Talk
Monday, May 22
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Kresge 1515
Ashley Bernett
The lecture will explore the coloniality of gender and its role in shaping masculinities that enable a culture of violence in the Caribean Ashley Bernett will discuss the ongoing interventions and proposed additional solution that both utilize gender transformative approaches in and through education to address gender-based violence in the Caribean.
Workshop
Friday, April 28
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Central Time
Workshop 2-4 pm – Round Table Discussion 4-5 pm
Using a major revision of a first-year German textbook as a backdrop, we will focus on the efforts required to produce a gender bias-free and inclusive textbook. We will provide hands-on examples of some of the issues involved, the pros and cons of various solutions, and the final decisions made by authors, consultants, and textbook publishers.
Talk
January 26, 2023
12-1:30 PM, Zoom Event
Register at: bit.ly/3GQI8S
Professor Maha Bali
This session will explore the Equity/Care matrix and its gender implications for language teaching, the praxis of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality and how it can be applied to enhance gender equity in the language classroom, and the ways we can enhance students’ criticality such as Women’s Ways of Knowing.
Talk
November 15, 2022
3:00-5:00 pm
Kresge 1515
Professor Kristin Syrett
This workshop will examine how we can and should create space for gender equity and inclusivity in our pedagogical practices, through the language of instruction, the materials we use to communicate concepts and field-specific phenomena, the language we use to outline our policies and practices, and through our manner of presentation.