Bi-weekly Multicultural Luncheon Seminars.

February 2008, Black History Month.

Meetings

Upcoming Diversity Events

Monday, October 8th, 2007 Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author, Chasing the Moon Pearl, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mountain View Room, Student Center, Hosted by the Child Development Center

Ruthanne Lum McCunn, who is of Chinese and Scottish ancestry, reveals the challenges and rewards she has experienced as a person of mixed race, how those experiences have impacted her writing, and the role literature can play in creating change.

Ruthanne Lum McCunn is an Eurasian of Chinese and Scottish descent. Born in 1946 in San Francisco's Chinatown, she grew up in Hong Kong, where she was educated first in Chinese and then British schools. In 1962 she returned to the U.S. to attend college. For more information, see her website at http://www.mccunn.com/.
 

Thursday, October 18th, 2007, 12:00- 1:00 pm
Los nadies del camino del diablo (The No Ones on The Devil's Highway)

Patricia Pedroza (Faculty - Modern Languages and Women's Studies) will discuss the construiction of Mexican identities, migration issues and this year's Keene is Reading book "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Alberto Urrea. The event is also part of KSC's Hispanic Latino Month (2007). Madison Street Lounge - .

This event is sponsored by Keene is Reading, Diversity Commission and Sigma Delta Pi- Spanish Honor Society of KSC.

Wednesday, October 24th, 8pm
Music of Guinea and Gambia on kora harp and guitar, and Eastern European choral styles. Guest presenters hosted by Julian Gerstin. Redfern Arts Center.

November 6th thru November 11th Citizenship Symposium
Nigel Malcolm and Marianne Salcetti
Full schedule of events!
Common Ground to host John and Donna moody presenting Abenaki/Sokwaki Stories and Story Telling during the event.
Time and venue TBD.

2007-2008 Past Events

The Keene is Reading program invites you to participate in a discussion of Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway on Tuesday, September 4th from 12:30 to 1:30 in the Madison Street Lounge of the Student Center. Everyone is welcome, and we look forward to hearing from those who have read the book over the summer. We especially encourage faculty from all departments and programs to share their ideas about how the book can be used in classes this year.

In May 2001, 26 Mexican men crossed the US-Mexico border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. American Book Award-winning writer and poet Loius Alberto Urrea tracks the paths those men took from their home state of Veracruz all the way norte. They had to contend with the U.S. Border Patrol ("La Migra"); gung-ho gringo vigilantes bent on taking the law into their own hands; the Mexican Federales; rattlesnakes; severe hypothermia and the remorseless sun. Urrea's tale is about the dozen men who walked to safety, and the 14 others whom the media labeled the "Yuma 14" who did not.

Tuesday, September 25, Activist Tom Hayden,
Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center, Noon to 1:15 PM

Activist and politician Tom Hayden will come to the Keene State College campus to discuss the unique role that students and ordinary citizens can play in ending the war in Iraq. He will also be selling and signing copies of his new book, How to End the War in Iraq. As a leading antiwar figure in the 1960s and a founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Hayden wrote extensively on Vietnam and was one of the small number of Americans engaged in dialogue with both sides during the Paris peace talks. As an Irish-American, he spent 10 years supporting and writing about the peace process leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. As a California legislator, he devoted himself to writing about and trying to prevent inner-city violence. He remains a stalwart antiwar activist and is credited with initiating the 2005 Congressional exit-strategy hearings on Iraq. Hayden's talk is free and open to the public. It's sponsored by the KSC Diversity Commission, the Sociology Department, the Political Science Department, Mothers and Others Uniting, and New Hampshire Peace Action. For more information or to request accommodations for a disability, contact Susan Theberge at stheberg@keene.edu or 358-2863.