Lectures at Edmonds CC
The Lecture series, sponsored by the Office of Student Life, brings thought-provoking and inspirational speakers to campus. A committee of students, faculty, and staff select influential scholars, artists, activists, and community leaders with promise for sparking discussion and reflection in our community.
The views and opinions expressed in this series do not necessarily represent the opinions of Edmonds Community College, its administration, faculty, staff, or students or the Office of Student Life.
2008-09 Lectures
Power, Perception And Prejudice With Jane Elliott
October 14, 2008 • 12:30
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. more than 30 years ago, Jane Elliott (www.janeelliott.com) devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise. This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Elliot is an internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education.
Election 2008: How Will You Decide?
October 16, 2008 • 12:30
Journalist and historian Rick Shenkman, a regular contributor on CNN and Fox News, leads the discussion. Shenkman is the editor and founder of George Mason University’s History News Network, a Web site that features articles by historians on current events. He is the author of five history books including Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins 2000).
Community Forum: Climate Change, Do Take It Personally
October 18, 2008 • 09:00 AM-12:30 PM
The Snohomish County League of Women Voters holds a forum on Climate Change. The environmental workshop of speakers, panels, and displays is designed to inform actions at home and in the community. It features presenters; Gregg Small, Executive Director of Climate Solutions; Richard Gammon, UW Dept. of Oceanography; Janice Adair, Washington State Department of Ecology; and Aaron Reardon, Snohomish County Executive. Following the workshops will be a 20 minute film, Sisters of the Planet, about four women who have taken action in their communities in Mississippi, Bangladesh, Brazil and Uganda to prepare for climate change.
Poet Susan Rich
November 5, 2008 • 12:30
Susan Rich (www.susanrich.org), winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award and the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World. Rich has worked on staff for Amnesty International, as an electoral supervisor in Bosnia, and as a human rights trainer in Gaza. She is an active alum of Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, works as an editor for Floating Bridge Press and serves on the board of Whit Press.
Lecture Series: Vietnam Today
November 13, 2008 • 12:30
Business Management instructor, Marie Johnson will give a free, public lecture “Vietnam Today” about her family's experience fleeing the war in Vietnam in 1975, and how she returned to the country to help reverse the legacy of war by planting trees in former minefields. Johnson volunteers with PeaceTrees Vietnam, a non-profit organization founded by Jerilyn Brusseau (also famous for creating Cinnabon’s recipe) of Bainbridge Island.
In June 2009, Johnson and Hospitality and Tourism instructor, Beth O’Donnell, plan to lead a Global Cultures class to Vietnam. The class will include a four-day service-learning project with PeaceTrees planting trees, visiting schools, and meeting with landmine removal experts. The class will also learn about micro lending credit programs to small business cooperatives such as the Vietnamese Woman’s Union. For more information about the June 2009 Global Cultures class, call 425.640.1637.
Afternoon: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration With Myrlie Evers-Williams
January 14, 2009 • 12:30-1:30 PM
Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, the first woman to chair the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP), speaks as part of the college's Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. Refreshments served. She will also present in the evening 7 p.m., Thurs., January 15 at the Lynnwood Convention Center.
Evers-Williams first husband, Medgar Evans, was killed by a white supremacist in 1963. The couple opened and managed the first NAACP Mississippi State Office together where they organized voter registration drives and civil rights demonstrations. Evers-Williams is the author of a memoir Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be (1999) about her journey from being the wife of an activist to becoming a community leader in her own right and For Us, the Living (1967) about the civil rights struggle in Mississippi and her late husband’s life and work.
Evening: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration With Myrlie Evers-Williams
January 15, 2009 • 7:00
Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, the first woman to chair the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons (NAACP), speaks as part of the community's Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. Refreshments served. She will also present in the afternoon to Edmonds Community College students 12:30 p.m., Weds., January 14 in Triton Union 202.
All lectures are open to the public and selected lectures are broadcast on the local college television station channel 21/26. The broadcast schedule is available at http://civic.edcc.edu.
Selected Brown Bag Lectures are video recorded and should be available at the Edmonds Community College Library approximately two weeks after the lecture.
To request disability accommodations or the presentation of materials in an alternate format, notify Services for Students with Disabilities at least 10 working days prior to the date of the event. (425) 640-1320
Register for HUMANITIES 160 or DIVERSITY STUDIES 165
Students have the opportunity to earn 1-5 transferable credits in an open enrollment class providing them with a structured learning environment for attending selected extra and co-curricular programs. Email instructor Charles Cox for class requirements. (425) 640-1579.
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