In the Spring of 2000, the Committee for a Cultural and Intellectual Community was formed to promote programs that would bring the entire campus community together in learning.  As a result of the committee's work, our campus community is invited to explore the theme of Race, Power, and Privilege:  Local and Global Perspectives throughout the 2000-2001 academic year.  To kick off the theme for the year, we are holding a Community Learning Day on October 11th.  With participation by students, faculty, staff, and members of the surrounding community, this campus wide academic event focuses on the sub theme of Cultural Encounters:  Race, Power and Privilege.  All standard campus activities will be canceled and the afternoon will be devoted to the keynote address by indigenous peoples' activist and Green Party Vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke, followed by four panel discussions with visiting scholars, TCNJ faculty, and students.  The day will conclude with an evening presentation by the creator of The Boondocks comic strip, Aaron McGruder.
        In the presentations and surrounding discussions on Community Learning Day, we will consider the consequences of encounters between cultures in opposition, for example, when a culture has developed under or responded to circumstances of prejudice, or when one culture includes a sense of privilege and power over others.  Such cultural intersections permeate history and human activity around the world and across all scales of social organization -- in personal interactions between individuals, between our inner cities and surrounding suburbs, between indigenous communities and colonial/national governments, and between nations themselves.  The results of these cultural encounters are rich, varied, and perhaps unexpected, raising important questions about how an increasingly multi-cultural world can move toward equality, justice, and sustainability for all of its member cultures.
        During Community Learning Day we will search for these questions and their answers with an interdisciplinary perspective including art, sociology, biology, politics, psychology, and pedagogy.
       We are pleased to announce the many workshops, lectures, and performances which will take place beginning on Community Learning Day and continuing throughout the year.  We hope these events will inspire continued campus dialogue about Race, Power, and Privilege:  Local and Global Perspectives.  A listing of these year long events follows the Community Learning Day schedule of events.

Committee for a Cultural and Intellectual Community:
Robert Anderson, Academic Affairs                      Janet Morrison, Biology
Patrice Coleman-Boatwright, Student Life           Melissa Narvaez, Student
Ellen Friedman, Women's and Gender Studies     Janis Blayne Paul, Devel. & Alumni Affairs
Joseph Goebel, Modern Languages                      Arianna Parsons, Student
Nancy Hill, Campus Life                                       Mary-Elaine Perry, Student Life
Jamal Johnson, Student                                        Beth Zawodniak, Student Life

Community Learning Day Planning Committee:
Tim Asher, Campus Life
Janice Bossart, Biology                                                 Janet Morrison, Biology
Jo Carney, English                                                        Ruth Palmer, Educational Admin.
Andrew Clifford, Mathematics and Statistics                                      and Secondary Education
James Graham, Psychology                                          Mary-Elaine Perry, Student Life
Joseph Goebel, Modern Languages                              Shri Rao, Special Education
Matthew Lawson, Sociology and Anthropology            Michelle Tarter, English
Stuart McCook, History                                                Beth Zawodniak, Student Life

9:30 a.m.--12:00 pm    Film Screening: The Color of Fear                            Forcina Hall 130
                                   The Color of Fear is a powerful documentary film of a workshop on racism.
                                   The film is widely used as a vehicle for personal and community
                                   consciousness raising regarding racism.

                                   Organized by:       The Color of Fear Committee
                                   Moderated by:      Janet Gray, Women's and Gender Studies

12:30--2:00 pm   "Women, Race, and Power"                             Kendall Hall
                            Keynote Address by Winona LaDuke
                                 Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the
                            Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth
                            Reservation.  Currently, she is the Green Party Vice-Presidential candidate.
                                 As Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, Winona LaDuke
                             works on a national level to advocate, raise public support and create
                             funding for front-line Native Environmental groups.  She also works as
                             Founding Director for White Earth Land Recovery Project:  a
                             reservation based non-profit focused on land, cultural and environmental
                             issues.
                                In 1994, LaDuke was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty
                            most promising leaders under forty years of age.  She has been awarded the
                            Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997,
                            the Ann Bancroft Award fro Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok
                            Human Rights Award, with which in part she began the White Earth Land
                            Recovery Project.
                               A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on
                            Native American and environmental issues.  She is a former board member of
                            Greenpeace USA and serves as co-chair of the indigenous Women's Network, a
                            North American and Pacific indigenous women's organization.  In 1998, Ms.
                            Magazine named her "Women of the Year" for her work with Honor the Earth.
                            Also in 1997, her first novel, Last Standing Woman, was published by Voyager
                            Press.  In 1999, South End Press published All Our Relations, a non-fiction
                            book on Native environmental struggles.
 

Winona LaDuke

2:00--3:30 pm    “Loving Across the Divide:               Brower Student Center 202
                            An Intergenerational Dialogue about Inter-Ethnic Life in Trenton”
                            This workshop will bring together Trenton natives from three generations who
                            have formed bridges among local ethnic enclaves in their personal and
                            professional lives.  Their stories will help us discover a stable ground amid a sea
                            of changes in the ethnic composition of Trenton.  Where were the lines of
                            oppression, fear and conflict drawn in years past?  How did those lines become
                            blurred?  How are they perceived now?  What are the prospects for our future?

                           Organized by:     Matthew Lawson, Sociology and Anthropology
                           Moderator:   Sally Lane, Director, Trenton Convention and Visitors Bureau;
                                              editor and columnist for nearly 20 years at Trenton's two newspapers.

2:00--3:30 pm     "The Causes and Consequences of Cultural                     Forcina Hall 130
                            Encounters:  A Scientific Perspective"
                            Traditionally, academia has kept the natural sciences separate from the study
                            of sociological disciplines.  In reality, this is an artificial separation.  Human
                            interactions affect natural phenomena and, conversely, natural phenomena force
                            different societies together.  This interplay will be the focus of a discussion led by
                            a panel of sociologists and scientists.

                            Organized by:      Janice Bossart, Biology
                                                      Andrew Clifford, Mathematics and Statistics
                            Panelists:      Sara Curran, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Princeton
                                                University
                                                William Abruzzi, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and
                                                Social Work
                                                Christine Armenti, Program Coordinator of the Refugee Health
                                                Program, New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior
                                                Services

3:45--5:00 pm     "Coming Out Into Power:  A Constant Struggle"       Student Center 211
                          In conjunction with National Coming Out Day, this panel will focus discussion on
                           the history and significance of the day, and how power and privilege impacts the
                           coming out process for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people.

                            Organized by: GUTS at TCNJ

3:45--5:00 pm      "Beyond The Color of Fear:           Brower Student Center 202
                           Race, Power, and Privilege in the Classroom"
                            How can anti-racist activism be incorporated into course planning and
                            teaching across the curriculum, and what are some of the insights, rewards,
                            frustrations, and stumbling blocks along the way?  A panel of TCNJ faculty
                            members speak from their experience as teachers and researchers.

                            Organized by:   Janet Gray, Women's and Gender Studies
                            Panelists:   Ruth Palmer, Educational Administration and Secondary Education
                                            Shri Rao, Special Education
                                            Connie Titone, Educational Administration and Secondary Education
                                            Ann Marie Nicolosi, Women's and Gender Studies

8:00 pm          “What’s the Color of Funny?"                                   Kendall Hall
                        Lecture by Aaron McGruder, creator of The Boondocks -- a comic strip about
                        African American city kids adjusting to life in white suburbia.  Through his work,
                        McGruder seeks to provoke thought, help improve the state of racial discourse and
                        expand the types of humor found on newspaper comics pages.
 

Monday, October 16, 8 p.m.            Public Lecture and Reading by author William Heath
Allen Hall Drawing Room            followed by a Reception and Book Signing
        William Heath will be discussing and reading from his novel, The Children Bob Moses Led.  The novel recounts the Freedom Summer from two distinct perspectives:  one, from Bob Moses himself--the young African-American who organized the effort to register thousands of Mississippi blacks for the vote; and the other, from Tom Morton--a fictional composite of the many white northern college students who dedicated their summer (and for some, their lives) to volunteering for Moses' crusade.  The novel traces the events in Mississippi leading up to that summer and then ends with the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.  (It was at this convention that Lyndon Johnson refused to seat the delegation from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party).

Organized by:      Dr. David Blake, English
Reception and Book Signing sponsored by:  Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society

Tuesday--Sunday, October 17-22      The Color of Fear Film Screenings
        Students, faculty and staff can view this film about a powerful documentary film of a workshop on racism on the campus cable channel (channel 23) at 10 a.m., 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day.

Organized by:       The Color of Fear Committee

Wednesday, October 25
        11:00 a.m.  "A Presentation on Privilege Systems"
                            Peggy McIntosh, an internationally recognized consultant on diversity issues, and
                            Victor Lewis, a The Color of Fear film participant, will be speaking about issues
                            raised in the film.

        2:45 p.m.        Open Discussion of The Color of Fear
                            Facilitated by Peggy McIntosh and Victor Lewis

Wednesday, November 1, 12:30 p.m.    "Multicultural Democracy:
 Kendall Hall                                            Beyond Race, Gender and Class Oppression"
                                                                   Lecture by Manning Marable
        Dr. Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.  Marable is a prominent lecturer and interpreter of the politics and history of race in America.  He regularly appears on media programs such as NBC's Today Show, ABC's Weekend News, National Public Radio, and more.  He has authored fifteen books, over two hundred articles for academic journals, anthologies and other scholarly publications.  Dr. Marable also donates much of his time to civil rights, labor, religious and social justice groups.

Wednesday, November 7, 8:00 p.m.    Ballet Hispanico
Kendall Hall
        Ballet Hispanico is recognized around the world as the foremost dance interpreter of Hispanic culture in the United States.  Blending ballet, jazz, salsa, flamenco, and modern dance forms, their dramatic range is endless.  Ballet Hispanico performs with a distinctive style that will engage, entertain, and transform you.

Sponsored by:  The Celebration of the Arts

Tuesday, November 14        "Inequality in the World Economy"  A one-day conference
        Global inequality has been the topic of much heated discussion.  Debate swirls around the reasons for the uneven distribution of wealth and the methods for redressing it.  This one-day conference will join that debate through a series of afternoon workshops, dinner-table
conversations, and an evening panel open to the public.  It will bring high-level academic analysis to bear on an important public issue for the benefit of the College and the wider community.
        Three workshops will be offered throughout the afternoon including focusing discussion on Global activism, African development, and Latin American development.  Seventy-five conference participants will be invited to a dinner discussion with various topics at different tables.  The day will conclude with an panel discussion on "Inequality in the World Economy."  Panelists include Kevin Danaher, Co-Director of the Global Exchange; Alice Dear, American Executive Director of the African Development Bank; and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University Sociology Department.

Organized by:      Dr. Alan Dawley, History

February 1-February 28        "Oral Traditions:  Preserving an Africana Legacy"
        Series of programs throughout the month including lectures, film screenings, readings, historical re-enactments, symposia, roundtable discussions, and panels.  More information is forthcoming.

Organized by:      Gloria Harper Dickenson, African American Studies

Thursday, March 1, 8:00 p.m.            "The Diary of Anne Frank"
Kendall Hall
        The Diary of Anne Frank chronicles the two years that the Frank family, and several of their friends, spent hiding in an Amsterdam attic following the German invasion of Holland.  As Jews, their only choice was to live in secret or risk deportation to the Nazi death camps.  A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, The Diary of Anne Frank was first staged in 1956 and continues to be performed today with no less emotional impact.  It serves as a reminder of how personal the consequences of hatred and violence are, and always will be.

Sponsored by:  The Celebration of the Arts

Wednesday, March 7            "Lebensraum"
        Written by Israel Horowitz, Lebensraum is a fictional docu-drama set in the beginning of the 21st century.  The new German Chancellor, in a gesture of reconciliation, invites six million Jews from around the world to make Germany their home.  The Chancellor's invitation is at once generous and naive, absurd and visionary, and generates dramatically disparate reactions from every corner of the world:  an out of work Jewish dock worker from New England chooses to bring his gentile wife and son to Germany in hope of prosperity, while a survivor of Auschwitz returns to seek revenge on the woman who betrayed his family.  Interact Theater Company originally staged the play in 1999.  It won three Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Overall Production of a Play, Outstanding Direction of a Play and Outstanding Ensemble.

Sponsored by:    The Celebration of the Arts
 

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