Doing "Diversity:" Making It or Faking It?
A conference about diversity issues at CCA
updated 3/6/10

Saturday, April 3, 2010
Nahl Hall, Oakland Campus
9am-6:00pm
 
 
 

Program

9:00am    WELCOME/COFFEE

9:10am     OPENING REMARKS, Melinda L. de Jesús, Diversity Studies Chair

9:15-11:15am  DIVERSITY STUDIES FACULTY ROUNDTABLE: "Art/Pedagogy/Praxis"
Tressa Berman, Claudia Bernardi, Lauren Elder, Guillermo Galindo, Amana Harris, Taraneh Hemami, Devorah Major, Lydia Nakashima de Garrod, Parisa Parnian, Celia Rodriguez

11:15 - 11:30am   BREAK

11:30 - 1:00 pm   ROUNDTABLE  "Integrating Diversity Studies at CCA: Challenges and Initiatives"
Panelists: Provost Mark Breitenberg, Associate Provost Mel Corn, and Chairs Ila Berman, Julian Carter, Ted Purves, and Tirza Latimer

1:00 - 2:00pm      LUNCH

2:00 - 3:30 pm    ROUNDTABLE "Looking Across Models: Diversity and Social Justice Studies in Higher Education"

Carlos Baron, Theater and Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State
Kristin Kusanovich, Justice and Arts Initiative, Santa Clara University
Roberto Varea, Theater and Social Justice, University of San Francisco
Justin Hoover, Visual Art Director, SomArts

3:30-3:45     BREAK

3:45 - 5:15pm   STUDENT AND ALUMNI PRESENTATIONS
Panelists: Steve Jones, Josue Rojas, Vivian Truong, Helena Parriott, Camille Hoffman

5:30    RECEPTION
 
 
 
 

For more information please contact Melinda L. de Jesus, Diversity Studies Chair: mdejesus@cca.edu

Conference planning committee:Tressa Berman, Claudia Bernardi, Lauren Elder, Lydia Nakashima de Garrod, Taraneh Hemami, melinda de jesús

Sponsors: Diversity Studies Program, President's Diversity Steering Group