Seminars & Events - 2009 Seminars and Events

Diversity Seminars 2009

“create a diversity-oriented intellectual exchange community through discussion of professional literature”Presenters: Juanita Johnson-Bailey & Ronald Cervero

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12-1pm
116 Aderhold

Drs. Johnson-Bailey and Cervero will discuss their 2008 paper “Different world and divergent paths: Academic careers defined by race and gender.” Harvard Educational Review, 78(2), 311-332.

Writing Ourselves at Risk: Using Self-Narrative in Working for Social Justice.Presenter: Dr. Corey Johnson, Recreation and Leisure Studies

April 28, 2009 12-1pm
G-23 Aderhold

The goal is to use reflexive work of self-narrative to create a dialogue about the perplexities that surround representing the “researcher self” with goals for social justice.

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Ending Heterosexism and Homophobia in Our Schools: A Plan for Systemic ChangePresenter: Dr. Anneliese A. Singh, Assistant Professor

Department of Counceling and Human Development Services

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Targeting the Achievement Gap for Latino Elementary Students: CLASE Tutoring ProgramsPresenter: Dr. Paul Matthews, Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator for CLASE

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 12-1pm
G-23 Aderhold

CLASE has been supporting UGA student involvement with a growing number of after- and in-school tutoring programs providing assistance to elementary English-learning and Latino students. This session will describe the current status of our efforts to create a sustainable pipeline of support in building the educational capital of these students placed at risk, and will share our findings regarding the impact of the programs on the undergraduates and the children they are working with.

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“Immigration Raids–Social In/Justice”Professor Larry Nackerud,
School of Social Work

G23 Aderhold Hall
March 5, 2009
3:30PM-4:30PM

Dr. Nackerud’s work examines the belief that the “immigration raids” being conducted across the country by the Department of Homeland Security over the last two years represent a grave social injustice promulgated by the U.S. federal government–comparable in ways to the Executive Order to intern the Japanese and Japanese Americans, the federal mandate to relocate the members of the Cherokee Tribe in the “Trail of Tears” and the lack of federal policy to halt the lynching of African Americans in the Jim Crow south. In the seminar Dr. Nackerud will also address issues involved in the misguided use of the term, “comprehensive immigration reform, ” and how immigration policy is “diversity driven” and “diversity driving.”

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The Ecomuseum Model in Postmodern Museum Studies: Cultural Navigation and Knowledge Creation Beyond Museum WallsPresenter: Lesley Graybeal, Doctoral Student,
Social Foundations of Education

Have you ever visited a museum and wondered who chose the objects to put in the display case, or what do say about them in the display’s description? A widespread critique of museums has been that they often speak, about the groups they represent rather than with or from them. Some new types of museums emerging since the 1960’s, however, have been created within communities to serve interests closer to home. How does this new approach to power in the museum change the way museums look and what they do?

Ending Heterosexism and Homophobia in our Schools: A Plan for Systemic ChangePresenter: Anneliese A. Singh, Ph.D., LPC
Department of Counseling and Human Development ServicesThe recent brutal murder of queer adolescent Lawrence King by his 14-year old classmate reminds us that heterosexism and homophobia toward LGBTQ youth continues with devastating consequences in schools. In this presentation, perspectives from liberation psychology, queer theory, and critical theory will be used to propose a strategic plan to end systemic heterosexism and homophobia in schools. Didactic and experiential activities will be used to assist attendees to locate their positions of privilege they may use to interrupt heterosexism in schools.