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- Meets & Greets
- Review calendar of events
- Budget proposal
- Organize club fair
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- September 10, 2008
- Room: E-235
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- Social Change, Cultural identity, and Learning Organizations in the Police of Bahia, Brazil
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- September 16, 2008 (TBA)
- Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
- Room: MB 10 (near College Bookstore)
- The psychology club would like to invite our community to a special event tomorrow at 3:15 Pm in room MB-10. The event, "Social Change, Cultural Identity and Learning in the Police in Bahia, Brazil", will be presented by a group of professionals and university professors from Bahia working in an innovative initiative to transform the police in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Inspired by Paulo Freire's problem-posing pedagogy and active learning principles, their work has had a significant impact in transforming the police toward a more democratic institution and reconnecting it with local communities. In their presentation, the group will also emphasize how their decentralized learning model has influenced identity transformation among police officers.
- Group of researchers from Bahia, Brazil that leads an innovative approach to reconnect the police with the community will be our first guest. Their work is based on performing arts (the officers get on stage and perform in the communities!) and a decentralized learning process whereby the officers continuously learn and teach one another.
- The group will start its presentation showing the carnival and highlights of the cultural life of Bahia, the largest state in Northeast Brazil. It was in Bahia that the Portuguese colonizers first arrived in 1500 and it was to Bahia that the largest number of Africans were brought to be slaves in sugarcane plantations. Consequently, Bahian cultura is marked in all its aspects, from the food to the music, by the African presence.
- Then they will talk about the work their doing with the police to foster their integration with the community that centers on fostering the cultural identity of the police in conjunction with and not as opposed to the culture of local communities.
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- Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- Time: 12:00PM
- Location: Atrium
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- Tuesday,
October 22, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Play psychological game
- Watch film on identiy
- Discuss cultural experiences
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- Transfronterizo College Students from the Tijuana-San Diego Border:
Languages and Identities.
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- Wednesday,
October 29, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
- Presented by Dr. Ana Celia Zentella.
- Students who have lived in two distinct cultural worlds, often on a daily
basis-- living in one country and studying in another-- have optimium
opportunities for becoming proficient bilinguals. But how do they deal
with the identity and class and cultural conflicts caused by close contact
with impoverished Tijuana and rich San Diego? And what kind of
bilingualism do they espouse-- the 'ideal bilingual' espoused by
Weinreich-- who never switches languages when speaking to the same person,
or on who embraces the code switching, labelled Spanglish, that captures
living in two worlds? INterviews with 40 transfronterizo college students
provide the answers.
Dr. Ana Celia Zentella
Professor Emerita
UCSD Ethnic Studies
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0522
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- Color Blind and Multicultural Theory Investigation.
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- Wednesday
November 05, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
- Presented by Dr. Joanne Pierre-Louis
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- Wednesday
November 12, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
- Presented by Laura Paskell-Borwn
- The talk explores narratives of British anti-racist activists whose mission (or even job in some cases) is to have an impact on society.
- The findings indicate that the participants' self-concepts are intimately entwined with their worldviews and with the actions that are both a cause and a consequence of such views. Following from this, she argues that those who regard the world * and themselves * in terms of a set of
essential characteristics (in this case ethnicity, but in other cases gender, nationality and so on), struggle not only with their self-construal but also with their ability to affect the very social ills they wish to challenge.
- By contrast,
- Those who define themselves in terms of their actions and the ability of those actions to change society are less troubled by their own 'identity' and their place in the world. This in turn renders them more effective social activists, a far from insignificant finding for researchers who wish to aid them.
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- Special Feature
- Favela Rising (Documentary)
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- Wednesday
November 19, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
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About a grassroots hip-hop based movement in a slum in Rio, Brazil.
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- Communication in Infancy.
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- Wednesday
November 26, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
- Presented by special guest
- How does infants communicate?
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- Wednesday
December 3, 2008
- Room: E-258
- Time: 2:15-4:00PM
- Presented by the club
- "Many people think of psychologists as individuals who dispense advice, analyze personality, and help those who are troubled or mentally ill. But psychology is far more than the treatment of personal problems."
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