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POTSDAM -- The SUNY Potsdam Honors Program will hold a free interdisciplinary lecture series to discuss racial relations and social justice this semester. The "Thinking Across the Disciplines" …
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POTSDAM -- The SUNY Potsdam Honors Program will hold a free interdisciplinary lecture series to discuss racial relations and social justice this semester.
The "Thinking Across the Disciplines" lecture series invites professors and community members from an array of academic backgrounds to share reflections on interpretations of race and ethnicity from their own perspectives.
The series kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 11, with a lecture led by Dr. Nasser Malit, an assistant professor in SUNY Potsdam's Department of Anthropology. He will explore the various aspects of human biological or bicultural variation, focusing on the history and understanding of race within the field of biological anthropology.
The "Thinking Across the Disciplines" series is free and open to the public. All lectures will be offered from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in the Raymond Hall eighth floor dining room, which is wheelchair-accessible.
Upcoming lectures will include:
• Feb. 11: "Anthropology of Human Variation, Race and Ethnicity," presented by Dr. Nasser Malit of SUNY Potsdam's anthropology department.
• Feb. 23: "Violence Against Native American Women: Why Don't the Numbers Tell the Story?" presented by Dr. Nancy Lewis, an associate professor of sociology at SUNY Potsdam.
• March 15: Lecture by Dr. Khalid Omar Kitito, a teaching fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at St. Lawrence University, Canton.
• March 22: Lecture by Dr. Melissane Schrems, a faculty member in the history department and the coordinator of Native American Studies at St. Lawrence University.
• March 29: "Musical Unity and Resistance Across the African Diaspora," presented by Dr. Julie Hunter, an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music.
Additional lectures are in the works for the series as well, including a presentation by the Rev. Shaun Whitehead, the associate chaplain at St. Lawrence University, which is tentatively scheduled for April.
For more information about the SUNY Potsdam Honors Program, visit www.potsdam.edu/honors.
