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A Sense of Belonging Matters: Building Connections and Community workshop with
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn
We are excited to invite our community to attend A Sense of Belonging Matters: Building Connections and Community workshop on Thursday, April 6. This workshop on belonging will be led by Dr. Terrell Strayhorn. Strayhorn is an interactive and engaging speaker who has worked on building a sense of community among students, faculty, and staff. Two workshops are being offered. One is 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. and the other is 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. A light breakfast is served during the first workshop and lunch is provided during the second workshop.
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Women's Network Spring 2023 Reception
April 7, 2023
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Sadler Center, Tidewater AB
Join the William & Mary Women's Network for its Spring 2023 Reception as they celebrate the women who work at William & Mary. Come out to mingle with fellow employees and enjoy some light appetizers. All William & Mary employees are welcome to attend. This event is sponsored by the Society of 1918.
The Women's Network recognize that the reception falls during an important time for several religious groups. The reception is also during break time for local school systems. Scheduling an event at William & Mary for a large group is difficult, and the group did the best that they could to find a location and date. Children of all ages are welcome to attend.
Click here to Register
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Save The Date!
Juneteenth Campus Celebration
Friday, June 16 at 3:00 pm
The Hearth
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Gender & Single Occupancy Restrooms
As part of the university's efforts to provide an inclusive and respectful campus environment that is responsive to the needs of our community, at least one restroom in 90% of administration and academic buildings has been identified as All Gender.
A complete list can be found here.
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April 2023
Inclusion and Cultural Events Calendar
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World Autism Awareness Day - An internationally recognized day that encourages countries to raise awareness about people with Autism Spectrum Disorder throughout the world. April 2
Passover - This commemorates Jewish liberation by God from slavery in ancient Egypt and their freedom under the leadership of Moses. April 5
Good Friday - This Christian holiday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus on the Friday before Easter. April 7
Easter - A festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion. April 9
Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 18
Festival of Ridvan - An annual 12-day festival celebrated by Bahá'ís in honor of the prophet-founder of the Bahá'í faith. The first (April 21), ninth (April 29), and 12th (May 2) days are Bahá'í Holy Days when work is suspended.
April 20 – May 2
Eid al-Fitr - A religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan. April 21
Arab American Heritage Month (U.S.) - Celebrates the heritage, culture and pays tribute to the contributions of Arab Americans in the United States.
Source: UCLA EDI Calendar
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In honor of Women's History Month, the Mason School Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee, in partnership with the MBAA Women in Leadership Club present Redefining Leadership in the New World of Work: A Dialogue on Adapting to Change. We invite you to join us for an engaging panel on Tuesday, April 4 at 5:15pm in Brinkley Commons. Our featured panelists are Victory Morrissey, Chief Marketing Officer of Ferguson Enterprises and Amber Price, President of Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. This event is open to students, faculty and staff. Click here to register | |
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Jessica Nabongo: Intentional Travel
The Reves Center for International Studies announces that writer, photographer, entrepreneur, travel expert, influencer and public speaker Jessica Nabongo will deliver the 2023 McSwain-Walker Lecture on April 11 at 5:30 PM in Tucker Hall, rm 127a. . Her talk, "Intentional Travel: How Education, Empathy and Confidence will Help You Create the Life You Want to Live," is free and open to the public. Jessica completed her journey as the first Black woman on record to travel to all 195 U.N.-recognized countries of the world in October of 2019. At her core, she is a dreamer looking to craft a life and career that connects her passions and talents. She wants to use her story to educate and inspire others to travel and experience the world around them.
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If you know of incoming A&S graduate students that identify as a minority in their academic discipline and/or as a member of an underserved or underrepresented community, please share this opportunity to connect with other graduate students with diverse identities and lived experiences.
Students will have the opportunity to:
- Connect with other students who self-identify as a members of an underserved and/or underrepresented community
- Learn more about W&M's ongoing work in support of diversity, equity, & inclusion
- Hear from current students on the W&M graduate experience
Hosted by the Arts & Sciences Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and W&M Graduate Arts & Sciences
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Featured Exhibits
Charting Diverse Pathways: The First Three Asian Ancestry Women at W&M Charting Diverse Pathways explores the lives of the first three Asian ancestry women to attend William & Mary: Hatsuye Yamasaki Kajiwara ‘37, Margaret Lee Masters ‘45, and Beatrice Fujiwara Sakai ‘53. This exhibit provides historical context to the experiences of these three women to understand the different realities faced by APIA students and the multitude of topics in APIA history. Undergraduate researchers on the Asian Pacific Middle Eastern Research Project team used a mixture of oral history and archival research to compile a holistic view of each woman’s life and experiences at W&M and beyond. On display until April 16, 2023 in the Swem Entrance Gallery.
Remembering: William & Mary's Brafferton Indian School 1723-2023 Recent scholarship offers new insights and interpretations about the Brafferton Indian School’s history and legacy. Interrogating the extant documents from the era demonstrates the role of both the College and its Indian school in a wider narrative about the trans-Atlantic colonial encounter. Remembering includes responses from several Native artists from tribes that sent students to the Brafferton Indian School in the eighteenth century. On display until April 16, 2023 in the Swem Lobby Exhibit Case and Special Collections Lobby.
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Promoting peace through higher education: international collaboration and the ABC Project
Join the American-Bosnian-Collaboration Project as they host Dr. Larisa Kasumagi-Kafedži on Monday, April 10 from 6:30-7:30 PM in Blow Memorial Hall Room 201. Reception to follow.
Dr. Kasumagi-Kafedži will present findings that discuss the ways in which the ABC Project has developed an effective and respectful international partnership to promote cross cultural skills among Bosnian and American youth and work toward sustainable peace. She will talk about the decision-making processes, adaption and innovation, and pedagogical approaches, which are relevant for U.S. university initiatives seeking to develop effective international partnerships to promote a variety of goals, including sustainable development. Click here to RSVP.
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13th Annual Lemon Project Symposium
William & Mary hosted the largest Lemon Project Spring Symposium ever on campus March 24-25, with more than 300 people registered to attend the event in person and another 469 registered to attend online.
The symposium, titled “At the Root: Exploring Black Life, History and Culture,” explored the following questions: What ways are African American communities taking charge and telling their stories? How are colleges and universities working with local African American communities to foster belonging? What methods are communities and scholars using to tell fuller narratives of African American life, history, and culture? In what ways are researchers contributing to the emancipatory aims of Black Studies through research collaboration with Black communities?
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Spring 2023 Lemon Project Genealogical
Research Roundtable
April 20, 2023
6:00 - 7:00 pm
The Lemon Project Genealogical Research Roundtable is an extension of the Genealogy Show & Tell sessions started as part of our first Sankofa Summer Workshop Series. The roundtable is a collaboration of genealogists and family historians at all levels of expertise. The session will focus on slavery and post-emancipation eras. Of course, genealogical research leads us down many paths and places, but ties to Virginia are the focus of this group.
The Lemon Project Genealogy Initiative focuses on finding descendants of people enslaved by William & Mary. During these sessions, we hope to connect with people who have ties to W&M pre- and post-Emancipation.
The meetings will be informal, and everyone will be able to contribute. The meetings will be held virtually via Zoom, with potential in-person research sessions in the future. Register here to participate.
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Deeply Rooted: Preserving and Celebrating
Gullah Geechee Heritage
April 27, 2023
6:00 - 7:00 pm
This Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk explores the relationship between Black life, culture, and history by examining the intersections among personal and professional identities. From the halls of academia to public history festivals, this Porch Talk will provide a unique perspective of preserving and celebrating the cultural heritage of the Gullah Geechee inhabitants of the Carolina Lowcountry and Georgia’s Coastal Empire. While not all members of the panel identify as Gullah Geechee, each of the panelists has their own journey documenting, preserving, and telling this history.
Panelists
Reginald Tendaji Bailey, Gullah Geechee Consultant
Tendaji is a Gullah Geechee native of Port Royal & St Helena Island, SC in Beaufort County
Joyce White, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in Gullah Geechee Literature and Cultures, Georgia Southern University
Kyle R. Fox, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication, The College of Coastal Georgia
Click Here to Register
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Donning of the Kente 2023
The Lemon Project has opened registration for the Donning of the Kente 2023. All graduates (undergraduates, graduate, and professional) are welcome to participate in the ceremony and receive a free Kente stole.
Register now for Donning of the Kente 2023
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Afro/Indigenous Perspectives, Race and Racism: Towards a New View of Latin American Studies
April 13 - 14, 2023
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together scholars and artists of Afro and Indigenous Latin American and Caribbean studies to engage with new perspectives on race and racism in Latin America, past and present. Topics will focus on African descendants and people indigenous to the Americas both separately and together, examining also relationships between these groups with the purpose of thematically paving a pathway towards understanding Afro-Indigeneity as it relates to Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latinx communities.
For more information click here
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William & Mary's GSWS Braithwaite Performance: Lessons in Drag,
with LaWhore Vagistan
April 10, 2023
6:00 - 7:30 pm
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Dr. Vagistan brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife. Touching on themes that include globalization, feminist theory, and islamophobia, she stages the nightclub as a site of politics and pleasure. Part lecture, part lipsync, part audience participation, the show demonstrates how much drag teaches us, even requires us, to be in relation with the rest of the world. Event will be at the Williamsburg Library Theater, 515 Scotland Street.
Sponsored by GSWS, CLA, TSD, AMES, APIA and AASI
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Filipino American Writing Festival
April 5 - 6, 2023
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William & Mary’s Department of English and the Patrick Hayes Writers Series proudly present the first-ever W&M Filipino American Writing Festival! All events will be open to the public and will take place on campus on April 5th and 6th.
The Filipino American Writing Festival will feature renowned authors Oliver de la Paz (current Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA); Sarah Gambito (winner of the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers); Joseph O. Legaspi (winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award); Aimee Nezhukumatathil (winner of Barnes & Noble’s "Book of the Year" Award); and Patrick Rosal (winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award from the Poetry Society of America). They will participate in readings of their work, Q&A sessions, and the panel discussion “Writing Identity, Writing Community.”
The "Writing Identity, Writing Community" panel discussion will be on April 5th, from 2 to 3 PM in Room 201 of Washington Hall. A reading and book signing by Oliver de la Paz, Sarah Gambito, and Joseph Legaspi will then take place from 7 to 8 PM in the same location. The Leah Glenn Dance Theatre will have an outdoor performance on April 6th, from 6 to 6:15 PM at the Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved. The performance will be followed by a reading and book signing by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Patrick Rosal, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in Tucker Theater.
Email Jon Pineda for more information
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Africana Studies Zoom Speaker Series
April 7, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Dr. Jamel Donnor, William & Mary
“Alexander Bickel, Brown v. Board of Education, and Originalism: Understanding the Intellectual Influence of Clerks on
the U.S. Supreme Court.” Register here
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Do you have news or an event that you would like us to share?
Send your information to the Office of Diversity & Inclusion (wmdiversity@wm.edu)
by the 15th of each month.
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