Campus Wide Events

Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Celebration: Add an Event

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College-hosted MLK, Jr. Events

College of Education

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12N-1:00 p.m.
507 Erickson Hall

"Culturally Contested Literacies: America's 'Rainbow Underclass' and Urban Schools"

The Partnership to Prepare Global & International Educators is a collaborative initiative to encourage and support global and international learning and teaching in the College of Education at MSU and local K-12 schools.
This book launch and presentation is presented by Dr. Guofang Li, Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University. For more information, visit http://www.educ.msu.edu/teachglobal/.

College of Nursing

Friday, January 25, 2008 (12:30 p.m.)
A133 Life Sciences Building
Video and Panel Discussion

Faculty, administrators and the CON student body will be invited to attend a presentation of the documentary titled "February One". One remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. On February 1, 1960, Ezell Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil-later dubbed the Greensboro Four-began a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a small city in North Carolina. The act of simply sitting down to order food in a restaurant that refused service to anyone but whites is now widely regarded as one of the pivotal moments in the American Civil Rights Movement. Offering an unusually intimate portrait of four men whose moral courage at ages 17 and 18 not only changed public accommodation laws in North Carolina but also served as a blueprint for non-violent protests throughout the 1960s, FEBRUARY ONE: The Story of the Greensboro Four reveals how these idealistic college students became friends and inspired one another to stage the sit-in, and how the burden of history has impacted their lives ever since.

A panel discussion and breakout sessions amongst faculty, students and administrators will follow.

Contact(s): Regina Traylor (traylor1@msu.edu) 517.353.4827

Cyclotron

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School of Social Work

 

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 (6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.) Kellogg Center Auditorium

An Evening with Crisette Ellis 

Speaking Engagement will question and answer session.  Sponsors include the College of Engineering/Diversity Programs Office, College of Engineering/Dean’s Office and Leaders Encouraging Academic Development (LEAD).

Contact(s):

Theodore Caldwell and   James Stewart

517.355.8310         517.355.8310

caldwell@egr.msu.edu stewart@egr.msu.edu

 

MSU Museum

New exhibition opens "Quilts and Human Rights," January 15-August 24,2008, Michigan State University Musuem, East Lansing, Michigan

This exhibit is part of a special human rights theme for 2007-2008. See also http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Current/expressions_of_human_rights.html

African-American quilt artists demonstrations and exhibition gallery discussions at the MSU Museum as part of Martin Luther King Day Observances, January 21, 2008. 10-11:30am, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and 3:40 -4:15 p.m.

For more information about the museum and its activities, go to www.museum.msu.edu

Kresge Art Museum

Press Release

January 7-31, 2008
Newly acquired works by Detroit artist Tyree Guyton will be on display, as well as significant examples by other African-American artists from KAM's collection.
Museum Hours: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.
Admission: Always Free

Tyree Guyton (American born 1955)
Revelations, 1993
Acrylic and mixed media on board, 27-1/4 x 27-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches
Gift of Charles Aymond