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Love and Resistance: A Conversation with bell hooks
Date: Thu Oct 29, 2009, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sponsor(s): MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee (WBAC), Africana Studies, MSC Leadership and Empowerment of Aggie Females (LEAF)
Reception and Discussion
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Zachry 119
Main Lecture
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Zachry 102 |
WBAC and Africana Studies will co-program in order to expose the campus to bell hooks. bell hooks will speak about love, the definition of love and how love can foster a sense of community among students.
Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She strongly believes that these topics cannot be dealt with as separately, but must be understood as being interconnectedness. As an example, she refers to the idea of a "White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy" and its interconnectedness, rather than to its more traditionally separated and component parts.
A passionate scholar, hooks is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. |
Town Hall Discussion of Race & Ethnicity
Date & Time:Wed Sep 30, 2009, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Koldus 144
Sponsor(s): MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee (WBAC) and Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference (SBSLC)
WBAC and SBLC will co-program to host a townhall discussion where the audience led by a moderator will then engage in a challenging open dialogue, while enlightening the audience to a different perspective about race and ethnicity: the misconceptions and implications of both.
State of the Black Union Symposium (TAMU)
Date & Time: Sat Sep 19, 2009, 10:00am - 12:00 Noon
Location: Rudder 301
Sponsor(s): MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee (WBAC) and Black Student Alliance Council (BSAC)
The State of the Black Union Symposium (TAMU) is aimed at bringing former students and current students together to meet, interact, share their experiences, and work toward productive solutions for the future. The theme for the program is The Community of Us: Accountability, and Investment. There will be a series of two panels, discussing this theme as it relates to the topic areas: 1.) Academic & Organizational Participation 2.) Community & Long-Term Connections. Each area will consist of six to eight panelists; current and former students, administrators, faculty and staff.
Black Aggie Reunion Weekend
Date & Time:Fri Sep 18, 2009 – Sun Sep 20, 2009
Location: Rudder 301
Sponsor(s): MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee (WBAC) and Black Student Alliance Council (BSAC)
Please visit the Reunion Weekend page for more details on the weekend’s events.
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