WHITMAN COLLEGE
Second Annual Symposium on Diversity &
Community:
UNFOLDING IDENTITIES
Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day, January 21, 2008
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10:00 a.m. to noon - Plenary Session with a welcome by
President Bridges and invited presentations featuring Whitman
professors, students and staff. Musical performance by Whitman's Chamber
Singers.
noon - lunch break
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. - Session I of Afternoon Workshops
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Session II of Afternoon Workshops
evening - Traditional Candlelight MLK Day March
7:30 p.m. - Seeing a Color Blind Future talk by Patricia Williams with musical performance by the Whitman
College Jazz Combo. Free tickets available at the Reid Campus Center after January 14 and at the door.
Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University
School of Law. A graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School,
she has served on faculties of the University of Wisconsin School of
Law, Harvard University's Women's Studies Program, and the City
University of New York Law School at Queen's College. As a law
professor, she has testified before Congress, acted as a consultant and
coordinator for a variety of public interest lawsuits, and served as a
past member of the boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights, of
the Society of American Law Teachers, and of the Nation Organization for
Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund. She is the recipient of the
Alumnae Achievement Award from Wellesley, the Graduate Society Medal
from Harvard, and the MacArthur foundation “genius” grant.
ADDITIONAL RELATED EVENTS
The Namesake (2006)
Wednesday, January 23rd, 8:00pm
Maxey Auditorium
Spanning two generations, two clashing cultures and two very different ways of life that crash into each other only to become lovingly intertwined, The Namesake is ultimately about that imminently relevant question: What does it mean to be an American Family? In her most personal film to date, acclaimed director Mira Nair brings to the screen a poignant version of Jhumpa Lahiri's best selling novel, which won reader's hearts across the world with its exploration of the ties that can both tangle and bind global families as they brave the modern vicissitudes of change, conflict and disaster.
(Rated PG-13)
North Country (2005)
Thursday, January 24th, 8:00pm
Maxey Auditorium
What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened, insulted, ogled, fondled, belittled, attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man," her callous male boss says. Instead, she takes it like a human being - and fights back. Charlize Theron portrays Josey in North Country, the searing story of women who broke the gender barrier laboring in hazardous Minnesota iron mines... and broke legal ground with the nation's first class-action sexual-harassment lawsuit. Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson and Sean Bean star with Theron in this emotionally explosive tale of taking on the odds. Directed by Niki Caro.
(Rated R)
Oveous Maximus
Friday, January 25th, 9:00pm
Coffeehouse
Oveous Maximus is a native New Yorker whose roots go back to the Dominican Republic. He started writing and performing in New York City in the summer of 2003 after he lost his only brother CARLOS "Ziiinc Blue" to suicide. Oveous' presence on stage has become a symbol of honor in the name of his brother "Ziiinc Blue" who is the eternal driving-force behind Oveous' work to uplift and rejoice the spirits of all people. Oveous is known for a video performance titled "The Millions," and a new reality series: I'd Do Anything. He is also starred in a film called "SP!T" (2006). In 2005, Oveous became a slam finalist and member of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is the 2006 NYC louderARTS Poetry slam champion, and part of the 2006 and 2007 louderARTS Poetry slam team that took the National Poetry Slam Finals stage by storm placing 3rd in consecutive years.
