Monmouth College to observe
Cultural Awareness Week
Release Date:
March 17, 2008
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College will observe Cultural Awareness Week with
panel discussions March 26-28.
The programs, which are free and open to the public, will be held from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. each evening in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the college’s
Stockdale Center.
Also scheduled is a hip-hop R&B performance by the underground rap group “Da
Sickness.” Led by Emmanul Minter, a senior from Park Forest, the group will
perform March 25 at 9 p.m. in the Kasch Performance Hall of Dahl Chapel and
Auditorium.
With the topic “So We May Know Each Other,” the event will feature discussions
on the Hispanic and Latino experience (March 26), the African-American
experience (March 27) and religion and culture (March 28).
The first night of panel discussions will include Western Illinois University
professors Gregory Montalvo, who will speak on “Adapting to Social
Expectations,” and Julia Albarracin, whose panel topic is “The Latino Community
in Monmouth.” The third panel topic, “Two Cultural Identities of a Latina
Women,” will be led by Galesburg resident Margo Davila, vice president of the
Hispanic Latino Resource Group, Inc.
The African-American topics include “Language and Culture,” led by WIU professor
J.Q. Adams. Two Knox College professors, Caesar Akuetey and Jessie Dixon, will
lead panel discussions on “Belonging to a Stigmatized Race” and “Ascending the
Ivory Tower.”
Monmouth College political science professor Farhat Haq will moderate a panel
discussion titled “Multiple Meanings of the Veil in Contemporary Muslim
Societies” on March 28. The other topics that evening are “Religion and the
Concept of the Other,” led by WIU faculty member Jess White, and “The Wiccan
Religion,” led Monmouth College freshman Geena Hill of Dixon.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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