UNI Speakers Bureau - Cultural Studies
Please call the Office of University Marketing and Public Relations at 319-273-2761 or email stacey.christensen@uni.edu, to request a speaker. Speakers do not charge fees, unless otherwise noted. Upon request, we will provide background information to introduce the speaker. When the topic or event warrants, the Office of University Marketing and Public Relations will send a news release to media serving your area.
CULTURAL PRACTICES OF HEAD MODIFICATION
Issues of artificial head molding practices among various cultures around the world, and the contemporary correlates.
ETHICS, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Despite spending nearly 50% more per capita than any other nation, the U.S. health care system consistently ranks near last among major industrialized nations in terms of nearly all global measures of access and effectiveness. Why? What can be done to both decrease costs and increase effectiveness? There are two versions of this talk. Once focuses on the U.S. and Canada, the other examines characteristics of multiple care systems.
ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN CARING FOR PATIENTS FROM ANOTHER CULTURE
What obligations does a physician have when caring for a patient whose culture is fundamentally different than our own? What obligations do physicians have in providing medical translators? If dealing with a culture which believes that a patient should not be told when terminal, how can physicians negotiate this conflict? Presenter explores these issues using cases drawn from Bosnian immigrants.
DEATH PERCEPTION: AN INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
A review of forensic anthropological investigative techniques and methods, with associated case studies and applications.
DIVERSITY
CULTURAL COMPETANCE
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTABILITY.
Organizations looking to identify an individual's ability to adapt to new cultures can use this workshop to help determine how the individual will respond in different cultural situations.
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION.
Differing ideas about politeness and communication can cause misunderstanding between members of different cultures. Presentation also includes ideas for more successful communication.
CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT.
Cultural adjustment for international students, immigrants and refugees.
CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT.
Cultural adjustment for professionals traveling or working abroad.
GENDER AND COMMUNICATION.
An interactive discussion of cross-cultural gendered expectations and how these affect our interactions with others.
GENDER, RACE, AND EQUALITY.
Emphasis on how men and whites can engage in anti-racist and anti-sexist activism. The promises and problems of male and white anti-racist and anti-sexist identities.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN ACADEMIC SETTINGS.
This presentation will explain what it means to have an "intercultural imagination" and will argue that this imagination (or sensitivity) is a necessary component in effective communication and optimal education in academic settings. Ways to improve intercultural communication in academic settings will be outlined.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN IOWA.
This presentation will explain what it means to have an "intercultural imagination" and will argue that this imagination (or sensitivity) is a necessary component in successful communication between peoples of different cultures. The presentation will consider this issue in the context of immigrants in Iowa.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION WORKHSOP.
This is a hands-on workshop to raise awareness about how our own cultural identity influences our interactions with others, and how we can improve our communication and build community in a diverse society. Workshop can be altered to fit any needs in time length, audience needs, etc.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS.
Issues facing International students at UNI and the area.
JAPANESE WOMEN TODAY: TRIUMPHS AND CHALLENGES.
The experiences of Japanese women including changes in women's status and challenges currently facing Japanese women.
LANGUAGE.
Discussion on language policy and attitudes toward languages in the United States and worldwide.
LANGUAGE LEARNING: BY ENGLISH SPEAKERS & BY SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES.
The social and cultural conditions under which children and adults learn languages.
THE LIFELONG IMPORTANCE OF THE ARTS IN DAILY LIVING.
This presentation addresses the importance of all forms of art and culture in a person's life. An overview of the arts at UNI will be presented. This speech serves to spotlight UNI's annual Arts in April Celebration, a month-long celebration of campus events. An overview of the one-day kick-off festival, Saturday March 29, 2003 which includes numerous workshops, master-classes, demonstrations and exhibits by UNI students and guest artists will be highlighted.
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES.
What is the place of the burgeoning field of Cultural Studies in the field of literature, and how do these fields complement each other? By bridging the gap between literary study and "real life," what does Cultural Studies have to say to us about our own experiences in the world?
MIDDLE EAST.
MUSEUMS.
The role of museums as a forum for discussions of world culture, cultural diversity, and tolerance. Understanding humans of the world through the nonverbal communication of material culture. The value of museums in supporting lifelong learning and quality of life.
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS.
A summary of social psychological research on factors that cause people to be initially attracted to potential romantic partners.
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS.
Despite spending nearly 50% more per capita than any other nation, the US health care system consistently ranks near the last among major industrialized nations in terms of nearly all global measures of access and effectiveness. Why? What can be done to both decrease costs and increase effectiveness? There are two versions of this talk. One focuses on the US & Canada, the other examines characteristics of multiple other health care systems.
PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATION.
Successful translation requires more than simply putting the words of one language into another. Matters of style, connotation, structure, and culture must all be taken into account. If not, "Got milk?" in Spanish becomes "Are you lactating?"
"THE PYSCHOLOGY OF INTERPERSONAL FORGIVENESS: WHAT IS IT, WHAT IS IS NO, AND HOW TO FORGIVE"
Educating people on forgiveness, what it is, what it is not, how to go about forgiving and how it could be healing for people.
REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT HEALTH.
Presentation covers refugee, immigrant, minority, and international health issues in Black Hawk County and in other meat packing towns around Iowa.
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.
Speaker discusses a form of justice known to Native American and adopted in many states. Restorative justice brings together victim, offender, and the community when a wrongdoing has been committed to restore justice.
SEPHARDIC STUDIES.
Who are the Sephardic Jews? Where do they come from? What language(s) do they speak? This is a sizable component of the world Jewish community, but historically it is culturally and linguistically different from the majority of American Jews.
SOUTH AMERICAN BIOARCHAEOLOGY
Bolivian-Andean prehistory from an biological anthropological viewpoint.
TEACHING EROTIC LITERATURE AND FILM: ISSUES, TABOOS, AND CHALLENGES.
Explanation regarding students' struggles to understand sexuality through these media.
WELCOMING NEW IOWANS-A GUIDE FOR CITIZENS AND COMMUNITIES.
Discussion of immigration and the need for new workers in Iowa. Addresses three key issues related to immigration: language, health, education. Presentation offers advice for community leaders on how to handle change associated with immigration issues.
WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS.
Using real-life cases such as the Challenger Disaster, analyzes the factors at the individual/psychological, social psychological, organizational, and societal levels that lead "good" people to participate in unethical actions