The UMDLI was fortunate to have the opportunity
to share time with the following visitors to UMaine:
2004-2005
Sulak Sivaraksa was born in Thailand
in 1933. Concern for democracy, human rights, and accountable government
has been central to his life's work. Sulak visited UMaine in the fall
of 2004 as a Visiting Diversity Libra Professor and as part of Peace Week.
Anne Sibley O'Brien performs
a one-woman theatre piece that examines whiteness—"the often unconscious
patterns of attitude and behavior acquired by white people." Ms.
O'Brien performed White
Lies at UMaine in March of 2005. www.whitelies.ws
Tim
Wise is
one of the most prominent white anti-racist voices in the US, and has been
called the "foremost white
anti-racist intellectual in the nation." His writings are taught at hundreds
of colleges and have appeared in dozens of popular and professional journals. He
visited UMaine in April of 2005. www.speakoutnow.org
Karen
Pace and Dionardo Pizana from the Michigan State University
Extension presented workshops in March of 2006 at UMaine on Leaderhship
in Dealing with Difficult Multicultural Discussions.
Anthony
Cortese, Professor of Sociology at Southern Methodist University
(SMU) in Dallas , Texas visited campus in November and talked with reference
to his book, Opposing Hate Speech.
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