Prepared by:
Dr. Judy Rohrer, Director
Andrew Salman, Programs Coordinator

Partnered with 17 academic and activist units for 34 events
Launched Research Working
Spring Social Justice Speakers
Series attendance up 23 groups
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Research Groups
Events
Academic Units
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Faculty Brown Bags open to faculty,staff, graduate students, undergraduates, and community members
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Co-sponsored events with 11 other entities on campus creating work related to social justic in social justice
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Students took the introductory course,
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Letter from the Director:
My third year with the ICSR has exceeded expectations on every front and made two things very clear. First, the exponential growth in our minor is inherently tied to our dynamic programming.
Second, the synergy between curriculum, programming and research is what makes the ICSR unique and innovative.
ICSR’s Year of Exponential Growth : Students minoring in
Citizenship & Social Justice increased by 250%; enrollment in ICSR
200 Intro to Social Justice increased by 72%; and attendance increased by 67% at our monthly Third Tuesday Tea (T3) events.
This level of programmatic success and academic growth would not have been possible without the incredible commitment of our ICSR staff and faculty, who are essential in coordinating our programming and offering crossdisciplinary courses in our minor curriculum to bring in new students each semester.
ICSR’s Dynamic Local, Regional, & International Programming : We began and ended our 2015-
2016 year with record attendance at events focusing on issues in the national spotlight that significantly impact the LGBTQ community: marriage equality and “bathroom bills.” We brought an Irish scholar, Dr. Breda Gray (University of Limerick), who gave a talk on citizenship, neoliberalism and religion. We got over 36,000 views on our post of the “We are a Culture, Not a
Costume” poster campaign we collaborated with the Native Students Association to circulate. We connected WKU students with scholastic opportunities by collaborating with the Office of Scholar
Development to bring information about life-changing scholarship opportunities. We launched our monthly Salons, which have provided space for wide-ranging discussion and community-building.
ICSR Curriculum Enhances WKU’s Reach: The ICSR 200 Intro to Social Justice course received an Honors Enhancement Grant, enabling us to bring Dr. LaToya Eaves (MTSU) and Dr. Judah
Schept (EKU) to share their expertise in Critical Social Geography and Justice Studies respectively with students. Our ICSR programming and curriculum is designed to strengthen our networking across institutions in the region. The ICSR also sent four students to conferences, broadening their intellectual experiences and encouraging them to develop their own academic and activist networks.
ICSR Programming Facilitates Faculty Research : Our Research Working Groups and Faculty
Brown Bags facilitate faculty research and extend collaboration to local community based organizations. This year’s successful programs supported work on malnutrition in war-torn Africa, community-based research with local Bosnians, regional collaboration on disability studies, and the use of Ecuadorian murals to spur discussions about racial and cultural multiplicity. As the only institute supporting research on social justice at WKU, we are thrilled with the success of these programs.
I want to thank all the amazing students, staff, faculty and community members who have made this year with the ICSR so successful. I look forward to working with you to continue building productive, engaged, and socially responsible citizen-leaders.
Best,
Dr. Judy Rohrer
Director, ICSR
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Preface:
This report outlines the Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility’s (ICSR) programming, curricular, work, personnel and financial reporting for the 2015-16 academic year. The ICSR is a member of the Department of Diversity & Community
Studies housed within WKU’s University College.
The ICSR creatively employs curriculum and programming to further WKU’s mission of preparing students to be “productive, engaged, and socially responsible citizen-leaders.”
Toward that end, we also work to support faculty and staff building social justice and engagement through their research, curriculum, development, service, stewardship, and student mentoring.
In 2015-16 we successfully brought together students, staff, and faculty from across the university to participate in critical thinking and dialogue about issues of major importance to our community, region, nation, and world. At the back of this report we are attaching publicity for ICSR and ICSR co-sponsored events (credit for our flyers goes to Andrew Salman, ICSR Programs Support Specialist, and Murphy Burke, ICSR
Student Marketing Assistant). We are also attaching media by or about the ICSR from this past year.
ICSR Media Coverage:
Below are all of the news publications that have covered the ICSR over the 2015-2016 academic year. The underlined titles are hyperlinked to the full article, but pull quotes from the articles are provided to give an impression of what the article covered.
ICSR to discuss creation of Mammoth Cave National Park
Brittiny Moore, College Heights Herald
Oct 19, 2015
“If you think about the kind of social relations that are active in communities — whether it’s through churches or less formal groups with neighbors — those social ties are dissolved as people disperse, and that [is] one of the hardships that everyone who moved out of the area faced.”
Portrayals of Native Americans for Halloween causes harm to culture
Paris Burris, The Oklahoma Daily
Oct. 30th, 2015
“Campaigns like "We're a Culture, Not a Costume" are fighting to end the wearing of racial costumes of all kinds.”
ICSR 'Imagining Otherwise' Video Contest seeks to show a better ...
Samantha Wright, College Heights Herald
Nov 4, 2015
“We want people to talk about issues. We want to know what is important to students on campus, especially, because we want our WKU students to be expressive,’ Briones said.”
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WKU students, faculty share thoughts on campus activism
Aaron Mudd. BG Daily News
Nov. 12th, 2015
“yet another example of the collective power of people to come together to fight structural issues of injustice.”
ICSR opens spaces for those of all faiths
Shantel Pettway, College Heights Herald
Feb 3, 2016
“’The aim for ICSR is to be inclusive and make people feel a part of something,’ said
Tiara Na’puti, assistant professor in the department of diversity and community studies.”
Bathroom bills to be discussed at Third Tuesday Tea on April 19
Murphy Burke, WKU News
Apr 12, 2016
“WKU professor Dr. Patti Minter and Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility staff member Andrew Salman will discuss recent bathroom bills in Houston and North
Carolina as part of the ICSR’s Third Tuesday Tea on April 19.”
ICSR T3 to discuss bathroom legislation
Brittny Moore, College Heights Herald
April 19, 2016
“Minter said she expects all participants at Third Tuesday Tea will gain an understanding of the historical basis for discriminatory laws over time and how these laws criminalize trans bodies.”
WKU students attend "Bathroom Bills" open forum (with video)
Jacqueline Nie, WBKO
April 19, 2016
“The Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility had their "Third Tuesday Tea"
Tuesday where they discussed the "Bathroom Bills" that have been put in place in states like North Carolina and Mississippi.”
Budget reduction plan announced
Monica Kast, College Heights Herald
Apr 27, 2016
“I think social justice is important because being a just servant of the world is essential to me,” Burke said. “Being socially just is essential for every student.”
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WKU community speaks to administration about budget reduction at …
Monica Kast, College Heights Herald
Apr 28, 2016
“Students and employees from ICSR and the Alive Center were also there to voice concerns about the consolidation of those two departments. Students offered concerns that by decreasing the staff, new issues would arise.”
Letter to the Editor
Lily Nellans, College Heights Herald
May 3rd, 2016
“It was the uniqueness of the ICSR that convinced me to choose WKU over nationally recognized institutions like Georgetown University.”
Administrators host budget reduction open forum
Monica Kast, College Heights Herald
May 3rd, 2016
“What I would like to know is how you can justify … subsidizing these things when one of your commitments, your guiding principles for the budget cuts, are a commitment to diversity,” Darst said to Ransdell. “All three of these programs directly serve diversity.”
On-going Programming:
Third Tuesday Teas
The Third Tuesday Tea (T3) is a monthly opportunity for
WKU faculty, staff, students, and community members to gather together to discuss – often complex – contemporary social issues. The typical format of this discussion includes a short presentation on a predetermined topic followed by a facilitated discussion.
September 18, 2015 o “The Road to Marriage Equality: Past Discrimination, Current Victories, & Future
Challenges” o Dr. Patti Minter, WKU Dept. of History
October 20, 2015 o “National Parks & Resident Peoples: Unintended Consequences” o Dr. Katie Algeo, WKU Dept. of Geography and Geology o Collins Eke
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November 17, 2015 o “Disability & Society: Perspectives from South Africa and the U.S.” o Dr. Christina Noel, WKU School of Teacher Education
February 16, 2016 o “Kill the Indian, Save the Man: Debating the Idea of Cultural Genocide” o Dr. Marko Duman č i ć , WKU Dept. of History
March 15,2016 o “Art As A Voice: Bowling Green’s FFOYA House Connects Artists with
Community Wellness and Social Justice Causes” o Prof. Amanda Crawford, WKU School of Broadcasting & Journalism o Robert Tobias Fatzinger, Co-Founder and Director of FFOYA House
April 19, 2016 o “Criminalizing Trans Bodies: Dissecting Contemporary Bathroom Bills” o Andrew Salman, Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility o Dr. Patti Minter, WKU Dept. of History
We had an average of 50 students at each of our T3 events in the 2015-16 academic year. This is up from 30 last year— an increase of 67%.
This marks the third year of consecutive growth in attendance for this program since attendance began being recorded.
Faculty Reading Group
Each semester, the ICSR invites faculty from across the disciplines to participate in a faculty reading group discussion. This Faculty Reading Group meets approximately three times per semester with light refreshments provided. In the fall semester, in partnership with the Society for Values in Higher Education, we provided discussion on
Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj’s The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility. This book offered excellent rhetorical preparation for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Social Justice Speakers Series,
Spring 2016
This spring, we successfully ran our third annual Social
Justice Speakers Series .
As in the years before, we brought three regional academics to campus who are using their academic positions to work on social justice issues, whether in research, curriculum, programming, or some combination thereof. This year’s theme was “Social Justice & Citizenship,” and explored the ways that social inequality affected society’s perceived notions of citizenship, broadly defined.
These scholar-activists give an engaging public talk and also meet with ICSR faculty and
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staff to discuss models and strategies for bringing social justice work to WKU and
Bowling Green.
We purposefully choose academics from a wide variety of disciplines to highlight the diversity of scholar-activist models. We were proud to host the following three speakers this spring: o Dr. Kaila Story, Audre Lorde Endowed Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and
Sexuality, University of Louisville, February 25, 2016 o Disobedience & Rebellion as Transgression: How Black Queer Women have Changed the Contours of America o Professor Enid Trucios-Haynes, Professor, Brandeis School of Law at the
University of Louisville, March 31, 2016 o The Indeterminate Racial Identity of Latin@s: Impacts of a Changing
Paradigm on Civil Rights Discourse o Dr. Julie Minich, Departments of English and Mexican-American & Latino/a
Studies, Univerisity of Texas at Austin, April 21, 2016 o Panza Revolution: Chicana Fat Aesthetics
We had an average of 50 attendees at each of our SJSS events in the 2015-16 academic year. This is up from 41 last year— an increase of 23% . This marks the third consecutive year of growth in attendance for this program.
Faculty Brown Bags
Faculty Brown Bags are monthly one hour informal lunch sessions where faculty or staff share works-in-progress (journal articles, book chapters, pieces of larger research projects, invited talks, and so on). Presentations focus on issues of citizenship and social justice, broadly conceived. The time is split between presentation and discussion and the presenter gets to focus on areas where they are most interested in soliciting feedback. Faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduates, and community members are welcome to attend and to bring their lunches. In the 2015-16 academic year, the
ICSR hosted the following Brown Bags: o Dr. Selena Sanderfer, WKU Dept. of History, October 7 o Black Territorial Seperatism in the South, 1865-1890 o Dr. Andrew Rosa, WKU Dept. of Diversity & Community Studies, November 4 o Educating for Freedom: St. Clair Drake and the Culture of Rebellion and
Reform at Hampton Institute o Dr. Dana Bradley, WKU Center for Gerontology, February 3 o How Does Being a Woman Gerontologist Affect Your Perceptions of Your
Own Aging?
o Dr. Leila Watkins, WKU Honors College, March 2 o Pills to Purge Melancholy: Renaissance Poems and Mental Health
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o Dr. Aramide Kazeem, WKU Dept. of Sociology, April 6 o A Review of Literature and Theories on Social Disorganization and Early
Childhood Malnutrition in War-Torn African Societies (paper co-written with Dr. John M. Musalia)
ICSR Salons
This year the ICSR launched a new program – a monthly Salon — an informal gathering in the
ICSR space with light refreshments and no prepared agenda—to facilitate students, faculty, and staff building social networks, sharing ideas, and collaborating on issues related to social justice. Conversations are wide-ranging, and often build on the ideas brought up in recent ICSR programs. This year, a few of the many topics that were discussed at these salons were the #BlackLivesMatter movement and popular social figures’ contributions to it, disability accessibility issues at WKU and theoretical solutions, tax justice for students and other low-income people, and citizens’ responsibilities to immigrants and refugees entering the United States.
Research Working Groups
The ICSR’s Research Working Groups support faculty, staff, and graduate students creating critical research on citizenship, social responsibility, community engagement, and social justice, broadly conceived. Interested groups apply for the ICSR’s support for one semester periods for an amount up to $800. The ICSR also provides meeting space.
Working Groups strive to create productive, intellectual exchange among members, facilitate deeper understanding of the identified research topic, and create innovative ideas related to the topic of research. This year, the ICSR supported six projects coming from five different working groups. o Creative Identity Reframed – The Story Continues…
A follow-up to Spring 2015's Research Working Group "Creative Identity
Reframed," which was based on the art of Ecuadorian painter, Oswaldo
Guayasamin focusing on a five-panel mural painting in particular, which the artist intended to represent the inherent racial and cultural multiplicity of the
Ecuadorian nation.
Last term, the group implemented a pilot study art instructions for ELS students as well as WKU Art and Elementary Education pre-service teachers. This semester's grant plans to expand on the work of the previous semester, as well as expand the project to the Cuban Crearte: Ilustra un Sueño (Create: Illustrate a
Dream) in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. This is a community-based arts program led by a
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group of local artists, musicians, and socio-cultural college students under the leadership of a college dean of University of Pinar del Rio. o International Year of Bosnia-Herzegovina
This working group seeks to begin planning events leading up to and during
WKU's International Year of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bowling Green is home to over 6,000 Bosnians and, as a result, it is important that events sponsored by the
Kentucky Folklife Program and the Kentucky Museum involve the Bosnian community of Bowling Green and represent those issues and aspects of their culture they feel are important to engage with the community. It is their goal to feature several smaller programs and a small exhibit prior to the International
Year of Bosnia-Herzegovina in an effort to build up awareness and research. In the academic year of 2017-2018, their research will culminate in a large celebration that will incorporate selections from the exhibits and smaller programs that were held prior. o The Bosnia Project
Building on the Fall 2015 “International Year of Bosnia-Herzegovina” project, the
Kentucky Folklife Program seeks to collect oral history interviews from the
Bosnian community indefinitely to be stored in the Folklife Archives permanently both to better integrate the Bosnian community with Bowling Green at large, as well as to serve as a resource to future researchers.
This group showcased their work in the Kentucky Museum’s featured gallery space, with the oral histories being shared alongside sevdah singing, dancing, foodways, and other traditions such as crocheting. o Western Kentucky
Reading Council of the
Kentucky Reading
Association
This group examined and discussed the peerreviewed research concerning summer reading loss. The goal of the reading and discussions was to produce a series of brief working papers that can be distributed to local educators through printed handouts, the council’s webpage, and/or shared as a part of a workshop at a local education conference. o Regional Disability Studies Working Group
This workgroup aims to bring an interdisciplinary group of scholars together from across the state of Kentucky with scholars from Vanderbilt, where disability studies has been more thoroughly integrated across the disciplines. They will
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read and discuss recent disability studies scholarship on disability in higher education as well as new work on disability and citizenship. Their aim is to build a regional disability studies academic community and begin conversations about planning a more formal network, perhaps a regular conference, and curricular development. o Inside-Out Working Group
This working group is based on the work of the international Inside-Out Prison
Exchange Program, founded in 1997. This program is based on the principle that incarcerated men and women and college students might mutually benefit from studying crime, justice, and related social issues as peers. This group will: o
Streamline the process for faculty to teach Inside-Out classes at Lois M. o
DeBerry Correctional Facility in Nashville TN, and expand opportunities at other local facilities.
Research ways to create credit-bearing opportunities for incarcerated men and women through these WKU Inside-Out classes upon release from prison.
Develop partnerships with the continuing education programs and local o o colleges and universities.
Collectively publish works related to reentry and pedagogy.
One-Time Events o Heartfelt Citizenship: Neoliberal Rationalities & Religious Moralities , Dr. Breda
Gray, Director of Programmes in Gender, Culture, & Society, University of Limerick,
November 5, 2015 o Imagining Otherwise Video Contest o This program challenged students at WKU to take an aspect to local or global society that they felt was designed unjustly and create a short, commerciallength video “imagining that aspect of society otherwise,” or more aligned with their philosophy on social justice. Unfortunately, submissions were too low to complete the contest as originally intended. We are rethinking our approach for future attempts.
Co-Sponsored Events
The ICSR seeks to support the work of other entities on campus that are creating work within their discipline related to social justice. Partnering widely and often allows the
ICSR to better incorporate diverse ideas into the community’s awareness and indirectly helps create a strong network of scholar-activists that may collaborate in the future.
This year, the ICSR supported the following programs: o “Social Justice, Community Engagement, & National Scholarships,” hosted by the Office of Scholar Development, September 10, 2015 o “Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation,” hosted by the WKU Black Cultural
Center, September 16, 2015
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o “I AM A Kentuckian: Jose Antonio Vargas & Undocumented Immigration,” hosted by
WKU Dept. of History, October 27, 2015 o “Tax Justice & Tuition: Taking Action with KFTC,” hosted by Kentuckians for the
Commonwealth, February 11, 2016 o “Coal Black Voices documentary screening,” hosted by WKU Libraries, February 24,
2016. o “Frank X Walker: Affrilachian Poet Public Reading and Book Signing,” hosted by
African American Studies, March 15, 2016 o “Talia Mae Bettcher: From Embodiment to Empersonment—Starting Points for a
Theory of Trans Gender Dissatisfaction,” hosted by Gender & Womens Studies, April 5,
2016 o “Ari Berman: Give us the Ballot—Power Privilege, & Democracy,” hosted by the
Fleischaker-Greene Endowment of the School of Journalism & Broadcasting, April 7,
2016 o “An Informal Discussion with Same-Sex Marriage Plaintiffs Greg Bourke and Michael
DeLeon,” hosted by the WKU Dept. of History, April 18, 2016 o “ Trapped Documentary Screening and Q&A,” hosted by the student organization
Coalition for Social Justice, April 27, 2016 o “The Politics of Constant Anger with Dr. Yücel Demirer,” hosted by WKU Folk Studies,
April 28, 2016 o “Justice for Black Women IS Reproductive Rights,” hosted by Planned Parenthood of
Kentucky and Indiana, May 3, 2016 o “Lavender Recognition Ceremony for LGBT Graduates,” hosted by the Office of
Institutional Diversity & Inclusion, May 10, 2016
Curriculum:
In Fall 2014, the ICSR launched the Citizenship & Social Justice minor. At the beginning of this year’s fall semester, the ICSR had 7 declared Citizenship & Social
Justice minors. Nine months later, at the end of the 2015-16 academic year, that number has quadrupled with 28 declared minors.
This year, a total of 43 students took the introductory course, ICSR 200: Intro to Social
Justice. Dr. Rohrer was able to offer one more section this year than last year, to accommodate the 18 more students who took the course this year. 32 students took the
ICSR’s special topics seminars, which covered communication about racial issues
(Talking Race: Race & Ethnicity) and cultural competency in communicating about justice (Talking Justice: Communication, Culture, & Change). 8 students took the upper level ICSR 435: Reimagining Citizenship, which was offered for the first time this year.
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Finally, 3 completed ICSR 499, Social Justice Capstone, completing their minor program. ICSR 200 and ICSR 435 count towards the Colonnade General Education
Plan in the Explorations and Connections categories, respectively.
Website & Social Media :
The ICSR’s website (www.wku.edu/icsr) remains the best place to keep up with all ICSR activities. Programs Specialist Andrew Salman maintains the site, keeping events, courses, and scholarship information up-to-date and ensuring that the website is a valuable and reliable resource to WKU faculty, staff, and students.
Student Marketing Assistant Murphy Burke assumed responsibilities for the ICSR’s social media presence, including Facebook page, Twitter account, and Instagram account. The ICSR’s Facebook page has increased its membership from 641 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 785 as of May 4, 2016. The Twitter account currently has
442 followers, and the Instagram account, our newest page, has 159. Strategies for increasing engagement on social media platforms has included mediated conversation on contemporary issues on the Facebook page and “live-tweeting” of events and lectures on Twitter.
Current Personnel:
Dr. Judy Rohrer:
Dr. Rohrer began directing the
ICSR in Fall 2013.
She has worked with faculty and staff to build existing programming and curriculum, launch new initiatives as outlined above, and create the Citizenship & Social Justice undergraduate minor program.
Dr. Tiara Na’puti: Dr. Na’puti was hired in Fall 2014 by Diversity and Community
Studies to teach in the Social Responsibility & Sustainable Communities masters program and for the ICSR undergraduate program. Her hire enabled the ICSR to introduce the new minor curriculum. Dr. Na’puti has also contributed greatly to organizing and promoting ICSR programming.
Andrew Salman: Andrew was hired in September 2015 as the ICSR Programs Support
Specialist. His work encompasses the financial management of the ICSR, logistical organization of ICSR programs, and coordination of the student workers in office management.
The ICSR also utilizes a volunteer steering committee with historical affiliations with either the ICSR or social justice issues on campus. This year Dr. Eric Bain-Selbo, Dr.
Saundra Ardrey, Dr. Audra Jennings, and Dr. Patti Minter served generously.
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The ICSR started the academic year with one student worker who assisted with a range of administrative and programming tasks. In the spring semester we were able to hire two additional student employees. Currently we have two student office assistants and one student marketing assistant who handles promotion and publicity for the ICSR through a number of avenues.
The ICSR also retained one graduate assistant from the 2014-15 academic year. This graduate student executed programs on behalf of the ICSR and assisted Drs. Rohrer and
Na’puti with curriculum throughout the year.
Finances:
The ICSR has worked diligently to continue to provide exceptional programs and enrichment opportunities for the WKU community despite continued cuts to the operating budget. With only $25,000 this year, the ICSR has organized the programs listed above, attracting engaged, civically minded, ambitious, and diverse students.
While we recognize the budgetary strain all entities in Kentucky’s public higher education program are under, we know that difficult social circumstances only increase the need for the sort of civic engagement that the ICSR instills in its students through its curriculum and programming.
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ICSR Hosted Event Flyers
1.
September 2015 T3
2.
October 2015 T3
3.
November 2015 T3
4.
February 2016 T3
5.
March 2016 T3
6.
April 2016 T3
7.
Fall 2015 Salons
8.
Spring 2016 Salons
9.
Social Justice Speakers Series Poster
10.
Social Justice Speakers Series Handbill
11.
Heartfelt Citizenship Poster
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Past Discrimination, Current Victories,
& Future Challenges
Tuesday, Sept. 15
DSU 2123
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Swipe-able
Wheelchair Accessible
Contact for other accomdations icsr@wku.edu
(270)745-3218
Sponsered by:

Tuesday, Oct. 20
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
DSU 2123
Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930’s - Mammoth
Cave National Park
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Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930s - Mammoth Cave National Park
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(270)745-3218
WKU Institute for Citizenship &
Social Responsibility

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TUES NOV 17
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4:00 - 5:00
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Tuesday, Feb 16
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
DSU 2124
Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930’s - Mammoth
Cave National Park
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Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930s - Mammoth Cave National Park
Wheelchair
Accessible
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WKU Institute for Citizenship &
Social Responsibility

Tuesday,
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
DSU 212 4
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Wheelchair
Accessible
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(270)745-3218
WKU Institute for Citizenship &
Social Responsibility

Andrew Salman
Tuesday, Oct. 20
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
DSU 2123
DSU 2124
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930’s - Mammoth
Cave National Park
Unknown CCC Photographer, circa 1930s - Mammoth Cave National Park
Wheelchair
Accessible
Contact for other accomdations icsr@wku.edu
(270)745-3218
WKU Institute for Citizenship &
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icsr@wku.edu (270) 745-3218
Sept. 17 Oct. 22
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February 11 March
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FEBRUARY 25
Associate Professor, Departments of Women’s & Gender Studies and Pan African Studies,
University of Louisville
“Disobedience & Rebellion as Transgression: How Black
Queer Women Have Changed the Contours of America”
MARCH 31
Professor of Law, Brandeis
School of Law, University of
Louisville
“The Indeterminate Racial
Identity of Latin@s: Impacts of a Changing Paradigm on Civil
Rights Discourse”
APRIL 21
Associate Professor, Departments of English and Mexican
American & Latina/o Studies,
University of Texas, Austin
“Panza Revolution: Chicana Fat
Aesthetics”
©2016 Western Kentucky University, Printing paid from state funds KRS 57.375.
Downing Student
Union, Room 3020
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Swipeable
Wheelchair Accessible
For other access, contact ICSR
Reception following talks

ICSR Speakers Series, Spring 2016
Downing
Student Union
Room 3020
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Swipeable
Wheelchair Accessible
(For other access, contact ICSR)
Reception following talks
FEBRUARY 25
Dr. Kaila Adia Story
Associate Professor,
Departments of Women’s
& Gender Studies and Pan
African Studies, University of
Louisville
“Disobedience & Rebellion as Transgression: How
Black Queer Women Have
Changed the Contours of
America”
MARCH 31 APRIL 21
Professor of Law, Brandeis
School of Law, University of
Louisville
Dr. Julie Avril Minich
Associate Professor,
Departments of English and Mexican American &
Latina/o Studies, University of Texas, Austin
“The Indeterminate Racial
Identity of Latin@s: Impacts of a Changing Paradigm on
Civil Rights Discourse”
“Panza Revolution: Chicana
Fat Aesthetics”
See wku.edu/icsr to learn more about the Social
Justice Speaker Series and our speakers this year
©2016 Western Kentucky University, Printing paid from state funds KRS 57.375.

THURS
NOV 5
DSU 3020
4:00 - 5:30
:
Co-sponsors: Office of International Programs
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Interfaith Campus Coalition

ICSR Cosponsored Event Flyers
1.
Social Justice, Community Engagement, & National Scholarships , Office of Scholar
Development
2.
Black Lives Matter: Continuing the Conversation, African American Studies
3.
I AM A Kentuckian , Department of History & ACLU-KY
4.
Tax Justice and Tuition, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
5.
Coal Black Voices, WKU Libraries
6.
Frank X Walker, African American Studies
7.
Talia Mae Bettcher, Gender & Womens Studies
8.
Give Us the Ballot , School of Journalism & Broadcasting
9.
Talk with Marriage Equality Plaintiffs , Department of History
10.
Trapped Screening , Coalition for Social Justice
11.
The Politics of Constant Anger, Department of Folk Studies
12.
Justice for Black Women IS Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood of Kentucky and Indiana
13.
Lavender Recognition of LGBT Graduates Ceremony , Office of Institutional
Diversity and Inclusion
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A ri Berman is a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine, America’s oldest political weekly, and a Reporting Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Business Insider named Berman one of the “50 most influential political pundits” in the US. He’s written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His new book, Give Us the Ballot:
The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015.
Writing in the Washington Post, Congressman John Lewis called the book “a must read” and said it “should become a primer for every American.”
WKU DEPARTMENT
OF HISTORY

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icsr@wku.edu (270) 745-3218
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CO-SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FOLK STUDIES & ANTHROPOLOGY
AND THE INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENSHIP & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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Tuesday, May 3 rd
6:30 p.m.
DSU Room 2085
Join us for a panel discussion on reproductive rights and the effect on black women. Learn about your rights and what we can do to protect them. Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by:
WKU ICSR
Planned Parenthood of Kentucky and
Indiana.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
Please contact icsr@wku.edu for other accommodations or questions. Parking availible surrounding Diddle Arena

ICSR Cosponsored Campaign Flyers
We Are A Culture, Not A Costume , Native Students Association
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Not A Costume, East Asian
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Not A Costume, Black
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Not A Costume, Latina
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Not A Costume, Native American
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Not A Costume, South Asian
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ICSR Southern Kentucky Happenings Advertisements
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November 2015
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February 2016
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