Please join us for our 8th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium,
Inclusive Excellence at UVM: Building Our Collective Capacities, on
March 26 & 27, 2015. A provocative kickoff keynote presentation
and panel discussion on Real Talk About the N-Word and Other
Oppressive Language will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2015 from
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in the Dudley H. Davis Center. This
presentation will feature keynote speaker Dr. Emily Bernard and
panelists Dr. Lokangaka Losambe, Dr. Sarah Turner and Dr. Maeve
Eberhardt. This event is free and open to the public.
On Friday, March 27, 2015 there will be a full day of symposium
panels and workshops that are designed to support UVM faculty,
staff, and all others seeking to develop skills, knowledge, and a
deeper understanding of diversity that supports excellence in
teaching, service, and research. The symposium sessions are
dedicated to learning how to work well with others, to effectively
engage in cross-cultural contact, and to navigate the expanding
dimensions of diversity in order to promote inclusive excellence.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard
College of Columbia University and Co-chair of the GLAAD Board of
Directors, will be the keynote breakfast speaker. Ian Haney López,
John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California-
Berkeley and author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial
Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class will be
the luncheon keynote speaker.
For more information and to register, visit www.uvm.edu/~hrdma/blackboardjungle
-Blackboard Jungle Committee
