Hi ladies!

Tomorrow (May 11th) Dartmouth is hosting a symposium called "Beyond the Brochures" where students from 11 different universities will come together to share student experiences and issues in campus cultures across the country.

The key note speaker is Dr. Salamishah Tillet, one of the foremost feminist activists and academics of her generation. This sounds like a great event to learn more about student activism and engagement in shaping healthy college campuses. Definitely check it out if you have the time!

The schedule of events and locations is below:
Beyond the Brochures: Interrogating the Ivory Tower
May 11, 2013
Dartmouth College
Beyond the Brochures is an undergraduate symposium organized to connect students from 11 universities across the country with Dartmouth community members invested in organizing around student experiences omitted from dominant campus narratives. As such, all events listed below are open to the entire community.


11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Cutter Shabazz First Floor Mural Room
Workshop 1: Militants for Tenderness: Self-Care & Community Uplift
    This workshop will challenge participants to envision new models of self-care and community amid hostile campus climates. We will collaborate to name and address barriers to collective and individual well-being at institutions of higher learning. In doing so, we will explore the effect of campus (in)tolerance on students’ ability to engage both socially and academically.


3 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Dartmouth Hall 105
Keynote Address: “Silent Epidemic No More: Race, Rape, and The Power of Student Activism" presented by Dr. Salamishah Tillet
    Dr. Salamishah Tillet is one of the foremost feminist activists and academics of her generation.  She has appeared on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR and written for The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation and The Root. In 2003, Salamishah and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, co-founded A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English, Africana and Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.


4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. - Cutter Shabazz First Floor Mural Room
Workshop 2:  Crusaders for Justice: Transferring Theory Into Action
    This interactive workshop will bring student participants and members of the Dartmouth community together to reimagine methods of applying theoretical social justice principles to concrete organizing tactics. Professor Russell Rickford will deliver a short introductory address, but the learning process will be entirely participant-driven.

This student-led symposium was made possible by the support of the following co-sponsors: the Office of the President, the Dean of the College, the African and African American Studies program, The Nelson Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Center for Gender and Student Engagement, The Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Comparative Literature program, the Sociology department, Women of Color Collective, and Women’s Forum.