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Dinner Dialogues

Dinner Dialogues was a program series started by the Cross-Cultural Center in 2007. The program, as administrative peer educator Diana Wong stated in the Thursday, January 30th edition of The Pride, was "where students, staff, and faculty are welcome to come to dinner and discuss the topic of the night." Dinner was provided by the Cross-Cultural Center and topics varied by month. The first program in the series was titled "Who's Acting What?" and was designed to be a discussion of "socially constructed identities and what happens when individuals stray from that stereotype and are called out for 'acting.'" Other topics included Native Americans and land, the civil rights movement, immigration reform, a pre-Thanksgiving feast, and Passover Seder.

Pictured here are some of the programs and brochures produced by the Cross-Cultural Center for the Dinner Dialogues series. 


Flier for the first three Dinner Dialogue programs, 2007.
This flier is the first flier produced for the Dinner Dialogues series. It features the first three events in the series, as well as the purpose of the program.

Flier for the Dinner Dialogue program Fair and Balanced, March 29th, 2008.
Flier for the March 25, 2008 Dinner Dialogue, "Fair & Balanced," with conversation facilitated by Dr. Garry Rolison and Mary Jo Poole.

Inside of three-panel brochure from Dinner Dialogue event on hate crimes.
Inside panels of brochure given to attendees of the Dinner Dialogue on hate crimes. Brochure includes definition of a hate crime, statistics about hate crimes, and actions for victims of hate crimes.

Flier for Dinner Dialogue event titled Then and Now: Jim Crow After Hours
Flier for the February 7, 2008 Dinner Dialogue, "Then and Now: Jim Crow After Hours," a discussion of Black American history and of racism in America.

Flier for Dinner Dialogue event titled Whose Life Is It Anyway
Flier for the February 12, 2008 Dinner Dialogue titled "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"

Inside of three-panel brochure from Dinner Dialogue event on abelism
Inside panels of brochure given to attendees of the Dinner Dialogue on abelism. Brochure includes definitions of abelism and disability, testimony of lived experience, and harmful terminology."