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Welcome to a special newsletter from the Public Relations staff at Washburn University. This newsletter goes out every Wednesday when classes are in session. It's designed to showcase events and story possibilities in the coming week. For more information about any of these events or story tips, contact Washburn's Public Relations Department at wurelations@washburn.edu or at 785-670-1711. |
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Thursday, February 6, 2020 Various Locations – See Below Washburn holds Day of Giving to celebrate its 155th birthday Washburn's 155th birthday is Thursday, Feb. 6 and its celebrating with a Day of Giving. There are nearly forty individual campus projects in sixteen different categories available for consideration. You can see them all at: washburngivingday.org • 7:30 a.m. - Wake Up with Washburn featuring Lance Sparks at the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. RSVP: https://bit.ly/3b2yawV • 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Birthday games and treats in Memorial Union • 4 - 7:30 p.m. - Day of Giving project showcase in the Dance Studio in Petro Allied Health Center • 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. - The women's and men's basketball teams take on Missouri Southern State University in Lee Arena Ichabods Moving Forward, a student philanthropy group, is offering golf cart rides to class, vehicles and around campus for Day of Giving and requesting donations via the mobile app Venmo. |
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Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00 p.m. – Henderson Hall (Room 103) -- Free & Open to the Public Lecture: How Does One Become a Citizen in the United States Today? There is considerable talk in the news about the 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship), legal, and "illegal" immigration. But how does one become a citizen of the United States, anyway? What are the pathways prospective citizens can take to become a U.S. citizen? Join Washburn anthropologist Dr. Jason Miller as we explore these and other questions about the U.S. immigration system. Participants will also be invited to participate in creating tags for use in the upcoming Hostile Terrain 94 museum exhibit at the Mulvane Art Museum opening in August 2020. This lecture is part of the WUmester series of events. WUmester is intended to foster a university-wide conversation on a diversity-related topic that will change each spring semester -- this year focusing on citizenship and sufferage. |
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Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Garvey Hall (Room 035) -- Free & Open to the Public Washburn hosts Afro-Cuban drum workshop Dr. Andy Wheelock, an active jazz drummer and percussionist, will present a clinic on Afro-Cuban drumset styles Monday, Feb. 10. The workshop is 4 - 5 p.m. in Garvey, Room 035. It is free and open to the public. Wheelock, from the University of Wyoming, has performed with Bobby Shew, Terell Stafford, Chuchito Valdés, Joel Frahm, and more. Wheelock's latest projects include the Ben Markley Quartet ft. Joel Frahm, the Gonzalo Teppa Quintet, the Dimitrije Vasiljevic Quintet and the UW Jazz Faculty. |
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Monday, Month 10, 2020 7:00 p.m. – Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center -- Free & Open to the Public Civil Rights Activist Flonzie Brown Wright visits Washburn Civil rights activist Flonzie Brown Wright will be on campus to give a WUmester lecture Monday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. This lecture, titled "Movements Change, But Commitments Don't," is free and open to the public. After the assassination of civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, on June 12, 1963, his brother, Charles Evers, appointed Brown Wright as Canton’s NAACP branch manager. Brown Wright registered thousands of African Americans to vote and testified before a congressional subcommittee on enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After James Meredith was shot during the March Against Fear in 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. called on Brown Wright to arrange accommodations for three thousand marchers in Canton. In 1968, Brown Wright became the first African American woman to hold a position as election commissioner in Mississippi. In this role, Brown Wright monitored elections, trained poll workers, supervised registrars, and sued the Elections Board for discriminating against black candidates and poll workers. In 2016, the Flonzie Brown Gooloe Courtroom in Canton City Hall was named in her honor. The same year, she received the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ‘Director’s Community Leadership Award.’ Brown Wright served on the board of the Mississippi Humanities Council, and was a founding member of Women of Progress. She also assisted with the creation of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which opened in 2017. |
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 3:30 p.m. – Memorial Union (Vogel Room) -- Free & Open to the Public Repatriation Battles and the Ethical Crisis of Ancient DNA For decades, Native Americans have struggled to reclaim their ancestors' skeletal remains from museums across the U.S. Now, revolutions in genetic technology have enabled scientists to look deep into the human past. How are repatriation and ancient DNA converging to challenge questions of Native American history, identity, and culture? Many of the Washburn sociology and anthropology faculty and students are reading the book "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture" by Dr. Chip Colwell, Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. His talk will follow-up on many of the issues he tackled in his book. Dr. Colwell's talk will be followed by a Q&A session led by additional guest archaeologists and anthropologists. |
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