February 3, 2003

Faculty share their work during new Diversity Lecture Series

By Jennifer McNulty

Diversity and social justice will be the themes of a new campus lecture series for staff and faculty that opens with a talk by women's studies professor Bettina Aptheker on February 18.

Aptheker will discuss women's oral histories and memoirs from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Conference Room D of the Bay Tree Building. Aptheker, who has just finished a first draft of her own memoir, will discuss the significance of women's life stories and the ways women remember things, narrate their stories, censor themselves, and are censored by others.

The talk is the opening event in the new UCSC Diversity Lecture Series sponsored by the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) that features presentations by faculty. The lectures are free and open to UCSC faculty and staff. Registration is required; to register, please send e-mail to Tiffany Chinn.

"Our campus has a long history of discovering new knowledge in areas of diversity and social justice," said EEO/AA director Patti Hiramoto. "We wanted to offer a forum for our faculty to share their findings, current research, and thoughts on these issues with staff and other faculty."

The schedule of events follows (all events take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Bay Tree Conference Room D):

• March 4: Does Intergroup Contact Reduce Prejudice?
Thomas Pettigrew, professor emeritus of psychology

• March 25: Unbound Voices: A Slide Talk on Chinese American Women's History
Judy Yung, professor of American studies

• April 15: Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School
Pamela Perry, assistant professor of community studies

• May 6: Environmental Justice: What is it? Why Worry?
Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino studies

• May 20: Whose Voice is it?
Gustavo Vazquez, assistant professor of film and digital media

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