DEI Events

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Patient Engagement and Healthcare Communication symposium connect like-minded scholars and University community members as we discuss shared interest in improving healthcare in ways that promote inclusion and equity through provider-patient communication. This event features two keynote speakers who are experts in patient-provider communication with racially diverse patients. Their scholarship both documents and theorizes about how racism manifests in interactions between providers and their patients, exacerbating health inequities, and focuses on interventions to improve patient-provider communication (e.g., by reducing implicit bias). The symposium features two-panel discussions that cover essential topics centering on research and practice. Panel speakers represent the University and larger community. Symposium participants are invited to participate in discussions and poster presentations.

Please join us for a virtual colloquium on Wednesday, October 12 at 12:15-1:45 for a presentation by Dr. Jasmine Cobb entitled "New Growth or the Texture of Racial Capitalism."

We are excited to welcome our new faculty members to our community.

Vikki Katz will lead a discussion of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, recently published by Dara Horn and winner of this year's Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. 

Deepa Kumar will lead a discussion on the documentary "The Feeling of Being Watched" (available free online at Alexander library).

Yoni Rivera (COM) and Charles Senteio (LIS) will lead the discussion. This is a private school event.

Lauren Gagliardi will lead our discussion of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

A discussion panel "How to Put Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Action at the Libraries." Equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and practices have been discussed widely in the library world for several years. How can libraries go beyond talk? Panelists will discuss current issues and challenges in diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries including staffing, collections, services, and programming.

Using examples from their own research, organizing, and media work, Todd Wolfson and Chenjerai Kumanyika will discuss how Black Lives Matter is a response to long-held racial disparities. They will also explore how the movement has critiqued systemic racism in criminal justice and consider how this fight intersects with historic and contemporary labor struggles.

Conversation on the book Amateur. The conversation will be moderated by Emil Lawrence.