Identity Themed Events
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Sylvia Hurtado
Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Afternoon session, Time: TBA
Williman Room, Benson Center
Evening session, 5:30-7:00 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center
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, and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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Troy Duster
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
Time: TBA
Kennedy Commons
Race in a Post-Genomic Era versus Genomics in a Post-Racial Era
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.
5:30 - 6:30 pm
California Mission Room, Benson Center
"Whitewashing Diversity in Academia: What's Behind the Strong Resistance to Multiculturalism?"
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 accomodated 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.
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.
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, and the University Council on Inclusive Excellence.
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"Does Race Still Matter? The (R)evolution of Ethnic Studies in America
Ethnic Studies 40th Anniversary Panel 3
Monday, March 1st, 2010
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Williman Room, Benson Center
Ethnic Studies is a discipline developed as a result of student of color activism in the 1960s. As the decades have passed, what is the current state of the academic field? Current Ethnic Studies faculty around the Bay Area will speak on the history and meaning of Ethnic Studies in academia, the pedagogy and theory of Ethnic Studies teaching, and the future directions of the field. Most importantly they will touch on the meaning of such a discipline during our current racial climate in the United States.
Panelists:
Professor Shawn Ginwright, Africana Department, San Francisco State University
Professor Michael Omi, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley
Professor Lorena Oropeza, History Department, University of California at Davis
Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
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