Calendar of Events

October 12, 2005 - Coffee Break

10:00 a.m.

Foy Union Building - CDRR Lounge

Take a break with the Center for Diversity and Relations and the Auburn University Muslim Student Association. Complimentary coffee and cookies will be served.

October 12, 2005 - "Not Just Desserts" Inquiry Series Lecture - "Word on the Street: 18 th Century Pamphlets and the Language of Gender"

Presented by Dr. Sally O'Driscoll, Associate Professor of English, Fairfield University

12:00 p.m.
RBD Library Auditorium

In England , there was an explosion of print culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that included not only novels and material for the educated classes but also pamphlets, broadsides, chapbooks, and all kinds of ephemeral literature. Much of this pamphlet material is concerned with religion and politics. But there is also a significant amount that deals with social issues, particularly gender and sexuality, but also race and class. This material shows that there was a public discourse about gender and sexuality that manifested anxieties about masculinity, fear of the supposedly increasing
effeminacy of men, concern about same-sex relations among both men and women, and confusion about the changing role of women and femininity. I will present examples from a range of this material to show the type of discourses and the particular concerns raised about gender and sexuality; it is especially interesting to see how these discourses change and develop across a span of a hundred years, in response to
changing social patterns.

Sponsored by:  The College of Liberal Arts, Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn Gay and Lesbian Association and Straight Allies, AU Women's Studies Program, the Stevens Research Fund and the Center for Diversity and Race Relations
Refreshments will be served!

October 14, 2005 - Tango on the Terrace (Tango en la Terraza)

Featuring the group Tami Tango Trio.  Join us for a night of music, dancing and entertainment under the stars.
7:00 p.m.

Terrace at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art

Sponsored by: Auburn Latino Association of Students, Center for Diversity and Race Relations and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

October 19, 2005 - "Not Just Desserts" Inquiry Series Lecture - "Amor y Dolor/Love and Pain"

Presented by Alyx Kellington, Photojournalist

12:00 p.m.
213 Foy Union Building

Alyx Kellington, originally from Austin , Texas , has been traveling the world since 1981. As a photojournalist, she has traveled over twenty-five countries to explore and document different cultures. Her photos are widely published in newspapers, magazines and educational books.

Borrowing from Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the Zapatista army in Chiapas , Alyx calls this presentation "Amor y Dolor: Two words that not only rhyme, but stand up and march together." In the early 1990s, Alyx lived in Mexico City working as a photojournalist and covering economic changes within the country. The introduction of NAFTA took an unexpected turn with the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas . Alyx spent the first six months of the rebellion documenting both the Mexican military and the armed guerrillas. Gaining access to the Zapatistas led to exploring the role of the indigenous women within the movement, and their struggle as mothers and soldiers.

"Amor y Dolor / Love and Pain" combines the photographs and experiences of Alyx's time in Chiapas . Chiapas is the most southern state of Mexico , where Mayan dialects far outnumber the Spanish speakers. With the highest poverty and lowest level of education, the people of this area face many challenges, including deforestization, malnutrition, illness, and illiteracy. Additionally, there are few schools, medical clinics, and minimal infrastructure. Because of these problems, the
average indigenous woman might become pregnant over twenty times in her lifetime, but most of her children will die in infancy from preventable disease and malnutrition. These issues led the Zapatistas to fight for basic human rights. In this presentation, Alyx focuses on Chiapas , provides an overview of Mexico , and explores the role of the media and
NGOs in improving the situation. She will also discuss class and gender issues of the indigenous peoples, human rights, and health care.

Sponsored by: Center for Diversity and Race Relations
Refreshments will be served!

October 26, 2005 - Coffee Break

2:00 p.m.
Foy Union Building - CDRR Lounge

Take a break with the Center for Diversity and Relations and the Auburn Gay and Lesbian Association and Straight Allies. Complimentary coffee and cookies will be served.

November 7, 2005 - World Literature Lecture

"Comparative Literature as Comparative Politics: Indian Literary Histories and Some Utopian Possibilities"

Guest Lecturer - Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University

      Time

      Draughon Library Auditorium

Sponsored by: AU Department of English, Longman Publishers, AU Center for Diversity and Race Relations and R. B. Draughon Library.
    Reception to follow.

November 9, 2005 - Coffee Break

      10:00 a.m.
      Foy Union Building - CDRR Lounge

Take a break with the Center for Diversity and Relations and the Auburn American Indian Association.  Complimentary coffee and cookies will be served.


November 11-13, 2005 - 4th Annual War Eagle American Indian Festival     

Grounds of Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art

Sponsored by: Center for Diversity and Race Relations and Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs

    Visit www.auburn.edu/cdrr for more information.

 

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