Lectures at Edmonds CC
Previous Lectures
Between The Lines Release Party
November 18, 2009
Celebrate the release of the 2009 edition of the college’s art and literary journal, Between the Lines, in the Black Box Theatre. Join us at 3 p.m. for a reading and art show. Students, get a free copy of the journal! Then, at 7:30 p.m., the journal hosts a panel discussion with community artists on the value of art and artists in a down market economy as part of the college’s Conversations in the Humanities series.
Join the editorial staff!
Those interested in participating in the experience of designing, editing, and publishing a literary journal may also join the editorial staff of Between the Lines by enrolling the college’s Publications class, Humanities 235. The five-credit class will meet 12:30-1:30 p.m., Monday and Wednesdays, as well as online, January 4 through March 19. Credits earned may count toward a two-year transfer degree at the college or the class may be taken as an elective.
Instructor Amanda Laughtland is a published poet with experience in editing and publishing small press books and magazines. To find out more about the class, email her at amanda.laughtland@edcc.edu.
Theo Nestor: Confessions Of A Memoirist
November 4, 2009
Theo Pauline Nestor is the author of How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Crown 2008) and has had work published a number of places including the New York Times, msn.com, and Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On (Seal Press 2009). She teaches memoir writing for the University of Washington's Extension Program and works with individual clients as a writing coach. In 2009, She won an Excellence in Teaching award for her work at the University of Washington.
Nestor will read short passages from her memoir, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir for Starting Over (Crown 2008) and talk about the issues in writing those particular passages and how the book as a whole gradually and then suddenly came into being. She will also discuss working with an editor and the publication process. The talk will include ideas for turning ordinary life experiences into memoir and tips on getting published.
Explosive Remnants Of War: A World View
October 28, 2009
Join Jack Imber a trained Deminer/UXO Technician Level 2 in Triton Union 202. Imber, an expert in demining and explosives and blast injuries, has nine years of field experience including 19 explosives related projects which included logistics, demolition, ordnance identification, safety escort and crew training. He has given multiple lectures to professional, community, and academic organizations to promote awareness and safety near explosive remnants of war. His presentation will include a history of explosives, factors that lead to explosive contamination, the social and economic repercussions, landmines and cluster bombs as examples, explosive effects and resulting injuries, opportunities in ordnance removal projects, and the importance of ongoing education.
Lecture Series: Ethnic Man
October 21, 2009
Teja Arboleda, a comedian, actor, producer, and director of
African-American/Native-American, Filipino-Chinese and German-Danish descent (he also grew up in Japan) presents a talk on the Ethnic Man. Arboleda is the president of Entertaining Diversity, Inc., which focuses
on diversity issues programming around the United States. From 1987-1994 he was AD/Editor for FRONTLINE, and won an Emmy award in 1993. He has a Masters in Education and recently completed his powerful and timely documentary, Crossing The Line. He is the author of In The Shadow of Race, and his educational videos can be found on his company’s website, Entertaining Diversity.com.
Conversations In The Humanities: Tweeting Truth To Power
October 8, 2009
Environmental journalist Bruce Barcott, www.brucebarcott.com, author of The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, and The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, discusses investigative journalism and sustainability in Tweeting Truth to Power: Investigative Journalism, Sustainability, and the Ever-Shrinking Public Square. Conversations in the Humanities, a series of smart conversations about the future and how we can adapt and participate in our changing world, take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Free and open to the public.
Savage Love Live
October 7, 2009
Dan Savage is creator and author of the “Savage Love” sex advice column published in The Stranger and alternative weeklies across the nation, a frequent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, and author of books including The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant. He is known for his cultural and political advocacy and frank, funny discussion of taboo topics.
Lisa Margonelli: Oil On The Brain
May 21, 2009
Journalist Lisa Margonelli provides a vivid account of how gasoline gets to our cars, and all of its implications. Margonelli relates the numerous harrowing, eye-opening, and often funny stories from her travels and debunks Americans’ favorite myths about oil and energy policy. Margonelli is the author of Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank (2007, Nan Talese/Doubleday). Margonelli has been published in The Atlantic, New York Times online, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Discover, Salon, Business 2.0, San Francisco Magazine, and California Monthly, among other publications.
Save One Of The World’s Largest Eagles
May 14, 2009
Edmonds Community College biology instructor Hans Landel talks about his volunteer work with the Philippine Eagle Foundation, 12:30 p.m., May 14, Snohomish Hall 304A. There are only about 400 of the birds left in the wild.
Come Together: Imagine Peace Reading
May 14, 2009
Edmonds Community College English instructors Holly Hughes, Martha Silano, and Sarah Zale have published poems in Come Together: Imagine Peace, a poetry anthology from Ohio's Bottom Dog Press. They will read from the anthology 4 p.m., Thurs., May 14 in The College Cafe. Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase. This event is part of activities focused on sustainability including social justice in May at the college.
Minh Carrico: Vietnam, Circles Of Identity
May 13, 2009
Minh Carrico, Visual Communications and Photography Instructor, will present images from his photo documentary, Circles of Identity. Minh made his first of three trips to Vietnam starting in 2002 with the goal of documenting his family connections and discovering the present day Vietnam. He will share stories of his travels and reflect on Vietnam today. After 18 years of working as a designer, photographer, and producer in the advertising and magazine industry, Carrico is turning his attention towards a teaching career. His design and photography clients includes 3M, Atlantic Records, Benjamin Moore Paints, Chris Buck, Detour Magazine, Michel Gondry, Annie Leibovitz, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, MTV, Time Out New York Magazine, and Whole Food Market Inc.
Publisher Claudia Mauro Of Whit Press
May 11, 2009
Publisher Claudia Mauro of Whit Press reads from the anthology she edited, In Praise of Fertile Land, 12:30 p.m., May 11, Triton Union 202. Whit Press is devoted to literature addressing social and environmental justice issues.
Susan Faludi: The Terror Dream: Fear And Fantasy In Post-9/11 America
May 5, 2009
Susan Faludi is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of three well-known books. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. She became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She will talk about her last book , The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, where she examines the post-9/11 outpouring in the media, popular culture, and political life. Her talk will also give an overview of the reaction to feminism in America today.
Alan Durning: Stuff
April 29, 2009
Alan Durning founded Sightline Institute in 1993. He contributed significantly to Sightline's effort to create a new regional index of progress, the Cascadia Scorecard and has led many of the organization's other successes. Durning is author or co-author of more than ten Sightline books including This Place on Earth 2002: Measuring What Matters; This Place on Earth 2001: Guide to a Sustainable Northwest; This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence (winner of the Governor’s Writers Award in 1996); The Car and the City; and Tax Shift;. Currently, he's also writing two series on Sightline's blog, "The Year of Living Car-lessly," and "Bike Neglect," both of which have influenced the local and national debate about urban transportation. His book, Stuff, has been used widely in Edmonds Community College courses and he will discuss this at his talk.
Kurt Hoelting: The Circumference Of Home
April 14, 2009
In 2008, as a personal response to the challenge of climate change, Kurt Hoelting took a vow to go completely car free for a year, and to stay within a 60 mile radius of his home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. He used this time to explore his home region extensively under his own power, on foot, by bicycle and kayak. He is currently writing a book about his experiences titled "The Circumference of Home". Hoelting is a wilderness guide, meditation teacher and commercial fisherman. For the past 15 years he has taught meditation in the context of sea kayaking trips in Alaska through his company Inside Passages. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and Puget Sound for more than 30 years.
Peace And Reconciliation Symposium
March 11, 2009
Join us for a Peace and Reconciliation Symposium. Students in four classes of English 205, Research Writing, will present final class projects on various human rights issues to raise awareness of global human rights issues in Triton Union. Four English 205 research courses, taught by Melissa Storms and Sarah Zale, are studying WAR and GENOCIDE, Healing and Reconciliation. The students will present their multimedia response to what they have learned. Topics include: Rwanda, Homeless Veterans, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Child Soldiers, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The presentations include music, artwork, slideshows, interactive games, photographs, and gifts and information for visitors to take home. The film Lost Boys of Sudan, about the more than 27,000 boys who were displaced and / or orphaned during the second Sudanese civil war, 1993-2005, will be shown at 4 p.m. Light fare will be served before the movie.
Economist Joel Magnuson
March 2, 2009
Magnuson is a professor of economics in Portland, Ore. and a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England.
Edmonds CC Community Read: Q&A With Charles Johnson
February 18, 2009
For its all campus and community read this year, Edmonds Community College has selected Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, recipient of the 1990 National Book Award for fiction. It tells the story of a newly freed slave in 1830 New Orleans who leads a revolt aboard a slave clipper bound for Africa. Johnson answers questions about the book at this lecture.
Watch an interview with Charles Johnson.
Watch an interview with Joan Penney, the college's Dean for Humanities and Social Science, about the community read program.
Writers Series: Stephanie Kallos' Sing Them Home
February 10, 2009
Author Stephanie Kallos reads from her second novel Sing Them Home. Kallos' first novel “Broken for You,” 2004 received the 2005 Book Award for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Before publishing her novel, Kallos worked for 20 years as an actress and teacher. Her short fiction was nominated for a Raymond Carver Award and a Pushcart Prize. Kallos’ talk is part of the college’s Convergence Writers Series.
Nuclear Physicist Curtis Lacey Technology In Warfare
January 27, 2009
Nuclear physicist Curtis Lacey discusses the use of technology in warfare. Lacey, who earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, worked at the University of Washington applied physics laboratory for 20 years doing classified work on undersea warfare (i.e. submarines, torpedoes).
Evening: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration With Myrlie Evers-Williams
January 15, 2009
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.
Watch an interview with Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Afternoon: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration With Myrlie Evers-Williams
January 14, 2009
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 Evers, 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.
Kwanzaa With Educator Eric Davis
December 5, 2008
A free celebration of African-American culture with food and music for the community, includes storytelling, music, and a children’s activity table, featuring guest speaker Eric Davis, an expert in intercultural communications and diversity awareness issues. Davis teaches at two community colleges in the Puget Sound and was formerly Director of Multicultural Affairs at Seattle University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from UCLA and a Master’s degree in Education from Seattle University. While an undergraduate at UCLA, Eric created his signature program, RAP 101: The Message in the Music, using hip‐hop music as a catalyst for discussion of multiculturalism and social justice issues.
Lecture Series: Vietnam Today
November 13, 2008
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. See photos at http://edmondscc.ning.com
June 20-July 8 2009, Johnson and Hospitality and Tourism instructor, Beth O’Donnell, plan to lead a Global Citizenship and Cultural Immersion class to Vietnam. The class will include a 19 day trip to Vietnam with 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.
Find out more about the opportunity to travel and study in Vietnam this summer at a free informational meeting, 3-4 p.m., Mon., Nov. 17 or Thurs., Nov. 20 in Mukilteo Hall 119.
Poet Susan Rich
November 5, 2008
Poet Susan Rich winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award and the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World, reads 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5 in the Triton Union Building 202. Free. Following her reading, Rich will present a free workshop, 2-3 p.m., "Mixing up the visual with the literary arts." She'll teach writers how to borrow inspiration from paintings, drawings, and other visual artwork. Email amanda.laughtland@edcc.edu to reserve space at the workshop.
Community Forum: Climate Change, Do Take It Personally
October 18, 2008
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. This event is co-sponsored by Washington Campus Compact.
Election 2008: How Will You Decide?
October 16, 2008
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).
Power, Perception And Prejudice With Jane Elliott
October 14, 2008
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.
Immigration Issues Talk With Jorge Baron
October 8, 2008
Discuss immigration issues with Jorge Baron, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (www.nwirp.org), which promotes justice for low-income immigrants by pursuing and defending their legal status.
Poet Laureate Samuel Green
October 4, 2008
Washington State's first poet laureate and winner of a 2008 Washington Book Award for his poetry collection The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie-Mellon U Press, 2008) gives a free reading open to the public co-sponsored by Edmonds Community College’s Convergence Writers Series and the City of Edmonds' Write on the Sound Conference.
Decision 2008: With MTV Real World Cast And Blue Scholars
May 22, 2008
Decision 2008, discuss voting issues in the upcoming presidential election with fellow students 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Thurs., May 22, Triton Union 202. MTV Real World cast members Rachael and Cyrus encourage you to Bust the Ballot at 12:30 p.m. and Blue Scholars at 1:30 p.m. Free.
10:30 a.m. Issue Round Tables
Freeform discussions on campaign issues for students.
Discuss debate, inform, ask questions, and give your opinion about the direction America should go in. Find out where the candidates stand.
11:30 a.m. Speaker: King County Executive, Ron Sims
12:30 p.m. MTV Real World Cast Members
discuss voting issues in the upcoming election
1:30 p.m. Blue Scholars!
2:30 p.m. Round Tables
Freeform discussions on campaign issues for students.
Discuss debate, inform, ask questions, and give your opinion about the direction America should go in. Find out where the candidates stand.
Writers' Series: Ann Pancake
May 13, 2008
The Convergence Writers’ Series and Sustainability Initiative team up to bring writer Ann Pancake to campus to read from her novel Strange As This Weather Has Been about an Appalachian family devastated by mountaintop removal mining. Pancake’s collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. Free.
Food And Integrity
May 7, 2008
Food and Integrity, Deborah Koons Garcia’s film “The Future of Food” investigates the genetically engineered foods quietly filling our grocery stores and bellies. Free.
Edmonds CC Reads Zaatar Days, Henna Nights
April 30, 2008
This spring Edmonds Community College reads author Maliha Masood’s book Zaatar Days, Henna Nights, Adventures, Dreams and Destinations Across the Middle East (2007, Seal Press) about the authors yearlong journey across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. Join discussions of the first part of the book, up to page 165, at noon or 5:30 p.m., April 15 in Snohomish Hall 304 with students from the Middle East.
Al Gore Representative
April 22, 2008
Profile:Taulatin resident Janelle Hansen has recently completed a rigorous training program led by former Vice President Al Gore to spread the message about the threat of and solutions to global warming.
"Janelle Hansen is an outstanding example of the millions of Americans who have been energized by the call to action on the climate crisis," said Gore.
Things You Can Do to Reduce Global Warming
Understanding Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective
April 16, 2008
Nationally-recognized authority on the war in Iraq Paul Rieckhoff discusses issues affecting our troops, military families, and veterans at home. Rieckhoff is founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veteran’s group. Free.
Women's Conference
March 15, 2008
The conference offers presentations on topics such as health, social justice and business as well as featured speakers feminist author Rebecca Walker and motivational speaker Debrena Jackson Gandy. Workshops and discussions will focus on Personal & Cultural Identities in the 21st Century. $55 for students, $65 for the public ($10 discount before March 1). Opens with a reception, featuring inspirational speaker Gloria Burgess, 5-7:30 p.m., Fri. March 14 in the Art Gallery, Third Floor, Lynnwood Hall.
Genocide: Never Again?
March 3, 2008
Learn about and raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur by attending a screening of Darfur Diaries with guest speaker Chong Reyam, board president of the Southern Sudanese Community of Washington (SSCW). The event includes a fundraiser for the SSCW dedicated to helping Sudanese refugees adjust to their new lives in Washington, and a new student club dedicated to fighting genocide in the 21st century. Sponsored by Melissa Storms’ English 205: The Path to Genocide class.
Writers' Series With Open Mic: Poet Amanda Laughland
February 19, 2008
An open mic follows English instructor and poet Amanda Laughtland’s reading. Her poetry chapbook, I Meant to Say, is now available from overhere press. Her recent publications include Gertrude, No Tell Motel, and Shampoo as well as book reviews for local and national publications including Orion and The Progressive. Laughtland is an Edmonds CC alumna who went on to earn her bachelor's in English at the University of Washington. She earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, poetry, at the University of Washington in 2004. Read more of her work at http://www.teenytiny.org.
Heroes Without Holidays
February 13, 2008
Erik Ray will look at the “other” figures of the civil rights movement that are forgotten or just ignored. He will also try to examine the fascination of society (particularly popular media) with Dr. King, even though few know his actual philosophies and the whole of his writings, as well as examine why other figures such a Malcolm X, A. Philip Randolph, and other are summarily ignored by society and “popular history.” This lecture is meant to illuminate on the history before and after King and broaden it beyond one man, one speech, and one dream.
Writers Series: Colleen J. McElroy
February 4, 2008
Acclaimed writer and folklorist Colleen J. McElroy is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at the University of Washington. She is the author of seven poetry collections including Sleeping with the Moon published this year, two short story collections Jesus and Fat Tuesday (1988), and Driving Under the Cardboard Pines (1990) and the non-fiction works A Long Way From St. Louie (1997), and Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar (1999).
Global Futures: Anthropologists Ann Anagnost, Danny Hoffman, Arzoo Osanloo And Andrea Arai
January 23, 2008
"Representing Others: Japan, China, Iran and Sierra Leone and their complicated relationship with the West."
Global Futures Group: Anthropologists Ann Anagnost (China specialist), Danny Hoffman (West Africa specialist), Arzoo Osanloo (Iran specialist and Women's Rights Lawyer) are professors for the University of Washington's Anthropology Department. Andrea Arai is a visting scholar and a lecturer in the university's Jackson School of International Studies. They will talk about the dominant images and ideas about the above-nations and their cultures in the United States, how they are created, why we create them, and their very real effects on our culture.
From Murder To Forgiveness, A Father’s Journey
January 15, 2008
Azim N. Khamisa is a rare individual who not only speaks of powerful and life-changing concepts, but also walks his talk. Before audiences of the young and adult, the public and the corporate, he delves deeply into hearts and souls, inspiring love, courage and personal growth, along with providing steps to join him on the journey of peace and purpose.
Through workshops, keynote speeches and consulting, Azim carries the message that peace can be restored, no matter what has gone before. His simple 3-step process untangles the mystery behind forgiveness and sets people free to enjoy a life full of richness and meaning.
Inspirational speaker and author Azim Khamisa will also speak on “The Journey of Forgiveness: Destination Peace,” 6:30 p.m., Wed., Jan. 16 at the Lynnwood Convention Center, 3711 196th St. SW, Lynnwood as part of the City of Lynnwood’s 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, an inclusive celebration of Lynnwood’s diversity, in partnership with Edmonds Community College and Edmonds School District. Free.
John Marzluff: In The Company Of Crows And Ravens
November 19, 2007
What do Van Gogh, Shakespeare, the Hopi and Kayukon People, Mark Twain, and the rock band The Counting Crows have in common? They all draw inspiration from some of our most common, but least understood birds: the crow and the raven. In this lecture, University of Washington professor, John Marzluff, investigates the inspiration of crows and ravens on people and our affects on these adaptable birds. Marzluff teaches Wildlife Science at the UW, holds the Denman Chair in Sustainable Resource Sciences and directs the Urban Ecology Program. He is the author of "In the Company of Crows and Ravens" (with Tony Angell, 2005 Yale U. Press) which blends biology, conservation, and anthropology to suggest that human and crow cultures have co-evolved.
Global Health Advocate Paul LaBarre: "The Role Of PATH In The HIV/AIDS Pandemic"
November 14, 2007
Paul LaBarre works at PATH, an international, nonprofit organization that collaborates with diverse public and private partners to help provide health technologies and vital strategies that change the way people think and act. He will talk about the intersection of global health and cutting-edge technology using medical devices under development as examples of sustainable, relevant solutions for breaking the cycles of poor health. At PATH, he’s responsible for quality and regulatory affairs of medical device development. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University and his master’s degree in medical engineering from the University of Washington. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
Sex 101: Surviving The Weekend
November 14, 2007
River Huston is an award-winning poet, motivational speaker, performer, and popular lecturer. In this lively forum, she explores realistic options for college students when it comes to sex, alcohol, and communication.
Community Radio Representative Panel: "First Amendment Issues In Light Of FCC Rulings"
November 7, 2007
Why is community-based radio important? Could we lose the richness and diversity of our these stations and the roles they play in the community? Radio representatives from KEXP, KSER, KBCS, KUOW, and KPLU will examine the challenges community stations face because of recent FCC and CRB rulings. The panel will explore the connection between these rulings and the First Amendment issues they raise. The panel will be moderated and audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Convergence Writers Series: Nassim Assefi
October 31, 2007
A Seattle doctor specializing in women's health and global medicine, Nassim Assefi reads from her novel "Aria" about an Iranian-American woman who returns to Iran after the death of her only child.
Filmmaker, Journalist And Photographer Mike Shiley:
October 24, 2007
Mike Shiley, producer/director of Shidog Films, is a photographer, filmmaker and freelance journalist. His new film, “Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories,” is an 80-minute documentary that highlights the challenges and opportunities facing the Iraqi people and U.S. soldiers. He traveled throughout Iraq from the Kurdish-controlled region in the North, through the infamous Sunni Triangle in central Iraq, and to the sacred Shiite-controlled cities in the South. He visited impoverished villages with Western medical teams, went on night patrols along the Syrian border in a tank squadron, flew over the country in a Blackhawk helicopter, and walked the streets of Baghdad uncovering the lives of the Iraqi people. He worked as a freelance photographer for CNN covering the war in Sarajevo, trekked to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal, and completed a 3,000 mile solo bicycle trip from British Columbia to Cabo San Lucas.
The Digital Age With Karin Schminke And Dorothy Simpson Krause
October 18, 2007
Mixed media/digital art works by Bonny Lhotka, Karin Schminke and Dorothy Simpson Krause are on display Oct. 1-Dec. 7 in the Edmonds Community College Art Gallery in an exhibit of The Digital Age. Join Schminke and Krause for a lecture on Artistic Exploration in the Digital Age 6:30 p.m., Oct. 18 and at a reception 5-7:30 p.m., Oct. 19 at the college's art gallery, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood Hall, Third Floor. Free.
National Coming Out Day, Reading With Carol Guess
October 11, 2007
Author Carol Guess reads selections from her book of poetry "Love Is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire" forthcoming from VRZHU Press. Guess teaches creative writing and LGBT literature at Western Washington University and has published two novels (Switch and Seeing Dell), a memoir (Gaslight), and a book of poetry (Femme's Dictionary). Students and faculty are welcomed to bring their own writing to share afterwards during Open Mic.
Bakari Kitwana: Hip-Hop From Cultural Movement To Political Power?
October 2, 2007
Join Bakari Kitwana for his presentation Can Hip-Hop Make the Transition from Cultural Movement to Political Power?. Kitwana is co-founder of the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention and the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (Basic Books, 2002) and “The Rap on Gangsta Rap” (Third World Press, 1994). His new book “Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race in America” (Basic Books, June 2005) is about race and hip-hop culture.
Native Voices Film Series Presents Tribal Points Of View
May 24, 2007
Join us to watch a series of films produced by students in the Masters of Communication degree program in Native American documentary production at the University of Washington and meet three directors. The Native Voices degree program provides American Indian students the support to study, research, and produce documentary films and encourages intimate, personal films and new media from an individual’s tribal point of view. Director Angelo Baca, Navajo and Hopi, will show on request a selection of the following films: The Repatriator (18 min), A Mormon and Shoshone Experience (7.5 min), Running With Tradition (20 min), The Legacy of Lehi in Hawaii (16 min) and Powwow 101 (32 min). Steffany Suttle, Haida, will show Finding Her Now, a documentary about native women, identity and the impacts of media (17 min.). Marcella Ernest, Ojibwe, will show a fiction piece, Spiderkid (8 min.) or her thesis film about native adoption agency issues and rights.
Reconciliation In The Middle East: Building Bridges
May 17, 2007
Reverend Dr. Nuhad Tomeh, a native of Syria and member of that country’s Presbyterian church, is currently working with the Middle East Council of Churches as a consultant. In view of the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of the Middle East, his presentation will concentrate on the importance of building relationships among people and nations. Education is essential to foster tolerance between cultures. Acceptance of one another will lead to sharing of experiences, thereby growing together to build a better world. From 1986-1995, Nuhad was a professor, dean, and acting president of the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon. Since 1993, Nuhad has been coordinator of the Urban/Rural Mission Program in Beirut.
Day And Evening Hip Hop Theater Talks With Will Power
May 10, 2007
12:30 p.m. — Take it to the Stage The Evolution of Hip Hop Theatre, learn about the history of this genre and its social, political, and cultural implications and gain an understanding of why this new, exciting theatrical form is relevant in the new age.
7:30 p.m. — The Artist in the 21st Century, discuss the current socio-political artistic climate and the philosophical and spiritual means that artists can use to thrive in the coming age. Learn about the role of the neo-community artist in our society. Find ways to use art to uplift and empower your community today.
Disciplining Hearts And Minds-Andrea Arai
May 1, 2007
Disciplining Hearts and Minds: College anthropology instructor and member of "Global Futures," an interdisciplinary research group at UW, Andrea Arai discusses how the new patriotic education law and turn towards remilitarization in Japan is a response to the forces of economic globalization.
Earth Month: Global Warming
April 30, 2007
Global Warming, KC Golden, policy director for Climate Solutions, a Northwest non-profit that seeks ways for policy-makers to act decisively and creatively to stop global warming, shares steps individuals can take to help stop global warming. Free. Part of Earth Month events at the college and year round efforts for the greening of campus and engaging students in sustainability education and action.
Earth Month: An Inconvenient Truth
April 27, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth, watch and discuss former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary film explaining the "planetary emergency" of global warming. Free.
Youth In The Military, Violence In West Africa
April 25, 2007
Danny Hoffman in an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on militia movements in the Mano River Region of West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea). He has talked with young combatants in various factions as they move between the battlefield and manual labor in the diamond and timber industries. He will discuss results of his studies and the methods that researchers use to explore issues of youth and violence in conflict zones.
Earth Month: A Healthy Puget Sound By 2020
April 19, 2007
Earth Month featured speaker, A Healthy Puget Sound by 2020, Edmonds Community College alumna Linda Lyshall, the Puget Sound Action Team’s Regional Liaison for Snohomish and Island counties, coordinates local efforts to protect and restore Puget Sound. She’ll tell students how they can help. Free. Part of Earth Month events at the college and year round efforts for the greening of campus and engaging students in sustainability education and action.
Dreaming The Impossible — Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila
April 18, 2007
Magdaleno Leno Rose-Avila will challenge students and faculty to DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE ...to think not only out of the box but to act outside of the box. He will talk about people like Rosa Parks, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar E. Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Eleanor Roosevelt and others who have changed our world. He will talk about common people who do uncommon acts of justice. He will talk about how our learning and doing begins changes in our own lives that can be beneficial to others.
Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Right Project in Seattle protecting the rights of immigrants and their families, speaks. Afterwards he'll sign and sell copies of his book of his stories and poems, Looking for My Wings.
Writers Series: Natural Grace, Bill Dietrich
April 16, 2007
As part of the college’s Earth Month events, William Dietrich, a journalist, author and professor of environmental journalism at Western Washington University’s Huxley College, will read from his collection of essays “Natural Grace - The Charm, Wonder & Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants” (2003) as well as his new novel “Napoleon’s Pyramids” (February 2007). Dietrich — www.williamdietrich.com — is the author of three non-fiction environmental histories of the Pacific Northwest and six novels. “Napoleon’s Pyramids,” is about the lore of the pyramids set during Bonaparte’s 1798 invasion of Egypt. Dietrich is at work on a sequel. He also writes for The Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine. rn
Disabilities Awareness: Student Panel
April 12, 2007
Everyday disabilities awareness - Edmonds Community College students and staff with disabilities share their experiences and perspectives.
Disabilities Awareness: Fragile X Syndrome
April 11, 2007
Elizabeth Griffin, author of “Fragile X, Fragile Hope: Finding Joy in Parenting a Child with Special Needs,” (www.wafragilex.org) the story of her youngest son's diagnosis with a genetic disorder which results in symptoms from autism to mental retardation, presents afternoon and evening lectures. Fragile X: What is Fragile X Syndrome? will be 12:30-1:30 p.m. Fragile Hope: Being a Parent of a Special Needs Child will be 7-9 p.m. Griffin serves on the board of Fragile X Association of Washington State. Her book is available in the Edmonds Community College Bookstore, while supplies last.
Disabilities Awareness: Facing Autism
April 10, 2007
Lynn Hamilton author of “Facing Autism: Giving Parents Reasons for Hope and Guidance for Help” (www.facingautism.com) will give two free presentations 12:30-1:30 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. as part of Disabilities Awareness Week events April 9-13. In both presentations, Hamilton will share her family's experiences searching for effective treatments for her oldest son Ryan's autism as well as a video presentation of Ryan before and after treatment. Her lunchtime talk is geared for students, the evening talk for parents and professionals. Facing Autism is available at the college bookstore while supplies last. Order online at www.edcc.edu/collegestore.
Disabilities Awareness: Wheelchair Basketball Team
April 9, 2007
Meet the college's wheelchair basketball team, The Rolling Tritons, and learn about the sport as they present "Overcoming Obstacles". Then come to a demonstration match versus students and staff 6 p.m., Friday, April 13, Seaview Gym. $5 admission includes a T-shirt. A silent auction during the game supports the Services for Students with Disabilities Scholarship Fund.
Immigrant Rights Forum
April 5, 2007
A discussion of social justice issues for non-citizens with Jorge Quiroga, President of the Committee for Amnesty in Social Justice, Maru Mora Villalpando, Washington Action Network, Luis Moscoso, Secretary Washington State Democratic Party and attorney Kathy Weber moderated by Krystal Noga, J.D., professor of Law and Justice at Central Washington University-Lynnwood.
Brown-bag: Selling Sustainable Living
February 21, 2007
Sloan Ritchie, owner of Cascade Built, a Seattle-based green building company and Jesse Putnam, founder, and Jessie Alan, executive director, of Eco Encore, a local nonprofit organization talk about non-profit and for profit talk about doing business in the growing sustainable living industry. On the Web: www.cascadebuilt.com and www.ecoencore.org.
Brown-bag: Restoration Ecology And Sustainability
February 13, 2007
University of Washington professor of plant ecology Kern Ewing talks about restoration ecology, sustainability and the environment. Ewing’s research as a botanist includes studies of the ecology and restoration of prairies in San Juan National Historic Park and tidelands restoration in the Puget Sound.
An Unfurling LEAF: Service-Learning And Environmental Sustainability
February 7, 2007
Thomas W. Murphy, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Anthropology and founder of the LEAF School discusses the Learn-n-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School at Edmonds Community College. The LEAF School provides students of all abilities with the opportunity to earn up to 15 credits and a $1,000.00 AmeriCorps education award while employing service-learning to study intersections between local social and ecosystems.
Writers Series: Poetry Readings And Open Mic
February 5, 2007
Hear four fabulous poets read from their works and bring two pages of your own work — poetry, fiction, nonfiction-all are welcome! — to share at an open mic. The Convergence Writers Series hosts readings by poets Esseboe Kwami Nyamidie, A. K. Allin, Laura Gamache and Amanda Laughtland.
From Murder To Forgiveness, A Father’s Journey
January 16, 2007
Azim N. Khamisa is a rare individual who not only speaks of powerful and life-changing concepts, but also walks his talk. Before audiences of the young and adult, the public and the corporate, he delves deeply into hearts and souls, inspiring love, courage and personal growth, along with providing steps to join him on the journey of peace and purpose.
Through workshops, keynote speeches and consulting, Azim carries the message that peace can be restored, no matter what has gone before. His simple 3-step process untangles the mystery behind forgiveness and sets people free to enjoy a life full of richness and meaning.
Autism
November 1, 2006
Temple Grandin, an animal scientist with autism, author and teacher at Colorado State University has been featured on major television programs for her work designing humane livestock handling facilities.
Her memoir, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, tells how she achieved professional success after being diagnosed with autism.
Artist Cecilia Alvarez
October 18, 2006
Cecilia Alvarez, a self-taught painter, lectures on the symbology of her art. Themes in her work include entitlement, poverty and who is expendable in our collective. She hopes to create discourse through her art that will lead to a healthier perspective on what is beauty, power and important to our society.
An exhibition of her paintings, The Art of Cecilia Alvarez, is on display through Dec. 1 at Edmonds Community College’s art gallery. A reception for the artist will be 5-7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 in the library.
If You Could Hear What I See
October 5, 2006
KATHY BUCKLEY, “America’s first hearing-impaired comedienne,” is more than a popular comic. As a second-grader she was considered “retarded.” As a young woman she was run-over by a jeep and nearly killed. Her recovery took five years but just one year later, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Kathy has been nominated three years in a row for an American Comedy Award. She tours the country appearing at comedy clubs such as The Improv, Catch a Rising Star, and the Ice House. She has guest starred and been featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Entertainment Tonight, VH-1’s Stand-up Spotlight, Live With Kathy Lee and Regis, Evening at the Improv, and Caroline’s Comedy Hour on A & E.
She recently starred on her own HBO special “Women of the Night” and was the focus of the Emmy Award winning documentary “I Can Hear the Laughter”. Tickets $10 general, $5 seniors. Free for students.
Listen to a 30 minute interview with Kathy by Sue Hart from Services for Students with Disabilities.
If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention
June 7, 2006
WOLFGANG BROELEY has been a physical therapist for sixteen years and has done medical relief/mission work in Tibet, Guatemala and currently in SE Asia for the last five years. Travel, especially to remote regions and non-western cultures, helps him to realize the simultaneity of diverse teachings. Meditation, too, has helped. He has spent a lot of time wandering through the Himalayas, long hours sitting and staring at temple walls both here and abroad; sometimes seemingly getting up before he went to bed. His recent travels have taken him to Vietnam, Cambodia and the Thai/Myanmar border where he has the immeasurable privilege of working with land mine survivors. Travel on rough roads, up steep passes; working with peoples who have survived misfortunes and tragedies that he cannot come close to imagining – these experiences and challenges keep him honest. He reports, “These experiences are touchstones of truth and simplicity. They are the lenses that sharpen my vision and remind me to not overlook a moment of beauty.” Free
Immigrants And Immigration In Post-9/11 America
May 31, 2006
PRAMILA JAYAPAL is the founder and Executive Director of Hate Free Zone Washington, an immigrant and civil rights organization based in Seattle, Washington. Since its inception in 2001, HFZ has won numerous awards for its courageous and effective advocacy on behalf of all people, particularly immigrants targeted since 9-11. An activist and writer, Pramila has been actively involved in international and domestic social justice issues for over 15 years, working across Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as domestically with immigrant and refugee communities in Washington state. She speaks frequently locally and nationally on immigrant and civil rights, gender, and international issues. In January 2004, Pramila was named one of the top ten Puget Sound regional leaders by the Seattle Times Editorial Board. In September 2004, Seattle Magazine named her one of the 25 most powerful people in Seattle for her leadership on civil rights and immigrant rights issues. She has also received a leadership award from Congressman Jim McDermott and the national Unitarian Universalists’ Holmes-Weatherly award. Free
Human Rights In Cambodia
May 24, 2006
NAVIN MOUL is currently conducting research on human rights in Cambodia as part of her Ph.D. program in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an alumnus of Edmonds Community College where she earned an Associate of Arts degree. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Western Washington University and earned a Masters at UC – Berkeley.
Her dissertation research is on citizenship with a specific focus on the deportation of Cambodian-Americans from the United States to Cambodia as means to look at incorporation politically, economically and socially. She works as a graduate student instructor aiding in the teaching of ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and Southeast Asian studies to undergraduate students. Before attending graduate school, she was a first grade school teacher in Lynnwood, Washington. She currently lives in Cambodia where she is doing her field work and working for a small human rights organization. Free
The Writing And Un-Writing Of Japan
May 22, 2006
ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI is an independent scholar writing and teaching in Seattle, Washington and a part-time anthropology instructor at Edmonds Community College. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2004. She is currently completing a book manuscript on national crisis, youth, education, work and war in post-bubble Japan. She is co-editing a volume on economic globalization and neo-liberal reform in East Asia and writing a series of pieces for Japan Focus on education as a site of national contestation. Her most recent publications are: “Killing Kids: Recession and Survival in Twenty-First Century Japan,” Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2003 and “The Neo-liberal Subject of Lack and Potential: Developing the Frontier Within and Creating a Reserve Army of Labor in Japan,” in Rhizomes Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Special issue on “Neo-liberal Governmentality: Technologies of the Self and Governmental Conduct,” Volume 10, Spring 2005
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Growing Up In America: I Thought I Was The Only Asian Around
May 10, 2006
LELA LEE was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in a conservative suburb. She was ridiculed and humiliated as a child for something she could not help: her gender and her ethnicity.
Those experiences influence her increasingly popular comic strip. Lela Lee first created Angry Little Asian Girl after viewing offensive and chauvinistic cartoons at a Festival of Animation. Her friend took notice of her intense anger and challenged her to make a cartoon about herself. Angry Little Girls is now a released book of collected comics distributed worldwide. In the first month of release, the book went into its fourth printing.
Lee is also an actress and has played series regular “Jodi Chang” on the Sci-Fi series “Tremors” and has been a recurring character on “Scrubs.” Tickets $10 general, $5 seniors. Free for students.
CANCELLED
May 3, 2006
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
RANJIT KULARATNE serves as the Chairman of the Marine Pollution Prevention Authority in the Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka. Agriculture has been central to the economy of Lanka (now Sri Lanka) for more than 2000 years of the Kings’ era up to recent times of global changes through industrialization. The evolution of Sri Lankan agriculture has included trade during the days of Roman Empire followed by rice-based agriculture with innovative tank irrigation systems through the introduction of plantation agriculture and successive European invasions. Cinnamon, coffee, and tea have been staple crops. The passage of time capturing the influence of kings' administration and Buddhism on Sri Lankan culture and its impact on agriculture through modern trends of a global open economy is a central focus of this presentation by a civil servant with over 30 years experience that includes recent post tsunami environmental restoration. Free
Building The World's First Fully Integrated Town For Signers--Laurent, South Dakota
April 26, 2006
MARVIN MILLER is Chief Operating Officer of the world's first fully integrated community for signers in Laurent, S.D. Deaf himself, he is a man with the passion to lead us to build this exciting new town. With his wife, Jennifer, and a family of three boys and one daughter, all deaf, share the personal dream to live in a town where children can be safe and develop independence, where people know and care about their neighbors, where local politics are everyone's business, becomes a necessity. Thirty-four year old Marvin has come to believe that the best way to provide for his family is by doing something that will benefit thousands of people. A native of Michigan, Marvin has also lived in Washington, D.C.; Las Vegas, NV; Austin, TX and for the past 3 years in SD. He has been editor and publisher of a national newspaper, DeafNation, as well as other publications. Marvin served as Creative Media Director at CSD (Communication Service for the Deaf) in Sioux Falls, S.D. for two and half years. He founded The Laurent Company with his partner, M.E. Barwacz, and he has worked full time on this project since February 2004. Free
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers
April 12, 2006
Author LOUNG UNG wrote First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which received the 2001 Asian/Pacific American Librarians’ Association award for “Excellence in Adult Non-fiction Literature.” Her second book, Lucky Child: a Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind, was published last year.
Loung Ung is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century. Some two million Cambodians–out of a population of just seven million–died at the hands of the infamous Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime–including her parents and two siblings. She was forced to train as a child soldier. She and her older brother eventually escaped by boat to Thailand, where they spent five months in a refugee camp before coming to the United States.
Fifteen years after her escape, Loung returned to Cambodia for a memorial service for the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide. She then decided to devote herself to justice and reconciliation in her homeland.
She worked for the Vietnam Veterans’ of America Foundation’s Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997-2003. She continues to serve as its national spokesperson. The World Economic Forum recently selected her as one of the “100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow.” Tickets $10 general, $5 seniors. Free for students.
Whose Mix? Writing Meaning Upon The Mixed Race Body
April 12, 2006
LUZVIMINDA “Lulu” CARPENTER is the daughter of Mary Dizon Carpenter, from Mexico, Pampanga (Philippines) and Ronald B. Carpenter from Jacksonville, Alabama (U.S.A.). Carpenter graduated from Washington State University with her M.A. in American Studies and her B.A. in English. Her research focuses on multiracialism within the context of American society and culture. In 2000, people were given the choice of marking more than one race on their Census forms. Carpenter explores how multiracial and mixed race individuals have been "read" and described historically and currently, and how multiracial and mixed race people are empowering themselves through writing about their own experience. She has worked within various community and college student organizations to challenge the norms of race, sex and gender, sexuality, and class. Her works include published poetry and cultural identity and empowerment workshop and presentation development. Currently, she works for Edmonds Community College as an AmeriCorps Service Learning Coordinator, Community Blogger, and Diversity Studies Instructor. Within the community, she is involved in the Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center and Gabriela Network Seattle. Free
Human Ecological Stewardship
March 7, 2006
PANEL DISCUSSION by students, faculty, and community environmental anthropologists, organic farmers, representatives of non-profits and conservation biologists addresses the importance of human social systems in fostering sustainable and environmentally friendly development in Western Washington. Panelists will feature projects that Edmonds Community College students have worked on. They will discuss opportunities for students to volunteer, take classes and earn AmeriCorps scholarship funds. Free. Following the discussion, community partners will host tables highlighting environmentally related service projects in which students may participate from noon to 2 p.m. Afterwards, students can enroll in AmeriCorps by attending a Students in Service Orientation from 3-4:30 p.m. in Meadowdale 209.
The Current State Of Black Art
February 22, 2006
STEPHANIE ELLIS-SMITH founded the Central District Forum in 1999. Before that, she was the Visual Resources Coordinator for the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project, an art history endeavor that located, catalogued, re-photographed and published the 1,100 work oeuvre of the artist. The prestigious catalogue raisonné was the first ever done for an African-American artist. Before she entered the arts, she was in the sciences where she studied retroviruses at the University of Washington and stem cells at UCLA. Stephanie has served on numerous boards and commissions including the Washington State Arts Commission (appointed by Governor Gary Locke) where she was chair of the Visual Arts Committee and was on the Executive Interim Committee. She has been a trustee for Artist Trust, City Club and NuBlack Arts West Theater. Building upon her background in science, she was a team leader and Steering Committee member for the Seattle Audubon Society's Finding Urban Nature program and a reviewer for Science Books and Films, a publication of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. She received a BA in English and biochemistry from UCLA in 1992 and studied immunology and genetics at the University of Washington. She was awarded the 2004 Community Service Award from the Loren Miller Bar Association.
Homeless At Edmonds Community College
January 25, 2006
PANEL DISCUSSION of students, faculty, staff, and community partners discuss the reality of homelessness on our campus and in our community. Panelists bring first hand experience learning how to survive on our campus without a home to return to after classes. They address survival strategies, resources available on campus and in the community, and new student-driven efforts to provide support by and for homeless students. Community partners will also discuss ways that students can get involved in helping others without homes and in changing the socioeconomic structures in our society that contribute to homelessness. Free.
Martin Luther King III - My Father’s Dream, My Mission
January 23, 2006
MARTIN LUTHER KING III, the second oldest child of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, examines the goals of his father in today’s society with his message, “My Father’s Dream, My Mission.” A human rights advocate, community activist and a political leader, King has been actively involved in significant policy initiatives to maintain the fair and equitable treatment of all citizens, at home and abroad. His messages and initiatives are all rooted within the tenets of nonviolent conflict resolution.
Committed to the personal, educational and skill development of youth, he has initiated several programs throughout the years to support and nurture young people. His current youth project is the annual “Kindness and Justice Challenge” sponsored by Do Something.
In 1997, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization that his father co-founded 40 years earlier. His signature programs included “Stop the Killing-End the Violence” campaign. He left the SCLC in January 2004 to head the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change as President and CEO. Tickets $10 general, $7 seniors, students.
Co-sponsored with Central Washington University.
Great Achievements In Bad Situations
January 18, 2006
JOSHUA FREDENBERG is a visionary leader who believes in developing effective 21st Century leaders who will make positive changes in their communities, nations, and world. At age 25, he has already shared this inspiring message with over 1.2 million people. “I have a desire to set an example for my generation-by building a positive image so we can take this country where it needs to be,” stated Fredenburg. Energetic and passionate, he presents a clear leadership vision and path to all audiences, motivating them into action. Majoring in communications, he is a 2001 Long Beach State University graduate with a speaking career that started before his college career ended. While still in college he became one of the most listened-to campus personalities with a show called “College Beat.” He produces and hosts a public access television show entitled “The Student Forum.” Fredenburg is President of Vision XY, a company he created, and author of a new book, “Vision: The Answer to Generation X and Y.” Free.
Being The Best You Can Be
January 11, 2006
DEBBIE WOOTEN is an expert on overcoming adversity. Debbie Wooten has suffered adversity. Born with Spina Bifida in the sixties, Debbie contracted Polio when she was only five months old. Because of her skin color the white kids wouldn't play with her and the black kids didn't accept her because she was different. Her adult life wasn't much easier. She had two marriages that ended, one because of suicide, one because of abuse. But fortunately for her audiences she's taken her problems and faced them with strength, grace and a lot of humor. Debbie speaks to thousands of people every year to consistent rave reviews and standing ovations. Recently Debbie was chosen out of 20,000 people as the “cover girl” for an advertising campaign for Washington State's health system. Debbie's message is simple: “See people for who they are on the inside”. It doesn't get more basic than that and it doesn't get more true”. Free.
AIDS And Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
December 1, 2005
JOY DEGRUY-LEARY holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications, a Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW), a Master’s Degree in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research. She is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University. In brief, Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome theory proposes that stress related illness as the result of the slave experience and the oppression that followed were passed down through generations.
Dr. Leary presents facts, statistics and documents that illustrate how the destruction of African culture (i.e., belief systems, customs, and values) continues to effect traumas resulting from inequality, racism and oppressive policies. As part of World AIDS Day and our Kwanzaa celebration she will discuss the relationship between Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and the effects of AIDS in Africa and communities of the African Diaspora.
Native Americans In The Media
November 16, 2005
TERRY TAFOYA, trained as a traditional Native American Storyteller, is a Taos Pueblo and Warm Springs Indian, who has used American Indian ritual and ceremony in his work as a Family Therapist at the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic, part of the University of Washington's School of Medicine in Seattle. The Harbourview Community Mental Health Center, the site of the Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic, was responsiblefor having the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services designate Dr. Tafoya as the first formally recognized Native Healer for the state as an Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist. With over 20 years of University level teaching experience, including his work with the National Bilingual Training and Resource Center, Dr. Tafoya has worked with Mental Health, Human Sexuality, AIDS/HIV, Substance Abuse Prevention, and Bilingual Education in his work as a trainer and educator. He has taught with the Kinsey Institute for the Study of Human Sexuality, Gender, and Reproduction, as faculty, and as an expert on Cross-Cultural Sexuality.
He serves as a National Consultant for the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and is the Chief Curriculum Writer for the Gathering of Native Americans, a national project for Native American Substance Abuse Prevention. He is also on the National Teaching Faculty for the American Psychological Association, and on the International Faculty of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation for Clinical Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
From The Sun God To The Son Of God
November 9, 2005
ELENA KORAKIANITOU has a B.F.A degree in Fine Art from Cornish Institute of Allied Arts. She has studied art and art history in Athens, Greece; Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris; and the University of Washington. She has been guest artist in Pilchuck Glass School and recently received the first prize for her Video "Voices of the Eternal Self, Images from Beyond," in an international art exhibition in Europe.
She has studied mythology and the philosophy of spirituality for many years as part of her quest to represent the spirit of all things in her art. She has exhibited her art in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is an art teacher and a lecturer on the subject of art and spirituality. Her Greek culture and her education on spirituality have given her the ability to recognize and awaken the creative spirit within herself and her students. As part of this quest, she leads journeys to sacred places in her native Greece to help her students discover the importance of mythology and spirituality in art and living. Free.
Good Jobs Or Gentrification?: An Anthropology Of Class On The Seattle Waterfront
October 26, 2005
PETER KNUTSON is a long time commercial fisherman and a Ph.D. anthropologist. He currently teaches at Seattle Central Community College. From June through October he fishes salmon and halibut in southeast Alaska. Over the last 30 years he has been involved in many struggles over environmental and social justice issues pertaining to fishing communities.
His organizing work has been profiled in B.J. Bullert's 2005 award winning documentary Fishermen's Terminal, Paul Loeb's Soul of a Citizen, in the New York Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Vancouver Sun, Rocky Mountain News, Seattle Times and other publications. He has published in Cultural Survival, Wise Traditions, Liberation, Academe, both Seattle dailies and other publications. He is the author of the audio book Hell No, We Won't Go: Vietnam at Home. Free.
Daily Bread: Plight And Struggles Of Farm Workers
October 20, 2005
DELORES HUERTA is a well-known and revered farm worker’s activist. She became a fearless lobbyist in Sacramento, at the age of twenty-five. Her efforts paid off in 1961 when she succeeded in obtaining the removal of citizenship requirements from pension and public assistance programs. In 1962 she lobbied in Washington D.C. for an end to the “captive labor” Bracero Program. In September of 1965, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez and a number of Filipino workers demanded higher wages and began a five year strike, involving 5,000 grape workers. The striking groups merged to form the United Farm Workers Union (UFW).
As UFW’s main negotiator, Huerta successfully negotiated contracts with medical and pension benefits and safety plans for farm workers, set up hiring halls, farm workers ranch committees, administrated contracts, and conducted grievance and arbitration procedures on behalf of the workers.
She is currently a board member for the Feminist Majority Foundation (http://www.feminist.org/) and teaches a class on community organizing at the University of Southern California. She is the mother of 11 children, 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Tickets $10 general, $5 seniors, free for students.
Listen to a 16 minute interview with Delores by AmeriCorps Volunteer Lulu Carpenter and Maria Morales from the Equity and Diversity Center.
The School Of The Americas And American Empire
October 11, 2005
LESLEY GILL teaches anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. She has conducted extensive research in Latin America on labor relations, global economic restructuring, and political violence. Her books include Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class and Domestic Service in Bolivia (Columbia, 1994), Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State (Columbia, 2000), and The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (Duke 2004). In 2003 American Sexuality published her article, “Consuming Passions: The School of the Americas and Imperial Sexuality.”
During her research she attended class at the School of the Americas, and interviewed students, officials, and alumni of the school. Gill was recently recognized as a recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Congressional Fellowship. Free.
Sex And Human Trafficking
September 29, 2005
LAN PHAM is the Executive Director of the Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center (Safety Center), a community-based non-profit providing education, advocacy, and training on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Ms. Pham received her Master of Social Welfare and is currently working on her Master of Public Health at the University of Washington. GILLIAN APFEL is an attorney who is currently serving as the Program Coordinator for the Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN). A New York native who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999, Gillian’s past experience includes providing legal services to indigent clients, corporate litigation, NGO fundraising and development, and a year long tenure as an Ameri*Corps VISTA at the International Rescue Committee.
The September Project: A Faith Based Discussion Of Conflict And Humanity
September 11, 2005
THE SEPTEMBER PROJECT is a global effort by libraries to organize public events on freedom, democracy and citizenship
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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