Annelle Primm, deputy medical director and director of minority and national affairs, American Psychiatric Association, will give the 1st Annual Tana Grady-Weliky Lecture on Women and Diversity in Medicine.

This presentation will provide an overview of issues related to diversity in the health care workforce and disparities in health and health care. Influential reports pertaining to diversity, disparities, and cultural competence issued over the past decade will be discussed. In addition, the impact of health care reform on diversity and disparities will be covered.

Sponsored by the School of Medicine and Dentistry Office for Diversity, Office of Medical Education and the Department of Psychiatry. To register for this lecture, contact Grace Fuller at grace_fuller@urmc.rochester.edu. Open to faculty, staff, residents and fellows.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with performances in both tradition and modern forms of Chinese cultural expressions. Sponsored by the Chinese Students' Association. Tickets are $5 University of Rochester students; and $7 general public.

Thomas Pearson, senior associate dean and clinical research and director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, gives a talk on "Diversity in Science."

For more information on the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, visit www.urmc.rochester.edu/ctsi.

'Members of the Collective Gran Fury in Conversation' in conjunction with the AIDS posters exhibit:

Gran Fury, an affinity group of ACT UP, created iconic images that branded the AIDS activist movement in the late 1980s and early 90s. Responding to the Reagan Administration?s silence about AIDS, as well as to the stigmatization of people with HIV, Gran Fury sought to make visible the social and political dimensions of the pandemic. Beginning with Xeroxes and wheat paste, they plastered flyers throughout downtown Manhattan in conjunction with ACT UP demonstrations. Eventually, with funding from art institutions, they designed billboards for conventional ad spaces. With stylish, smart and provocative text and image,

Gran Fury sought to commander attention to advance the public discourse around AIDS. Collective members Loring McAlpin and John Lindell will show images of Gran Fury?s work, some of which are featured in the exhibition Picturing AIDS and Its Publics: Educational Posters from the Atwater Collection, on view in the Rush Rhees Library?s Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.

This talk is free and open to the public.

Stephanie Li, assistant professor of English, will discuss her research on racial discourse in the age of President Barack Obama.

This talk is free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs, the College Diversity Rountable, and Shadowing the History and Diverse Environments of Students (SHADES).

Join the Susan B. Anthony Institute to place flowers on Susan B. Anthony's grave at Mt. Hope Cemetery in honor of her birthday, and then enjoy some cake and conversation back on campus in Lattimore 540! If you'd like to attend, please email sbai@rochester.edu for more details.

Panel discussion on Haiti with past Frederick Douglass Institute fellow Millery Polyne, New York University. "After/Shock: Haiti, History and the Politics of Newness."

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at www.rochester.edu/College/AAS.

Get tips for reducing debt, budgeting, saving, and breaking the chains of living paycheck to paycheck.

For information, email africanamericannetwork@urmc.rochester.edu or call (585) 276-3259, ext. 2. African-American Network website.

"Lifting the Veils of Secrecy and Shame - Homophobia and African American Communities of Faith"

Documentary: All God's Children presents a political, social, and religious analysis of sexual orientation within the context of the traditional African American values of freedom, inclusion, and the Christian ethic. Through the voices of politicians, religious leaders, academics, family members, and activists, All God's Children vividly illustrates the human toll exacted upon society by the unspoken stigmatization and alienation of lesbians and gay men.

Guest Respondent:  Stanley Byrd, manager, Human Resources-Multicultural Affairs and Inclusion, University of Rochester

Film screening of a segment of A Force More Powerful, a film that looks at how nonviolence campaigns have been effective in creating change throughout history. The film will be followed by a lecture by Lawson, who was a leading theoretician and taqctician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more events, visit http://bethechangerochester.org/events-calendar.

Takkara Brunson, Frederick Douglass Institute fellow, will present her research "Remnants of Slavery on the Eve of Independence: Afro-Cuban Women Define Freedom, 1886-1900."

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided, please RSVP to sbai@rochester.edu.

Humanist scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, gives a talk "African Identities."

This talk is free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies.

Image courtesy of Princeton University, Office of Communications

"Wearing the Mask at Work and the Effects It Has on Your Life"

This panel discussion is open to all. For information, email africanamericannetwork@urmc.rochester.edu or call (585) 276-3259, ext. 2. African-American Network website.

This is a portrait of the legendary African-American leader, Adam Clayton Powell. Sponsored by the College Diversity Roundtable and the Office of Minority Student Affairs. This video screening is open to all.

Ognian Hishow, senior research associate, German Institute for Interanational and Security Affairs, Berlin. "The Debt Crisis and the Bumpy Road Ahead: Is Europe Stretched Too Thin?"

One and a half years after the European debt crisis unfolded there is little progress in solving it. Unless the fundamentals of the Eurozone are addressed, economists predict a prolonged period of sluggish growth and social tensions in many member states. Some commentators do not rule out a break-up of the Eurozone. The challenges ahead are amplified by the simultaneous increase in expected lifespan and in the average age of the population. An age of diminishing expectations is looming.

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. For lunch reservations, call the Skalny Center at (585) 275-9898 or e-mail bozenna.sobolewska@mail.rochester.edu, by February 16.

The Distinguished Visiting Humanists Series at the University presents Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University. "Islam and the West." A reception will follow in the Welles-Brown Room.

This talk is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.rochester.edu/college/visitinghumanist/2012.

Image courtesy of Princeton University, Office of Communications

As educators and artists, Foundation Movement members Banjineh "Optimus" Browne and Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano use hip-hop music as a vehicle to address issues of injustice and oppression, while spreading a message of peace and positive change.

The Foundation Movement will run a series of workshops with the Youth Activists before performing. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. For more events, visit http://bethechangerochester.org/events-calendar.

GlobeMed at University of Rochester is hosting a benefit dinner themed "Hope in Health: the Next Generation of Leaders." All proceeds benefit Kallpa Iquitos, a grassroots community development organization in Iquitos, Peru. The dinner is open to members of the University (including students and faculty) and members of the Rochester community and will feature a speaker from Discovering Deaf Worlds. The dinner is co-sponsored by ASL Club.

The catered dinner will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Meliora on the University of Rochester River Campus (500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard) and will begin at 5:30 pm. Tickets cost $10 for UR undergraduate students and $15 for the general public. Attendees can RSVP, purchase tickets, and/or donate to the cause online at http://rochesterglobemed.wordpress.com/benefit-dinner/ by February 18th, or buy tickets at the Common Market from February 20 to the 25th. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

GlobeMed is a student-driven, non-profit organization that aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to work together to improve the health of the impoverished around the world.