Concert and Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
1 – 3 pm
Ocean Campus
50 Phelan Avenue
Rosenberg Library, room 304

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
11 am – 12:30 pm
Southeast Campus, Alex Pitcher Community Room
1800 Oakdale Avenue

Thursday, February 16, 2012
1:30 – 3 pm
John Adams Campus
1835 Hayes Street
                                       

In conjunction with an exhibition at the Rosenberg Library, these presentations will discuss the role of the black cartoonists whose work has appeared in newspapers across the country. Their work offers a unique form of social criticism and commentary.

Monday, February 13, 2012
1 – 3 pm
Ocean Campus
50 Phelan Avenue
Rosenberg Library, room 304

Monday, February 13, 2012
9:30 – 11 am
John Adams Campus, 1860 Hayes Street
Library

Monday, February 27, 2012
10:30 am – 12 noon
Downtown Campus, 4th and Mission Streets
Room 821

Monday, February 27, 2012
7 – 9 pm
Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street
Library

Dr. Stradford is the descendant of a survivor of the June 1, 1921 massacre of the all-black community housed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as “Black Wall Street,” the Greenwood section of Tulsa was a thriving segregated community. Following the arrest of a 17-year-old black shoeshine man for allegedly accosting a young white woman, events quickly spiraled downward until 3,000 black men, women and children lay dead and the neighborhood was reduced to ashes. Dr. Stradford is an artist and has prepared a traveling exhibit of 14 banners with 90 images, telling the story of this story, which is not well known to African-Americans, much less anyone else.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
1 – 3 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Rosenberg Library, room 304 and Student Union

Maria Del Carmen is a Kaqchiquel Maya from Guatemala who has worked tirelessly throughout her teaching career to re-claim the cultural and spiritual teachings of the Mayan people. She is a woman who led the “modern” movement to return to traditional values that included women as priestesses in her community. She will talk about the role of women in the traditional Maya(n) culture and on Maya(n) views of gender/roles historically and currently.

This event will highlight the decades-long effort by working and immigrant women’s rights advocates to secure labor law protection for domestic workers in California. It will consist of short speeches by members of the immigrants’ rights group La Colectiva about their work in this area, and of performances by musicians associated with La Raza Centro Legal and the Latino labor community.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
6:30-9:30 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Wellness 103

The video The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter will be shown, followed by a panel discussion and audience questions. Attendees will learn about the gender division in the 1940s and compare and contrast those circumstances with that of other times and situations.

Friday, March 16, 2012
1 – 3 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Rosenberg Library room 304.

OLO is a queer, Pacific Islander women’s support, art and activist organization based in the Bay Area. As part of the Intersecting Identities Conference, the group will present dance, music, film, theater and poetry to discuss the complexities and intersections of gender, sexualities, class, race, colonialism, resistance movements and Pacific Islander diasporic histories.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012
5 – 7 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Multi Use Building, room 140

The Way Pass Program at City College will host a workshop with Ms. Van Der Horst, a formerly incarcerated woman and founder of the Way Pass Program.
She will discuss the history of women and incarceration and how it is relevant to women today, whether involved with the system or not. She will also propose steps that can be taken to change the prison industrial complex.

Wednesday, April 14, 2012
2:40 – 5:30 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Multi-Use Building, room 130

Dr. Shaffer is with the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH) and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. She will make a presentation on the history of women’s reproductive rights, the current situation and the impact of health care reform on reproductive rights.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12 – 1 pm
Ocean Campus, 50 Phelan Avenue
Rosenberg Library, room 304

Author Canyon Sam will read from her book, Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History (winner of the 2010 PEN American Center Open Book Award) and speak on her process both collecting oral histories and writing the memoir.