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| Vol. 19, No. 10 | Nov. 4, 1999 |
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| Vol. 19, No. 10 | Nov. 4, 1999 |
Elements for maintaining healthy communities and improving the quality of life in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the topics of "Empowerment Summit III- Diversity," a conference intended to highlight regional resources, opportunities and partnership prospects. Scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 9, the summit will be held in the Atlantic City Convention Center and will be downlinked at the same time at the University of Delaware, where segments will be interspersed with presentations by UD faculty and community leaders working in these arenas.
Free and open to the public, the conference can be seen from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Multipurpose Room C of the Trabant University Center. Reservations-recommended today, Nov. 4-can be made by calling 831-6812 or by sending e-mail to <halvor@udel.edu>.
Four topic areas, each essential to maintaining healthy communities, will be addressed: health, arts and culture, civic involvement and housing and economic development.
Martha Buell, assistant professor of individual and family studies and director of Northern Delaware Early Head Start, will open the conference at 8:15 a.m. The teleconference downlink will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a keynote presentation by the Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) and the African-African American Summit. The downlink continues from 9:30-11 a.m. with presentations on health and arts.
At 11 a.m., a presentation on community, housing and economic development will be led by Tim Barnekov, Center for Community Development and Family Policy, and Linda Stillis, director, Multiplex Incubator project in Wilmington. Also scheduled at 11 a.m. is a presentation on civic involvement led by Kathryn Denhardt, Master of Public Administration program.
From 12:15-1 p.m., Charles Smith, president and CEO of Christiana Care Corp. and Fred Carey, president, Henrietta Johnson Medical Center, will lead a discussion on health. Also at that time, James Newton, artist and Black American Studies Program, will lead a discussion on arts and culture.
The downlink will resume at 1:15 p.m. with remarks from New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and a keynote address by Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, spokesperson for the Muslim American Society.
Sponsored by the College of Human Resources, Education and Public Policy, the teleconference "is an opportunity to start an important dialogue about the many resources, services and programs available to Delawareans and the diversity of organizations providing them," Raheemah Jabbar-Bey, Center for Community Development and Family Policy, said. Jabbar-Bey helped organize the program.
"The Delaware model of integrating academics, applied research and public service will be clearly demonstrated in the summit workshops and panels in Atlantic City," she said.
According to Martha Buell, a member of the planning team, "The summit is a wonderful opportunity to highlight the many exciting and innovative programs throughout our region, to network and build linkages between the University."
Cosponsors include Northern Delaware Early Head Start, Center for Community Development and Family Policy, Diamondnet, First State Mentor Corps, the Parent Resource Center and the UD Institute for Public Administration.
Kobena Mercer, a multidisciplinary scholar on issues related to African art history, will discuss the current and controversial exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18, in Room 103 of Gore Hall in his talk, entitled "New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness."
The exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Sensations," includes a painting by British artist Chris Ofili called "The Holy Virgin Mary" that is flecked with elephant dung. The painting and other pieces in the exhibit so angered New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani that he ordered the museum to close the exhibit or lose it's $7.2 million in city funding. The museum is suing the city to get its funding back.
Mercer will venture behind the scenes of the recent controversy over the "Sensation" exhibit and discuss questions of new British art as a contradictory response to artworld globalization, with special attention to the works of such black Diasporan artists as Ofili and Steve McQueen. His talk is free and open to the public.
Also at UD, Mercer will visit a history of photography class and conduct a workshop for students.
Mercer's talk is the second in the Visiting Distinguished Minority Scholars 1999-2000 Mini Series, a new set of lectures being offered this fall at UD.
According to Jerry Beasley, chairperson of the UD Department of English and one of the organizers of the series, it features "dynamic and exciting" young scholars from across the country and emphasizes the University's commitment to promoting minority scholarship and scholarship that is interdisciplinary. The talks are designed to appeal to a diverse audience of those from academia and the general public.
Mercer is currently a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the California Institute of the Arts and, most recently, in the African Studies Program at New York University. His areas of research and teaching cross several disciplines, from African studies and multicultural literatures to art history, film and visual culture, especially as it relates to the black Diaspora.
He is the author of Witness at the Crossroads: An Artist's Journey in Postcolonial Space and Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, which discussed such topics as Michael Jackson's Thriller video, Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs and black hairstyles. He is now engaged in a book-length work on contemporary art in the African Diaspora.
The UD mini-lecture series opened in October with a talk by Brenda F. Berrian, professor of African studies, English and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh, who spoke on Zouk music from the African Diaspora.
The series continues in February with a talk by Kenneth W. Goings from the University of Memphis, who will discuss "The Three Lives of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose: or How the Darkies Got to Harvard."
The mini-series is sponsored by the College of Arts and Science, the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs, the Center for Black Culture, the Black American Studies and Women's Studies programs and the departments of English, Art History, History and Sociology and Criminal Justice.
For more information, call 831-2361.
Deborah Gray White, author of the award-winning book, Ain't I a Woman, will visit the University of Delaware on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 17 and 18.
An important scholar on issues affecting African-American women, she will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Room 208 Gore Hall on her newest book, Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves. The talk is part of the Delaware Seminar series and interested persons can call 831-2678 to obtain a copy of the book chapter that will be discussed at the lecture.
On Thursday, Nov. 18, she will speak at 4 p.m. in Room 115 of Purnell Hall. The topic of that talk is "Perilous Sisterhood: The Million Woman March," an examination of conflicts and dilemmas black women encounter in their organizing efforts. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Ain't I a Woman explores the experience of slavery for African-American women in the antebellum South. Her newest book looks at the efforts black women have made over a century to organize themselves to work for social justice. It examines the gender relations between male and female organizing efforts and the internal conflicts as well as the larger struggles to end segregation and disenfranchisement.
White will be signing copies of Too Heavy A Load at a reception, which is open to the public, at 3 p.m., Nov. 17, at the Center for Black Culture.
A professor of history at Rutgers University, Gray White earned her doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1979. She has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and taught in New York City schools. She was the Ralph Metcalff Visiting Chair at Marquette University in 1993 and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Association of University Women. She was the 1986 winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize.
Her other books include Let My People Go: African Americans 1804-1860 and Our United States.
Her UD appearance is sponsored by the Delaware Seminar, the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs, the departments of History and Sociology and Criminal Justice, the Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Program and the Black American Studies Program, the Center for Community Development and Family Policy and the Center for Black Culture.
For more information, call 831-2681.
The first performance of Intermusica, a chamber music series designed for the newly renovated Bayard Sharp Hall, will be presented at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9. The series opens with a concert directed by Cynthia Carr, featuring student ensembles of three to eight players in a program of chamber music for mixed instruments. Admission is free, with seating limited to 100.
Taking advantage of the intimate setting of Bayard Sharp Hall, which is particularly appropriate for chamber music, the program features a variety of instrumental combinations. Included are wind octets by Beethoven and Mozart, Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock for clarinet, voice and piano, a piece for clarinet and percussion by McKay, a trio for flute, voice and piano by Saint-Saens, and a new piece for oboe, bass clarinet and percussion by composition student Megan Jenkins.
Featured musicians are Roberta Watts, Lee Hartman, Kate Lupson, Jared Kobos, Lauren Robinson, Erica Eklund, Brian Casey, Casey Corigliano, Christine Kavanagh Miller, Tomoko Azuma, Adrienne Harding, Jennifer Forshey. Graduate student Brian Casey will conduct the Mozart octet.
Two faculty development workshops, sponsored by the Center for Teaching Effectiveness and University Honors Program (UHP), will be held from 3:30-5 p.m. today, Nov. 4; and Thursday, Nov. 18, in Room 318 Gore Hall.
Today's workshop, "Enriching the Curriculum: Honors Challenges and Teaching Opportunities at Delaware," is an orientation session for faculty new to UHP teaching to familiarize them with program requirements and teaching opportunities. The program will include a sharing of ideas that enrich the curriculum in "free-standing" honors section as well as in "add-on" courses, and students and faculty will talk about the "honors experience."
"A Case Study in Interdisciplinarity and General Education: The First-Year Honors Colloquium," scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 18, will be presented by faculty and students involved in the Honors colloquium, an interdisciplinary general education course, the centerpiece of the first-year experience of the University Honors Program since the 1970s.
There will be a discussion of the issues involved in interdisciplinary and/or multi-disciplinary teaching and the role advanced undergraduates play as writing fellows in these and other courses.
For information, call 831-2340. To preregister, call 831-2027 or send e-mail to <cte-reg@udel.edu>.
Issues in Healing," a program for individuals who have experienced sexual assault or an assault on a loved one, will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 10, in Rooms 209-211 of the Trabant University Center.
The free, public program will address common responses to trauma, a model for the healing process and some of the challenges facing family and friends of survivors. Available resources will be highlighted.
Psychologists Emily Carter, Mary Anne M. Lacour and Vivian Yamada, counseling and student development, will facilitate the program.
This program is part of UD's Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Education.
For more information, call 831-1201.
A panel of authors who have written books on the Tom Capano/Anne Marie Fahey case will discuss their works at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 15, during a panel discussion in Room 120 Smith Hall.
Members of the panel include Philadelphia Inquirer reporter George Anastasia whose book, The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey was published in August; News Journal reporter Chris Barrish whose book, Fatal Embrace: The Inside Story of the Thomas Capano/Anne Marie Fahey Murder Case, is scheduled to be published in November; and Brian J. Karem, author of Above the Law: The Sensational Murder Case That Stunned the Nation.
Publisher's notes call The Summer Wind "a story of the clash of two generations and two cultures, of the arrogance of power in a growing city, and of the decaying moral landscape of late-20th-century America."
Publisher's notes on Above the Law said it "takes the reader inside the world of a man with an explosive temper and kinky associations."
An early review of Fatal Embrace said, "This was a riveting story, one that Chris Barrish, who covered the story for the Wilmington News Journal, brings to life with amazing detail."
The Department of English sponsors the panel discussion. For information, call 831-1974.
Carolyn Keefe, professor emerita of speech and communication at West Chester University, will speak on "How to Self Destruct," a presentation on the view of C.S. Lewis from his book The Abolition of Man at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Trabant University Center. The talk is the fall Inquiry for Truth Lecture sponsored by the Church and Campus Connection in cooperation with other student groups.
The lecture will look at the descent of humanity resulting from the loss of absolute truth in morals. C.S. Lewis, the internationally known British writer, who taught literature at Cambridge University until his death, is a leading spokesman for the recovery of Biblical Christianity to replace secular humanism.
Keefe received her bachelor's degree in religion from Oberlin College, and her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Pennsylvania.
She was named the state of Pennsylvania's Professor of the Year in 1990 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
All performances will take place in the auditorium of Pearson Hall.
Tickets for evening performances are $4 for UD students and faculty and $5 for the general public. Prices are reduced by $1 for the matinee.
Call 837-4463.
Bauer's research focuses on post-independence politics in Namibia and, more broadly, the transition to and consolidation of democracy throughout Africa. She is currently teaching courses in African and South African politics, the politics of developing nations and Third World women in politics. Her most recent publication is Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1871-1996.
Her talk is free and open to the public by invitation. To request an invitation, call 831-8474.
All students are invited to a coffeehouse, hosted by Russell Fellows and Freshman Fellows, from 8-10 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 7, in the Russell A/B Lounge.
The 13 Russell Fellows are upperclass students living in freshman honors housing, who are committed to helping other students benefit from an honors education by being available for questions or problems, helping to plan social and cultural activities and helping with overnight campus visits and general recruitment. The 33 Freshman Fellows are first-year honors students living in Russell with the same responsibilities.
Sponsored the Student Center Programs Advisory Board, this sneak preview is being held at UD because it is one of the few colleges with a theatre capable of showing 35 mm films.
The screening is free, but tickets are required. Distribution of a limited number of tickets will begin at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 5, in the main hall of the Trabant University Center. There is a ticket limit of two, and each individual getting tickets must have a UD ID.
Dogma, which opens nationally on Nov. 12, is the latest film from the director of Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy. Described as a comic fantasia about the war between good and evil set in New Jersey in the late, late 20th century, the film stars Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek and Chris Rock.
The 13 singers, dancers and musicians were hand-selected by the president of Uzbekistan. Uzbek dance is characterized by intricate arm and hand movements, animated facial expressions, dazzling spins and deep backbends, with some portions performed kneeling on the floor. Accompaniment may vary from rhythms played on the Uzbek frame drum to classical compositions performed by traditional singers.
The performance is free and open to the public.
