The core of Diversity Week is the schedule of workshops taught by faculty, staff, administrators, students, and friends. Other current activities include a keynote address co-sponsored with the URI Honors Colloquium; a poetry slam/open mic; a video and film festival; a series of interactive diversity workshops; a graduate student research symposium; a peace and harmony meditation; a Pangaea music concert; a drama performance; and music workshops. Co-sponsored by the Diversity Week Planning Committee and the Multicultural Student Services Center, Diversity Week is a collaboration with the Psychology Department, the Sociology Department, other academic departments, and URI Student Senate, and assorted student groups.
Noted author, religious historian Judith Weisenfeld to discuss ‘Race and Religion’ as part of URI Diversity Week - Judith Weisenfeld speak on race and religion when she is featured as the keynote speaker as part of URI’s 23rd annual Diversity Week. Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University where she is also Chair of the Department of Religion.
URI’s Multicultural Student Services Center to host it’s 22nd Annual Diversity Week - Hosted by the Multicultural Student Services Center, this year’s theme is “Youth Activism Across Identities, Issues and Ideologies.” The week-long program will offer several events – workshops, lectures, discussions, exhibits, screenings, performances, luncheons – all designed for members of the URI community to learn and interact through empowering messages.