University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lunchtime Discussion Series

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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

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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

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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!!

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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

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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

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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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