UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 5, Page 4
September 29, 1994
Education center to launch intercultural speaker series

     The Center for Intercultural Teacher Education in the College of
Education will launch its fall speaker series at 1 p.m., Thursday,
Oct. 6, in 207 of the Willard Hall Education Building.
     The opening session, a panel discussion featuring Richard
Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service, will address multiculturalism,
multicultural education and national identity as presented in his
latest book, The Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican
Father.
     Rodriguez, a graduate of Stanford University and the University
of California at Berkeley, is an editor with the Pacific News Service
in San Francisco.  An established author, his autobiography, Hunger of
Memory, won several awards, including the Gold Medal for non-fiction
from the Commonwealth Club of California, the Christopher Prize for
Autobiography and the Ansfeld-Wolf Prize for Civil Rights from the
Cleveland Foundation.  His current book, Days of Obligation, was one
of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in the non-fiction category.
     Rodriguez, an essayist for the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and a
contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, has produced two
documentaries for the BBC and was the subject of a two-part profile on
Bill Moyers' World of Ideas television program.  His articles have
appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, The Los Angeles
Times, Mirabella, Mother Jones, The New Republic and U.S. News and
World Report.
     His awards have included an Emmy Award for his short historical
essay, "Pearl Harbor Anniversary," the Frankel Medal from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the International Journalism Award from
the World Affairs Council of California, a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship.
     Panel members Oct. 6 will be Jim Raths, chairperson of the
University's Department of Educational Studies (moderator); Bill
Stanley, chairperson of the Department of Educational Development;
Carole Marks, associate professor of the Black American Studies
Program; Hilton Brown, Harriet T. Baily Professor of Art Conservation;
and Cassandra Velilla, a student in the college's ASPIRE program.  A
question-and-answer period for the audience will follow the
discussion.
     Rodriguez also will give an evening presentation on the topics of
multiculturalism, multicultural education and national identity at 7
that evening in 001 Willard Hall Education Building.
     The fall series will continue on Oct. 20, with Sandra Harding,
professor of philosophy, speaking on "Is Science Multicultural?" and
on Nov. 3, with Jim Sears of the University of South Carolina
addressing the topic, "Integrating Gay Scholarship, Feminist Theory,
Cultural Studies and Multicultural Education."
     All programs are free and open to the public. For information,
contact Victor Martuza at 831-3649.