| Monday, February 4, 2013 |
Spring semester classes begin |
| Friday, February 8, 2013 |
Last day to add a class without instructor permission |
| Friday, February 15, 2013 |
Last day to drop a class without notation on record |
| Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
"Between (Play) & (Rewind): The Making of 'Son Dos Alas'"
Speaker Dr. Melisa Rivière
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Room 126, John Roach Center
This engaging multimedia lecture focuses on the anthropologist Melisa Rivière’s experience conducting research on the globalization of hip-hop and its local expressions between Cuba
and Puerto Rico. The lecture aims to educate and entertain audiences combining facts, figures, songs and music videos produced by Dr. Rivière in both locations. Using research data combined with multimedia arts Son Dos Alas proposes hip-hop as an avenue for the study of social behavior and media as a ‘place’ for contemporary anthropological inquiry. The research consists of collaborative songsproduced between rappers from each location including Tego Calderón, Anónimo Consejo, Siete Nueve, Los Aldeanos, and Intifada amongst others. Rivière‘s research reveals that it is through value systems and common civil rights struggles, more so than strictly the four elements of hip-hop (rap, break dance, turntablism and visual art), that youth relate to one another and their global audiences. Dr. Rivière’s lecture frames the research experience, bringing to the forefront the subtleties of fieldwork intertwined with the art of politics and the politics of art. |
| Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
Last day to designate grading option (S/D/R)
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| Monday, March 25 - Monday, April 1 2013 |
Mid-term and Easter Break |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2013 |
Classes resume (mid-term and Easter break ends)
Mid-term grades due to registrar |
| Monday, April 22 - Friday, May 3, 2013 |
Early registration for summer sessions and fall semester begins |
| Wednesday April 24, 2013 |
Last day to withdraw from a class without a grade of F |
| Thursday, May 2, 2013 |
“Meditations on Belonging and the Latinoization of America”
Speaker: Professor Louis Mendoza,
Chair of the Department of Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota
JRC 126, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Professor Louis Mendoza is the author of the book Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States, a collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country. His work demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves.
In the summer of 2007, Louis G. Mendoza set off on a bicycle trip across the United States with the intention of conducting a series of interviews along the way. Wanting to move beyond the media’s limited portrayal of immigration as a conflict between newcomers and “citizens,” he began speaking with people from all walks of life about their views on Latino immigration. From the tremendous number of oral histories Mendoza amassed, the resulting collection offers conversations with forty-three different people who speak of how they came to be here and why they made the journey. They touch upon how Latino immigration is changing in this country, and how this country is being changed by Latinoization. Interviewees reflect upon the concerns and fears they’ve encountered about the transformation of the national culture, and they relate their own experiences of living and working as “other” in the United States.
Mendoza’s collection is unique in its vastness. His subjects are from big cities and small towns. They are male and female, young and old, affluent and impoverished. Many are political, striving to change the situation of Latina/os in this country, but others are “everyday people,” reflecting upon their lives in this country and on the lives they left behind. Mendoza’s inclusion of this broad swath of voices begins to reflect the diverse nature of Latino immigration in the United States today.
This event is free and open to the public.
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| Wednesday, May 1, 2013 |
Incompletes due from fall semester and J-term |
| Friday, May 17, 2013 |
Classes end |
| Monday, May 20, 2013 |
Study day
End of year open house
2093 Grand Ave.
2:30-4:00 p.m.
Celebration of our graduates: Bianca Jones (COJO), Theresa Malloy (COJO), Landon Rick (History), Elizabeth Wenzell (Health and Human Performance), and Casey Salden Youso (Political Science). Refreshments (and cake) will be served. |
| Tuesday, May 21 - Friday May 24, 2013 |
Final exams |
| Saturday, May 25, 2013 |
Commencement |
| Friday, May 31, 2013 |
Final grades due to registrar |
