DEI Events

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.

Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, & Feminist Studies presents multiple spring 2021 events.

First meeting will be movie-club!  David Greenberg will moderate a conversation on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble.

Come update your knowledge of gender variance and active allyship with Lindsay Jeffers (she/her), Assistant Director of Programming, the Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities.

Rutgers political historian David Greenberg, who is writing a biography of the late civil rights leader and congressman John R. Lewis, will discuss Lewis’s work in the civil rights movement, his transition to elected office, and the achievements that made him a national icon at the time of his death in July.