Dialogue Across Difference – Office for Faculty Excellence

Dialogue Across Difference: Acting (Out): Language and Power in the Classroom

seninav — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:58:06 +0000

This workshop, led by Dr. Fiona Harris-Ramsby, establishes a methodology for incorporating linguistic and cultural awareness into classroom and scholarly contexts. Participants will engage in exercises designed to enhance linguistic and cultural sensitivity. The workshop aims to give visibility to language norms that are often taken for granted and models the integration of societal topics into one’s teaching and research.

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Dialogue Across Difference: Fostering Civil Discussion After the Election

seninav — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:17:32 +0000

Drawing on different disciplinary traditions, Emily Isaacs (Writing and Rhetoric), Jessica Brater (Theater), and Patricia Virella (Education) will share their strategies for building connections and fostering dialogue. We will also review and discuss what to do when things go awry and suddenly the room feels very hot. How do we diffuse difficult moments without sweeping important conversations under the rug? We hope this will be a participant-active panel and a place where instructors can share their challenges and dilemmas.

This event is included in the Dialogue Across Difference Series, offered in AY24–25 for and by faculty as part of an initiative by to nurture civil discourse, which President Koppell recently joined.

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This event is co-sponsored by the OFE and the Office of the President.

Dialogue Across Difference: Engaging Strategies that Center and Embrace Differences in the Classroom

seninav — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:12:56 +0000

This roundtable addresses the importance of centering and embracing differences in the classroom. Panelists will talk about best practices and provide examples used in their classroom. This panel will be interactive, so attendees are welcome to bring questions and suggestions.

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Speakers:

Dr. Jason Williams is a Professor of Justice Studies at ��vlog. He’s a passionate activist criminologist deeply concerned about racial and gender disparity and mistreatment within the criminal legal system. He’s published various articles on returning citizens and incarceration, policing and race, gender, and social control, and the broader implications around racialized social control. He is a qualitative criminologist who engages in community-grounded approaches to research. His perspectives and research has been quoted by media outlets around the nation.

Sandra Bodin-Lerner is a communication coach with a background in instructional design. Her focus is in interpersonal and public communication skills training including listening, speaking, leadership, and presentation technique. She has been teaching the MSU Listening course since 2015. The listening course studies what constitutes effective listening: why it is crucial; what makes it so difficult to achieve; and methods to develop communication competency to enhance work; academic; romantic; familial; and social relationships.

��Ƿɲ��첹,��ʳ�.��. is a cultural and oral historian of women exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, migration, memory, and postmemory. Founding Director of the InternationalAssociation for Spielrein Studies, and recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant. Her most recent book is an edited anthology,��Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge, 2024). In her current research project, she uses archival materials and interviews to reconstruct biographies of Polish Jewish women psychoanalysts who fled the Nazis to the United States. She focuses on their accounts of the past, and the retellings of their stories of loss and survival by their children and grandchildren. Klara is an Adjunct Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at ��vlog