Summary: During this session, participants will explore the question, "Do sports help or hinder race relations in the United States?" This interactive workshop will invite participants to consider the history of the idea of race, its association with athletics, and contemporary racial images and practices of sports fans, athletes, administrators, and reporters.
Summary: This session will help participants show how the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution is used to argue and decide cases dealing with all kinds of discrimination: race, age, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.
Summary: This workshop will challenge myths surrounding disability, while also providing information regarding disability etiquette. The workshop will include interactive scenarios as well as discussion.
Summary: This session will present a multimedia project categorizing the trip to the National Equality March, followed by a discussion of status of the LGTBIQ (lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual, intersex, and questioning) community in Montana.
Summary: Through discussion, presentation, interaction and role-playing, participants will experience the depth of oppression in the world related to trade and consumer practices, understand it from different perspectives, and be able to identify potential possibilities and personal actions to overcome it.
Summary: This engaging workshop will use hypothetical scenarios to address issues of police searches of a home and car, various forms of discrimination at school and work, silencing speech, and other issues. The workshop will provide a legal framework and practical guide to oppose undue invasion of private rights and to lift barriers to full participation in the community.
Summary: This session will discuss the definition of hazing and how it is related to fraternities and sororities as well as look at related incidents that do not happen on Greek Row.
Summary: Join Missoula AIDS Council for this conversational workshop that will discuss the current issues surrounding HIV criminalization in the U.S. and around the world. A brief overview of the topic will be followed by an interactive discussion.
Summary: Come learn why The University of Montana Western has always been considered a "homogenous white" school by accreditation teams, parents, and the community-but why students are telling us something different.
Summary: The UM Allies is a new program for UM employees designed to promote a more welcoming, safe and inclusive campus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and questioning (LGBTIQ) individuals and their heterosexual supporters. Attendees will learn more about the goals and objectives of the program and how they might become an Ally.
Summary: This presentation examines the challenges of individuals engaged in non-traditional careerfields (i.e. women and minorities in STEM-related and industrial technology-related careers and men in health professions). A panel of professionals will discuss their personal experiences and the obstacles and challenges in the workplace and in an educational setting for those entering these careers. The panel discussion is organized by the Department of Applied & Computing and Electronics and will involve faculty and staff from the Department of Industrial Technology and the Department of Health Professions.
Summary: The panel will focus on examining social, cultural, personal and emotional strategies for adapting to life at UM and in the Missoula community. Students will discuss their initial views of UM and Missoula as well as their individual strategies they have developed to assist them in coping.
Summary: Participants will have an open discussion about the Tunnel of Oppression. Bring your thoughts, questions, concerns and ideas.
Summary: This presentation will examine the media's treatment of Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Regina Benjamin, and others through news clips, magazine and newspaper articles, and internet sites. Using an intersectional analysis, this presentation will ask the audience to think about how gender, race, and ethnicity continue to be flashpoints in American politics.
Summary: Participants will hear a first-hand account about the change in one small German town since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Participants will also discuss lessons learned from the reunification of East and West Germany and see how it has been essential to building dialogue among European countries.
Summary: Visibility has always been a key part of the struggle within the LGTBIQ (lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual, intersex, questioning) community. LGTBIQ members face discrimination, ridicule and even violence when we choose to stand out and be recognized for who we are. This discussion group is open to all and will cover ways not only for LGTBIQ to be out but ways our straight allies can support us.
Summary: Participants will learn about an industry which leaves little to consumer's imagination when exposing the roles of women in horror movies, understanding the portrayal of women throughout advertising, and finally will understand social activism, concerning gender roles throughout different social settings, the household, work environment, and community.
Summary: Difference breeds conflict. Whether mundane or profound, it can lead to deeper conflict or to just resolution. Led by students of the Law School Mediation Clinic, this workshop is an introduction to mediation. How does mediation work What makes a good mediator? Should we mediate disputes with broader, social dimensions? Join us in this workshop and learn the potential and limits of mediation.
Summary: This session is moderated by Kathrine Herrera from the Center for Leadership Development and features input from three distinguished female leaders on campus. The topics that will be discussed are a woman's part in competition and collaboration, being a leader no matter what the situation, and becoming a self-assured individual.Presented By: Betsy Hawkins, Director of Human Resources, Arlene Walker- Andrews, Associate Provost, and Kathy Kuipers, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
Summary: The Associated Students of The University of Montana (ASUM) will examine and present on issues of diversity that are especially relevant to students at the University of Montana. Discussion will also focus on how students can promote anti-oppression and open conversation in and out of the classroom.
Summary: Faculty and students from the English department will discuss the struggles and successes of promoting diversity at UM, covering issues of curriculum, faculty relations, student/faculty/staff recruitment, and classroom dynamics. Participants will seek to outline a working set of principles to address this continuing challenge for all departments at UM.
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
Phone: (406) 243-5622
dayofdialogue@mso.umt.edu
