Schedule of Live and Pre-recorded Events
Sponsor | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | TIME & LINK TO JOIN |
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Department of English |
Shifting Identities: What does it mean to be a Global Citizen, pre and post pandemic? Perspectives of South Asian students on education, culture and literature |
The focus of this panel will be to discuss and understand what it means to be a student at higher educational institutions. How does one make sense of the shifting paradigms happening, due to the pandemic, at a global, national, state and university level? What provides a student solace viewing such uncertainties happening in and around their world? Is it culture, education, religion, or literature, or all of them combined that grounds the individual? Is it ultimately education that provide us a voice to speak on an individual level, yet provide us the agency to act as a global citizen and empathize with the suffering of others? |
10:00AM Meeting ID: 822 1725 7523
Passcode: 640605
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The Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education & The Student Multicultural Center | Social Justice & Activism: An International Perspective |
In 2020, while the world was battling COVID-19, civil unrest ensued following the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Protests calling for social and racial justice flooded streets all over the United States and extended beyond American borders, affecting the hearts and lives of many. This event aims to discover how international students and scholars made meaning of the civil rights movements in the US this year and how they responded to the call to action. Additionally, they will be able to discuss forms of social justice movements in their country, their participation, and what free speech and activism look like within their home and society.
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12:00-1:15 |
Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Pulitzer Center | Exposing Caste Discrimination in the United States: A Conversation With Phillip Martin and Suraj Yengde |
Join Pulitzer Center journalist grantee Phillip Martin and Dr. Suraj Yengde for a discussion on how caste discrimination has followed Indian, Nepalese, and other South Asian immigrants as they settle in the United States. Underreported in the media and excluded from U.S. constitutional law, caste system prejudices still influence job opportunities and marriage prospects available to these immigrants in America. |
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Adelina Martey, Webster University Ghana | WINS in Ghana: Learn 10 Popular Akan Phrases | Join us for a fun video presentation and learn 10 simple, common phrases in the beautiful Akan language. Akan is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of Ghana by 63% of the population and in Côte d'Ivoire by 41% of the population. |