Please join us for our 6th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium on March 28-29, 2013. I am pleased to announce that our 2013 Keynote Kickoff speaker will be Rebecca Walker, author of To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, Black, White, and Jewish and Baby Love, and daughter of Alice Walker. She will speak on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel. The Keynote Kickoff is free and open to the public. Friday’s full day of Symposium panels and workshops created for UVM Faculty and Staff is focused on expanding our understanding of cultures and the growing identities that help foster civility, conversations, and inclusive behaviors in higher education. Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University and author of Racism Without Racists, will be the luncheon keynote speaker.
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