Filmmaker Bobby Shepard and Poet Nikki Giovanni to Visit Chico for Black History Month
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Feb. 10, 2005
Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Author and Lecturer Paula Rothenberg to Speak on the Curriculum of Equality
The Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies, California State University, Chico, is hosting a series of events with special guest speaker Paula Rothenberg, on Tuesday, Feb. 22 and Wednesday, Feb. 23. The events are free and open to the public.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
7:00 pm Public Address
“Color-Blind and Gender-Neutral: How the Rhetoric of Equality Maintains Privilege”
Bell Memorial Union 210
8:30 pm Public Reception Bell Memorial Union 210
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
9:30 - 11:30 Faculty Workshop
TITLE: Building a Future for Multicultural and Gender Studies
ROOM: Bell Memorial Union 209
RSVP to Dr. Susan Place, Interim Dean of the School of Graduate, International, & Interdisciplinary Studies at 530-898-6880.
noon – 1:00 pm Campus Conversation on Diversity
“Beyond Tacos and Egg Rolls: Making Diversity Real”
Bell Memorial Union 209
2:00 - 4:00 Faculty Workshop
TITLE: Issues and Strategies in Teaching Ethnic and Gender Courses
ROOM: Kendall Hall 207/209
RSVP to Dr. Susan Place, Interim Dean of the School of Graduate, International, & Interdisciplinary Studies at 530-898-6880.
Paula Rothenberg is director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching, and professor of philosophy and women’s studies at The William Paterson University of New Jersey, where she has taught since 1969. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University. A former regional coordinator of the National Women’s Studies Association, she serves on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women. She has lectured widely on multicultural and gender curriculum transformation at universities across the country. She is the author of “Invisible Privilege: A Memoir About Race, Class, and Gender,” which was published by the University Press of
Kansas (2000) and published in paperback in fall 2004. Her diversity text, “Race, Class, and Gender in the United States” (St. Martin’s/Worth), is now in its sixth edition. Paula Rothenberg is co-editor of “Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A
Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project” (Teachers College Press 1996), as well as co-editor of several college-text anthologies, including “Feminist Frameworks” (McGraw-Hill 1978, 1984, 1993), “Philosophy Now” (Random House 1972, 1975, 1980) and “Ethics in Perspective” (Random House 1976). Her newest book, “White Privilege: Essential Readings About the Other Side of Racism,” was published by Worth in 2001 and has just been revised. The New Jersey Project is the only statewide, state-funded curriculum transformation project in the nation. The project encourages and supports curriculum and faculty development around issues of gender, race/ethnicity, class, culture and sexuality at New Jersey’s four-year and two-year public and private colleges and universities.