CMDS Campus Events

Center for Multicultural and Diversity Studies
 Spring 2008 Lineup

The Center for Multicultural and Diversity Studies offers various programming to The Chicago School Community, including colloquia, movies, conversation hours, cultural excursion, volunteer opportunities and workshops.  All TCS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the various events of interest. 

  • Colloquia are presentations from members within TCS that focus on various issues relating to diversity and psychology.

  • Multicultural Consideration Dinners begin with an event speaker and a brief presentation on a topic that will be the focus of the dinner’s discussion.

  • Movies are shown once a month and are followed by a discussion.

  • Cultural excursions, facilitate by a member of CMDS, allow TCS students and faulty to explore the cultural diversity within the Chicagoland community.  Individuals who are interested will be asked to RSVP with the event organizer or CMDS.

  • Volunteer opportunities provide the chance for contribution and increased exposure to various needs and organized efforts within the various communities around the Chicagoland area.  Individuals who are interested will be asked to RSVP with the group organizer or CMDS.

  • Workshops are two hour sessions of training on specific topics on diversity. 

For further information on any of the programs offered through the Center for Multicultural and Diversity Studies or if you have recommendations for future programming, please contact the Center for Multicultural and Diversity Studies at diversity@thechicagoschool.edu or Dr. Amanda Kim at Akim@thechicagoschool.edu .

April 2008 Events

 

Colloquia

Movies

Cultural Excursions/
Volunteer Opportunity

Other

Week 1

Scholarship Colloquium:
Racial Microaggressions – The Pervasive Impact of Contemporary Racism as Manifested by Microaggressions on African Americans Across the Universals of Space, Energy, and Time
Dr. Grant White & Research Lab Opportunity Team
Wed., 4/02, 12-1pm, Rm 718

Paradise Now*
Wed, 4/2, 5-7pm, Rm 509
Facilitator: Tamba-Kuii Bailey

Palestinian Film Festival
Siskel Film Center
4/25-5/7
Contact Liz Kist at eak8861@thechicago
school.edu

Through a Different Lens
Workshop 1:  My Prized Posessions
Tues, April 1, 12-2 Rm 721
Contact LaToya Wilson at lsw9027@thechicago
school.edu

Color of Fear Speaker Roberto Almanzan
Sat, 4/5, 9-1, Rm 407
RSVP: cssa@thechicagoschool.edu

Week 2

Multicultural Consideration Dinner:
Reflections on Social Services in Guatemala
Dr. Ellis Copeland
Wed, 4/9, 5-6:30pm, Rm 509
RSVP Heather King at hdk9889@thechicago
school.edu

Scholarship Colloquium
HIV Prevention and Education
Stacy Wayne
Thurs, 4/10, 12-1pm, Rm 719
Coordinated by Millicent McFadden at mmcfadden@thechicago
school.edu

 

West Side Excursion:
Humboldt Park**
Sat,  4/12 , TCS 4th floor,9am
Contact: Marlina Liggett at mrl4794@thechicago
school.edu

 

Through a Different Lens
Workshop 2:  Pieces of Me
Wed, 4/ 9, 12-2 Rm 617

Practicing Multicultural Competence Workshop
Mismatched values: Approaching difficult situations with clients in practicum
Fri, 4/11, 12-2, Rm 515
RSVP Millicent McFadden at mmcfadden@thechicago
school.edu

Week 3

Multicultural Competency Series:
Clinical Psychology
Tamba-Kuii Bailey
Wed, 4/16, 5-6:30pm, Rm 509

 

 

MMP Mtg
Wed, 4/16, 12-1pm

Through a Different Lens
Workshop 3:  Forces that Shape my Life
Thurs, 4/17, 4-6 Rm 515


Week
4

Scholarship Colloquium
Global Mindset
Daniela Talmelli
Thurs, 4/24, 12-1pm, Rm 718

Multicultural Consideration Dinner
Speaker TBA
Wed, 4/30, 5-6:30pm, Rm 509

Babel***
Wed, 4/23, 5-7pm, Rm 509
Facilitated by: Charese Brown

Engaging Chicago: The Diverse Experience – Documentary ****
Thurs, 4/24, 5:00pm, Rm 407
Facilitated by David Songco

The Ballad of Emmett Till*****
Goodman Theatre Production
Sat, 4/26, 8pm
(Tickets go on sale March 21)
Coordinated by Aarti Khullar

 

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*  “Paradise Now depicts two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bomber terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv. Something goes wrong at the crossing, they're separated, and the action is postponed, long enough for renewed questioning of what they're about to do. ‘Under the occupation, we're already dead,’ is Khaled's analysis. Fate and God's will seem to drive Said. Can minds change?”
** “Join the ICD fellows as they venture to the West Side neighborhood of Humboldt Park. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the history and architecture of the neighborhood while sampling authentic Puerto Rican cuisine.”
***  “Through a series of misunderstandings, Babel interweaves the unfortunate circumstances of a Moroccan, an American, a Mexican and a Japanese family.  These four interlocking stories are all connected by a single gun, converging at the end to reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world.”
**** “Engaging Chicago: The Diverse Experience Documentary viewing created by the ICD fellows containing a taste of all the excursions as well as their expeditions to other neighborhoods all over the city of Chicago.”
*****  “The now legendary story of Emmett Till is believed by many to be the start of the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and remains one of the most pivotal incidents in a monumental era. This world premiere, part history and part ghost story, is a jazz integration of past and present, the living and dead, factual accounts and creative interpolation.”