Visit the Intercultural Diversity Center in 2100 Ferguson Center for monthly programs that offer educational engagement, cultural exploration and social enrichment.
Pre-Coping: Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Uncertainty Webinar
Monday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m. via Zoom (Student Session)
Thursday, Feb. 4, noon via Zoom (Faculty/Staff Session)
(Educational Engagement)
As part of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s Spring 2021 webinar series, the “Pre-Coping: Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Uncertainty” Zoom session will feature Dr. Martha Crowther, associate dean for Research and Health Policy at UA, and Jennifer Turner, assistant director of clinical services and a licensed professional counselor in the UA Counseling Center. Crowther is also a professor and licensed clinical psychologist in Community Medicine and Population Health/Family, Internal and Rural Medicine, and investigator, Institute for Rural Health Research. Registration required: www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.
View a video of the session here.
Sankofa African American Museum
Monday-Thursday, Feb. 8-11
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Intercultural Diversity Center (Ferguson 2100)
Faculty/Staff Lecture: Feb. 8 at 6 p.m.
Student Lecture: Feb. 9 at noon
Walking Tour Recording: Feb. 10 at noon
(Cultural Exploration/Educational Engagement/Social Enrichment)
The Intercultural Diversity Center will host the Sankofa African American Museum, an exhibit of hundreds of African American artifacts highlighting cultural and historical references. Sankofa takes audiences on a journey through slavery, the era of King Cotton and the uplifting days of Emancipation. Angela Jennings, curator and facilitator of museum, will give two presentations on how the Sankofa exhibit began, its importance and other key details. Registration is required for the lectures: www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.
View a video of the exhibit here.
UA students viewing Sankofa exhibit
National Inventors’ Day: Highlighting Black Inventors
Thursday, Feb. 11
Noon-2 p.m., Intercultural Diversity Center (Ferguson 2100)
(Cultural Exploration/Educational Engagement)
The Intercultural Diversity Center will provide a PowerPoint presentation about important facts of national inventions by created by African Americans. The presentation also will include historical events and general facts of Black History Month within the Center.
“Moonlight” Virtual Screening
Friday, Feb. 12
7 p.m.
(Educational Engagement/Social Enrichment)
The Intercultural Diversity Center will continue its virtual Spring 2021 Social Justice Movie Series with a screening of “Moonlight” to commemorate Black History Month. Oscar-winner for Best Picture, “Moonlight” is a moving and transcendent look at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young man growing up in Miami. His epic journey to adulthood, as a shy outsider dealing with difficult circumstances, is guided by support, empathy and love from the most unexpected places. Registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.
Virtual Cooking Demonstration with Celebrity Chef Tiffany Derry
Tuesday, Feb. 16
6 p.m. via Zoom
(Cultural Exploration/Social Enrichment)
This event was postponed due to inclement weather. It will be rescheduled.
The Intercultural Diversity Center will host a cooking demonstration featuring celebrity chef Tiffany Derry. She is most famously known for appearances as a culinary expert and judge on several television shows, including “Top Chef,” “Top Chef Amateurs,” “Bar Rescue,” “Top Chef Junior,” “Chopped Junior,” “Bobby’s Dinner Battle,” and “Foodfighters.” Derry is heavily involved in the culinary community with a focus on food access, education, gender and racial equity.
Registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.
Virtual Cooking Demonstration with a Hometown Favorite
Wednesday, Feb. 24
6 p.m. via Zoom
(Cultural Exploration/Social Enrichment)
The Women and Gender Resource Center, in partnership with Blackburn Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, University Libraries, the Intercultural Diversity Center, and the Black Student Union will host a baking demonstration with Dr. Stacy Jones, UA interim dean of students. She will bake and discuss the classic baked good staple: pound cake. During the demonstration, Jones will touch on her relationship with baking, the Black family and the recipes and work of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, whose cookbook “Vibration Cooking” is a classic of food and storytelling. Food packs will be given to the first 50 students to register.
View the cooking demonstration and recipe here.
Virtual Screening: “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child”
Friday, Feb. 26
7 p.m.
(Educational Engagement/Social Enrichment)
The Intercultural Diversity Center will continue its virtual Spring 2021 Social Justice Movie Series screening of “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child” to commemorate Black History Month. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary, but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man. Registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/deiidcevents.