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From Every Nation Symposium on Race

The From Every Nation Symposium on Race, or FEN Sym, is an annual lecture series sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Affairs. This event revolves around the three principles of the From Every Nation document: Multicultural Citizenship, Anti-racism & Accountablity, Reconciliation & Restoration. Guest lecturers present on an array of topics; from cultural awareness and diversity in schools, to embracing one's racial identity and issues of racism, in order to challenge the audience's minds and change perspectives in hopes of progressing towards becoming the community we would like to be.

Dr. Sandra MayoDr. Sandra Mayo
Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum

Wed. March 10, 2010
Commons Lecture Hall
7pm

Dr. Sandra M. Mayo, Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas State University-San Marcos since 2001, has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. Her work as Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies includes managing a minor in diversity and women’s studies, co-curricular multicultural events, and a resource area with a variety of multicultural titles. She is the director of the Women and Gender Research Collaborative and serves on the Editorial Board of its Journal of Research on Women and Gender. She is in her second year as a member of board of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME). In addition, she is the director of Texas State’s Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, now in its sixth year. 

Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodriguez
Racial Reconciliation and the Church: Forgiveness with Justice
Thurs. March 11, 2010
Commons Lecture Hall
7 pm

Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Systematic
Theology, with a secondary appointment in International Studies, in the
Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is currently the director of the Mev Puleo Scholarship Program, a two-month immersion experience in Nicaragua for theology majors studying liberation theology, and is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), serving on the Dismantling Racism and Privilege Committee of the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy. His first monograph, "Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective", was published by New York University Press in 2008.

Past Symposium Guests

2007

Dr. Allan Johnson
"Social Construction of Difference"

Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
"Racism without Racists"

2008

Dr. John Palmer
"Challenging the Myth of the Model Minority"

Dr. Kristal Brent-Zook
"Sunflower Kids: Multiracial Identities and the Coming Age of the Non-White Majority"

2009

Dr. Victor J. Honosa
"The Most Segregated Hour in America"

Kimberly Huyser
"Native Fruition: Inequality and American Indian Perseverance"