NYU’s Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings and the Afro-Latin@ Project at CUNY Queens College present:

Race and Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities for the New American Majority
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street

This forum will explore the ways in which race is implicated in the current debate over immigration. It will launch a national dialogue by engaging scholars, policymakers, and media representatives in an examination of three major themes:
–The social and political implications of the demographic shift that is occurring in the United States as the majority of the country’s population becomes non-White.
–The ways in which immigration is changing the notions of “Blackness” and “Latinidad” in the United States today.
–The dynamics of minority relations, particularly the tensions between African Americans and Latinos in some areas of the country.

The forum is free to the public, but please RSVP online.

In the Face of Violence: Students of Color Speak Out Dessert & Discussion Series

Thursday, November 9th, 2006, from 7:30 to 10 PM
Intercultural Resource Center
552 West 114th Street

Anger, rage, anxiety, depression, paranoia, hopelessness, irritability-does this sound like you? Please join a group of panelists including Columbia students, representatives from the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program, and Counseling and Psychological Services as they share stories of triumph and struggle in their efforts to address the impact of recent incidents of violence in their lives and in communities of color. Violence in our communities is a topic that is often taboo and rarely discussed, but has impacted most of us in intimate ways and has had devastating consequences for our communities. In light of recent events surrounding the Minute Men’s visit to campus, issues of violence have come to the forefront of many of our conversations as we struggle as a community to heal from its impacts. Our goal is to provide a safe and supportive space where folks can come together and discuss these sensitive issues.

While physical violence is often the most obvious, we will address multiple forms of violence that can be just as harmful. These forms may include but are not limited to relationship violence, street violence, institutional violence, and emotional violence. From this discussion, we hope to empower each other to critically examine these issues and heal as a community. If you would like to learn more about this particular Dessert & Discussion, or the Dessert & Discussion series, please contact Asena Tui’one at alt2106@columbia.edu.

El Museo del Barrio presents: A Soldier’s Fugue
Sunday, October 29th, 2006, at 8 PM
Teatro Heckscher at El Museo

El Museo del Barrio is pleased to offer you special discounted tickets to see the critically acclaimed play Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, playing now through October 29th at the Teatro Heckscher at El Museo.

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue tells the story of three generations of Puerto Rican men in one family and their experiences in the US military. At 18, Lance Corporal Elliot Ortiz crossed over to Iraq. At 19, he received the Purple Heart. Now, back from active duty, Elliot is anointed a hometown hero. As Elliot comes to terms with his own memories of war, the military experiences of his father and grandfather unfold, revealing startling similarities that unite the Ortiz men across time. Purchase tickets online at www.ticketcentral.com or at the Museum Shop. Please use Discount code: SPD5 for $5 tickets online. Visit http://www.p73.org/elliot for more information.

On Wednesday, October 25th, 2006, Russell Simmons and Rabbi Marc Schneier will be speaking about Black-Jewish Relations: Reflections on the Past and Hopes for the Future.

The event is open to the public. It starts at 8 PM in Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University.

Come to the tenth “Deconstructing Race & Racism Lecture Series” hosted by the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University:

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at 7:30 PM
Prof. Nahum Chandler
Institute for Research African-American Studies, Columbia University
Professor of Global Studies, Tama University, Tokyo, Japan
Davis Auditorium (Schapiro Center)

Regarding Dr. Chandler:
An excerpt from a recently completed book of the same title, this lecture will examine the contemporary bearing of W.E.B. Du Bois’s essay “The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind.” Originally given as a lecture in December 1899, it is the first text in which Du Bois announced his most famous phrase: “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” After examining the meaning of the scholastic oversight that has left this essay in the shadows of more famous and later usages of the phrase, for example in The Souls of Black Folk, Prof. Chandler’s lecture offers a certain way of understanding the epistemic, and hence political, implication of Du Bois’s idea of the global color line–one he maintained throughout his whole career–for the present and future. For further information please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas. For further information contact the Center at ccbh@columbia.edu or (212) 854-1489.

Come to an SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) on-campus Information Session on Monday, October 2nd, 2006, 5 to 6:30 PM, Columbia University CEPSR Building, Davis Auditorium (120th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue).

The event is open to all majors! The SEO is the nation’s premiere summer internship program for talented students of color leading to full-time job offers. Since its inception, SEO’s Career Program has placed over 4,000 Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Native American students in internships that lead to opportunities in exciting and rewarding careers in the most competitive industries worldwide. Our program is featured in Princeton Review’s 109 Best Internships in America, and is a gateway to the most coveted and highest paying careers. More than 80% of SEO interns receive job offers from partner firms after their internships. SEO grooms its interns to excel in the workplace and become leaders in their communities who will give back and forge a path to success for the next generation. As a direct result of the Career Program and the high performance of its interns, SEO has significantly increased the number of people of color employed on Wall Street and by major corporations nationwide.

Why the Make-up of the New York Court of Appeals Matters to LGBT People: Lessons from Hernandez v. Robles:

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006, at 7 PM
The LGBT Community Center 208 West 13th Street
Free Admission

Susan Sommer, Senior Counsel at Lambda Legal, will join a panel of experts to examine the judicial selection process for New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, and how the absence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) representation on the Court impacts the LGBT community. The discussion will be framed in the context of the Court’s recent disappointing decision in the marriage equality case, Hernandez v. Robles. Susan Sommer was lead counsel on the Hernandez case, the first of its kind to be filed in New York after the high court of Massachusetts ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to full marriage under that state’s Constitution.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs invites you to attend its Queer Awareness Month Opening Reception featuring Keynote Speaker Keith Boykin, co-host of the BET series “My Two Cents” and author of “Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America”:

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006, 6 to 8 PM
Alfred Lerner Hall Party Space
Dinner will be provided

For more information or to RSVP, please contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs by phone (212) 854-1388 or via email: multicultural@columbia.edu.

The 2006 Latino Heritage Month Committee cordially invites you to attend its Latino Heritage Month Opening Reception entitled “Cosechando Nuestras Raíces, Cultivando Nuestro Futuro” (Harvesting Our Roots, Cultivating Our Future) featuring keynote speaker Maria Hinojosa, senior correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning PBS newsmagazine NOW.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Roone Arledge Auditorium
Dinner will be provided

For more information or to RSVP, please contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs by phone at (212) 854-1388 or via email at multicultural@columbia.edu.

Imagenation presents its fourth annual Harlem Outdoor Film Festival this month. On Aug. 8 and 15, from 7:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Imagenation will screen films outdoors at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Harlem State Office Building Plaza, 125th Street and Seventh Avenue. The free screenings feature independent films from the African diaspora.

Favela Rising, which will be screened today, tells the true story of drug dealer Anderson Sá, as he undergoes a personal transformation that moves him to rally his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. This winner of 24 film awards–including Best Emerging Documentary Filmmaker at New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival–has garnered as much praise for its sound track as for its cinematography. Visit the film’s website for info on additional screenings across the country.