2020 KSUnite Event - Difference Makes Us Stronger
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Schedule of Events, Tuesday, October 13, 2020
| Time | Event |
| 11:00 a.m. | KSUnite - Difference Makes Us Stronger Welcome Video |
| 12:00 p.m. | Plenary Speaker Bunky Echo-Hawk |
| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary Speaker Clint Smith |
| 2:00 p.m. | Breakout Sessions 1st period |
| 3:00 p.m. | Breakout Sessions 2nd period |
Welcome Video
Tune in for an update on the Action Plan for a More Inclusive K-State, messages from three of K-State's Affinity Groups: Alianza, the Black Faculty and Staff Alliance, and The Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance and the 2020 KSUnite Event Student Speakers.
Student Speakers
Effie Antonoudi Ph.D. Student in Personal Financial Planning
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Victor Andrews Ph.D. Student in Kinesiology |
Jordan Peyton Senior in Biological Systems Engineering | |
Plenary Speakers
Bunky Echo-Hawk - Interactive Live Art - 12:00pm-12:50pm
Bunky Echo-Hawk’s approach to interactive live art is really a modernization of traditional art forms, cultivated by numerous tribes. In Pawnee culture, people would gather in an earthlodge (usually during winter months), with an artist serving as the host and entertainer. The artist would have a stretched hide and paints ready, and after speaking to the crowd, would engage in dialogue with the audience. In consensus, the audience would determine a significant event that took place the previous year, and through group conversation about the event, the artist would gain and capture an accurate illustration of that event. It was one of the ways we recorded our oral history.
In this session, Mr. Echo-Hawk will create a piece for the Morris Family Multicultural Student Center incorporating audience input.
From https://www.bunkyechohawk.com/about
BIO:
Bunky Echo-Hawk is an internationally known visual artist whose work is featured in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the U.S. and overseas. Widely collected, his paintings are held in numerous private, public, corporate, non-profit and Tribal collections.
As a live painter, he has performed in major venues throughout the country. His live paintings and select partnerships raise much needed funding for indigenous programing needs. He has worked with Nike, serving as the Design Consultant for the Nike N7 line since 2011, and has recently partnered with Pendleton Woolen Mills to create a blanket for the American Indian College Fund. Through his art and strategic partnerships, he has aided in raising millions of dollars for Indian Country.
Clint Smith - Topic: Institutional Racism - 1:00pm-1:50pm
HISTORY RECONSIDERED
The United States is a country of great opportunity, but we must wrestle with how certain opportunities are contingent on different facets of one’s identity. The United States has provided economic mobility for millions of people, but we must wrestle with the history of violence and exploitation that helped to generate its economic foundation. The United States has freed millions around the world from despots and genocide, and we must wrestle with this same country’s pervasive history of barbarous imperialism. These are all parts of what make this country what it is. In this talk, combining poetry and history, Clint pushes the audience to wrestle with the complicated truths about the country we live in and helps crystalize how this history has shaped the contemporary social, political, and cultural landscape of our world today.
Bio:
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Clint has received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He currently teaches writing and literature at the DC Central Detention Facility. His debut nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed, which explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationship to the history of slavery, will be published by Little, Brown in 2021. He received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.
Breakout Sessions
Dr. Chardie Baird Executive Director | |
| Collegiality & Inclusivity: Tips for and Practice Being an Ally (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Enagagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Debra Bolton Director of Intercultural Learning | |
| Understanding the Cognitive Toll Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Marginalization (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Immersive | |
Dr. Jeannie Brown Leonard Vice Provost, Student Success |
Dr. Bin Ning Associate Provost, Institutional Research |
| Using Data to Inform Our Actions and Improve Educational Equity at K-State (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Frederick Burrack Director, Office of Assessment | |
| K-State's Undergraduate Diversity Learning Outcome (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Tara Coleman Associate Professor, K-State Libraries | |
| "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" Book Discussion (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Introductory | |
Dr. Steven Smethers (Moderator) Director, A.Q. Miller School of |
C.J. Janovoy (Panelist) Author of "No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas" |
Dr. Brandon Haddock (Panelist) LGBT Resource Center Coordinator |
Darci Pottroff (Panelist) Director of Application Services
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Christopher Renner (Panelist) Applied Linguist, Educator, Multiculturalist | Gloria Freeland (Coordinator) Professor Emerita |
Diverse Voices in the Media: Lessons from Reporting on LGBTQ Kansas (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) | |
Jessica Harrington Student Engagement Coordinator | |
| Surrounding Yourself with Difference: The Trusted 6 (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Daniel Ireton Associate Professor, K-State Libraries | Courtney Hochman Alumni Representative |
Aayat Kazi Senior, Construction Science and Management | |
| An Atheist Asks: What am I Missing? (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Mary Kohn Director of the Chapman Center |
Dr. Lisa Tatonetti Full Professor |
| Black and Indigenous Activist Kansas (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Introductory | |
Dr. Brenee King Assistant Director |
Dr. Sara Luly Associate Professor of German |
Kiley Moody Managing Director, Scholar Services |
Rebeca Paz Assistant Director |
Cheryl Rauh Program Manager |
Mariya Vaughan Assistant Director |
Paulicia Williams Student Services Coordinator | |
| Unpacking Whiteness: Moving Beyond Allyship (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Callie Rost, DVM Assistant Dean for Admissions | Dr. Zelia Wiley Assistant Dean for Diversity |
| The Diversity Bonus: Differences Make Teams Stronger (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Don Saucier University Distinguished Teaching Scholar | |
| Preparing for Class Discussions on Issues Related to Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Introductory | |
Dr. Timothy Shaffer Director | |
| Civic Discourse as a Disposition for Engaging Difference (2nd Period, 3:00pm-3:50pm) Engagement: Introductory | |
Victor Andrews Ph.D. Student in Kinesiology | Laverne Bitsie-Baldwin Director, Multicultural Engineering Program |
Dr. Debra Bolton Director of Intercultural Learning |
Dr. Alex Red Corn Assistant Professor and |
| From Deficit to Possibility: Indigenous Presence at K-State and the IFSA (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Engagement: Introductory | |
Clara Valadares Kientz Assistant Director |
Jessica Henault Sexual & Relationship Violence Prevention Specialist
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| Unpacking Unhealthy Relationships in 2020 - CANCELLED Engagement: Introductory | |
Doug Barrett Director of Photography, 400 North Creative |
Dr. Aileen Wang Curator, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art |
Choice of Weapons: Art to Open Minds (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) | |
Dr. Andrew Wefald Associate Professor | |
| Listening as a Path to Openness (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
Dr. Zelia Wiley Assistant Dean for Diversity |
Dr. Amber Campbell Project Manager |
Mirit Shamir Academic Services Coordinator | |
| Collaborating to increase recruitment and retention of diverse students in undergraduate and graduate education in STEM Fields (1st Period, 2:00pm-2:50pm) Engagement: Intermediate | |
