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UNCG Race & Gender Institute Focusing
On Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
 

GREENSBORO — The annual Race and Gender Institute will focus on the theme, “Breaking Silences: Addressing Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Southern Academy,” during spring semester at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The "Remembering Jim Crow" program, which was cancelled earlier, has been rescheduled for March 19.

The Race and Gender Institute was created to foster greater inclusion of minority perspectives in the curriculum. The first institute was convened in 1993 with funding provided by the Office of the Provost.  In 1997, the institute was decentralized with each academic unit charged with organizing institute programming on a rotating cycle. It is sponsored this year by the School of Human Environmental Sciences, and Dr. Andrea Hunter of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies is coordinator of the programs. All of the events are free and open to the public. Further information is available by calling 256-0091.

 “It is our mission to encourage a critical dialogue about race, gender, and sexual orientation in our teaching, research and scholarship, and intellectual discourse at UNCG,” Hunter said about this year’s theme. “We believe that the Southern Academy has a unique potential to be a catalyst for not only healing old wounds connected to the southern past but also as a progressive force with respect to social justice, civility, and academic freedom.”

Upcoming events on the schedule are:

• Rescheduled  Wednesday, March 19, 6-8 p.m., “Remembering Jim Crow,” radio documentary, slideshow presentation and oral history based on the "Behind the Veil" project, with Dr. Robert Korstad of the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University, Elliott University Center (EUC), Multicultural Resource Center.

 
• Friday, March 21, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., “brown bag” book discussion of “Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove” by Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington, Stone Building, Edwards Lounge.

 
• Monday, March 24, 7-9 p.m., “Let My People Go: The Trials of Bondage in Words of Master and Slave,” non-fiction dramatization of slave petitions collected by UNCG Historian Loren Schweninger, performed by the Touring Theatre Ensemble of North Carolina, Brown Building Auditorium. Schweninger will attend to discuss his research and answer questions.

 
• Friday, April 11, 10 a.m.-noon, “brown bag” book discussion of “Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses” by Dr. Elizabeth P. Cramer, social work professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Stone Building, Edwards Lounge.

 
• Friday, April 11, 1-5 p.m., workshop on “Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses,” led by author Dr. Elizabeth P. Cramer, Stone Building, Edwards Lounge.

 
• May 19-21, “Undoing Racism,” workshop retreat facilitated by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a collective of educators and organizers who are dedicated to building an effective movement for social change, based in New Orleans, open to the UNCG community, reservations required (256-0363) by April 21.

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