Rethinking LGBTTIQ Movements in the U.S.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009*
6-8pm
FSM Cafe
*This event is canceled; however, the committee hopes
to post a rescheduled date as soon as possible.
Panelists:
- Tommi Avicoli Mecca, editor of Smash the Church, Smash the
State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation
- Paola Bacchetta, Director, Beatrice Bain Research Group
- Blackberri
- Dagenya
- Barbara Ruth
- Merle Woo
In recognition of Constitution Day, contributors from the recently
published book Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of the
Gay Liberation will discuss this history, linking it to current social and
legal battles for equality. Panelists will address the issue of the
precarious citizenship of LGBTTIQ people, as is illustrated in the lack of
full rights (marriage; employment and benefits) and protections (the high
percentage of violence against certain LGBTTIQ subjects). Considering
civil rights protections afforded to individuals through the Fourteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as protections of freedom of
speech and peaceful protest granted through the Bill of Rights, the panel
seeks to critically reconsider the history and scholarship of the LGBTTIQ
liberation movement. Current activist and academic approaches to struggles
(like gay marriage) will be discussed by posing the question of current
LGBTTIQ activism in light of broad social issues like poverty and racism.
This event is conceptualized as an inter-generational discussion with the
concerns of students at the center.
Co-Sponsors: Beatrice Bain Research Group; Center for the Study of Sexual
Cultures; Center for Race and Gender; Gender Equality Group, and
Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
Rethinking LGBTTIQ Movements in the U.S. flyer (pdf)
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Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
5-7pm
FSM Cafe
Panelists:
- Robert Cohen, Department of Education & History, New York University & author of Freedom's Orator
- Saul Scott, Department of English, UC Berkeley
- Lynne Hollander Savio, Chair, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young
Activist Award
- Leon Litwack, Emeritus, Department of History, UC Berkeley, Alexander F.
and May T. Morrison Professor of American History
- Colleen Lye, Department of English, UC Berkeley
Passages from the first full-length account of the life and activism of
Mario Savio will be read and discussed by his widow, Lynne Hollander
Savio, his biographer, RobertCohen, and faculty and students from the
University. Savio's central role in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of
the 1960s will be highlighted, as well as his work for civil rights and
his fight against restricting access to higher education and the
destruction of the public university. Students will read excerpts from
Savio's unpublished letters from Mississippi during Freedom Summer of
1964.
Co-Sponsors: Department of English, Department of History
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Icons of a Border Installation: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, November 9, 2009
5-7:30pm
Morrison Library, 101 Doe Library
Speakers:
- John Connelly, Department of History, UC Berkeley
- Tom Leonard, University Librarian, UC Berkeley
- Rudolf de Baey, Director, Goethe Institute
- Peter Rothen, German Consul General, San Francisco
On November 9, 1989 the wall separating East and West Berlin was opened by
East German citizens without violence following several months of mostly
peaceful demonstrations against the political system installed in the
German Democratic Republic after World War II. Berkeley is commemorating
the 20th anniversary this momentous event with a photo exhibit and six
weeks of other campus events which will focus attention on the history of
the Berlin Wall and the postwar division of Germany into two radically
different states. Joined by other speakers, Professor John Connelly of
Berkeley’s History Department will give a lecture entitled “Who Really
Opened the Wall”. Connelly was an eyewitness in Berlin to the opening of
the wall. A major theme of his talk will be the issue of freedom of
speech, of which the opening of the Wall is a powerful symbol.
Co-Sponsors: The Library, Department of German, Department of History,
Institute of European Studies, The Goethe Institute of San Francisco, Free
Speech Movement Cafe Educational Program Committee
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Diversity Matters (Still): Landscaping Diversity at UC Berkeley Over the
Past Twenty Years
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5-7pm
FSM Cafe
Panelists:
- Victoria Robinson, Coordinator, American Cultures Center, UC Berkeley
- Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor, UC Berkeley, Principle Investigator
of the Diversity Project
- Marjorie Shultz, Professor, Berkeley School of Law
- Walter Robinson, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Office of Undergraduate
Admission, UC Berkeley
- Cara Stanley, Director of the Student Learning Center, UC Berkeley
In 1989, in response to a dramatic shift in the ethnic, cultural and
racial composition of UC Berkeley’s undergraduate student body over the
preceding two decades, a group of faculty, staff and students embarked
upon the “Diversity Project,” a two-year study of student experiences of
diversity at UC Berkeley. Premier amongst its findings was “the converging
desire for ‘diversity’; but diverging conceptions of what diversity
means.” Twenty years later, with the UC system under serious pressure to
both reduce expenditure and prove its public worth, the question of
diversity—what it means, how it is achieved, and the value that it holds
within a university environment—has never been so vital. The fact that
diversity as an issue is of ongoing public and private concern is made
paramount by the need to reintroduce and republish the Diversity Project’s
Final Report. In light of this republishing, the American Cultures Center
and the Institute for the Study of Social Change are hosting a panel
discussion and open forum.
Co-sponsors: American Cultures Center, Institute for the Study of Social
Change
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