Current Seminar

Enroll for the 1-credit D/I/P seminar through Spire. The course is listed in Geosciences (GEO-SCI 595P). You’re also welcome to join without enrolling – contact Forrest Bowlick for more information.

Fall 2021 Outline

Week 1 (September 8): Introductions, developing community discussion guidelines, brainstorming future discussion topics

Week 2 (September 13): Sociology of Racism (Clair and Denis 2015) – part of Unlearning Racism in Geosciences (URGE)

Week 3 (September 20): University structures, power dynamics, and imagining alternatives (excerpts from Beyond Education, Meyerhoff 2019)

Week 4 (September 27): Malka Older: What We Believe About Our Institutions: World-making and discussion of our goals and needs in academia

Week 5 (October 4): Exploring interlocking systems of domination (excerpts from In the Guise of Civility: The Complicitous Maintenance of Inferential Forms of Sexism and Racism in Higher Education, Patton 2004)

Week 6 (October 11): no class – Indigenous People’s Day

Week 7 (October 18):

Week 8 (October 25):

Week 9 (November 1):

Week 10 (November 8):

Week 11 (November 15):

Week 12 (November 22):

Week 13 (November 29):

Week 14 (December 6): Semester synthesis and wrap-up

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