News & Events for School of Social Transformation
School of Social Transformation
(a year long celebration)
Oct 7th: School Launch Old Main Carson Ballroom
11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. President/Dean/Director
11:30 p.m. -12:00 p.m. Reception
12:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m. Panel on Gender, Race and Justice
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University: “I am engaged in interdisciplinary scholarly work in the fields of African-American, Cultural, and Gender Studies that draws upon modes of inquiry informed by the fields of literary theory, urban sociology, social history, postmodern philosophy, Queer theory and most notably popular culture. My broad project is to interrogate popular culture--music, television, film, and literature--produced within the context of Afro-diasporic expressive cultures” (http://newblackman.blogspot.com/).
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UC Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty Fellow, Stanford, a filmmaker and film scholar in Asian American, Film and Media, and Feminist Studies. Her areas of expertise are in Film and Performance Theory and Production, Social Theories of Power and Inequality, Race and Sexuality Studies, Transnational Feminisms and Asian American Cultural Studies.She has recently completed BIRTHRIGHT, her fifth experimental ethnographic film, about mothering across difference (http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/faculty/celine_shimizu/).
OCT 8th:Reception for Leslie Marmon Silko, West Hall 135, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
OCT 13th: Women of the World Lecture (WOW) with Gloria Feldt and an intergenerational panel of women talking about feminism and Social Change, MU, 7:00 pm
OCT 14th: Seeking Justice:James P. Walsh, Pinal County Attorney, will speak on “Why a Liberal Lawyer from the ‘60s Makes a Good Prosecutor,” Lattie F. Coor Hall, room 174, 5:00 p.m.
OCT 30th: “Get Down Tonight” Party with DJ and cash bar, MU, 7:00 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Homecoming)
Spring Semester
Feb 25-26th: David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Biographer of WEB DuBois, will speak at Forum on John Hope Franklin
Feb 26h: Graduate Student Conference, Engendering Social Inquiry
March: John Frank Lecture with Janet Napolitano
April: Human Right Symposium
April/May: New Radical Voices for Change, undergraduatestudent projects
