Monday, January 25th | Session Titles & Presenters |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Join: Elevate Opening AssemblyRemarks by President Katherine Bergeron, Dean John McKnight, Chaplain Angela Nzegwu, and a poetry reading by Kate Rushin Audience: Anyone |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Join: Eboo PatelEboo Patel will speak on the topic of spirituality as a form of social change. For over 15 years he has worked with governments, social sector organizations, and college and university campuses to help make interfaith cooperation a social norm. Audience: Anyone |
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Concurrent Sessions | Block One |
– | Promoting Anti-Racist Learning Contexts From the ARC to STEM as a White Staff and/or Faculty Member, Part I Paul Madden, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Connecticut College Audience: Faculty and Staff Join Session
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– | Dialogue as a Mechanism for Social Change Camila Adrianzén Yndigoyen '23 & Ana Ostrovsky '23, Student Co-Coordinators of the Agnes Gund '60 Dialogue Project Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | What Lies Within: Dancing with Race & Identity Sarah Carlson '94, Founder & Artistic Director of DanceLink Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | Interfaith Coalition Building Noah Silverman '04, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Interfaith Youth Core Audience: Anyone Join Session |
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions | Block Two |
– | Promoting Anti-Racist Learning Contexts From the ARC to STEM as a White Staff and/or Faculty Member, Part II Paul Madden, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Connecticut College Audience: Faculty and Staff Join Session
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– | Green Dot Training Stanton Ching, Margaret W. Kelly Professor of Chemistry, and Rachel Stewart, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy Audience: Faculty and Staff Join Session |
– | Roundtable Discussion: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Professionals Erica Lovett '14, Jonathan McBride '92, Liza Talusan '97, and Frank Tuitt '87; Moderated by Ebony Manning '98 and Maurice Tiner '17 Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | How to Write an Anti-Racism Action Plan Kasey Catlett, Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, College of the Holy Cross Download Guidebook Audience: Anyone Join Session |
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Join: Charlene CarruthersCharlene Carruthers is a strategist, author and a leading organizer in today’s Black liberation movement. Charlene will discuss themes from her bestselling book, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Audience: Anyone |
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Join: Coded Bias with Shalini KantayyaFilmmaker Shalini Kantayya will present an exclusive screening of her feature documentary, Coded Bias, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Ammerman Center will host a talk back with Shalini Kantayya following the film, moderated by Linnéa Hussein, visiting assistant professor of Film Studies and Ammerman Center Faculty Fellow. Audience: Anyone |
Tuesday, January 26th | Session Titles & Presenters |
11:00 am - 12:15 pm | Concurrent Sessions | Block Three |
– | Activities and Frameworks for White Staff and/or White Faculty Members Looking to Advance Students' (and our own/Colleagues) Anti-Racist Identity Development, Part I Paul Madden, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Connecticut College Audience: Advanced Faculty and Staff Join Session |
– | In CONNversation: Dialogue Project Podcast Premiere Camila Adrianzén Yndigoyen '23 & Ana Ostrovsky '23, Student Co-Coordinators of the Agnes Gund '60 Dialogue Project Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | POCA Unpacked! Lyndon Inglis '24, Junice Caminero '24, Leslie Villegas '24, and Francis Sesenaya '24 Student Executive Board of People of Color Alliance (POCA) Audience: Anyone Join Session |
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions | Block Four |
– | Activities and Frameworks for White Staff and/or White Faculty Members Looking to Advance Students' (and our own/Colleagues) Anti-Racist Identity Development, Part II Paul Madden, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Connecticut College Audience: Advanced Faculty and Staff Join Session |
– | Global Engagement and Erasure on the Liberal Arts Campus sourav guha, Executive Director, Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | Dance as a Practice for Liberation: A Movement Workshop Celebrating Haiti's 216th Independence Day as the World's first Black-led Republic Shani Collins, Associate Professor of Dance and Truth Hunter, Visiting Instructor of Dance Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | Tools for Change: Community Organizing Basics for Campus Activism Erin Duran, Director of Gender and Sexuality Programs, Ariella Rotramel, Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies, and Rachel Stewart, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Advocacy Audience: Students Join Session |
2:35 pm - 3:50 pm | Concurrent Sessions | Block Five |
– | Towards an Anticolonial Stance in Critical Service Learning: Challenges and Possibilities Aurora Santiago Ortiz, J.D., doctoral candidate in social justice education, UMass-Amherst Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | Out at Work: An LGBTQIA Alumni Roundtable Kim-An Hernandez '99, Liana Douillet Guzmán '05, and Ivan Reynolds '17, moderated by Ricardo Lombera '22 Audience: Anyone Join Session |
– | Developing Intercultural Competence Through Story Circles Cara Masullo Ekwuabu, International Education Specialist, Lauren O'Leary, Walter Commons Coordinator, and Melissa Ryan, Associate Director of the Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement, Connecticut College Audience: Anyone Join Session |
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm | Plenary Session: Jonathan MooneyJonathan Mooney, a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, will share themes from his best-selling book, Normal Sucks, which offers the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed. Audience: Anyone Join Session |
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Film Screening: Virtually Free with André Robert Lee '93Filmmaker and Conn alum, André Robert Lee '93, will offer a private screening of his newest film called Virtually Free about incarcerated youth in Richmond, Virginia. Moderated by Shameesha Pryor '17 Audience: Anyone Join Session |
