Michigan State University’s Project 60/50 is continuing to advance diversity and inclusion on campus with these upcoming events:
April 19 7-9 p.m.
Okemos High School Auditorium
Free admission
Contact: Jane Phillips, (812) 339-3747 or (517) 706-4974, jane.phillips@comcast.net
Emmett Till’s cousin will visit and share his first-hand account of the day Till whistled at Carolyn Bryant, setting in motion a series of events that would galvanize the growing civil rights movement. Chris Crowe, author and historian, will speak and Tamara Butler, assistant professor at MSU will speak as well. Via recorded Skype session, we will hear from SSA Killinger, the FBI agent who reopened the case in 2004.
2016 Ewigleben Lecture Symposium
April 21
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
University Club
Free admission, registration required
Contact: Karla Bellingar, (517) 353-5187, bellinga@msu.edu
Among the many ongoing debates in U.S. higher education is the growing controversy of employing contingent faculty (part-time, non-tenure track faculty and/or clinically trained researchers). This faculty is increasing in numbers, resulting in debates about the necessity of such faculty amid funding cutbacks, unionization of faculty labor and improving work conditions (i.e., pay, benefits, job stability, isolation). This symposium of multiple panels will focus on contingent faculty in higher education from various perspectives including policy, advocacy, research and practice.
Learn at Lunch Series: A Conversation about Gender-Based Violence
April 21
11:30 a.m. -1 p.m.
MSU Union
Free admission
Contact: Lynn Lammers, (517) 353-4563, lammersl@msu.edu
Bring your lunch, join the conversation, ask questions and learn. Presenters will be Holly Rosen, director of MSU Safe Place, and April Zeoli, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice.
April 21 6 -8 p.m.
Holden Hall, Room C136
Free admission
Contact: Erica Fiasky, (517) 884-4050, fiaskye@msu.edu
Mujer a Mujer is a female focused group in South Neighborhood based on a mission to empower undergraduate women at the university level to help them develop professionally through inspirational role models. The workshops are held bi-weekly, Thursday evenings in the fall and spring semesters.
OUT IN THE NIGHT Film Screening & Conversation
April 21
8 -10 p.m.
Wells Hall, Room B122
Free admission
Contact: Kris Rowe, (302) 893-4940, krowe@msu.edu
You are warmly invited to the final installment of the Spring event The Matter is Life: Black Women and Violence Film Series. In collaboration with the MSU Film Collective, join a screening of the documentary film, “Out in the Night,” the story of four queer black women who were incarcerated for varying amounts of time following a violent altercation with a man on the street in 2006 in Greenwich Village.
Project 60/50 Common Table Meeting
April 22
10-11 a.m.
Administration Building, Board Room
Free admission
Contact: Audrey Bentley, (517) 353-4563, bentley@pres.msu.edu
Project 60/50 monthly Common Table Meeting is open to the public. Please note the date of this meeting has been rescheduled from April 15.