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The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence,
the First Year Seminar Program , and the Honors Program present
the First Year Seminar Symposium:
North Carolina in a Global Context
(October 15th, 2003)
"North Carolina in a Global Context" is a symposium
sponsored by the
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in collaboration
with the First Year Seminar Program. Students from six classes
in four disciplines will join for an evening that includes
dinner with distinguished speakers, a panel presentation,
and a question and answer period. Speakers include: Dr. Nolo
Martinez, North Carolina Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs,
Dr. Akram Khatar, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina
State University, Bill Bamberger, artist, documentarian, and
author of Closing: The Life and Death of An American Factory,
and Melanie Sills, editor, News and Observer.
Students enrolled in courses in English, History, Economics,
and Public
Policy will attend the dinner and the lectures; the lectures
and question
and answer periods are open to the Carolina community and
beyond.
Location: Banquet Hall, Morehead Building
Date: October 15, 2003
Public Lectures begin at 6 pm
Panel Presentations:
Akram Khatar: "Arabs in the South"
Nolo Martinez: "North Carolina's Latinos: Problems of
Language and
Culture"
Bill Bamberger: "Postindustrial Culture and the Closing
of the White Furniture Factory in Mebane, NC"
Melanie Sill: "Free Trade, Children, War, Newspapers,
and North
Carolina."
Biographies of Speakers:
Bill Bamberger
For two decades Bill Bamberger has been photographing Americans
and the details and rhythms of their daily lives His photographs
have appeared in Aperture, Doubletake, and the
New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, Closing:
The Life and Death of an American Factory (1998; text
by Cathy Davidson), won the Mayflower Prize in Nonfiction
and was a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Bamberger recently has been selected as one of fifty-six artists
to participate in "Artists and Communities: America Creates
for the Millennium," a National Endowment for the Arts
project. Bamberger lives in Mebane, North Carolina.
Nolo Martinez
Dr. H. Nolo Martínez was born in Mayagüez, Puerto
Rico and reared Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He graduated from
the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where he earned
a bachelor's degree in agronomy in 1982. Upon graduation,
he was awarded a scholarship from the President of the University
of Puerto Rico to enroll in graduate school at Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey. In 1984, he received a master's
degree in agricultural economics from Rutgers. In 1991, Dr.
Martínez earned a doctorate degree in adult education
from North Carolina State University. North Carolina's Governor
James B. Hunt Jr. appointed Nolo Martinez, PhD as the first
Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs in 1998. Dr. Martinez
works to assist in the coordination and development of state
and local programs that will meet the needs of the fastest
growing Latino state in the United States. He is currently
responsible for staffing the work Governor's Advisory Council
on Hispanic/Latino Affairs. Governor Michael F. Easley reappointed
Dr. Martinez for a second term as Director of Hispanic Affairs
in January 2001. Dr.Martinez is a faculty member at North
Carolina State University. He was the founder of the NC Farmers
and Farmworkers AgrAbility Project, a statewide project to
assist farmers, farmworkers and their families when affected
by disabilities. AgrAbility enhances the independent functioning
of disabled and physically injured farmers and farmworkers
in rural North Carolina. Dr. Martinez is the Vice-President
of El Pueblo Inc., a North Carolina non-profit statewide advocacy
and policy organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino
community. He is also founder and Vice President of the NC
Legal Immigration Coalition, a non-profit organization that
aims at educating industry, business and local governments
about the needed for immigration reform that protects essential
workers in NC. Essential workers include individuals that
often work in jobs that many Americans do not choose, but
which are essential to keep NC's economy growing.
Akram Khater
Dr. Akram Khater is Associate Professor of History at North
Carolina
State University. A native of Lebanon, he earned a B.S. degree
in
Electronics Engineering from California Polytechnic State
University,
and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University
of California, Santa Cruz, and University of California, Berkeley,
respectively. His books include Inventing Home: Emigration,
Gender and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861-1921,
and Glimpses of the Past: A Reader of Primary Sources for
the History of the Middle East and North Africa. Professor
Khater has also contributed the Middle East and North Africa
section to The World and Its People, a high school
textbook. He has published a substantial number of articles
and reviews, and has made conference presentations throughout
the United States. He has been particularly active in bringing
his expertise to audiences at North Carolina colleges, high
schools, and churches. Professor Khater has been awarded a
number of teaching accolades and grants during his tenure
at N.C. State, and has also obtained fellowships from the
American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the
Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, and ITT. His professional
affiliations include the Lebanese Studies Association (President
Emeritus), Middle East Studies Association, Association
for Middle East Women's Studies, Triangle Islamic Studies
Group, and Mediterranean Studies Group. He is also the Associate
Editor of the World Migrations series.
Melanie Sill
Melanie Sill is executive editor and senior vice president
of The News & Observer. Melanie, who grew up in
Hawaii, earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from UNC
Chapel Hill in 1981. She Joined The News & Observer
in 1982 as a feature writer. Sill became an assistant metro
editor in 1988, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
in 1993-94, and later worked as N&O projects editor, guiding
the investigation of the hog industry that won a Pulitzer
Prize in 1996. She became managing editor in 1998.
Faculty and Courses:
Patrick Conway, (Economics, "The Economics of North
Carolina"),
Connie Eble, (English, "English: The International Language"),
Todd Taylor, (English, "Multimedia North Carolina"),
Jeanne Moskal, (English, "Travel Literature"), Richard
"Pete" Andrews, (Public Policy, "Environment
and Labor in the Global Economy").
A complete listing of all events at the Johnston Center for
Undergraduate Excellence is available at our Event
Calendar.
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