SHIPPESNBURG, Thursday, March 1 ? Shippensburg University will celebrate its annual Day of Human Understanding March 22 with workshops, classroom experiences, exhibits and performances that reflect on diversity, inclusion and cultural competence.
Keynote speaker will be Kenji Yoshino, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law.?He will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Ceddia Union Building.
Yoshino?s landmark book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, fuses legal manifesto with autobiography, and marks a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. In it, Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights. Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely deny equal treatment to people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines, according to the book.
An overview of his book on Yoshino?s website states that his argument draws deeply on his personal experiences as a gay Asian American. He follows the Romantics in his belief that if a human life is described with enough particularity, the universal will speak through it. The result is a work that combines one of the most moving memoirs written in years with a landmark manifesto on the civil rights of the future.
Yoshino has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, Village Voice and the Los Angeles Times as well as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, Stanford Law Review and Columbia Law Review.
The annual Day of Understanding will take place in the CUB with workshop sessions, poster displays, musical and theatrical performances, creative writing, art exhibits, videos and films.
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Source: http://www.shipnewsnow.com/2012/03/author-to-speak-at-sus-day-of-human-understanding/
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