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EVENTS - Spring 2008

April 9th, 2008

The Black Task Force and Africana Studies Present

‘The Future of Affirmative Action'

by Charles E. Walker, jr.

Civil Rights Attorney
Deputy Director and General Counsel, Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure.

April 9th, 2008
6.00 p.m.
Science Center, Rm. 277

Charles Walker has served as chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the state's chief civil rights enforcement agency charged with the enforcement of the state's anti-discrimination laws, principally in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations.

This lecture will explore the past, present and future of
Affirmative Action.

March 11, 2008

MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL LECTURE

PRESENTS:

HARRY BELAFONTE

'SOCIAL JUSTICE: WITHIN AND BEYOND OUR BORDERS'

7.00P.M. TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH, 2008

TISHMAN COMMONS, WANG CENTER, WELLESLEY CAMPUS

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February 12, 2008

Please join us in Collins Cinema for a viewing and
discussion of the documentary with the Director.
February 12, 2008 at 4:15 P.M.
The Africana Studies Department Presents:
Adrena Ifill
Writer and Director of: A new documentary, Congressman Robert Smalls:

'A Patriot’s Journey from Slavery to Capitol Hill'


This documentary brings to light the full picture of the development of American democracy, the origins of civil rights movement and the man who dedicated his life to this crusade. African-American politicians like Robert Smalls pushed the boundaries of American democracy setting the stage for the modern day civil rights movement.

February 12, 2008 at 4.15pm, Collins Theatre

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EVENTS - FALL 2007

AFRICANA STUDIES PRESENTS:

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SYMPOSIUM

‘Environmental Justice Cross-Culturally: Theory and Praxis
in the African Diaspora and in Africa’

Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10, 2007
Collins Cinema

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Friday, November 9th and Saturday, November 10th
2007

PROGRAM

Friday Nov. 9th

5:00 p.m. Welcome by Kim Bottomly, President of Wellesley College


5.15p.m. Keynote – Clenora Hudson-Weems, University of Missouri - Columbia
Landowners and Katrina: An Emmett Till Continuum
in the making of a new Hilton Head

6:00 p.m. Dinner -- Davis Museum

7.15 Musical Interlude: Carl Winters, Kalimba Musician and Composer7:30 p.m.

Panel I – History, Explanatory Models and Activism

Glenn Johnson, Clark Atlanta University
Environmental Justice: A brief history and overview

Filomina Steady, Wellesley College
Environmental Justice Cross-Culturally: Theory and Praxis
in the African Diaspora and in Africa – a paradigmatic challenge

Bill Lawson, University of Memphis
Environmental Policies, Racial Atrocities and Blame

Saturday Nov. 10th

8:30 a.m.

Panel II – Toxic Environments, Race and Place

Celene Krauss, Kean University
Race, Class, Gender and Place: An Environmental Justice Challenge

Carolyn Finney, University of California – Berkeley
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What is Justice After All?

Marion Moses, Pesticide Education Center, San Francisco
Farm Workers, Agriculture, Pesticides and Environmental Justice

Yolanda Hardy, Northeastern University
Environmental and Educational Approaches to Addressing Asthma Disparities.

10:00 a.m. Break and Musical Interlude -- Collins Cafe

10:45 a.m.

Panel III – Case Studies: United Kingdom, Nigeria, Guinea, Brazil

Judy Ling Wong, Black Environment Network, UK
The Environment Belongs to All of Us – a vision of ethnic minority
Environmental Participation in the United Kingdom

Francis Adeola, University of New Orleans
Neo-colonialism, Internal Colonialism and Chronic Environmental Injustice:
Anatomy of Violent Conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.’

David Tabachnick, Muskingum College
Environmental Justice and Common Property in Guinea:
Implications for Women and Vulnerable Groups

Christen Smith, University of Texas – Austin
Inscribing Blackness on to the Body and the Landscape:
Race and Space in Brazil

1:00 p.m.

Lunch, Tour of Davis Museum and Musical Interlude – Davis Museum and Collins

2:30 p.m.

Panel IV – Case Studies: Caribbean, India, South Africa

Leith Dunn, University of the West Indies – Mona
The Gendered Dimensions of Environmental Justice -- Caribbean Perspectives

Pashington Obeng, Wellesley College
Environmental Justice Challenges for African Indians (Siddhis) of India

Mashile Phalane, Earthlife Africa
Nuclear Energy, Health and Environmental Justice in South Africa:
The Continuing Legacy of Apartheid

4:00 p.m. Break and Musical Interlude -- Collins Cafe

4:15 p.m. Panel V – Natural and Socio-Ecological Disasters and Human Rights

Hope Lewis, Northeastern University
Race, Class and Katrina: A Human Rights Perspective on (Un)Natural Disaster

Ophera Davis, Wellesley College
Katrina’s Effects on the Lives of Women Survivors

Michaelle Wilson, Federal, State, and Tribal Programs Branch - EPA
Environmental Justice in Indian Country

Susan Hall - Davis Scholar and Courtney Street ’09, Wellesley College
Students’ Perspectives on Katrina

6:15 p.m.

Open Roundtable: ‘The Way Forward’

7: 20 p.m. Closing

7:30 p.m. Dinner and Reception for Presenters -- Wellesley College Club

CO-SPONSORS
Ford Foundation
Wellesley College Committees – Committee on Lectures and Cultural Events (Keller Fund, Wilson Fund).
Wellesley College Departments and Programs: American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Education, Environmental Studies, German, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Peace and Justice, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, PLTC, Religion, Sociology, Spanish, Theater, Writing Program, Women’s Studies.
Wellesley College Funds - Multicultural Fund, Martin Luther King Fund
Student Organizations – Ethos, WASA, WCD

Symposium Organizer: Professor Filomina Steady
Chair, Africana Studies
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA. 02481Contact: Dale Clarke, Administrative Assistant
dclarke@wellesley.edu
781 283 2563Hotel for Symposium:

Hampton Inn
319 Speen Street
Natick, MA. 01760
Tel. 508 653 5000
Fax. 508 651 9733
A bus will be available to take participants from the hotel to Wellesley College.
Please inform Dale Clarke (dclarke@wellesley.edu) if you plan to attend.

 

FALL '07


AFRICANA STUDIES PRESENTS

Ms. Shirley Campbell
Director, School for International Training (SIT) Jamaica
Coordinator, Wintersession in Jamaica

'Study Abroad in Jamaica: A Cultural Interface'

Wednesday, November 7th, 6-9pm
Harambee House
Dinner will be served

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disabilities jwice


FALL - 2007

Africana Studies Presents:

Arnold Rampersad

Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University

'The Life of Ralph Waldo Ellison'

Thursday, October, 11, Collins Cinema, 4.15p.m.

 

October 28, 2006
FEMALE GENDER EXPRESSION IN HIP-HOP
One-day Seminar at

Wellesley CollegeOctober 19, 2006.....Julian Bond:  ‘Civil Rights and Human Rights’LWC – Tishman, 7.00 p.m. Events -- Spring 2006 Design April 27, 2006
Concentrators meeting - Mini Symposium - Speaker, James L. Matory, Professor of Anthropology and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University. His books include Sex and Empire That is No More and Black Atlantic Religion. Past Events -- Fall 2005 November 8, 2005
August Wilson and Derek Walcott Lecture
Special Guests: Albert Laveau, Trinidad and Tobago Workshop Theatre
Linda Brothers, Office of Equal Opportunity, Wellesley College October 30, 2005
"Educational Excellence and Black Success"
featuring Dr. Adelaide Sanford
View a clip from this lecture!
Open Ethos MeetingOctober 20, 2005
"What is Economic Justice and How Do We Attain it?"
Lecturer: Dr. Julianne Malveaux Links to Related Student OrganizationsLinks to Related Matters and Information