UPCOMING ISCHOOL DIVERSITY EVENTS AND RESOURCES

The Information School sponsors activities that highlight diversity in our community and also in the information field. The following is a sampling of the types of activities offered throughout the year. We encourage your participation and also your ideas on future activities to pursue.

iSchool Common Book Meetings and Discussion

iDiversity Book Club invites the iSchool community to join us for discussion and reflection of a common book each quarter.
The books and meeting times are as follows. Meetings will take place in the Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) on Brooklyn Avenue

Autumn

Dreams from my Father
The UW Common Book for 2009-10 is President Barack Obama's 1995 memoir. In regard to his work, President Obama stated: "Hopefully what people will get out of the book is some sense that although the lives of blacks and whites in this country are different, although our historical experiences are different, my family is an example, and hopefully I'm an example of the possibility of arriving at some common ground. And that we do share values and principles around which we can organize and make for a better life."

Oct. 20, Noon to 1:30 PM
Oct. 28, Noon to 1:30 PM

Winter

Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
In a bestselling work on the development of racial identity, Tatum shares real-life examples and current research and makes recommendations for "straight talk" about racial identity, identifying practices that contribute to self-segregation in childhood groups.

January 26, Noon to 1:30 PM
February 3, Noon to 1:30 PM

Spring

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Seattle author Alexie's 1995 novel tracks the rise to fame of Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock-and-roll band, tracing its journey from a Spokane reservation all the way to New York

April 20, Noon to 1:30 PM
April 28, Noon to 1:30 PM

Recruitment Events

Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums Conference
Red Lion on the River
Portland, OR
October 20-22, 2009

To RSVP for any iSchool diversity recruitment event, please contact Cynthia del Rosario at: cyn@u.washington.edu