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Honors Colloquium on race begins September 14
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
--Margaret Atwood
The University of Rhode Island’s popular Honors Colloquium series returns this fall to explore key issues of race. Considering the prominence of race in current events such as immigration reform, racial profiling, and affirmative action, this year’s colloquium is intended to foster and further ongoing, public dialogs about race.
Speakers include Tony Award-winning actor B.D. Wong, recognized nationally for his role in the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; MacArthur Genius Fellow Majora Carter; and Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, an accomplished multimedia artist and professor of media arts.
The semester-long series is free and open to the public, offering nearly weekly opportunities to hear from and speak with nationally recognized scholars and public figures concerned with the particular ways that race shapes...
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| Tuesday, Sep 7 | Academic Community Fall Welcome Reception 4:00 PM |
| Tuesday, Sep 7 | Welcome and Welcome Back Barbecue 5:30-07:00 PM |
| Tuesday, Sep 7 | Press Conference: National Science Foundation Award 11:00 AM |
| Tuesday, Sep 7 | Men's Basketball Tipoff Event 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday, Sep 7 | Spinning Into Butter Auditions 7:00 PM |
| Tuesday, Sep 7 | The Rocky Horror Show Auditions 7:00 PM |
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