Weekly Schedule - Jan. 28 - Feb. 3

Friday, January 28

Work/Life Balance GradSpace Discussion
Presented by: Office of Graduate Affairs
12:00 – 1:00 PM
South Lounge, Reynolds Club, 5706 South University Avenue

Chicago Careers in Journalism (CCIJ) Workshop
Presented by: Career Advising & Planning Services
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Room 203 of Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

OMSA Graduate and Professional School Application Workshop: Part II
Presented by: Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA)
5:00 – 7:00 PM
5710 South Woodlawn Avenue

Monday, January 31

OMSA Graduate Scholar of Color Network
Presented by: Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA)
2:00 – 3:00 PM
5710 South Woodlawn Avenue

Careers in Research for Social Scientists and Humanists (II): The Non-profit World
Presented by: Career Advising & Planning Services
5:00 – 6:30 PM
West Lounge of Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

The Great Divide: Women of Color, Cancer and the Price of Survival (A Marge Markin Theater Awareness Lecture)
Presented by: Goodman Theatre partners include University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and Chicago Foundation for Women
5:30 PM
Goodman Theatre, 170 North Dearborn Street
Free Events – Registration Required

Conversation Series: Being Black at the University of Chicago
Presented by: Organization of Black Students
7:00 – 9:00 PM
5710 South Woodlawn Avenue

Tuesday, February 1

Mexican Studies Seminar - Fernando Vizcaino
Presented by: Katz Center for Mexican Studies
1:00 – 2:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Room of the Social Science Research Building, 1126 East 59th Street

Gender and Sexuality Studies and Ethnoise! workshops: Luis-Manuel Garcia and Gregory Mitchell Presented by: Center for Gender Studies
4:30 – 6:00 PM
First Floor Conference Room of the Centers for Gender/Race Studies, 5733 South University Avenue

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
Presented by: Office of LGBTQ Student Life and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs with our co-sponsors, University Theater, the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Black Youth Project
6:00 – 8:00 PM
5710 South Woodlawn Avenue

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales

On Tuesday, February 1st, 2011, there will be a dramatic reading by E. Patrick Johnson. Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, is a stirring oral history stemming from E. Patrick Johnson's latest book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History and an adapted play which toured last Spring.

E. Patrick Johnson, a scholar and artist, is the chair of the Department of Performance Studies, and Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology .

OMSA Advisory Board Meeting Highlights!

The OMSA Advisory Board meets bi-monthly to address the concerns of UChicago's multicultural community. It is an important asset in helping to ensure that OMSA and the university administration is effectively meeting the needs of the diverse student body. In order to make sure the broader campus community is aware of the concerns the Advisory Board are addressing, the OMSA Blog includes meeting highlights!

Meeting Date: January 11th, 2011

Special Guest(s):

• Josh Singh, Ph.D - Counselor, Student Counseling and Resource Service

Highlights:

The earlier part of the Advisory Board's meeting was all about stress, how it operates, its effects, and the best ways to manage it. Learning how to control your amounts of stress during the gloomy winter months is an important tool for all students, regardless of color.

According to Josh, anxiety is one of the biggest problems for students on campus. In efforts to relieve both stress and anxiety, the Student Counseling and Resource service offers Let's Talk.

Let's Talk is a program that provides informal and confidential consultations with counselors from the Student Counseling and Resource Service. No appointments or fees are necessary!

Let's Talk Meeting Times

• Wednesdays, 11am-1pm, Rockefeller Chapel - Uncommon Room.
• Tuesdays, 2:30pm-4:30pm, International House - Suite 291 (Office of International Affairs Suite)
• Fridays, 1pm-3pm, 5710 S. Woodlawn (Right here at OMSA!)- LGBTQ Lounge

Visit the Student Counseling and Resource Service's website for more info on stress relieving resources and Let's Talk!

Black Heritage Celebration 2011, Upcoming Campus and Community Events

The University of Chicago celebrates Black Heritage this January and February. Alumnus and historian Carter G. Woodson, (A.B. and A.M. 1908) spearheaded the 1926 creation of Negro History Week. In 1976, as part of the nation's bicentennial, the week was expanded into Black History Month in February.

Next week, on Tuesday, January 25, as a part of Black Heritage Celebration, the Center for Gender Studies will present a lecture by E. Patrick Johnson, titled, "In Search of Countess Vivian: Queerness and the Making of Southern History." This event is part of a series titled, "The Politics of Sexual Freedom."

Faculty Roundtable with Professor Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

OMSA invites graduate and professional students of color to a casual conversation with Professor Agnes Lugo-Ortiz on Tuesday, January 25 from 4:30-5:30 pm. The Faculty Roundtable is a chance to get to know faculty of color outside the classroom. It meets in the cozy setting of the Amandla Lounge at 5710 South Woodlawn.

Professor Lugo-Ortiz is a professor in the department of Romance Languages and Literature. Particularly, she is a specialist in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean cultural history. Her work focuses on questions concerning the relationships between cultural production and the formation of modern socio-political identities. Since 1994 she has been on the advisory board of the Recovering US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. She is also the coordinator of the Humanities Division's Project Towards a New Americas Studies. Her current book-length project is titled: "Riddles of Modern Identity: Biography and Visual Portraiture in Slaveholding Cuba (1760-1886)."

Join us for an evening of fascinating conversation with Professor Lugo-Ortiz!