Rethinking Race

Face-to-Face Events 2013

TITLE TIME / LOCATION
FACILITATOR

I Don't Think We're Supposed to Talk About That

Monday, Feb. 4
1 to 2 pm
Student Union 335

Gregory Ladewski
How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist

Monday, Feb. 4
2:30 to 3:30 pm
Student Union 335

Bill Lyons
Checking the Box: The Census and Being Multi-racial in America

Monday, Feb. 4
3 to 4:30 pm
Polsky 313

Michelle Byrne
African-Americans in the Classroom: Are There Unspoken Rules toward Academic Success?

Tuesday, Feb 5
12 to 1:30 pm
Student Union 335

Naomi White
College students' opinion of artist William Pope L. in the 21st century

Tuesday, Feb. 5
2 to 3:30 pm
Polsky 313

Maria A Spence

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS  - Native Americans

Wednesday, Feb. 6
10 am to 11 am
Student Union 335

Lana Samaniego
Akron committee of Rise, Sister, Rise

  Wednesday, Feb 6
12 to 1 pm
Polsky 313

Angela Cooper
I Have an Accent and So Do You: Navigating the Immigrants Journey in Their Multilayered World

Wednesday, Feb. 6
1:30 to 2:30 pm
Student Union 335

Rosa Githiora
I am NOT MY Hair: Acceptance and Understanding

Wednesday, Feb. 6
3:30 to 5 pm
Student Union 335

Malcolmnette Green
Ebonics: Dis a Language? Wednesday, Feb. 6
7 to 8 pm
Student Union 312
Student African American Brotherhood
"Just Like Me" The Challenge to Avoid Sameness

Thursday, Feb. 7
10 to 11 am
Student Union 335

Bruce Freeman and Jean Stang
Who am I? African-American Genealogy workshop Thursday, Feb. 7
1 to 2 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom C
Student African American Brotherhood
Class Warfare

Thursday, Feb. 7
2 to 3 pm
Student Union 335

Terry O'Sullivan and Rob Schwartz
"The Social Greening of America": Bridging the Black/White Divide Thursday, Feb. 7
4 to 5 pm
Student Union 335
Myriam Kadeba and Michael Cadaret
Racism in Children's Media

Friday, Feb. 8
10 to 11:30 am
Student Union 335

Sabine Gerhardt
Minorities in Cartoons

Friday, Feb. 8
12 to 1:30 pm
Student Union 335

Peggy Richards and Jim Wallace
Researching Your Roots Friday, Feb. 8
2 to 3:30 pm
Bierce Library, Room 61
Litsa Varonis
Islamophobia

Friday, Feb. 8
6 to 7 pm
Student Union 335

Shammas Malik
Discussion of Film "Under the Same Moon"

 Friday, Feb. 8
7:30 to 8:30 pm
Student Union 335

The Curious History of U.S. Immigration Policy

Monday, Feb. 11
10 to 11:30 am
Student Union 335

Litsa Varonis
Hair and Identity

Monday, Feb. 11
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Student Union 335

Kimberly Moss
Race & Christianity: Are they mutually exclusive?

Tuesday, Feb. 12
12 to 1:30 pm
Student Union 335

Naomi White
Cultural Intolerance

Tuesday, Feb. 12
2 to 3 pm
Student Union 335

Rob Schwartz and David Licate
An American Abroad:  The Life of a Peace Corps Volunteer

Wednesday, Feb. 13
10 to 11:30 am
Student Union 335 

Annabel Khouri
The Biracial Experience in America

Wednesday, Feb. 13
1:30 – 3 pm
Student Union 335

Shanda Gore
Checking the Box:  The Census and Being Multi-racial in America

 Wednesday, Feb. 13
2:15 – 3:05 pm
Polsky 339

Mary Williams and Kelly Webb
Race and the 2012 Presidential Election

Wednesday, Feb. 13
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Student Union 335

Bliss Institute
Can We Redefine Race?  Supreme Court Case on Race in College Admissions Wednesday, Feb. 13
5:30pm to 7 pm
Student Union 335
Deborah Wallace
African-American Socioeconomic Climate Wednesday, Feb. 13
7 to 8 pm
Student Union 312
Student African American Brotherhood
Researching Your Roots

Thursday, Feb. 14
12 to 1:30 pm
Bierce Library, Room 61

Litsa Varonis
Who am I? African-American Genealogy workshop

Thursday, Feb. 14
2 to 3 pm
Student Union 312

Student African American Brotherhood
International Perspectives on Race in America

Thursday, Feb. 14
3:30pm to 5 pm
Student Union 335

Carolyn Behrman and Steve Cook
Promoting Diversity Within College

Friday, Feb. 15
11 to 11:45 am
Honors Complex, Room 83

Multicultural Honors Society

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