Arab and Muslim DEI on College Campuses: Repairing the Ruptures
October 10, 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Richard J. Daley Library Room 1470
Address
801 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
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The Global Middle East Studies Minor (GMES) and the Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster (MEMS) at UIC invite you to
Arab and Muslim DEI on College Campuses: Repairing the Ruptures
with Dr, Evelyn Alsultany
"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" initiatives have created opportunities of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) students and Muslim students. Yet such efforts can be rendered meaningless when these same students are targeted for their ace, religion, or expression of free speech on college campuses. In this talk, Dr. Evelyn Alsutlany will review examples of DEI initiatives that have created more inclusive campuses for MENA and Muslim students. She will also review how such initiates fail when it comes to the politics of Israel and Palestine on college campuses. Central to this discussion will be the role of crises-such as Donald Trump's "Muslim ban" or the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza-in opening or closing opportunities for inclusion. How are diversity initiatives enhanced and foreclosed by crisis moments? How can university administrators create and maintain inclusive campus environments through politicized crises?
Dr. Alsutlany is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College and the author of Broken: the Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), one of the Chronicle of Higher Education's 10 best scholarly books of 2022.
Date posted
Sep 30, 2024
Date updated
Sep 30, 2024