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| PRESENTATION/PERFORMANCE: "This is the Re-Mix; Hip Hop, Obama & Political Activism" (ROME/DGV) |
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| Start Date: | 10/30/2012 | Start Time: | 1:00 PM |
| End Date: | 10/30/2012 | |
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Event Description Crystal Leigh Endsley, is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Previously she was an Instructor in the Women's Studies Department at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania where she also served as Interim Assistant Director for the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Endsley completed her graduate studies at Penn State's main campus where she earned a dual Ph.D. in Women's Studies and Curriculum and Instruction.
Her awards and honors include a Virginia Commission for the Arts
Playwriting Grant in 2005, an honorable mention for the Lamar Kopp, J.
Award for International Service in 2007, a James T. Sears Honorable
Mention award for Outstanding Paper by the Curriculum and Pedagogy
Council in 2008, and an Outstanding Graduate student Teaching Award from the Women's Studies Department at Penn State in 2008.
Endsley originally hails from Louisiana and Virginia Beach, Virginia
and, in addition to her academic career, she is internationally
recognized as a spoken word artist, activist, and actor, performing and
presenting workshops and lectures both in the United States and abroad.
Her performances and current research focus on issues of performance and identity and the ways they intersect with feminist pedagogy, race, and popular culture; Hip Hop and cultural production as activism; and the
connections between academic/home communities, motherhood and knowledge production.
Visit Crystalleigh.com
This is a DGV event |
Location Information: Rome Campus - Plumley Complex (View Map) 1101 Floyd Ave. Rome, NY 13440 Phone: 315.339.3470 Room: Festine Auditorium
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Admission Information $5 General $2 Faculty/Staff FREE for MVCC students |
Other Details Tickets are required for this event. This is a DGV event. (MVCC Students are required to attend 4 DGV approved events as part of their DGV Graduation requirement. MVCC Students are required to attend the entire event to receive DGV credit, and must have their MVCC Student ID's. MVCC Students who arrive late, or attempt to leave early, will not receive DGV credit.) |
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