[Uosenate] Two upcoming events on understanding and addressing Islamophobia and Antisemitism

[Harinder Kaur Khalsa]

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to the following events this week. While the May 22 is open to all campus community, it’s geared more towards students. Please consider sharing it with your colleagues and students and signing up for the May 23 event designed for educators (UO faculty and staff).

All the best,
Harinder

Bridging Divides: Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Event Details:

  *   Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
  *   Time: 5:00- 6:30 p.m.
  *   Location: Gerlinger Lounge<https://map.uoregon.edu/a6da93e5b> and Live Stream<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUSIzSpEesA>
  *   Audience: All UO community. Limited to the first 125 attendees. Priority given to UO students, who are encouraged to arrive early.

Join the Live Stream<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUSIzSpEesA>

While most can agree that antisemitism and Islamophobia are harmful and divisive, in the current context of war in the Middle East it seems hard to agree on what they actually mean, what discourses and conduct they describe, and what we should do to try to combat them. Two leading scholars and public intellectuals, David Schraub (Lewis and Clark Law School) and Hussein Ibish (Arab Gulf States Institute, formerly American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee), will help us understand antisemitism and Islamophobia historically as well as in this complicated and confusing moment.

https://international.uoregon.edu/educational-responses#may-22

Workshop for Educators: Understanding and Addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia, with Hussein Ibish and David Schraub
Event Details:

  *   Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024
  *   Time: 9:00-10:30 a.m. (optional breakfast at 8:30 a.m.)
  *   Location: Lokey Education Building 276<https://map.uoregon.edu/6fc5b9691>
  *   Audience: All UO student-serving staff (faculty, GEs, Advisors); Capacity is limited to those who register

Register for Workshop<https://uomytrack.pageuppeople.com/learning/3852>

As educators, we care deeply about our students. The ongoing violence in the Middle East impacts members of our community in different ways, as do the long, complex histories surrounding antisemitism and Islamophobia. Many students are striving to articulate and act on their values, and to name the contexts and histories that feel meaningful. But many of us—educators and students alike—also have gaps in our understanding of multiple contexts of struggle and survival, and of the plurality of meanings in the language we use to speak about it all.

During this discussion, Hussein Ibish and David Schraub will share information to help us develop a more critical understanding of the forms antisemitism and Islamophobia typically take, including in our courses and on our campuses, and the impacts they have on students. We’ll have an opportunity to reflect on how our own histories shape our understanding of/reaction to antisemitic and Islamophobic statements and how we can stay grounded in empathy for students as they learn and act in a context that is fraught and contested. We’ll discuss promising practices for reducing antisemitism or Islamophobia and pre-plan least one way to address them in our own class contexts. We hope this event can help us better enact shared principles drafted by our colleagues<https://international.uoregon.edu/israel-palestine-shared-principles>, including that “We are best served by teaching complexity, by helping students understand the multiplicity of contexts and perspectives, and by modeling how to hold complexity with curiosity and empathy”

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