MLK Service Award

Nominations open until Wednesday, December 4, 2019.

To learn more, visit the Office of Intercultural Engagement website

Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!

As part of the Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series, Sara Snyder, Assistant Professor and Director of the Cherokee Language Program at Western Carolina University in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, will be giving a lecture titled "Sound, Sociality, and the Making of Mountain Skies" -- read the abstract on the College of Visual and Performing Arts website.

What: "Sound, Sociality, and the Making of Mountain Skies"

Who: Free and open to the public

When: Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Where: UNCG, Music Building, Lecture Hall (Room 217)

Contact: for further information, contact Dr. Joan Titus at j_titus@uncg.edu

LGBTQ+ & Abroad Meetup

Join students that have studied abroad for a roundtable discussion centered around their experiences as LGBTQ+ and allied students. Students considering or preparing for international travel will get a chance to hear common anticipations before departure, gather insight on life abroad, and understand what it's like to adjust to life back home as an LGBTQ+ student.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019 at 5:00pm

Where: Foust building, room 206

Food: Snacks will be provided!

Contact: For accessibility accommodations, please call 336-334-5404

Lavendar Graduation: Dec 5, 2019

Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied students and to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to the University.

Join the Office of Intercultural Engagement for UNCG's Lavender Graduation!

When: Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 at 11:00am

Where: Elliot University Center, Auditorium Pre-Function Area

Food: Light refreshments will be served

Contact: For disability accommodations, contact Elliot Kimball at 336-334-3478 or erkinba2@uncg.edu

Transgender Day of Remembrance Dinner

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year.

Join the Office of Intercultural Engagement for the Transgender Day of Remembrance Dinner.

RSVP through this link

When: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Where: Elliot University Center, Cone Ballroom

Contact: Contact Briana Joseph at brjosep2@uncg.edu with questions or concerns.

Civic Career Series

Civic Career Series: Exploring Careers in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Are you interested in learning more about professional opportunities to work within diversity, equity, and inclusion? Thinking about ways you can prepare and sharpen those skills now? Join us on Thursday, November 14th, from 3:30-5pm in the Elliott University Center Maple Room to hear from a panel of industry experts working within diversity and inclusion across a variety of fields. Our program will conclude with a chance for you to mix and mingle with our panelists and enjoy some light refreshments.

When: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Where: Elliot University Center, Maple Room

Contact: For disability accommodations, reach out to Elliott Kimball at 336-334-3478 or erkimba2@uncg.edu

POSTPONED: Dominique Jackson

Word has been received that Dominique Jackson has been forced to postpone both of her North Carolina stops due to a shift in production schedule for her upcoming TV series. We are all terribly disappointed, but unfortunately there's nothing she nor us can do. This will hopefully be rescheduled for April.

When: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 7:00pm

Where: Elliot University Center, Auditorium

WGS Internship, Courses, and Announcements

Are you interested in pursuing a career in a nonprofit or other kind of social change organization? Do you want to cultivate new professional and personal skills? Are you curious about the relationship between the theories that you are learning about in the classroom and the "real world?"

If yes, the WGS Intership is for you.

Semester: Spring 2020

Course: Spring Graduate Course: WGS Internship (WGS 601/WGS 602)

When: Monday 3:30 - 6:20, Dr. Lisa Levenstein

Who: Open to all UNCG Graduate Students

Contact: Questions: please contact Dr. Lisa Levenstein: levenstein@uncg.edu

The WGS internship involves a 3-credit course (WGS 601) in which students perform internship hours at a community agency or nonprofit and a 3-credit course (WGS 602) in which they come together with other students to discuss their experiences in their placements, read articles about feminism and social change, and produce written work that probes the nexus between their internship and their academic learning. The two-credit sequence serves as a culminating experience for WGS MA students and is open to students in any other program or department in consultation with the instructor.

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This course invites students to engage with Latin American intellectuals' and activists' ideas about women, gender, and sexuality from the first decades of the 20th century until now. From a positionality of decolonial feminism and recognizing De Sousa Santos' idea that "there is no social justice without global cognitive justice" (Epistemologies of the South) this course hopes to serve as a starting point of inquiry on the rich history of modern feminist and queer thought in Latin America.

We will study the history of feminism in the region from the beginning of the twentieth century, where a debate around the status of women and gender roles emerges across the continent from diverse groups such as anarchists, socialists and suffragists, to our current century, where feminism engages with transfeminism, decolonial discourses and queer/cuir studies. Finally, we will look at the intersection between current ideas regarding women, indigenous, poor and trans bodies as targets of state, institutional and social violence and the massive protests and multimedia campaigns that are defying patriarchal, conservative states and elites in Latin America.

Semester: Spring 2020

Course: WGS 760

Professor: Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt

When: Tuesdays 4:00pm - 6:50pm

Historical Time Frame: 1900 - Present

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Distinguished Alumna Lecture

"Rediscovering a Lost Art Form: Women's Poetic Recitation with Music"

Professor Wilson Kimber will present her research on the lost musical art of elocution, widely practiced by women in 19th-century America and Europe. Fun fact: Albertine Zehme, the woman who commissioned and first performed the modernist icon Pierrot lunaire, was an elocutionist!

When: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at 4:00pm

Where: Music Building, room 221

Presenter: Marian Wilson Kimber, Professor of Musicology, University of Iowa

Sponsor: UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts Distinguished Alumna in Music for 2019

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HELS (Harriet Elliott Lecture Series) - Fall 2019

Just Futures

Equity & Sustainability

• Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019 at 6:30pm - 8pm at Sullivan 200 : "From PCBs to Coal Ash: Environmental Justice in North Carolina," Panel Discussion: Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Bobby Jones, Naeema Mohammed, Dr. Louie Rivers, and Moderator: Dr. Anthony Ladd
• Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 at 6-8pm at Bryan 111 : "Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice," Panel Discussion: Alicia Leecee Jones (community liaison, Town of Princeville, NC), Mentzie Abdul Rahman (BSW student, Social Work, NC A&T), Rev. David Fraccaro, Esmeralda Mendez (BSW Alumna, UNCG / MSW student, UNC Charlotte), Dr. Meredith Powers, Dr. Steve Kroll-Smith, and Moderator: Dr. Marcia Hale
• Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 at 1:30pm - 3pm at Faculty Center : "Rachel Carson & Environmental Justice in North Carolina," Dr. Robert Musil
• Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 at 5-7pm at Music 217 : "Saving the Songwood: Global Consumption, Sustainability, & Value," Alex Smith & Tijan Dorwan

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Patient No More

People with disabilities securing civil rights

In April of 1977, protesters occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to push lawmakers into protecting civil rights for persons with disabilities. Come see the travelling exhibit in remembrance of the long fight for Disability Rights this Fall at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

When: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 - Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 : Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

Discussion Panel: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at 2:30pm-4:30pm

Where: International Civil Rights Center and Museum

Contact: For any questions or concerns please email uncgpnm@gmail.com

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Battling Bigotry focuses on developing innovative techniques to identify, prevent, counteract, and remediate communication that targets under-served and marginalized populations and exploits their vulnerability. The course is organized around different population groups and the major communication strategies that are employed to fuel their oppression. The overall objective is to build resilience by resisting and responding to oppressive communications with the research teams involved in the NCA Center for Communication, Community Collaboration, and Change "Cultivate Resilient Communities" grant project.

Semester: Spring 2020

Courses: CST 400x, section 1: Battling Bigotry ; CST 600x, section 1: Battling Bigotry

When: Tuesday 5:30pm - 8:20pm

Instructor: Dr. Roy Schwartzman, Shoah Foundation Institute International Teaching Fellow

WGS 450: Networks of Inequality in an Information Society

The UNCG University Libraries is proud to announce that our own Jenny Dale will be teaching a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program course this Spring 2020.

Can apps be sexist? Do search engines have biases? In this special topics class, we'll explore these and other questions about the technological systems that shape our experience with the world and how they reinforce existing systems of oppression and inequity.

Semester: Spring 2020

When: Mondays & Wednesdays 5pm - 6:15pm

Where: To Be Decided

Contact: For more information, contact Jenny Dale at jedale2@uncg.edu

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Honoring the centrality of sexuality and queer studies to the field of women’s and gender studies, The Women's & Gender Studies Program are now the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

Library Queer Cafe

All LGBTQIA2S+ students are invited to the Library Queer Cafe.

Meet queer librarians to ask questions, chat, or just hang out!

When: Wednesday Nov. 13, 2019 at 10:00am - 12:00pm, drop in any time

Where: Jackson Library, tower room 974

Food: coffee & light refreshments will be provided

Contact: For more information or for accessibility accommodations, contact Melody Rood at mlrood@uncg.edu

House of Privilege

House of Privilege is an experiential event where participants explore the different ways in which privilege is experienced in our society. House of Privilege uses an approach of touring a "home" to highlight privileged experiences and realities we oftentimes do not recognize.

House of Privilege - Tuesday Nov 19, 2019 - Thursday Nov 21, 2019
House of Privilege will be hosted in the Office of Intercultural Engagement, EUC #62. Our "Open House" is scheduled from Tuesday, November 19th from 9:00 AM until Thursday, November 21st at 8:00pm. Participants are able to complete a self-guided tour at any time or attend an Open House facilitated tour at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, or 7:00 any day.

During an Open House guided tour, you will have the opportunity to tour the House of Privilege with a realtor. This realtor will facilitate a dialogue at the end of the tour to reflect on the privileges portrayed in this year's House of Privilege. All attendees who participate in a facilitated tour will receive a House of Privilege flashlight keychain.

Private Tours for Classes/Organizations
If your class or student organization would like to visit the House of Privilege as a group, we invite you to request a private tour. Private tours start hourly and can be scheduled for any day House of Privilege is open. Private facilitated tours and discussion will last approximately 50 minutes and can be catered to your class or organization. To reserve a tour, please complete this form by Friday, November 8th.

For disability accommodations, please contact the Office of Intercultural Engagement at 336-334-5090.

If you have any questions, please contact Amberlina Alston at analston@uncg.edu

Happy National Native American Heritage Month!

Want to know more about this awesome month long celebration? Check out these links:

• History of the month: Library of Congress
• Native American Heritage Month - The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.
• National Congress of American Indians