Fay Yokomizo Akindes, UW-Parkside
Deborah Bradley, UW-Madison
Manuel Fernández and Eva Santos-Phillips, UW-Eau Claire
Linda Huang and Victoria Pryor, UW-Milwaukee
Patty Loew, UW-Madison
Roseann Mason, UW-Parkside
Kim Nielsen, UW-Green Bay
Jill Pinkney Pastrana, UW-Eau-Claire
Judy Rene Sims, UW-Eau Claire
Julie Tharp, UW-Marshfield/Wood County
Theresa Wimann and Edith Felts-Podoll, UW-Extension (Adams County)
Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Center for Ethnic Studies/Communication Department, UW-Parkside - "Paula Crisostomo Lecture: Chicano Walk Out - Forty Years of Taking Back the Schools"
This grant will subsidize a guest lecture by Paula Crisostomo, a Chicana activist and Director of Government and Community Relations for Occidental College in Los Angeles. Crisostomo helped lead and organize the 1968 walkouts of high school students in East Los Angeles. The walkouts were the largest high school protest in U.S. history, involving more than 20,000 students. This action was the first major protest of the Chicano movement, an essential broadening of the civil rights movement in which Mexican Americans empowered themselves to challenge the inferior social and economic conditions they faced in U.S society. The public lecture is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. She will also meet with students to address the need for activism in effecting social change.
Deborah Bradley, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UW-Madison - "Indigenous Knowledges in the Music Teacher Education Curriculum: The Social Organization of Trust"
In an effort to increase awareness of indigenous music cultures in Wisconsin and globally, guest artists from Wisconsin First Nations groups and a Ghanaian drumming master and dancer will work directly with undergraduate teacher education students in teaching them music from their cultures that may appropriately be taught in school settings. Students will have the opportunity to engage with these musicians as people of vibrant and dynamic cultures. This dynamic approach stands in opposition to static cultural representations often found within music education texts and resources. Such hands-on experience reinforces the "social organization of trust" by incorporating indigenous knowledges into the mainstream curriculum for music teacher education.
Manuel Fernández, Department of Foreign Languages, and Eva Santos-Phillips, Latin American Studies, UW-Eau Claire - "Enrique Morones Speaking on Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants and Humanitarian Aid, or Are (Border) Angels Criminals"
Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels, will be the keynote speaker of UW-Eau Claire's annual Latin American Studies Week. He will also visit a number of classes and speak to students on immigration issues. Border Angles' stated mission is to aid people coming through the U.S.-Mexican border by handing out clothing, food, and water as needed throughout the year. Because of the undocumented status of those they intend to help, their mission is inherently controversial. Morones will discuss these issues to inform the audience about the role of such organizations in the larger scheme of the immigration dilemma.
Linda Huang and Victoria Pryor, Multicultural Student Center, UW-Milwaukee - "Faces of America"
A one-person performance will take place at UW-Milwaukee to stimulate interaction on all topics related to differences. This activity addresses the questions of multiculturalism in today's society through the eyes of Generation Y. The performance challenges stereotypes associated with the subjects of race, ethnicity, gender, ability, and sexual orientation. The performer will facilitate a post-show discussion, followed by a reception. The event will be open to the public.
Patty Loew, Department of Life Sciences Communication, UW-Madison - "Native Science Native Journalism"
What happens when scientific inquiry collides with deeply held cultural beliefs? Native American journalist Kara Briggs, a syndicated health columnist and former president of both the Native American Journalists Association and Unity: Journalists of Color, will speak at UW-Madison on bio-piracy, the genetic modification of food considered "sacred" and competing notions of western and indigenous science.
Roseann Mason, Center for Community Partnerships, UW-Parkside - "Diversity Circles Facilitator Training"
A two-day Diversity Circles facilitator training will be held as a follow-up to the Diversity Circles on Poverty and Racism offered in 2007 and 2008. The four Diversity Circles included participants from throughout the state, all of whom had participated in the UW Colleges and Extension Multicultural Awareness Training. The facilitator training is the next step, as it will provide participants the skills necessary to conduct Diversity Circles in their respective communities. Previously, participants were involved in the training and the circles as a way to increase their own awareness and understanding of issues of diversity. The facilitator training will provide participants with the skills necessary to broaden the impact from the personal to the broader community.
Kim Nielsen, Social Change and Development, UW-Green Bay - "Kimberley Phillips on 'Waging War, Waging Peace' "
During 2008-2009, UWGB is focusing course and campus events on the theme "Waging War, Waging Peace." Grant funds will assist in bringing Kimberley Phillips to campus to give a lecture entitled " 'War, What is it Good For?': African Americans on the Frontlines of Battle and Peace." Phillips, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary, is a prominent historian of African-American workers, music, and politicized cultural productions. He will meet with both student and faculty groups.
Jill Pinkney Pastrana, Foundations of Education Department, UW-Eau Claire - "COEHS Hmong Culture and Language Program"
UW-Eau Claire's College of Education and Human Sciences and the community will host a Hmong Culture and Language program in summer 2009. The program will involve Hmong youth as well as university students and faculty in the exploration and celebration of Hmong history, storytelling, music, dance, gardening, and the arts. Hmong elders will share their expertise throughout the day playing instruments, storytelling, and singing traditional songs as part of the daily hands-on-language and culture classes (led by certified teachers, bilingual aides, and community educators with cultural expertise). Afternoon sessions will include university tours, technology and photography classes, and some leadership training sessions.
Judy Rene Sims, Department of Communication and Journalism, UW-Eau Claire - "International Awareness Through Intercultural Interviews"
Twenty to thirty radio programs featuring "intercultural interviews" will be produced and broadcast on WUEC (UW-Eau Claire's campus radio station). This activity will integrate UW-Eau Claire's international students and scholars into the campus and local communities; increase international awareness; affect perceptions of race, ethnicity, and diversity; and encourage understanding of intercultural communication, which attempts to discover how people from differing cultures endeavor to communicate. The interviews will explore such topics as values, language and verbal communication styles, nonverbal communication, sense of identity, and culture shock. The activities will involve students, faculty, and community members from diverse backgrounds.
Julie Tharp, Department of English, UW-Marshfield/Wood County - "The Human Race"
The Human Race Machine will be brought to campus for one week to provide students, faculty, and community members the opportunity to deconstruct the notion of race and to confront, in a very personal way, how alike we all are. The interactive technology of the machine allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races mapped onto their own visage. In conjunction with the machine, there will be an exhibit titled "All of Us Are Related, Each of Us is Unique." The exhibit, owned by a UW-Marathon County professor, takes a more academic approach to the same subject. Via evidence on human migrations and adaptations, the exhibition (18 poster-sized panels) shows how erroneous conventional wisdom has been with respect to the deeply ingrained concept of discrete "races." The Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation will also provide a speaker on genetics for the fair attendees.
Theresa Wimann and Edith Felts-Podoll, Family Living, UW-Extension (Adams County) - "Gardens as a Strategy for Teaching about Multiculturalism"
This grant will provide opportunities for individuals to meet and interact with diverse cultures through garden learning experiences. UW-Extension faculty and staff will: (i) develop skills in asking questions to learn about different cultures by discussing a neutral entity; (ii) learn about different cultures that live in Wisconsin through garden experiences; and (iii) process experiences with diverse cultures and understand how these experiences impact their work and their ability to serve new audiences. Each learning opportunity will be held at a diverse garden site with facilitators who will share information about the role of the garden in their own culture and answer questions about that garden. Following the garden program, opportunities to break bread with foods from the culture they experience will be offered at each site.