Semester Activities

  MEET VISITING PROFESSOR: RELEBOHILE MOLETSANE

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Meet Visiting Professor: Relebohile Moletsane

Date: October 18, 2024
Time: 4 - 6 PM 
Location: Anderson School's McKinnon Center for Management (MCM 2110; 1922 Las Lomas Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106)
 

We write to invite you to meet Africana Studies Visiting Professor Relebohile Moletsane. Prof Moletsane is here for the month of October and she will be speaking to our cohort of first year students. All are welcome to join us for her talk and a reception.

Relebohile Moletsane is Professor and the JL Dube Chair in Rural Education in the School of Education and Pro Vice Chancellor: Social Cohesion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Moletsane’s research focuses on the use of participatory visual methodology with marginalised communities, rural education and development, girlhood studies, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).  Her current projects focus on sexual violence, gender transformation and climate change with girls and young women in rural communities. She is co-editor (with Claudia Mitchell) of the 2018 book, Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speak Back Through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence. Rotterdam: Brill/Sense Publishers; co-editor (with Lisa Wiebeisek, Astrid Treffry-Goately and April Mandrona) of the 2021 book: Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls and Young Women in Rural Communities. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books; and co-editor (with Claudia Mitchell and Katarina Giritlin) of Where am I in the Picture? Researcher Positionality in Rural Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2024). 

 

 

The HHMI program offers a variety of events and activities that change based on needs and interests each semester. See below for a sampling of potential events.


Activity/Event

Program orientation with faculty mentors and student mentees.

Program introduction: Study tools, time management, and making changes to your schedule.

Monthly workshops with topics such as financial literacy, navigating the academic landscape, career planning, restorative justice, etc.

Monthly 1:1 and/or small group meetings with student mentees and faculty/staff mentors.

Celebration of Africana Studies and UNM Black Faculty.

Monthly themes for thought and discussion.

Examples: 

Theme: Overcoming challenges
Falling down, and getting back up! What to do when you feel you have faltered and how to get back on track. 

Prompt: Discuss a time that you overcame a challenge as an undergrad student. What are your favorite UNM resources that can support our students aiming to get back on track or to advance their academic success?

Theme: Financial Capability
As undergraduate students and beyond.

Prompt: Did your socioeconomic status impact your undergrad experiences and your decision to go to graduate school? How? How did you face financial constraints as undergrads and how did you pay for grad school. What are lessons you would like to pass along?

Africana Studies and HHMI Reception.

Break out groups by area of study.

Presentation on mental health resources and library resources.

Presentation by AASS and SHAC on coping, social media activism, and being proactive during election season.