Shirley Anne Tate (Professor, University of Alberta) This event is co-sponsored by ARC-GS and the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) team. Date 14 February 2020 Time 14:00 - 17:00 I am a ‘wounded body stranger’ (Tate and Wahidin 2014) removed from myself so I do not feel psychic pain. However, pain emerges and I use it … Continue reading On ‘Brick Walls’, ‘Ghosts’, and Other Feminist Dilemmas: Anger, Psychic Institutional Pain and Silencing in Academia

‘Get Ready’, a three-day summer school pilot programme for students seeking additional background information and tools to truly feel at home within the UvA, was organized for the first time at the end of August. This programme aims to give these students the extra preparation they might need for a great start to their degree … Continue reading Pilot summer school for first-generation students was a succes

As CDO team we are honored to co-host Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw at the University of Amsterdam on June 11, 2019.   Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics 2016-2018. Crenshaw will be speaking at a special event at the University of … Continue reading Civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw to speak at the UvA