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Main Speakers
Keynote addresses by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the understanding of diversity, as well as numerous parallel presentations by researchers and teachers. Visit this page again for regular updates.
Duane Champagne is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. Professor Champagne was Director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center from 1991 to 2002, and editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal since 1986. Professor Champagne's research focuses primarily on issues of social and cultural change in both historical and contemporary Native American communities. He has focused on a variety of Indian communities including the Cherokee, Tlingit, Iroquois, Delaware, Choctaw, Northern Cheyenne, Creek, California Indians and others, and has authored and edited over 75 publications, including Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration Between Indigenous Nations (2002), The North American Almanac (2001), Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (1999), Native America: Portraits of the Peoples (1994), and Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek (1992).
Peter McLaren is Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, in the Division of Urban Schooling. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and Associate of Massey College, Professor McLaren is the author and editor of over 40 books. He has presented distinguished lectures at a number of North American universities and continues to speak and write from a transdisciplinary perspective in four areas for which he has become well-known internationally: critical pedagogy, multicultural education, critical ethnography, and critical theory. He lectures regularly throughout Latin America and Europe. His works have been translated into fifteen languages. Professor McLaren is the inaugural recipient of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Award presented by Chapman University, California, April 2002. In 2004 the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences established an international panel of experts which named McLaren's book, Life in Schools, one of the world's twelve most significant education books in the area of educational theory, policy and practice. In 2004 a group of educational scholars and activists in Mexico created La Fundacion McLaren de Pedagogia Critica (The McLaren Foundation of Critical Pedagogy) which has as its goal the development of social and political transformation through critical education. La Fundacion McLaren publishes the journal, Aula Critica. A special panel entitled "Paths Of Dissent: Understanding Peter McLaren" was featured at the 2004 American Education Research Association Annual Convention in San Diego.
Kris Gutiérrez, is Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, California, USA. Her current research interests include a study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy development, particularly the study of the acquisition of academic literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment.
image courtesy of thehistorymakers.com James Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, USA. Since 1984, James Early has served in various positions at the Smithsonian Institution--Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural Programs, Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Service, and Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Service. Prior to his work with the Smithsonian, Early was a humanist-administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities; producer, writer and host of "Ten Minutes Left," a weekly radio segment of cultural, educational, and political interviews and commentary at WHUR-FM radio, Howard University; and a research associate for programs and documentation at the Howard University Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Over the course of his 30-year professional career, Early has consistently recognized the integrity of historically evolved values and cultures of African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-Pacific American, and Euro-American communities and explored the implications of culture, ethnicity, and nationality in constructions of statecraft and democratic institutions. He has taught high-school Spanish, worked with the incarcerated, taught at the college level, lectured in the United States and internationally, and written on the politics of culture. The main focus of his professional work is on cultural democracy and development of cultural heritage policy. Presentation Date to be Confirmed.
Mary Kalantzis is an Innovation Research Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and is President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She was a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1994 to 1997 and Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1997. Her publications include co-authorship of Minority Languages and Dominant Culture with Cope and Slade (Falmer Press, London, 1989); Cultures of Schooling: Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access with Cope, Noble and Poynting (Falmer Press, London, 1990); and Productive Diversity (Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997). Her latest books are an edited collection, with Bill Cope, based on the work of the New London Group, Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures (Routledge, London, 2000) and A Place in the Sun: Re-creating the Australian Way of Life (Harper Collins, Sydney, 2000).
Carole Goldberg, Professor of Law , UCLA Law faculty since 1972 Carole Goldberg teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Indian Law, Tribal Legal Systems, and the Tribal Legal Development Clinic, which renders legal services to Indian tribes and Indian judicial systems. She directs the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies and is the Faculty Advisory Committee Chair of the Law School's Native Nations Law and Policy Center. She has twice served as Associate Dean for the School of Law, from 1984 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1992. She has also served as Chair of the Academic Senate in 1993-1994. Following law school, Professor Goldberg clerked for Judge Robert F. Peckham, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Professor Goldberg has written widely on the subject of federal Indian law and tribal law, and is co-editor and co-author of Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1982).
Douglas Kellner is Professor in the Graduate School of Education and George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, UCLA. He is the author of numerous books including, The Persian Gulf TV War (Westview Press, 1992), Television and the Crisis of Democracy, From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera, and television directors in the world today, having directed more than one hundred productions, large and small, across America and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University (where during his senior year he directed Gogol's The Inspector General and Handel's opera Orlando at the A.R.T.), he studied in Japan, China, and India before becoming Artistic Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company. His contemporary visions of Mozart's operas Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni, created in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director Craig Smith, were hailed in Boston and in Europe and were televised by National Public Television. At twenty-six he was made Director of the American National Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He was Artistic Director of the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals, and he is currently a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Mr Sellars has collaborated with The Wooster Group and was featured in Jean-Luc Godard's film of King Lear. He has also appeared on Bill Moyers' A World of Ideas, Miami Vice, and The Equalizer, directed a rock video for Herbie Hancock, and produced a series of radio episodes for The Museum of Contemporary Art's The Territory of Art series. His first feature film, The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, is silent in color (starring Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter, and Mikhail Baryshnikov). A frequent guest at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, he has specialized in 20th century operas, most notably Olivier Messaien's St. François d'Assise, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, and, with choreographer Mark Morris, the premiere of John Adams' and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. Peter worked in collaboration with composer John Adams and poet/librettist June Jordan on I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, an 'earthquake/romance'; and in December 2000 he directed the premiere production of Adams' El Niño at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Other projects include Händel's Theodora, Stravinsky's The Story of a Soldier with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a 25-year survey exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Viola, Jean Genet's The Screens, adapted by poet Gloria Alvarez (with the Cornerstone Theater Company and performers from the community of Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles), Peony Pavilion composed by Tan Dun and featuring renowned Kun Opera performer Hua Wenyi, the premiere of Kaija Saariaho's opera L'Amour de Loin at the Salzburg Festival and its subsequent presentation at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and Agents and Assets, a symposium about the 'war on drugs' presented in collaboration with John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship and was awarded the Erasmus Prize at the Dutch Royal Palace for contributions to European culture.
Eve Hill is the Executive Director of the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, which advocates for the civil rights of people with disabilities. She has been in that position since 1998. She is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, where she teaches Disability Rights Law and Special Education Law, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California School of Law. Ms. Hill was Chair of the California Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Professionals with Disabilities from 2001 to 2002. Ms. Hill received the State Bar of California’s first Diversity Award in 2002 for her efforts to open the legal profession to people with disabilities. She also received the Southern California Employment Round Table’s 2002 Carol F. Schiller Award for outstanding civil rights efforts. Ms. Hill is the co-author of the treatise "Disability Rights Law and Policy" published by Thomson-West. Ms. Hill came to the Western Law Center after five years at the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where she practiced disability rights enforcement. While at the Justice Department, she implemented the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Mediation Program, supervised 11 investigators handling investigations and settlements of cases under the ADA, and implemented the program for certifying state and local building codes under the ADA. Ms. Hill was also the Alternative Dispute Resolution Coordinator for the Civil Rights Division, for which she received the 1997 John Marshall Award. Before joining the Justice Department, Ms. Hill was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Pierson Semmes & Bemis. Ms. Hill received her J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School.
Fernando J. Guerra, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Dr. Guerra served as Assistant to the President for Faculty Resources from 1992-96. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science and has served as Chairman of the Chicano Studies Department, Director of the American Cultures program and Director of the Summer in Mexico program. He has been with Loyola Marymount University since 1984. Dr. Guerra has written several scholarly articles and has also contributed to popular publications. His area of scholarly work is in state and local politics and urban and ethnic politics. He is currently working on a book on the political empowerment of Latinos in California. Dr. Guerra has served on a “Rebuild L.A.” Task Force (Racial harmony and ethnic discourse) and on advisory committees for several community and governmental organizations such as the Air Quality Management District’ and a similar committee for the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission. He was selected as a stakeholder for the Latino community in the State’s Growth Management Consensus Project.
'Cultural Copy' Plenary PanelMarie Bouchard, Tressa Berman, Jennifer Herd & Colleen Cutschall Marie Bouchard was born and raised in southern Manitoba and is of Métis descent. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and a Masters Degree in Canadian Social History. From 1986 to 1997 she lived in the central Arctic where she worked with the residents of Baker Lake, Nunavut, to develop and promote their art and culture. In 1997 she returned to Winnipeg, Manitoba and worked as an independent art advisor/art historian specializing in inter-cultural and multi-disciplinary contemporary art. Two major exhibitions curated during this period were An Inuit Perspective: Baker Lake Sculpture organized by The Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with Itsarnittakarvik: The Baker Lake Inuit Heritage Centre; and a solo retrospective of the works on cloth of Baker Lake artist Marion Tuu’luq organized by the National Gallery of Canada (currently on tour). In November, 2001, Marie Bouchard was appointed Executive Director of the St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg, MB. She returned to freelance curating in February 2003 and is currently working with francophone, metis, and aboriginal artists in Canada.
Tressa Berman is an interdisciplinary scholar (PhD UCLA), independent curator, author and arts administrator. She is Founding Director of BorderZone Arts, a social profit (non-profit) community-based, international arts organization based in San Francisco. She is former faculty at Arizona State University and more recently has held the following positions: Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, Scholar-in-Residence, Women’s Leadership Institute, Mills College, and Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Her work with Indigenous artists has involved her with many communities and institutions, including UNESCO, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hopi Tribe and the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. In addition to numerous academic publications, she has written for Art Papers, New Art Examiner, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Her second book is ‘No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession’.
Jennifer Herd, (DipTeach,CertDesign,MofVisArts) is an Aboriginal person who is a descendant of the Mbarbaram people of the Atherton Tablelands region of far North Queensland. Ms Herd is currently Lecturer at Griffith University, Queensland College of Art where she helped establish the Bachelor of Visual Arts in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Arts (BoVA.CAIA), the first degree program of its kind in Australia. As Curator, she coordinated and facilitated an Indigenous Australian Copyright Arts Industry Forum and the exhibition, "Telling Tales," which featured Indigenous arts centered on the theme of copyright. She helped organize the "Papunya Project," a partnership project with Griffith University and Fireworks Art Gallery at King George Square, which involved a sandpainting installation in the heart of Brisbane. As artist, teacher and curator she has run numerous workshops, exhibitions and has worked as costume and set designer and painter. Most recently she co-curated a Queensland Indigenous artists exhibition titled “Out of Country”for the Australian Emabassy in Washington D.C. She was also the winner of the 2003 Thiess Art Prize.”
Professor Colleen Cutschall (Lakota) is currently at Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where she recently established a BFA including Aboriginal Art as a major and minor. She is a recognized painter exploring Lakota creation, myth, ritual, sacred time and space while simulating Lakota women's bead and quill work styles. Her work expanded into installation pieces, such as Sister Wolf in her Moon and House Made of Stars locating conjunctions of sacred place with ritual and archeoastronomy. This play on place includes historical and political themes in Cutschall's recent works such as her bronze sculptural installation, the Spirit Warriors, as part of the new Indian memorial at the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument and historic site.
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