Date/Time
Date(s) - October 30, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
Longs Peak Room, Lory Student Center

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The Inaugural College of Liberal Arts Cross-Disciplinary Symposium

CLA FEATURED SCHOLARSHIP SYMPOSIUM

Systems and Spaces: Institutions, Inequity, and Cultural Responses

This new event is an academic panel for faculty, staff, and graduate students. Panel presentations and a moderated Q&A will be followed by a reception with appetizers, beer and wine.

Featuring:

• DR. JESSIE LUNA (Sociology)
  How actors throughout the commodity chain in the cotton sector of Burkina Faso make sense of their own role in reproducing economic exploitation by drawing on narratives about intersectional inequalities and social difference
• LINDSEY SCHNEIDER (Ethnic Studies)
  Environmental justice, decoloniality, inter-species relationships and how humans manage/relate to landscapes 
• DR. YOUNG EUN PARK (Journalism & Media Communication)
  Development of trust in institutions and how this relates to their accessibility and results in social change
• DR. RAY MILLER (Economics)
  Measuring inequality among the US elderly, incorporating health and economic outcomes 
• MEARA FAW (Communication Studies)
  How personal relationships and the communication of social support promote health and well-being

The panel is part of a new event, the CLA Featured Faculty Symposium, that highlights the academic work of five CLA faculty in their first 3 years.

This event is funded by the Office of the Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion and CLA, and is part of the VPD mentorship grant program.

ABOUT THE FSS

This event is funded by the Office of the Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion and CLA, and is part of the VPD mentorship grant program. FSS is part of CLA’s work on supporting success, growth, and retention of new faculty. Mentoring in academia has been found to improve scholarly and professional outcomes, including benefits of mentoring networks that provide support, professional socialization, political and social guidance, and empowerment to mentees. 

FSS is coordinated by CLA Associate Deans Roze Hentschell, Alex Bernasek, and Michael Carolan, and the CLA Faculty Coordinator for Diversity & Inclusion, Rosa Mikeal Martey.