Take a look at the online CDO magazine. We are proud to present the first Chief Diversity Officer magazine, containing the 2019 annual report and 2020 plan: Diversity 2.0: from why to how. You can read about our priorities and milestones, learn more about our focus points for 2020, see the overview of our workshops … Continue reading 2019 annual report and 2020 plan
The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) team and Faculty Diversity Officers are deeply appalled by the structural power abuse and power dynamics within the UvA which protect perpetrators rather than victims-survivors. We see these events not as isolated cases, but as part of a larger pattern of structural violence, power abuse and gaslighting of victims-survivors after … Continue reading Statement against sexual violence at the UvA
By Seval Gündemir (UvA) & Joanne Duberley (University of Birmingham) UvA’s Chief Diversity Office and University of Birmingham have been working on building a collaborative EDI initiative since 2019. Last year in July, a delegate from University of Birmingham visited the UvA, which introduced UvA and Birmingham scholars to one another. Since then EDI scholars … Continue reading Not Just a Number
By the Chief Diversity Officer Team University of Amsterdam students and staff have been speaking out against racism and have joined the protests and manifestations last week. The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) team is asking the UvA community not to stay silent. Silence condones. Police brutality and anti-Black violence cannot be tolerated. The Chief Diversity … Continue reading Racism: The other global pandemic – academia is not immune
For many students, especially vulnerable students, this unsettling pandemic situation can be very stressful and lonely. The mentors of ADP (Academic Diversity Program) want to offer support and listening space for these students and are therefore offering weekly online meet-ups; Every Wednesday, 13:00-15:00. These meet-ups are open for all UvA students, from all programs and faculties, to meet with … Continue reading Student mentors are here for you!
By Anne de Graaf My first plague caught up with me in Bulawayo. I went there to research a book and interview child-headed households in Zimbabwe. In 2006 Mugabe had just thrown out of the country all NGOs and reporters, leaving his people without security, without medication, without support. His secret police were going door-to-door … Continue reading Love in a time of corona
By Chief Diversity Officer Anne de Graaf Two years into this highly politicized job and the level of resistance is shifting. I welcome everybody’s feedback and am using it in constructive ways. On the one hand there are people who see any change, let alone change that concerns diversity equity, and inclusion—as a threat. There … Continue reading Diversity 2.0
This is a statement by the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) Team and the Central Student Council (CSR) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) denouncing the recent rise in discrimination against Asian students and staff as a result of the spread of the new coronavirus. We call on all staff, students and members of the UvA … Continue reading Speak out against racism and discrimination toward Asian students and staff
UPDATE 13 MARCH We deeply regret to announce that all activities planned in the Week against Racism (16-21 March) are cancelled. This decision is made based on the new measures announced by the Executive Board last night, to limit the consequences of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) at the UvA. You can find the full announcement … Continue reading Week against Racism
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
