November

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, Wygal 7:00 pm - International Awareness Week:

"The Path to Riches or the Road to Ruin? China's Economic Development and its Environmental Consequences"

The goals of the program are to provide new information in order to change thinking and attitudes regarding China as a potential threat or partner in the Global Community. Specifically, the program/speaker(s) will explore current themes, economic, political and social related to China's growing economy and the environment challenge.

Target Audience: Students, faculty/staff, and the community-at-large

Contact: Lonnie I. Calhoun, III, calhounli@longwood.edu Current Partners: Philip Cantrell, PhD., Longwood University

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Department of Education: http://www.iew.state.gov/

Here are a list of Quizzes that are available at the website above. Please see how you students do on these learning resources.

Global IQ Quiz: GET READY TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD!

 

December

December 2, 2009 6:30 p.m., Lankford Ballroom - Festival of Lights: Exploring the Diversity of Holidays and Holydays during the Season

Pluralism and the Celebration of Faith Forum: Panelist include Professor Carl Riden, Rev. Sylvia S. Meadows, Professor Ramesh Rao, and Professor Neil Homes will discuss various holidays and holy days and their commonalities.

The brief topical presentations for the year are the Concept of Light, the Hindu tradition, Kwanzaa, an African American tradition, and the Secular tradition.

Open to Public

Reception to Follow

Just as light is transformational, so is the Longwood University learning environment. We ask that you, the Longwood University Community explore many of our cultural and community assets at new times and in new ways to celebrate our region's past, present and future.

January

Monday January 18, 2010 from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm - MLK Service Challenge

Visit the Volunteer & Service-Learning website for more information.

 

Wednesday, January 2o, 2010 12:00 PM.; Lankford Student Union Building - "Strke for Justice Reading."

Wednesday, January 20^th, 12 noon - 12:45 PM

Lankford Student Union Steps

Rain or shine!

 

Hear the inspirational words of Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old girl from Farmville whose actions helped spark the legal challenge to "separate yet equal" schools and changed the course of our nation's history.   

 

This is the inaugural reading of her never before published diary.  Be the first to hear how she planned the famous walkout of the African-American Moton  School in 1951.  We will follow the reading with our own strike for justice by recreating the walkout on Brock Commons.

 

"It had been given to me. All I had to do-was do it."

Barbara Johns, diary entry, 1951

Barbara Johns' diary has been generously provided by the Robert Russa Moton Museum, Farmville, VA.

 

Opening remarks:  Mr. Robert Hamlin, Moton Museum, president

Closing remarks: Dr. Neal Holmes, Call me MISTER program director

Protest song leader: Dr. Jennifer Capaldo

 

Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:30 PM.; Blackwell Ballroom

MLK Symposium:  "Nurturing a Dream Into Reality: A Panel Discussion on Educational Equity & Your Role"
Thursday, January 21; 3:30 p.m.; Blackwell Ballroom
Featuring three panelists: Associate Professor of History, Dr. Larissa Smith Fergeson;  Director of the Robert Russa Moton Museum, Mr. Lacy Ward Jr.; and Call Me MISTER program participant, Darian Batten. The panel discussion will be followed by a call to action from Cameron Patterson, SGA President.  

Tickets are now available for the annual MLK Symposium to be held on Thursday, January 21.  They must be picked up in the Office of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services (Lancaster G26). Tickets are needed this year due to the limited space in the Blackwell Ballroom.  Tickets are limited to 10 per person.  Faculty members - please make sure students who receive tickets will be in attendance.  This program will be videotaped with copies available in the library after the symposium.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Lonnie Calhoun, Director of Multicultural Affairs and International Student Services at 395.2395.

February

Tuesday, February 2, 2010, Wygal @ 7:00 pm - African American History Month- Reflections on the Struggle for Education and Equity in Prince Edward County.

African American History Program featuring Reverend Goodwin Douglas, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Presiding Elder of the Capital District.

Rev. Goodwin Douglas became actively involved in the civil rights movement in 1960.  While in North Carolina, he along with the students of Kittrell College worked with the textile workers who were on strike and were pressing for greater involvement of African American employees in the company.  It was here that he first challenged the actions of the Ku Klux Klan.

As a student at Virginia Union University, he led many protests in a city rife with racism.   African Americans were not allowed to eat at lunch counters or to use department store dressing rooms.  Rev. Douglas formed the first College Human Relations Commission which consisted of students from different colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  While pastor of Beulah AME church, he led a protest to re-open the public schools of Prince Edward County, which closed in 1959 to avoid court-ordered desegregation resulting from the Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."  It was at Beulah that Dr. Douglas realized that "since the church is the major cookie cutter in society, it should make a difference in any given community."  He led students in massive protests which crippled the economy of that county.  At this time, Rev. Douglas assisted the late Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department in re-opening the schools in Prince Edward County in 1964.

In 1963, Rev. Douglas took over 120 people to the "March on Washington" to be a part of that historic moment in the life of a people who were denied their civil rights.  This march not only changed life in America, but also globally. 

What role has individual ethnic histories played in defining our current American History?

The goals of the program are to provide new information in order to change thinking and attitudes regarding the strengths of individual experiences in creating the American history narrative. Specifically, the program/panel will explore what is it about the the various experiences/ struggles that have created the history of American and positioned it as a role model for democratic societies world wide.

Target Audience:Students, faculty/staff, and the community-at-large
Contact: Lonnie I. Calhoun, III, calhounli@longwood.edu
Current Partners: Larissa Smith-Fergeson, Ph.d., Longwood University

 

This event has been Cancelled:

February 14, 2010 Chinese New Year Celebration 2010 - The Year of the Tiger

Start date for Celebration: February 14, 2010

Chinese Character for Tiger

Traditional Chinese Musical Performance featuring Emily Yap Chua, Associate Professor of Music, Randolph College and Family

7:00pm, Wygal Hall

TBA

 

March

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Wygal - Diversity Days 11

Diversity Days Film Festival:

The goals of the program are to provide new information in order to change thinking and attitudes regarding diversity in American society. Specifically, three short films will be presented that explore the current themes of sexual orientation, ethnicity, and gender.

Target Audience:Students, faculty/staff, and the community-at-large Contact: Lonnie I. Calhoun, III, calhounli@longwood.edu Current Partners: Carl Riden, Ph.d., Longwood University

Open to the Public

Reception to Follow