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The NIU Latino Student Alliance (LSA) is holding a conference and a celebration during the Month of Latin Heritage 2013. This event will be a collaborative effort of the entire campus to celebrate the unity and diversity, which is a relation recognized freirean and which inspired worldly a work for social justice.
The Unity Celebration, on Friday 27 of September, will show a campus very different of the usual, through a day of expression and awareness under the form of music, art, poem, dance, culture and informative posters. On Saturday 28 of September, the event will account with the participation of Dr. Antonia Darder, teacher of the chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and emerita professor of Political Education, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
The conference will include dinamics workshops which aim to inspire and contribute for the formation of the participants. There will be a strong focus on Education, Social Justice and Ethics Studies and, after, will be held a forum for discussion on thses themes. The conference is open to public and free, but the prior register is required.
The event received proposals of workshops until September 05. Each of them will have one hour and will be held on Saturday, in three times: 10:45-11:45 a.m.; 1:15-2:15 p.m. And 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Brief of the Programing of the Unity Conference
NIU Holmes Student Center (HSC) and Campus Life Building
MLK Commons, in which will be held the Unity Celebration
8:00-9:00 – Register and Refreshs
9:00-10:30 – Lecture: Dr. Antonia Darder
12:00-01:00 – Lunch (Sponsored by Burritoville)
02:30-04:00 – Documentary Triage
04:00-05:00 – Forum on Ethics Studies
05:00-06:00 – Closure
Critical Leadership for the Social Justice and Community Development
A Tribute to Paulo Freire
Dr. Antonia Darder is a internationaly recognized freirean studious. Her studies focus in issues of racism, political economy, education, social justice and society.
More recently, Dr. Darder has worked to articulate a critical theory of leadership for social justice and community’s involvement. She is authoress of Culture and Power in the Classroom and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love, book which was in highlight in 20012-2002 by American Educational Research Association. She is also co-authoress of After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism
She is authoress of Culture and Difference and co-authoress of Latinos and Education; The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society e The Critical Pedagogy Reader, considering a privileged text to be used in courses for foundations. This year the special edition of the 20º birthday of Culture and Power was launched, as well as Dissident Voice: Essay on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power, a retrospective of twenty years with her writings, which includes her poems.
Besides of her academic efforts, Prof Darder is an activist and visual artist, who already participated of a series of efforts towards of educational rights, rights of worker, bilingual education, rights of women, environmental justice and rights of immigrants.
Prof. Darder was born in Porto Rico and was raised in Los Angeles. Still young, single mother of three children, she completed her studies in the field of Nursing at Pasadena City College. She obtained her doctorate in Philosophy of Education by Claremont Graduate University. Her entire formation, however, was deeply influenced by her familiarity with the reputed Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, whose ideas on education and society shaped deeply the direction of her work. Currently, Antonia is motivated to persist in the struggle for universal human rights of her four granddaughters and others children of our time, who must deal with the world that is to come.