Want to come to the MLK events but didn't register in advance?
Don't worry -- come anyway and bring your friends.
We asked people to pre-register so we had a sense of numbers, not to prohibit interested people from attending.
We want you to participate in this historic event, so if you-re interested and available, please attend.
For event details: https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/diversity/mlkday08/
8:30–10:00 a.m.
Breakfast featuring keynote speaker MC Lyte
LOCATION: Hill Center
10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Daylong service projects at various off-campus agencies (see more information at: https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20080114161058632)
There are still limited spaces available to participate. To sign up, go to the community service table at the back of Hill Center at the breakfast.
If you pre-registered, stop at the community service table to pick up your assignment.
Transportation will be provided from the Hill Center and will leave immediately following the breakfast.
10:00–11:30 a.m.
Interactive workshops presented by various schools and departments
Professors Asma Barlas and Sean Eversley-Bradwell (CCRE in DIIS)
"Recontextualizing and Remixing King" and "King for Our Times"
LOCATION: Clark Lounge
Professor Tammy Shapiro (Park School)
"Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism in the U.S. Media"
LOCATION: Park 220
John Hickey and John Henderson (Library)
"MLK, The Struggle for Civil Rights and Ithaca (The City and the College): Researching Your Past and Evaluating What You Find"
LOCATION: Gannett 319
"Integrated Health Care: Autism: A DVD of the 2007 MLK Symposium at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School" (HSHP)
LOCATION: Klingenstein Lounge
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Community MLK Celebration Luncheon
featuring Professor Alan Gomez
LOCATION: BJM Elementary School Gymnasium
Van transportation will be provided from Textor Circle. Vans will leave beginning at 11:15 a.m. and will continue to run until all interested parties have been transported.
You can also take the Route 11 TCAT bus. For bus schedules go to www.tcatbus.com.
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Interactive workshops presented by various schools and departments
Craig Duncan (H&S) and Robert Sullivan (H&S/DIIS) will present, "Rule of Law; Rule of Justice: A Philosophical Reading of Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' " and "An Invitational Rhetoric on Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail.' "
LOCATION: Clark Lounge
Cynthia Henderson (H&S)
Protest Theater Project and selections from MLK's speeches
LOCATION: Klingenstein Lounge
4:00–5:30 p.m. AND 5:40–7:00 p.m.
"Reflections on the Movement"
An interactive theater experience produced by first-year students of the MLK Scholars Program
LOCATION: Emerson Suites
8:15 p.m.
Second Annual MLK Celebration Concert
including a dramatic reading by MC Lyte
Hosted by the School of Music
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20080116093904919
LOCATION: Ford Hall
