As part of its Social Justice Season, the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity Ethnic Cultural Center/Theatre presents:

Scholar, activist, spoken word artist and director of the David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center at Lafayette College

Thursday, May 15, 2008

7:00pm

Kane Hall, Room 120

This presentation addresses the growing decline in student engagement across college campuses within diversity and social justice in the socio-cultural academic community by making connections between historical philosophy and contemporary practice.  This session touches on history, activism, intergenerational privilege, and issues of apathy and conformity.  The lecture is followed by discussion on practical activism, meaningful student engagement, and the formulation of ideas as they pertain to campus involvement and systematic change.  The workshop will help members of the academic community explore their roles as diversity leaders, how they choose to program using collaborative and contextual models, and helps connect programming to the academic discourse-strengthening support of faculty and senior administration.

In his own words: Staring at the wall glancing back novel generations can only depict, in deep thought, the struggles previous generations experienced and overcame in order to create the lifestyle that many now enjoy seamlessly: The roots, the movement, the voices; the progression, and, at the present, the need to expunge the currently spreading neo-liberalism, and growing conformity and apathy prorogating within students’ socio-cultural communities.  Today deeming issues of diversity and social justice as distant to learning and disrupting progressions of moral obligation.

For more information, please contact Jeneé Jahn at 206.543.4635 or jjahn@u.washington.edu. 

Special thanks to: The Cultural Diversity Committee and Latino Student Union

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