Events By Quarter
Children’s Event
Connecting to Our Food: Gardening, Composting, and Food Justice
MCC Lounge
This quarter’s children’s and family event will focus on the food we eat and all ages are welcome to participate. We will learn the basics of gardening, explore worms through composting, and learn about food justice. Afterwards, participants will then get to taste the food they planted (MCC Courtyard). Participants will also take away gardening starter kits and one of many children books related to food justice and gardening as tools to learn how to eat and stay healthy. After all, if you want to feel good, you have to eat good!
Co-Sponsor: Edible Campus Program
Registration on Shoreline
Resilient Love
Staying on Mission: Race, Equity, and Justice in the Midst of Polarizing Politics
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Online Discussion
REGISTRATION AT SHORELINE IS REQUIRED FOR ZOOM LINK
Universities advertise themselves as places where members of the community can engage in the "marketplace of ideas”. Recently, state legislatures are attempting to limit inquiry and discussion around issues of race, ethnicity, and gender. This talk explores the current critical race theory debate and how universities can clarify the misinformation and disinformation surrounding its meanings. It speaks to what it is and what it is not as well as the implications for other areas of diversity.
Bio: Gloria Ladson-Billings is the former Kellner Distinguished Chair of Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, a Fellow of the Hagler Institute of Texas A&M University, and a member of the National Academy of Education (where she served as President from 2017 - 2021).
Her area of expertise is culturally relevant pedagogy and equity focused instruction. She is author of the critically acclaimed book, “The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children” as well as 2 other single authored books, 10 edited books, and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of 9 honorary degrees from US and international universities.
Co-sponsors: The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Cup of Culture
Princess Mononoke
MCC Theater
A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki.
While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit's realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It's not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other. 1997. 2h 14m
Post Film Discussion w/ Nikkei Student Union
Diversity Lecture
The Model Minority & Forever Foreigner Myths: Context, Consequences, Creating Change
Jessika Chi, PhD
MCC Theater
Empowering solidarity between communities of color is difficult because of the racial tropes produced by whiteness that continually pit communities of color against each other. Whiteness as an ideology has led to a unique construction of two hegemonic tropes for Asian Americans – the “forever foreigner” and the “model minority.” The “forever foreigner” positions Asian Americans as eternally not-American and critically different. Taken literally, it erases Asian American history by persistently portraying the community as newcomers to the United States. Simultaneously, the narrative of Asian Americans as “model minorities” is used to discredit the Civil Rights Movement, negate critiques of racism, and prevent community solidarity. Therefore, a critical examination of these two racial tropes are needed in order to understand how whiteness is institutionally imposed on, and internalized by, communities of color. Utilizing a critical race theory lens, this talk will provide context for the myths of the model minority and forever foreigner, illuminate the consequences of these racial stereotypes on communities of color, and offer strategies to create change.
BIO:
Jessika Chi, PhD, is the Assistant Dean for Institutional Diversity at Reed College and serves as an adjunct professor for Lewis & Clark College and the University of San Francisco's higher education programs. In her roles, she leads campus-wide diversity, equity, inclusion, and campus climate initiatives and prepares graduate students to be equity and student-centered change agents. Chi received their MA in educational administration and leadership with an emphasis on student affairs from University of the Pacific and their PhD in education and leadership from Pacific University. Her scholarship centers on critical examinations of racial ideologies and higher education's role in maintaining systems of inequity.
Co-Sponsors: Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
