The Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies will relaunch Clark’s Difficult Dialogues series, a space for the campus to explore all sides of, and hold face-to-face conversations about, current, often divisive, topics. Going forward, the series will focus on, and be renamed, Difficult Dialogues on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Updates
Updates as of March 30, 2022
- The Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies held the first of a four-part Difficult Dialogue series starting on March 24, 2022. Student facilitators led a discussion covering topics including: “How do we create meaningful relationships across difference?” and “What are the challenges of, and possibilities for cross-racial relationships at Clark amongst students, faculty, and staff?”
Updates as of May 4, 2021
- The Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies launched Difficult Dialogues on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in May 2021, with the initial series focused on “Racial Microaggressions, Macro-Impact”; “Intervening and Interrupting”; and “Care and Healing.” The series aims to create a space for inter- and intra-group engagement on the intersecting issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, nationality, and other locations of inequity on Clark’s campus and beyond. It aims to be a sustainable and generative space where differently-positioned community members can ask questions and engage in dialogue with integrity, care, and reflexivity. The receives support from the President’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fund.