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Event Name: Whistling Vivaldi Reading Groups
Date: Summer 2012 through Spring 2013
Time: Noon - 1:15 pm
Location: Spence Pavilion, Room 101
Contact: Drs. Peter Felten at pfelten@elon.edu or Mary Jo Festle at festle@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, CATL & a Fund for Excellence grant
Description: Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (2010) is a highly engaging read from Stanford University psychologist and a leading scholar on identity development, diversity, and stereotype threat, Claude Steele. Join the more than 200 faculty, staff, and administrators who have gathered in various reading groups to discuss Steele’s theories, their implications, application and relevance for our personal and professional lives. Each group meets for two sessions. To sign up for your copy of the work and to express your preference about group meeting times, contact the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. These reading groups are the first in a year-long series of events that explore issues related to identity and stereotype threat.
Event Name: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Reading Groups
Dates, Times and Locations:
Friday, August 31st, Breakfast 8-9, Alamance 101
Monday, September 3rd, Lunch 12-1, Alamance 101
Tuesday, September 4th, Snack 4:00-5:00, Alamance 101
Wednesday, September 12th, Lunch 12-1, Alamance 101
Thursday, September 13th, Lunch 12-1, Alamance 101
Monday, September 17th, Breakfast 8-9, Alamance 101
Wednesday, September 19th, Breakfast 8-9, Lindner 206
Contact: Drs. Janet Warman at warman@elon.edu or Brooke Barnett at bbarnett@elon.edu
Sponsor: Office of the Provost
Description: In anticipation of Elon University’s Fall Convocation on Thursday, October 4th, featuring Dr. Maya Angelou, join the nearly 100 faculty and staff members already signed up to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Contact Dr. Janet Warman, Professor of English, for availability.
Name: AAASE Opening Reception and Dedication Ceremony for Faculty and Staff
Date: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Location: Alamance 302 and 304
Contact: Jeff Stein at jstein@elon.edu
Sponsor: AAASE & Office of the President
Description: Since the inception of the interdisciplinary minor, African and African-American Studies at Elon in 1994, the program will have its first official space and home. All Elon faculty and staff are invited to join us for an open house and welcome reception to preview the program’s new home.
Name: AAASE-Affiliated and Black Student Organizations Open House Reception
Date: Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Location: Alamance 302 and 304
Contact: Kimberly Edwards at kedwards15@elon.edu and Patricia Jones at pjones8@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, Black Cultural Society, Elon African Society, Friends of Ghana, Invisible Children, National Pan-Hellenic Council & STAND
Description: Students, faculty and staff are invited to stop by the K. Wilhelmina Boyd Office of African & African-American Studies to gather and meet the student executives of the event’s sponsors. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP necessary.
Event Name: The Implications and Application of Stereotype Threat: Dr. Joshua Aronson, NYU Social Psychologist visits Elon
Date: Friday, September 14th, 2012
Time: 2:15 - 3:15 pm
Location: Whitley Auditorium
Contact: Peter Felten at pfelten@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, CATL, and a Fund for Excellence grant
Description: In the second installment of a year-long series of events, Joshua Aronson, a noted social psychologist and associate of Claude Steele, visits Elon to lead members of the community in a series of events that examine the application of stereotype threat. In his own words, Dr. Aronson states that his “. . . work seeks to understand and remediate race and gender gaps in educational achievement and standardized test performance.” Dr. Aronson examines the psychology of stigma, what he and others call "Stereotype Threa.t." For more information and to attend any of the events associated with Dr. Aronson’s visit, please contact the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
Name: From Eatonville to Elon: The 75th Anniversary Celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Richard Wright’s “Blueprint for Negro Writing” with Dr. Tara Green,
Date: Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Time: 4:15 – 7:00 pm
Location: Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Elon University
Contact: Patricia Jones at pjones8@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Following the screening of the film adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God at 4:15 pm, join speaker Dr. Tara Green, Director and Associate Professor African American Studies Program, UNC-G, for a 75th anniversary retrospective of the impact of Hurston and Wright in the development of African American literature.
Name: Byron Pitts, “We are Tough and Delicate Creatures”
Date: Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: McCrary Theatre
Sponsor: The Liberal Arts Forum
Description: In his first story for CBS 60 Minutes, Pitts interviewed New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In support of the 2013 Elon Common Reading program, Pitts discusses post-Katrina New Orleans, one of the most distinctive and resilient communities in the United States. In addition, he will discuss and compare his professional experiences in other parts of the world where disaster, but natural and man-made, have put the test to the human spirit.
Name: The AAASE Author-of-the-Month Lunch Series (3rd Wednesdays)
Date: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Alamance 302B (Conference Room)
Contact: Dr. Prudence Layne at aaase@elon.edu (authors wishing to be featured) and Pat Jones at pjones8@elon.edu for logistical information
Sponsors: AAASE
Description: Throughout the academic year, join the AAASE community for discussions on Black Studies-related topics with the authors who will present their recently published work or work-in-progress. September’s featured author is Dr. Jean Rattigan-Rohr, Associate Professor, School of Education on It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Assault on the Struggling Reader Dilemma (Sense Publishers, May 2012).
Name: Promoting Diversity in STEM: Dr. Cheryll Sibley Albold, Mayo School of Health Sciences
Date: Friday and Saturday, September 28th - 29th, 2012
Time: Varied
Location: Varied
Contact: Dr. Cherrel Miller-Dyce at cdyce@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, the Multicultural Center
Description: Join Cheryll Sibley Albold, administrator, at the Mayo School of Health Sciences, as she visits Elon to lead faculty, staff, and students in a series of discussions related to diversity in STEM.
Name: Fall Convocation: An Evening with Dr. Maya Angelou
Date: Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Alumni Gym, Koury Athletic Center
Description: Distinguished poet, author and remarkable Renaissance woman, Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. Within the rhythm of her poetry and the elegance of her prose lies a unique power to help readers of every orientation span the lines of race. Angelou visits Elon University to share stories of her life and to recite her award-winning work. Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available Thursday, September 13.
Name: Building Community Connections: Diversity in Various Academic Spaces
Date: Saturday, October 6th, 2012
Time: 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center
Contact: Dr. Cherrel Miller-Dyce at cdyce@elon.edu
Sponsors: DIVAS Collective, CATL, the Multicultural Center, and the School of Education
Description: The DIVAS (Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas) Collective will host its inaugural conference at Elon University, Moseley Center. DIVAS was formed in 2009 and is an academic and social support group for early career Black women Ph.D's and doctoral students. Our theme for the conference is “Building Community Connections: Diversity in Various Academic Spaces.” If you are able to join us, please do so. Also, please free to invite your students as well. Dr. Sylvia Bettez, School of Education at UNCG will be our keynote speaker. Registration ends 9/20/12, so please register early as the first 100 people are free.
Name: Still Dreaming: Understanding the Deferred Action immigration Program
Date: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: TBD
Contact: Sylvia Munoz at munozs@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, Black Cultural Society, El Centro de Espanol, the Isabella Cannon Centre for Global Education, the Latin American Student Organization, and the Multicultural Center
Description: Join panelists for a discussion of President Obama’s Executive-ordered immigration and education initiatives and the implications of those policies on Black and Hispanic communities in the United States and beyond.
Name: The AAASE Author-of-the-Month Lunch Series (3rd Wednesdays)
Date: Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Time: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Location: Alamance 302B (Conference Room)
Contact: Dr. Prudence Layne at aaase@elon.edu (authors wishing to be featured) and Pat Jones at pjones8@elon.edu for logistical information
Sponsor: AAASE
Description: Throughout the academic year, join the AAASE community for discussions on Black Studies-related topics with the authors who will present their recently published work or work-in-progress. October’s featured author is Dr. Naeemah Clark, Assistant Professor, School of Communications on Diversity in US Mass Media (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2011).
Name: Of Law and Struggle: A Fireside Chat on the Legal Life & Trials of Nelson Mandela
Date: Monday, November 12th, 2012
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Location: The Elon Community Church
Contact: Dr. Gerald Knight at gknight2@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE, the Department of Music and the Elon University School of Law
Description: Dr. George Johnson, Dean of the Elon University School of Law and Dr. Kenneth Broun, Professor of Law at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of Saving Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa (Oxford Univ. Press 2012), discuss “Mandela’s Law,” the many dimensions of his life as a lawyer, prisoner, president and the legacy he leaves for South Africa. Copies of Professor Broun’s book will be available for sale and will entertain questions from the audience.
Name: Lecture Recital “Of Dance and Struggle: The Compositional Process” —Dr. Karen Walwyn
Date: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Time: 4:10 – 5:15 pm
Location: Whitley Auditorium
Contact: Dr. Gerald Knight
Sponsors: AAASE and The Department of Music
Description: Join Dr. Karen Walwyn, Associate Professor of Piano, Howard University, for an intimate discussion of her research and composition processes in advance of the world premiere of her original work, performed by the Elon University Chorale, Of Dance and Struggle: A Musical Tribute to the Life of Nelson Mandela.
Name: Of Dance and Struggle: A Musical Tribute to the Life of Nelson Mandela
Date: Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: McCrary Theatre
Contact: Dr. Gerald Knight at gknight2@elon.edu
Sponsors: The Department of Music
Description: The Elon University Chorale presents “Of Dance and Struggle: A Musical Tribute to the Life of Nelson Mandela” the world premiere with composer and guest artist Dr. Karen Walwyn, piano. President Mandela’s inspirational story is vividly illustrated in a composition that has woven South African songs with original music by the composer. The composer bases the work, in part, upon interviews with personnel of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, including Mandela’s official photographer, Alf Kumalo.
Name: International Education Week
Date: Nov. 12th- 15th (West Africa)
Time: Varied
Location: Varied
Contact: Paul Geis, the Isabella Cannon Global Studies Centre at pgeis@elon.edu or (336) 278-6700
Name: Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration
Date: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Location: Alamance 302
Contact: Pat Jones at pjones8@elon.edu
Sponsors: AAASE & Black Cultural Society
Description: Join AAASE and BCS prior to final exams for an early celebration of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa filled with fun, food, music, and good cheer.