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No Alibis this Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 9:00-11:00 AM PST: Diversity Issues, Alternative Solutions / 50 Year Anniversary Tribute to George Jackson

  • 1.  No Alibis this Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 9:00-11:00 AM PST: Diversity Issues, Alternative Solutions / 50 Year Anniversary Tribute to George Jackson

    Posted Aug 17, 2021 09:29 PM

    Dear Friends,

      

    We hope that you and yours are enjoying the remaining weeks of the summer season.

      

    Please tune-in to No Alibis this Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 9:00 -- 11:00 AM PST.

      

    Our first guest is Professor Amna Khalid who will join us to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and alternative solutions in higher education. Her articles, How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization and How to Fix Diversity and Equity have appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

     

    Amna Khalid is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She specializes in modern South Asian history and the history of medicine.  Amna speaks frequently on academic freedom, free speech and campus politics at colleges and universities as well as at professional conferences. Her essays and commentaries on these same issues have appeared in outlets such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Conversation, Inside Higher Ed and the New Republic. She hosts a podcast called "Banished," which explores what happens when people, ideas and works of art come into conflict with our modern sensibilities.

    https://www.booksmartstudios.org/s/banished

     
    In the second hour Claude Marks and Nathaniel Moore from Freedom Archives will join us to talk about the recent launching of 99 Books: 50 Year Anniversary Tribute to George Jackson.

    https://99books.freedomarchives.org/

     

    Claude Marks, Co-Director, Claude has been involved in all of the CD and video productions of the Archives, and has continued his activism, especially in support of political prisoners. He is a former political prisoner and lifelong activist. He was a documentary producer, reporter and Production Director at KPFA-FM in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has produced hundreds of radio programs, recorded live music and events, and won awards for both audio and video documentary production.

     

    Nathaniel Moore, Archivist / Co-Director has worked with the Freedom Archives since 2012. He holds degrees in African Studies, African-American Studies, and Library and Information Science. He became co-director in 2020.  Moore works as an archivist in the Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley.

     

    Thank you for supporting No Alibis and KCSB.

     

    KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara

    KCSB streams at https://www.kcsb.org/listen/

     

    Thanks, gary



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    Gerardo Colmenar
    Librarian
    UCSB
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