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Announcing AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE LECTURES AND FORUMS SERIES, 2018-2019

*All events are free and open to the public.

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE LECTURES AND FORUMS SERIES, 2018-2019

“Social Class Comes to Campus: A Workshop for First-Generation College Students” Rachel Rybaczuk, UMASS-Amherst & Executive-Director/Senior Trainer, CLASS ACTION, October 2nd, 11.00. Campus Center Auditorium

“The N-Word: History, Race, and the College Classroom,” Dr. Elizabeth Pryor, Smith College, October 16, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

The 2018 Elections: A Panel Discussion (Dr. Maryanne Barakso, Political Science, UMASS-Amherst; Dr. Tim Vercellotti , Political Science, WNEU & Director, Western New England University Polling Institute, Dr. Julie Walsh, Political Science, AIC), November 8th, 7.00 p.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Book Reading: “Gorbachev: His Life and Times” (W.W. Norton, 2017), Dr. William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize winner, Amherst College, November 29th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

                                                                                                                                                “Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement” Dr. Yohuru Williams, Dean and McQuinn Distinguished Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, February 12th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

“Fighting the U.S. Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics” Carrie Baker, Professor and Director, Center of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College, March 7th, 11.00 a.m., West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Poetry Reading: “Wounds in the Heart: American Poetry and the Spanish Civil War” Peter Neil Carroll, April 4th, 11.00 a.m. West Wing Gallery, Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center

Documentary Film Viewing & Discussion: At the River I Stand (1993), April 16, 7.00 p.m., Campus Center Auditorium

Class Action Activist Class Cultures Kit Now Available

Class Action has recently added an Activist Class Cultures Kit to its arsenal of educational materials and activities around social class. Executive Director Anne Phillips describes the kit as “a comprehensive guide to understanding your own class experience, seeing class culture traits around you, collaborating better with others from class backgrounds different than your own, and implementing the strengths of each class to help your social justice organization succeed. It’s full of videos, quizzes, tips, and stories about real progressive activist groups facing class culture challenges.” Based on CA’s “Bridging Activist Class Cultures” workshops, the site includes a discussion guide for groups reading Betsy Leondar-Wright’s Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures.

Digital Storytelling

Jane Van Galen, a first-generation college student now an Education Professor at University of Washington Bothell, has posted fourteen digital stories created by first-generation college students, First In Our Families: Digital Stories of First Generation Students. A collaboration with Class Action, each story is just a few minutes as the author reads a prose poem with images, music and silence woven into “elegant multimedia pieces about pride, growth, anger, tenacity, doubt, shame, and discovery as they navigate the invisible cultural and social norms of higher education.”