Brown Bag Series
The Brown Bag Series was developed to provide faculty, staff, and students with the opportunity to discuss on-going research that impacts the University of Illinois and the surrounding Urbana-Champaign community. Seminars can run from one to two hours and focus on various forms of interdisciplinary research.
Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Our Dysfunctional Immigration System at Breaking Point
Jorge Chapa
November 7, 2008 - 12:00pm
Christopher Hall Studio
904 W. Nevada St
Urbana, IL 61801
Jorge Chapa will update the findings of his co-authored book, Apple Pie & Enchiladas discussing the following issues:
- Our current system of undocumented immigration
- Recent Latino immigration to the rural Midwest
- Racialized violence against "Mexican" immigrants
- Dimensions of current immigration enforcement and reform and the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society planned immigration-related initiatives.
Restorative Justice:
What is it, why it works and what it can do for us
November 6, 2008 - 11:00am
Room 336 - Lincoln Hall
702 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Lecture by Howard Zehr
Howard Zehr is a major restorative justice pioneer. His insights grew out of his work on the first victim offender encounter program in the US. His book, Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, is considered a foundational work in the restorative justice movement.
Sponsored by: The Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and the Department of Sociology
Cyberbullying in "Dangerous" Conversations: Online Student Newspaper as Virtual Town Hall
Aimee N. Rickman and Cassidy C Browning
April 18, 2008 |
This presentation merges the scholarship of two UIUC graduate students seeking to clarify and explore the phenomenon of race- and diversity-related cyberbullying, and examine The Daily Illini as a specific example.
Cyberbullying in "Dangerous" Conversations: Online Student Newspaper as Virtual Town Hall
About the Presenters:
Aimee N. Rickman is a doctoral student in the Department of Human & Community Development. As a 2008-2009 CDMS Graduate Fellow, Aimee will continue her research interest exploring the online forums of the Daily Illini probing the issue of cyberbullying and how it is involved in the University’s efforts to support campus diversity and racial inclusion. Rickman can be contacted at arickman@uiuc.edu.
Cassidy C Browning, M.A., is an activist theatre scholar and artist. Her research interests include Queer Theory and Theatre, Gender Studies, Third Wave Feminism, Guerilla Theatre, Performance Studies, Racialized Studies, and Internet Identity. Browning deposited a thesis in May 2008 titled, "A Room of Wong's Own: Identity Politics in the Life and Work of Kristina Wong" about a Los Angeles-based performance artist who became a figure of third wave feminism after creating her infamous website bigbadchinesemama.com and whose current piece is "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." Browning can be contacted cassidycbrowning@gmail.com.
Sponsored by: CDMS Internet and Campus Climate Working Group and Campus Information Technologies Education Services
Signifying as Personal Relationship: Chief Love & Grief at Interdisciplinary Crossroads
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark and Lisa B. Spanierman
November 30, 2007 |
“Getting at the Wellsprings of Chief Love” examines myriad expressions related to discontinuing Chief Illiniwek as the official symbol of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The presenters invite an interactive dialog as they develop their interdisciplinary methodological approach to analyzing data from web-logs, cyber-meeting sites, and newspaper commentary.
Getting at the Wellsprings of Cheif Love (and Cheif Grief)
100 defensive tactics and attributions: Dodging the Dialog on Cultural Diversity by Cornel Pewewardy
About the Presenters:
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-editor of the Indigenous Futures Series at the University of Nebraska Press and associate editor for Wicazo Sa Review. His book projects include Indigenous Acts. Dr. Clark can be contacted at tyeeme@uiuc.edu
Lisa B. Spanierman is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her recent publications on the psychosocial costs of racism to White individuals appear in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and The Counseling Psychologist. Dr. Spanierman can be contacted at lbspan@uiuc.edu.
Sponsored by: CDMS Internet and Campus Climate Working Group