2011-2012 Calendar
January
- Mon. 16th- Thurs. 19th. Martin Luther King Jr. Week Events.
February
- Thurs. 9th: Visiting Writers Reading Series - Camille T. Dungy. Kimball, 7pm.
March
- Thurs. 1st: Visiting Writers Reading Series - George Saunders. Maxey, 7pm.
April
- Thurs. 12th: Visiting Writers Reading Series - Srikanth Reddy and Suzanne Buffam. Kimball, 7pm.
May
- Thurs. 8th: Whitman Reading. Kimball, 7pm.
Past Speakers
- Salman Rushdie, novelist and essayist
- Eliot Chang, comedian
- Saul Williams, slam poet, author, actor
- bell hooks, author
- Yolanda King, human rights worker and actress
- Sherman Alexie, author
- Dr. Jaiya John, speaker, author, poet, and social psychologist
- Dr. Cornel West, scholar and public intellectual
- Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi, journalist and political activist.
- Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans (Feb. 2002)
- Yaffa Eliach, creator of the "Tower of Light" at the National Holocaust Museum (Oct. 2000)
- Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, actress (Feb. 2003)
- Loung Ung, author of "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers"
Past Events
In addition to bringing speakers to the Whitman campus, the Intercultural Center also sponsors events planned, created, and directed by the office and student diversity clubs. Many of these events are annual affairs:
- Imagine Festival
- Hawaiian Luau
- International Banquet
- The Tunnel of Oppression
