Free workshops, film screenings and entertainment for HSU students, faculty, staff and the community on diversity, racism, social justice and equity in education.
Tyrone Howard, Professor and Director of Center X and the Black Male Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote address, “Why Race and Culture Still Matter: Moving from Inequality to Equity in Education,” Nov. 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room.
A nationally recognized expert on diversity issues in education, Howard has appeared on National Public Radio and is a regular urban education contributor to the New York Times. His work has centered on the achievement gap facing African American and other culturally diverse students and the importance of providing teachers skills and knowledge to reverse persistent underachievement.
Howard recently authored Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms, which explores how greater awareness and understanding of race and culture can improve educational outcomes.
“Despite this country being racially diverse, we’re still not comfortable having conservations about the social and economic consequences that play out in our society,” Howard says. “We can’t have a real discussion about these issues until we acknowledge people’s histories: the experiences, the struggles, the life cycles of whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans.”
Howard will lead a book circle from noon to 2 p.m. and a student dialogue from 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 1 in the Library Fishbowl.
On Nov. 2, Jacqueline Nagatsuka of HSU’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning will lead a workshop on educational opportunities for minority students in the post affirmative action era. Other highlights include a film screening and discussion of The Color of Fear, a look at race relations through the eyes of a group of multi-racial men, and a discussion of Disney’s That’s So Raven Show and its portrayal of black girl identity.
Various other events for students, faculty and the community are scheduled during the 13-day event. Details are posted at humboldt.edu/dialogue, with frequent updates.
Thursday, Oct. 27
Workshop: “Art, Identity and Resistance”
5 – 7 p.m. in the Great Hall at College Creek
Presenter: Tim’m West
Friday, Oct. 28
Performance: “Ready, Set, Grow: A Coming of Age Story”
8 – 10 p.m. in Studio Theater (next to the Van Duzer Theater)
Presenter: Tim’m T. West
Monday, Oct. 31
Film Marathon
• Waiting for Superman
• The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman
• Shattering the Silences
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Tuesday, Nov. 1
Film Screening and Discussion: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Gist Hall 218
Book Circle with Tyrone Howard: Why Race and Culture Matter in the Classroom
Noon – 2 p.m. in the Library Fishbowl
Student Dialogue with Tyrone Howard
3 – 5 p.m. in the Library Fishbowl
Keynote Presentation: Tyrone Howard
6 – 8 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room
Wednesday, Nov. 2
Special Session for Faculty and Staff: Campus Dialogue on Closing the Achievement Gap
Guest facilitator: Tyrone Howard
9 – 11 a.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Workshop: “Inclusive Pedagogy”
Noon – 2 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Presenter: Tyrone Howard
Workshop: Post Affirmative Action Era in Higher Education
3 – 4:30 p.m. in Nelson Hall East 106
Presenter: Jacqueline Nagatsuka
Workshop: Social Justice Summit Community Gathering
3 – 5 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Presenters: Xuan Bernal & Melissa Estrada, Coordinators of 2012 Social Justice Summit
Film Screening and Discussion: The Color of Fear
For faculty, staff and administration only
3 – 5 p.m. in Siemens Hall 117
Presenters: Brian McElwain, Tracy Smith and Steve Smith
Tunnel of Oppression
5:30 – 9 p.m. at the “J”
Presented by Housing Staff
Film Screening and Discussion: Tim Wise: White Privilege
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. in Gist Hall 218
Presenters: Members of M.E.Ch.A. de Humboldt State
Thursday, Nov. 3
Workshop: Bias Response Team at HSU
10 a.m. – Noon in Nelson Hall East 113
Presenter: Jennifer Eichstedt
Racializing Raven: Race and Gender in the That’s So Raven Show
12:30 – 1:50 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Presenter: Ramona Bell
Workshop on Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Prison Industrial Complex: The Case of the New Jersey 7
2 – 3:50 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Presenter: Jessica Whatcott
Film Screening and Discussion: The Color of Fear
For Students Only
3 – 5 p.m. in the Native American Forum (BSS)
Presenters: Brian McElwain, Tracy Smith and Steve Smith
Workshop: Meeting Content Standards with Social Justice Education
4 – 5:30 p.m. in Nelson Hall East 106
Presenter: Robert Robinson
Equitable Education Roundtable
6 – 8 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room
Presenters: Patty Yancey, Nora Wynne, Robert Robinson, María Corral-Ribordy, Trinidad Caballero, Yuri Gamboa, Araceli Larios, Daniel Robinson, Alexandra Solano, Nina Ziccone and Nikola Hobbel
Film Screening and Discussion: We Still Live Here: As Nutayunean
6 – 7:30 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka
Presenter: Marlon Sherman
Friday, Nov. 4
Workshop: When Content, Context, Culture, Classroom and California Clash
10 a.m. – Noon in Nelson Hall East 106
Presenter: Robert Robinson
Film Screening and Discussion: Performing the Border
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Founders Hall 206
Presenter: Kimberly Berry
Dia de los Muertos
2 – 5 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room and Karshner Lounge
Presenters: Members of M.E.Ch.A.
Latinologues @ HSU
7 p.m. in Gist Hall Theater (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Director: Wendy Gonzalez
Hip Hop de los Muertos
9 p.m. – midnight in the Kate Buchanan Room
Presenters: HSU Latino community
Saturday, Nov. 5
Latinologues @ HSU
12:30 p.m. in Gist Hall Theater (Doors open at Noon)
Film Screening: Viva Mexico
7 p.m. in the Goodwin Forum
Poetry is Not a Luxury
7 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room
Presenters: Black Student Union
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 8 & 9
Annual Q-Fest: Qross Qultural Queer Film Festival
6 – 9 p.m. in Gist Hall 218