Emily Bernard, professor of English and interim director of UVM’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program, will kick off the Blackboard Jungle 8 Symposium “Inclusive Excellence at UVM: Building Our Collective Capacities” with a keynote lecture on Thursday, March 26 at 4 p.m. at the Dudley H. Davis Center Grand Maple Ballroom.
Bernard, an award-winning author whose essay “Teaching the N-Word” was named one of the year’s Best American Essays, will also take part in a panel discussion following her lecture on “Real Talk about the N-Word and Other Oppressive Language.” Panelists include UVM faculty members Lokangaka Losambe, the Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse professor of English; Sarah Turner, senior lecturer of English; and Maeve Eberhardt, assistant professor of linguistics.
The free lecture, organized by the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, precedes a full schedule of symposium workshops and panels on Friday, March 27 designed to support UVM faculty, staff, and others seeking to develop skills, knowledge, and a deeper understanding of diversity that supports excellence in teaching, service and research.
Presenters include Jennifer Finney Boylan, professor of English and the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence, Barnard College of Columbia University and Co-chair, Board of Directors, GLAAD, Inc.; Ian Haney Lόpez, the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California–Berkeley and author of Dog Whistle Politics. Registration is $20 for UVM employees and $30 for non-UVM employees.
Workshop topics and panels include:
• She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
• Furthering Allyhood and Campus Hate/Bias Bystander Intervention
• Collaborative Inquiry into White Privilege
• Intercultural Competence and Complexity in Practice
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
• Black Lives Matter: The Role and Responsibility of White People
• Stereotype Threat in Medical and Allied Health
• Queer People of Color and Their Intersecting Identities
To request a disability-related accommodation, please contact UVM Conference & Event Services: (802) 656-5665.
A professional development series “Working with Multilingual Student Writers” for UVM faculty, staff and administrators is scheduled for Monday, March 30 at 3 p.m. The second part of the series is slated for Wednesday, April 1 titled “Preparing Students to Work in Diverse Communities in Internships & Service-Learning.”
For more information, please visit the website: www.uvm.edu/~hrdma/blackboardjungle