Courageous Conversations: Complaint, Diversity and Other Hostile Environments

Join us as we welcome Dr. Sara Ahmed, an independent feminist scholar and writer. Dr. Ahmed will join us for an online event where she will discuss her work on how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures.

In this lecture, Dr. Ahmed will 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. She explains 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.

Dr. Sara Ahmed, PhD, Independent scholar and writer, United Kingdom
Monday, March 22, 2021
12 p.m. (MST) - Online