the literary and visual arts respond to the life and legacy of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador. Poetry and murals expressing the life and influence of Monsenor Romero will give participants in this event a yet deeper appreciation and understanding of this modern spiritual heroe.
Co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Department, English Department, Campus Ministry, and Office for Multicultural Learning.
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Food for Thought: Pesticide Poisoning Among Farmworkers
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
12 - 1:30 pm
Forbes Conference Center (Lucas Hall)
Featuring Michael Marsh, Directing Attorney, Salinas Migrant office, California Rural Legal Assistance, discussing farmworkers and their families who have been poisoned by pesticides and the impact consumers can make when they choose to purchase organic produce.
Sponsored by the Food and Agribusiness Institute. Cosponsored by the Environmental Studies Institute, The Office of Sustainability, the Bronco Urban Gardens Program, The Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center, and The Center for Social Justice and Public Service.
Legacies Essay Contest
Win a spot on the stage with Andrew Lam as he discusses the legacies of East Eats West and $50 cash prize.
Monday, February 14th - Sunday, March 7th, 2011
Write a letter to your older self and answer these questions in an essay no longer than 250 words double spaced. Open to all students.
- What legacies did you inherit?
- What legacy do you want to pass on?
Submit your essay with your name clearly visible at the top to
Mary Ho by the
deadline: March 7, 2011.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning, Communication Department and The Hub.
Art of Legacy Contest
If selected, your name will be included on the postcard advertising the exhibit and on the Legacies website - Great opportunity to build your resume.
Monday, February 14th - Friday, March 18th, 2011
Open to all students. This Art of Legacy Contest examines the idea of legacies. Legacies signify what we inherit and what we leave behind. Exploring the legacies of past oppression, struggle, and success, while asking us to consider what we choose to create and leave behind for future generations, is the theme for which we seek art for submission.
- All art work must be ready to hang or display.
- Include: Name, Contact information, 2-3 sentences on how it fits with the theme, Legacies.
Hand deliver your art work to the Office for Multicultural Learning, Benson 207, by 5pm March 18, 2011.
Jurors: Don Dodson, Interim Provost & Kelley Detweiler, Chair, Art and Art History Department.
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning and the University Library.
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Difficult Dialogue: SB 1070
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
3:45 - 5 pm
Kennedy Commons
Conversation facilitated by Dr. Ramón Chacón, Ethnic Studies Program.
Join us as we discuss the controversial immigration measure that was passed in Arizona.
If you would like to attend, please
RSVP by February 16th.
Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, the Office for Multicultural Learning, MEChA, and the Multicultural Center.
Professor Julia Sudbury, Mills College
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
4 - 5:30 pm
St. Clare Room (Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library)
Professor Julia Sudbury from Mills College will speak on the topic of her recent co-edited book "Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism, and Social Change".
Coordinated by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Art of Legacy Student Exhibition
Monday, April 11th - Wednesday, August 3st, 2011
Multicultural Reading Area (2nd floor, Library)
Art of Legacy showcase features student artwork connected to the campus-wide diversity theme, Legacies. Artwork from Alma Carrillo, Carol Wong Collins, James Giachetti, Nicole Giove, Julie Gàmez, Charlton Hee, Melina Alexa Ramirez, Molly Stark and Kareema Thomas will be showcased. Please visit the exhibit.
Coordinated by the Office for Multicultural Learning and University Library.
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Andrew Lam
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
5:30 - 6:30 pm (Talk)
6:30 - 7:00 pm (Book Signing)
Kennedy Commons
In East Eats West, essayist Andrew Lam explores the Vietnamese diaspora as it fuses within his own life as a transplant to the Bay Area. Whether it be in our cuisine, martial arts, sex lives or religion, East and West arrive in California with legacies that confront, meld and transform each into something new.
Winner of the Legacies essay contest will open the talk.
Co-sponsored by the Communication Department, the Hub, and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
Youth, Technology and Revolution: the Case of Tunisia and Egypt
Monday, April 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
St. Clare Room (Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library)
Speakers:
Nejib Ayachi, President of Maghreb Center
Laure Bjawi-Levine, Anthropology
Yahia Mahamdi, Communication, Film
Fayeq Oweis, Google
Jimia Boutouba, Modern Languages, French
Co-sponsored by the Dean's Office, AIMES, Modern Languages and Literatures, Anthropology, Communication, Political Science, IPSU, Middle East Studies Consortium Grant, Ethics, Office for Multicultural Learning and Ethnic Studies. Part of the Legacies Theme.
Diversity Leadership Conference: (De)constructing Diversity in the Bay Area
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Benson Memorial Center and Paul Locatelli S.J. Student Activity Center
(De)constructing Diversity in the Bay Area speaks to understanding, discussing and learning about diversity through the construction and deconstruction of what diversity means to us, our local communities and our institutions.
For more information, please contact Mary Ho at 408-551-7171.
Hosted by Santa Clara University, and sponsored by Google, DeAnza College, San Jose State University and Stanford University.
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Black, Brown and Read All Over
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
5:30 - 7 pm
California Mission Room (Benson Memorial Center)
When the news doesn't tell your story fairly and accurately, who will? You! That's the conclusion made by the bloggers who started Jack&Jill Politics, 8Asians and LatinaLista. These popular blogs focus on political and social issues from a community perspective-- and don't hesitate to venture into fashion and food as well. Find out how and why they got started, how they build community, what legacy they hope to leave and how they keep going in a panel discussion. Related hands-on blogger workshop, details TBA.
Please RSVP by April 26th if you would like to attend.
Co-sponsored by the Communication Department and the Office for Multicultural Learning. Part of the Legacies Theme.
Regan Lecture: Whence Morality: Evolution, Culture, Religion?
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
5 pm
Williman Room (Benson Memorial Center)
Biologist and philosopher Francisco Ayala speaks on the origin of morality. Ayala is University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, at UC-Irvine. He was awarded the 2001 National Medal of Science and the 2010 Templeton Prize for "an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works." Ayala is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as many international scientific societies and academies.
Coordinated by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Difficult Dialogue: Tea Party Movement
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
3:45 - 5 pm
Wiegand Room (Arts and Sciences Building)
Who are The Tea Party? What are the implications of this conversative group. Join us for a conversation on this controversial movement.
Conversation facilitated by Dr. James S. Lai, Ethnic Studies Program.
If you would like to attend, please
RSVP by May 3rd.
Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program and the Office for Multicultural Learning.
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