OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
- Get ready for the annual Multicultural Resource Center Open House! Thursday, August 28, from 1 to 4 pm! Express yourself creatively by designing your own t-shirt! And enjoy ice cream and the music of Expresso Brazil! Don't miss this fun start to the new year!
- We’re looking for outgoing, creative students with Work Study to join our 08-09 Student Staff! Want to see the job description?
Want to submit your online application? Call us at 334.5090 if you have any questions. We’re looking forward to adding some new faces!
The SOCC/CACE Conference Schedule
To help you decide what presentations to attend during each “Workshop Carnival” session, read the brief descriptions of each one.
| 8:00–8:40 :: REGISTRATION | |||||
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| 8:45–9:00 :: WELCOME — Dr. Ceola Ross Baber | |||||
| 9:05–9:50 :: OPENING SPEAKER —Mark Anthony Neal | |||||
| 9:55–10:00 :: CONFERENCE HOUSEKEEPING | |||||
| 10:05–11:00 :: “WORKSHOP CARNIVAL” MORNING SESSION ONE | |||||
| Choose One | Overall Theme | Presenter/Facilitator | Topic | Time | Type |
| SOCC 1 | Perception and Lifestyle Choice | Leadership Connections, Inc. | 100% Black | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 2 | Urban Music | Armond Towns | Gangsta Rap: A Former Site of Social Change | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 3 | Cross-Cultures | Dr. Etsuko Kinefuchi | Together but Separate? | 1hr | Workshop |
| CACE 4 | African American Women | Shani Foy, Shuntay McCoy, Dara Stevenson, Shawn Ricks, April Ruffin | Rhizomatic African American Women | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 5 | African Americans and Education | Fuabeh Fonge | US Diversity Lottery, African Immigrants, and Recoloring of HBCU | 30 min | Paper |
| George Dimock | Working Together in the Classroom | 30 min | Paper | ||
| CACE 6 | Book Discussion | Megan Young | American Apartheid and African American Identity | 30 min | Paper |
| Alexis Gumbs | Nobody Mean More to Me Than You | 30 min | Paper | ||
| CACE 7 | African American Men | Robert Randolph | You Told Harpo to Beat Me | 30 min | Paper |
| Sabrina Boyer, Dr. Frank Woods | Blade: Black Bodies Spectacle | 30 min | Paper | ||
| 11:05–12:00 :: “WORKSHOP CARNIVAL” MORNING SESSION TWO | |||||
| Choose One | Overall Theme | Presenter/Facilitator | Topic | Time | Type |
| SOCC 7 | Perception and Lifestyle Choice | Leadership Connections, Inc. | 100% Black | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 8 | Urban Music | Armond Towns | Gangsta Rap: A Former Site of Social Change | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 9 | Cross-Cultures | Dr. Etsuko Kinefuchi | Together but Separate? | 1hr | Workshop |
| CACE 10 | N Word | Demetrius Noble | Negroes vs. Niggas | 1hr | Workshop |
| CACE 11 | African American Representations | Mary Dalton, Laura Linder | Images of African American Educators on Prime Time Television | 30 min | Paper |
| Debra Majeed | Muslim Women in Film | 30 min | Paper | ||
| CACE 12 | Colorism | Andrea Patterson, Robert Anderson, Michele Leverett, Dr. Michael Brookshaw | The African Diaspora and the Issue of Colorism | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 13 | Hip Hop | Shelia Cooper | Still in Love with Hip Hop | 30min | Paper |
| Jennifer Scism | Hip Hop and the Media | 30min | Paper | ||
| 12:05–1:05 :: LUNCH with entertainment by Groove Masters | |||||
| 1:10–2:05 :: “WORKSHOP CARNIVAL” AFTERNOON SESSION ONE | |||||
| Choose One | Overall Theme | Presenter/Facilitator | Topic | Time | Type |
| SOCC 14 | Cultural Politics | Diversity Educators | In Your Face | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 15 | Defining Privilege | NCCJ | The Invisibility of Privilege | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 16 | Developing Perspectives | Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. | Knowing Me, Knowing You | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 17 | Healthcare & Ethnicity | Partnership Project | A Focus on Undoing Racism | 1hr | Workshop |
| CACE 18 | African American Women | Sabrina Ross, Donyell Roseboro, Karen Meadows, Tracy Snipes | Nobody’s Mammy | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 19 | Hip Hop | Dr. Michele Lewis, Crystal Winston, Nathaniel Woods | Rapping about Hip Hop Culture | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 20 | African American Men and Women | C.P. Gause, Robin Gillespie, Winsora Blanford | Black Masculinity Prophetic Movement in Black Church Lives and Times of Black Women | 1hr | Panel |
| 2:10–3:05 :: “WORKSHOP CARNIVAL” AFTERNOON SESSION TWO | |||||
| Choose One | Overall Theme | Presenter/Facilitator | Topic | Time | Type |
| SOCC 21 | Cultural Politics | Diversity Educators | In Your Face | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 22 | Defining Privilege | NCCJ | The Invisibility of Privilege | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 23 | Developing Perspectives | Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. | Knowing Me, Knowing You | 1hr | Workshop |
| SOCC 24 | Healthcare & Ethnicity | Partnership Project | A Focus on Undoing Racism | 1hr | Workshop |
| CACE 25 | Images of Black Women | Elwanda Ingram, Adnee Bradford, Dr. Rose Sackeyfio, Tanya Walker, Dr. Lavie Leasure | Images of Black Women | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 26 | N word | Dr. Pete Kellett, Cherie Avent, Sarah Blizzard, Libby Jeter | The N word | 1hr | Panel |
| CACE 27 | Open Student Round Table | Various students | Various topics: Hip Hop, Light vs Dark, Good Hair vs Bad Hair | 1hr | Roundtable |
| 3:10–4:40 :: CLOSING SPEAKER — Rosa Clemente | |||||
| 4:45–5:05 :: PERFORMANCE by Cliché | |||||
| 5:05–5:30 :: CLOSING REMARKS and ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS of “Workshop Carnival” drawing | |||||