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Colloquia for 2005
- Dolores
Huerta
February 9, 2006
postponed from September 2005
In
preparation for the Educator’s Talk with Dolores
Huerta, please visit her
website, read her biography, and come prepared to participate
in an engaging
conversation with our guest.
http://www.doloreshuerta.org/
5:00pm
Educator’s Talk and Dinner
Rockwell Pavilion
Anderson Library
University of Houston Main Campus 7:30pm
Dolores Huerta
Cullen Performance Hall
University of Houston Main Campus In
1962 along with Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta co-founded
what would become the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). Aside
from currently serving as the Secretary-Treasurer
of the United Farm Workers, she is the Vice-President
for the Coalition for Labor Union Women, the Vice-President
of the California AFL-CIO, and is a board member
for the Fund For The Feminist Majority, which advocates
for the political and equal rights for women.
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- Odetta
"Songs for Social Change"
Educator Talk and Dinner with Odetta
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 5:30pm
Athletics/Alumni Facility
Main Campus
University of Houston
Concert
Thursday February 10th, 2005 at 7:00pm
Cullen Performance Hall
"Songs for Social Change"
Odetta,
is one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Before
Odetta, no solo woman performer (let alone an African
American woman) had toured the world singing folk, blues, Negro
spirituals, jazz, work and protest songs, while telling the stories
of America's southern experience.
She
is a pioneer, and the first major influence on
the careers of Janis Joplin,
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Judy
Collins, Tracy Chapman, Carly Simon, Casandra Wilson and Jewel, to name
a few. It's almost impossible to capsulize her story,
as she took part in the march on Selma; sang for the masses at the
1963 March on Washington; played for President
Kennedy and his cabinet
on the nationally televised Civil Rights program "Dinner
with the President"; was in the first group
of artists, along with Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson,
to be honored
at Yale University with the Duke Ellington Fellowship
Award; was
appointed an 'Elder' to the 1994 International Women's
Conference in Beijing; and was awarded the National
Medal of Arts and
Humanities in 1999, by President and Mrs. Clinton
at the White House.
Colloquia
for 2004
Lecture
Monday, February 16, 2004, 7:30-9:00pm
Cullen Performance Hall, Main Campus, University of Houston
"The
Filmmaker as Historian"
Spike Lee is one of Hollywood's most important and influential
filmmakers. His topical and critically acclaimed films have
launched the careers of several young black actors and his work
puts him at the forefront of the Black New Wave in American
cinema. In addition to his feature films, Lee has also produced
and directed numerous music videos, documentaries and sports
programs. Additionally, Lee has written six books on the making
of his films and has recently completed writing a children's
book.
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Colloquia
for 2003
- James
Loewen
- Workshop:
“Practical Issues in Teaching History”
Thursday, February 13, 2003,
1-3 pm
KIVA,
Farish Hall, University of Houston
-
Lecture: “Lies My Teacher Told me About African-American History”
Thursday, February 13, 2003, Reception: 6:30 pm Lecture: 7:00
pm
University of Houston Hilton, Waldorf
Ballroom
- Workshop:
“Lies My Teacher Told Me and How To Do Better”
Friday, February 14, 2003 , 9-11:30 am
KIVA, Farish Hall, University of
Houston
- Howard
Zinn
"
AMERICA
TODAY AND AMERICA PAST"
Tuesday,
September 23, 2003
University of Houston Main Campus, Cullen Performance Hall
Zinn,
a professor emeritus of history and political science at Boston
University, is one of the most famous social historians of
our time. This activist, pacifist and author of A People's
History of the United States as well as many other books
was raised in a working-class home. He worked in a shipyard
after high school and then joined the Air Force, where he
fought in World War II as a bombardier. Later he taught at
Spelman College in Atlanta, where he began to form his idea
that the way to solve the problems in government is to work
from the bottom up, starting with the people.
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Colloquia
for 2002
- Ronald
Takaki
"WHY MULTICULTURALISM MATTERS"
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
University
of Houston Hilton, Waldorf Ballroom
- Richard
Rodriguez
"HISPANICS AND THE REINVENTION
OF AMERICA"
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
University of Houston Hilton, Waldorf Ballroom
Richard Rodriguez is one of our country's most perceptive commentators
about ethnicity, race and class. With the publication of Brown:
The Last Discovery of America, he completes his trilogy on American
public life that he began with the highly acclaimed memoirs
Hunger of Memory (1982) and Days of Obligation: An Argument
with My Mexican Father (1992). In Brown, he argues that Hispanics
are coloring an American identity that traditionally has chosen
to describe itself as black and white. The New Yorker praises
his work, calling him “a writer of unusual grace and clarity,
eloquent in all his reflections...He speaks with authority,
in a voice of true clarity, and it is impossible to doubt him.”
- Noam
Chomsky
Friday,
October 18, 2002
University of Houston, Cullen Performance Hall
One of the country's prominent political dissidents, Noam Chomsky
is a
professor at MIT, a renowned authority on linguistics, and the
author of
more than 30 books examining such topics as U.S. foreign policy,
human
rights, and the corporate media.
- American
History Institute
Nell Painter, Linda Gordon, and Allan Winkler
Saturday, October 26, 2002
University of Houston Hilton, Grand Ballroom
Nell
Painter, a renowned authority on race, gender, and violence
in American culture, is Edwards Professor of History and former
director of African American Studies at Princeton.
Linda
Gordon of NYU is the leading expert on the historical roots
of
contemporary policy debates regarding women, African Americans,
and welfare policy.
Allan Winkler of Miami University is one of the country's
leading
authorities on WWII, the Cold War, the atom and American life,
and recent American history.
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For additional
information: Please contact Debra Williams, Education Specialist in
Science/Social Studies Services at Region 4 Education
Service Center, 713-744-6846 or dwilliams@esc4.net
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