Focus on Bias: 4.2.19

April 4, 2019

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. There are a lot of new events added this week, including a bunch for APIDA Heritage Month (which the calendar for is attached as well). Please look over the added events to see if any of them interest you! Video of the Week: What I Hear When You Say Code Words – https://www.pbs.org/whatihear/web-series/code-words/. This video is about 6.5 minutes, but the entire What I Hear When You Say series is worth watching if you have time. Article of the Week: Why Some Journalists Have A Hard Time Saying the Word ‘Racist’ by Gene Demby – https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/01/16/685980809/why-journalists-are-debating-using-racist-to-describe-rep-steve-kings-quotes. Upcoming Opportunity: Robin DiAngelo, author of “What Does it Mean to be White” will present a FREE keynote about her new book, “White Fragility”. There is currently a waitlist for this event, so if you’re interested, we recommend you register for the waitlist (sometimes they will create an additional event when the waitlist is really robust) – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/robin-diangelo-author-of-white-fragility-free-community-talk-tickets-59600702305?fbclid=IwAR1VHqaXyJZAwD7HnitnwSSqmfGdgQJjX7jGmFlDFwL-aBZvgL1JtBV9VhQ. Upcoming Trainings, Workshops, & Events (Newly added events are bolded) THIS MONTH

Building Inclusion@UW: Disability Awareness and Ableism – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Building Inclusion@UW–Madison (April 4)
A Kiki with Steven Canals – https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/an-evening-with-steven-canals/ (April 4)
Disrupting Biases: An Individual Commitment – https://www.facebook.com/events/2184027418320584/ (April 5)
An Evening with Jamaica Kincaid – https://www.facebook.com/events/731832633877098/ (April 8)
Daniel Colon-Ramos Talk – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/134469 (April 9)
2019 J. Jobe and Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa Lecture – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/133543 (April 11)
Divya Victor Reads From Her Work – https://felixreadingseries.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/divya-victor-reads-from-her-work-6pm-april-11-2019/ (April 11)
APIDA Art Night with Kay Barrett – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135374 (April 12)
Disability Justice 101 Workshop with Kay Barrett – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135375 (April 13)
An Indigenous Critique of Whiteness in Children’s Literature – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-may-hill-arbuthnot-honor-lecture-with-dr-debbie-reese-registration-56438776901 (April 13)
APIDA Gala – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135379 (April 13)
MSAN Institute – http://msan.wceruw.org/conferences/institute.html (April 15-16)
Disparities in Educational Attainment – https://www.uwalumni.com/event/public-policy-disparities-in-education/ (April 16)
Hmong Americans at UW Panel – See attached calendar (April 17)
Flavors of the World – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/132285 (April 17)
Social Justice Panel: Anti-Blackness in the APIDA Community – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135381 (April 19)
APIDA Heritage Month Keynote: Sahra Nguyen – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135382 (April 22)
Division of Continuing Studies – Honoring Our Common Differences Course: https://continuingstudies.wisc.edu/classes/honoring-common-differences/ (April 23)
Multimedia Storytelling for Activism Workshop with Sahra Nguyen – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/135383 (April 23)
ETHEL and Robert Mirabal Concert – https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/ethel-and-robert-mirabal/ (April 25)
Origin Story – Kulap Vilaysack in Person – See attached calendar (April 25)

Gender & Women’s Studies Colloquium Series (https://crgw.gws.wisc.edu/colloquium-series/)
- Black on the Midwestern Frontier: From Slavery to Suffrage in Wisconsin – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/127412(April 25)
Building LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Building Inclusion@UW–Madison (April 30)

FUTURE MONTHS

Deep Diversity Institute – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/race-gender-equity/deep-diversity-institute/ (May 21-23)
Systemic Bias Workshop – https://www.facebook.com/events/2196616410556944/ (June 7)
Thrive@UW–Madison: Creating Inclusive Work Environments – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Thrive@UW–Madison (June 11)
UW–Madison Women & Leadership Symposium – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx (July 2)
Facing Unconscious Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/343551876408960/ (September 13)
Microagressions – https://www.facebook.com/events/2201679926782194/ (October 11)

YWCA Racial Justice Summit – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/race-gender-equity/racial-justice-summit/(October 15 & 16)
Leveraging Science to Benefit Marginalized Populations – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/134600 (November 2)
UW–Madison Diversity Forum – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx?CK=64689 (November 5 & 6)
Courageous Conversations – https://www.facebook.com/events/2128007503887936/ (November 8)
Overcoming Recruiting Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/207624040119889/ (December 13)

If you know of any videos, podcasts, articles, events, etc. that would be perfect to include in these updates, please send them along to Erica Tisdale at erica.tisdale@wisc.edu.