2013 Spring Diversity Program Guide

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M A R C H NAECC SPRING ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

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A R T I S T L E C T U R E P R E S E N TAT I O N

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. - Stewart Center Room 314

Terry Gasdia (Hopi/Pima) will conduct a campus wide lecture and provide insight on how incorporates his Native heritage into his artwork. Sponsored by the Native American Educational and Cultural Center Target Audience: Purdue Community and General Public Visit www.purdue.edu/naecc/

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LATIN AMERICAN FILM SERIES - “THE SON OF THE BRIDE”

6:00 p.m. - Beering Hall 2280

Faculty facilitator: Dr. Ariel de la Fuente, Associate Professor. At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. Living in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn’t spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. Sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, and Delta Pi Rho Fraternity Inc. Target Audience: Purdue Community and General Public Visit www.purdue.edu/lcc

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LA POLILLA CAFÉ (BOOKWORM CAFÉ) THE LINE OF THE SUN BY JUDITH ORTIZ COFER

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Latino Cultural Center

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family’s struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. Sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center and the Women’s Resource Network Book Club Target Audience: Purdue Students and General Public Visit www.purdue.edu/lcc

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HARAKA WRITERS SPRING PRODUCTION

7:00 p.m. – Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room 1

Sponsored by the Black Cultural Center Target Audience: Purdue Community and General Public Visit www.purdue.edu/bcc

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: DR. DAVID SHNEER ON PARAGRAPH 175 AND THE NAZI PERSECUTION OF GAYS AND LESBIANS

6:00 p.m. Krannert Auditorium

Dr. David Shneer holds a Ph.D from the University of California-Berkeley and has been called a “taboo-breaking scholar” researching Jewish society, culture, and Jews and sexuality. He is the author of Queer Jews, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and has lectured about the Nazi persecution of gays and lesbians during World War II as well as LGBTQ lives in the years following the war. Join us for a screening of the award winning documentary Paragraph 175 with comments and conversation facilitated by Dr. David Shneer. Sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Center and the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference Target Audience: Purdue Community and General Public Visit www.purdue.edu/lgbtq/

SPRING 2013 DIVERSITY GUIDE


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