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January 2012

  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage" - by Ellis Cose
  • Monday, January 16
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
  • (Lecture by Ellis Cose)
  • Monday, January 16
  • 7:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader" - by Troy Jackson
  • Thursday, January 19
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • 9/11 Film Series
  • "Watch What You Say: Free Speech in Times of National Crisis"
  • Monday, January 23
  • 7:00 pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education


  • Friday Fun Night - Poetry Slam
  • Friday, January 27
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Bruce Braley: Campus Forum on the State of Higher Education in America
  • Friday, January 27
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • 2011-2012 Canterbury Forum: "Somaphobia: Gays, Lesbians, and the Black Church" by Dr. Michael D. Blackwell
  • Sunday, January 29
  • 7:00pm
  • St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Cedar Falls (http://canterburyforum.net/)

 

February 2012

 

  • Black History Month

 

  • Darwin Week
  • February 13 - 17
  • Lecture: "What It Means to Be Human: The Social Ethics of Charles Darwin" - by Dr. Blackwell [February 15 at 2:00pm]
  • Center for Multicultural Education (http://darwinweek.com)

 

  • Roundtable Discussion - Interracial Dating
  • Wednesday, February 8
  • 6:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington" - by Condoleeza Rice
  • Tuesday, February 14
  • 3:30pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Midwest Black History Conference: Keynote Speaker- Michelle Alexander
  • Wednesday, February 15 and Thursday, February 16
  • Luther College
  • Registration Fee - $25 (http://www.luther.edu/blackhistoryconf/)

 

  • Video Conferencing with Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Author of "The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future"
  • Thursday, February 16
  • 3:30pm
  • The libraries of Price Laboratory
  • Cedar Falls and Lincoln Elementary School
  • Waterloo

 

  • Waterloo Human Rights Commission: Conference on Human Rights
  • Friday, February 17
  • 8:00am - 3:00pm
  • Film Presentation about "Many Thousand Gone and the resultant Park Day" - by Dr. Blackwell [11:15am - 12:30pm]
  • Allen College
  • Registration Fee - $30 (http://www.ci.waterloo.ia.us/humanrights)

 

  • 9/11 Film Series
  • "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib"
  • Monday, February 20
  • 7:00 pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Preacher Moss: End of Racism Comedy Tour
  • Monday, February 20
  • 7:00pm
  • Lang Hall Auditorium

 

  • Friday Fun Night - Movie Night   [CANCELLED]
  • Friday, February 24
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

March 2012

 

 

  • Lecture: "Torture & the Possibility of Community" - by Marjorie Cohn
  • Thursday, March 1
  • 3:00pm
  • Lang Hall Auditorium

 

  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature" - by Erin Khue Ninh
  • Thursday, March 22
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Friday Fun Night - Visit to UNI Museum
  • Friday, March 30
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

April 2012

 

  • Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

 

  • Roundtable Discussion - What does it mean to be "Multicultural"
  • Wednesday, April 4
  • 6:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • 9/11 Film Series
  • "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero"
  • Monday, April 9
  • 7:00 pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?" - by Toure
  • Wednesday, April 11
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Lecture: "What it Means to be Black in the 21st Century / How it has Changed?"
  • Wednesday, April 11
  • 7:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Lecture: "Immigration Policy: Current Crisis and Future Challenges" 
  • By - Graduate Program in Public Policy and Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration
  • Tuesday, April 17
  • 7:00pm
  • University Room - MAU 
  • CME Seven Book Club
  • "Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions" - by A. Robert Lee
  • Thursday, April 19
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

 

  • Friday Fun Night - End of the Year Party
  • Friday, April 20
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Center for Multicultural Education

May 2012

 

No events have been announced at this time. Please check back later.