Diversity at Reed

Events Calendar

Upcoming Event

May 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
First Friday Conversation
Topic: Gender in Business
Aspen Room

2012-13 Events

Fall

Kara Walker

"More & Less"
September 4 - November 18
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery

Kara Walker

(image: Kara Walker, (detail) Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, 2011, Video, 17 min., Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. ©Kara Walker.)

 

Reed College is proud to present More & Less, a solo exhibition by celebrated artist Kara Walker. Walker's work fearlessly explores America's history of slavery, racism, and political and sexual violence through a riveting visual vocabulary informed by the tradition of the cut-paper silhouette and incorporating puppetry, film, and mixed-media. More & Less includes Walker's most recent film and a body of prints and multiples generously loaned from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

Kara Walker graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Her work has been exhibited worldwide. In 1997, Walker received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award.

Additional public programs produced collaboratively by the Cooley Gallery, the Reed College Office for Institutional Diversity, the Reed College Art Department, and BOOM ARTS, Portland, will be listed on the Cooley website and the Reed Public Events website.

http://www.reed.edu/gallery/

 

Cooley

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Complexity
September 7, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Video:  The Danger of a Single Story-Chimamanda Adichie.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Gray Fund Event
September 8, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Experience an innovative take on the Shakespearian classic, which features the Anjali Dance Company and a diverse range of dance traditions, including classic Indian, ballet, and hip-hop. An East Indian dinner precedes the performance.

* This is a Gray Fund Event. Gray Fund events are free and open to all members of the Reed community, including current students and members of the faculty and staff. Learn more: http://www.reed.edu/student_activities/gray_fund/calendar.html

 

Gray Fund

Jay Smooth

Hosted by the Multicultural Resource Center
September 8, 8:00 PM -
Eliot Chapel

Jay Smooth is the founder of New York City's longest-running hip hop radio program, WBAI's Underground Railroad. He also hosts Ill Doctrine, a hip hop video blog, and writes for the website hiphopmusic.com. This event is open to the public.

http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/events/index.html

Memphis

Gray Fund Event
September 13, 5:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Broadway across America explores the genesis of rock n’ roll in this tale of a mixed-race couple in Memphis during the Civil Rights era. Inspired by the true story of the beginning of African-American music consumption by white audiences. Dine before the show.

* This is a Gray Fund Event. Gray Fund events are free and open to all members of the Reed community, including current students and members of the faculty and staff. Learn more: http://www.reed.edu/student_activities/gray_fund/calendar.html

 

Gray Fund

Tuesday Talk

Obama's Birth Certificate and "Papers Please": National Belonging through State ID?
September 18, 12:00 PM
Student Center

We'll discuss the relationship between state-issued identification documents and political and social inclusion in liberal democratic society. The conversation will be facilitated by LaShandra Sullivan, Scholar in Residence in the Anthropology department. Tuesday Talks happen bimonthly and are open to the entire Reed community. Please bring your lunch and join us!

Sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center.

Reynier Leyva Novo

"Public Art on the Margin"
September 18, 4:30 PM
Studio Art seminar room

Reynier Leyva Novo is one of Cuba's rising artists. His exhibition Los Olores de Guerra (Scents of War) was chosen as the only Cuban selection for the prestigious 54th Venice Biennial. The Novo Anniversary Collection, which he will be exhibiting in Portland, is a series of posters and t-shirts that reflects on political propaganda art in the context of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Sponsored by the Art Department.

 

Consortium on High Achievement & Success (CHAS)

Building an Academic Community That is Prepared to Deliver Inclusive Excellence
September 20 - 21
Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)

The purpose of the conference on Best Practices for the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty and Staff of Color (Skidmore College, September 2012) is to convene individuals from the CHAS member institutions –department chairs and program directors, faculty, upper and middle-level administrators in academic and student affairs, human resources, advancement, and finance and administration—to discuss strategies, practices and processes that have successfully contributed to the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff of color. We will also identify one national expert who can lead us to rethink existing models and advise us in the implementation of best practices. We understand that the diversity of faculty and staff is inextricably related to the ability of our institutions to realize their educational missions. We also recognize that many of us are struggling, particularly with retention, and that this conference will help us to re-examine existing practices and assist us in making much needed progress on this important goal.

To learn more: http://commons.trincoll.edu/chas/2012/01/12/retention-of-faculty-staff-of-color/
Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors in the Arts Series Lecture: Kara Walker

October 2, 7:00 PM
Vollum Lecture Hall

Kara Walker

(image: Kara Walker, (detail) Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, 2011, Video, 17 min., Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. ©Kara Walker.)

 

Kara Walker, this semester's Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Arts, speaks about her work in conjunction with the Cooley Gallery exhibition More & Less. A reception in the gallery follows the lecture.

 

Cooley

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

"From Dr. King to President Obama: Racial Vision, Racial Blindness, and Racial Politics in Obamerica"
October 3, 4:30 PM
Vollum Lecture Hall

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Professor and Chair of the Sociology department at Duke University.  Professor Bonilla-Silva gained visibility in the social sciences with his 1997 American Sociological Review article, “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation,” where he challenged social analysts to analyze racial matters from a structural perspective rather than from the sterile prejudice perspective.

Bonilla-Silva has received many awards, most notably, the 2007 Lewis Coser Award given by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association for Theoretical-Agenda Setting and in 2011 the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award given by the American Sociological Association “to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of the work of these three African American scholars.”


The lecture will be followed by a reception in the lower lobby of Vollum College Center.

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Multicultural Resource Center, and the Office for Institutional Diversity.

Visiting Writer Series: Lysley Tenorio

October 4, 6:30 PM
Psychology 105

Lysley Tenorio is the author of the story collection, Monstress. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, The Chicago Tribune, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco, and is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers/index.html
First Friday Conversation

Topic: Voices of Academics from the Working Class
October 5, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Reading: "Bronx Syndrome" by Stephen Garger and "Complicity in Class Codes" by Irvin Peckham.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

Traditional Music of Iran

Featuring: Salar Aghili & Hamnavazan Ensemble
October 6, 6:30 PM
Eliot Hall Chapel

Salar

This concert will showcase tradition music performed in Iran today. This music draws heavily on Persian Sufi poetry, adapting it to contemporary music styles and instruments. Salar Aghili is one of the foremost vocalist of traditional music of his generation. He performs in the Iranian National Orchestra and Symphony. Aghili will be accompanied by two world class maestros from Iran: Hossein Behroozinia (barbat/lute), Saeed Farajpouri (kamancheh/spike fiddle), as well as Harir Shariatzadeh (Persian tuned piano) and Behnam Masoumi (tombak/percussion).

Tickets are free for Reed students, faculty, and staff and could be picked be picked up at the Student Activities office. Tickets for non-members of Reed College are $40 ($45 at the door) and are also available online at www.andisheh.org.

Co-sponsored by Religion Department and the Andisheh Center.

Al-Andalus Ensemble

"Faces of Love: Ahava, Agape, Ishq"
October 12 - 13
Eliot Hall Chapel

Join the international Al Andalus Ensemble for two poignant evenings of "Faces of Love: Ahava, Agape, Ishq" on October 12th and 13th at 7:30pm in the Eliot Hall Chapel.

Audience members can expect a program with rich and unusual instrumentation (oud,cello,ney,flamenco guitar, darbuka), songs sung in many languages including Ladino (Sephardic Jewish), Arabic, Spanish, stirring renditions of American Spirituals all punctuated by classical Andalusian and flamenco dance.  The event promises to meld the past with the present in what has been hailed as "a new musical language that united the East & West."

Advance Tickets: $20 General, $10 students, green card holders (with IDs). Tickets available at the door as well.
http://andalus.brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006.

www.andalus.com, 503-230-2379.

Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)

Modeling Equity, Engaging Difference: New Frameworks for Diversity and Learning
October 18 - 20
Baltimore, MD

Learn how campuses are effectively linking diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives in order to redefine notions of academic excellence and prepare students to engage differences, embrace multicultural complexity, and help revitalize democracy's future. Visit the conference website for more information.
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)

Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success: Advancing Access & Opportunity in a Changing Environment
October 20 - 22
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (Washington DC)

HACU’s Annual Conference provides a unique forum for the sharing of information and ideas for the best and most promising practices in the education of Hispanics. The conference goals are to:

  • showcase successful, effective, and exemplary programs and initiatives of HACU member institutions
  • promote and expand partnerships and strategic alliances for collaboration between HACU member institutions and public- and private-sector organizations
  • foster and identify graduate education opportunities for Hispanic students and graduates
  • deliberate policy issues affecting the education opportunities of Hispanics, including HACU’s legislative agenda
  • promote greater Hispanic participation in scholarships, fellowships, internships and other such programs funded by private and government organizations discuss emerging trends in higher education affecting
  • Hispanics and HSIs, e.g., distance learning, student-centered learning, outcomes assessment, and cross-national accreditation
To learn more: http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Annual_Conference1.asp
Jose Antonio Vargas

Hosted by the Multicultural Resource Center
October 24, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Kaul Auditorium

Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and founder of DefineAmerican. In 2011, Vargas exposed his personal story in a New York Times Magazine essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant." His talk, "Define American," will explore the politics of immigration. This event is cosponsored by the political science department and is open to the public. Reception immediately following in Gray Lounge.

*This event is part of Global Citizenship Month. In October and November, the MRC is joining together with SEEDS and International Student Services to explore what it means to be a global citizen. Through campus-wide events, community dialogues, and interactive programs, we will consider dynamics of difference and connection as members of our global community

http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/events/index.html

Visiting Writer Series: D.A. Powell

October 25, 6:30 PM
Psychology 105

D. A. Powell’s books include Tea, Lunch, Cocktails and Chronic. Chronic was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for both the Publishers Triangle and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the volume of political and personal poems went on to receive the Northern California Book Award and the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Commonwealth Club. Additionally, Chronic received the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry from Claremont College and was Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers/index.html
"Class in the Classroom" with Lee Warren

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
October 29, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
GCC-CD

Class is the great unspoken diversity in the United States—or has been until recently. While usually undiscussed, it affects every aspect of our lives, including our lives in colleges and universities. It influences how students learn, what they choose to learn, what we choose to teach, and the values of our educational institutions. This workshop will investigate the challenges and the advantages of each class background in the classroom.

 

Lee Warren is director emerita of professional pedagogy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and associate director emerita of Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. With a BA in philosophy from Wellesley and a PhD in English and American literature from Stanford, Warren has taught at UMass, Boston, and at MIT. She was the academic dean of Merrimack Valley College, part of the University System of New Hampshire.

"Managing Hot Moments" with Lee Warren

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
October 29, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
GCC-CD

How do you manage it when a classroom explodes, or a student says something that outrages you and others in the classroom, or you lose your own composure?  More, how do you turn such moments into learning opportunities?  Using a case, of an actual classroom event, we will investigate a range of possibilities for managing ourselves, our students, and the intellectual learning in such situations.  Please read “An Earthquake Had Started” before class (4 pages).

 

Lee Warren is director emerita of professional pedagogy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and associate director emerita of Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. With a BA in philosophy from Wellesley and a PhD in English and American literature from Stanford, Warren has taught at UMass, Boston, and at MIT. She was the academic dean of Merrimack Valley College, part of the University System of New Hampshire.

Meghan McCain

Gray Fund Event
October 30, 7:30 PM
Vollum Lecture Hall

Hear MSNBC commentator and coauthor of the book America, You Sexy Bitch, relate her journey as a pro-life, pro-marriage equality Republican. She will also discuss the role of engaged citizenship and public service in her life. A lengthy Q&A will follow.

 

* This is a Gray Fund Event. Gray Fund events are free and open to all members of the Reed community, including current students and members of the faculty and staff. Learn more: http://www.reed.edu/student_activities/gray_fund/calendar.html

 

Gray Fund

Jossiana Arroyo-Martinez

"Masonic Genealogies: Modernity and Revolution in the Afro-Atlantic Caribbean"
November 1, 5:00 PM
Psychology 105

Jossiana Arroyo-Martinez, who works on 19th century Cuban cultural studies and literature and has written an excellent book comparing the national identity in Brazil and Cuba, particularly focuses on African diaspora, will be giving a talk entitled: "Masonic Genealogies: Modernity and Revolution in the Afro-Atlantic Caribbean." Arroyo-Martinez is s Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lewis & Clark College.

Cosponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Political Science, and Spanish, and the Office for Institutional Diversity.

"Teaching & Community-based Learning at Highly Rigourous Colleges" with Ben Berger

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
November 2, 12:00 PM - 2:00 AM
Psych 103 (**note room change)

Many educators, researchers, foundation officers, and public policy experts encourage civic and community-based learning at colleges and universities. How can faculty at highly rigorous colleges, with a primary focus on traditional undergraduate instruction, adopt civic pedagogies without sacrificing rigor? How can we form mutually beneficial and respectful partnerships with community organizations? How can we tie pedagogical innovations to scholarship and professional development?

 

Ben Berger is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and directs the school's "Engaging Democracy Project." His book, Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement (Princeton University Press, 2011), won the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) Book of the Year Award in 2012. Berger works with the civic education consortium Project Pericles, and from 2010–12 was Swarthmore's first Periclean Faculty Leader.

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Citizenship Status and Access to Education
November 2, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Reading: "Withering on the Vine: Why it's hard--and getting harder--for kids of migrant farm workers to get an education" by Liz Dwyer.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

Francoise Lionnet

"Slavery, Shipwrecks and the Challenge of Global Comparison: From Fiction to Archive in the Colonial Indian Ocean"
November 7, 4:30 PM -
Psychology 105

Francoise Lionnet is the divisional speaker for the division of Language and Literature at UCLA. Lionnet, whose work is foundational to the field of Francophone studies and is a brilliant scholar of transnational studies, will be giving a talk drawing on her new work on the Indian Ocean as a site of transcolonial experience. The talk is entitled: "Slavery, Shipwrecks and the Challenge of Global Comparison: From Fiction to Archive in the Colonial Indian Ocean."
"Creating Positive Social Cues in Teaching & Advising at Reed" with Kathy Oleson

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
November 7, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
GCC-CD

Our surroundings are full of cues that may create, perpetuate, and inform students’ sense of belonging, well-being, academic engagement, and scholarly achievement. While participating in class, working with course material, meeting with faculty members, and engaging in activities in various institutional environments, students may experience—prompted in part by social signals—concerns and disrupted attention that hamper their academic performance. This conversation, led by Reed faculty member Kathy Oleson will focus on identifying practical skills and behaviors that foster and perpetuate positive social cues in our teaching and advising.

 

Kathy Oleson is a social psychologist specializing in the areas of interpersonal relations and social cognition. Oleson is professor of psychology at Reed College.

Facing Race: A National Conference

Define Justice. Make Change.
November 15 - 17
Baltimore, MD

EVENT DETAILS

Facing Race 2012
November 15-17 in Baltimore, MD
Keynote Speaker: Junot Díaz

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Facing Race is a conference like no other – it is the largest national, multi-racial gathering of leaders, educators, journalists, artists, and activists on racial justice. Attendees share their knowledge on advocating for racial justice in all walks of life. And this year we are especially excited to be welcoming keynote speaker Junot Díaz!

To learn more: http://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/facingrace/54844/

International Engagement Panel

Hosted by the Multicultural Resource Center
November 15, 6:00 PM
Vollum Lounge

Join us for a discussion about opportunities to learn and work outside of the U.S. The panel will include faculty, staff, students, and alumni, who will answer questions and share stories about their own experiences.

*This event is part of Global Citizenship Month. In October and November, the MRC is joining together with SEEDS and International Student Services to explore what it means to be a global citizen. Through campus-wide events, community dialogues, and interactive programs, we will consider dynamics of difference and connection as members of our global community

http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/events/index.html

Aspiration Prayer Flag Project

November 19 - 30
Various locations

The Aspiration Prayer Flag Project is a collaborative effort sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, Assistant Dean for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, SEEDS, Wellness Program, International Student Services, and Residence Life. The project centers around the following question: what would Reed look like as an equitable, inclusive, connected, and engaged community?"

The purpose of the project is (1) to provide information to the Reed community about the cultural context and symbolism of Tibetan prayer flags, including how prayer flags have been used historically and currently; and (2) to use prayer flags in a culturally appropriate way to document and display individuals' aspirations for the Reed community in the coming new year.

On November 19, 20, 28, and 29, student representatives from the participating programs will table at Commons (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM) and at the Library lobby (8:00 PM - 10:00 PM). At the tables, students will provide information about the project and additional information about the history and symbolism of Tibetan prayer flags. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to write down their aspirations or hopes for the Reed community on a blank flag. During Winter Break, students and staff from the participating programs will sort the flags, and the flags will be displayed in a central outdoor location on campus at the beginning of Spring Semester 2013.

In an effort to ensure that the project is accessible to all Reed community members, we also can make the flags and related materials available in additional locations and times during November and December. If you are interested in learning more about the project or arranging a alternate time to write an aspiration, please contact: Dayspring Mattole, MRC Program Coordinator, mattoled@reed.edu.

Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI)

December 3 - 7
Long Beach, CA

What is the Social Justice Training Institute?

The Social Justice Training Institute provides a forum for the professional and personal development of social justice educators and practitioners to enhance and refine their skills and competencies to create greater inclusion for all members of the campus community.

Founded in 1998 by Jamie Washington, Kathy Obear, Vernon Wall, and Maura Cullen, SJTI provides diversity trainers and practitioners with an intensive laboratory experience where they can focus on their own learning and development to increase their multicultural competencies as social justice educators.

To learn more: http://www.sjti.org/home_professional.html

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Race, part. 1
December 7, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Reading: "Introduction" pgs. 1-33, in Doing Race by Hazel Rose Markus and Paula M.L. Moya.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

Spring

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Race, part. 2
January 4, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Reading: "Introduction" pgs. 33-93, in Doing Race by Hazel Rose Markus and Paula M.L. Moya

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz: An Evening with the Founding Members of Universes

ALOUD! at Reed, Redefining the Canon: 21st Century American Performance
January 29, 6:00 PM
Eliot hall chapel

Universes is an ensemble company of writers and performers who fuse poetry, theatre, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues, and Spanish Boleros to create moving, challenging, and entertaining theatrical works. Join founding members Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz for a performance that tracks the evolution of their childhood rhymes and community rituals to poetry, theatre, hip hop and gospel. Sponsored by the theatre department and by the Theatre Department, the Office for Institutional Diversity, and the Wolf Fund. Free and open to the public.

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Achievement Gap in Selective Colleges
February 1, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Reading: Chapter 1, "The Puzzle of Minority Underachievement" in The Source of the River by Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles, Garvey F. Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection

February 5 - April 20

The Cooley Art Gallery is proud to present over 140 original Civil War era drawings from the Becker Collection at Boston College. The Becker Collection contains over 600 hitherto unexhibited and undocumented drawings by American artist Joseph Becker (1841–1910) and his colleagues, nineteenth-century artists who worked as artist-reporters for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper during the Civil War. Artist-reporters were charged with observing, drawing, and sending back for publication images of the battles, troop movements, and daily activities of the era. Completed in the field, their drawings were couriered to Leslie's offices where they were transformed into wood engravings, then cast as metal plates and printed. Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection is the first opportunity for scholars and the public to study selections from this important and unknown collection, and to appreciate these national treasures for their aesthetic qualities and relationship. Curated by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher, codirectors, the Becker Collection, Boston College. (more http://www.reed.edu/gallery/)

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Sunday, noon–5 p.m., Hauser Library.

Cooley

"Response and Responsibility: Subjects of Study and Dilemmas of Professional Life"

Jane I. Guyer
February 11, 4:45 PM
Psychology 105

Jane Guyer, George Armstrong Kelly Professor in the anthropology department at Johns Hopkins University, has been devoted to studying economic transformations in West Africa, particularly the productive economy, the division of labor, and the management of money. She has published numerous books and articles, including works on currency devaluation under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria in the 1990s (Money Struggles and City Life, 2002), monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa (Marginal Gains, 2004), African land use, and cultures of monetarism. In 2008 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (anthropology section). In this lecture, Professor Guyer explores her service on the international advisory group to the World Bank and the Governments of Chad and Cameroon on the Chad-Cameroon Oil Development and Pipeline Project in relation to the “ordinary ethics” of duration (commitment, perseverance, and especially responsibility) and the British empiricist tradition. Her talk raises questions related to anthropology, philosophy, and the ethics of professional practice.
"What Kind of God Rides a Dim-Witted Bull? Varieties of Disputation in South Indian Literature"

Thomas Lamb Eliot Lecture on Religion: Anne Monius
February 14, 4:30 PM
Psychology 105

Anne Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, is a historian of religion specializing in the religious traditions of India. Her research interests lie in examining the practices and products of literary culture to reconstruct the history of religions in South Asia. Her first book, Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India, examines the two extant Buddhist texts composed in Tamil; her current research project, "Singing the Lives of Śiva's Saints: History, Aesthetics, and Religious Identity in Tamil-Speaking South India," considers the role of aesthetics and moral vision in the articulation of a distinctly Hindu religious identity in 12th century South India. In this talk, Monius examines the graphic religious violence depicted in medieval South Indian literature alongside the substantial historical evidence for centuries of inter-religious engagement on a more peaceful scale.
"Mass Incarceration and the Prospects for Reform"

Bruce Western
February 15, 6:00 PM
Vollum lecture hall

Bruce Western is a professor of sociology and director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His recent work has focused on the link between social inequality and the growth of prison and jail populations in the United States. He finds that the penal system has become a common presence in the lives of poor Americans, with lasting effects on their life chances. Western has written numerous articles and books, including Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Supported by the sociology department and the multicultural resource center.

“Singing at Fisk University: Vocal Blackness and Fisk’s Choral Ensembles” with Marti Newland

ALOUD! at Reed, Redefining the Canon: 21st Century American Performance
February 21, 4:30 PM
Psychology 105

Opera singer and ethnomusicologist Marti Newland studied vocal performance at Oberlin Conservatory and is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. Drawing on her fieldwork at Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, Newland will highlight the voice as a mechanism of speaking and singing and as a site of mediation for ideological, discursive, embodied, and affective constructions of blackness. Her visit to campus is supported by the department of music, the Office for Institutional Diversity’s New Scholars Series, and the multicultural resource center. Free and open to the public.
Visiting Writer Series: R. Erica Doyle

February 21, 6:30 PM
Eliot hall chapel

R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best Black Women’s Erotica, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund and Poets and Writers, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers.  Her first book,  proxy is forthcoming from  Belladonna* Books in 2013 and has been performed as a chamber piece in collaboration with composer Joshua Fried at the Composers Collaborative, and as a multimedia performance piece with painter and digital media artist Torkwase Dyson at the Transmodern Age Festival.

http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers/index.html
Philip Gotanda, “The Jamaican Wash Project: Explorations in Cultural and Racial Adaptation”

ALOUD! at Reed, Redefining the Canon: 21st Century American Performance
February 22, 4:30 PM
Psychology 105

Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theatre in America. The creator of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed work, Gotanda is also known for working with a range of aesthetic styles—from jazz to spoken word, dance to symphonic, and opera to indie film—and varied subject matter—from controversial social issues such as male violence against women to the intersectionality of Asian American and African American communities. Gotanda is a recipient of a Guggenheim as well as other honors and awards. He holds a law degree from Hastings College of Law and studied pottery in Japan with the late Hiroshi Seto. Supported by the theatre department, the Wolf Fund, and the Office for Institutional Diversity.

Marti Newland, soprano, and Artis Wodehouse, piano, “Songs of the African American Experience”

ALOUD! at Reed, Redefining the Canon: 21st Century American Performance
February 22, 7:30 PM
Eliot hall chapel

On the second day of her visit, opera singer and ethnomusicologist Marti Newland will give a vocal recital accompanied by pianist Artis Wodehouse. Newland has performed in recitals and oratorios throughout the United States and Europe. She has performed with the Aspen Music Festival Opera Theater Center and Centro Studi Italiani in Urbania, Italy, and has been a guest soloist with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Opera Noire of New York, and Harlem Opera Theater. Pianist and harmoniumist Artis Wodehouse has devoted her career to preserving and disseminating neglected but valuable music and instruments from the past, with an emphasis on American music. Her best seller Gershwin Plays Gershwin on the Nonesuch label has sold over 500,000 copies. The recital will include works by Will Marion Cook, Richard Danielpour, Eva Jessye, Hall Johnson, and Scott Joplin. Sponsored by the Music Department, the Office for Institutional Diversity, and the multicultural resource center. Free and open to the public.

"Incumbent Ejection & Modes of Opposition: The Case of Egypt's Uprising"

Joshua Stacher
February 27, 4:45 PM
Psychology 105

Joshua Stacher is an assistant professor political science at Kent State University, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and an editor at the Middle East Research and Information Project. He is author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria (Stanford, 2012), a study of political structures, elite alliances, state institutions, and governing practices in the wake of regional upheaval. His research on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, elections, and reform movements has been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Middle East Journal, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and History Compass, as well as a number of mainstream news outlets. The diversity of cases within the so-called Arab Spring and their outcomes teach scholars much, including how opposition configurations disproportionately structure a country’s transition and whether a change of leader, regime change, or a pact results. The forced resignation of long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak was not a case of regime change despite the election of Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi as president in June 2012. Neither, however, did the old regime survive intact. What explains the type of political transition that Egypt experienced? Highlighting an outcome neither solely based on narrow elite maneuvers nor revolutionary popular mobilization, this lecture argues that weak configurations between the establishment and contentious oppositions produced incumbent ejection rather than regime change or a pact transition.
“A Petal, for a Paragraph’:Rereading Romantic Botany in an Age of Honeybee Die-Off”

Anne-Lise François
February 28, 4:30 PM
Psychology 105

Anne-Lise François, associate professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience (Stanford UP, 2008), a study of the ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in the fiction of Mme. de Lafayette and Austen and the poetry of Wordsworth, Dickinson, and Hardy, which was awarded the 2010 René Wellek Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association. Her current book project focuses on figures of pastoral worldliness, provisionality, and “commonness” (understood in the double sense of both the political antithesis to enclosure and the ordinary, vernacular, or profane). Sponsored by the Division of Literature & Languages.
First Friday Conversation

Topic: Fair Housing
March 1, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Readings: "Failure to Support Fair Housing Act Leads to Subsidized Segregation: Locked Out, parts 1-4."

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

“Psychiatric Conditions within the Collegiate Population: Supporting Student Success” with Kris Anderson

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
March 1, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Library 387

Students come to faculty with needs for academic accommodation. Sometimes, the necessity for those accommodations are a function of symptoms associated with mental illness. Given the prevalence of many of these conditions within the general population, this is unsurprising. However, many faculty may not understand how these conditions can impact student learning. This workshop will review commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions within the collegiate population, address potential impacts on student engagement, and suggest strategies to support student success.

2013 NADOHE Annual Conference

March 4 - 6
Omni Shoreham Hotel (Washington, DC)

Save the date! Details to follow on their website: http://www.nadohe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=20:nadohe-content&id=101:2012-nadohe-annual-conference
Visiting Writer Series: Eileen Myles

March 7, 6:30 PM
Eliot hall chapel

Eileen Myles moved to New York City from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double volume (of poems) came out in 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen's Inferno: a poet's novel (2010) won the Lambda Book Award in 2011 for lesbian fiction. Her more than twenty publications include Sorry Tree (2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 she received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. Eileen writes about books, art and culture for Art Forum, Parkett and Vice and many other publications and she has written catalogue essays on Cathy Opie, Emily Roydson, K8 Hardy, Oscar Tuazon. She’s teaching NYU's graduate program this spring. In 2012 Eileen Myles got a Guggenheim for nonfiction to write “Afterglow” a fantastic dog memoir

http://academic.reed.edu/creative_writing/visiting-writers/index.html
"Brooms, Bombs, and Bodies: How the Vanishing Indian Made America"

Lecture by Judy Kértesz
March 14, 4:15 PM
Psych 105

Judy Kértesz, assistant professor of history at North Carolina State University, is a specialist in Native American history, public history, and early American history. She completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2012 and cocurated the exhibition IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indians. In this talk, Kértesz examines how the plunder of ancient ruins, disinterment of Indian graves, and the development of early American archeology were part of a larger national project of American national identity formation and the appropriation of “native” status for a settler society. Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Diversity and the history department.
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

Annual Conference
March 21 - 24
San Diego,CA

Each spring, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general.

To learn more: http://www.asian-studies.org/Conference/index.htm

Jorge Huerta, “The Many Stages of Chicana/o Theatre: From the Fields to the Arena”

ALOUD! at Reed, Redefining the Canon: 21st Century American Performance
March 25, 5:00 PM
Psychology 105

Jorge Huerta, Professor Emeritus of Theatre & Dance at the University of California, San Diego, is the nation's leading expert in the field of Chicana/o and US Latina/o theatre. He has edited three anthologies of plays and written the landmark books Chicano Theatre: Themes and Forms and Chicano Drama: Performance, Society, and Myth. Huerta has directed in theatres across the country and has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the U.S., Latin America, and Western Europe. In 2007 Huerta was honored by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for “Lifetime Achievement in Educational Theater.” In 2008 he was recognized as a “Distinguished Scholar” by the American Society for Theatre Research. Sponsored by the theatre department, the Wolf Fund, and the Office for Institutional Diversity. Free and open to the public
National Society of Black Engineers

39th Annual Convention
March 27 - 31
Indianapolis, IN

On behalf of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), I would like to invite you to join us as we return home to Indiana for our 39th Annual Convention. The convention will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, just 45 minutes from Purdue University, where we were founded in 1975. NSBE week will conclude on March 27 – 31, 2013 where nearly 10,000 students and professionals will converge on the Indiana Convention Center and surrounding venues.

For more information, please visit http://convention.nsbe.org.

Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series

MORE THAN JUST A TREND: Native American Appropriation in the 21st Century
March 27, 4:30 PM
Eliot Hall Chapel

In our increasingly global world, raiding the closets of Indigenous peoples has become a trend. Too many companies are guilty of misusing Native American sacred iconography (Victoria’s Secret’s Karlie Kloss in a headdress), or misusing copyrighted Native American names (Urban Outfitters’ Navajo items), or aligning their themes with negative stereotypes (Ecko’s alcohol and headdressed themed Weekend Warriors collection). This panel presents Native American perspectives and deconstructs the issues surrounding the misrepresentation of “the Native” in fashion, sports, and music and provides examples of ethical solutions to help avoid damaging controversies that perpetuate racism in popular culture.
Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Diversity and the Multicultural Resource Center.
http://www.reed.edu/multicultural_affairs/vine_deloria/index.html

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images: Thunderbird house post by Tony Hunt. Clothing design for Adidas by Jeremy Scott.

American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)

8th Annual Conference: "Toward a Latino Attainment Agenda: Shaping our Own Destiny"
March 28 - 30
Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk (San Antonio, TX)

The eighth annual national conference of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) will be held in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 28-30 March 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, TX.

To learn more: http://www.aahhe.org/conference.aspx

“Race, Gender, and Digital Worlds: Pedagogical Implications” with Charlene Makley and Kris Cohen, co-facilitators

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
March 29, 12:00 PM
Psychology 103

A recent report from the Pew Research Center found that 93 percent of American teens across race, gender, and class go online regularly, with large percentages in all categories accessing their favorite sites and games multiple times a day. As American universities and colleges rush to integrate media “technology” into classroom experiences, how should Reed, with its signature, face-to-face, conference-style pedagogical model respond? How, for instance, does online experience both mitigate and exacerbate disparities in confidence, in one's ability to voice a thought in public? What are the obstacles to translating online confidence and competency into the classroom?

In this informal workshop, we seek to open the door to faculty discussions about the pedagogical implications of our students' increasing engagement with web-based social media. The goal is not to trade notes on types of media technology for the classroom, but to begin a more broad-ranging discussion about how our students’ formative experiences online as persons and thinkers, particularly in terms of their interactions with race and gender categories, might affect their learning experiences in our classrooms.

CANCELED: “Developing an Inclusive Syllabus: Practical Issues” with Crystal Williams

Diversity & Inclusion Pedagogy Workshop
April 3, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
GCC-BC

Students’ personal circumstances and identities inform not only how they move through and engage with the world, but also how they learn. Reedies comprise a rich and diverse community of thinkers—introverts, extroverts, first-generation-to-college students, students with physical or psychological disabilities, students from countries with customs that seem unique in the United States, students who must work to sustain themselves while at Reed. Given this richness, how might we, as we imagine and construct our syllabi, take into account a host of factors that so deeply affect students’ lives? In this conversation, we will begin to identify strategies and concrete examples of ways our syllabi might enhance student success by being sensitive to the multiplicity of experiences and identities represented in our student body.

34 Puñaladas: Music from the Underbelly of Buenos Aires

Lecture at 6:30 p.m., Concert at 7:00 p.m.
April 3, 6:30 PM
Eliot Hall Chapel

The Music Department, Office for Institutional Diversity, and Dean of the Faculty are pleased to welcome the contemporary Argentine tango ensemble 34 Puñaladas to Reed College.  The concert is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a pre-concert lecture (at 6:30 pm) by Reed music professor Morgan Luker. 

34 Puñaladas is one of the most prominent and important tango ensembles active in Buenos Aires today.  A guitar quartet plus singer, the groups specializes in a historical repertoire of “prison tangos,” songs that depict the lives of the urban poor at the margins of early 20th century Argentine society.  This repertoire is famous for its use of lunfardo, a highly Italianized slang form of Spanish that is unique to Buenos Aires and almost entirely unintelligible to those not familiar with it.  These historic songs are elaborated with original musical arrangements that are as dark and atmospheric as the stories these songs depict, relying heavily on biting dissonances, sequential layering of textures, and impressive use of space and silence.  The group has toured to Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, and Australia, sharing the stage with such figures as Hermeto Pascoal, Diego "El Cigala," Marc Ribot, Rufus Wainwright, Amadou et Mariam, and many others.  Their appearance at Reed will mark their US debut.
First Friday Conversation

Topic: Gender Identity
April 5, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Video:  "Transgender Basics" from the Gender Identity Project (GIP).

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

The White Privilege Conference

The Color of Money: Reclaiming Our Humanity
April 10 - 13
Seattle, WA

To learn more: http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/index.html


What is the White Privilege Conference?

    1. WPC is a conference that examines challenging concepts of privilege and oppression and offers solutions and team building strategies to work toward a more equitable world.

    1. It is not a conference designed to attack, degrade or beat up on white folks.

    1. It is not a conference designed to rally white supremacist groups.

    1. WPC is a conference designed to examine issues of privilege beyond skin color. WPC is open to everyone and invites diverse perspectives to provide a comprehensive look at issues of privilege including: race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, etc. — the ways we all experience some form of privilege, and how we’re all affected by that privilege.

    1. WPC attracts students, professionals, activists, parents, and community leaders/members from diverse perspectives. WPC welcomes folks with varying levels of experience addressing issues of diversity, cultural competency, and multiculturalism.

  1. WPC is committed to a philosophy of “understanding, respecting and connecting.”

Who attends the WPC?
The conference is unique in its ability to bring together high school and college students, teachers, university faculty and higher education professionals, nonprofit staff, activists, social workers and counselors, healthcare workers, and members of the spiritual community and corporate arena. Annually, more than 1,500 attend from more than 35 states, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, and Germany.

First Friday Conversation

Topic: Gender in Business
May 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Aspen Room

Reading: "No Seat at the Table" by Linda Baker.

Each First Friday Conversation happens on the first Friday of the month during the academic year. Ours is a brown-bag lunch series open to all community members. We gather from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss reading materials of relevance to the work promoted by the Office for Institutional Diversity. The goal of these conversations is to engage all members of the Reed community in a congenial conversation that we hope will spark new ways of thinking about inclusivity and diversity. Bring your lunch and join us!

All readings are posted on the Office for Institutional Diversity's Moodle site: "Office for Institutional Diversity Reading Resources."

*Please RSVP if you plan to attend because we're providing lunch.

NCORE

26th Annual Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education
May 28 - June 1
New Orleans, LA

The NCORE conference series constitutes the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.

Conference Participants Include:

  • Senior administrative officers at both campus and system levels.
  • Academic affairs administrators, deans, department chairs, and teaching faculty.
  • Directors and staff of offices of affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and minority affairs.
  • Professionals in virtually all campus activity/service areas, including admissions, student life, financial aid, personnel, public safety, alumni affairs, and athletics.
  • Representatives of state and national institutes, associations, agencies, commissions, and foundations.
  • Leaders of student organizations.
  • Representatives of community-based agencies and organizations.

 

To learn more: http://www.ncore.ou.edu/register.html