February
1, 2002
"Beyond
the Box" Conference to Explore Multiple Identities
The fifth annual Beyond
the Box conference, "Identity in Motion," is scheduled
to take place on Mount Holyoke's campus February 8–10. Since
1998, Beyond the Box conferences have sought to empower students,
faculty, and staff from colleges across the Northeast with "pragmatic
approaches to developing multicultural living and learning campuses."
They have covered campus diversity issues such as building and
maintaining diverse communities, redefining multiculturalism,
resolving the tensions between community and diversity, and changing
apathy to activism.
This year's conference
organizers hope to continue the tradition of learning that leads
to intergroup dialogue and understanding by giving participants
an opportunity to explore how multiple personal identities enrich
the learning and living experience on college campuses.
Says Rochelle Calhoun,
acting dean and member of the conference's steering committee,
"By taking the opportunity to explore our own multiple identities,
we can learn more about ourselves and others, and we can deepen
our experience and understanding of the diverse communities that
make up our college campuses."
The conference will
begin Friday, February 8, with registration, dinner, entertainment,
and social activities at Blanchard Campus Center. Saturday's schedule
includes workshop sessions on bi/multiple racial identity; socioeconomic
identity; transgender identity; race, religion, and identity;
students with disabilities; international student identity; whiteness,
violence, and gender in the media; starting intergroup dialogue;
and building a diverse
student movement.
Following the workshops,
Kip Fulbeck will deliver "I Hope You Don't Mind Me Asking,
But . . .," a multimedia presentation about reactions to
his multiple identities, which include award-winning videomaker,
novelist, slam poet, spoken-word performer, associate professor
of art studio and Asian American studies at the University of
California in Santa Barbara, former nationally ranked swimmer,
avid surfer, ocean lifeguard, recovering guitar junkie, Laker
fanatic, and kung fu grandmaster. A student party will close Saturday's
events. Beverly Daniel Tatum, acting president and nationally
known expert on racial identity, will deliver a keynote address
during brunch on Sunday.
Registrations should
be completed and submitted by February 4. Preregistration forms
are available at www.mtholyoke.edu/go/beyondthebox and may be
submitted online or by campus mail. The cost of registration is
$15 and covers all meals and events.
"Identity in
Motion" is sponsored by the Student Government Association,
the Office of the President, the Office of the Dean of the College,
and the Office of the Dean of Students. For more information,
visit www.mtholyoke.edu/go/beyondthebox
or contact Conference Steering Committee members Charity Bishop
'04 at clbishop@mtholyoke.edu
or Yasmin Davis '02 at ydavis@mtholyoke.edu.
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