Calendar
2009
NOVEMBER
- Thursday, November 19, 2009
Why is it so difficult to talk about Race?
6:00-8:00 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
You are invited to help us explore Race & Civility, through a 3-part dialogue series titled "Courageous Conversations about Race & Civility: A Dialogue for Everyone". Join us at our final dialogue on Thursday, November 19 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. Dialogue will include a Town Hall and Community Dialogue.
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Roundtable Series: “Exploring Havana’s Black Renaissance”
12:30 p.m., 323 Gentry Hall
Dr. Cordones Cooke will present a panoramic view of her research on Afro-Latin American literature and culture with concentration on Afro-Cuban writers and artists.
OCTOBER
- Thursday, October 29, 2009
Why is it so difficult to talk about Race?
6:00-8:00 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
You are invited to help us explore Race & Civility, through a 3-part dialogue series titled "Courageous Conversations about Race & Civility: A Dialogue for Everyone". Join us at our second dialogue on Thursday, October 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center. Dialogue will include a Town Hall and Panel Discussion.
- Monday, October 26 - Tuesday October 27, 2009
Black Studies Program Fall Conference: The 40th Anniversary of Black Studies in the United States
Gaines Oldham Black Culture Center
Bringing together faculty and student scholarship and debate from MU and surrounding universities, the conference seeks to create important spaces for critical dialogue and discussion about the histories, presents, and futures of Black Studies in the U.S.
- Friday, October 16, 2009
Citizen Jane Film Festival Opening Night Film: "Say My Name"
7:30 p.m., Windsor Auditorium, Stephens College
In an industry dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as female MCs. From hip hop’s birthplace in the Bronx to London’s eastside, we meet emerging artists and renowned stars like Erykah Badu, MC Lyte and Monie Love, who have turned adversity into art. What emerges are indelible portraits of young, ambitious, inspiring women lyricists fighting the odds in the music business and in a culture where poverty, war, and HIV take a daily toll.
- Friday, October 16, 2009
Haitian Vodou, History, and Culture (pdf)
3:00-5:00 p.m., Black Culture Center, Multipurpose Room
Symposium: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Historic Discourse and Cultural Discourses: Voudou and Statescraft in Haiti" & Kate Ramsey, University of Miami: "Penalizing Vodou and Promoting "Voodoo" in U.S. - Occupied Haiti, 1915-1934"
- Thursday, October 15, 2009
Why is it so difficult to talk about Race?
6:00-8:00 p.m., Cornell Hall, Bush Auditorium
You are invited to help us explore Race & Civility, through a 3-part dialogue series titled "Courageous Conversations about Race & Civility: A Dialogue for Everyone". Join us at our first dialogue on Thursday, October 15 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Cornell Hall's Bush Auditorium. Dialogue will include a Town Hall and Interactive theatre.
- Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Roundtable Series: "Perceptions of African American female professors at a midwestern White university: Pride! Determination! Respect! Retention?"
12:30 p.m., 323 Gentry Hall
Dr. Juanita Simmons talks about the impact that professional and social support might have on attracting, promoting, and retaining African American tenure-track female professors at one predominantly White university
- Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Minority Student Leadership Summit
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Room 116, MUMC Conference Center 204 S 9th Street
All Students are invited to attend this free event. Attendance is limited, so sign up as soon as possible to see Keynote speaker Jo Lena Johnson and participate in a variety of leadership workshops. For more information or to register contact leadership@missouri.edu
- Friday, October 2, 2009
Advocacy and Multicultural Counseling Competencies for Psychologists
4:00 p.m., Room 116, Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
Lecture by Dr. Nadya Fouad, Ph.D. This presentation will focus on multicultural issues in professional training and education as well as advocating for underserved individuals and communities in the helping professions.
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
Multicultural Guidelines: Implications for Research and Practice
2:00 p.m., Room 116, Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
Lecture by Dr. Nadya Fouad, Ph.D. This presentation will focus on multicultural issues in professional training and education as well as advocating for underserved individuals and communities in the helping professions.
SEPTEMBER
- Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Body Wisdom with Masankho Banda
4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
Join Masankho Banda in his African Dance workshop Hosted by MidMOtion Collective LLC. and Sponsored by the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative, Gaines/Oldham Black Cultural Center and 89.5 KOPN Community Radio
- Friday, September, 25
Cave Canem and the New African American Voice
4:00 p.m., Tate 102
The English Department would like to invite you to a presentation by African American poet and playwright Cornelius Eady, one of the finalists for an endowed position in our department. Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry; his book Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the 2001National Book Award. A playwright as well as a poet, he and jazz musician Diedre Murray co-wrote a music-theatre piece Running Man, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and awarded a 1999 Obie for best musical score and lead actor in a musical.
- Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Diversity in Action Series: "Universal Values? Not According to the Facts!"
12:00 - 1:00 p.m., S206 Memorial Union
More than a century of scientific research reveals that key values having to do with gender, religion, and sexual morality vary greatly from culture to culture. Claims that humans have “universal values” are simply uninformed. And, to promote such values would be to attack humanity’s stock of accumulated wisdom.
- Saturday, September 12, 2009
Book Signing and Reading "Stories from the Heart: Missouri's African American Heritage
1:00 p.m., 23 Ellis Library
Please join master storyteller, Gladys Caines Coggswell, as she reads selections from her new book. Coggswell collected the stories from her travels throughout the state. The collection of family and traditional tales brings to print down-home stories about all walks of African American life. For more information contact the Ellis Library at 573.882.6028
- Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Free Film: "Blood & Oil"
7:30 p.m., Strickland Hall, Rm. 210
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East has long been dismissed as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record.
- Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Roundtable Series: "No Singin’ or Prayin’ Allowed’: Slave Funerals as Sources of Black American Racial Identity Formation And Religious Socialization"
12:30 p.m., 323 Gentry Hall
In this presentation of the research in her book, Dr. Adkins-Weathersby debunks the misinformed myths espoused by ante-bellum fears of subversive “Negroes” who plotted rebellions under the pretense of slave funerals.
- Wednesday, September 9, 2009
You in Mizzou Dialogue series presents: Diversity at Mizzou, Are we there yet?
5:30 p.m., Memorial Union, S203
A dialogue series for students, faculty and staff. Explore the diversity at Mizzou first-hand through respectful dialogue around critical issues. You in Mizzou challenges you to better understand yourself and others.
MAY
- Saturday, May 9
Black Heritage Ball 2009
6:00 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
The Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center cordially invites you to attend their Black Heritage Ball on the evening of May 9th. Cocktail hour begins at 6:00 p.m., a dinner and a guest speaker at 7:00 p.m. and a dance at 9:00 p.m. The Event is free; however, a ticket is required. Tickets can be obtained at the Black Culture Center. For more information call 882-2664.
- Wednesday, May 6
Dr. Ibitola Pearce presents, “Motherwork in a Declining Economy: The Experience of Low-Income Women in South Western Nigeria”
12:30 p.m., 323 Gentry Hall
Black Studies Program Faculty Affiliate Ibitola Pearce will present her work in the ongoing Black Studies Roundtable for Research on Black History, Life, and Culture here in the MU Black Studies Program.
- Tuesday, May 5
Screening of “Black in America 2
6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
Soledad O'Brien reports on the innovative and unexpected ways people are transforming the black experience by confronting the most difficult issues facing their community.
APRIL
- Wednesday, April 29
Walter C. Daniel Resource Center Grand (Re)opening and Black Studies Program Book Signing
3:30-5:00 p.m., 325 Gentry Hall
The Black Studies Program announces the reopening of the Walter C. Daniel Resource Center along with the unveiling of a plaque and signing of newly acquired books.
- Sunday, April 26
The Anand Prahlad Ensemble to Performance
1:00 p.m., Peace Park
The Anand Prahlad Ensemble performs a 30-minute set, during the Columbia Earth Day Festival.
- Thursday, April 23
"Call and Response": Documentary on Contemporary Human Trafficking
7:00 p.m., Windsor Auditorium
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world's 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history.
- Tuesday, April 21
Help Plan Juneteenth Celebration
5:45 p.m., Armory Sports Center
From Bill Thompson: I am requesting your help in putting together a community committee to plan a Juneteenth Celebration for our city. Many of the communities around our fair city have very good celebrations and we can do something positive to recognize the Emancipation of our ancestors. We want individuals, organizations, and churches to be involved in this planning. Anyone is welcome to be part of this program, so share this with your friends and organizations.
- Monday, April 20
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (Emory University) to speak on Muslims and the Secular State
7:00 p.m., 114 Physics
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im from Emory University will deliver “Muslims and the Secular State: Dynamics of Majority/Minority Situations.” This lecture is free and open to the public.
- Wednesday, April 15
"Caliban's Women: Literary Representation of Caribbean Women"
12:30 p.m., Gentry 323
Dr. Sherie-Marie Harrison will present her work in the April Black Studies Roundtable for Research on Black History, Life, and Culture here in the MU Black Studies Program.
- Tuesday, April 14
March Against Racial Stereotypes
2:00 p.m., BCC to Jesse Hall
Bring signs with images depicting racial stereotypes or phrases such as "Black does not mean criminal" etc.
- Tuesday, April 8
An Evening with Angela Davis
2:00 p.m., BCC to Jesse Hall
Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.
- Wednesday, April 9
An Evening with Angela Davis
7:00 p.m., Jesse Auditorium
Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice.
- Wednesday, April 8
Diversity in Action Series with Dr. Jean Ipsa: "Maternal Intrusiveness during Play with Toddlers and Young Children: Change across Time and Variations across Race/Acculturation Groups"
12:00 p.m. Memorial Union
There will be a 40 minute presentation followed by a Q&A session. This series of research-based presentations is designed to inform scholars, students, and practitioners of diversity-related research at Mizzou. Don’t forget to bring your lunch to eat during the presentation. Please share this announcement with any colleagues and students who you think would be interested in attending this great event!
- April 6-10
Islam Awareness Week
Monday: Taste of Islam, Lowry Mall 12– 2pm. Free food! (snow location: Memorial Union); Monday: “Roots of Islam,” Dr. Robert Baum, Memorial S110, 6:00pm. Dr. Baum, head of the religious studies department will be discussing the origins of Islam; Tuesday: Women in Islam, Memorial N243, 3:30-4:30 p Join us for a presentation on Women's status in Islam, followed by Henna designs; Wednesday: Diplomacy in the Islamic World-Lily Fortel, Memorial S110 5 pm Join Lily Fortel of Peaceworks as she discusses her recent trip to Iran and what she learned about making connections with the Muslim World.; Thursday: Islamic Science and European Renaissance, Dr. Saliba, Waters Aud 7 pm Dr. Saliba from Columbia University is a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, and one of the leading Islamic Science Historians. He will be detailing the history of Islamic contributions to science.; Friday: Visit the Islamic Center of Central Missouri. 1:15 pm. 201 South Fifth Street.
- Monday, April 6
Dr. Maria Kefalas Lecture: "Why Do Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage?"
3:30 p.m., Ellis Auditorium
The Department of Human Development and Family Studies proudly presents, The Fourth Diversity Lecture with Dr. Maria Kefalas, “Why do poor women put motherhood before marriage?”.
- Wednesday, April 1
4th Annual WBE Children's Museum “Hope and Heartbreak: The Many Faces of Childhood”
6-8:00 p.m., West Blvd. Elementary School
This year we focused on the rights of children in recognition of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Wednesday, April 1
You in Mizzou dialogue: We're All Affected by Sexual Violence
6-8:00 p.m., West Blvd. Elementary School
A Diversity in Action presentation by Dr. Joanna Hearne
MARCH
- Monday, March 30
Equatorial Guinean Novelist, Jose Siale Djangany to present
4:00 p.m., Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, Main Multipurpose Room
- Friday, March 13
Social Justice Film Series: Sisters in Law
12:00 noon, Social Justice Lounge, N215 Memorial Union
- Wednesday, March 11
Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, and Black Film
12:00 noon, S207 Memorial Union
A Diversity in Action presentation by Dr. Anand Prahlad
FEBRUARY
