Beginning this coming Wednesday, Oct. 14, the Office of Institutional Diversity will begin a series of discussions about culture. Each session will have a presenter (almost always a UWG faculty member or an off campus scholar) who will discuss a particular issue related in some way to the general topic of "culture." The purpose of these conversations is to further faculty and staff knowledge and understanding of disparate cultures. Certainly, culture itself is a very broad term that covers a great deal of territory. A committee consisting of representatives from the Departments of Anthropology (Dr. Marjorie Snipes), Sociology (Dr. Jane McCandless), Foreign Languages (Dr. Robert Kilpatrick), History (Dr. Aran MacKinnon), and Psychology (Dr. Kareen Malone) have agreed to help select faculty and others to serve as presenters. The committee is certainly open to suggestions from others about possible speakers.
Dr. Aran McKinnon has agreed to be our first presenter. His topic will be " Constructions of Otherness: District Nine and the Case of South Africa." His presentation will involve a discussion of the movie "District Nine."
Conversations about Culture will take place in the Executive Dining Room located on the second floor of our Food Services Building (Z-6). Dr. MacKinnon will present at approximately 12:05. We will have the Executive Dining Room from 11:30 to 1:30.
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