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2008 Schedule at a Glance

Sunday, January 20

Community Faith Celebration with Professor Clarence Hardy
3 pm, Rollins Chapel

DFS Hopkins Center Film
The Grapes of Wrath

*7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Monday, January 21

Human Resources Presents
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Employee Celebration Breakfast
Creating Value in Our Communities through Service

*8–9:30 am, Daniel Webster Room, Hanover Inn

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dartmouth Speech: A Multimedia Presentation
Towards Freedom

9 am–3 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

Community Lunch
Intersections of Race, Class, and the King Legacy
noon–1:30 pm, Collis Common Ground

Martin Luther King Jr. Drop-In Play Group
3:30–5 pm, Cutter-Shabazz Hall

Martin Luther King Jr. Candlelight Vigil
5 pm, gather at Cutter-Shabazz Hall, first floor

Keynote Address by Marian Wright Edelman
*7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Tuesday, January 22

The Tucker Foundation Presents
Lunch Discussion with Stephanie Boone
What Matters to Me and Why?

"C/Leaving Class/Rooms: Desegregation and the Class Divide, Charlottesville, VA, 1960, A Recollection"
noon, Tucker Foundation

DFS Hopkins Center Film and Discussion
Citizen King

7:30 pm, 105 Dartmouth

Wednesday, January 23

The Rockefeller Center Presents
Mari Matsuda, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Emancipation from Mental Slavery: Public Education & Social Change

4:30 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

DFS Hopkins Center Film Double Feature
Live-In Maid

* 7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
All That Heaven Allows
* 8:35 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Thursday, January 24

Community Lunch with Palaeopitus
noon, Collis Common Ground

Women of Color Collective Discussion
Class Ruckus: Issues of Race, Gender, and Class for Women of Color

* 5:30 pm, Fahey/McLane First Floor Commons

Hopkins Center Performance by Jason Moran and The Bandwagon
Milestone

* 7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Friday, January 25

Student Performance Showcase
Lifted: A Celebration of Unity and Song

6 pm, Collis Common Ground

Sunday, January 27

Class in the Upper Valley: A Community Panel
3 pm, Collis Common Ground

Film and Discussion
Waging a Living

*7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Monday, January 28

The Rockefeller Center Presents Nancy MacLean, History Department Chair, Northwestern University
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Struggle to Open American Workplaces to All

4:30 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Film and Discussion
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
by Spike Lee (Acts 1 and 2)
7 pm, Occom Commons (continues on January 29)

Tuesday, January 29

The Economic Equity Initiative Presents
A Student Workshop with Felice Yeskel, Executive Director of Class Action
Divided We Fall

4–6 pm, Cutter-Shabazz Hall, 1st Floor
Space is limited. Sign up via Blitz to "DPP" or by calling 646-0123.

Film and Discussion
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
by Spike Lee (Acts 2 and 3)
7 pm, Occom Commons (continued from January 28)

Wednesday, January 30

The Dartmouth Medical School Presents
Dinner and Presentation with Will Ross
Associate Dean for Diversity and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis

*5 pm Dinner, Café North, Kellogg; 6 pm Presentation, Kellogg Auditorium

Thursday, January 31

Hopkins Center Film and Discussion
The Price of Sugar

*7 pm, Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art

Friday, February 1

Seventh Annual MLK Social Justice Awards and Panel Discussion
5 pm, Collis Common Ground

*Denotes events for which tickets or registration are required.

Last Updated: 1/15/08