Bias Awareness Week

April 4-8, 2011

Monday, April 4

Count Me In & BRT present:
Tunnel of Oppression
EMU River Rooms
12:00 – 3:00pm

 

 

LGBTESSP & BRT present:
Bullied – film & discussion
Ben Linder Room in EMU
3:30 – 5:00pm

 

Tuesday, April 5

 Office of the Dean of Students presents:
Kip Fulbeck
Columbia 150
Workshop & Performance
7:30 - 9:00pm (Doors open at 7pm)

 

Kip Fulbeck is an American artist, slam poet and filmmaker. He speaks nationwide on identity, multiraciality and pop culture – mixing together spoken word, stand-up comedy, political activism and personal stories.

Wednesday, April 6

  BRT presents:
Dr. Rosalind Chou
Walnut Room in EMU
12:00 – 1:00pm
 

Dr. Chou is the Samuel DuBois Cook Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender at Duke University. She will speak to Asian American politics, as she has written about in her books The Myth of the Model Minority and Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.

    

BRT and UCTC present:
How do I use my power and privilege towards social change?
A Panel Discussion
Knight Browsing Room
4:00 – 5:30pm

 

Outdoor Program and Save Our Salmon present:
The Greatest Migration (film showing)
Longhouse
7:00 – 9:00 pm
http://www.wildsalmon.org/

 

Thursday, April 7

 

BRT presents:
Open House!
EMU 161, across from the Fir Room
12:00-1:30pm

Come enjoy some light refreshments while you meet & mingle with the BRT.

 

Outdoor Program, Craft Center, Cultural Forum & BRT present:
Dudley Edmondson
Black and Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places
Collection on display at Adell McMillan Gallery
Slide show presentation 180 PLC, 7:00pm

Dudley is a freelance photographer, showcasing nature, wildlife, and human subjects around the country. He is particularly interested in influencing the way ethnically diverse people see themselves and the way the world sees them.

Mills International Center and BRT present:
International Film Series
Mills International Center
6:00pm
Special People with discussion led by Dr. Deborah Olson and Dr. Kathie Carpenter.
 

Friday, April 8

   

Rehearsals for Life, BRT and the UO community present:
What Would YOU Do??
EMU Amphitheater
11:45am – 12:15pm

 Real-time scenarios calling to question what bystanders might do when witnessing an act of bias.

 

Followed by:
Positive Graffiti
EMU Amphitheater
12:30 – 2:30pm

Create uplifting graffiti while snacking some snacks and tuning some tunes. Spray paint provided; BYOLove.

For questions please contact:

Tiffany Hall
Bias Response Team
Graduate Teaching Fellow
161 EMU
541-346-2037
brt@uoregon.edu
http://bias.uoregon.edu