Cherrie Moraga and "Dialogues on the Intersections of Identity"

Cherrie Moraga, groundbreaking Chicana lesbian poet, playwright, essayist, editor, teacher, and activist will spend the afternoon and evening of Thursday, October 18 on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. View the event poster.

Moraga's visit will launch a year-long series of campus discussions titled "Dialogues on the Intersections of Identity" to engage faculty, students, and staff in conversation about the complexity of diversity. The Dialogues are sponsored by the Office for Equity and Diversity and numerous campus co-sponsors (see below).

Cherrie Moraga : October 18, 2007
"Intersecting Identites," will kick off on Thursday, October 18, with a day-long series of events with Cherrie Moraga. Moraga is an essayist, playwright, and lecturer with a near-thirty year teaching practice in the areas of Creative Writing, Indigenous Thought & Performance, and Transnational (Women of Color) Feminism. She has taught at all levels from community-based courses for queer youth in San Francisco, to Oakland City Schools, to the community and state college system, to Stanford University. Highlights of Moraga's visit include:

Out of Our Revolutionary Minds: Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt: Afternoon Workshop for Faculty with Cherrie Moraga
**PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION FOR WORKSHOP IS CLOSED**
A workshop for faculty members and graduate students on infusing diversity into teaching by transforming pedagogy and the curriculum. In this two-hour session, Moraga will read from excerpts of her essays that discuss pedagogical practices from a feminist of color perspective. She will draw from her wealth of experience to encourage participants to question the paradigm of Eurocentrism in the classroom and will personally respond to questions regarding teaching practices, approaches to knowing (and therefore learning), and faculty members' relationship to the increasing corporatization of academic study.
Thursday, October 18, 2-4 p.m., Coffman Memorial Union, Mississippi Room
The workshop is free of charge but space is limited to 50 and an RSVP is required. Contact the Office for Equity and Diversity at 612.624.0594 or oed@umn.edu for reservations, disability accommodations, or more information.
**PLEASE NOTE: REGISTRATION FOR WORKSHOP IS CLOSED**

A Chicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Evening Reading and Discussion with Cherrie Moraga
A reading of selected works that traces Cherrie Moraga's own development as a writer, thinker and activist over a full generation of political engagement. The works follow Moraga's emerging consciousness as a Chicana lesbian from the late 1970s and the early days of women of color feminism to more current considerations of aging, motherhood and an contemporary Xicana Indigenous movement. Q & A, reception, and book signing to follow.
Thursday, October 18, 7:30 p.m., Carlson School of Management, 3M Auditorium
The program is free of charge and open to public, but space is limited and an RSVP is required. Contact the Office for Equity and Diversity at 612.624.0594 or oed@umn.edu for reservations, disability accommodations, or more information.

Campus Co-sponsors (as of September 20, 2007)
Academic Health Center  
College of Biological Sciences  
Carlson School of Management, Office of Diversity Initiatives
College of Design
College of Education & Human Development  
College of Food, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Science  
College of Liberal Arts  
Department of Chicano Studies  
Department of English  
Department of Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies  
Department of Theater Arts and Dance  
The Graduate School
Institute for Advanced Study  
Institute of Technology  
La Raza Student Cultural Center  
Medical School  
Medical School, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity  
Office for Student Affairs
Queer Student Cultural Center  
School of Dentistry  
School of Nursing, Office of Inclusivity and Diversity  
School of Public Health  
Women’s Student Activist Collective