January
1/18- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY CELEBRATIONS
12 @ the Chapel- Music, Words, Dance
TRACK 1 WORKSHOPS
1 pm @ ALANA
Workshop A: “Fulfilling the Dream:King and Obama’s Competing Visions of America”
Facilitated by:Dr. Pete Banner-Haley,Professor of History
Workshop B: Covering: The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights By Kenji Yoshino
Facilitated by:Jennifer Lutman & Charles M. Sprock, Jr. Director of the Writing Center and Attorney, Baldwin & Sutphen, LLP
TRACK 2 WORKSHOPS
4 pm @ ALANA
Workshop C: Freedom On My Mind- Film Screening
Workshop D: First Year Workshop- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama
Facilitated by:Megan Wyett & Dr. Ken Valente, Assistant Director for Residential Education and Associate Professor of Mathematics
1/19 ALST Conversation Series
Senior Research: Sexuality & Fraternities, Afro-Peruvian Religious Expression, & Gender Role Biases
Students will present on their current research though Colgate University dealing with race, culture and gender. Lunch Provided by Curtain Call
11:30 @ WMST Lounge (co-sponsors: WMST)
1/20 MLK Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
Rose is known for her book, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, which chronicles the emergence of hip-hop culture, but will be speaking on the legacy of Martin Luther King.
7 @ Love Auditorium (SPONSORED BY & IN COLLABORATION WITH: First-Year Seminars, First Year Life Skills, ALANA, Office of the Vice-President of Diversity, Office of the Dean of the College,Division of Social Sciences, Division of University Studies, Asian Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Second-Year Experience, Pre-Law Society, Africana and Latin American Studies, SORT, Sister 2 Sister, The Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, The Office of Undergraduate Studies)
1/24 MLK Celebration in Syracuse
(Sponsored by ALANA)
1/26 ALiSTas Lounge Open House - Stop by 327 Alumni Hall anytime for refreshments and check out the new student lounge.
*Free tea and coffee always!
1/27 Art & Art History Eric J Ryan Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems
The photographs, films, and videos of Carrie Mae Weems trace an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century.
Sponsored by: Art & Art History, Film & Media Studies, English Department
4:30 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
1/28 Humanities Colloquium: Susan Stanford Friedman
Planetarity: Global Epistemologies of Modernist Studies
Susan Stanford Friedman, Virginia Woolf Professor of English and women's studies and director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Sponsored by: Department of English, Core Global Engagements
4:10PM-Till @ Robert Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall
1/30 Welcoming Diversity and Prejudice Reduction Skills Workshop
Brought by the National Coalition Building Institute (Colgate Chapter)
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After talking about the Colgate Campus Life Survey, are you looking for something specific you can do? Do you want to explore issues of diversity in a hopeful, non-blameful manner while developing some useful, concrete skills? Come to the Welcoming Diversity and Prejudice Reduction Skills Workshop. Participants will learn how we are socialized to think and act as members of our racial, gender, and other identity groups. We will celebrate similarities and differences, claim pride in group identities, recognize misinformation that people have learned about various groups, and identify and heal from internalized oppression. Facilitators will teach hands-on tools for dealing effectively with prejudicial comments and discrimination. The workshop will conclude with skill-building to bridge differences and build stronger coalitions on campus.
9am - 4pm, Coop Conference Room
1/30 BENEFIT CONCERT FOR HAITI!!!
As we watch the videos and images and read stories of the tragic events in Haiti, it is clear to many of us that we need a way to help. Mark Shiner, the Catholic Campus Minister and David Levy, the Jewish Chaplain, at Colgate University, have brought a group together, drawing from the campus, local and surrounding communities, to plan & host a benefit concert to raise funds that would be sent to the following charities and relief organizations: Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health and the American Red Cross.
Where: Colgate University Chapel, Hamilton NY
When: Saturday, January 30th starting @ 6pm
Why: To raise funds for Haiti. Money to be donated to- Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, American Red Cross
Who: Performances by members of local communities, local youth, & students on the Colgate campus. If you are interested in performing, please contact Lorraine Joseph, .
How: Tickets @ $5 and donations beyond that amount so that we can send as much funds as possible for aid to Haitian communities.
Contacts are and
February
2/1 Professor Jorge Francisco Liernur- "Villas Miseria: Urban Dysfunction and Distorted Development in Buenos Aires, Argentina"
Jorge Francisco Liernur directs the Center of Studies on Contemporary Architecture at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and is a Senior Researcher at the Argentine National Council for Research on Science and Technology. At the University of Buenos Aires he was director of the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas, and founder and director of the Juan O'Gorman Latin-American Architecture Chair. He acted as visiting scholar and critic at several universities in America and Europe, and his many studies on South American urbanism include The Threshold of the Metropolis.
7 pm @ 105 Lawrence Hall (Cosponsored by PCON, ALST, and the Geography Department)
2/3 ALST Conversation Series
The Cove: Helping Women with Small Business in the Dominican Republic
This year the Cove’s Alternative Break initiative take the students to the Dominican Republic to work with the Juana Saltitopa Women’s Group of Hato Mayor and help them start small businesses from the ground up. Lunch provided by La Iguana.
11:30 am @ ALANA Lounge (co-sponsors: WMST and the Cove)
2/4 Black History Month Celebration Dinner
Guest Chef, Juanita Bass (Soul Food)
Only 50 Spots – Please RSVP to
6 pm @ ALANA Cultural Center
2/5 Friday Night 35mm Film Series
Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros
Saludos Amigos, Disney, U.S., 1942, 43 min., DVD; The Three Caballeros, dir. Norman Ferguson, U.S., 1944, 72 min., DVD.
This pair of films was (in)famously produced as part of the Good Neighbor Policy during World War Two, when the U.S. State Department commissioned Disney to make (and show) a series of films in Latin America.
Interweaving live action and animation, these films star Donald Duck, Goofy, and a series of new, “local” characters: Brazilian parrot José Carioca, Mexican rooster Panchito Pistoles, and others.
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
2/6 Harlem Renaissance Trip Course
Three part course focusing on the history of Harlem – Entrepreneurship, Comedy, and Jazz
10 am – 1 pm @ ALANA Cultural Center MPR
2/11 Brothers Presents Guest Speaker – Warrick Dunn
Three-time NFL Pro – Bowl Winner and humanitarian.
7 pm @ Love Aud.
2/9 & 2/16 Presentation of Faculty Research by Participants in the SIO Diversity Colloquium:
Presenters: Pete Banner-Haley (History), Janel Benson (Sociology and Anthropology), Graham Hodges (History), Mary Moran (Sociology and Anthropology), John Palmer (Educational Studies), Louis Prisock (Sociology and Anthropology), Chad Sparber (Economics) Michelle Stephens (English) Moderator: Dr. Nina Moore, Associate Professor of Political Science.
4:30 - 6pm @ Ho 101
2/17 ALST Conversation Series
Globalization and its (dis)Contents
Professors Baptiste and Mandle will be sharing their insights and understanding of globalization issues with students. Lunch provided by La Iguana.
11:30 am @ ALANA Lounge
2/17 Skin
2/21 Jackie Robinson Story
Summer of 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball. Mad River Theater Work’s live production captures events that shaped Robinson’s character and the tremendous obstacles he overcame on his way to changing the face of our nation and our national pastime. “A glimpse into the past, into our souls, with wit and genuine American ingenuity.” The Annenberg Center, Philadelphia PA
The Place Theater presents MAD RIVER THEATER WORKS‘S LIVE NATIONAL PRODUCTION. Reserve Tickets- $7/kids, seniors 60+; $10/adults General admission.Group Rates Available!
3 pm @ The Palace Theater (palacetheater.org)
2/22 Harlem Renaissance – African American Poetry Slam
TBD
2/24 Dr. Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
7:30 pm @ Love Auditorium (SPONSORED BY & IN COLLABORATION WITH: First-Year Seminars, First Year Life Skills, ALANA, Office of the Vice-President of Diversity, Office of the Dean of the College,Division of Social Sciences, Division of University Studies, Asian Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Second-Year Experience, Pre-Law Society, Africana and Latin American Studies, SORT, Sister 2 Sister, The Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, The Office of Undergraduate Studies)
2/24-2/28 Model African Union in Washington, D.C.
2/27 Trip to Harlem, New York
Contact ALANA for more info.
March
3/8 International Women's Day Celebration
Film Screening: "Women in the Mosque" followed by a lecture by Dr. Juliane Hammer, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University
Dr. Hammer works on the population of Muslims in the US, focusing on immigrant, African-American and Latin American Muslims.
7pm @ 27 Persson (sponsored by WMST, ALST)
3/10 ALST Conversation Series
Segregation at the 'Gate? HRC and the Rhetoric of White Privilege
Professor Palmer, Levine, and Campbell will be discussing the politics and race of College dorms and HRC with students. Lunch Provided by la Iguana.
11:30 am @ ALANA Lounge
3/25 Social Sciences Division Luncheon Seminar Series
Denying Discrimination: Race and Life Insurance in the US at the Turn of the Twentieth Century- Presented by Dan Bouk
12:15 pm @ 111 Alumni Hall
3/25 Color Struck – Women of Color in Comedy
3/26 ALST Conversation Series
The Founding of ALANA: A Conversation with Todd Brown ‘71, Gregory Threatte and Rhonda Levine, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology about the founding of the ALANA Cultural Center and it’s development over the years. Lunch Provided.
12 pm @ ALANA MPR (co-sponsors: ALANA)
3/27 Gospel Fest
April
4/5 Reception- Lalla Essaydi Photographs: L’Écriture Feminine / Le Corps Feminin
Gallery remarks by Professors Emilio Spadola and Ayesha Chaudhry.
Lalla Essaydi is a feminist artist from Morocco. She creates richly textured photographs of women in staged environments that critique the visual clichés and stereotypes of western Orientalist paintings and colonialist photographs of the harem in the Islamic world. Essaydi interjects script that confounds the western gaze. Self-taught in the elegant maghribi calligraphy of North Africa, Essaydi covers her female subjects, as well as their clothing and furnishings, in texts that convey her own thoughts about being an Arab woman in the 21st century. Exhibition runs from March 8-May 16, 2010.
4:30-6:30 pm @ Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Alumni Hall, 2d floor (sponsored by Middle Eastern and Islamic Civilization Studies Program (MIST), Africana and Latin American Studies (ALST) and Women's Studies (WMST))
Exhibition runs from March 8 - May 16
4/6 ALST Conversation Series
Madre: Travels with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell
Liza Bakewell, the NEH Chair in WMST for Spring 2010, will discuss her new book with students. Lunch provided by Curtain Call.
11:30 @ WMST Lounge (co-sponsors: WMST)
4/15 Social Sciences Division Luncheon Seminar Series
Privatization Agencies and the Politics of Economic Reform in Africa- Presented by Manny Teodoro, Department of Political Science
12:15 pm @ 108 Persson
4/15 Concert by K'Naan
4/16 ALST Conversation Series
Social Networks and Pro-Environment Behaviors
Dr. Julio Videras is a professor of environmental economics at Hamilton College. His talk will cover different social structures (race, class, gender, etc.) and how they relate to our behaviors regarding the environment. Lunch provided by Hamilton Whole Foods.
12:15 pm @ ALANA MPR (co-sponsors: ENST and WMST)
4/16 Friday Night 35mm Film Series
La Cienaga
In her recent films, young Argentine director Lucrecia Martel has not only established herself as a formidable presence in the country's flourishing cinema, but has also delicately portrayed the lives of young women. La Cienaga, in a style that's at once naturaistic and unearthly, chronicles a summer in the life of two teenage cousins, while simultaneously sketching the crumbling of Argentina's rural aristocracy.
7 pm @ Golden Auditorium, Little Hall
May
5/4 Study Break
11:30-2:30 pm @ WMST Lounge