The Office of Equity & Diversity will host Diversity Fair IV: Move It! The Exploration of Human Rights Movements on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the DeNaples Center. 

Throughout history, human-powered movements have been an effective vehicle for advancing the discourse on issues of democracy, social justice and human rights. This year’s Diversity Fair invites the University community, neighbors and friends to examine historical and current examples of social movements as everyday people have and continue to transform themselves into agents of change. 

Diversity Fair will offer several interactive workshop presentations and informational exhibits centered on the human rights theme. The program schedule s as follows:

9:30 a.m. 
Registration in the DeNaples 4th floor lobby. Registration is also ongoing throughout the day. 

10 a.m.
Welcome - DeNaples Theater 401

10:15 a.m.
The Freedom Riders: The American Civil Rights Movement-short film -"Soundtrack for a Revolution" and discussion, Morey Myers, Esq., Civil Rights Defense Attorney – DeNaples Theater 401

11:30 a.m.
Native American Music performance-Frank LittleBear, DeNaples Ballroom 407

Noon
Concurrent sessions:
– Rights for Indigenous Peoples, Frank LittleBear-Cree Tribe, DeNaples Center, room 405 
– Mental Health and the Law-Colleen Phillips, Lackawanna County Mental Health Court, Coordinator, and Marie Onukiavage, Executive Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) PA  Scranton Chapter, DeNaples Center, room 406

1:30 p.m. 
Capital Punishment post Troy Davis-Kathleen Lucas, Executive Director for Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (PADP), DeNaples Theater 401

3 p.m.  
"Soundtrack for a Revolution" - full screening of a documentary film depicting the conditions in America during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, 67 minutes. DeNaples Theater 401

An exhibit hall will be open in the DeNaples Center's fourth-floor ballroom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Theme areas of exhibits include: American Civil Rights, Women's Rights. LGBTQ Rights,  Military Service & human rights efforts, disAbilities and human rights, international pro-democracy movements, rights for Indigenous peoples, rights within the American justice system, and more. 

It's not too late for students to submit their  artistic representation of diversity to the Diversity Fair student art competition. First place is $140 and the artwork will bedisplayed in the Diversity Office; second place is $75; third place is $50. Art should be a wall hanging between the dimensions of 19.5 X 16.5" or 32.75 X 24.375", landscape or portrait. Please submit your artwork to the Office of Equity and Diversity, first-floor Molecular Biology Institute, no later than Nov. 2.

Admission is free and open to the public. Attendees will enjoy free sportpacks, activities and multicultural cuisine and music. For more information, contact diversity@scranton.edu or 570-941-6645.