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Courageous Conversation with Tammy Hodo: “Implicit Bias and Microaggressions Taking Place on Campus”

Virtual

We have seen in the news students getting harassed at school by friends and sometimes teachers. A student at Yale had a suitemate call the police because she fell asleep in the common area. A professor called the police on another professor when the other person was just eating lunch in the classroom before class started.

These are all examples of microaggressions. It can happen in classrooms due to power differentiation, identity, and lack of interaction. In this conversation, we will talk about these everyday subtle comments people say that hurt members of marginalized communities. It is important to also talk about implicit bias because it is something that everyone has and may not even know is a problem.

Free

Lecture by Madeline Miller

Virtual

A virtual lecture by author Madeline Miller, whose first novel, "The Song of Achilles," was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, "Circe," was an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Before she was a novelist, Miller earned her BA and MA in classics from Brown University, and she taught and tutored Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students for more than 15 years. Her novels have been translated into over 25 languages, and her essays have appeared in the Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Lapham's Quarterly, and on NPR.

Free

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