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Dedication of Spes Unica Hall

Submitted by Linda on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 9:32am

 

October 30
3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
Spes Unica Hall 

The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) is located on the first floor at the west end of Spes Unica Hall. Please drop by to learn about the programs offered to our students, staff, and faculty. 

The Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership
Open House and Presentations

Location: First Floor, CWIL Sutie, Room 117

Saint Mary's College established the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership (CWIL) in 2000 with the generous support of the Lilly Endowment. The Center advances the Saint Mary's College mission of “preparing students to make a difference in the world” by empowering women to realize their call to leadership and to develop the intercultural knowledge and competence critical in today’s increasingly interdependent world. To achieve its mission, the Center builds collaborative relationships throughout the campus and community, provides challenging, justice-based educational opportunities. and encourages partnering across departments, disciplines, and other traditional dividing lines. The work of the Center is organized into the distinct, but richly synergistic components of Research and Scholarship, Leadership Education, and Global Education.

 

Talk to a Study Abroad Program!

Two sessions: 3:30 – 4:30; repeated 4:15 – 4:45
Location: First Floor, Teleconferencing Seminar Room, Room 136

Saint Mary’s offers an exciting range of semester, year-long, summer, and semester break study and service programs in more than 15 countries. With our new teleconferencing technology installed in Spes Unica, our faculty, staff, and students can now talk with each other across distances. Come by the Teleconferencing Seminar Room 136 as staff in CWIL hook up to some of our study abroad partners, including the China Summer Study Program. Speak with Dr. Jinmei Yuan and Dr. Maorong Jiang at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and Mr. Wu from the Soon Ching Ling Foundation in China to learn about next summer's program.  
 

Honoring the Cultural Connections between Saint Mary’s and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

Two sessions: 3:30 – 4:30; repeated 4:15 – 4:45
Location: First Floor, CWIL and CFS Suite, Conference Room 125

Professor of Anthropology Kate Shoupe and Marchell Wesaw, a member of Pokagon Band Tribal Council and the International Advisory Board for CWIL, will present their research project exploring the early relationships between the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Saint Mary's College, and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, known as the Catholic Potawatomis. 

Also on display will be the two baskets commissioned by CWIL and woven by one of the Tribe's youngest basketmakers who has won national awards for her talent.  One basket will remain in Spes Unica Hall and the other will be housed at the Pokagon Band Tribal Headquarters in Dowagiac, Michigan, as a permanent symbol of the historic relationship that connects Saint Mary's College and the Potawatomi Indians across three centuries to the present day. 

 

Culture of Cultures: Engaging Multicultural Worldviews

Two sessions: 3:30 – 4:30; repeated 4:15 – 4:45
Location: _____ Floor, Room TBD

Gabriel Torres, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership and the Anthropology Program, will discuss the various roles of multicultural discourses in shaping the politics of difference in Western Europe and the United States.  He will draw on his fieldwork in the North African Spanish exclave of Ceuta to illuminate the nature of what is said and omitted when we talk about diversity in higher education, governmental politics, and everyday life.



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