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Each week UA Crossroads provides a list of upcoming
opportunities to engage the rich diversity of identities and experiences at UA.
If you are interested in having an event included,
please contact the Crossroads office at 348-6930
or
email us at crossroads@ua.edu.
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Happening this Week!
- see attached flyers below for more details -
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Monday, April 10
- International Movie Night - "English Vinglish" Film Screening
6:30 pm, B.B. Comer 109
Tuesday, April 11
- Tuesday T
1:00 pm, Ferguson Student Center Great Hall
Dialogue circles: Sexual Assault Awareness and Deaf Culture
Wednesday, April 12
- Inclusive Campus Breakfast
8:30 am, Anderson Room 3125, Ferguson Student Center
- International Movie Night - "Aftershock" Film Screening
6:30 pm, B.B. Comer 109
- Talk Better Together: Sexuality and Religion
7:00 pm, UA Safe Zone Lounge
- Dr. Lisa Farrington, "The World Before Racism:
Blacks in Western Art"
7:00 - 8:30 pm, 205 Gorgas Library
Thursday, April 13
- Dr. Lisa Farrington, "21st Century Black Feminism"
4:00 - 5:30 pm, Ferguson Student Center Forum Room
- Dare to Diversify
6:00 - 7:30 pm, Lloyd 132
- "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - talk by Cosmo Whyte
7:00 pm, 205 Gorgas Library
Friday, April 14
- International Coffee Hour
11:30 - 1:00 pm, 121 BB Comer
- “The Biggest Small-town They’ll Ever Call Home: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in UA Classrooms”
12:00 - 1:00 pm, 205 Gorgas
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Inclusive Campus Breakfast
Wednesday, April 12
8:30 am
Anderson Room 3125, Ferguson Student Center
Come share on-going projects for engaging diversity and new ideas
for making UA more inclusive and welcoming.
Join an existing work group or start your own!
This Wednesday we will meet
in work groups that include but are not limited to the following:
- Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Collaborative Programming
(September 15-October 15, 2017)
- Supporting Trans Students Faculty and Staff at UA
- LGBT History Month Collaborative Programming
(October 2017)
- Native American Heritage Month Programming (November 2017)
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"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
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Thursday, April 13
7:00 pm
205 Gorgas Library
Jamaican artist Cosmo Whyte will give a talk titled, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," about his multidisciplinary practice on Thursday. Whyte employs drawing, performance and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration. His visit is sponsored by The Kirby Endowment and the Department of Art and Art History.
Whyte describes himself and his work: "I situate my work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. My creative process begins through the interrogation of my own (racialized as black, gendered as man) body, and the personal memories that are embedded within it. I use this archive as my entry point into collective political interrogations."
Assistant Professor Jane Cassidy, who organized Whyte's visit, encourages visitors from several disciplines to attend the lecture. "His work is so relevant to the current political climate and innovative in the manner he speaks to immigration. He speaks on pertinent issues in an encompassing and welcoming fashion that only further draws his audience into his work and ideas."
For more information, contact Jane Cassidy jcassidy@ua.edu
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“The Biggest Small-town They’ll Ever Call Home:
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in UA Classrooms”
For: UA Faculty, Instructors and Graduate Teaching Assistants
How do we, as teachers, create a welcoming educational environment in diverse classrooms? The Inclusive Classrooms Workgroup, with generous support from the Office for Academic Affairs, is facilitating a series of four Spring 2017 teaching workshops on promoting diversity and inclusion in the classroom.
Register online through Skillport to attend one or all presentations by clicking this link Promoting Diversity and Inclusion to enroll in the presentation(s) of interest. You can also register for individual sessions by clicking the links below the workshops. Note: Please help us manage seating, refreshments and the catering of meals by being timely with your registration.
Lunch - Friday, April 14, 12-1 p.m., 205 Gorgas
"The Other Side of the Lectern: Students on Diversity and Inclusion”
Professor: Norm Baldwin
Student panelists: Katie Jane Childs and Vic Harris
UA Faculty are the target audience for these presentations.
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Tickling Giants Screening
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Monday, April 17
6:30 pm
B.B. Comer Hall 109
Free Cultural Food and Drinks
In the midst of the Egyptian Arab Spring, Bassem Youssef creates the satirical show, "Al Bernameg," which quickly becomes the most viewed television program in the Middle East, with 30 million viewers per episode. But, in a country where free speech is not settled law, his show becomes as controversial as it is popular. Despite increasing danger, Bassem employs comedy, not violence, to comment on hypocrisy in media, politics, and religion. Tickling Giants follows the "Al Bernameg" team as they discover democracy is not easily won.
Watch the Trailer Here!
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Evenings at Global Café
Capitol Hall, 413 Bryce Lawn Drive
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Evenings at Global Café are opportunities to relax, visit, and meet leaders from campus and community organizations. Global Café provides a local welcome for world visitors, an international connection for American travelers, and a resource for conversation partners practicing language.
5:00 pm refreshments. 5:30 pm program.
For our semester schedule and directions to Capitol Hall, please check our website
globalcafe.ua.edu
Contact Info:
beverly.hawk@ua.edu
, or call 205-348-7392.
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Alabama Students Without Borders Presents:
Charlas con Cafe
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Every Thursday from 4:00 - 5:00 pm
at the Ferguson Center Starbucks. Drop in for an hour, enjoy a cup of coffee, and practice your Spanish.
The table will be marked with a Latin American Flag.
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UA Crossroads | 205-348-6930 | crossroads@ua.edu | crossroads.ua.edu
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