Diversity and Institutional Change: Confronting Challenges - A workshop
Join us for an interdisciplinary dialogue about current challenges, ideas and research!
The Interdisciplinary Network on Discrimination and Inclusion will host a workshop and lunch on June 8th, on the topic of Diversity, Inclusion and Institutional Change, with a focus on higher education and the professions. Our special guest will be Professor Pushkala Prasad, the Zankel Chair Professor of Management & Liberal Arts at Skidmore College. Professor Prasad will be presenting findings from her recent research examining diversity processes and outcomes in US liberal arts colleges, emerging forms of backlash and prospects for diversity. Special thanks to Suzanne Gagnon for inviting Professor Prasad.
The workshop will begin at 10:00 a.m. with a presentation by Professor Prasad, followed by questions and discussion. After lunch, we will have short presentations by discussants from different disciplinary perspectives and further discussion with Professor Prasad. The workshop will end at 15h00. (Please note that the Scholars-at-Risk conference co-sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism formally begins at 15h30.)
RSVP: aliah.el-houni [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Email Ms. Aliah El-Houni) to confirm your attendance by Friday, June 3.
(Coffee & Tea) (9h45)
10h00-10h15 Introduction
10h15-11h15 Professor Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Chair Professor of Management & Liberal Arts, Skidmore College
11h15-12h00 Discussion
12h00-13h00 Lunch (provided)
13h00-15h00 Discussants:
- Chahrazad Abdallah, Dép. de management et technologie, UQAM;
- Colleen Sheppard, Faculty of Law, McGill
- Suzanne Gagnon, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill
- Brian Rubineau, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill
A Interdisciplinary Network on Discrimination and Inclusion Workshop hosted by the Desautels Faculty of Management & Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill Faculty of Law. Organized with the financial support of: SSHRC (Insight Grant on Systemic Discrimination: Challenges and Complexities), and FQRSC (Revitalisation de la diversité en milieu de travail: étude des pratique organisationnelles favorisant l’inclusion).
RSVP by aliah.el-houni [at] mail.mcgill.ca (writing to Ms. Aliah El-Houni.)
