Event: African-American Read-In Day
Date: Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Time: 1:00 -5:00 p.m.
Location: African-American Resource Room, Moseley 221-B
Admission: Free and open to the public. Please donate children's books for entrance.
Sponsors: AAASE, Sigma Tau Delta, and the Multicultural Center
Description: Individuals and groups interested in signing up to read should contact Prudence Layne at playne@elon.edu. Readers and listeners should bring one or more children's books for entrance. Book donations go to support the Global Links Library and Literacy Campaign, which has opened libraries at the Ekukhanyisweni Primary School (EPS) in South Africa and the Mpoeli Primary School in Lesotho, and is working on others in Botswana and Haiti.
Event:The 76th Annual Wilhelmina Boyd Day
Date: Thursday, March 10th
Description: AAASE remembers and celebrates the birthday of the program's founding coordinator Prof. Wilhelmina Boyd. Tributes of her legacy and memory may be sent to aaase@elon.edu and will be forwarded to her family. To honor our program’s founder, we are asking everyone whose lives have been touched by Prof. Boyd touched to make a tax-deductible donation in her memory via her tribute page at http://act.alz.org/site/TR/Events/Tributes-AlzheimersChanpions?pg=fund&fr_id=1060&pxfid-22710. (Please paste the link into your Internet browser if necessary.) The immediate target is $1935 (the year of her birth). All funds will be used to benefit the greatest need o thef Alzheimer’s Association, whose website is located at www.alz.org
Event: Contemporary Uganda
Date: Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: The Porch and Steps of Lindner Hall
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Sponsors: The Elon University chapter of Invisible Children
Description: Speakers from Uganda will discuss the devastating effects of the country's war and conflict on its most vulnerable children and provide insights on the challenges that still lay ahead and the role everyone can play in helping rebuild the country's future.
Event: Reading Group of Tim Wise's White Like Me
Date: Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Belk Pavillion, Room 208
Admission: Please contact the Multicultural Center for details and to pre-register at 336-278-7644
Sponsors: The Multiculttural Center
Description: The Elon community gathers to discuss this ground-breaking work with the author.
Event: Tim Wise Keynote Speaker on White Privilege
Date: Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Whitley Auditorium
Admission: Please contact the Multicultural Center for details at 336-278-7644
Sponsors: The Multiculttural Center
Description: Nationally renowned author Tim Wise delivers his keynote address on white privilege. If you've never heard Tim Wise speak, do not miss this opportunity!
Event: AAASE Reading Group (Faculty, Staff, and Students)
Date: Friday, April 8th, 2011
Time: Noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Isabella Cannon Reading Room
Admission: Readers must pre-register for the reading group by March 17th, 2011
Description: AAASE announces Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat as our reading selection for Sprring 2011. Danticat suggests that the immigrant artist must also bear witness and in definining the process, she writes: "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."--Create Dangerously For more information and to join the reading group, please email pjones8@elon.edu
Event: Hearing the Mermaid's Song: A Lecture by Dr Lindsay Hale
Date: Friday, April 15th, 2011
Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Location: LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business School
Admission: Free and open to the General Public
Sponsors: PERCS, AAASE, the Multicultural Center, and the Departments of History and Geography, Religious Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology.
Description: Modern Science blends with ancient magic in Umbanda, where mediums summon the spirits of old slaves and Brazillian Indians in the worship of their African Gods.
Event:The Black Oaks Graduating Seniors Banquet
Date: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Isabella Cannon Room (Center for the Arts)
Admission: By invitation only
Description: AAASE celebrates its 2011 graduates.
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