Thursday, Oct. 30: The Meaning of Race in the 21st Century

12:30 p.m.
Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center
Welcome Address: White Privilege and Globalization. Janaki Tschannerl senior lecturer in multicultural studies, and panelists from the Departments of American Studies, Sociology, and Education, Keene State College.

1:30-3 p.m.
Alumni Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center
Diversity and Living by the Heart: Visioning the Global, Working the Personal. Sabrina Sojourner, former U.S. Congresswoman, District of Columbia. Moderator: Karen Cangialosi, Keene State College.

3-4:30 p.m.
Room 309, L.P. Young Student Center
Race, Hispanic Origin Data, and Understanding the 2000 Census. Cesar Monzon, Information Services Specialist, U.S. Census Bureau, Boston.

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Who Is an Indian? Don Grinde, Professor, Center for the Americas, University of Buffalo. Discussion moderator: Sally Joyce, associate professor of English and American Studies, Keene State College.

5:45 p.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Banquet. $20.

7 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Keynote Address: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption. Randall Kennedy, professor, Harvard Law School.

Friday, Oct. 31: Experiencing Race

10 a.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Workshop: Me? A Racist?, Gladys Johnsen, professor of music and women's studies, Keene State College.

11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Panel discussion: Dealing with Diversity: How Do New Hampshire and Keene State College Welcome People of Color? Leaders: Angela Yang, interim director, National and International Exchange Center, Monica Monyo, multicultural student coordinator, and Patricia Pedroza, lecturer in multicultural studies, Keene State College.

12:30-1:30 p.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Brown bag lunch (drinks and cookies provided). Plenary discussion: What Have We Learned So Far?

1:30-3 p.m.
Room 308, L.P. Young Student Center
Franco-Americans: The Invisible Minority. Eloise Brière, professor of French, State University of New York at Albany. Moderator: Margaret Langford, professor of modern languages, Keene State College.

1:30-3 p.m.
Room 309, L.P. Young Student Center
The Portrayal of Race Relations in TV Drama. David Payson, associate professor of journalism, Keene State College.

1:30-3 p.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
From Burqas to Bikinis: American Perceptions of Afghan Women. Sanjukta Ghosh, professor of communication, Castleton State College.

3:15 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Antisemitism in the United States Today. Andrew Tarsy, Anti-Defamation League, Boston. Moderator: Paul Vincent, Keene State College.

5:45 p.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Banquet. $20.

7-8:30 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Keynote Address: Navigating the New Diversity: Race, Gender, and Class in America. Manning Marable, Columbia University.

Saturday, Nov. 1: Teacher Workshops

8:15-9 a.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Coffee and registration.

9:15 a.m.
Mountain View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Welcome Address: Manning Marable, Columbia University.

Round I: 10 a.m.-noon

Curriculum Materials Library, Mason Library
Native American Heritage in New England. Mariella Squire, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, University of Maine-Fort Kent.

Room 104, Mason Library
Teaching about Islam. Sanjukta Ghosh, professor of communication, Castleton State College.

Room S120, Rhodes Hall
Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice. Debbie Black, associate professor of education, and Judy Reed, lecturer in World Educational Links Program, Keene State College. Appropriate for K-12 teachers. Maximum 20 participants.

Room S210, Rhodes Hall
Race, Class, and Pedagogy. Dottie Morris, Ph.D., Antioch New England Graduate School, and Therese Seibert, associate professor of sociology, Keene State College. Appropriate for middle school teachers. Maximum 20 participants.

12:15-1:30 p.m.
Room S210, Rhodes Hall 210
Lunch for workshop participants ($5, paid at door).

Round II: 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Room 104, Mason Library
New Hampshire's African American History. Valerie Cunningham, principal, African-American Resource Center, Greenland, N.H.

Curriculum Materials Library, Mason Library
Teaching Diversity for Young Children (Birth through Eight) Mary Mayshark-Stavely, interim director, Child Development Center, Keene State College.

Room 210, Rhodes Hall
Cultural Groundings: What and How We Teach, and Why It Matters Susan Theberge, associate professor of education, and Janaki Tschannerl, senior lecturer in multicultural studies, Keene State College. Appropriate for K-12 teachers. Maximum 20 participants.

Room 120, Rhodes Hall
Revisioning Plains Indian History through Poetry. Sally Joyce, associate professor of English and American Studies, and Patrice Strifert, assistant director of programs, student affairs, Keene State. Appropriate for middle through high school teachers. Maximum 20 participants.

Saturday, Nov. 1: Concluding Presentations

4 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
America and the Arabs: The Role of Prejudice in Shaping Public Policy (Class of 1939 International Lecture). James Zogby, Director, Arab American Institute, Washington, D.C.

5:45 p.m.
Mountai View Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Banquet. $20.

7 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Affairs of Race in America. Julia Jefferson and Shay Banks Young, descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Introduction: Matthew Crocker, assistant professor of history, Keene State College. Moderator: Judith Hildebrandt, associate professor, Mason Library, Keene State College. Funded by the Keene State College Alumni Association.

A free film series examining race will be held Friday-Sunday, Oct. 24-26. Films will include:

• In Whose Honor? - the use and misuse of Native American symbols
• Western Eyes - the standards of Western "beauty" applied to Asian and Asian-American women
• The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The story of a Khoi Khoi woman who in 1810 was brought from South America to Europe, where she became known as the "The Hottentot Venus."
• Lost Boundaries - the true story of a Keene physician whose African-American heritage was exposed in the 1940s
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• and others

Films will be shown in Drenan auditorium, Parker Hall, at 7 p.m. each evening and 2 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call the KSC Film Society, 603-358-2269.

During the symposium, films about race will play continuously in the Mason Library lobby and can be previewed in the library's media room.

Of related interest:
The Sidore Lecture Series: Race: Perceptions and Reality
Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m., Mabel Brown Room, L.P. Young Student Center
Free and open to the public

"Race in the 21st Century" is made possible by the support of the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the Keene State College Alumni Association, and the Class of 1939 International Lecture Fund.