/news-archive/tag/plain-talk-lecture-series/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:52:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/03/27/holocaust-survivor/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:52:31 +0000 /news/?p=73792 ... Holocaust survivor to discuss her experiences at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock]]> A Holocaust survivor will speak about her experiences during the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands on Tuesday, April 2, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.聽 The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity will host the 鈥淢emories of the Holocaust鈥� lecture as part of its “Plain Talk on Race and Ethnicity Lecture Series” in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Arkansas. Louise Lawrence-Isra毛ls will discuss her experiences as a Jewish toddler in the Netherlands during the imposition of anti-Semitic laws by Nazi Germany at 4 p.m. in the Donaldson Student Services Center Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will follow the talk. Lawrence-Isra毛ls was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1942. German forces invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and set up a German administration in which Jews were forced to wear a yellow star. By July 1942, Jews from the Netherlands were being deported to the extermination camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor. When her family was ordered to move to Amsterdam in January 1943, Lawrence-Isra毛ls and her family went into hiding to escape deportation. Her father rented a top floor apartment and acquired false identification papers for the family. After Canadian forces liberated Amsterdam in May 1945, Lawrence-Isra毛ls had difficulty adjusting since she had not been outside while her family remained in hiding. Lawrence-Isra毛ls earned a degree in physical therapy in the Netherlands. She married Sidney Lawrence, an American medical student, in 1965 and moved to the U.S. in 1967. After Lawrence retired from the U.S. military in 1994, they settled in Bethesda, Maryland. Lawrence-Isra毛ls is a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Anderson Institute at 501-569-8932 or race-ethnicity@ualr.edu.]]> /news-archive/2019/03/25/plain-talk-march-27-2019/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:59:09 +0000 /news/?p=73770 ... Plain Talk Lecture to Discuss Diversity in the Civil Rights Movement]]> Presented by Dr. John A. Kirk, Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Anderson Institute, the lecture will examine themes of the civil rights movement and diversity. First, it looks at the civil rights movement鈥檚 litigation and legislation that laid the legal foundations for greater diversity. Next, it examines the discussion and debates that took place within the movement that gave birth to concepts such as identity politics and intersectionality. Third, it explores the movement鈥檚 culture and rhetoric that often formed a template around which other minority and marginalized groups mobilized. Last, it assesses the role that whites have had and continue to play in diversity debates in the United States, and how that has shaped American politics over the past century. The lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Anderson Institute at 501-569-8932 or race-ethnicity@ualr.edu]]> /news-archive/2019/03/05/plain-talk-ventres/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:49:28 +0000 /news/?p=73631 ... Plain Talk Lecture Series to continue March 12]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Anderson Institute on Race and Ethnicity will continue its Plain Talk Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 12, at noon in Ottenheimer Library Room 202 with 鈥淒eschooling Dr. Bill: A Journey toward Health Equity with an Arkansas Epilogue鈥� presented by Dr. William Ventres. Dr. William Ventres,a family physician and medical anthropologist,has worked as a clinician and educator for more than 30 years in underserved settings in Arizona, Oregon, Venezuela, El Salvador, and South Africa. Through his personal story of transformation, audience members will learn the process of “deschooling” or re-aligning one’s professional growth to address such issues as inequity, ignorance, and injustice. The lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Anderson Institute at 501-569-8932 or race-ethnicity@ualr.edu.  ]]>