Focus on Bias: 1.31.19
The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on Implicit Bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows.
Podcast of the Week: Hidden Brain’s Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender – https://www.npr.org/2018/11/19/669192536/nature-nurture-and-our-evolving-debates-about-gender. This podcast takes about 53 minutes to listen to and goes over what constructs gender.
Article of the Week: Americans Want to Believe Jobs are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not – https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html. This article explores the myth that many Americans are poor because they don’t work hard enough and explores many of the biases we have read about in the past few months.
Upcoming Trainings, Workshops, & Events
(Newly added events are bolded)
- We the People: Expanding the Circle of Citizenship for Public Lands – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/133302 (January 31)
- Black O’Clock: The Experience – https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132423 (January 31)
- CCWT: Experiences of Hmoob American Undergraduate Students – https://wcer.wisc.edu/events/detail/center-for-research-on-college-workforce-transitions-spring-2019-seminar-se (February 1)
- Imani Winds Concert – https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/imani-winds/ (February 1)
- Forces of Nature Dance Theater – https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132424 (February 1)
- 22nd Annual Evening of Storytelling – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132418 (February 1)
- The Hate U Give Movie Screening at Union South – https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/the-hate-u-give-2018/ (February 1-3)
- YWCA Restorative Justice Workshops – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/restorative-justice/restorative-justice-workshops/ (February 4, March 4)
- Beyond Diversity I Seminar – http://www.thenetworkwi.com/calendar/2019/2/5/beyond-diversity-i-seminar (February 5-6)
- Emotional Intelligence: Putting Your EQ to Work – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Building Inclusion@UW–Madison (February 6)
- Integration Beyond Numbers: Getting Along and Working Together in a Multiethnic Neighborhood – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132706 (February 6)
- University Archives Open House: Black Student Strike at the UW–Madison – https://www.library.wisc.edu/archives/2019/01/28/university-archives-open-house-black-student-strike-at-the-uw-madison/ (February 6)
- Paint Your Protest – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132535 (February 7)
- African American Pioneers, Within Our Gates Film – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132537 (February 7)
- The Power of the Crown Photoshoot – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132546 (February 9)
- Black History Month Art-Spin – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132538 (February 9)
- The 50 Strong March – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132547 (February 11)
- A Recollection of the 1969 Black Student Strike – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132548 (February 11)
- YWCA Racial Justice Workshops – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/race-gender-equity/racial-justice-workshops/ (February 12, February 27, March 13)
- Poetry Speaks: A Response to Nathaniel Mary Quinn – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/133084 (February 15)
- An Evening with Angela Rye – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132785 (February 20)
- FRANÇOISE VERGÉS: Liquid Decolonial: Seas, Oceans, and Rivers in the Age of Racial Anthropocene – https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/129104 (February 20)
- African American Pioneers: The Learning Tree – https://www.chazen.wisc.edu/index.php?/events-calendar-demo/event/african-american-pioneers-the-learning-tree-with-talk-by-steve-ryfle/ (February 21)
- 14th Annual Evening of Style & Grace – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132576 (February 22)
- Moonshine Concerts – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132573 & http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132577 (February 22)
- International Festival at the Overture Center – https://www.overture.org/programs/international-fest (February 23)
- Celebrating Legacy: The Family Reunion – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132578 (February 28)
- African American Women: Femininity and Strength – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/133088 (February 28)
- Gender & Women’s Studies Colloquium Series (https://crgw.gws.wisc.edu/colloquium-series/)
- Rethinking Interdependence: Desiring Messy Dependency – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/127410 (February 28)
- Listening for the Afro-Future: What Can’t Bodies Hold – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/127411 (March 28)
- Black on the Midwestern Frontier: From Slavery to Suffrage in Wisconsin – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/127412 (April 25)
- 11th Annual UW–Madison Outstanding Women of Color Reception – https://diversity.wisc.edu/event/11th-annual-uw-madison-outstanding-women-of-color-reception/ (March 5)
- Flavors of the World – https://iss.wisc.edu/event/flavors-of-the-world-4-2/2019-03-05/ (March 5)
- Approaching MLK’s Dream: Scientifically Tested Methods to Reduce Racism and Promote Inclusivity – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/133208 (March 5)
- Beyond Diversity II Seminar – http://www.thenetworkwi.com/calendar/2019/3/6/beyond-diversity-ii-seminar (March 6-7)
- White Privilege Conference – https://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/ (March 20-23)
- National Diversity Council Women in Leadership Symposium – https://diversity.wisc.edu/event/national-diversity-council-women-in-leadership-symposium-2/ (March 27)
- Building Inclusion@UW: Disability Awareness and Ableism – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Building Inclusion@UW–Madison (April 4)
- MSAN Institute – http://msan.wceruw.org/conferences/institute.html (April 15-16)
- Flavors of the World – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132285 (April 17)
- Division of Continuing Studies – Honoring Our Common Differences Course: https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/classes/honoring-common-differences/ (April 23)
- ETHEL and Robert Mirabal Concert – https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/ethel-and-robert-mirabal/ (April 25)
- UW–Madison Women & Leadership Symposium – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx (July 2)
- YWCA Racial Justice Summit – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/race-gender-equity/racial-justice-summit/ (October 15 & 16)