Fall 2009

August: 

• Mon. 31st ~ 4:30pm:   Multicultural Student Social, RCC Coffeehouse

September: Latino/a Awareness Month

• Mon. 14th ~ 7:30pm:   Screening of Gilda Sheppard's documentary "Women Together As One"  -  Kimball Theatre
• Tues. 15th ~ 7:30pm:   Lecture by Gilda Sheppard - "Moving from Object to Subject: Ethnography as Social Justice"   -  Olin 130
• Mon. 28th ~ 7:30pm:   Dean Spade presents the annual Matthew Shepard Lecture  - Olin 130

October: Freedom from Discrimination Month

• Thurs. 1st ~ 7:30pm:   Lecture by Phil Borges - "Sowing the Seeds of Change: Imagery and Social Transformation"  -  Maxey Auditorium
• Fri. 2nd ~ 4:00pm:   Multicultural Alumni Reception  -  Prentiss Great Hall
• Tues. 6th ~ 4:00pm:   Intercultural Cafe  -  RCC Coffeehouse
• Fri. 16th ~ 5:30pm:   YWCA & Whitman Fundraiser - "Students Explore Diversity"  -  Reid Campus Center 2nd Floor
• Sat. 24th ~ 4:30pm:   UN Day Talent Show -  Reid Campus Center Ballroom
• Thurs. 29th ~ 6:30pm:   Haunted Corn Maze Trip

November: Native American Awareness Month

• Tues, 3rd ~ 4:00pm:   Intercultural Cafe  -  RCC Coffeehouse
• Wed, 4th ~ 7:00pm:   Native American Awareness Month Keynote Lecture by Jesse Jones - "True Happenings" - Olin 157

December

• Tues, 1st ~ 4:00pm:  Intercultural Cafe  -  RCC Coffeehouse
• Fri. 11th ~ 4:00pm:  Festival of Lights  -  Reid Campus Center Ballroom

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