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University of Wyoming, Student Union
Wednesday, April 7 at 6:00pm
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- Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Birch 10:04am Feb 16
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, April 7th
Location:University of Wyoming, Student Union
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice Planning for the Shepard Symposium has started! Save the date! April 7-9.
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice if you waited to get tickets to Elton John you are in luck!!! There are great tickets left. BTW he will be performing alone with just the piano...a rare treat
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice is excited for so many wonderful activites!
Mathew Shepard Foundation Rund Raiser
Time:8:00PM Friday, April 3rd
Location:University of Wyoming, Arena Auditiorium
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice From girls confronting popular messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren't gay, the students in Straightlaced illustrate the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all of our lives.
Movie Premier!
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, April 1st
Location:University of Wyoming, Union Ballroom
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
D r. Loffreda is an associate professor in the University of Wyoming’s English Department and is director of Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program. She has written about Wyoming in Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder (Columbia University Press), which was a finalist for th...e Stonewall Book Award, and has been invited to speak about queer politics at universities around the country. Dr. Loffreda has won UW's Ellbogen Meritorious Teaching award, the Jason Thompson Commitment to Diversity award, and Top Ten Teacher, among other honors.
Time:11:00AM Friday, April 3rd
Location:University of Wyoming, Union Ballroom
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
It’s STILL Elementary presents a moving story about the power to ignite positive social change through documentary film and grassroots organizing. It examines the incredible impact of It’s Elementary over the last decade, and follows up with teachers and students featured in the first film to see how lessons about LGBT... people changed their lives.
It’s STILL Elementary also documents the story behind the controversial PBS broadcast of It’s Elementary and the infamous right-wing attacks on the film and its creators. It’s STILL Elementary is a call to action for parents and educators to continue working for safe, inclusive schools.
Time:4:15PM Thursday, April 2nd
Location:University of Wyoming, Student Union
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice Eli Clare weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Time:11:00AM Thursday, April 2nd
Location:University of Wyoming, Union Ballroom
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice Rosa Clemente is a hip hop activist, community organizer, journalist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate.
Hip Hop Comes Home Social Justice and Hip Hop Event
Time:9:00PM Wednesday, April 1st
Location:University of Wyoming, Union Ballroom
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
The Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to sponsor a book discussion in connection with the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice.
Light Refreshments
Book Discussion Leader: Jeanne Holland, Associate Professor of English
Loffreda examines the events surrounding the murder of Matt Shepard. At the time of the... murder, Loffreda was the faculty advisor to UW's LGBTA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Association.) With many interviews, she reveals the impact of the crime on local gays and lesbians. Loffreda points out the concern that national gay and lesbian organizations had about the crime's media impact versus their relative lack of concern with actual LGBTA persons living in Wyoming. She investigates how Laramie law enforcement, journalists, and criminal justice personnel were affected by the crime and the subsequent national media attention it received.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 Elizabeth Birch, one of the most recognized leaders of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, served as executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) for nearly a decade...
