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March 8, 2021|Submitted by: Today@Wilkes
The Division of Global Cultures introduces the second in a series of guest lectures this semester with “
Music as a Globalizing Force,” presented by Adam Zanolini,
at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, via Zoom.
Ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist
Adam Zanolini is a jazz artist and arts organizer based in Chicago, originally from Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His PhD research examined the sustainability of Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago, focusing on key figures in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a Black musicians collective founded in 1965.
Currently, he is the Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation, a Chicago multi-arts
Published on March 5, 2021 at 12:26 am
Last update on March 15, 2021 at 6:17 pm
The Senate of College Councils passed legislation to change the requirements for classes that fulfill the Cultural Diversity Flag requirement during their general assembly Thursday. The legislation will be sent to the University administration and the Faculty Council, and the committee will work with them for implementation.
Currently, for a course to satisfy the Cultural Diversity Flag, “at least one-third of the course grade must be based on content about the culture, perspectives and history of one or more underrepresented cultural groups in the United States,” according to the Undergraduate Studies website.
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Uncommon Sense: In Support Of The Uluru Statement, Henry Reynolds On Why First Nations Sovereignty Was Never Ceded
Acclaimed historian Professor Henry Reynolds speaks with host Amy Mullins about the historical reality of the colonisation of Australia, and why it is legally, historically, and morally clear that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded. Henry goes in-depth on the international law the British and all European nations were operating under at the time and how even by eighteenth-century historical and legal standards, the British Empire s claim of the entire continent of Australia was astonishing and legally unsupportable.
Henry also discusses his life s research on the frontier wars in Australia and his views on treaty-making, memorialisation, and confronting our violent history. His new book is