Mondays at noon, Lawrence 305
Please join fellow students, faculty, and staff for a 5-week series of dialogues on issues of identity, diversity, and inclusion at Colgate, based in the principles of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD)*.
January 25 – “Ohmigod I’m White”
Allie Fry (Program Assistant, Women’s Studies) and Christelle Boursiquot (Outreach Programming Coordinator, ALANA Cultural Center)
Feb. 1 – “Seeing is believing? Hidden Disabilities at College”
Ashley Taylor (Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Studies)
Feb. 8 – “Interrupting Islamophobia”
Esther Rosbrook (Administrative Assistant, Romance Languages and Literature), Aisha Musa (Assistant Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)
Feb. 15 – “Restorative Justice, A Dialogue on the Interconnectedness of Wrongdoing”
Tamala Flack (Director of Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action)
Feb. 22 – “Moving from Dialogue to Action”
khristian kemp-delisser (Assistant Dean/Director of LGBTQ Initiatives)
*Intergroup dialogue (IGD, sometimes called intergroup relations, or, IGR) is a method of inquiry that promotes active listening and constructive dialogue around difficult topics such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, and other important issues. Both facilitators and participants remain attentive to cognition and emotion, commonalities and differences, individual perspectives and systemic realities. Although some sustained intergroup dialog groups meet for anywhere from two days to fourteen weeks, the pedagogies it has inspired can be applied fruitfully to single-session discussions.