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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="">A DISCO Call for Conversation</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; color:#C0504D">In</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt">/<span style="color:#9BBB59">visible</span>
<span style="color:#F79646">Identities</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="">17 January 2014, Friday</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style=""><span style=""> </span>11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Pizza will be served)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b style="">Multicultural Center Great Room, Ohio Union</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span>During spring semester, DISCO (The Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU) is focusing on the theme of “In/visible Identities.” To kick-off our semester-long exploration, we invite you to participate in a
World Café-style conversation.</p>
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<span style=""></span>We plan to focus on the following questions:
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<li><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span>How does identity matter in social relations, politics, urban planning, scientific or academic study?
</li><li><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span>What makes identity visible or invisible?<span style="">
</span>How does power and difference work through visibility and invisibility?<span style=""><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""></span></span></span></li><li><span style=""><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>Why choose invisibility or visibility?
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<p class="MsoNormal">The theme is inspired by an installation, <i style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Invisible Identity: Mujeres Dominicanas en California,”</span></i> created by Prof. Sonia
<span style="">BasSheva Manjon, Director of the OSU Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise.<span style="">
</span>Manjon's work explores how photography, video, ethnography and oral history both capture expressions of identity and allow for particular identities to be expressed. Manjon suggests that identities are comforting, until they aren't; identities are situational,
yet not always; and while we may think we already know what a particular identity category means, we often don't. Manjon's installation focuses on the less well-known Latina/o population of Dominican immigrants in the U.S., however, this work asks us all to
consider: </span><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The question of identity within physical space…and the perception of living silently between two worlds…and belonging to neither.”</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">These themes of silence, invisibility, and identity inspired DISCO collaborators to sponsor both a conversation and to link a series of events during spring semester.<span style="">
</span>Please join us on Jan. 17, 11-1, at the Multicultural Center to share your thoughts about “in/visible identity.”<span style="">
</span>For more information, please contact:<span style=""> </span>Prof. J. Wu (</span><a href="mailto:wu.287@osu.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">wu.287@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) or see
</span><a href="http://disco.osu.edu/invisible-identities-series">http://disco.osu.edu/invisible-identities-series</a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizing Committee Members:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Christine Ballengee-Morris, American Indian Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Krista Benson, DISCO Grad Caucus</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Theresa Delgadillo, Comparative Ethnic and American Studies and Latino/a Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Davida Haywood, The Multicultural Center</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Linda Mizejewski, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mitsu Narui, The Multicultural Center</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dorothy Noyes, Folklore Center<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Lauren Strand,<span style="">
</span>Disability Studies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Derrick Tillman-Kelly, Center for Inclusion, Diversity, and Academic Success (IDEAS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sonia BasSheva Manjon, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Asian American Studies and DISCO</span></p>
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