Guest Speakers and Performances
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| Affirmative Action Discussion | Release Date: October 30, 2003 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | |||
| Alton Pollard | Release Date: February 5, 2009 | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||||
| Appiah, Dr. K. Anthony - Making A Life | Release Date: January 2004 | Runtime: 90 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Artenstein, Isaac- Tijuana Jews & the Mexican Jewish Experience |
Filmmaker Isaac Artenstein will present his award-winning documentary "Tijuana Jews"in a public screening, followed by a discussion of the film and his experiences in producing, writing and directing documentaries and independent feature films such as "Break of Dawn," "Love Always" and "A Day Without a Mexican." Growing up Jewish in Mexico, Artenstein found reactions of surprise, even disbelief, from many people north of the border: they had no idea there were Jews in Mexico, end especially in Tijuana. Tijuana's dark legend continues to fire up the imagination with stories of free-flowing liquor, cheap narcotics, beautiful señoritas, and black velvet paintings. TIJAUANA JEWS is an authentic and living testimony set against conceptions and misconceptions of this near-mythic city. The discussion following the screening will focus on issues of transculturation, border realities while placing film in a cultural and social context. Creative and technical issues relevant to film and video production will also be discussed for those interested in the process. |
Release Date: September 19, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Asante, Molefi | Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Dr. Molefi Asante has published more scholarly books than any contemporary African author and has recently been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. He has written more than 300 articles for journals and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afro centricity. Dr. Asante’s lecture will explore how, in a devastating sense, modern technology with its corollaries of mechanical smiles and fake handshakes has achieved the creation of human beings as political or social accessories loosening us from the familiarity of language itself. | Release Date: October 27, 2005 | Runtime: 90 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Aslan, Reza-"The Future of Islam" | Release Date: November 16, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | |||
| Baldwin, Daryl | The last 200 years has brought about unprecedented change for the Miami Nation and its people. One of the most significant changes recently was the loss of our native language. Tribal elders tell us the dormancy of our native language was motivated by a desire to learn English as a way to be “successful” in the world. Speaking English may be important to economic and political success in modern times, but as a younger generation of Miami youth emerges, many tough questions are being asked about our future as a culturally distinct people in the absence of our heritage language. This talk will explore the multitude of social, political, and cultural issues surrounding language reclamation. We will examine the effects of language loss and then show the benefits currently being experienced as a result of our language and cultural revitalization efforts. | Release Date: November 30, 2005 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Bales, Kevin-"Ending Slavery" | Slavery has been an integral part of human existence for the past 5,000 years. Feeding on globalization and corruption, and taking many forms, it has grown dramatically in the last fifty years. This slavery feeds into our daily lives, our food, our clothes, our appliances, and our investments. Free the Slaves is a nonprofit organization working for freedom of over 27 million people held in slavery world-wide. Free the Slaves’ President Kevin Bales will detail what is needed to bring global slavery to an end and rebuild the lives of freed slaves. He will discuss the simple but effective actions that government, international organizations, businesses and individuals can take, and how the total cost for this worldchanging action is actually relatively low. | Release Date: August 30, 2007 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: DVD | ||
| Blakey, Michael | The 1991 rediscovery of a cemetery for Africans enslaved in colonial New York City led to national controversy and international discussion. Evidence of prevalent slavery and African contributions in "the North" had not been shared with the American public until the remains of perhaps 20,000 African burials were found. The Federal Government's disrespectful treatment of the burial site outraged African Americans, who brought political power to bear, preventing part of a federal building project from going forward. Public questioning of whether or not studies of excavated human skeletons should proceed furthered anthropological debates about science and ethics. Today, the site has become the newest United States National Monument and the final reports of extensive research were completed in 2006. The Scientific Director of the African Burial Ground Project will discuss the results of a unique 12 year study. | Release Date: January 25, 2007 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Beckham, Edgar | In January 2003, Dr. Edgar Beckham, one of the leading educators on the diversity initiative in the country, spoke to professors and students at Miami University on "The Campus Diversity Agenda for the Twenty-First Century." He explores this often controversial topic by speaking of the various explanations for the need of diversity, and how people of different races and backgrounds often view diversity in dissimilar ways. Beckham believes that even the concept of diversity can help to spawn discourse, which can ultimately help to break down the barriers of structural racism. He argues that the teaching of diversity, both to the advantaged and disadvantaged, is the most effective resource we have to learn to live in a world in conflict with others, where it is valued to be both different and the same. Beckham asserts that by replacing deficits with constructions of meanings that serve as assets to understanding, we will be able to help build our democracy. | Release Date: January 14, 2002 | Runtime: 55 minutes | Copies Available: 3 | Format: VHS | ||
| Bowen, William | Dr. William Bowen is the president of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. He will be speaking about his seminal book (co-authored with Derek Bok) The Shape of the River, which provides comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the controversial use of race in college and university admissions policies, and the fortunes of minority college graduates over time. Dr. Bowen has served on the Board of Directors of numerous organizations, including American Express, Merk, Denison University, JSTOR, Rockefeller Group, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He served as the President of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988. | Release Date: February 15, 2001 | Runtime: 135 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| Bussgang, Drs. Julian and Fay Vogel- Polish Jews Then and Now: Children of the Holocaust Speak | Release Date:April 18, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Clarke, Kamari Maxine- Global Justice, Local Justice | Release Date: September 14, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Cruz, Teddy-"Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment" | Release Date: September 28, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | More Information | ||
| De Soto, Hernando- A House Is More than a Home | Hernando de Soto will speak about the importance of establishing legal land titles for residents in developing areas. He will argue that the poor have assets, but that these assets are not easily traded due to the lack of land titles. If legal titling is established, he argues, a number of benefits will result, including job creation, less homelessness, higher school enrollments, increased political participation, better tax collection and less dependence upon foreign capital. De Soto supports his arguments with the results of a $77 million dollar World Bank project conducted in the 1990s, which resulted in a net benefit of $9.4 billion dollars. | Release Date: September 13, 2004 | Runtime: 90 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Diversity, Inc.- Women of Color Round Table 2006 | In January 2006, DiversityInc convened an unprecedented and candid discussion about race, gender, and class. View this historic meeting of eight amazing and accomplished women of color – all passionate advocates for diversity in the corporate and academic worlds. | Release Date: 2006 | Runtime:44 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | ||
| Farmer, Paul | "Social forces contribute to disease burden and poor outcomes and shape access to timely diagnosis and effective treatment. The AIDS epidemic, as the leading infectious cause of young adult death in much of the developing world, has crystallized these inequalities of risk and care. This talk presents data from the scale-up of integrated AIDS prevention-and-care programs in impoverished rural Haiti and Rwanda, where comprehensive clinical care is complemented by robust community-based services. Good outcomes, access to essential resources, and a commitment to equity will help reverse the healthworker “brain drain,” strengthen primary health, restore trust in the health sector, and launch “virtuous social cycles” that can lift entire families and communities out of desperate poverty. Research and advocacy activities that draw on lived experience are critical in advancing global health policy that benefits the destitute sick." | Release Date:April 24, 2007 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Ferris, James | “I hope to play a part in building culture with my poems, specifically the culture of people with disabilities. Though contemporary culture tends to seek its poetry in different media, including song, film, and television, we turn o the stuff called poetry when we know we need it: to deal with those most powerful moments in our lives, times of great tumult, great sadness, great joy. One thing I try to do in my poems is to articulate some piece of what it is to move through the world with a disability.” |  |
Release Date: January 27, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |
| Fishkin, Shelley Fisher | Dr. Fisher Fishkin is professor of American Studies and English at University of Texas, Austin. She has written extensively about racial issues and edited many new editions of works by Mark Twain. She serves as President of the Mark Twain Circle of America and was interviewed for and serves as consultant on Ken Burns Film "Mark Twain," to be aired 2001. | Release Date:October 25, 2001 | Runtime: 68 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| García, Cristina | "Beyond the Hyphen: Identity in the Age of Multiculturalism" In the fall of 2003, Cristina Garcà a, author of such critically acclaimed books as Dreaming in Cuban and Monkey Hunting, gave a lecture at Miami University entitiled "Beyond the Hyphen: Identity in the Age of Multiculturalism." Although the narratives of her novels are different (the former explores the displacement of personal and cultural identity of Cubans in the U.S., while the latter details the life of a Chinese man settled in Cuba) there are similar themes that connect all of Garcà as' works, such as migratory drifitng, displacement, centrality of place, real and imagined communities, and intergenerational relationships and conflicts. In this thought-provoking lecture, Garcà a delves into the meanings of multiculturalism, and more specifically, the multiple uses of the "hyphen" to denote ethnicity. Does the hyphen symbolize both an attachement and permanant disconnection from European society around them? Or has it become a positive source of identity and a way to resist mono-culturalism? Garcà a notes that currently, many groups in the United States use the hyphen to reclaim their identity that was lost from European society. But what makes an Irish or Italian American different from an African, Latino, or Asian American? Garcà a answers these questions by exploring the history of multiculturalism, and how youth and "street" culture has actually helped to bridge the gap between races. She questions the effectiveness of multicultural education, and briefly explores the problems that minority groups still face in trying to overcome their feelings of displacement from dominant European culture. | Release Date:Fall 2003 | Runtime: 68 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | < | |
| Guinier, Lani | Lani Guinier speaks on using race as an asset, a diagnostic tool, signaling a greater problem affecting everyone. She puts women and people of color into her metaphor of the canary in the mines. Instead of pathologizing the canary, and attempting to quiet its cries by fitting a gas mask on it, the miners should heed its warning of the upcoming danger. She encourages people to take from the margin to rethink the whole because all destinies are tied together. She also expressed her view on the subject of affirmative action especially pertaining to education. She urges people to reconsider the way we determine who is qualified, or what we define as merit. She argues that the way in which we admit people to institutes of higher learning is unfair to not only people of other races, but to women and people from lower classes. She argues that we should do away with testocracy and the mission of universities is not to continue to produce affluent students but to promote leadership. | Release Date: January 24, 2002 | Runtime: 68 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Gross, Jan - "Fear- Antisemitism in Poland After Auschwitz" | Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives during Nazi occupation, more than half of them Polish Jews. Despite this unprecedented calamity, Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland experienced widespread hostility - including murder - at the hands of their neighbors. How was such anti-semitism possible? | Release Date: March 19, 2007 | Runtime: 65 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Haddad, Yvonne | Yvonne Haddad, author of 16 books and Georgetown University professor of history of islam and christian/muslin relations, explores the issue of women in the Islamic world, and how our media has often wrongfully depicted them. She delves into the history of Islam's treatment of women, and argues that the encounter between cultures and the role of women is not a new phenomenon, but rather one that has a long history. She then discusses the role that 9/11 played in shaping our stereotypes of Muslim women, and argues that our government and society has declared a war on Islam, when it should be declaring a war on terrorism. Finally, she discusses the meaning of the veil, and how the Western world mistakenly views it as a symbol of oppression. | Release Date: September 26, 2002 | Runtime: 82 minutes | Copies Available: 3 | Format: VHS | ||
| Hall, Kira | Release Date: March 2, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Hayden, Iola- Founding Mothers Series- Comanche Lives: A Conversation on Forty Years of Commuity Activism | Release Date: April 10, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Hodkingson, Harold- Lecture on the Changing Demographics of the United States | Harold Hodkingson, director of Educational Leadership in Washington D.C. and consultant for over 600 universities and a large number of corporations, gives his perspective on the changing demographics of the United States. In this absorbing lecture, Hodkingson discusses where different ethnicities are migrating to, and also, the mass movement of all ethnicities from the north to the south. He also focuses on why Ohio's population is declining, and why it is losing so many young people and is unable to attract families. Hodkingson also reveals how geographically segregated the country still is, despite efforts in the last few decades to diversify the population. He does argue that our country needs to redefine race as social and cultural, and avoid supporting it on scientific grounds. He urges Americans to look at poverty, which touches every ethnicity but certainly affects some more than others, as the greatest social handicap. | Release Date: September 7, 2000 | Runtime: 90 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| Holocaust Program - Henry Fenichel | Release Date: April 23, 2009 | Runtime: 49 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| HuDehart, Evelyn- "The Asian Diaspora in Latin America" | Columbus' failed search for a new route to "Las Indias" might have ended up in the Americas, but shortly after 1492, Spaniards did find their way to Asia and launched the global Manila Galleon Trade that endured for 250 years; along with all sorts of luxury and consumer goods that flowed from Asia to Europe via America came the first Asian migrants to Latin America. This migration accelerated by the midâ€19th century when Spanish (Cuban) and British Caribbean and Peruvian plantation owners turned in desperation to Chinese and East Indian coolies or contract workers to supplement or replace slave labor on their sugar estates. By the turn of the 20th century, with the US barring most Asian immigrants from entry, Chinese and Japanese migrants turned to Latin America as final destinations to create new lives and livlihoods, producing variations of race mixture and hybridity in identity and cultural expression. More recently, Koreans have also found their way to Latin America, while Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Peruvians have embarked on a return migration to their ancentral homeland, Japan, for factory jobs and manual labor, similar to the kind of work that, ironically, had attracted their forebears to migrate to Latin American in the first place two or three generations ago. | Release Date: October 19, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Integrating Arts and the Curriculum- Faculty Learning Community, Miami University | Release Date: | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: Instructional CD | |||
| Kernodle, Tammy | Release Date: November 6, 2007 | Runtime: 59 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| LaDousa, Chaise | Release Date: February 24, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Lakoff, Robin | Robin Lakoff will discuss and analysis the issues that have been inspired by the Larry Summers statement regarding women’s innate abilities to do or not do science and mathematics, as they appeared in the New York Times and other media. The discourse works as a kind of diagnostic about how we as a society discuss matters of gender including what we don’t discuss, and how one thing leads to another. | Release Date: August 31, 2005 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Leap, William | This is a commentary on what is happening to lgbtq cultures in the US when globalization "comes home"-- how globalization which is affecting so many other facets of US culture and social life is also affecting areas of lgbtq cultures. This looks at changes in language, music, clothing and other public image markers, depictions of sexuality and desire in same-sex erotic videos, and reflects on evidence of significance of the consequences now that "the (gay) other" is now part of " (the gay) us." | Release Date: January 18, 2007 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Leftwich, William- Discussion on Race | William Leftwich will conduct a "One America" Dialogue with members of the Miami community. These dialogues were originally designed for President Clinton's Initiative on Race; they consist of conversations designed to serve as a catalyst to bring a diverse community together. Leftwich notes "we might not be able to be a family, but we have to be family-like. We're a success when we can get a diverse group of people in a room to start a conversation, realizing the intent is not to solve all the problems, but to begin to share the concerns and gain a better understanding and appreciation for the person across the table." William Leftwich has received letters of recognition and appreciation from President Clinton and Secretary William Cohen for his contributions to the President's Initiative on Race. He is the recipient of the 1995 Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Distinguished Award from the NAACP. William Leftwich currently is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity. | Release Date:October 4, 2001 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 4 | Format: VHS | ||
| Lerner, Jeffrey | Culture is like eye color. Your eye color is obvious to anyone who sees you, but you cannot see the color of your own eyes without some kind of reflection. Everybody's Ethnic helps viewers hold a mirror to their own culture. Discover yourself by exploring other cultures. | Release Date: February 14, 2006 | Runtime:60 Minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | |
| Lewis, David Levering | Release Date: March 11, 2004 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |||
| McCoy, Ruth | Racial Identity Issues in Transracial Adoptive Families In 2001, Ruth McCoy, teaching professor and director of the Center for Social Work at the University of Texas, came to speak to Miami University students about the controversial topic of transracial adoption. Having worked for an adoption agency, she is extremely aware of the struggles that families face when adopting a child from a different country or of a different ethnicity. Although she acknowledges that transracial adoption has been treated with far more acceptance than it was a few decades ago, she reveals that there is still a multitude of struggles that adopting families must face, such as coping with racism and understanding the significance of racism. In her lecture, she emphasizes that families who adopt must be aware if the unique issues that these children have, and to raise them so that they are aware of both their racial and adoptive identity. |
Release Date: April 19, 2001 | Runtime: 70 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Malcomson, Scott | In "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race," New York Times Op/Ed editor Scott Malcolmson examines our country's racial history through history, literature, and memoire. In his lecture, Malcolmson criticizes the stereotype of the "racist South" and "progressive North," and reveals how even academics at Yale University promoted segregation of the races. Furthermore, Malcolmson argues that race is not "real," that it is social instead of biological, and that it was often scholars like Locke who promoted the social separation of Africans and Caucasians. He therefore urges Americans to face the truth, that many of our heroes have been glorified in our history books, when in fact, too many of them held views and practices that we would now consider abhorrent. | Release Date:September 6, 2001 | Runtime: 65 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| Mann, Eric | Fighting Back Against the Empire In the fall of 2003, civil-rights activist Eric Mann, a leader of the Bus Riders' Union in California, came to speak to Miami University at the same time of the worker strike. His organization, a self-described "grassroots, militant, multi-racial organization that believes you change things through none of the branches of government," but through direct action of independent working class politics. In this presentation, Mann's goal is to try to engage students in a social revolution despite living in a counter revolution, and questions how we can offer hope to a new generation of organizations when revolutionary politics have been extinguished to the naked eye. He reviews instances in history, such as the Civil Rights Movement, where change did not occur as much from governmental policies and decisions (such as Brown vs. Board of Education) but from the action of the people during the Civil Rights Movement. He also discusses the current environmental crisis, and how this has also been as a result of our culture's apathy. His Bus Union, however, has worked to attain clean fuel and develop auto-free zones, so that they can dramatically try to reduce harmful pollutants. He urges Miami University students to make life changes and decide what one's views are, and asserts that the first point of hope is one's own willingness to fight, and that it begins from a strong ethical, moral and political stance. | Release Date: Fall 2003 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| McRuer, Robert | This is a commentary on what is happening to lgbtq cultures in the US when globalization "comes home"-- how globalization which is affecting so many other facets of US culture and social life is also affecting areas of lgbtq cultures. This looks at changes in language, music, clothing and other public image markers, depictions of sexuality and desire in same-sex erotic videos, and reflects on evidence of significance of the consequences now that "the (gay) other" is now part of " (the gay) us." | Release Date: March 22, 2007 | Runtime:65 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | ||
| Met, Myriam | Educational approaches in which two or more languages serve as the medium of instruction are common in school systems around the world, while in the US, debate continues about the value and effectiveness of bilingual education. This talk will examine different approaches to bilingual education, particularly in the US, and provide promising data on some approaches currently used in US schools. | Release Date: February 2, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Meisel, Judith- Survival of a Human Spirit | Release Date: April 3, 2008 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| Miami Tribe Pow Wow Etiquette, Dan Labotz | Release Date:November 6, 2007 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| Miami Tribe Pow Wow Etiquette, Tom Weisner | Release Date:November 8, 2007 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| Miami Tribe Pow Wow Etiquette, Mark Hauser | Release Date:November 15, 2007 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| Miami Tribe Pow Wow Etiquette, John Jackson | Release Date:February 28, 2008 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | |||
| Mitchell, Jerry- Searching for Justice | Release Date:March 27, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Mosaic Singers | Release Date: January 23, 2005 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | < | ||
| Mosaic Choir | Release Date: October 6, 2002 | Runtime:80 minutes | Copies Available: 3 | Format: VHS | |||
| Mosaic Singers | Release Date:October 12, 2003 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |||
| Mosaic Youth Theatre | Release Date: October 11, 2003 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |||
| Mosaic Youth Theatre- Heartbeat | Founded in 1992, the internationally recognized and award-winning Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is a multicultural arts organization whose mission has been to develop young theatre artists through comprehensive theatrical training and to provide high quality performances for audiences of all ages. HeartBEAT is a sensuous musical about Love, Hate and Rhythm. This play is loosely based on Aristophanes, which intertwines the vibrant languages of classic Greek theatre and the poetry of the street stepÂÂ dance, percussion and song. Bringing forth recollections of the artists' own lives, this play provides moving and humorous accounts of the battles of love and hate these young people and their peers face on a day-to-day basis and how they make meaning of their lives. | Release Date: October 5, 2002 | Runtime: 70 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Musambachime, Mwelwa | Professor Musambachime, also an appointed ambassador of Zambia and once a visiting professor here at Miami University, spoke on Zambia's role in the conflict between Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He spoke of how conflict destroys and retards development. He used the saying, "when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers"ÂÂ to describe the insecurity Zambia faces due to the destabilization of its neighbors. He notes that both countries are rich in resources and that the conflict is about the distribution of power. He suggests that diplomacy is one method to resolve the conflicts through peaceful means and only after peace is attained can all the help provided by international organizations truly benefit the citizens of the countries bereaved. Dr. Musambachime also requests assistance for Zambia's government in its aid of those who seek refugee within its borders. | Release Date: October 18, 2001 | Runtime:65 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| Nash, Robert Presentation | Release Date: March 21, 2009 | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||||
| Nash, Robert Q&A | Release Date: March 21, 2009 | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||||
| Ndulo, Dr. Muna | Conflict and war cost the lives millions of people world wide with millions more injured and forcibly displaced and becoming refugees or internally displaced in their own countries. War and conflicts result in failed states characterized by poverty, disease and gross violations of human rights. The United Nations through the Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in the world. It is actively involved in resolving conflicts and rebuilding failed states. It does this through the process of peace keeping and works towards preserving peace, however, frangible where fighting has been halted and assists in peace building that is in implementing peace agreements achieved by the peace makers and works towards the return of the refugees to their homes and the reintegration of ex combatants in society. The nature of peace keeping operations has evolved rapidly in recent years, and the established principles and practices of peace keeping responded flexibly to new demands. Yet peace keeping operations have been a mixture of failures (Rwanda, Somalia) and successes (Mozambique, East Timor). In my talk I will examine the question whether there is a crisis in peacekeeping. I will further look at the conditions necessary for successful peace keeping, the role of external actors, the reintegration of combatants and refugees into society. The challenge in peacekeeping is always one of how to aid in the creation of a capable state one in which peace and security are guaranteed over a sustained period. Without peace, there can be no development and without development the risks of war, disease and refugees and displacement are substantially increased. | Release Date: September 9, 2004 | Runtime:78 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Oh, Angela | Angela E. Oh examines issues of race, diversity and the future of American society using her unique experiences of growing up in Los Angeles, working as a trial attorney, and advancing the work of creative public, private, and nonâ€profit partnerships. Oh serves on select commissions and boards, including the California Commission on Access to Justice, the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, and the Western Justice Center Foundation. Over the past ten years, she has worked several business collaborations involving companies such as Merrill Lynch, Southern California Edison, Washington Mutual Bank and the Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company. Between June 1987 and July 1998, Oh was a member of a prestigious Los Angeles law firm that specialized in trial advocacy. She became a named partner in 1993. In June 1997, she was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton to the President's Initiative on Race. The experience of working on the subject of racial reconciliation with the White House inspired Oh to focus on assisting organizations and individuals to deepen their understanding about today's race relations issues, to create new leadership strategies that improve the quality of crossâ€racial/ethnic partnerships, and to develop a new language that recognizes and incorporates the findings of current research about race relations in America. Her speeches and writings reflect the opportunities and challenges that diversity presents. Oh's lectures have taken her into both national and international arenas. In the spring of 2000, Oh was appointed the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. She is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees. Her Juris Doctorate is from King Hall, the University of California Davis Law School. In 1996, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award of King Hall. |
Release Date: January 25, 2001 | Runtime: 85 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | ||
| Olds, Julie- Founding Mothers Series- Cultural Preservation and Tribal Sovereignty | Release Date: March 8, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Pergram, Chad- Student Panel | Chad Pergram is a native of Jacksonburg, Ohio, the state's smallest incorporated village (population: 52). He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Miami University (Ohio) in 1991 and his master's degree in communication from Miami in 1993. Chad began his career in journalism in high school working at WKRC-AM in Cincinnati. He later joined WKRC-TV and NPR Member Station WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH. He became Senate Producer for C-SPAN in 1993 and then produced and anchored newscasts for National Public Radio in Washington. Chad was named Best Radio Reporter by the Ohio Associated Press in 1992. He has also received statewide awards for Best Use of Sound, Best Investigative Reporting and Best Broadcast Writing. He has covered a variety of stories including the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit trial, the Pete Rose baseball banishment, the impeachment of President Clinton and the Stanley Cup Finals. | Release Date: September 10, 2002 | Runtime: 110 minutes | Copies Available: 4 | Format: VHS | ||
| Pergram Panel- Hey, Kleiman, DeLue | Release Date: September 11, 2002 | Runtime: 110 minutes | Copies Available: 4 | Format: VHS | |||
| Pieces of Power Symposium | Release Date: Ocotber 26, 2007 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD | More Information | ||
| Poniatowska, Elena | Elena Poniatowska is one of Mexico's most widely translated and celebrated living writers. Her work demonstrates a profound commitment to giving voice to those who have been marginalized and silenced. Poniatowska began her literary career as a journalist with the daily Excelsior in 1953, and has since been contributing articles, essays and chronicles to other major Mexican newspapers, and has written over 25 books. She has lectured widely in Mexico and the United States, and has served as a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Berkeley, among others. Elena Poniatowska is the 2001 recipient of the Alfaguara Literature Prize for her novel La piel del cielo (Heaven's Skin). She twice receive the national award for journalism. Elena Poniatowska has been invited as part of the Sor Juana celebration, on the 350th anniversary of Sor Juana's birth. Sor Juana was Mexico's most distinguished 17th century Baroque poet and playwright. |
Release Date: September 24, 2001 | Runtime: 52 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Representative John Lewis- Freedom Summer Conference | Release Date: September 17, 2004 | Runtime: 90 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information » | ||
| Re-Weaving the Maya Identity- Bianca Pasquini | Release Date: 2004 | Runtime: 60 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |||
| Robinson, Mary | Since her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in June 1997, Mary Robinson has taken on the difficult challenges of her office without hesitation and has consistently stressed the need for action in the struggle to extend the full range of human rights to all citizens. In December 1990, Mrs. Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh president of Ireland. As president, she represented her country internationally, developing a new sense of Ireland’s economic, political, and cultural ties to other countries and cultures. Linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today’s nutrition, poverty, and policy issues, she articulated a special relationship between Ireland and developing countries. Her humanitarian work as president, her background in human rights law, and her uncompromising pursuit of justice and equality made her a prime candidate for the position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As High Commissioner, Mrs. Robinson is responsible for overseeing the human rights activities of the United Nations, including promoting universal enjoyment of human rights, responding to human rights violations, undertaking preventive human rights action, and providing education and assistance in the field of human rights. Taking every opportunity to speak out on human rights abuses as they occur, she has recently expressed urgent concern about conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, among others. |
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| Social Justice and Human Rights Day- Proclamation & Address | Release Date: November 15, 2006 | Runtime: 25 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | More Information | ||
| Social Justice and Human Rights Day- Keynote- Xavier Benavides | Release Date: November 15, 2006 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: DVD/VHS | More Information | ||
| Sojourner Truth- Freedom's Messenger (Kemba) | Release Date:March 7, 2001 | Runtime: 55 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Steele, Claude | Claude Steele is Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and Chair of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Throughout his career he has been interested in the process of self-evaluation, in particular in how people cope with self-image threat, and how group stereotypes can influence intellectual performance and academic identities. Dr. Steele’s research on stereotype threat has become widely known and has garnered much attention from academics and educators in the public schools throughout the United States. Dr. Steele is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and is the recipient of a Cattell Faculty Fellowship and the 1996 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. He has published widely, and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and study sections at both the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. | Release Date: September 5, 2002 | Runtime: 95 minutes | Copies Available: 3 | Format: VHS | ||
| Stevens, Claudia | "A Table Before Me'" is a musical drama in one act created by Claudia Stevens for her oneâ€woman performance as pianist/singer/actor. A performance tour de force, with Stevens playing a variety of characters, the piece conveys the terror and turmoil experienced by her mother's family during the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938. PBS/NPR reviewer Cathy Lewis called it "one of the most profound theater moments of recent times." Ultimately a tribute to her mother's quiet courage and endurance, the piece concludes with Stevens taking her mother's place, "singing her" in the role of heroine denied to her sixty years earlier. "A Table Before Me" has special significance in the present climate of anxiety over public safety and fear of "the enemy within." It is being presented widely â€â€ under a variety of auspices â€â€ to address and promote discussion of potential violation of personal freedoms in the pursuit of security. |
Release Date: April 8, 2004 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Teters, Charlene- Founding Mothers Series | Release Date: April 17, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Tucker, Marcia | Tucker will explore the ways in which visual language both differs from and parallels verbal and written language. Are there differences in the language of knowledge and the language of experience, and if so, how are they manifest in relation to art objects? Can art say something that spoken or written language can’t? What about art the specifically uses verbal and written language as both its subject and object? Then there is the question of whether or not art can actually “do” anything: can it change lives? Affect political change? Alter the nature of pain? | Release Date: November 16, 2005 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| UniDiversity- Latin American Festival Promotion | This promotion is for UniDiversity Latin American Festival. It features footage from the previous festival with the voice of Claudia Lapez, Assistant Director of the Center of American and World Cultures, recounting a wonderful day of llama petting, martial arts, dancing, food, pottery, artifacts and other experiences of Latin American culture. This event was well attended by the community of Oxford as well as the students and faculty of Miami University. | Release Date: 2004 | Runtime: 6 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | |
| Vaid, Urvashi- Sexuality & Its Discontents | Urvashi Vaid is a community organizer and grass-roots activist who has been involved in the gay/lesbian and feminist movements since the early 1980s. Her most prominent position was as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), one of the nation's oldest and most influential gay rights organizations. She served as executive director for three years and worked as that organization's director of public information for an additional three years. Vaid has not limited her community service to gay/lesbian rights, however. She is a former staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she worked on behalf of prisoners in the ACLU's National Prison Project. She described what she sees as the nature of her work for Vanity Fair, explaining, "The movement I work in might be called a gay and lesbian movement, but its mission is the liberation of all people. To me, my mission is about ending sexism, about ending racism, and about ending homophobia." Like nearly all lesbians and gays, Vaid has felt the terror of coming out of the closet (admitting her sexuality to her family, friends, and society at large). When she told her family, her father was not surprised, but her mother was devastated. Vaid told Vanity Fair, "I think I would have been a lesbian whether I grew up in India or America. Eventually I would have found it. This is how I feel about my sexuality. It's very very deep in me, and it was formed at an early age, and once I could name it and accept it, it became fixed." |
Release Date: February 19, 2004 | Runtime: 120 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | ||
| Warrior, Della | Release Date: April 13, 2006 | Runtime: 80 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Weekend | Release Date:September 26, 2000 | Runtime: 12 minutes | Copies Available: 2 | Format: VHS | |||
| "World Echoes"- Dedication of MacMillan Hall | Release Date:April 1, 2004 | Runtime: | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | |||
| Wouldn't Take Nothin For My Journey Part 1- Freedom Summer Conference | Release Date: September 18, 2004 | Runtime: 60 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information | ||
| Wouldn't Take Nothin For My Journey Part 2- Freedom Summer Conference | Release Date: September 18, 2004 | Runtime: 60 minutes | Copies Available: 1 | Format: VHS | More Information |