Upcoming Diversity Events
From Dottie Morris, Diversity and Multiculturalism:
There are a number of diversity-related events coming up in the next several weeks; please mark your calendars (and your syllabi)!
Dr. Martin Luther King/Civil Rights event: Film and discussion: Trudell
Monday, 1/23/12
6 p.m.
Mountainview Room, Student Center
Dottie Morris - 358-2206 - dmorris@keene.edu
The film Trudell will be shown and discussion will follow.
Trudell follows the extraordinary life of Native American poet and activist John Trudell, from his impoverished childhood in Omaha to his leadership in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and his reincarnation as an acclaimed musician and spoken word poet. Using decades-old 16 mm and Super 8 film and video footage as a backdrop, filmmaker Heather Rae paints an intimate portrait of a man whose spirit and words have awakened the Native consciousness.
The film begins in the late 1960s, when Trudell and a community group occupied Alcatraz Island for 21 months in a symbolic effort to claim the island for the Indian people. The event brought international attention to the American Indian cause and helped to ignite the contemporary Indian People’s Movement. After the Alcatraz occupation, Trudell went on to become national spokesman of the American Indian Movement. The FBI dossier on Trudell exceeded 17,000 pages, one of the longest in the bureau’s history.
Dr. Martin King Luther King/Civil Rights Event: Graffiti and Symbols that Hurt: A KSC Response
Wednesday, 1/25/12
4 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, Student Center
Contact: Linda Baker, Judy Brody, Karen Coteleso, Lucy Webb, Jane Thickstun, or Dottie Morris
Please join a campus-wide discussion about bias-related graffiti found on campus recently. A panel will discuss the meaning of symbols represented by the graffiti and the impact on community. After the panel discussion, audience participants will be actively engaged in a dialogue about thoughts, feelings, reactions and strategies for addressing this issue.
Moderator: James Waller
Panelists: Karen Cangialosi, Darrell Hucks, Rabbi Sarah Rubin, Amanda Warman, Larry Welkowitz
Trans Talk with Tony Ferraiolo - Being Trans: Perspective of a Trans Youth Advocate and Community Activist
Monday, 2/6/12
noon
Mountainview Room, Student Center
Contact: Dottie Morris - 358-2206 - dmorris@keene.edu
Tony Ferraiolo will speak about his personal journey related to being transgender and his work as a transgender youth advocate and Life Coach. He will also tell the story behind the Jim Collins Foundation, an organization he co-founded, that raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries for the transgender community.
Dr. Martin Luther King/Civil Rights event: Building a Martin Luther King vision of “beloved community” in today’s society: Key elements by Pastor Bryon Broussard
Tuesday, 2/7/12
7:30 p.m.
Location: TBA
Contact: Dottie Morris
Pastor Bryon Broussard of The Love Center in Atlanta will discuss the work his church is doing in the service of creating Martin Luther King’s vision of “beloved community”. We will discuss how we can apply some of his strategies to Keene State College.
Chris Jennings - New Perspectives on HIV/AIDS: Redefining the HIV/AIDS Epidemic by Forensic Review of the Medical Literature
Wednesday, 2/15/12
6 p.m.
Mabel Brown Room, Young Student Center
Contact: Dottie Morris - 358-2206 - dmorris@keene.edu
Chris Jennings will summarize the contents of his two forthcoming books on HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS: The Facts & the Fiction and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The Facts & the Fiction.
Based on a review of over 3000 scientific and medical journal articles, HIV/AIDS: The Jennings Report redefines global concepts for the prevalence and distribution of HIV infection. The scientific literature is clear: (1) New York City is the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic; (2) the theory that HIV came from monkeys is a fallacy (the theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an incident of laboratory contamination); and (3) the African AIDS epidemic-as-holocaust never manifested.
Chris Jennings (Harvard, B.A., Biology 1976/77) is a medical writer. In addition to conducting investigative research of the scientific and medical literature, Chris Jennings provides writing services to the pharmaceutical, medical, and diagnostic industries.
For more on all of these events, please visit the keene.edu Events Calendar.
