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Complaints, Diversity and Other Hostile Environments, Online lecture, University of Calgary

Courageous speaker series. 12 pm MDT and 6 pm GMT.

​​In this lecture I bring together ​stories about ​making complaints ​by academics and students of colour to show how universities remain hostile environments despite or even through official policies on diversity and inclusion.  I explain why doors keep coming up in stories of complaint with specific reference to the “diversity door." People of colour are assumed to enter that door, which is often shut by appearing to be open. The lecture explores how those who complain ​become​ strangers or suspects, "persons to be interrogated.”​ Complaints about hostile environments are made in hostile environments..

Details here (including link to register)

https://events.ucalgary.ca/oedi/#!view/event/event_id/246595

Earlier Event: March 16
Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories about Institutions, Online lecture, The Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University
Later Event: May 6
Knocking on the Door: Complaints and Other Stories About Institutions, Online lecture and discussion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois