Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022

10-4 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 24, 2022

7-8:30 p.m.

Ft. Howard Theatre

Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Cassandra Voss Center

Wednesdays 3:30-5 p.m.

Jan. 11 - Feb. 1, 2023

Virtual 

The Cassandra Voss Center is excited to host a 4-Part Virtual Racial Justice Workshop this winter. This is an opportunity for SNC students, faculty, staff, and partner organizations of the CVC to learn more about anti-racism and to analyze their ideas about race and racism. Our purpose is to help participants develop a deeper understanding of systemic racism and its manifestations on both a structural and interpersonal level. Ultimately, this work is aimed at developing skills to equip members of the St. Norbert College community to work toward racial justice.

This four-part virtual workshop will include a 90 minute session each week with brief assigned work in between each session. 

Monday, Jan. 23, 2023

Registration & networking: 5:30-6 p.m.

Workshop: 6-8 p.m.

Hendrickson Dining Room @ Bemis International Center

"Let Them Lead" Workshop with John U. Bacon

As coach of the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, John U. Bacon inherited America's worst hockey team – winless in a year. But in his much-heralded book "Let Them Lead," he retraces the journey that transformed the squad from the nation's most downtrodden into one of its very best.

The Center for Exceptional Leadership and the Cassandra Voss Center are partnering to host John for a leadership workshop here on campus this winter. The man "Good Morning America" referred to as "the real Ted Lasso" will share inspiring stories and invaluable leadership lessons gleaned from his experiences guiding the River Rats on their stunning rise. 

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023

2-3 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom

Injustice On Campus: 
"Academia Is Violence: Generatives from a First-Generation, Low-Income PhD Mother of Color" with Dr. Jamiella Brooks

Dr. Jamiella Brooks is a Black mother-scholar of two, the first person in her immediate family to learn a new language and pursue a doctoral degree, and occupies the multiplicitous spaces of wife, daughter, and descendant.

She earned her Ph.D. in French Literature from University of California, Davis in 2018, a B.A. in English from Oberlin College, was a Mellon-Mays Fellow, McNair Scholar, and served as Fulbright Teaching Assistant in France. Formerly, she was the founding director of TA pedagogical programs of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Berea College, the first interracial college in the south (Berea, Kentucky), integrating classrooms as early as 1855. At Penn, she is the Director of Student Equity & Inclusion Initiatives.

Register here!

Thursday, Feb. 16, 2022

2:30-4 p.m.

Cassandra Voss Center

“In Her Own Words: The Black Woman Athlete’s Experience” with Bria Felicien

Bria will talk about the Black woman athlete’s experience in the United States, discussing some impactful Black women athletes from history that everyone should know, but don’t and why. She will also share the ways Black women athletes have decided to tell their own stories and how digital media can help us move forward. To close, she will share a video of Black sportswomen speaking for themselves.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023

6-8 p.m.

Mulva Library

Human Library

Join us for an evening of stories about self-care as an act of resistance. Our human books will share their experiences of establishing boundaries and finding the right balance between action, activism, and dedication to their communities – and preserving their own energy and peace. We hope to reorient our understanding of what true care for oneself looks like, and how it can make more space for each of us to grow and transform – and help others to do the same. 

We invite anyone to join us at this program, and encourage SNC students, faculty and staff to register on mySNC. 

Friday, Mar. 3, 2023

12-1 p.m.

Cassandra Voss Center

The college years are a time of exploration. Students are challenged to answer: what do you want to do with your 'one precious life,' as the poet Mary Oliver asked: What are you passionate about? How can they match the skills and knowledge they are gaining in college with their life goals?"

Are these reasonable questions to ask of students? Can a college campus and curriculum deliver the answer(s)?  

Dr. Reyes will explore how students face many barriers to finding meaning and purpose. His work has shown the "purpose gap" affects more than just students with marginalized or intersecting identities, and because of this, inhibits a campus community's ability to create conditions for students to thrive. Dr. Reyes will work with participants to learn from emerging research and practices to help close the purpose gap and create spaces of belonging. 

Dr. Reyes is the author of The Purpose Gap (2021) and editor of the new book, Campus Ministry: Finding Meaning and Purpose in College (2022). 

Friday, Apr. 14, 2023

12-1 p.m.

Virtual via Zoom

Where are all the guys? Masculinity, Education, and Declining Male Enrollment in Higher Education

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, women now compose nearly 60 percent of all college students. The declining rate of male enrollment and completion in higher education has accelerated since the pandemic, with declines at three times the rate of women. Such gender gaps are even larger among Black and Latinx students and students from low-income backgrounds. What accounts for the decline of men in higher educational institutions they once dominated? How should society and educational institutions address these disparities, if at all? In this interactive discussion, I present evidence of gender disparities in education from national data and my own research with high school students. Drawing from feminist theory, I suggest that these gaps do not represent a reversal of gender inequality, but an ironic cost of the complex power associated with masculinity. I look forward to a discussion of these issues, including why male enrollment and completion is declining generally, why the pandemic may have exacerbated such declines, why boys and men of color are most excluded, and how education should address gender imbalances.

Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023

Sunday, July 30, 2023

#YearUndefeated: Chicago Sky Game

We had so much fun traveling to Chicago with girls from the Greater Green Bay area to watch the Chicago Sky and Phoenix Mercury face off! 

Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

Cassandra Voss Center Celebration Concert: Femmes of Rock 

Each year the Cassandra Voss Center celebrates the birthday of Cassandra Voss. This celebration hopes to honor her spirit and her legacy.

Join us for a performance by the Femmes of Rock, an innovative, all-female, hard-rock quartet!

Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime with Dr. Deborah Whaley

The Cassandra Voss Center is kicking off our theme year with a series of events featuring Dr. Deborah Whaley, artist, writer, poet, and Professor in the Department of English and Program in African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Dr. Whaley is the author of Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime, and is a brilliant expert on issues related to race, gender, comics, and superheroes!

On Friday, Sept. 17, the Cassandra Voss Center will host a comic book workshop with Dr. Whaley for Green Bay Public School middle schoolers. Dr. Whaley will also give a presentation about her book, Black Women in Sequence. 

Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021

Comics and Identity: A Creative Comics Workshop for All Ages @SNC Day

As part of SNC Day 2021, Dr. Whaley will be hosting an all ages "drop-in" comics workshop and will be presenting her newest scholarship about the DC television universe at 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021

Waqnahwew Strikes Back: Indigeneity & the Future of Board Games

Conquest. Violence. World domination. These are the objectives that permeate many of the board games we know and love. Waqnahwew Girgnon, the CVC's "Resident Nerd" for #YearGeekOut, invites us to examine popular board games through a different lens – one that explores identity, representation, inclusion, and indigeneity. Join us at the CVC for a night of board games, dinner, and a talk with Waqnahwew about re-imagining the future of board games. 

Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021

Gaming for a Greater World: A Conversation with Anita Sarkeesian

 Feminist pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian takes a look back at the sweeping changes that have happened in the ways we experience and talk about media over the past decade, and how our cultural debates about video games and other media are directly linked to larger struggles over who holds power in our culture.

Thursdays, Jan. 13-Feb. 17, 2022 

Anti-Racism Workshop

The Cassandra Voss Center is excited to host a 6-Part Virtual Anti-Racism Workshop. This is an opportunity for SNC students, faculty, staff, and members of the greater Green Bay community to learn more about anti-racism and to analyze their ideas about race and racism. Our purpose is to help participants develop a deeper understanding of systemic racism and its manifestations on both a structural and interpersonal level. Ultimately, this work is aimed at developing skills to equip members of the St. Norbert College community to work toward racial justice.

This six-part virtual workshop will include a one hour session each week with brief assigned work in between each session. This space is committed to embodying the values of the Cassandra Voss Center, as we are scholarship-driven, welcoming, innovative and fun. We encourage anyone interested to register for this program, regardless of your background or previous knowledge around issues related to anti-racism.

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022

Don't Ask George Lucas Where Babies Come From: Race and Kinship in a Galaxy Far, Far Away 

Geek Out! Episode I with Dr. Greg Carter

The Star Wars movies are a major force in popular culture, spanning eleven motion pictures and dozens of associated television shows, books, comics, and other media. They're also a mirror for the eras in which they're written, and that's particularly evident when it comes to racial representation. 

Why do people hate the Star Wars prequels? From Jar-Jar Binks to societal demographics and new reproductive technologies, Star Wars fans had adverse reactions to many of George Lucas’s directorial decisions in the prequels. Join us as Dr. Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History at UW-Milwaukee, explores this question in “Don’t Ask George Lucas Where Babies Come From: Race and Kinship in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.”

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 

My Potential was Anonymous: The Educational Desires and Experiences of Men of Color in College

Injustice on Campus - Part I

Understanding how Men of Color make sense of, navigate, and negotiate their higher education experiences continues to be a pressing need for researchers, educators, and educational stakeholders, especially given data regarding their retention and graduation. Importantly, their experiences reveal a great deal about how social institutions (such as schools) act upon them and the inopportune-opportunity structure that they must navigate. In my research and practice, I center student voices, experiences, and narratives and pay close attention to how their racialized and gendered identities matter in their college years. Given the ways that they often are repositioned away from success, taking account of their agency, critical consciousness, and resilience and identifying ways to transform educational praxis and institutional cultures are paramount to help support and bolster their success efforts.

Derrick R. Brooms, Ph.D.
Professor, Sociology & Africana Studies
University of Tennessee

Thursday, Mar. 24, 2022

Campus Encounters with Muslim Women

Injustice on Campus - Part II

College is supposed to be a world of freedom and self-discovery, a promise that is open to everyone. Or is it? Does a diverse campus community welcome all students equally? What about Muslim students? How do their peers perceive Muslim women undergraduates?
In this talk, you will hear Muslim undergraduate women’s stories I gathered during my research, as I tell you what prejudice and stereotype looks like in the mundane moments on campus. I will explore how Muslim college students – Black, White, of immigrant background - “wear” stigmatized identities, and how they play those.

Shabana Mir, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
American Islamic College 

Let's Write About Us: An Autobiographical Comics Workshop

Geek Out: Episode II with Shing Yin Khor 

Graphic novelist Shing Yin Khor (The Legend of Auntie Po, The American Dream?) who has been hailed as “the internet’s favorite crafter" talks about their journey into making comics and graphic novels, and learning how to shape stories that matter to them as a queer Malaysian-American immigrant. They'll run a hands-on workshop full of practical cartooning and drawing exercises, where participants will make comics zines to trade with each other to start their own mini-comic/zine collections. Bring your story and imagination as we explore identity through comics!

Copies of The Legend of Auntie Po (which was a 2021 National Book Award finalist) are available at the SNC Bookstore and online.

Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022

Mulva Library

Human Library: This is Community

Join us for an evening of stories from people who dedicate their time to building communities, which takes patience, perseverance and an eye for inclusion. Our human books will share their stories of navigating and finding community, how important connection is to the human experience, and the myriad ways community can be built and shared.

Beyond Asian Immigrants: A Feminist Perspective on Culturally Revitalizing Pedagogy with HMoob Refugees

Sand Peoples and Easterlings: Images of Arabs & Muslims in Sci-Fi

Geek Out: Episode III with Andrew O'Connor 

The Science Fiction and Fantasy genres allow us an avenue to enter other realms, wondrous kingdoms and galaxies in which we can imagine life without the limitations of our own world. But they also disclose something about our own identities as well, showcasing our projections and assumptions about ourselves and others. We make other worlds that reveal our understandings of what it means to be “Other.” This includes, for example, the tendency of many Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories to use people groups drawn from outside of the West to create a sense of alterity or “Otherness.” In this presentation, Dr. Andrew O’Connor will explore characterizations of Arabs and/or Muslims in some of the most prominent Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories, including The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dune, and even superhero films.

Andrew O’Connor

Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies

José Rosario

Speaker, Author and Activist

2020-21 Program Theme

Anthem! Sound Resilience During Hard Times

We find ourselves in a historical moment marked by a long overdue reckoning with structural racism, contentious political divide, and a global pandemic that has radically shifted our everyday lives. Year Anthem! will offer a series of events and programs focused on music (as well as other aspects of sound such as spoken word, poetry, podcasts, etc.) and the ways in which sound can be a sustaining force in our lives during hard times. The CVC will bring powerful and engaging scholars, artists, & change-agents whose work illustrates how music has proven to be a driving force in movements for social change. These events will also explore how music can function as an important site to examine identities, power, and imagining a more just future.

Future dates announced soon!

July 8-Aug. 12, 2020

Faculty/Staff 6-Week Virtual Anti-Racism Workshop

The Cassandra Voss Center Virtual Anti-Racism Workshop is an opportunity for members of the St. Norbert College community to learn more about anti-racism and to analyze their ideas about race and racism. Our purpose is to help participants develop a deeper understanding of systematic racism and its manifestations on both a structural and interpersonal level. Ultimately, this work is aimed at developing skills to equip St. Norbert College faculty and staff to work towards racial justice.

This 6-week virtual workshop will include a one hour session each week with brief assigned work in between each session.

This space is committed to embodying the values of the Cassandra Voss Center, as we are: Scholarship Driven, Welcoming, Innovative, and Fun. We encourage all interested faculty and staff to register for this program, regardless of your background or previous knowledge around issues related to anti-racism. 

Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020

“José Limón: A Life Beyond Words.” An interactive event with Dante Puleio

A widely respected former member of the Limón Dance Company for more than a decade, Puleio was appointed only the sixth Artistic Director in the Company’s 74-year history, a position that originated with Doris Humphrey. After a diverse performing career with the Limón Dance Company, touring national and international musical theatre productions, television and film, he received his MFA from University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on contextualizing mid 20th century dance for the contemporary artist and audience. He is committed to implementing that research by celebrating José Limón's historical legacy and reimagining his intention and vision to reflect the rapidly shifting 21st century landscape

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020

Kevin Powell is one of the most celebrated political, cultural, literary, and hip-hop voices in America today. Powell is  a poet and journalist and the author of 14 books, including When We Free The World, and his critically acclaimed autobiography, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood. One of his upcoming books will be a biography of Tupac Shakur, who Kevin interviewed several times while a senior writer for Quincy Jones’ Vibe magazine. 

Kevin’s activism also includes a leadership role in the movement to re-define manhood away from sexism and violence; a deep responsibility to mentorship and development of people as agents for change; and a commitment to democracy, justice, diversity, inclusion, and equality for the American people. Kevin has lectured, worked, and traveled in all 50 American states and 5 of the world’s 7 continents; he is directing, writing, and producing his first documentary film, “What’s Going On,” about healthy manhood versus toxic manhood, about fathers and sons; and Kevin is the playwright of an upcoming stage play, based around his poetry and conversations about what it is to be a man. Kevin is a proud and long-time resident of Brooklyn, New York.

Watch the Recording

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020

“Kathak: The Dance of the Storytellers” An Interactive Event with Aditi Bhagwat

Future dates announced soon!

Oct. 7-Nov. 11, 2020

6-Week Student Virtual Anti-Racism Workshop

The St. Norbert College Cassandra Voss Center and The Privilege Institute  are partnering with Marquette University to offer a 6-Week Virtual Anti-Racism Workshop for students. This is an opportunity for students at SNC and Marquette to learn more about anti-racism and to analyze their ideas about race and racism. As two Catholic institutions of higher education, this partnership underscores how deeply the work of becoming anti-racist is tied to our mission. The purpose of this workshop is to help participants develop a deeper understanding of systemic racism and its manifestations on both a structural and interpersonal level. Ultimately, this work is aimed at developing skills to equip members of the SNC and MU communities to work toward racial justice.

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020

"Feminism, Fandom, and a Reevaluation of Boy Bands" An Interactive Conversation With Maria Sherman Traversing Teen Pop’s Most Maligned Music

Maria Sherman is a music writer and culture critic living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first book, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS for Hachette imprint Black Dog and Leventhal, was released on July 21, 2020. Maria is a senior writer at the feminist website Jezebel, and has worked as a managing editor at Gizmodo Media Group, senior correspondent at Fuse TV, and contributor at BuzzFeed Music. You may have seen her work at NPR and in Billboard, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Pitchfork, and many other quality publications. If she were in a boy band, she'd be the bad boy. Also, Harry Styles ruined her life.

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Monday, Nov. 23, 2020

Monday, Dec. 8, 2020

Monday, Jan. 11, 2021

Coffee, Crafts, and Conversation with Carol and the Cassandra Voss Center

Join the Cassandra Voss Center’s resident scholar Dr. Carol Bruess for one of the most chill, hands-on, and joyful zoom events of the semester: an hour of tutoring you on how to make a crafty or tasty item that you can use, gift, and/or eat! We’re limiting participation to 30 students per event, so don’t miss your chance to grab a spot at the crafty-Carol-table (zoom) as she reveals her favorite creative activity, once a month in Nov, Dec, and January. Oh, all materials will be supplied for you!

Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021

"Sounding Freedom's (Im)Possibilities: Janelle Monáe's Sonic Cyberfeminism with Meina Yates-Richard"

Meina Yates-Richard is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Emory University. She earned her PhD in English and Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Rice University in 2016 and was awarded a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2018-2019. Professor Yates-Richard specializes in African American, African diasporic and American literature and culture. Her monograph project in progress examines the relationship between transatlantic slavery, Black maternal sonority and liberation imaginings in African American and African diasporic literatures and sonic cultures. She was awarded the 2016 Norman Foerster Prize for Best Essay published in American Literature in 2016 for her essay, “‘WHAT IS YOUR MOTHER’S NAME?’: Maternal Disavowal and the Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in Black Nationalist Literature.” Her work appears in amsj: American Studies, the Journal of West Indian Literature, and post45. Her forthcoming work includes an article in Feminist Review entitled "Hell You Talmbout?: Janelle Monae's Black Cyberfeminist Sonic Aesthetics" and an essay in the Cambridge UP volume Ralph Ellison in Context entitled "Sounds and Signs of Black Womanhood."

Watch the Recording (SNC login requried)

Meina Yates-Richard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English
Emory University

Thursday, Mar. 4, 2021

"Urgent Archives: Activating the Past for Liberation Now"

Far from housing neutral or objective documentation of the past, archives are intensely contentious sites of political struggle in the current moment. Power is implicated in every archival intervention, from decisions about what to keep, to how to describe records, whether or not to digitize them, and who, if anyone should access them. This talk addressed the ways that archival theories and practices have actively contributed to systems of oppression and helped us imagine and enact reconfigurations of archives that encourage mutual co-liberation. Such liberatory memory work needs to address the temporal, representational, and material politics of activating the past in the present. The talk ended with a proposition for all of us to “imagine otherwise,” that is, to conceive of and build a world in which communities that have historically been and are currently being oppressed are fully empowered to represent their past, construct their present, and envision their futures as forms of liberation.

Mar. 15-19, 2021

Human Library

The Cassandra Voss Center and the Mulva Library held the sixth annual Human Library. This year we gathered for a week of virtual events to hear stories from our "human books" about connection and love during this time of isolation and disconnect.

Mar. 25, 2021

Using the Sounds of Black Joy as Resistance: An interactive conversation with OnRaé LaTeal

OnRaé Watkins, aka OnRaé LaTeal, is a music producer, videographer and creative arts educator. She has created content for national and international commercial broadcast stations. OnRaé has worked alongside Frank Ski, Michel Wright, Tony Richards, Olivia Fox, John Wesley, and with Bobby Gailes as the executive producer of The Weekend Review. Her most celebrated work is the Black Joy Experience, a compilation of mainstream freedom songs and liberation chants she produced with the activist organization, Black Youth Project 100. OnRae has continued to transform sounds into contemporary music prompting her alias as "The Liberation Music Maker". Her work was further propelled when she began integrating hip-hop music, liberation chants and live footage from protests following the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. OnRaé's work took the city by storm serving as the soundtrack of the revolution in Washington, DC. OnRaé is also the Co-Founder of the Black Girls Handgames Project, a program dedicated to using childhood hand games to uplift joy and resiliency for Black girls through music and education. The project revitalizes games such as Miss Mary Mack, Gigolo, and Rockin' Robin with hip-hop and soulful remixes created by and featuring Black women and girls. OnRaé uses the project to elevate gender equality in the field of music production by teaching teenage girls fundamental skills in beat-making.

Watch the Recording (SNC login requried)

The Past, Present, and Future of Music Criticism

Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books about music and culture, including, most recently, "Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records." She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction writing, and her liner notes for Bob Dylan's "Trouble No More: 1979-1981" were nominated for a Grammy Award. Her criticism and features have appeared in the New York Times, The Oxford American, Spin, Pitchfork, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.  She is an associate professor and writer-in-residence at New York University’s Gallatin School.

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Interrupting White Supremacy Culture Through Music Education: An interactive conversation with Natasha Verhulst

Natasha Verhulst is an enrolled tribal member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and a descendant of the Menominee Nation. She is currently teaching 4K-5th grade general music at Keshena Primary School in the Menominee Indian School District on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin. Natasha’s career goal is to help bring Native music and culture to the music classroom setting for children to experience and learn from. She presented at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association State conference in October 2019. Natasha worked with PBS on their project “ReSound: Songs of Wisconsin,” creating a diverse curriculum of different cultural music for educators throughout the state. She was a part of the 2020 WSMA Summer Workshop series, where she taught a session to music educators on how to include Native American music in regular music lessons. The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is featuring Natasha’s lesson plans on their website so that educators throughout the country may use them in their classrooms. Recently, Natasha worked with Lawrence University Music Education students as a mentor, where she guided the students in creating a lesson plan centered around Wisconsin Indigenous music for the Backyard Groove program. She is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access committee member for the Feierabend Association of Music Education. Natasha was named a 2021 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellow.

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2019-20 Program Theme

UNinvisible

Year UnInvisible will provide educational and interactive opportunities featuring powerful scholars, artists, and change agents who seek to focus on making UnInvisible the identity and visibility of voices and histories that are often considered invisible.

Wednesday, Sept. 18

Cassandra Voss Celebration Concert 

Each year the Cassandra Voss Center celebrates the birthday of Cassandra Voss. This celebration hopes to honor her spirit and her legacy.

Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience shared their energy as two brothers,  Billy Ryan and Matthew McGuigan, incorporated songs into their setlist that audience members had requested.

Thursday, Sept. 19

Friday, Sept. 20

Saturday, Sept. 21

Waqnahwew Ben Grignon 

The Cassandra Voss Center was thrilled to host visiting artist Waqnahwew Ben Grigno. Grignon is an incredible educator and activist committed to the preservation of indigenous language and culture through the arts. Grignon's passion for preservation of indigenous language through the arts in the classroom was recognized recently when he was named the 2018 Wisconsin High School Educator of the Year.

Grignon's first lecture, "Reclaiming Indigeneity Through the Arts," highlighted how his commitment to preserving indigenous culture has deeply impacted his artwork and teaching styles.

Grignon's second lecture, "Exploring Ancestral Memory," was an interactive time where participants created unique beadwork that reflected memories of relatives and ancestors. As Grignon shared traditional Menominee stories, participants learned how artwork can help one tell stories of their ancestors.

SNC Day was full of fun and educational moments as Grignon led families, students, and community members in beading projects and sculpting clay into animal effigies.

Friday, Oct. 25

Thursday, Nov. 21

Friday, Dec. 6

A Year of Norbertine Women: Lunch and Learns

In collaboration with the Center for Norbertine Studies, we highlighted six important women in the Norbertine Order. Together we hosted six informal lunches to learn about forgotten Norbertine women who deserve to have their stories told. Each lunch began with information highlighting the life of each woman, followed by a time of engaging discussion.

Thursday, Oct. 17

"Sexuality, Gender, and Embodiment in the Catholic Tradition"

Dr. Brianne Jacobs, Ph.D., is currently an Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer at Santa Clara University in the Department of Religious Studies. Jacobs work explores the areas of systemic theology, Catholic social teaching, and gender studies. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Jacobs as she shares a lecture at the Cassandra Voss Center as a part of the first annual Coming Out Week at St. Norbert College.

Co-sponsored by Killeen, Theology & Religious Studies.

Thursday, Oct. 24

Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.

We are pleased to share that the brilliant Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. joined us on campus again this fall. Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. is the founder and executive director of the Privilege Institute here in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

The workshop led by Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. focused on how to have more effective and productive conversations regarding race and identity. This event, co-sponsored by the Honors Program discussed race and identity.

Wednesday, Oct. 30

Dr. Alan Nadel

In collaboration with the English Discipline, we welcomed Dr. Alan Nadel, Ph.D, professor of American Literature and Culture at the the University of Kentucky. Dr. Nadel spoke about his work on race, national identity, and the theatrical productions of August Wilson.

Tuesday, Jan. 14

Ally-Ship and Bystander Workshop

This workshop focused primarily on the development of skills that can help one to become an effective and active ally in situations where bullying, conflict, or harassment are occurring.

Thursday, Feb. 13

Human Library

The Human Library is an innovative event which promotes dialogue, reduces prejudices, and encourages understanding. In 2020, the Human Books shared their story of the emotional demands of a job or volunteer position.

February, 2020

 Conversations in the Camper

Our resident scholar, Carol Bruess, Ph.D. held a new series serving up hot coffee, hot cookies and meaningful dialogue about today’s hot topics.

Follow the Cassandra Voss Center for updates regarding future conversations in the camper!

March 8, 9, 10

Don McPherson

Don McPherson is an activist, educator, entrepreneur, and College Football Hall of Famer. His experiences as a former NFL quarterback and anti-violence advocate have led him to investigate aspirational masculinity.

This series of programs related to his book, You Throw Like a Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity, which explores positive and nurturing ways of being a man.

March 4

March 27
CANCELED

You Throw Like a Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity Book Discussion

This group will be discussing You Throw Like a Girl: The Blindspot of Masculinity written by Don McPherson. We hope to have meaningful discussions as we explore what McPherson refers to as aspirational masculinity.

Wednesday, March 11

Norbertine Women Today

Experience the positive and profound impact of Norbertine women through all five senses. See, smell, touch and taste items produced by female Norbertine houses, and hear the inspiring stories of women making a difference locally and around the world. This event is an open house with an informal agenda. Come and go as you please!

Wednesday, March 11

Wednesday, March 25
CANCELED

"Plague" Podcast Discussion Group

This new group will feature discussion of episodes of America Magazine's podcast "Plague" which focuses on the "Untold stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church."

Thursday, April 16
CANCELED

A discussion about the making of Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church

Creator of America Magazine's podcast "Plague," Michael O'Loughlin, will be coming to campus to share about the process of the creation of the podcast.

Tuesday, Feb 11

 Tuesday, Mar 31
Boook Discussion
CANCELED

Waking Up White: Greater Green Bay Community Book Read

Debby Irving's Waking Up White focuses on her journey of changing the way she thinks about racism, and racial tensions. After a series of two community book discussions, author Debby Irving will come to the St. Norbert College Cassandra Voss Center for a public talk.

Thursday, April 30

CANCELED

Waking Up White: Debby Irving 

The series of community book discussions will culminate with a public talk featuring author of Waking Up White, Debby Irving.

Tuesday, April 14
CANCELED

 Nun on the Run: The Fugitive Canoness Countess Katharina of Wurttemberg

Racha Kirakosian, a graduate of Oxford University and an associate professor of German and the study of religion at Harvard University, will present the 2020 St. Augustine lecture. A Norbertine scholar with a particular emphasis on medieval Norbertine women, Kirakosian will share her latest research on an influential 15th-century female Norbertine from Wurttemberg, Germany, who exercised economic power in a way that eventually put her at odds with the Pope.

 May 29,2020

4:00-5:00p.m.

WWHEL Daring Greatly Book Discussion and Breakout Sessions

Given the limitations presented by COVID-19, SNC was unable to host the annual SNC Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL) event.

Instead, we are offered an online opportunity for women working at St. Norbert College to gather virtually during this difficult time and discussed Brené Brown's "Dating Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead."

Dr. Bridget Burke Ravizza led a discussion and participants gathered in small breakout groups to discuss the text.

2018-19 Program Theme 

GREEN: Reimagine

A year dedicated to all things environment. What is our environment? Is it as simple as nature, parks, oceans? Or as complex as environmental racism, climate change, food deserts and land rights? Year GREEN brings bold, tenacious scholars, artists, and innovators shifting environmental paradigms and stewarding a new world

Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018

Cassandra Voss Center Celebration Concert 

Gather a group and join this annual celebration with terrific music benefiting a transformative center! Join us as we celebrate Cassie's 33rd birthday and the 5th birthday of the Center with an interactive, energetic performance from Recycled Percussion. Purchase tickets at the St. Norbert box office. 

Friday Sept. 21, 2018
CANCELED

Saturday Sept. 22, 2018

SNC DAY!

Professor Katie Ries, Smokey Bear, Prizes and More! 
 

Part 1: Public Talk @ 11 a.m. 
Prof. of Art Katie Ries presents on innovative Land Scouts Program with a special guest. 

Part 2: Smokey Bear @ 2 p.m.
Smokey's first time at SNC, the official Smokey Bear that is! Learn how you can protect your land, cultivate nature and prevent wildfires. 

Part 3: SCREENPRINTING ALL DAY
Join in hands-on making of environmental screen-prints. Everyone gets to take home a beautiful print!

Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018

Farmer in Residence: De Pere Farmer’s Market Tour 

Join our Farmer in Residence, Sarah Valentine, for an interactive tour of the De Pere Farmer's Market as we explore who the farmers are, why it is important to support local farmers, shopping local and more!

We will meet in the Cassandra Voss Center first and then walk over to the Market together. The event will be done just in time to catch the Killeen Lecture with Carol Bruess, Ph.D at 7 p.m. in Walter Theater. 

Monday, Oct. 22, 2018

TWO SERVINGS OF GREEN:

CVC Master Chef: Food Ethics Edition feat. Ben Chan, P.h.D. and Joel Mann Ph.D.
From coast to coast, thousands and thousands of talented amateur cooks lined up to take the most intense culinary competition on earth but we have the top chefs right here at SNC! This live food demo will showcase cooking techniques and methods for decolonizing your diet while also exploring ideas about ethical food consumption. 

Multicultural Gardener's Community Conversation 
Facilitated by our Farmer in Residence Sarah Valentine, we join a few local, small-scale farmers as they describe and discuss what is grown in the area community gardens and share their knowledge of gardening and small-scale farming as it relates to their personal cultural histories.

Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018

Friday, Nov. 16, 2018

Original Local: Indigenous Ways, Foods, Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich

Heid Erdrich, Ph.D. is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. Heid is an Augsburg College Low-residency MFA faculty mentor and author of five books of poetry, including Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest. The CVC, in partnership with UW-Green Bay, hosts Erdrich for discussion centered around stories of native food using home-tested recipes alongside stories from food researchers, tribal activists, families, and chefs. Get your golden spoons ready!

Curator of Ephemera: A Night of Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich 
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Indigenous Innovation: Returning to and Revising Indigenous Ways and Recipes 
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Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019

How to Eat Local in the Winter

Join SNC Farmer in Residence Sarah Valentine for tips and tricks to eat healthily in the frozen tundra.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019

Human Library 

Green Bay community members share stories from the margins as “human books”; readers listen, engage, and are transformed.

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019
 

Join visiting Scholar Jay Roberts, Professor of Education at Earlham College and author of Experiential Education in the College Context, explains how to make experiential learning profound and life-changing.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 

Join SNC Farmer in Residence Sarah Valentine for growing small, delicious plants indoors.

Olive Branch Series: Fr. James Martin 

Bringing together members of the St. Norbert College and Green Bay community, this Skyped event engaged participants in conversation about LGBTQ persons and the Catholic church in order to foster a community of understanding and empathy. Co-sponsored with Titletown Publishing.

Book Reception: The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations. 

A book reading, dialogue and reception with co-editors Norbert Hill and Kathleen Ratteree. Their newly published book brings together various writers from around the world who explore and grapple with what it means to be indigenous in the 21st century.  

From Certainty to Faith: Sr. Joan Chittister in Dialogue

Joan Chittister, O.S.B., told stories alongside St. Norbert College alum, Breanna Mekuly '12. Sr. Joan shared her vocational story as a Benedictine nun, spiritual writer and prophetic peacemaker. She also reflected on whose stories need to be heard in order to live out gospels with authenticity.

Sept. 18, 2015

Mirrors, Monsters, & Webcams: Consequences of Tweenage Twerking on YouTube

Dr. Kyra Gaunt shares research on tweenage twerking from the segregated spaces of black girls to the networked economy of YouTube. How do girls fare in the mobile web?

Sept. 18, 2015

Cassandra Voss Center Celebration Benefit Concert

Benefit concert that featured Street Corner Symphony.

Sept. 19, 2015

SNC Day: Jump Around! Double Dutch Delight Day/ Whose Turn in the Ropes

SNC Day featured an interactive day with Milwaukee team "Double Dutch to Dreams" including demos, double dutch, songs, and tricks! Dr. Kyra Gaunt, a TED Talk Fellow & singer, teaches
at Baruch College, CUNY., discussed "Whose Turn in the Ropes?" on the history of double dutch and how race and gender influence the game.

Sept. 25, 2015

Who’s Laughing Now!?: On Gender & Humor

Dr. Regina Barreca, columnist and professor of English and Feminist Theory at University of Connecticut, joined the Cassandra Voss Center to discuss how gender and humor function in the workplace, classroom, and media.

In partnership with the Women's Fund of Greater Green Bay Community Foundation

Oct. 2, 2015

That’s Not Funny!: Humor, Satire, & Sexual Violence

Joe Samalin is Senior Program Manager at Breakthrough, a global human rights organization working to make violence against women and girls unacceptable. Samalin has worked with the U.S. National Committee for UN Women as well as national organization Men Can Stop Rape. He is also featured in digital publications of "The Good Men Project" and "Masculinity U."

From rape jokes to Amy Schumer, how do we talk about sexual violence? Joe Samalin led discussion with comedy clips exploring wher/if/how and to what effect comedy works when talking about violence.

Nov. 11, 2015

You just tweeted WHAT?!: race, gender, & comedians in the digital age

Social media has had a sweeping impact on the comedy industry, from changing interactions between fans and comics to altering the actual content of comedy. How do women, LGBTQ comics, and comdians of color fare in the new media age as performers and humor producers?

Featured Dr. Beck Krefting, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Skidmore College in New York and Dr. Micia Mosely, a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley and University of Massachusetts in Boston.

"Freedom is a Constant Struggle": Reading & Hearing civil rights icon Dr. Angela Davis

Reading Group + Community Lecture

Feb. 25, 2016

Human Library

Co-sponsor: SNC Mulva Library

Wisconsin's First Human Library, of International Human Library Organization

National Coverage of SNC Human Library: Today.com

Sasheer Zamata Video Fest

Featured Saturday Night Live's Sasheer Zamata

Power Yak 2016 

Check out past Power Yak's here.

Sponsored by Schneider National 

bell hooks Residency 2016 

Featured bell hooks in dialogue with Parker J. Palmer and Hari Kondabolu.

2014-15 Program Theme

Kapow: Who's Your Hero?

Yearlong programs focusing on heroes, power, comics, and identity. Kapow! Wonder Woman. Batman. Storm. Hulk. Amidst capes, masks, and spandex unfold epic tales of our heroes and their stories. Through the lens of fantastical identity narratives, superheroes and comics provide a vehicle to talk about gender, race, sexuality, and class. These heroes are poised to speak. Who's your hero?

Sept. 12, 2014

SkypeTacular! "Super Black" Pop culture and Black Superheroes

Dr. Adilifu Nama, Associate Professor in African American Studies from Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles joined us for our first program of the year. Dr. Nama is also the author of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes & Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film.

Dr. Nama’s conversation focused on black racial identity and superheroes- from Storm, to Blade, to pop culture imagery of a hero-ified Barack Obama. Dr. Nama discussed constructed notions and myths about black racial formation.

Sept. 13, 2014

SuperHero SuperFun Action Fest

Calling all superheroes, comic fans, and fun people: join the Cassandra Voss Center for a drop-in day for all ages featuring hero-themed games, art projects, face painting, capes, and more. Reimagine heroes. Part of the Cassandra Voss Center’s yearlong focus on heroes, power, comics, and identity. Kapow!

Oct. 31, 2014

SkypeTacular! “Ms. Marvel and the League of Marvel Women Speak”

Sana Amanat is an Editor at Marvel Entertainment and co-creator of the internationally renowned Ms. Marvel, the first solo-series featuring a Muslim female superhero. Ms. Amanat develops and manages creative content for Marvel’s various publishing lines including the first African-American and Latino Spiderman, as well as the breakout hit Captain Marvel, a series that changed the image of the female super hero.

This second event in the three-part “SkypeTacular” series featured Ms. Marvel founder Sana Amanat and other women makers at Marvel in discussion about identity in the comics industry- from creating Muslim heroes to marketing biracial characters to making mass-consumed media content as women.

Nov. 7, 2014

“People of the Comic Book”: It’s a Man! Is He Jewish? It’s Supermensch!

Dr. Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa and is widely recognized as a founding figure in the field of Masculinities Studies. Brod has written and edited several books and speaks internationally on issues of masculinities, anti-racism and privilege, sexual consent, and Jewish studies. He is most recently the author of “Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way.”

Come learn how Clark Kent and Superman embody the real and fantasy lives of their creators, two Jewish teenagers in Depression era Cleveland as we explore themes of gendered power and powerlessness, of immigrant uncertainties & longings these men included in their superhuman creations.

Dec. 5, 2014

Flame On!': Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and Queer History of 'The Fantastic Four.'

Dr. Ramzi Fawaz is Assistant Professor of English at UW Madison. His work explores how traditionally underrepresented groups like women, queer folks, people of color, and the disabled use popular literature and culture to engage in American political life. His book The New Mutants: Comic Book Superheroes and Popular Fantasy in Postwar America is forthcoming, at NYU Press.

Join the conversation on how "The Fantastic Four" offered a key contribution to queer literary history in the 1960s by using the mutated bodies of its four heroes to depict the transformation of the normative types of the 1950s nuclear family - the breadwinning father, doting wife, and bickering male siblings - into icons of 1960s radicalism.

Feb. 19, 2015

 Guitar Hero Workshop: Write Lyrics Like you Mean It

Carrie Newcomer is a songwriter and performer who, as noted by Rolling Stone, “asks all the right questions.” From performances in Carnegie Hall to Kenya, from penitentiary workshops in Indiana to studying with classical masters in India, Newcomer’s eclectic repertoire melds social justice with skillful writing for a purpose.

This lunch writing workshop involved discussion about tools for driving home a message in your songs with lyrics that pack a punch and a voice that matters.

Friday, Feb. 27, 2015
3 p.m. 

 SkypeTacular! Behind the Mask: (Re)Creating the first Asian-American Superhero

Gene Luen Yang is a Chinese American writer and artist of comics and graphic novels. He has just written the comic for the first ever asian-american superhero, “The Shadow Hero.” His 2006 book American Born Chinese, named Best Comic of the Year by Publishers Weekly, is the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award.  His most recent book, “Boxers and Saints” has also been nominated for a National Book Award. Yang has also written for the series “Avatar: the Last Airbender” and his life as a Catholic and a former schoolteacher have greatly influenced his work. Yang teaches at Hamline University as part of their MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Gene Luen Yang discusses racial identity in comic books and how to illustrate it all to a national audience.

March 4, 2015

 Human Library

Featured community members as "books." Don't Judge a Book by its Cover!

March 6, 2015

 Gender & Comics: The Hero you Think you Need

The Lady Drawers Comics Collective researches, performs, and publishes comics and texts about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender impact the comics industry, other media, and our culture at large. Their comics journalism has been featured nationally in The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Chicago Reader, Bitch, and Jezebel. With art that is research-oriented and evidence based- the Collective strives to think about the world we live in and reimagine comics that represent & explore a multiplicity of identities rather than a narrow one.

Featured Professor Anne Elizabeth Moore.

March 27, 2015

 Power Yak 2015

Featured Kavita Carlson

Speed networking with Green Bay women leaders & SNC women students in STEM.

April 20-24, 2015

 bell hooks Residency 2015

Featured bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, and Beth Richie

May 9, 2015

 Power to the Pen: OpEd Project Workshop

Featured Deborah Siegel, Ph.D.

2013-14 Program Theme

Year of bell hooks

This year of programming is centered around feminist scholar, bell hooks. The Year of bell hooks will explore different aspects of her work and create a dialogue on the issues of racism, sexism, classism, love and violence. The Cassandra Voss Center is thrilled to conclude the Year of bell hooks with a two-day long panel with bell hooks.

You Don't Know MACK[lemore]

An analysis. A contest. A response.

4 Macklemore Concert Tickets were the Grand Prize for a student who submitted an analysis of a selected Macklemore song via an essay, creative writing, art, music, dance, or any other proposed medium. The winner was selected after applicants presented their arguments and analysis of a Macklemore song, featuring scholarly journals and news pieces, to a panel of judges.

Lean In: Is that what it takes?

Book discussion

Reel to Real: "42: The Jackie Robinson Story"

A movie screening, discussion and treats.

Trans 101

This series featured Professor Helen Boyd of Lawrence University. Professor Boyd led a book discussion of her work, "She's Not the Man I Married." Additionally, she gave a public talk focusing on transgender issues, specifically focused on issues on campus and in the classroom. 

Writing Beyond Race

Book discussion led by St. Norbert alum, Billy Korinko ’09.

Unlearning Homophobia

Talk by St. Norbert alum, Billy Korinko '09.

Prof, PJs and the Prez

A reading of children's books by feminist scholar, bell hooks and President Kunkel of St. Norbert College.

"Fear of Black Bodies and the Problem of Whiteness"

George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University, shared a lecture co-sponsored by the Killeen Chair & the Cassandra Voss Center. His lecture discussed race, whiteness, and philosophy as it applies to primarily white colleges.

Undergraduate Research Forum Presentation

Featured George Yancy 

year of bell hooks

In its inaugural year, the Cassandra Voss Center presented programs that celebrate bell hooks, the prolific scholar, social justice advocate, feminist and canonical writer, culminating with her visit to St. Norbert College.

Power Yak 2014

Keynote by Celestine Jeffreys, Networking Facilitated by CVC staff. 

 Home Base

The Cassandra Voss partnered with the Sport & Society Conference at St. Norbert College to bring players from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to visit campus.