The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies

Campus Diversity and Inclusion – October Events

Wednesday, October 1: Eid Dinner – 5:30 PM, Casa Loma

Join us in celebrating the end of Ramadan and the breaking of the fast. There will be great food, presentations, informative displays and more! 

Wednesday, October 1: Cleve Jones Lecture, 8 PM, Orton (note new start time)

Cleve Jones is best known as the person who conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. His career as an activist began in San Francisco during the turbulent 1970s when he was befriended by pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. He worked as a student intern in Milk’s office while studying political science at San Francisco State University. In 1978, Milk was assassinated along with San Francisco’s Mayor George Moscone. Jones went to work in the district office of State Assemblyman Art Agnos.

In 1983, when AIDS was still a new and poorly understood threat, Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Jones conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at a candlelight memorial for Harvey Milk in 1985 and in 1987 created the first quilt panel in honor of his friend Marvin Feldman. The AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to become the world’s largest community arts project, memorializing the lives of over 85,000 Americans killed by AIDS. He will be portrayed by actor Emile Hirsch in director Gus Van Sant's upcoming film Milk.

Panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed in the lobby of the Glenn Wallichs Theatre during the October 30-November 1 performances of “Angels in America”.

Thursday, October 9: Coffee Talk – Globalization: How Does It Affect You?, 4 PM, Multicultural Center

Take a break and join Campus Diversity and Inclusion for our new discussion series on current events and issues. What is Globalization? What does it mean for our community? How can we create change? Come engage in active dialogue around this topic with free coffee, tea and refreshments.

Thursday, October 9: Dr. Sylvia Rhue – Dinner Discussion – “Stepping into History – Marriage Rights and Religious Perspectives”, 6 PM, Casa Loma

Special Lecture by Dr. Sylvia Rhue, Director of Religious Affairs - National Black Justice Coalition. Dr. Rhue will present an interactive, lively discussion of marriage rights and religion, titled "Stepping Into History". She is an eyewitness to many of the front burner issues facing society today and communicates complex ideas with humor, wit and deep experience. The Stepping Into History tour will be an opportunity for U of R students to have an informative dialogue about marriage rights and religion.

Find out who the movers and shakers are on both sides of the marriage issue, and much more. A DVD, produced by People for the American Way, will be shown highlighting religious voices of opposition and those supporting rights for LGBTQ people.

This presentation will provide students will non-partisan views, tools, accurate information and inspiration to discuss marriage rights with family, friends and colleagues. Sign up in the commons for meal exchange. RSVP to raja_bhattar@redlands.edu

Thursday, October 9: WomanTalk – Proposition 4, 7:30 PM, Women’s Center

Come join us in the first WomanTalk discussion series in our new location! This promises to be an engaging dialogue with information about Proposition 4 and what means for all of us.

Monday, October 13 – Angels in America Panel – History Repeating? The Trickle-down Effect of the Reagan-Bush Years. 4 PM, Casa Loma

Listen to a diverse group of panelists bringing together many topics and backgrounds in this conversation about how the current state of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. is the result of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. The panel will feature Greg Thorson (Government), Daniel Kiefer (English), Emily Culpepper( Religious Studies/Women’s Studies), Raja Bhattar (Campus Diversity and Inclusion) and Stephen Shade (Theatre).

Monday, October 13 – Rethinking Columbus Day

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” But is Columbus really a hero? What are the untold histories of the colonization of North America? Come learn about the genocide of entire Native American communities, extraction of resources from the “new world” and influx of disease and torture experienced by the true “Americans”. Look for more information about this event.

Tuesday, October 14 – Naomi Klein Lecture, 7 PM, Orton

Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein will be speaking at the University of Redlands on Tuesday, October 14 at 7 PM in the Orton Center. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of The New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine has been translated into 20 languages to date. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times.

Her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.

Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Also in 2004, she co-produced The Take with director Avi Lewis, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories. The film was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.

She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.

In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.

The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas though our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Naomi Klein’s appearance is sponsored by Campus Diversity and Inclusion, Chaplain’s Office, and the Department of Economics.

Wednesday, October 15 – National Coming Out Day

Join the Pride Center, P.R.I.D.E. Alliance and Safe Space Allies for a celebration of our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Ally communities on campus. Come out of the closet as an ally in Hunsaker Plaza, check out the display in the commons, enjoy informative biographies about famous LGBTQQIA people, and join in events celebrating Ally Week and National Coming Out Day! Look for more information.

Thursday, October 16 – Film Screening: The Business of Being Born, 7 PM, Casa Loma Room (co-sponsored by the Women’s Center and  Women’s Studies)

Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political, scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. Should most births be viewed as a natural life process, or should every delivery be treated as a potentially catastrophic medical emergency?

Monday, October 20: Coffee Talk – HIV/AIDS: Why is it still a world-wide epidemic?, 4 PM, Multicultural Center

Take a break and join Campus Diversity and Inclusion for our new discussion series on current events and issues. Join Dr. Marie-France François, M.D., MPH of the Foothill AIDS Project (Claremont & San Bernardino, CA) in a conversation about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and current developments. This is a discussion not to be missed! Free coffee, tea and refreshments.

Tuesday, October 21: Diwali Dinner, 5:30 PM, Casa Loma

Once again, the Multicultural Center will sponsor the annual Diwali dinner, marking the Hindu festival of lights. There will be food, dance, traditional crafts and educational elements about the religious occasion.

Tuesday, October 21: WomanTalk – Femininity and Politics, 7:30 PM, Women’s Center

Thursday, October 30: Dia de los Muertos

Thursday, October 30 – Sunday, November 2 – Angels in America, Glenn Wallichs Theatre

(Coordinated by ASUR Convocation & Lecture Series. For more information, please contact ASURLectures@gmail.com)

Monday October 13, 8pm  Casa Loma Room
Tim Prince; Candidate for the US Congress, 41st District

Thursday October 23, 7pm Orton Center
US Congressman Jerry Lewis, 41st District

Monday October 27, 7pm Hall of Letters 100
What Do You Expect? How backgrounds do or don't matter to the making of a president.
Professor Renee Van Vechten

Thursday October 30, 7pm Orton Center
Predicting the Election: 2008
Professor Ed Wingenbach and Seminar Students