The mission of the Intercultural Center (IC) is to support the University’s core value of preparing members of the USF community to be men and women for and with others; and to support the University's commitment to providing individuals with the critical reflection skills necessary to succeed in life. By providing opportunities for the USF community to continually gain greater understanding of self, we empower individuals to develop as whole persons and by extension, to honor the wholeness in others. The IC collaborates with USF students, staff, and faculty to provide programs and resources that are focused on deeply exploring individual identities and social group memberships and develop critical thinking and multicultural leadership skills that enable social justice advocacy and promote social justice.

 

Sponsored by: MFA in Writing Program

Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.

Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall

Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, is the author of the poetry collections Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Half-Lit Houses (2004). She is co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. Reading co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Studies Program.

 

Film screening at USF Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF)

US, 2011, 60 min, Filmmaker: Adam Jonas Horowitz 

Horowitz shot his first film in the Marshall Islands in 1986, and was shocked by what he found in this former American military colony in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive coconuts, leaking nuclear waste repositories, and densely populated slums were all the direct result of 67 Cold War U.S. nuclear bomb tests that vaporized islands and devastated entire populations. Twenty years later, Horowitz returned to the Marshall Islands to make this award winning shocking political and cultural documentary exposé; a heartbreaking and intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for dignity and survival after decades of intentional radiation poisoning at the hands of the American government. Relying on recently declassified U.S. government documents, survivor testimony, and incredible unseen archival footage, this untold and true detective story reveals how U.S. scientists turned a Pacific paradise into a radioactive hell. Marshall islanders were used as human guinea pigs for three decades to study the effects of nuclear fallout on human beings with devastating results. The film is a shocking tale that pierces the heart of our democratic principles. http://www.nuclearsavage.com/

 

Thursday, April 11, 5-630p

Sponsored by The Intercultural Center and Asian Pacific American Studies

This informal discussion is a space for Asian and Asian American students to explore the diversity within the Asian American identity and share stories about our experiences as Asian and Asian American students at USF. Refreshments offered.

 

Sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Coalition

Friday April 12 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

UC 4th floor

API-CON or Asian Pacific Islander Convention is an event to celebrate Asian American culture.  It is a place to learn more about API orgs on campus and departments as well as share a small snack.  API-CON will feature an alumni speaker as well a performance by an Asian American group, TCF (The Chocolate Factory). 

 

April 24th, 11a-130pm

Cultural Centers, UC411/412

Sponsored by The Intercultural Center

Join the USF Intercultural Center as we come together as a campus community for a screening of this documentary that "brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a decade of spirited resistance to the razing of Manilatown (located adjacent to Chinatown and the Financial District). After the Manongs (Filipinos) labored to build America, their San Francisco community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel by 300 cops in the dead of night. This film documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on Kearny Street.” Discussion to follow. Refreshments provided. See you there! 

 

April 29, 6-730p

Sponsored by The Intercultural Center and Asian Pacific American Studies

Terry K. Park is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at UC Davis, Mr. Hyphen 2011, a blog columnist for Hyphen Magazine, and the creator/host of The Joy Dunk Club, a weekly web-based talk show about NBA basketball star Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, and Asian American culture.  His discussion will focus on his experiences of redefining Asian American masculinity.