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January 18, 2024

Campus, community invited to 10th annual Civil Rights Teach-In Jan. 24

Submitted by Marcia Locke

Graphic showing event details and image of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The College of Arts and Sciences will host the 10th annual Civil Rights Teach-In, titled "K-State's Next-Gen Land-Grant Responsibilities, Opportunities, and Challenges," from 2:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, in McVay Town Hall, Leadership Studies Building. K-State faculty, staff and students will present about social justice issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Members of the K-State and wider community are invited to this free event.

The Civil Rights Teach-In is part of K-State's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Week. Its collaborative presentations are meant to spark reflection and powerful discussions on teaching and research as they pertain to social justice issues and the legacy of activism at K-State and beyond.

For those unable to attend in person, the event will be accessible via Zoom. The Zoom link is in the event description on the MLK Observance Week page.

The 2024 teach-in schedule and presentations are:

2:30-3:10 p.m. – "Unveiling Historical Truths: How Treaties and Indigenous Knowledges Speak to Land Grant Promises"

  • LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin (Navajo), Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance, or IFSA, co-chair and Multicultural Engineering Program director
  • Rebecca Paz, Office of First-Generation Students assistant director and Alianza historian
  • Corey Williamson, assistant vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and Black Faculty and Staff Alliance treasurer
  • Lisa Tatonetti, Coffman University Distinguished Teaching Professor and IFSA secretary

3:15-3:55 p.m. – "Engaging Research: Students Working to Tell Land Grant Stories"

  • Student panelists: Cassidy Hartig, Lillianna Lamagna, Elvia Lopez-Morales, Abigail Whitney (Choctaw)
  • Moderator: Mary Kohn, English professor and Chapman Center for Rural Studies director

4-5 p.m. — "Imagining Otherwise: How Arts & Humanities Forward the Land Grant Mission."

  • David Mackay, associate director of theater in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. 

For more information, contact Lisa Tatonetti, College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee member, at tatonett@k-state.edu.