Programs & Events
Calendar of Events Spring 2008
2008 Spring Events sponsored by
The Office of the President - Diversity and Community
Our mission is to establish Teachers College as an institution that actively attracts, supports and retains diverse students, faculty and staff at all levels, demonstrated through its commitment to social justice, its respectful and vibrant community and its encouragement and support of each individual in the achievement of his or her full potential.
Janice S. Robinson, Esq., General Counsel; Executive Director, Office of Diversity and Community, 128 Zankel, www.tc.columbia.edu/diversity/
(ALL EVENTS ARE FREE UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE BELOW)
FEBRUARY
- Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7pm, Cowin Center
James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop
Down from the Mountaintop depicts the rich and impassionate life of esteemed American writer recognized for his novels on sexual and personal identity, along with his works of nonfiction, plays and essays on human rights. A Solo Play Written and Performed by Tony Award Nominee CALVIN LEVELS.
- Wednesday, February 6 and Thursday, February 7, 2008
12pm – 6pm, Zankel Main Hall (1st Floor)
Business and Talent Showcase
This is an exciting opportunity to showcase creativity to fellow community members, make contacts, and sell your creative goods.
- Wednesday, February 7, 2008, 11:00pm - 2:00pm
Zankel Main Hall (1st Floor)
Teaching for Social Change: A High School Service-Learning Extravaganza
Multi-Media Presentations of Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Projects Involving over 75 English Language Learners and 6 Teachers from the Brooklyn International High School. Come see how core principles of Art, Math, Science, English, and Government can be taught through a collaborative interdisciplinary unit, learn ways to strengthen native language while building English language development, discover how to integrate key social issues into your curriculum, and learn first-hand and in-person from the experiences of immigrant HS students doing service-learning in diverse communities of New York City. Lesson plans will be available upon request.
- Mondays, February 11 – April 21, 2008,
12pm – 2pm, 361 Grace Dodge
Knit the Community Together: Knitting Classes
This is a wonderful opportunity for beginners to learn about the
art of knitting and for experienced knitters to perfect their skills.
Fee: $15 for knitting materials. The classes are limited to
15 students.
Instructor – Bobbie Purnell
- Wednesday, February 12, 2008, 10:30am – 12:30pm, 179 Grace Dodge
FERPA training, (new employee orientation)
This is in conjunction with the New Employee Orientation Session, FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act training for all new faculty and staff. Open to all TC faculty and staff who missed last year’s training.
Participation in one FERPA training session is MANDATORY
for all employees.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7 pm, 753 Thorndike
Talk To Me, To Know Me: Living In a Straight World
Talk To Me, To Know Me: An Inter-Group Dialogue at Teachers
College is a series of six dialogues beginning in November 2007
and ending in April 2008. The series will center on six major issues
affecting members of the TC Community such as race/ethnicity,
religion, sexual orientation, immigration, disability, and body
type/images. The series will be guided by a facilitator, a
3-guest panel, media/film support, and community participation.
Led by: Kimberly Chandler, TC Student
*Cosponsor: Professor Margaret Crocco –
Teaching of Social Studies Program
- Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 10:30am – 12:30pm , 179 Grace Dodge
Promoting Mutual Respect and Preventing Work
Place Harassment
(new employee orientation)
In an effort to improve the Community’s interactions with
each other; and your awareness of the federal and state laws
and institutional procedures surrounding sexual harassment and
other forms of bias and harassment, we are providing this session for
new faculty and staff.
Open to Entire TC Community who missed last year’s sessions.
- Thursday February 14, 2008, 12pm – 2pm, 179 Grace Dodge
Microagressions (new employee orientation)
by Professor Derald Sue
Open to Entire TC Community
As Teachers College has become increasingly diverse, difficult
dialogues on race have often served to polarize students, staff
and professors rather than to clarify and increase mutual
understanding about race and race relations.
Those intentioned find themselves ill prepared to deal with the
often explosive race-related emotions that manifest themselves
in the workplace. Poorly handled situations, such dialogues may
result in disastrous consequences (anger, hostility, silence,
complaints, misunderstandings, blockages of the learning
process, etc.); skillfully handled they present an opportunity for
growth, improved communication, and learning.
- Friday, February 15, 2008, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, 535 Grace Dodge
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch - Open Topic
facilitated by Ayanna Epps
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexuality.
Facilitated by Ayanna Epps – TC Alumna and US Justice Department, Community Relations Service.
Ayanna Epps joined Community Relations Service Northeast/Caribbean Region as a Conciliation Specialist in October of 2004. Community Relations Service is a service of the Department of Justice which responds to community-wide racial conflicts throughout the nation.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 8:00am – 9:30am, TC Cafeteria
TC Community Breakfast
Here’s your chance to meet other members of the TC Community and enjoy a delicious warm breakfast. Enter raffle to win TC prizes including a free lunch at Faculty House TC Cafeteria.
- Friday, February 22, 2008, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, 535 Grace Dodge
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch: - TOPIC: Race – How does race affect you in academia?
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexuality.
- Saturday, February 23, 2008, 7pm, TC Cafeteria
Black History Month Celebration Gala
Annual awards dinner honoring the achievements within the Harlem and TC Communities
Honorees: Yvonne Destin, Sosanya Jones, and Brotherhood-Sistersol
*Cosponsored Black Student Network, Student Activities and Programming, Student Senate, Office of the Provost and Dean of the College, TC Alumni Affairs
- Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 6pm, 3rd floor Gallery Russell
The African Diaspora Scholars Initiative presents Opening Reception & General Information Meeting
To provide doctoral students at Teachers College who are pursuing research on any and all aspects of the African Diaspora (including domestic African American and African issues as well as those pertaining to the international community) an integrative academic and social support system. Participation in the Advancing African Diaspora Scholars Project will be open to all disciplines and research interests related to the Diaspora.
*Cosponsors: Professor George Bond –
Center for African Education
- Friday, February 29, 2008, 3pm - 5:30pm, TC Cafeteria
TC Happy Hour
Come to the TC Happy Hour, a place where you can enjoy a glass of wine and bite to eat while talking with faculty, staff, and students outside of the classroom.
- Friday, February 29, 2008
TC AFRICAN DIASPORA CINE CLUB
NY’S DIRTY LAUNDRY
In the weeks following 9/11, racial paradigms are shifted and hidden prejudices are revealed in this heated and often hilarious exchange between the members of two immigrant families (one Afro-Caribbean and the other Arab-Muslim) who clash in a crowded Brooklyn laundromat and in an airless NYC taxicab.
Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR after the screening.
MARCH
- Saturday, March 1, 2008, 10:30am – 2pm,
Library – 2nd Floor, Reading Room
EnVision
Expose, enrich, and empower underrepresented students by inviting them to attend “Focusing on the Future/Enfocandose en Nuestro Futuro” to inform about gaining access to a graduate education.
*Cosponsored by Coalition of Latino(a) Scholars (CLS) and
- Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 3:00pm - 5:00pm, 432 Horace Mann
Microaggressions For Students Only
For students only, this special lecture/conversational forum will address the role of racial microaggressions in institutional climates from the student perspective. Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward students of color. Learn skills to deal with migroaggressions.
- Wednesday. March 5, 2008, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
361 Grace Dodge Hall
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch - TOPIC: Gender/Queer
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexuality.
- Thursday, March 6, 2008, 7pm, 306 Russell Hall
Film, "White Light, Black Rain"
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki includes interviews with both survivors of the bombings and the American soldiers who carried out the missions. Stark, riveting, shocking, and oddly reaffirming of the power and strength of the human body and spirit. Refreshments will be served.
*Cosponsored by The Society for Anthropological Studies
- Tuesday, March 11, 7pm, Room TBA
Bridging the Gaps
Current practicing teachers are invited to facilitate roundtable discussions with student teachers on the meanings of race in the teaching context.
- Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7pm, TH229
Talk To Me, To Know Me: Living In a Man's World
Talk To Me, To Know Me: An Inter-Group Dialogue at Teachers
College is a series of six dialogues beginning in November 2007 and
ending in April 2008. The series will center on six major issues
affecting members of the TC Community such as race/ethnicity,
religion, sexual orientation, immigration, disability, and body type/images.
The series will be guided by a facilitator, a 3-guest panel,
media/film support, and community participation.
Led by: Kimberly Chandler
*Cosponsor: Professor Margaret Crocco –
Teaching of Social Studies Program
- Saturday, March 22 - Monday, March 24, 2008, Room TBA
Saturday and Sunday, 8am-5:30pm; Monday 8am-12pm
Eighth Annual Second City Conference on Disability Studies in Education
Mitigating Exclusion: Building Alliances toward Inclusive Education Reform in Pedagogy and Policy
This conference will explore the politics of exclusion in schools with a view to strengthening alliances between the field of disability studies in education and complementary areas of study and advocacy (i.e., feminist studies, queer studies, critical race studies, and so on) as we continue to agitate for and implement change toward more inclusive policies and practices in public education.
*Cosponsored by TC Department of Curriculum & Teaching, City College/CUNT Long Island University/Brooklyn, National Louis University
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch - Topic: Disabilities
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexuality.
- Monday, March 31 – Monday, April 7, 2008, Room TBA
Chinese Culture Festival
The “Chinese Culture Festival” at Teachers College is a new initiative to mainfest cross-cultural interaction and communication by presenting a fresh glimpse into China and its splendid culture. Emphasizing diversity and community, the festival aims to enhance communication and understanding between the Teachers College Chinese community and other communities on and off campus by illustrating Chinese culture, an ancient culture that has remained dynamic today.
Panel Discussion (apart of Chinese Culture Festival)
Topics include “TC and China”, “Arts in China” and “Travel to China”
Photo Exhibit (apart of Chinese Culture Festival)
*Cosponsored by Teachers College Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- Europe @ Teachers College – Film Series, Room TBA
The European Film Festival series is aimed at fostering a knowledge and understanding of Europe within the TC community. The series shows films and hosts intellectual exchanges focusing on the history, political developments and the society of different European countries.
APRIL
Chinese Culture Festival
The “Chinese Culture Festival” at Teachers College is a
new initiative to manifest cross-cultural interaction and
communication by presenting a fresh glimpse into China and
its splendid culture. Emphasizing diversity and community, the
festival aims to enhance communication and understanding between
the Teachers College Chinese community and other communities on
and off campus by illustrating Chinese culture, an ancient
culture that has remained dynamic today.
China in Spotlight: A Photo Exhibition
(apart of Chinese Culture Festival)
Fascinating photographs -- both color and black-and-white -- feature various aspects of China and
Chinese culture:Beijing Hutongs, Three Gorges Project,
natural scenes, local lifestyle…
*Cosponsored by Teachers College Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
Panel Discussion/Roundtable Sessions
(a part of Chinese Culture Festival)
Session 2: China through the Eyes of TC Faculty
Faculty members from Teachers College who have lived, worked and traveled in China talk about their own experiences, researches and feelings about China and Chinese culture...Reception to Follow
*Cosponsored by Teachers College Chinese Students and
Scholars Association
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 6:30pm – 8:00pm, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
Panel Discussion/Roundtable Sessions
(a part of Chinese Culture Festival)
Session 3: Travel in China
Students and scholars from different parts of China introduce their hometowns, presenting famous tourist attractions and traveling tips for those interested in visiting China...Reception to Follow
*Cosponsored by Teachers College Chinese Students and
Scholars Association
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 11:30am, 305 Russell Hall
‘There’s a Zulu in my archive!’ – Researching Zulu identity and the power of ‘stored knowledge’ in South African history
The ‘Zulu’ people have been typified in South Africa’s history as a ‘martial’ or ‘warrior’ nation. This stereotype originated in the descriptions of traders who came into contact with Zulu culture and political life in the early decades of the nineteenth-century. These descriptions were repeated throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until they acquired the force of truth. In my search for an ‘alternative’ and ‘non-military’ history of Zuluness, I have read and re-read archival sources in an attempt to hear the ‘other’ Zulu-speaking voices. This lecture is a collection of anecdotes, arguments and observations about how the ‘archive’ has the power to structure our interpretation of a culture’s history. In my retelling of my contact with the ‘Zulu’ archive, I aim to trace some of the ways in which the power of ‘stored knowledge’ was challenged as it was being created.
*Cosponsored by Programs in Anthropology, the African Studies Working Group, and the Center for African Education
- Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 am to 2:00 pm, Milbank Chapel
Film Screening: Citizen King
In Remembrance of the 40th Anniversary of his Assassination
Citizen King is a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmakers Orlando Bagwell (Africans in America, Malcolm X: Make It Plain) and Noland Walker (This Far by Faith, Africans in America). Citizen King explores the last five years in King's life by drawing on the personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians, to illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America's most important and influential moral leader. Citizen King shows how, in his crusade for economic justice and an end to war, King found himself at odds not only with white American leadership, but also with many influential black leaders.
*Cosponsored by African Diaspora Film Festival
- Saturday, April 5, 2008, Room TBA
FOCUSING ON OUR FUTURE"/"ENFOCANDOSE
EN NUESTRO FUTURO
A program to inform, expose, and empower middle school and high school students to stay in school and pursue college.
*Cosponsored Coalition of Latino(a) Scholars (CLS)
- Monday, April 7, 2008, 7:00pm -10:00 pm, Cowin Center, Horace Mann Hall
Chinese Culture Night (a part of Chinese Culture Festival)
A night of diverse performances by Chinese students and scholars and professional guest performers from China and other countries, followed by a grand party/reception.
*Cosponsored by Teachers College Chinese Students
and Scholars Association
- Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:00pm – 2:00pm, 179 Grace Dodge Hall
Microaggressions For Students Only
For students only, this special lecture/conversational forum will address the role of racial microaggressions in institutional climates from the student perspective. Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward students of color. Learn skills to deal with migroaggressions.
- Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 3:00pm – 5:00pm, Milbank Chapel
Holocaust Survivors Share Experiences
This moving event is part of the Diversity and Community Office Historical Education Project. Learn about the Holocaust and its relationship to hate crimes today.
Reception to Follow – Trustee Room, 109 Zankel Hall
*Cosponsor: The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center, TC Jewish Association
- Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Room TBA
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch - Topic: Class – POSTPONED
DUE TO CONFLICT with another program
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, class, disability, gender, religion, and sexuality.
- Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 7pm, 177 Grace Dodge Hall
Talk To Me, To Know Me: Living In a Man's World
Talk To Me, To Know Me: An Inter-Group Dialogue at Teachers
College is a series of six dialogues beginning in November 2007
and ending in April 2008. The series will center on six major
issues affecting members of the TC Community such as
race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, immigration, disability,
and body type/images. The series will be guided by a facilitator, a
3-guest panel, media/film support, and community participation.
Led by: Kimberly Chandler
Free Food, Free T-Shirts
- Friday, April 11, 3:00pm – 5pm, 136 Thompson Hall
Lecture – Mr. Lonnie Emhoolah from the
Kiowa-Cheyenne Nation, Oklahoma
“Kiowa Traditions: The Significance of Ceremonies that Prepare Native Americans for Leadership.”
This is an opportunity for the TC community to learn about
AI/NA history, culture and leadership attributes. Experience
AI/NA history and culture through traditional story telling
and presentation.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008, 12:00pm – 1:30 pm,
277 Grace Dodge Hall
Let’s Keep Talking: Brown Bag Lunch - Topic: Religion and SpiritualityFacilitated by Columbia University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis
This semester The President’s Office of Diversity and Community will hold a series of brown bag lunches on various topics raised at the town hall meeting this fall, including race, disability, religion, and sexuality.
- Europe @ Teachers College – Film Series, Room TBA
The European Film Festival series is aimed at fostering a knowledge and understanding of Europe within the TC community. The series shows films and hosts intellectual exchanges focusing on the history, political developments and the society of different European countries.
- Thursday, April 25, 2008, 6pm, Room TBA
Film Screening: Daratt / Dry Season
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
*Cosponsored by African Diaspora Film Festival
MAY
TC Business and Talent Showcase -
Pre-Mothers Day Showcase
This is an exciting opportunity to showcase creativity
to fellow community members, make contacts, and sell
your creative goods.
Contact Graduate Intern for Programming, in the
Office of Diversity and Community, at 212.678.8410 to
registrar to sell your items.
Talk To Me, To Know Me: An Inter-Group Dialogue
at Teachers College is a series of six dialogues that
will center on six major issues affecting members of the
TC Community such as race/ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation,
immigration, disability, and body type/images.
The series will be guided by a facilitator, a 3-guest panel,
media/film support, and community participation.
Led by: Kimberly Chandler
Free Food, Free T-Shirts
*Cosponsor: Professor Margaret Crocco – Teaching of Social Studies Program
- Friday, May 30, 2008, 6pm, Room TBA
Film Screening: 100 Days
Set in the breathtaking natural beauty of the Rwanda countryside, this first ever fiction film made about the Rwanda civil war tells a powerful story of genocide and human survival with compassion and integrity. The film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children.
*Cosponsored by African Diaspora Film Festival
AUGUST
- August 10, 2008 – August 15, 2008, Room TBA
Echoes and Reflections – Anti-Defamation League
A week-long Holocaust education workshop based
on Echoes and Reflections, a new multimedia curriculum
co-produced by the Anti-Defamation League and Yad
Vashem, the Museum of Remembrance in Israel, will be
offered at Teachers College from August 10-August 15, 2008.
The workshop will be for inservice and preservice teachers
who want to incorporate Holocaust education (and, by
extension, education about genocide elsewhere) in their
teaching and research. The workshop will have a range
of activities at Teachers College and the Museum of Jewish
Heritage and will include speakers from the United States and abroad.
An application process for the workshop will begin in late March 2008.
*Cosponsor: Cosponsored by: Professor Renee Cherow-O’leary, Anti- Defamation League, Yad Vashem
