For Immediate Release
Contact: Lea Ann Erickson
Assistant Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing
Phone: 508-929-8018
October 19, 2009
(Worcester, Mass.)--Dr. Antonia Darder, Ph.D., will deliver a lecture entitled, “Issues of Culture and Power in the Academy,” Thursday, October 22, at 10:00 a.m. in the Student Center North/South Auditorium. Her talk is part of Worcester State College’s Courageous Conversations series.
Darder is a professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and internationally recognized for her contributions as a radical educator. Her current work focuses on comparative studies of racism, class, gender, and society. Her teaching examines cultural and global issues in education with an emphasis on identity, language, and popular culture, as well as the philosophical foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino & Latina studies, and social justice theory.
The series, sponsored by the college’s Third World Alliance, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Offices, is celebrating its third year. The college has also welcomed such distinguished speakers and thinkers as Cornel West and Angela Davis as part of the Courageous conversations series.
Dr. Atonia Darder will host an afternoon conversation open to faculty and staff.
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