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To celebrate a season of fun in the snow, the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center announces the opening of its new exhibition, “It’s All Downhill: Alpine Skiing in the U.P.” This fun, multi-media exhibition will open on Saturday, January 21 at 12 p.m. It will be on display until April 1 and is free and open to the public. The Beaumier Center is located in Gries Hall at the corner of 7th St.
The UNITED Conference is Northern's day of diversity education. This conference is designed to bring both the NMU community and the greater Marquette community together to learn and dialogue around diversity, equity, & inclusion.
In this session, Kenton, Callie and members of the GVSU Athletics Laker Inclusion Team will share about their process of activating engagement in Athletics around inclusion and equity. They will discuss the framework that has guided these efforts as well as successes and areas of resistance.
Dr. Romero is an immigrant, Latinx, non-binary scholar who has integrated LGBTQ+ and gender-non conforming identities into their language classroom. In their presentation, they will discuss some of the best and worst practices for scholars who wish to integrate these and other affirming practices in their pedagogical approach.
Virginia Keeler is a Deaf artist, born and raised in Michigan, who has experienced firsthand the consequences of audism, language deprivation, and ableism. This testimony wishes to illuminate the everyday struggles and consequences of romantization of disabilities, as well as the complete lack of knowledge regarding to the Deaf world and culture.
Collecting more and better data centered on LGBTQ+ identity is essential to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ people yet there remains a persistent lack of routine and well designed data collection — leaving the challenges facing LGBTQ+ communities unknown to the greater population.
NMU participates in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) every two years including a topical set of questions on inclusiveness and engagement with diversity. NMU's Institutional Effectiveness team will present on how this information is used and share findings from the most recent data collection cycle.
Imposter syndrome is the inability to internalize a sense of accomplishment, often leaving people feeling like a fraud, unworthy, incompetent, or undeserving which can become. The workshop will take the form of small group discussions exploring anonymous personal narratives surrounding experiencing, upholding, and disrupting imposter syndrome.
The Huron Mountain Club is a private club on a contiguous tract of woodland located within the Huron Mountains region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 30 miles northwest of the city of Marquette. The Club lands include unpaved roads to access a network of interior lakes and streams as well as trails to other points of interest.
This session, with a focus for educators, explores the use of arts-based self-study to understand identity construction in the effort to dismantle racism and other systemic barriers in education. Two key moments are presented from the author's self-study research to examine the role of memory and emotion in the development of complex, nuanced antiracist identity.
M. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) says that “our stories explain us, justify us, sustain us, humble us, and forgive us. And sometimes they injure and destroy us” (169). The stories that others tell about us can do the same: sustain and humble us, but also injure and destroy us.
Dr. Carter Wilson will share his personal journey through two major schools of thought--critical theory and critical race theory. These schools of thought provided the intellectual foundation for his (Gustavus Myer) award winning book, Racism from Slavery to Advanced Capitalism. Dr. Wilson will explain why there is a right-wing, racist political assault on these two schools of thought
Nyshell dreamed of building a creative safe space where Black women can feel seen and celebrated.
Virginia Keeler is a Deaf artist, born and raised in Michigan, who has experienced firsthand the consequences of audism, language deprivation, and ableism. This testimony wishes to illuminate the everyday struggles and consequences of romantization of disabilities, as well as the complete lack of knowledge regarding to the Deaf world and culture.
This session, with a focus for educators, explores the use of arts-based self-study to understand identity construction in the effort to dismantle racism and other systemic barriers in education. Two key moments are presented from the author's self-study research to examine the role of memory and emotion in the development of complex, nuanced antiracist identity.
Collecting more and better data centered on LGBTQ+ identity is essential to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ people yet there remains a persistent lack of routine and well designed data collection — leaving the challenges facing LGBTQ+ communities unknown to the greater population.
From factory work to sex work, activism to organizing; butches and femmes have done it all. As a community, we must learn from our history and we simply cannot do that without delving first into butch/femme identities across the gender spectrum.
Dr. Carter Wilson will share his personal journey through two major schools of thought--critical theory and critical race theory. These schools of thought provided the intellectual foundation for his (Gustavus Myer) award winning book, Racism from Slavery to Advanced Capitalism. Dr. Wilson will explain why there is a right-wing, racist political assault on these two schools of thought
In this session, Kenton, Callie and members of the GVSU Athletics Laker Inclusion Team will share about their process of activating engagement in Athletics around inclusion and equity. They will discuss the framework that has guided these efforts as well as successes and areas of resistance.
Imposter syndrome is the inability to internalize a sense of accomplishment, often leaving people feeling like a fraud, unworthy, incompetent, or undeserving which can become. The workshop will take the form of small group discussions exploring anonymous personal narratives surrounding experiencing, upholding, and disrupting imposter syndrome.
M. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) says that “our stories explain us, justify us, sustain us, humble us, and forgive us. And sometimes they injure and destroy us” (169). The stories that others tell about us can do the same: sustain and humble us, but also injure and destroy us.
We're thrilled to announced that Poetry without Border has been rescheduled and will now be included with the UNITED Conference! Join us for a fun evening of poetry to celebrate the linguistic diversity of NMU! Northern students, faculty, and community members will present poems in languages other than English. (English translations will be included.)
The Faculty Biennial Exhibition celebrates the innovative research by faculty in the NMU School of Art & Design. The exhibition highlights diverse achievements in all media and concentrations and gives regional audiences from NMU and beyond the opportunity to see original artwork created by the current faculty.
This year’s exhibition features:
Join us for the Diversity Common Reader 2023 Keynote! Elsa Sjunneson is an award winning Deafblind author and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Her fiction and nonfiction writing has been praised as “eloquence and activism in lockstep” and has been published in dozens of venues around the world. In 2022 her book, Being Seen won the Washington State Book Award for biography and memoir.