Monday, September 8, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Incorporating the CAWC Spring 2004 Lecture Series and Conferences into your Course"
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Dr. Beckham will brainstorm with faculty about how to incorporate the many spring 2004 CAWC lectures, performances, and conferences into their courses. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by August 25.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).

Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Dr. Charles Lemert
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
"Deconstruction, Reconstruction, and Dubois' Race with Time"
7:30-9:30 p.m. 46 Culler Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program and the College of Arts and Science Alumni.

Thursday, September 11, 2003
Dr. Manning Marable, Columbia University
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
"Rethinking Souls of the Black Folk: Celebration, Content, and Context"
1:00 p.m. Johnston Hall (Middletown campus)
7:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program and the Division of Student Affairs.

Friday, September 12, 2003
Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
"The Gift of Du Bois: An American Sociologist and American Sociology"
3:00 p.m. Kumler Chapel (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Science Diversity Initiative.

Friday, September 12-Friday, October 31, 2003 First Hispanic/Latino Annual Celebration

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Division of Student Affairs, Latin American Studies Program, and the Performing Arts Series.

Friday, September 12, 2003 First Hispanic/Latino Annual Festival 3:00-11:00 p.m. Oxford Uptown Parks Rain location: Withrow Court (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Division of Student Affairs, and the Oxford Visitors and Convention Bureau.

Come and enjoy Capoeira from Brazil, presented by Grupo Acupe; music from the Andes, with Sumakta; Latin music, dance, and dance lessons, with Salsa Caliente; delicious food, beautiful painting, pottery, and many more.

Monday, September 15, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Bringing Diversity to the Natural and Physical Sciences Curriculum"
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

How can disciplines like biology, botany, zoology, chemistry and physics embed diversity into their curriculum to respond to the University's diversity learning goals? How can the study of diversity enrich the core science curriculum and become integral to it? A major focus of this brainstorming session will be on identifying pedagogical goals related to diversity that complement the scientific objectives of the course. We will distribute sample syllabi and other materials. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 1.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Professor Clara Inés Sánchez Arciniegas, Universidad Externado de Colombia "The Colombian Civil Conflict Today." Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 116 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series Fund (International Studies Program).

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 Professor Clara Inés Sánchez Arciniegas, Universidad Externado de Colombia "Promoting Colombian Tourism in a Time of War and Crisis." 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. 2 Upham Hall (Oxford campus)

Sponsored by the Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series Fund (International Studies Program).

Thursday, September 18-Sunday, September 21, 2003
Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival & Conference
"Diversity in African American Poetry (DAAP) "
Marcum Center (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Creative Writing Program/Marjorie Cook Lecture Fund, Division of Student Affairs, Graduate School, Office of Liberal Education, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, and the Women's Studies Program.

Monday, September 22, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Bringing Diversity to Engineering, Applied Sciences, and Computer Sciences Curricula"
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

How can engineering, other disciplines in our School of Engineering and the Applied Sciences, and computer sciences respond to the University's diversity goals in a manner that enhances their core curricula? A major focus of this brainstorming session will be on identifying pedagogical goals related to diversity that complement the technology objectives of the course. We will distribute sample syllabi and other materials. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 8.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).

Thursday, September 25, 2003 Author Cristina García Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion "An Informal Discussion with Cristina García" 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Thursday, September 25, 2003 Author Cristina García "Beyond the Hyphen: Identity in the Age of Multiculturalism" 4:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) Reception and book signing following lecture in Hall Auditorium

Friday, September 26, 2003 Discussion and Reflection Series Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion with Patricia N. Klingenberg "Beyond the Hyphen: Identity in the Age of Multiculturalism" Noon -1:30 p.m. 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) Refreshments provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 24. Co-sponsored by the Divisional Diversity Initiatives Program, Division of Student Affairs.

Monday, September 29, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Experiencing Social Justice"
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Dr. Beckham and the participants will explore several service-learning programs at other universities that integrate community service and classroom work, that is, where experience in the community informs and is informed by the academic segment of the course. For example, Rutgers "Performing Artists" includes work in the schools, such as after-school drama and dance programs evoking questions concerning the role of the performing artist in a democratic society, and social responsibility in the arts. "HIV and Society," offered in conjunction with a biology course, provides a forum to apply that course work in the exploration of questions of public health, policy options and consequences, community awareness and social responsibility. Participants are asked to use Campus Compact's website and/or other resources to identify an exemplary program that they are prepared to describe at the meeting. A primary objective of the session will be to generate resources for further review. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 15.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), and Office of Service Learning and Civic Engagement.

Note: the performance by Ballet Hispanico at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, in Miami University's Millett Hall has been cancelled. Also cancelled is a free social dance class that the company planned on Monday, Sept. 29. Refunds and/or exchanges for other Performing Arts Series events will be issued to all ticket holders. For more information, call the Miami box office in the Shriver Center, (513) 529-3200.

Tuesday, September 30, 2003
MacMillan Opening, official ribbon cutting reception following.
4:00 - 6:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

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Thursday, October 2, 2003 Professor Arturo Arias, President of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands. "The Maya Movement: Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency" 5:00 p.m. 101 Bachelor Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series Fund (International Studies Program).

Friday, October 3, 2003 AfterDark Orquesta Son del Caribe 10:00p.m.-Midnight. Shriver Multipurpose Room (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by AfterDark and the Center for American and World Cultures.

Saturday, October 4, 2003 Global Rhythms 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Miami University Art Museum (Oxford campus) World Music with a Latin Beat!

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Department of Art, the Department of Music, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, the Institute of Environmental Sciences, and the Miami University Art Museum.

MU Gamelan Ensemble, directed by William Albin, featuring Mr. Made Lasmawan
Grammy winning artists Glen Velez and Eguie Castrillo
"Voices of India," directed by Kanniks
Klezmer Fiesta with Michèle Gingras
Drumline with Jason Koontz and Agoram Saravanan
Calypso, featuring Pansy Chang, Dan Faehnle and Chris Tanner
Including a documentary filming of the concert by professor Krishnan Hariharan

Saturday, October 4, 2003 Global Rhythms 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) Rhythms from around the world and a Latin beat!

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Department of Art, the Department of Music, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, the Institute of Environmental Sciences, and the Miami University Art Museum.

Tuesday, October 7, 2003 Dr. Kirsten Nigro, University of Cincinnati "Negotiating Culture on the Border: Tijuana as a Case Study" 4:00 p.m. 46 Culler Hall (Oxford campus). Co-sponsored by the Department of Anhropology and Latin American Studies Program (LAS).

Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Integrating Black History Celebration into the Curriculum"
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

How can faculty incorporate the many "Black History Celebration" events into their courses? The BHC calendar will be completed by December 2003, in time for faculty to integrate these programs into their courses. Juanita Tate, Black History Celebration coordinator, will review the schedule of events and explain the reasons for their selection, while Dr. Beckham will guide the participants in thinking about ways they can coordinate the programs with their classes. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 30.
Read http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/cawc/LinksBlackHistoryCeleb.html
and http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/bhc/

Co-sponsored by the Black History Celebration Committee, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), and the Division of Student Affairs.

Thursday, October 9, 2003
Dr. Robert Gooding-Williams, Northwestern University
"Intimations of immortality and Double Conciousness"
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
5:00 p.m. Art museum (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Science Diversity Initiative.

Saturday, October 11, 2003
Parent's Weekend Open House
MacMillan Hall will be open 10:00 a.m. - noon
Tours and reception

Home of the recently-created Center for American and World Cultures, this newly renovated building, place of the old campus infirmary, also houses the offices of the interdisciplinary programs in American Studies, Women's Studies, Black World Studies, Latin American Studies, and International Studies; the Myaamia Language Project; the Women's Center, the Office of International Programs; and numerous student groups such as the Miami University Student Foundation, Recensio yearbook, The Miami Student, the Black Student Action Society, Spectrum, the Association of Latin and American Students, the Indian Student Association, the Association for Women Students, and the Asian American Association. The building is the site of classes, meetings, programs, exhibits, and performances that allows students and faculty to engage in thoughtful discourse about diversity within local, national, and international contexts. The Center 's programming celebrates the richness of diversity, complements liberal arts education, and supports academic efforts to create a richer educational experience for students, and fosters the value of lifelong learning about cultures past and present. The programs housed in MacMillan Hall offer another point of connection linking the institution's academic and co-curricular missions.

Saturday, October 11, 2003
The Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
"From Dakar to Detroit"
7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Office of Residence Life and New Student Programs, and School of Fine Arts.

Sunday, October 12, 2003
The Mosaic Singers of Detroit
2:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Office of Residence Life and New Student Programs, and School of Fine Arts.

Monday, October 13, 2003
Dr. Edgar Beckham
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
"Integrating UniDIversity/UniDIversidad/UniDIversidade into the Curriculum"
Noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

During fall 2003, the Center of American and World Cultures, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese inaugurated a two month celebration of Hispanic/Latino culture entitled, "UniDIversity/UniDIversidad/UniDIversidade." Dr. Beckham will lead the participants in a discussion of how faculty can incorporate these programs into their courses, what programs they want to see offered in fall 2004, and how to better integrate programming into the curriculum. Lunch provided. To register, please call 529-8309 by September 29.
Check http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/cawc/unidiversity.html to learn more about the UniDIversidad/UniDIversidade program (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese)

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Program.

Monday, October 13, 2003
Dr. Anthony Naidoo
"From Apartheid South Africa to Post-apartheid South Africa, via the
USA: Personal and Professional Reflections"
7:00 p.m. Great Room, MacMillan Hall (MMH 212) (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and Miami University Student Counseling Center.

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Dr. David Julseth, Belmont University Service Learning Workshop ALAS and LAS will discuss service learning (informal) and ALAS students will present their perspectives. 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Service Learning and Civic Leadership, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Program.

Thursday, October 16, 2003 Dr. David Julseth, Belmont University Service Learning Workshop (Foreign Languages) "Los Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: A Service-Learning Spanish Course" 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) A fully developed example of a course in which service-learning is an integral part of a particular advanced Spanish course (in this case, "Hispanics in the U.S."). Please call 9-8309 for reservations. "Los Hispanos en los Estados Unidos: A Service-Learning Spanish Course" Lunchtime Lecture (Lunch will be served) 12:30 1:45 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford Campus) A fully developed example of a course in which service-learning is an integral part of a particular advanced Spanish course (in this case, "Hispanics in the U.S."). Please call Dorothy Falke at 9-8309 by Friday, October 10 for lunch reservations. Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Service Learning and Civic Leadership, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Program.

Thursday, October 16, 2003 Dr. David Julseth, Belmont University "Service-Learning: Cultural and Linguistic Immersion in Our Own Communities" 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Harriet Taylor Room (Hamilton campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures; Center for Service Learning and Civic Leadership; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Latin American Studies Program; and Miami University, Hamilton. For more information, please contact Dr. Shelly Jarrett Bromberg (5-3041) or jarretam@muohio.edu

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 Dr. James Aimers, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology "Multiple Maya: Multiethnicity, Mobility, and the Collapse of Maya Civilization" 4:00 -6:00 p.m. The Great Room, MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and Lectures in Contemporary Anthropology.

Thursday, October 23 - Saturday, October 25, 2003
Interdisciplinary conference: Antigone's Dilemma: Gender, Greek Tragedy and the City-State.

The conference will include:

Thursday, October 23, 2003
"The Atrocities of Desire: Lacan's Reading of Antigone"
Professor Charles Shepherdson, SUNY-Albany
7:30 p.m. Miami University Art Museum (Oxford campus)

Friday, October 24, 2003
"Aei, Aiai: The Cry of Mourning in Tragedy and Psychoanalysis"
1:00 p.m. Green Room, Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Friday, October 24, 2003
Video Presentation of Antigone
3:30 p.m. 46 Culler (Oxford campus)

Friday, October 24, 2003
"13 Ways of Looking at Antigone"
Peter Burian, Duke University
7:30 p.m. 100 Art (Oxford campus)

Lecture and reception sponsored by the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute.

Saturday, October 25, 2003
Workshop Presentations
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 40 Irvin Hall (Oxford campus)

Organized by the Departments of Classics and Philosophy, with financial support from the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholars-in-Residence Program, the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute. Additional support from the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Department of Comparative Religion, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Theatre, Etheridge Center for Reflective Leadership, Graduate School, Honors Program, International Studies Program, Office of the Advancement of Research and Scholarship, Office of the Provost, Women's Center, and Women's Studies Program.

All events are free and open to the public.

Monday, October 27, 2003
Eric Mann, Director, National School for Strategic Organizing
"Anti-racism, Anti-colonialism, and Social Justice Activism:
Ideological Reorientation and Life Choices in Social Movement
Mobilization"
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Leonard Theatre, 121 Peabody Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Educational Leadership, Institute of Environmental Sciences, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program).

The presentation will focus on many of the social and economic inequities of American society such as racism, classism, and poverty, and environmental degradation as well as their global implications. As a co-founder of the National School for Strategic Organizing, housed at the Labor/Community Strategy Center, Eric Mann will discuss the importance of student activism in social justice movement organization and mobilization. He will, also, discuss strategies and tactics in social activism, show a video based on building a bus riders union, and provide his books for sale at the conclusion of the event. Presentation, video, discussion, and book signing event.

Monday, October 27, 2003
Dr. Lian Hurst Mann, Labor/Community Strategy Center
Brownbag Lunchtime Discussion
"Women Hold Up Half the Sky: In the Workplace, in Communities, and at Home, What Do We Want to Teach Our Daughters About Imperialism?"
Noon-1:00 p.m. Women's Center, 210 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Theatre, Department of Educational Leadership, and Institute of Environmental Sciences.

Monday, October 27, 2003
Dr. Lian Hurst Mann, Labor/Community Strategy Center
"Ideological Reorientation in a School of Social Life: Practicing Equality of Languages in Building the Bus Riders Union"
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. 124 Irvin Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Theatre, Department of Educational Leadership, and Institute of Environmental Sciences.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Eric Mann, Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. 115 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Mr. Mann will discuss his latest (2002) book, Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies. To pick up your copy, please come to the Center for American and World Cultures.

Please contact Dorothy Falke (falkeda@muohio.edu) or call 529-8309 to register to participate.

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Educational Leadership, Institute of Environmental Sciences, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program). Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Eric Mann, Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center
"Fighting Back Against the Empire: Antiracist, Environmental Justice, and Anti-Imperialist Strategies for the 21st Century"
8 :00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Book signing and sale of Mr. Mann's (2002) book, Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies, following lecture.

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Department of Educational Leadership, Institute of Environmental Sciences, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program).

Thursday, October 30, 2003
Discussion
"Affirmative Action and Admissions: Michigan and Miami"
Michael Mills, Director, Miami University Office of Admissions
Dr. Gus Jones, Professor, Political Science
Mr. Bradley Bates, Director, Intercollegiate Athletics
Dr. Susan Mosley-Howard, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Jacqueline George, Student at University of Michigan
4:00 p.m. Great Room, MacMillan Hall (MMH 212) (Oxford campus)

The legal, student affairs', Miami University admissions', and student life perspectives of the groundbreaking Supreme Court ruling on the University of Michigan case will be discussed. The many questions surrounding the case and Miami University's response will be the main focus. Students are encouraged to bring their questions or submit them in advance to Dr. Mary Jane Berman (bermanmj@muohio.edu).

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Honors Program.

Thursday, October 30, 2003
Affirmative Action 101: Let's Talk About It
6:00 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Honors Program.

Facilitators:
Professor Bill Madison, Director, Student Organizations and Development
Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration

Professor Joshua Lee Schwarz, Department of Management
Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration

Juanita Tate, Director of Diversity Initiatives
Division of Student Affairs

Matthew Boaz, Associate Director
Office of Equity and Equal Opportunity

Professor David Walsh, Department of Management
Richard T. Farmer School of Business Adminisration

Everyone has an opinion on Affirmative Action, but do we really know the facts?
Join us for a general round table discussion on Affirmative Action and how it affects us as individuals and as a society. The purpose of this event is to dispel myths and become more educated on the topic by learning from one another. Students--- make your voices heard!

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Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Carmelita Tropicana
"I, Carmelita Tropicana: Kunst Is Your Waffen (Short Film)"
4:00 p.m. 100 Art Building (Oxford campus)
Free and open to the public. A talk back discussion will follow the screening.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American & World Cultures, Department of English, Department of Theatre, Film Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program), Spectrum, Women’s Center, and Women’s Studies Program.

Thursday, November 6, 2003
Carmelita Tropicana
Latina Performance mix
7:00 p.m. Leonard Theatre, 121 Peabody Hall (Oxford campus)
Free and open to the public. A talk back discussion will follow the performance.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American & World Cultures, Department of English, Department of Theatre, Film Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western College Program), Spectrum, Women’s Center, and Women’s Studies Program.

Tuesday, November 11-Thursday, November 13, 2003
Dr. Andrei Golovnev, filmmaker and anthropologist
With his Traveling International Northern Film Festival
"Window to the North"
Residency combining classroom lectures, university-wide presentations, and public showings. For complete schedule, please visit: http://oracle.cas.muohio.edu/ies/window_to_the_north.htm

Thursday, November 13, 2003
“Socioeconomic Class in the United States”
4:00 -5:30 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Brief presentations will be made by Lee Harrington (sociology) on the American dream and reality; Stacy McGoldrick (sociology) on class and education; Ross Meyer (senior, School of Interdisciplinary Studies) on race and class in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine; and Dennis Sullivan (economics) on the economics of class. The panel will be moderated by Kate Rousmaniere (educational leadership).
Presentations will be followed by a question and answer session and discussion. For more information, call 529-8309.

Click here to read the text of the lecture.

Here are some articles to read for the forum:
Demographic Shifts and Educational Challenges in the 21st Century
Poverty: How Little We Know
Strategic Interaction among the States: An In-depth Look at the Welfare "Race to the Bottom"
Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Public Policy

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the University Multicultural Council.

Saturday, November 22, 2003
Diwali
Hall Auditorium
Dinner served after the program at the Talawanda Middle School.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Dr. K. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor
of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
"Making a Life"
7 :00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Thursday, January 29, 2004
Dr. K. Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor
of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Brown Bag Lunchtime Discussion
12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program and the Center for American and World Cultures.

Thursday, February 5, 2004
"Islam in America"
Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Shakila Ahmad "Growing Up Muslim and American: Personal and Community Reflections"
Lunch and break
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Farid Esack "The Qur'an: Between Text, Pretext and Contexts"
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Dr. Omid Safi "Beyond 'Clash of Civilizations': A Progressive Muslim Critique"

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, and Middle East and Islamic Studies Minor.

Monday, February 2- Thursday, March 4, 2004 CelebrAsian Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures; the College of Arts and Science; Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages; Department of Theatre; Grayson Kirk Lecture Fund; John Altman Humanities Scholar in Residence Program; Learning Community on Integrating the Arts in the Curriculum; and Miami University Art Museum.

Monday, February 2, 2004 CelebrAsian Viola Concert Hyunshin Park, Sounghee Park 8:00 p.m. Souers Recital Hall, CPA (Oxford campus)

Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Rosa Clemente
"African American and Latino Intercultural Relations"
7:30 p.m. 100 Art Building (Oxford campus)
(Reception to follow in lobby)

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, International Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, Office of Student Activities, Office of Student Affairs, Sigma Lambda Beta, and
Women's Center.

Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Dr. Scopas Poggo, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio State University (Mansfield campus)
"Modern Day Slavery in the Sudan"
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Shriver Center Multi-Purpose Room A (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Associated Student Government, Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of Educational Psychology, Graduate School, International Studies Program, and Miami University Comparative Club.

Wednesday, February 18- Tuesday, March 16, 2004 CelebrAsian Chinese Painting Exhibition Chongquing Chilis King Library Lobby Gallery (Oxford campus)

Wednesday, February 18- Thursday, February 19, 2004 CelebrAsian Playwright Workshops Plays by Insoo Lee and Jia Yun Zhuang Department of Theatre (Oxford campus)

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Dr. Edgar Beckham, Visiting Scholar, Center for American and World Cultures
with Paul Anderson, Director, Center for Writing Excellence
"Writing Assignments that Use Diversity as an Educational Resource"
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. 112 Marcum Center (Oxford campus)
Reception following

Sponsored by The Center for American and World Cultures and the Center for Writing Excellence.

Thursday, February 19, 2004
Urvashi Vaid
"Sexuality and Its Discontents: What's Race, Class, and War Got to Do
with It?"
8 :00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, SPECTRUM, and the Women's Center.

Friday, February 20- Saturday, February 21, 2004 CelebrAsian Cage Gallery Plays Cage Gallery, Alumni Hall (Oxford campus) Ticket Information: $ 2 (Hall seat), $ 4 (Cage seat). Tickets can be purchased from MU Box Office.

Saturday, February 21, 2004 CelebrAsian Shinnenkai (Japanese New Year’s Celebration) 3:30 – 7: 00 p.m. Alexander Dining Hall (Oxford campus)Tickets will be available in early February at the Food Court area of Shriver Center. For more information please contact: Noriko T. Reider (Advisor to JCLC, 9-2522) or John McHugh (President of JCLC, 4-8792). Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Japanese Culture and Language Club (JCLC), Office of Multicultural Student Enrichment, and Department of GREAL.

Monday, February 23- Friday, February 27, 2004 CelebrAsian Scenic Design Exhibition Cage Gallery, Alumni Hall (Oxford campus)

Monday, February 23, 2004 CelebrAsian Japanese Kyogen Theatre Performance 8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 CelebrAsian Lecture/Demonstration Chau, Folk Theater of India 7:00 p.m. Leonard Theater, Peabody Hall (Oxford campus)

Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Mr. Julian Bond
"Racial Legacies & Learning XI: How to Talk about Race. Civil Rights: Now and Then"
7:00 p.m. Parrish Auditorium (Hamilton campus)
Tickets are not required and seating will be on a first come first serve basis. Parrish Auditorium is fully accessible. The program is free and open to the general public.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, City of Hamilton Department of Human Relations, Office of the Executive Director, Office of Multicultural Services, Office of Student Services, additional offices and community groups.

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Reception to welcome Dr. Itumeleng Kimane, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology/Sociology, National University of Lesotho
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Great Room,212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Dr. Kimane will be one of the keynote speakers at the Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality: The Power of Intersectionality Symposium, on Friday, February 27, 2004 at the Shriver Center.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Women's Studies Program.

Friday, February 27, 2004
Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality: The Power of Intersectionality Symposium

Keynote speakers are AnaLouise Keating, coeditor of This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation and associate professor of Women's Studies at Texas Women's College, and Itumeleng Kimane, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology/Sociology, National University of Lesotho, Liaison for the OSSRESA. Her presentations include "HIV/AIDS and Gender" and "A Southern African Challenge: Information System, Data Bases and Sustaining Institutional Capacity."

The American Studies Program, Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, International Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, Women’s Center, and Women's Studies Program are pleased to sponsor this event.

Source: Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality: The Power of Intersectionality Symposium's website

Saturday, February 28, 2004 CelebrAsian Asian Fest 2004 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. (performance) Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus) 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. (dinner) Alexander Dinning Hall (Oxford campus) $8.00 PER PERSON (INCLUDES SHOW AND DINNER). For more information please contact: Keeley yen (yenkj@muohio.edu) Co-sponsored by the Asian American Association.

Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Kathy Wilson
"Strange Fruit: Hanging Truths out to Dry"
8:00 p.m. Miami University Art Museum (Oxford campus)

Kathy writes a weekly column entitled "Your Negro Tour Guide" for CityBeat and recently has a book out of the same name.

The lecture will address the international dismissal of black women (from illiterate black women in crisis in Haiti to the rape of black girls orphaned in Africa) and the threat to white male entitlement in America. It will lace in some gumbo about classism, homophobia and racism and the work Miami's campus can do to stem the tide of each, especially considering MU's rich Civil Rights history.

This will all be wrapped in the brittle ribbon of selected readings from her new book "Your Negro Tour Guide." It will enforce the significance of globalism; that no campus is an island. A reception and book signing will follow. Contact Majida Sai'da Al-Husaam (alhusams@muohio.edu) for more information.

Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Robert Hamilton Bishop Debate Society, and Students for Peace and Justice.

Thursday, March 4, 2004
2004 Women of Color Celebration and Luncheon
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Shriver Center Multipurpose Rooms
(tickets required: tickets on sale at the Shriver Center Box Office beginning early February)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nancy "Rusty" Barceló

Thursday, March 4, 2004 CelebrAsian Dr. Ann Barrott Wicks "Some Like it Hot: The Sichuan Academy in the Context of Modern Chinese Art" 4:00 p.m. King Library, Room 365 (Oxford campus) Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, Department of GREAL, and Miami University Art Museum.

Thursday, March 4- Saturday, March 6, 2004
Public Culture Symposium
The Transformation of Public Culture: Assessing the Politics of Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States
Marcum Conference Center & Inn

For more information please visit the symposium's website.

Co-sponsored by the Program in American Studies with support from the John B. Altman Fund, the Center for American and World Cultures, the E. E. McClellan Lecture Fund, and the Manning Morgan Memorial Lecture Fund.

Thursday, March 11, 2004
Dr. David Levering Lewis, New York University
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series
"Constructing a Life: On W.E.B. DuBois and Biographical Strategy"
8 :00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Reverend Ian Thompsom, Dean of Chapel, Selwyn College, Cambridge, England.
"Sex and Salvation"
5:00 p.m. Room 12 Harrison Hall (Oxford campus)

Rev. Thompson's talk will explore the history of the Church's negative attitude to sexuality, its changing attitude toward marriage and sex, and the current debate on same-sex relationships.

Rev. Thompson is Dean of Chapel at Selwyn College, Cambridge University where he teaches religion and theology.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of English, The Center for American and World Cultures, and the Honors Program.

Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Grammy Winning Performer, Mary Youngblood
8:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Tickets for Mary Youngblood's Native American flute concert are now available at the Shriver Center Box Office. The tickets for this event are FREE and the seating is general admission.

Mary Youngblood will also be the keynote speaker at the 4th annual "Women's Leadership Celebration" on Thursday, March 25, 2004. She will be speaking about her own experiences as well as the topic of cross-cultural leadership. The Women's Leadership Celebration also includes a luncheon and the presentation of the Women Breaking Barriers Awards.

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Women's Center.

Thursday, March 25, 2004
"Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues at Miami University"
4:00 p.m. 100 Laws Hall (Oxford Campus)

Sexual Orientation and Bowers vs. Hardwick, 1986 and Lawrence vs.
Texas, 2003
Dr. Daniel Herron, (Department of Finance)

Sexual Orientation in the Media and Curriculum
Dr. Bruce Drushel, (Department of Communication)

Defense of Marriage Acts and Domestic Partners Benefits
Dr. Liz Wilson, (Comparative Religion)

Out on Campus
Leslie Morrow, (Acting Coordinator for GLBT Services)
Justin Graves, (Undergraduate Student)
Katie Hladky, (Undergraduate Student)

Moderator
Dr. Steven DeLue, (Senior Associate Dean of the College)

Presentations will be followed by questions, answers, and discussion.
Co-Sponsored by The Center for American and World Cultures and the University Multicultural Council.

The goal of this conference is to bring together educators and researchers whose work and/or scholarship focuses on some aspect of Miami Indian history, culture or language. This conference is intended to create a climate that supports and nurtures Miami Indian research and educational efforts, and expand awareness of current Miami Tribe language and cultural preservation needs.

Friday, March 26, 7:00 p.m. 128 Pearson Hall

Keynote speaker: Dr. Leanne Hinton, Linguistics Department, U.C. Berkeley. "Losing and Reclaiming Indigineous Languages: a California Perspective."

Schedule Saturday, March 27. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall

9:00 "Aramiaioni: Reading and Interpreting Early Christian Prayers in Miami-Illinois." Tracy Leavelle, Ph. D., Department of History, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

9:45 "Building Bridges: Historical Archaeology and the Miami." Mark Warner, Ph. D., Department of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

10:30 "Myaamia in the Home – Comments on a Research Program in Language Renewal and Language Change." Wesley Leonard, graduate student, Department of Linguistics, The University of California at Berkeley.

11:15 "A Talk About Language." Melissa Rinehart, graduate student, Michigan State University

12:00 Lunch – box lunch located in MacMillan Hall, room 115

1:30 "The 'New' French-Illinois Dictionary of Saint-Jerome." David J. Costa, Ph. D., Miami Language Consultant, El Cerrito, California.

2:15 "Myaamia Ethnobotany." Mike Gonella, graduate student, Department of Botany, Miami University.

3:00 "Miami Identity, Then and Now." Beverly Rodgers, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

4:00 closing remarks

Sponsored by the Myaamia Project. Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, and the Division of Student Affairs.

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Thursday, April 1, 2004
Global Rhythms
"World Echoes: Dedication of the Center for American and World
Cultures"
4:00 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)
Global Rhythms performance to celebrate the opening of the Center for
American and World Cultures.

Program:
Precious Lord - African-American Spiritual arranged by Louis Sevier
Salmo 150 - Brazilian Psalm Setting by Ernani Aguiar
Indian Music performed by Srinivas Krishnan
Past Life Melodies - Australian Tribal Singing arranged by Sarah Hopkins
World Premiere of
myaamionkiši iiyaayaani (I Am Going to the Place of the Miamis)

Dedicated to the Miami Tribe
Commissioned by the Center for American and World Cultures. Composed by Dr. Glen Roger Davis.
Srinivas Krishnan: tabla, percussion
Guest Flutist: Sandra Seefeld
Members of the Miami Tribe

Friday, April 2 and Saturday, April 3, 2004
"Enslavement and Colonialism in the Atlantic World"
Friday, April 2, Hamilton Campus, Harry T. Wilks Conference Center, 1:00-5:00 p.m. followed by dinner for participants.
Saturday, April 3, Oxford Campus, 10:00-2:00p.m. MacMillan & Warfield Halls

Please click here to view the complete program.

Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Dr. Nancy J. Turner
"Ethnobotany and Local Empowerment in a Canadian Indigenous Community"
7:30 p.m.144 Benton Hall (Oxford campus)

Dr. Turner will be giving a second lecture which is open to the public to the BOT
720E class Contemporary Issues in Ethnobotany, Tuesday evening, April 7 at
7:00 p.m. in 218 Pearson Hall. The title of that lecture will be "Cultural Keystone Species: A Concept for Biodiversity Conservation."

Co-sponsored by the A.T. Hansen Anthropology Lecture Fund, Center for American and World Cultures, College of Arts and Science, Department of Anthropology, Department of Botany, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Office of Student Activities and Organizational Leadership.

Thursday, April 8, 2004
Pianist Claudia Stevens
"An Evening with Madame F"
7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium (Oxford campus)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Jewish Studies Program

Saturday, April 10, 2004
The Cheryl Burgan Evans Graduate Conference On Multicultural Research
Keynote speaker: Juliana MosleyAnderson, Ph.D., 2001 Ph.D. Graduate of the Educational Leadership Department. Presently she is the Director of Multicultural Affairs at John Carroll University.
The Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

For more information go to The Dr. Cheryl Burgan Evans Graduate Conference on Multicultural Research.

Co-sponsored by the Black World Studies Program, Center for American and World Cultures, and Graduate School.

Saturday, April 10, 2004
Evening with Thomas Mapfumo
8:00 p.m. Dave Finkelman Auditorium (Middletown campus)
Free and Open to the Public

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Middletown Campus, Miami University.

Thursday, April 15, 2004
Dr. Stuart Liebman, Professor and Chair, History
Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
"Early Holocaust Cinema and the Vanishing Jews"
4:30 p.m. Great Room, 212 MacMillan Hall (Oxford campus)

Stuart Liebman is Professor of the Department of Media Studies at City University of New York Queens. An internationally renowned scholar and translator, Dr. Liebman has published widely on French, German, and East European cinema and critical theory. Dr. Liebman is spending February to June 2004 as a fellow at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., where he is conducting research on "The Construction of the Holocaust in Cinema, 1944-1949."

His project examines immediate post-war films, including the 1944 Soviet/Polish documentary on the concentration camp Majdanek and the early American and Soviet newsreels from 1945 to 1949, as well as the production, diffusion, and reception of these films. One of Dr. Liebman's particular concerns is the way in which many of these films under-emphasize, or sidestep, the story of the Jewish tragedy.

Co-Sponsored by The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C.; The Program in Jewish Studies; The Film Studies Program; The Department of French and Italian; The Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages; The Center for American and World Cultures; The Miami Hillel Foundation; and The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.

May 31 - June 13, 2004
Workshop - Spanish Cinema and National Identity
Invited Guest Speakers: Antonio Banderas, Benito Zambrano, Eduardo González, Alejandro Yarza.

Click here for more information about the workshop.

Click here to see the syllabus.

Click here for more information about Professor González's keynote address.

Click here for more information about Professor Larson's keynote address.

Click here for more information about Professor Yarza's keynote address.

Co-sponsored by The Center for American and World Cultures; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Film Studies Program; John W. Altman Scholar-in-Residence Humanities Program; Office of Continuing Education; and Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education Culture, and Sports and United States' Universities.