2011 Resources
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January
*Robert E. Strippel Memorial Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights*
*Van Jones*, Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
*"Environmental Justice and the Green-Collar Economy" Lecture*
Related links for more information:
http://vanjones.net/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=16&contentid=100
*Directions to Hall Auditorium*
101 South Campus Avenue
Oxford, OH 45056
Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/?daddr=101%20South%20Campus%20Avenue,%20Oxford,%2...
*Part of the Robert E. Strippel Memorial Continuing Dialogue on Justice and Human Rights Program*
Speakers include representatives from the Sierra Club, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, National Farmers Union, National Technical Association, and the Farmer School of Business (Miami University).
To register to the symposium RSVP to Dorothy Falke at falkeda@muohio.edu or by phone at 513.529.8309 by January 15, 2011.
For more information about this event visit the Center for American and World Cultures website -Calendar of events at www.cawc.muohio.edu/spring-events
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February
Racial Legcies & Learning XXV: How To Talk About Race presents Growing Power Cultivating Food, Partnerships & Community with Will Allen, Urban Gardener, Former Pro Basketball Player & Co-Director of Growing Power
The evening will begin with cultural activities including a photo display, Chinese dumpling making demonstration, authentic food, name translation, folk art demonstration and Chinese zodiac display. (2011 is the Year of the Rabbit.)
Performances by students from the Hua Xia School in Mason, which will include a Chinese lion dance, will begin at 7:30 p.m. A raffle of Chinese art will take place between dance performances.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. will present "Owning What You Know" Monday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. at Hall Auditorium at Miami University. The renowned author and journalist will speak about the current state of public discourse in the United States and how an inability to agree on what is actually factual affects society.
Pitts began writing professionally in 1976 at age 18 for SOUL, a national black entertainment tabloid. Two years later, he stepped up as the editor. Since then, Pitts has received multiple awards for his work, including a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
A one-time writer for Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" Pitts joined The Miami Herald in 1991 as its pop music critic. In 1994, he began writing a nationally syndicated twice-weekly column on race, current affairs, pop culture and other issues. A 2001 column written as an angry letter to terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks cemented Pitts' reputation as a commentator of national importance after it was disseminated and discussed around the globe. (See "We'll Go Forward From This Moment" at http://www.miamiherald.com/2001/09/12/374188/sept-12-2001-well-go-forwar....)
Born and raised in Southern California, Pitts earned a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Southern California in 1977. In addition to his column, Pitts is the author of a nonfiction book, "Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood;" and a novel, "Before I Forget;" a collection of columns, "Forward From This Moment;" and a series of columns called "What Works?," about programs that improve the lives of black children. Pitts has also taught journalism at three U.S. universities. He lives in a Washington, D.C., suburb with his wife and five children.
His visit to Miami is sponsored by the Journalism Program, the Miami chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, The Miami University Special Events Fund, the Center for American and World Cultures and the Department of Political Science. His talk is free and open to the public.
For additional information, contact event coordinator Patricia Gallagher Newberry of Miami's Journalism Program faculty, at newberpg@muohio.edu or 513.529.5893.
To read recent Pitts' columns, visit www.miamiherald.com/leonardpitts.
*GLOBAL COFFEE HOUSE*
*for Study Abroad Returnee Students*
STUDY ABROAD ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
COME AND JOIN US for a wonderful conversation sharing stories, experiences and great opportunities after coming back from abroad!
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
*PROGRAM*
- Welcome and introduction
- Address of the event by *Ray Gorman*, Associate Provost, Associate VP Academic Affairs and Professor, Department of Finance
- Students discussion/reflection
- Closing remarks by *Grace Andrews*,Office of Community Engagement and Service
*Part of the International Education and Study Abroad Annual Program*
For more information and to RSVPs, please contact Jacqueline Rioja by February 4, 2011.
*Related links:*
http://www.cawc.muohio.edu/spring-events
http://www.units.muohio.edu/lifelonglearning/credit/travel.html
http://www.units.muohio.edu/luxembourg/
http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/programs/international-study
http://www.units.muohio.edu/internationalprograms/events.php
*Part of the International Education and Study Abroad Annual Program*
The Alan Ingham Memorial lecture recognizes the considerable contributions and achievements of Dr. Alan G. Ingham, professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health who passed away in 2005. This year's lecture features Dr. Susan Birrell, Professor of American Studies at the University of Iowa who will be discussing her scholarship about the narrative construction of Mt. Everest.
Summiting Mt Everest is generally taken to represent the realization of one of humanity's most supreme physical challenges. Almost from the time the British Great Trigonometrical Survey determined it was the highest peak on earth, Everest has been besieged by western climbers who have set their sights on its summit, and it has become the repository of a living anthology of tales of courage, heroism, and sacrifice. This lecture explores the ways in which cultural and historical forces have shaped these narratives and the sort of political work they have accomplished. Focusing particularly on nationalistic themes, Birrell will tie recent events in the history of the mountain, such as taking the Olympic torch to the summit during the Olympic torch run that preceded the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to the long history of appropriating the image of Mt Everest to advance particular political agendas.
10th Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Building Bridges, Creating Coalition
Students, faculty, staff and community members have been invited to present papers, panels, workshops, poster sessions, and performances as part of a day long series of conversations about intersectional knowledge production and community engagement.
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will read from her new book on African-Americans and utopia, #Harlem is Nowhere#. She is a graduate from Harvard University and a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom.
The symposium will feature Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Professor of Feminist Studies and Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published a number of articles and books including #Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms#, and #Feminism and Race#. She is the Director of The Shape of Water (narrated by Susan Sarandon), an award winning film on gender and development. This film will be screened at the symposium.
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March
The Women of Color Celebration was launched in 1992 as an event designed to bring people together to celebrate the cultural diversity and accomplishments of women of color in the University and in the larger community. This year's event combines a taste of Brazilian cuisine with student testimonials, a salsa dance performance by the Association of Latin and American Students (ALAS), and presentation of the Jennie Elder Suel Distinguished Woman of Color Award. In addition, attendees will be treated to a keynote address by Ms. Ramona Reyes, Human Resources Specialist at Nationwide Insurance Company and first Hispanic member of the Columbus Public Schools Board of Education.
*February 28 - March 25, 2011*
MacMillan Hall Exhibitions
*4000 Years for Choice*
Heather Hault, Artist
4000 Years For Choice develops visual narratives about the practices of contra-conception and abortion from around the world for the past 4000 years. The project seeks to celebrate, inspire, and empower women and men in their reproductive lives!
For more information about the exhibition and the artist visit www.4000yearsforchoice.com
Don't forget to leave your comments on the guest book.
Thank you.
#The information presented in this exhibit does not reflect the views of Miami University. The organizations sponsoring the exhibition are not advocating a particular political perspective or offering medical advice.#
*"Changing the World, One Heart at a Time" Pico Iyer*
Though one of the most visible people on the planet today, the XIVth Dalai Lama may also be one of the least understood. The Miami University community got to see him and hear him last year, but in this follow-up lecture, Pico Iyer will try to offer a journey into the private and less familiar aspects of the Dalai Lama's life and vision, and in particular the ways in which his ideas can speak to those of us who are not Tibetan, Buddhist or monks.
Drawing on 35 years of talks and travels with the Dalai Lama -he's traveled across Japan with him each of the last five years- Iyer will look into how the Tibetan leader became the man we see today, what he offers a global community thinking of new ways of defining home and community, and what simple, practical tips he offers that can change one's life, almost without one's noticing.
Born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, Pico Iyer was educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard, while officially growing up in southern California.
He is the author of seven works of non-fiction, including #Video Night in Kathmandu# (cited on many lists of the best travel books ever), #The Lady and the Monk# (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the category of Current Interest) and #The Global Soul# (subject of websites and theatrical productions around the world).
He has also written the novels #Cuba and The Night# and #Abandon#.
For a quarter of a century, he has been an essayist for Time magazine, while also writing constantly on literature for The New York Review of Books, on globalism for Harper's, and on many other topics for venues from The New York Times to National Geographic.
His most recent book, #The Open Road#, describing more than 30 years of talking and traveling with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, came out in a dozen countries, and was a best-seller across the U.S.
He has been based for the past 20 years near Nara, in rural Japan, though he is still often to be found making stops everywhere from North Korea to Ethiopia, and from Bolivia to Easter Island.
The Dine'/Navajo Long Walk: War, Remembrance, and Hope. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Dine'/Navajo).
Public Lecture and Reception. Part of the Indigenous Speakers Series: Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology.
As the first-ever Dine'/Navajo to earn a Ph.D. in history, Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a strong advocate for Native peoples and strives to foster academic excellence in the next generation of students interested in Native Studies. Denetdale is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and teaches courses in Native American Studies. She specializes in Navajo history and culture; Native American women, gender, and feminisms; and Indigenous nations, colonialism, and decolonization. Her book, Reclaiming Din'e History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007 and has received positive reviews. Her book for young adults, The Long Walk: The Forced Exile of the Navajo, was published by Chelsea House in 2007. In 2010, she was guest curator for the exhibit, "Manuelito and Navajo Leaders," currently showing at the Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, Arizona. Her current research project is a study of Dine' women, gender, and tradition.
Born in Montreal, Pedro Serrano is a leading poet, critic and translator. He studied at the University of London and at the University of Mexico. Along with Carlos Lopez Beltran, he edited and translated #The Lamb Generation (La generacion del cordero)#, a bilingual anthology of Contemporary British Poetry, as well as an anthology of the Irish poet Matthew Sweeney. He also translated in verse William Shakespeare's #King John# in 2002, and his opera Les Marimbas de l'Exil/ El Norte en Veracruz (music by Luc LeMasne) was first staged in Besancon, France in January 2000, traveling then to Paris and Mexico. Pedro Serrano has published six books of poems: #El miedo# (1986), #Ignorancia# (1994), #Tres poemas# (2000), #Turba# (2005), #Desplazamientos# (2006) and #Nueces# (2009). His poems have appeared in #Modern Poetry in Translation, Verse, Sirena, The Rialto, The Red Wheelbarrow# and #Nimrod Internacional Journal#. He has also been included in the anthologies #Reversible Monuments# (Copper Canyon 2002), #Connecting Lines# (Sarabande Books, 2006) and #Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices# (Shearsman Books, 2010). Pedro Serrano was granted the Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 2007.
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April
Noon -1:30PM
MacMillan Hall Great Room (2nd floor)
Miami University of Ohio, Oxford Campus
Panelists:
Adrian Gaskins: Salsa & Hip-hop Music
Assistant Professor, Black World Studies & American Studies Program, Miami University of Ohio
Lindsay Grace: Video Games
Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Studies Program, Miami University of Ohio
Cynthia Lockhart: Visual Artist
Associate Professor, Professional Practice, University of Cincinnati
Brandi Smith: Filmmaking
Independent Filmmaker
Moderator:
Tammy L. Brown: Poetry, Painting, & Photography
Assistant Professor, Black World Studies Program & Department of History, Miami University of Ohio
*"The Symbolism of Race in Cuba Today"*
A multimedia presentation by Pedro Perez-Surday, Cuban poet, journalist and novelist.
He will address: What is it like to be black Cuban in Cuba fifty years after Fidel Castro's Revolution of 1959?
"Introducing The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Paeng: Siam's Great Folk Epic of Love and War." This 45 minute presentation- of Siam's classic epic poem, fully translated for the first time, will be part performance/reading, part commentary.
"The Disability Culture: Enhancing Today's Economy"
Speaker: Greg Fehribach
An attorney with a disability who uses an electric wheelchair as a mobility aid device, Gregory S. Fehribach is a leading consultant on accessible design and founder of The Fehribach Group in 1995. He is a graduate of Ball State University, where he earned both his Bachelor of Science and his Masters of Arts degrees. While at Ball State, Greg made history as the first student with a disability to be elected student body president. He is a graduate of Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law and is affiliated with Indianapolis law firm Doninger Tuohy & Bailey LLP.
The presentation will address the challenges and opportunities facing both Americans with disabilities and employers in fulfilling the promise of legislation aimed at providing equal opportunities for people with disabilities in the workforce.
*A Film Unfinished",*(Documentary, 2010)
Directed by Yael Hersonski
This film about an unfinished film portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation. It will forever change the way we look at historic images.
Discussion will follow
*5:30 p.m., 212 MacMillan Hall*
Discussion facilitator: Sven-Erik Rose, Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Miami University
*7:30 p.m., 212 MacMillan Hall*
Discussion facilitator: Erik Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of History, Miami University
*Part of the Annual Holocaust and Genocide Education Film Series*
Prospects for Democracy in Thailand
A lecture by two distinguished Thai scholars, Pasuk PhongPaichit and Chris Baker.
The governments installed by Thailand's last two general elections were removed after military intervention. Another election is due this year. Rightist groups are openly trying to prevent it happening. This talk discusses why electoral democracy is under threat and what the prospects are for the near future.
#Edna Kantorovitz Carter Southard, Ph.D.,#Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Emerita, Miami University Art Museum and Assistant Professor of Art, Miami University
"National Museums and Sites of Memory: Divided Memory and the Holocaust in Vilnius, Lithuania"
Museums and public spaces express a nation's collective identity. They express powerfully the national narrative or perpetuate divided memory. When versions of history conflict, how is documented history told through national museums and public spaces? In Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania today and a major center of Jewish life before the Holocaust, parts of the national history are omitted or marginalized. There is a duel between Jewish memory and Lithuanian minimization of anti-Jewish violence. This failure to reconcile past events with present telling of history is a lesson in divided memory and collective amnesia. The issue is startlingly relevant as Americans have their share of divided memories, notably with respect to the Civil War (or "War between the States") and Westward Expansion (Indian removal or ethnic cleansing).
This research and forthcoming publication in a book on Nationalism and the Holocaust was a collaboration with the Dr. Robert F. Southard, of blessed memory, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Earlham College. Research travel was funded from the Philip and Elaina Hampton Fund through the Office of International Education at Miami University and from the Mellon Foundation through the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
*Part of the Annual Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Program*
#Edna Kantorovitz Carter Southard, Ph.D.,#Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Emerita, Miami University Art Museum and Assistant Professor of Art, Miami University
"National Museums and Sites of Memory: Divided Memory and the Holocaust in Vilnius, Lithuania"
Museums and public spaces express a nation's collective identity. They express powerfully the national narrative or perpetuate divided memory. When versions of history conflict, how is documented history told through national museums and public spaces? In Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania today and a major center of Jewish life before the Holocaust, parts of the national history are omitted or marginalized. There is a duel between Jewish memory and Lithuanian minimization of anti-Jewish violence. This failure to reconcile past events with present telling of history is a lesson in divided memory and collective amnesia. The issue is startlingly relevant as Americans have their share of divided memories, notably with respect to the Civil War (or "War between the States") and Westward Expansion (Indian removal or ethnic cleansing).
This research and forthcoming publication in a book on Nationalism and the Holocaust was a collaboration with the Dr. Robert F. Southard, of blessed memory, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Earlham College. Research travel was funded from the Philip and Elaina Hampton Fund through the Office of International Education at Miami University and from the Mellon Foundation through the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
*Part of the Annual Holocaust and Genocide Education Program*
*David Marwell*, Director, Museum of Jewish Heritage -A Living Legacy to the Holocaust, and formerly Chief of Investigate Research, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations
*"The Search for Josef Mengele"*
Marwell will describe the international manhunt and forensic investigation into the whereabouts and identification of the infamous Auschwitz doctor using newly declassified and previously unknown material from the case files.
*Community dinner* will follow after the presentation at 7:00 p.m., Hillel Foundation at Miami, 11 East Walnut Street, Oxford OH 45056. To reserve a place, contact Dorothy Falke, falkeda@muohio.edu or 529-8309 -no later than April 7th, 2011.
*Annual Holocaust and Genocide Education Program*
Sally Howell (History Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn), "Islam in the American City: Muslims in the U.S. since 9/11"
Tibetan Culture Week
The week includes a film series and a special Prayer Flag Ceremony.
Films will be shown in room 167 of Upham Hall from 7 -9 p.m. The films are organized by the Students for a Free Tibet are as follows:
Monday, April l8, "Tibet, Cry of the Snow Lion"
Wednesday, April 20, "Seven Years in Tibet"
Thursday, April 21, "Windhorse"
*Prayer Flag Ceremony*, near the Seal and Roudebush Hall,
Tuesday, April 19, 12 noon.
Tibetan Monk, Ven Khenpo Samdup, Director of Gardolma Buddhist Center in Dayton, Ohio, will conduct the ceremony.
*"What is 'Genocide'? A Student Panel on Definitions and Response"*
*Panelists:*
Andrew Heckman
Save DARFUR representative
The Students of IDS 153: Global Genocide
*Part of the Annual Holocaust and Genocide Education Program*
In this day-long symposium, scholars of South Asian Studies will explore the role of race, religion, social class, and other factors contributing to constructions of masculinity in South Asian contexts.
The keynote speaker is Joseph S. Alter, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of such key works on South Asian masculinities as The Wrestlers Body: Identity and Ideology in North India (1992), Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet and the Politics of Nationalism (2000), and Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between Science and Philosophy (2004). His research interests include sexuality, physical fitness, nationalism, health and medicine in South Asia.
The symposium is open to the public. All meals are provided with advanced reservation. Contact Liz Wilson (513-529-4307) for details.
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September
*Malawi Film Series*
September 1
The Female Face of Aids: Crisis in Malawi
Documentary(2008) Directed by Doug Karr and Edward Boyce Produced by the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law A look at the impact of HIV/AIDS on the women of Malawi and the grassroots, governmental, and NGO efforts to combat this disease.
Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Women's Center#
Malawi Film Series
I Am Because We Are
Documentary(2008)
Directed by Nathan Rissman
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million child orphaned due to the AIDS pandemic, AIDS pandemic featuring Paul Farmer, Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton, Madonna, and Jeffrey Sachs
Winner of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Docu Style Award
Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Women's Center
Anthony Torres, Independent Curator & Art Critic
Critical Engagements: Negotiating Intercultural Sight/Site Specificities
This talk will focus on work of specific Latina artists in relation to the exhibition "The Question is Known: (W)here is Latin American/Latino Art" The exhibition, curated by Anthony Torres, featured thirty artists whose works reflect a range of aesthetic and conceptual frameworks and material approaches. The exhibition is thus concerned with positing "Latino art" as an ambiguous area of inquiry that raises issues, poses questions, and interrogates curatorial perspectives and institutional politics. The exhibition was presented at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, in San Francisco.
Cosponsors: Miami University Art Museum and the Center for American and World Cultures
Anthony Torres Abbreviated Biography
Anthony Torres is an Independent Curator and Art Writer. He writes critical reviews for the San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune, Northside Publications, The Marina Times, New Fillmore, Art Papers, New Art Examiner and Artweek. Torres has curated and juried many exhibitions. In 2001 Torres received a Master of Arts, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. Torres research interests focus on art making as a means of cultural contestation and social transformation.
*"Annual Latin American and Caribbean UniDiversity Festival"*
*OXFORD UPTOWN PARKS*
The UniDiversity Festival is a collaborative effort to promote diversity and inclusion in our community, and it is also a chance to learn more about the peoples and cultures that are quickly emerging as the largest ethnic group in the United States. This festival is the kick-off of a month full of activities encompassed within the National Hispanic Heritage Month.
People have an opportunity to enjoy a taste of some of the finest cuisines from around the world, a unique repertory of music and dances, arts and crafts, children's activities, petting of llamas and alpacas, and display of literature/panels/photo exhibits about Latin America and the Caribbean.
*YOU ARE INVITED...*
*COME AND JOIN US!*
*PROGRAM*
*5:30 p.m.*
Welcome to the festival and Proclamation by Ken Bogard, Vice-Mayor, City of Oxford
First opening by Jonathan Wheeler, Secretary, Diversity Affairs Council, Miami University
*5:45 p.m.*
#Silly Safari#, Live animal show
*6:15 p.m.*
#Capoeira#, Afro-Brazilian martial arts and music
*7:00 p.m.*
Second opening by Bobby Gempesaw, Provost, Miami University
*7:15 p.m.*
#Embajadores Peruanos#, Peruvian Ambassadors, dance troupe
*7:45 p.m.*
Salsa Dance Workshop
*8:00 p.m.*
#Orquesta Kandela#, The Midwest's only All-Female Salsa Band!
*9:30 p.m.*
Closing
Door Prizes will be drawn throughout the festival! Tickets can be picked-up at the information booth. Winners must be present to receive their prizes.
For more detail about the festival and performers visit the Center for American and World Culture website at www.muohio.edu/special-events/unidiversity
*Part of the UniDiversity Program Fall 2011*
Visit the CAWC #Facebook site# for more information about the program.
*Constitution Day Program*
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHANGE!
A Conversation on Micro-aggression with Dr. William Smith
Sponsored by the Center For American and World Cultures with support from the Black World Studies Program, the Department of Educational Leadership, the Department of Educational Psychology, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Sociology and Gerontology, and the Miami University Parent's Fund
*Latino/a Students' Perceptions of Diversity Climate at Miami University,* Lecture
*Saul Rivera*, PhD, Licensed Psychologist & Coordinator of Multicultural Services, Student Counseling Service, Miami University
*Angela D. Ledgerwood,* MA, Doctoral Candidate, Clinical Psychology Program, Psychology Department, Miami University
To date, limited research has been conducted on Latina/o students attending Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) of Higher Education. This lecture expands the existing literature by examining perceptions regarding diversity and campus climate held by Latina/o students at a PWI located in rural Ohio. Utilizing the Miami University 2008 Campus Climate Survey data, the authors examine the multiple identities and composition of the Latina/o students attending Miami University-- a highly selective, academically competitive public Midwestern university with a high percentage of majority students (approximately 89% White) and a high percentage of majority tenure-track or tenured faculty (approximately 85.4% White). This lecture examines Latina/o students' perceptions about discrimination, satisfaction, engagement with faculty/staff and other students, and whether they feel accepted and respected by others at Miami University. The presenters also compare and contrast the Latino/a experience to that of other ethnic minority students as well as to their majority peers. The presenters will also discuss the implications of the results and provide recommendations for the clinical, consultative, outreach, and advocacy work done by higher education professionals on the campuses of PWIs with a particular emphasis on challenges that may be encountered on campuses located in rural areas and in counties with a political climate that is not immigrant-friendly. Additional recommendations will also be provided specific to supporting and empowering Latina/o students, faculty, and staff at a PWI.
*Learning Objectives:*
1. Participants will learn about the experience of Latino/a students, faculty, and staff at Miami University.
2. Participants will learn about recommendations for improving campus climate for Latino/a students at Miami University.
3. Participants will learn about the potential implications that the perception of campus climate among Latino/a students may have on their psychological and social wellbeing.
*Sponsored by the Association of Latino/a Faculty and Staff, ALFAS and the Miami University Office of the President, Institutional Diversity, and in partnership with the Center for American and World Cultures*
For more information about this event visit the ALFAS website at: http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/alfas/, and/or
Miami Institutional Diversity website at: http://www.miami.muohio.edu/about miami/diversity/index.htm
*Dr. William Smith*, Special Assistant to the President, Faculty Athletics Representative and Associate Dean for Diversity, Access, and Equity, College of Education and a faculty member in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society and Ethnic Studies Program (African American Studies division), University of Utah.
*"Understanding and Recognizing the Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Students of Color in Historically White Institutions."*
According to most university brochures, college represents a time of unbridled optimism, exciting challenges, and myriad opportunities. Few students would anticipate that their university experience might be marked by ongoing racialized incidents questioning their academic merit, cultural knowledge, and physical presence. Many Students of Color constantly face charges of being unqualified and viewed as being "out of place." Each of these experiences are racial microaggressions which compromises the campus climate, student satisfaction, personal health, and success of the targeted student or group. Over time, the mundane but extreme stress caused by these assaults can lead to mental, emotional, and physical strain -which has come to be identified as Racial Battle Fatigue. This presentation will help provide an understanding and recognition of the impact that racial microaggressions have on Students of Color.
Related link:
http://www.ed.utah.edu/ecs/faculty/WilliamSmith.htm
*LECTURE SERIES: TOPICS OF THE TIMES*
*GLAM UP! A Global Rhythms Presentation featuring 400 artists*
#over Family Weekend at Miami#
Friday, September 23 - Saturday,September 24, 2011
Global Rhythms will weave in a cast of around 400 over Friday and Saturday nights of September 23 and 24, 2011, is one that turns courage into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom and understanding. Both nights are different productions with diverse offerings.
On the opening night of September 23rd Friday, the stage opens for a team of 300 artists joined by a range of guests - 18 year old sensation Ali Amr and Tarik Rentissi from Palestine, five-time Grammy winning Glen Velez (frame drums), three-time Grammy winning Robin Eubanks (trombone), Grammy winning Eguie Castrillo (Latin percussion), Victor Mendoza (vibes), Ray Vega (trumpet), Broadway artist Jeff Queen (snare drums), Lori Cotler (vocals), Maestro Asnawa from Bali, to name a few. The refreshing add! ition of trombone virtuoso Robin Eubanks has allowed Global Rhythms to weave in a Big Jazz Band as well as the 80-member Choraliers. A four-member Flamenco team, a Klezmer Ensemble, a unique quintet, an indoor marching drumline and A Capella team Mergers conclude the first day.
Saturday night September 24th opens the door to a whole new stage where the guest artists including Robin Eubanks, Humberto Sales (Flamenco), Jeff Queen, Kelsey Harmon, Ali Amr, Tarik Rentissi, Eguie Castrillo, Arjun Chandy, Victor Mendoza, Maestro Asnawa, Ray Vega, and others combine with a 100-member mixed choir Collegiate Chorale and Miami University Symphony Orchestra to premiere unique works from Lord of the Rings (musical) and music of AR Rahman.
Fashion is a new focus this year with novel costumes and designs being showcased. On Saturday September 24th night, food samples from Northern India will be served to those members of the audience who have purchased tickets in advance for the Septe! mber 24th evening show. A portion of the ticket will be retained at the food counter at the time of food tasting (served between 6 PM and 7.30 PM).
The shows are directed by Miami Alum Srinivas Krishnan, Founder and Artistic Director of Global Rhythms. This year's concert will be dedicated to the late Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who was India's most celebrated Classical Vocalist and 80-year old guru Smt. Thylambal for her 60 years of dedication to Music Education.
For more information about Global Rhythms Presentations, and the performers visit the Center for American and World Cultures website at http://www.cawc.muohio.edu/special-events/global-rhythms
*GLAM UP! A Global Rhythms Presentation featuring 400 artists *
#over Family Weekend at Miami#
Friday, September 23 - Saturday,September 24, 2011
Global Rhythms will weave in a cast of around 400 over Friday and Saturday nights of September 23 and 24, 2011, is one that turns courage into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom and understanding. Both nights are different productions with diverse offerings.
On the opening night of September 23rd Friday, the stage opens for a team of 300 artists joined by a range of guests - 18 year old sensation Ali Amr and Tarik Rentissi from Palestine, five-time Grammy winning Glen Velez (frame drums), three-time Grammy winning Robin Eubanks (trombone), Grammy winning Eguie Castrillo (Latin percussion), Victor Mendoza (vibes), Ray Vega (trumpet), Broadway artist Jeff Queen (snare drums), Lori Cotler (vocals), Maestro Asnawa from Bali, to name a few. The refreshing addition of trombone virtuoso Robin Eubanks has allowed Global Rhythms to weave in a Big Jazz Band as well as the 80-member Choraliers. A four-member Flamenco team, a Klezmer Ensemble, a unique quintet, an indoor marching drumline and A Capella team Mergers conclude the first day.
Saturday night September 24th opens the door to a whole new stage where the guest artists including Robin Eubanks, Humberto Sales (Flamenco), Jeff Queen, Kelsey Harmon, Ali Amr, Tarik Rentissi, Eguie Castrillo, Arjun Chandy, Victor Mendoza, Maestro Asnawa, Ray Vega, and others combine with a 100-member mixed choir Collegiate Chorale and Miami University Symphony Orchestra to premiere unique works from Lord of the Rings (musical) and music of AR Rahman.
Fashion is a new focus this year with novel costumes and designs being showcased. On Saturday September 24th night, food samples from Northern India will be served to those members of the audience who have purchased tickets in advance for the September 24th evening show. A portion of the ticket will be retained at the food counter at the time of food tasting (served between 6 PM and 7.30 PM).
The shows are directed by Miami Alum Srinivas Krishnan, Founder and Artistic Director of Global Rhythms. This year's concert will be dedicated to the late Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who was India's most celebrated Classical Vocalist and 80-year old guru Smt. Thylambal for her 60 years of dedication to Music Education.
For more information about Global Rhythms presentations, and the performers -visit the Center for American and World Cultures website at http://www.cawc.muohio.edu/special-events/global-rhythms
*UniDiversity Post-Study Abroad EXPO*
The purpose of the Expo is to provide prospective study abroad participants with a student perspective. Students who recently participated in study abroad programs will share their experiences with other Miami students, will discuss issues they encountered while studying abroad, and this in turn will promote the growth of study abroad opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean and Hispanic and Lusophone countries.
*PART OF MIAMI'S FIRST ANNUAL STUDY ABROAD WEEK*
See the World. Study Abroad.
Events campus wide
Immerse yourself in a new culture.
Encounter history where it happened.
Conduct hands-on research in the field.
Prepare to compete in the global economy.
For more information about these events visit: http://www.units.muohio.edu/ lifelonglearning/studyabroadweek/
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October
Contagion in the Global City
Priscilla Wald (Professor of English and Information Studies, Duke University. Author of "Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative")
Keynote address for "Disease and Development in the Global City," an interdisciplinary symposium that explores the impact of diseases and disease control on imaginings of and experiences of the modern global city.
Dr. Lisa Farrington, Chair, Department of Art and Music, John Jay College, New York will discuss the struggles and triumphs of black women artists from slavery to the present; and an examination of the ways in which they counteracted black female stereotypes such as the Mammy, the Matriarch, and the Jezebel.
Cosponsors: Miami University Art Museum, Center for American and World Cultures and Department of Black World Studies
Dr. Lisa Farrington Biography
After 15 years at Senior Art Historian at Parsons School of Design, in 2008 Lisa Farrington became the founding Chair of the Art & Music Department at John Jay College. She is the 2010 winner of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a new book on artist Emma Amos; and she was the 2008 William and Camille Cosby Endowed Scholar at Atlanta University's Spelman College. She earned Ph.D. & Master of Philosophy degrees from the CUNY Graduate Center, an M.A. from American University, and a BFA from Howard University magna cum laude. She specializes in Race & Gender in Visual Culture and Haitian Vodou Art. Dr. Farrington has published 10 books in the past 10 years, and dozens of scholarly essays. Her Oxford University Press book on the history of African-American women artists has become required reading at universities across the country; and has won three literary awards including the American Library Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature.
An interdisciplinary symposium that explores the fear and fascination with the control of disease.
The public is invited to attend any or all parts of the sessions.
Click here for a conference poster with more information: http://www.cas.muohio.edu/docs/diseaseanddevelopment.pdf
MORNING SESSION, 9:00 - 12:00.
Nicholas Money, Miami University, "Of Molds and Men: A Rotten Relationship"
Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia, "The Private Side of Public Health: Rabies Management, Civic Institutions, and State Power in New York City, 1880-1920"
Amanda McVety, Miami University, "Globalizing Addis Ababa Through Cattle"
James Webb, Colby College, "Tropical Malaria, Acquired Immunity, and the African City"
Mary Frederickson, Miami University, "Ogbanje in the Global City: Sickle Cell Disease in West Africa"
Osaak Olumwullah, Miami University, "Tropicality, Malaria and the Production of Medical Knowledge in 20th Century Kenya"
Commentator: Nick Cullather, Indiana University
AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:00-5:00
Diego Armus, Swarthmore College, "Disease and Culture in a Peripheral City: Tango and Corsets in the History of Tuberculosis in Modern Buenos Aires"
Krista Maglen, Indiana University, "Fluid Borders and 'Exotic' Disease: Quarantine, Immigration and the Creation of an 'English' Sanitary Zone in Late 19th Century British Ports"
Jose Amador, Miami University, "Beyond Yellow Fever Eradication: Making Borders and Regulating Bodies in Cuban Ports"
Alexandra Puerto, Occidental College, "Modernizing the Maya: Medical Visions in Postrevolutionary Merida"
Matthew Heaton, Virginia Tech, "Race, Urbanization, and Mental Illness in Historical Perspective"
Julie Minich, Miami University, "Rehabilitating Neoliberalism: Disability and Film in the Post-NAFTA Mexico City and Memphis"
Racial Legacies & Learning XXVI: How To Talk About Race presents Piecing Together the Latino Mosaic in Southwestern Ohio with Ms. Lorena Mora-Mowry, Owner of Mora Media, LLC and founder of Mujer Latina Today
At the heart of the Racial Legacies series of town meetings is an attempt to create dialogue that can enhance and improve race relations in American society. The focus of this 26th town meeting will be to look into current Latino issues from a Latina perspective. One major theme will be the personal journeys taken by many Latinos who have come to the United States from Mexico and Latin America, especially those of women and children. The risks, challenges, motivations and inspirations of these people will be shared. The formal and informal social and economic networks that facilitated these journeys will be explored. A focus on the future will also be covered with commentary on employment and educational opportunities in the United States for Latinas, language and cultural challenges, and keys to successful assimilation, acculturation and/or adjustment to life in Southwestern Ohio and other environments.
Fall MIdterm Break
No classes Friday; offices open
LICA (Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology)
Alison D. Goebel, Miami '03 talks about conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a small Ohio city from 2005-2010 and discusses the conclusions of her study on multiracial, class-stratified, neighborly relationships. She explains how those anthropological experiences have led her to her current position at a "think tank" that conducts research, educates lawmakers and local leaders about intelligent land use practices, and promotes state policies that improve Ohioans' lives.
She will describe how she uses her anthropological training to 1) work with county commissioners, mayors, city managers, nonprofit leaders, and state officials to make Ohio's communities attractive, economically viable places people want to live in and 2) how her research skills and findings help influence state legislators to draft laws and create new programs that slow urban sprawl and encourage businesses and individuals to recognize and utilize the many assets Ohio has.
Finally, Goebel will briefly talk about other careers that anthropology majors might find interesting and rewarding.
*Dave Zirin,* Journalist
*Not Just a Game: Power, Politics and American Sports*
In #Not Just a Game#, based on his bestselling book, The People's History of Sports in the United States, Zirin discusses the close intersections between American sports, society, and its politics. The film examines how American sports have been closely bound to US racism, sexism, and homophobia, then reveals the largely forgotten histories of individuals he calls "rebel athletes" who challenged the status quo and in doing so fought for inclusion and social justice beyond the sports playing arena. It has been said that this film presents an "alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played" (http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?key=151&preadd=action)
*LECTURE SERIES: TOPICS OF THE TIMES*
Zirin will be presenting a public lecture, visiting classes, and meeting informally with students.
Related link:
http://www.edgeofsports.com/bio.html
Mary Black Bonnet (Sicangu Lakota) guest speaker for the LICA--Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology, Indigenous Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 4:00 p.m. Lecture, 212 MacMillan Hall with a reception to follow.
Through poetry and talk in both the Lakota and English languages, author and Sicangu Lakota member Mary Black Bonnet takes audiences on a personal journey through the crucial issues of identity, trauma, and postcolonial indigenous societies. Her talk is framed around the Lakota concept of Othehika, or "hard, difficult times" Black Bonnet poetically looks at the world before colonization, when Lakota life was ideal: peaceful, respectful and in balance when everyone had respect for themselves, so respect for others naturally followed. However, as Black Bonnet states, these days, our very infrastructure seems to be crumbling; and we have the biggest fight on our hands. Restoring and maintaining our tribal respect and sacredness in a time when others would like to view us from behind glass and on the page. It is an everyday struggle to maintain our culture for those who know it, and to teach others who were denied it their whole lives.
In Cortes' Shadow: From Veracruz to Mexico City
The army of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes incited some of the most profound cultural and political changes ever experienced by any civilization. The effects of his invasion accompany nearly every Mexican's idea about identity, history, and life. Yet the face, name and even remains of the conquistador have mostly vanished. This exhibition sheds light on the contemporary shadow cast by Cortes and his army in Mexico today. It explores this presence of the conquest in 21st century Mexico through three cultural themes: the significance of place, keepers of historical memory, and religious festivals. Interdisciplinary in terms of art, history and cultural studies, the exhibit features interviews of people living along the route today, murals and codices of the conquest, and documentary photography of 21st century Mexican culture to help viewers understand the historical significance of this route of conquest.
In 1964, Freedom Summer was a key initiative within the civil rights movement. Civil Rights organizations recruited college students from all over the country to go to Mississippi, shining a national spotlight on conditions there. Before going to Mississippi, these three men and approximately 800 other students trained at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. This interactive historic walking tour allows students to engage with Western College for Women History that is now Miami University. Tours start in front of Clawson Hall and last approximately 45 minutes. Sponsored By Western Program and Center of American and World Cultures
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November
*RESTAVEK: A Day in the Life*
MacMillan Hall Exhibition
Restavek: A Day in the Life is an interactive exhibit that helps people understand what life is like for a child slave in Haiti. It takes approximately 30 minutes to walk through, so you can come and go whenever is best for you.
For many people slavery is something that happened hundreds of years ago, something you study in history class. Sadly, slavery is very much still alive today. Restavek Freedom Foundation created this exhibit to help wrap peoples' minds around Haiti's cultural practice of restavek - a form of child slavery that today affects over 300,000 children each year.
Opening reception
4:00 p.m.
MacMillan Hall Great Room, Oxford campus
Refreshment provided.
*Related sources/videos:*
Child Slaves in Haiti
http://www.cbc.ca/connect/2010/02/child-slaves-in-haiti.html
Helping Haiti???s Child Slaves
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/07/21/iyw.gupta.haiti.slaver...
Child Slavery in Haiti
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=SFtwAhZQNZw&feature=related
Restavek Children Found After the Earthquake in Haiti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roDm1zuy3ak
"How Did East Asians Become Yellow?"
Public Lecture by Dr. Michael Keevak, Visiting Fellow in History at Princeton University Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University
In their earliest encounters with East Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white, yet by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did "Asians" become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Professor Keevak explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. He argues that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped together as members of the "Mongolian race" they began to be considered yellow.
Nilika Mehrotra, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, will talk about "Locating Gender and Disability within Women's and Disability Rights Discourses in India.
Soumendra Patnaik of Delhi University, President of the Anthropological Association of India, and currently a Fullbright Scholar at Virgina Tech will talk about "Globalization and Local Communities: Implications of Tourism in North East India."
Miami University's Safe Zone is a program designed to create a safer and more supportive social and educational campus climate for all GLBTQ students, faculty, and staff. Established in 2009, it is a collaborative training effort engaging students, staff, and faculty across all departments and offices at Miami. Come to this training to learn terminology and specific skills to help make your campus safer and more inclusive. Bring questions to ask members of the community.
*Human Trafficking Activist Training*
#Lead by Salvation Army, Greater Cincinnati#
Organized by the Social Action Center
Office of Community Engagement and Service -Hanna House
*PART OF THE 8TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAM*
*Premier MUOHIO Showing of COLUMBUS DAY LEGACY*
COLUMBUS DAY LEGACY (2011, Trickster Films)
Director: Bennie Klain
Producer: Dr.Leighton Peterson, Department of Anthropology, Miami University
Official Selection, Smithsonian Native American Film and Video Festival
Nominated for Best Documentary Short, 2011 American Indian Film Festival
Official Selection, Montr??al First Peoples??? Festival
Special Jury Prize for Bridging Cultures, Arizona International Film Festival
Best of Division and Winner, Classification X, SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market
Director Bennie Klain will lead a discussion following the film.
Reception
#This community, this state, and this country are better than this. We can do better than this."# --Glenn Morris (Shawnee)
Columbus Day Legacy explores the quintessential American issues of free speech and ethnic pride against the backdrop of the ongoing Columbus Day parade controversy in Denver, Colorado. Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain takes viewers into this very personal yet very public conflict, asking tough questions about identity and history in America.
Since 1992, the Denver Italian-American community has proudly and publicly celebrated Columbus Day with a revived parade--long a part of the city's history-- much to the dismay of the local American Indian Movement chapter who are equally determined to vilify the man credited with "discovering" America. The history of this annual parade is peppered with both verbal and physical violence, challenging ideas of political correctness and freedom of assembly. Both the Italian- and Native Americans are strong, vibrant, tight-knit communities -a point conveyed by the film as it uncovers conflicting notions of the freedom of speech, the interpretation of history and what it means to be an "American."
For more information about this event visit: www.muohio.edu/cawc, Calendar of events
Related links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOigDxRk7Nc
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...
Dixon will continue his discussion about legal issues facing the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Transgendered) community and discuss issues regarding hospital visitation, parental rights, discrimination and bullying as a form of harassment. He will highlight resources within the Middletown community that can be used to aid and protect diversity.
*ANTI-BULLYING CAMPAIGN*
Bullying is a widespread and serious problem that our communities are facing. People are being harmed, called names, excluded because of race, sexual orientation, abilities, being different and many other reasons. This leads the people who are bullied to a higher risk of depression and anxiety, increased thoughts of suicide, health problems, and decreased academic achievement and may lead to retaliation. Twelve out of fifteen school shootings in the 1990s were from people who had been bullied, and suicide is one of the 4 top reasons teenagers die. In order to educate our community this event will include an awareness walk, an art display about bullying and how to stop it, among other activities on campus. The display would be created by Graphic Design and Architecture students from Miami University.
*Monday, November 14 - 18*
Anti-Bullying Wall, Art display
Academic Quad, Miami University
*Monday, November 14*
Anti-Bullying Panel
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Taylor Auditorium, Farmer School of Business
Candle Ceremony
Shriver Center Reflecting Pool
8:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, November 15*
Cyberbully (2011)
Directed by Charles Binam??
5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M., Wells Hall Basement, oxford campus
Discussion lead by Melissa Auringer, Student Counseling Service
*Related sources:*
Hamburger ME, Basile KC, Vivolo AM. Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2011.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/bullying-in-higher-ed/23052
Jason B. Jones, ???Bullying in Higher Ed???, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2010
[url]http://www.stopbullying.gov/[url]
Stop Bullying
http://www.mujerlatinahoy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&... ???El Bullying en Nuestros Hijos???, in Un Minuto Contigo, Mujer Latina Today e???zine, Podcast 06/03/2011
http://latina.com/lifestyle/-news/how-you-can-help-stop-latinos-being-bu...
???How Can You Help Stop Latinos from Being Bullied In School???, in Latina Magazine, 03/09/2011
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=129_HB_155
Public school bullying policies. 129th General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 2011-12
*PART OF THE 8TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM*
8TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL
*The Price of Sex, An Investigation of Sex Trafficking*
Documentary, Directed by Mimi Chakarova
The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a netherworld of sex-trafficking and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. (http://priceofsex.org/)
For related resources visit: http://priceofsex.org/content/resources
Relatively few opportunities exist for individuals with and without developmental disabilities (including such conditions as autism, Down's syndrome, cerebral palsy) to interact socially on a level playing field - let alone the dance floor. Make a new friend and make someone's day! With our community guests with disabilities, find out just how much we have in common in spite of our differences. Come join us for two hours of fun and conversation. Events will include food, pumpkin painting, cookie decorating, Wii playing, dance partying hosted by WMUM radio station, good ol' conversation, and other kinds of frivolity. It just may change your mind's picture about what "disabilities" means when YOU get dragged out to dance!
*Cyberbully (2011)*
Directed by Charles Binam.
5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.,
Wells Hall Basement, Oxford campus
Discussion lead by Melissa Auringer, Student Counseling Service
Cyberbully follows Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment), a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it nearly takes on her and her family. Taylor is a pretty 17-year-old high school student but a little awkward, and painfully aware of it. When her mom gives her a computer for her birthday, Taylor is excited by the prospect of freedom and the independence of going online without her mother always looking over her shoulder.
However, Taylor soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while visiting a social website, and afraid to face her peers at school, including her best friend (Kay Panabaker), she is pushed to a breaking point.
Taylor's mom, Kris (Kelly Rowan), reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter.
*Part of the Antibullying Campaign*
*Related sources:*
Hamburger ME, Basile KC, Vivolo AM. Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2011.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/bullying-in-higher-ed/23052
Jason B. Jones, "Bullying in Higher Ed", in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2010
[url]http://www.stopbullying.gov/[url]
Stop Bullying
http://www.mujerlatinahoy.com/index.php
"El Bullying en Nuestros Hijos", in Un Minuto Contigo, Mujer Latina Today e-zine, Podcast 06/03/2011
http://latina.com/lifestyle/-news/how-you-can-help-stop-latinos-being-bu...
"How Can You Help Stop Latinos from Being Bullied In School", in Latina Magazine, 03/09/2011
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=129_HB_155
Public school bullying policies. 129th General Assembly of the State of Ohio, 2011-12
*PART OF THE 8TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL* UNIDIVERSITY
*Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair*
Miami University's Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair is an educational effort and commitment to:
- join forces with university, local, national, and global organizations devoted to the elimination of hunger, homelessness, poverty, the effects of environmental degradation/deterioration on human livelihoods, modern slavery, human trafficking, forced migrations, physical and mental abuse, ethnocide, and genocide;
- communicate information that raises awareness about human rights and social justice efforts and action in our communities and around the world;
- create opportunities for students and the large community to be engaged on human rights and social justice networks and service programs (volunteer programs, social service programs, learning service programs, professional development programs and others); and
- raise awareness that homophobia, heteronormativity, trans-phobia, intersex violence, etc. are human rights and social justice issues that deserve and require our attention and continued effort to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and respect.
The Human Rights and Social Justice Fair offers us a space to create dialogue and action to ensure that all people both locally and globally of all nationalities, races, classes, genders, abilities, and sexualities can flourish with equal access to happy, healthy, and pleasurable lives.
*ADDRESS AND PROCLAMATION*
12:30 p.m., Multipurpose Rooms, Shriver Center
*Proclamation*
Richard Keebler, Mayor, City of Oxford and Kenneth Bogard, Vice-Mayor, City of Oxford
*Address by Students from LAS, WGS 410D, 401A*
Caitlyn Byers, "We Are Ohio"
Jenna Saponaro, "Local organic foods and Oxford???s MOON Co-op store???
Sara Elliott talking, "Human Trafficking and social action"
Becky Lancaster, "Steps towards a career in social justice"
*A Fashion Show for Social Justice* Postponed until Spring 2012
2:00 p.m., Multipurpose Rooms, Shriver Center
*8th Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Program*
8TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL
*Wasteland* (2010, Brazil)
-Directed by Lucy Walker
Film shown with English subtitles
Filmed over nearly three years, Wasteland follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. (www.wastelandmovie.com)
*Part of the Latin American Film Festival - UniDiversity Program*
*Fourth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Read-In*
*Mapping Human Trafficking in Ohio and the World*
Presentation and Panel
How to define, measure, map and analyze human trafficking today represents a significant challenge, locally and globally. Policy makers, practitioners and the community as a large require being more knowledgeable and aware about who are involved, where, how and why human trafficking has intensified and grown in the last decade. This reality is around the corner, and it is hard to believe that a local city such as Toledo is ranked as some of the top human trafficking markets, not just in Ohio, but in the U.S.A. Also, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, about 10 to 30 million people globally are involved in some form of modern-day slavery.
Increasing awareness and better understandings about the impacts of human trafficking can effectively facilitate key opportunities for improving legislation, regulatory changes, services and community civic engagement -domestically and internationally. Panelists will address these issues and discuss the causes and several factors involved in the struggle to stop human trafficking, and the role played by researchers, legislators and policy makers, law enforcement agencies, victims, perpetrators, clients and social justice advocates.
*Related links/sources:*
Davis, Kathleen Y. S., Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery in Ohio, Washington, D.C.: Polaris Project, February 2006. As of October 11, 2007: http://216.128.14.181/polarisproject/programs_p3/Ohio_Report_Trafficking...
Bales, Kevin, and Steven Lize, Trafficking in Persons in the United States: A Report to the National Institute of Justice, Oxford, Miss.: Croft Institute for International Studies, University of Mississippi, 2005. As of September 24, 2007: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffies1/nij/grants/211980.pdf
Andrees, Beate, and Mariska N. J. van der Linden,"Designing Trafficking Research from a Labour Market Perspective: The ILO Experience," International Migration, Vol. 43, Nos. 1???2, January 2005, pp. 55-73.
http://www.planusa.org/whoweare Plan USA
http://news.change.org/stories/the-new-hotbed-of-human-trafficking-is-ohio The New Hotbed of Human Trafficking Is ... Ohio, by Amanda Loer, in Change.org News, 02/11/2010
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/about/slavery/
THERE ARE MORE THAN *30 MILLION SLAVES* IN THE WORLD TODAY, MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER POINT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
*Part of the Eighth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Program*
The Indian Festival of Lights presented by the Indian Students' Association
The Indian Festival of Lights presented by the Indian Students' Association
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December
Thomas George Caracas Garcia, Associate Professor Ethnomusicology and Latin American Studies
*Tango! The National Dance of . . .*
Annual Ethnomusicology Program
Since its appearance in the slums of Buenos Aires in the 1870s, the Argentine Tango has evolved into one of the most popular and familiar of all Latin American dances. It was danced in the nightclubs of turn-of-the-century Paris, was part of the Latin Tinge dance crazes of the 1910s and 20s in the United States, and remains today one of the most popular dances in the world. It also influenced other classical and popular music traditions throughout the 20th century, including composers as diverse as W. C. Handy, Stravinsky and Sting. But how did Tango become so ubiquitous? How did it evolve in a global context? Through musical examples, video and live performance, this presentation explores the history and development of the tango, its most important composers and practitioners, and its place in the world today.
*Passionate about Latin/o America and Caribbean Series*
*UNIDIVERSITY PROGRAM*
Selected readings:
Globalization and the Tango by Chris Goertzen and Maria Susana Azzi, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 31. (1999), pp. 67-76.
Tango by Julie Taylor, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November, 1987), pp. 481-493.
Tango Renovacion: On the Uses of Music History in Post-Crisis Argentina by Morgan James Luker, Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 2007), pp. 68-93.
LECTURE
*5:00 p.m.*
Heritage Room (Shriver Center, Oxford campus)
DINNER
*6:30 p.m.*
Multipurpose Rooms "A" and "B", Shriver Center (Shriver Center)
Dinner is for lecture attendees only. The event is ticketed. To register, please contact Dorothy Falke, CAWC Administrative Assistant at 513 529 8309 by November 24, 2011.
Tickets:
$5.00 students/youth
$10.00 faculty, staff, and community
Tickets for the dinner must be purchased by November 24.
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