The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
StuffToDo – FREE Weekend Film: If Beale Street Could Talk
Saturday April 27th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.Co-sponsored by BCC.
Designing the Movement: Projection Design as Research for the Every 28 Hours Play
Tuesday April 30th 10:00am-11:00am, Townsend Hall 220
Xiomara Cornejo, Doctoral Student in Theatre and Associate Director for the Center of Applied Theatre and Dramatic Research, discusses her research process as projection designer for the MU Theatre department’s performance of the Every 28 Hours Plays, a series of 1-minute plays created by national theatre artists inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Cornejo examines her creative and research approach to design, which includes the integration of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), projection design as storytelling, and visual historiography.
African American Experience in Missouri Lecture: Dr. Greene
Tuesday April 30th 6:00-8:00pm, Memorial Union
The African American Press has a long history of agency and activism. Dating its founding from 1827 with the publication of Freedom’s Journal in New York, the press has a legacy of protest and a history of the struggle for survival. Between 1875 and 1970, Missouri was home to more than 60 black-owned newspapers. Join Debra Foster Greene, professor emeritus of history from Lincoln University and a noted scholar of African American Business History, for a look into the lives and works of several African American newspaper publishers and editors in the Show-Me State.
Sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies; University of Missouri’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity; and the Missouri Humanities Council.
“Not In My Neighborhood”: Toward a Critical Race Reckoning of Higher Education
Wednesday May 1st 4:30pm-5:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
In this lecture, Dr. Lori Patton Davis will use Critical Race Theory to trace racist master narratives and events that have historically shaped and continue to perpetuate racism and white supremacy in higher education. She will offer a framework for understanding CRT in higher education and engage the audience in questions about the role and promise of critical race praxis in the academy. Dr. Patton Davis is a Full Professor at Indiana University and Immediate Past President of ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education). Dr. Patton Davis is best known for her important cross-cutting scholarship on African Americans in higher education, critical race theory, campus diversity initiatives on college campuses, girls and women of color in educational and social contexts, and college student development and graduate preparation.
Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Distinguished Lecture Series in Psychology
Thursday Mary 2nd 3:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
Significant interest lies in trying to understand whether the effects of trauma are passed to the next, or even subsequent generations. Recent advances in molecular biology and epigenetics provide paradigms for understanding long term effects of stress. Epigenetic research provides animals models for how such effects might be transmitted and also raise great speculation about whether and to what extent such mechanisms can be applied to understanding enduring effects of trauma in offspring of survivors. This presentation focuses on consequences of parental trauma and examines whether such effects are biologically ‘transmitted.” Most of the research has been conducted on adult children of Holocaust survivors but is supported by observations of children born to pregnant women who survived the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. Findings demonstrating epigenetic marks associated with parental trauma effects of PTSD will be reviewed, and discussed in the context of whether they represent generational “damage” due to adversity or indicate attempts to adapt to environmental challenge to achieve resilience.
Culture Vultures: Navigating Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation
Thursday May 2nd 12:00pm-1:30pm, Hill Hall 305
Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Inclusion and Belonging Series. The purpose of the series is to nurture personal, professional and community development to enhance belonging at Mizzou. The series seeks to create spaces for participants to develop inclusive strategies and deepen community connections on campus.
Pre-Registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend at least three presentations to earn a Certificate of Completion.
We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.