Calendar of Events 1999-2000

9/16 Educating for Democracy Series. "Respect and Education." Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Harvard University.

9/18 Educating for Democracy Series. "Discussion of Lawrence-Lightfoot's Work." Teachers' Workshop.

9/24 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Teaching Out of Your Discipline (And Over Your Head) in an Inter-Disciplinary First-Year Seminar." Past and present instructors of College 130.

9/28 Educating for Democracy Series. "Multicultural Education: What Works and Why." Peter Langman, clinical psychologist. (Sponsored in conjunction with Hamilton Hillel).

10/19 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Widowhood as Rhetorical Ethos." Professor Linda Horwitz, Hamilton College Rhetoric and Communication Department.

10/21 Educating for Democracy Series. "What is Merit? Affirmative Action, Remediation and Diversity." Peter Schrag, journalist.

11/4 Educating for Democracy Series. "Racial Authenticity and White Separatism: The Future of Racial Program Housing." Professors Amie Macdonald, John Jay College, and Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College.

11/11 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Reluctant Economists: Women Undergraduates at Liberal Arts Colleges." Professors Betsy Jensen and Ann Owen, Hamilton College Economics Department.

11/18 Educating for Democracy Series. "Native-American Educational Experience: Good, Bad and Indifferent." Oneida Nation Panel.

12/2 Educating for Democracy Series. "Beyond Heroes and Holidays: Anti-Racist Multicultural Pedagogy and Curriculum." Professor Margo Okazawa-Rey, Hamilton College Women's Studies Department.

1/19 Spring 2000 Artist-in-Residence. Screening of "Stranger Inside." Cheryl Dunye, filmmaker.

1/26 Spring 2000 Artist-in-Residence. Faculty Workshop: "Gay and Lesbian Issues in Video." Cheryl Dunye.

2/9 Spring 2000 Artist-in-Residence. "Women of Vision:" Screening and Discussion. Alexandra Juhasz, filmmaker.

2/10 Educating for Democracy Series. "Multicultural Education in Action." Teachers' Workshop. Professor Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts.

2/10 Educating for Democracy Series. "The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities." Professor Sonia Nieto.

2/11 Spring 2000 Artist-in-Residence. "Art 200 Student Work Screening." Cheryl Dunye and students.

2/17 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Gender and Power in Team Teaching." Professor Kristen Paap, Hamilton College Sociology Department.

2/23 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "How Can a Woman Teach with Authority: a 17th-Century Perspective." Professor Margaret Thickstun, Hamilton College English Department.

2/25 Educating for Democracy Series. "Bilinguals in the Barrios: Crossing Linguistic, Racial and Cultural Frontiers." Professor Ana Celia Zentella, Hunter College and CUNY.

2/26 Educating for Democracy Series. "Language, Education and the New Diversity: the Teacher's Role." Teachers' Workshop. Professor Zentella.

3/6 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Understanding Gender Differences in Students' Interest in Science." Professor Jennifer Borton, Hamilton College Psychology Department.

4/5 Brown Bag Lunch Series. "Women Redefining Security: the Work of East Asia-U.S. Women's Network Against Militarism." Professors Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, Hamilton College Women's Studies Department.

4/12 Educating for Democracy Series. "Can My 7-Year-Old Interpret for Me in the Delivery Room?-Multicultural Utica: Real Problems, Real Solutions." Cornelia E. Brown, Ph.D., Hamilton College Scholar-in-Residence and Executive Director MAMI of CNY.

4/14 Educating for Democracy Series. "Race Matters." Professor Cornel West, Harvard University.