Lunchtime Discussion Series
The Asian American Cultural Center, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural Latina, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resources Center and the Women's Resource Center invite you to join us for free lunch and noontime discussions throughout the academic year. The lunches feature resources at the University of Illinois and provide audience members and participants with introductions to the cultures, histories, and societal issues that the diverse communities of our campus face. We welcome you to our centers and encourage you to connect with us. Please join us for lunch and learn something new.
All events are from 12–1pm
NEW: Win with a "Lunch On Us" Punch Card!
Go to our lunches and get all twenty boxes punched, sign the back, and hand it in to the nearest lunch get-together to be put in a drawing for a $100 Illini Union Bookstore Gift Card!
FALL 2009
1st/3rd MONDAYS: Quench Series
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resources
Resources Center, Illini Union, third floor (front NW), Rm 323
Aug 31 Bi Curious? The Politics of Bisexuality - Anita Hund, Counseling Center
Sep 21 Sexuality and Immigration Law - Siobhan B. Somerville, Dept of English/ Gender and Women’s Studies Program, at the Women’s Resources Center
Oct 5 Campus Safety - TBA
Oct 19 Another Closet: opening the door to violence within LGBT relationships - Megan Paceley
Nov 2 “The Sex Talk” - Kim Rice, McKinley Heath Center
Nov 30 “AIDS Today. AIDS Forever?” - Carrie Keenan, Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department (Confidential AIDS testing from 1-5pm)
Dec 7 Finals (Blowout)
*speakers and the topics are subject to change
based on speaker confirmations
2nd/4th MONDAYS: Dish It Up
2nd and 4th Mondays, Women’s Resource Center,
703 S. Wright Street, 2nd Floor (over the bank)
Aug 24 Open House: A New Year for the Women's Resources Center
Aug 31 Celebrating Female Sexuality - Kim Rice, McKinley Health Center
Sep 14 OIIR Lunch Scramble, Art as Activism: the Politics of Art, hosted by WRC at AACC
Sep 28 Title IX at 35: Big Ten Sports & Women at Illinois
Oct 12 Gender: Trans Issues & Politics
Oct 26 Positive Love: A Celebration of Relationships
Nov 9 Women in the Military
Nov 30 Stress Management for Trying Times
Nov 14 Take a Break from Studying…EAT!!
TUESDAYS: Food for Thought
Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada, Urbana
Aug 25 Study Abroad Basics: Myths and Facts - Jerome Ng, Study Abroad
Sep 1 Asian American Cultural Center - Asian American Studies Annual Open House
Sep 8 Walking from Darkness: Asian American Suicide Prevention - Joel Wong, Indiana University
Sep 15 OIIR Lunch Scramble, Maintaining Our Spaces: Disenfranchisement of Marginalized Communities - May Kao Xiong and William Patterson, OIIR, at the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
Sep 22 Mystical Arts of Tibet - Deprung Loseling Monastery
Sep 29 Philanthropy for Education in India - Asha for Education
Oct 6 Orientals and Chinks: Do these sports mascots offend or honor? - Tessa Winklemann, History
Oct 13 Living Out Loud: LGBT Asian and Asian American Experiences - Kuanwu Lin, Counseling Center
Oct 20 Asia Extreme and the Global Cinema - Gary Xu, East Asian Languages and Culture
Oct 27 1.5 Generation Asian American Adolescents - Heekyong Teresa Pyon, Educational Psychology
Nov 3 Story of an American Muslim, Struggle for the Soul of a Generation - Eboo Patel, alumnus and author of "Acts of Faith"
Nov 10 Korean American Youth Literature - Eunhyun Kim, Curriculum and Instruction
Nov 17 Chinese and American Hybrid Leadership - Qingyan Tien, Educational Policy Studies
Dec 1 Asian Ameritrek: Asian Americans and Star Trek - Kent Ono, Asian American Studies
Dec 8 Manzanar: Remembering Japanese American Internment - Yuki Llewellyn, AACC
WEDNESDAYS: Food for the Soul (previously Lunch at the Black House)
Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural House, 708 S. Mathews, Urbana
Sep 2 Fishbowl: Hot Topics - All BNAACC Staff
Sep 9 The Art of Budgeting - Carrie Cunningham & Sean Sorsby, Prudential
Sep 16 OIIR Lunch Scramble, Self Segregation - Myths and Fantasy - Ross Wantland, OIIR; Teryl Brewster, PIR; and Veronica Kann, La Casa, at La Casa
Sep 24 Cultural Compentency - Ross Wantland, OIIR
Sep 30 Don't Sign Just Yet - Esther Patt, Tenant Union
Oct 7 Homecoming: Black Alumni - Nathaniel Banks, Office of the Provost
Oct 14 Credit Cards - Prudential: Carrie Cunningham & Sean Sorsby
Oct 21 Black Faculty Talk: Answering Tough Questions - James D. Anderson, College of Education
Nov 28 Taking Care of Yourself - Counseling Center African American Outreach Team
Nov 4 Bone Marrow - McKinley Health Center
Nov 10 Campus Safety - University Police
Nov 19 Black Faculty Talk: The Science of Engineering - Lynford Goddard, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dec 2 World AIDS Day - McKinley Health Centerl
Dec 9 Cars & Loans - Carrie Cunningham & Sean Sorsby, Prudential
THURSDAYS: Lunch@La Casa
La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada, Urbana
Aug 27 A Year of Celebration, La Casa's Past and Future - Adele Lozano, La Casa
Sep 3 Working with Latina/o Communities - Ann Bishop, Library and Information Science
Sep 10 Latina/o Students Working toward the Future - Judith Martinez, Career Center, and Willard Broom, Office of the Dean of Students
Sep 17 OIIR Lunch Scramble, Where Sexual and Ethnic Identities Intersect - Leslie Morrow, LGBT Resource Center, and Richard T. Rodríguez, Latina/Latino Studies Program, at the Women’s Resources Center
Sep 24 Our Histories: What Happened in 1992? A Viewing of Latina/o Identity Video - Manuel Colon, Alpha Psi Lambda, and Sandro Esparza, Sigma Lambda Beta
Oct 1 “United We DREAM” – The Genesis of the Undocumented Student Movement - Roberto
Gonzales, University of Washington
Oct 8 Meet the Police BEFORE 2 am - Joan Fiesta, Public Safety
Oct 15 Know Your Rights Before You Sign That Lease - Esther Patt, Tenant Union
Oct 22 Empowering Families and Communities: Lessons from Latin America - Susan Pick, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Oct 29 Sex and the Cornfields - Kim Rice, McKinley Health Center, and Ross Wantland, OIIR
Nov 5 Dispensable Subjects: Law Enforcement and the Politics of Exception - Victoria Lagunas, McNair Summer Research Institute
Nov 12 Retention: A Shared Responsibility - Domonic Cobb, Office of the Provost
Nov 26 Stress Management and Finals - Special Populations Outreach, McKinley Health Center
Dec 3 Mascots and Microagressions, A Viewing of In Whose Honor
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