The Looking in the Mirror Series is presented by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Please see the full flyer attached.
What is Linguistic Diversity?
Friday, September 23rd, 12PM-1PM
Link to join online: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m61634c93ab398e0a43a5470fc589d67c
How can we strive to make our campus a more inclusive place for users of different languages and varieties? This session
will focus on the centrality of language to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access.
We will cover challenges such as linguistic bias, linguistic racism and discrimination, and linguistic microaggressions
as well as discuss strategies for actively creating linguistic inclusion, access
and equity across our campus community and beyond.
Speaker: Christine Mallinson, Director, Center for Social Science Scholarship Professor, Language, Literacy & Culture (LLC) Program
Featuring LLC Ph.D. Students: Kara Seidel, Lavon Davis, and James Wright
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Moving from Statement to Action: Land Acknowledgments in Practice
Friday, October 21st, 12PM-1PM
Link to join online: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m7d30f81327176cd9edf6a3e4a7d8ae2c
What does it mean for our UMBC community to have a Land Acknowledgement? This session will first offer a review of the
recent history behind institutional land acknowledgements, including often-voiced critiques of them. We will then discuss
the steps we have taken thus far tied specifically to UMBC's Land Acknowledgement, and converse about ways in which
UMBC can more actively engage Indigenous peoples in our community and in our work.
Speaker: Maggie Holland, Associate Professor & Undergrad Program Director, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
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Disagreeing in Public
Friday, November 18th, 12PM-1PM
Link to join online: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m69fb51d0a020c8cb5e1956dbebda44df
How can we engage in meaningful debates in online spaces such as Twitter and offline spaces such as the classroom
without inflicting emotional and physical harm on ourselves and others? This conversation will draw lessons from the
historical development of modern technologies (from radio and television to the internet) to critically reflect on contemporary dynamics of disagreeing in public. By centering the long-standing hierarchies of who gets to speak, when, and
where, we will also shed light on the shifting discourse of "cancel culture."
Recommended pre-workshop screening: Fifteen Minutes of Shame
Speakers: Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor, Dept. of Media and Communication Studies, and Liz Patton, Associate Professor, Dept. of
Media and Communication Studies
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Looking in the Mirror is sponsored by College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS)
Questions? Please contact Fan Yang, Associate Professor, Dept. of Media and Communication Studies, at fanyang@umbc.edu.