SAVE THE DATE: February 13 & 14, 2025
FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
Embracing Difference, Embodying Access, Emphasizing Progress: Leading with Love
Hollins’ annual Leading Equity, Diversity, and Justice (EDJ) Conference aims to create an intentional and meaningful space to reflect, learn, and facilitate action toward making Hollins a more equitable and just community. We envision a conference that supports deep learning and engagement related to the central themes of this conference: Embracing Difference, Embodying Access, and Emphasizing Progress.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is Tuesday, December 3, 2024!
Below is the link to use for your submission and an additional link with helpful tips for crafting an effective proposal.
Questions? Contact Student Success, Well-being, and Belonging at 540-362-6072 or hackleyhuntdm@hollins.edu!
Leading EDJ was borne of a conversation in the summer of 2020 and developed into a diverse assortment of learning opportunities less than two months later, in October of 2020. The event energized and inspired the Hollins campus with over 30 session offerings created by students, faculty, and staff, as well as outside guests from the Roanoke and higher education communities.
“Leading Equity, Diversity, and Justice Day aims to create an intentional and meaningful space for all of us to reflect, learn, and facilitate action toward making Hollins a more equitable and just community.”
Hinton Calls for Lasting Change at Hollins (2020)2024: The Heart of Social Justice
Hollins’ fourth annual Leading Equity, Diversity, and Justice (Leading EDJ) Conference took place on February 15 and 16, 2024. This year’s theme was “The Heart of Social Justice” and featured a special movie screening on Thursday night, February 15, and a keynote speaker plus over a dozen sessions across two session times on Friday, February 16.
2023 Conference: Barriers and Bridges to Access
Hollins’ third annual Leading Equity, Diversity, and Justice (Leading EDJ) Conference took place on February 23 and 24, 2023. The year’s conference theme was “Barriers and Bridges to Access” and featured two keynote speeches as well as 30 sessions across three session times on Friday, February 24.
2022 Conference: “Equity, Accessibility, Identity”
What began in the 2020-21 academic year as Leading EDJ Day evolved into a two-day conference in its second year, with keynote speakers scheduled the evening of Thursday, February 24, and during the day on Friday, February 25. Theme for 2022 was “Equity, Accessibility, Identity.”
Over 400 attendees participated in 37 virtual and in-person sessions united around this year’s theme of “Equity, Accessibility, and Identity.” Session topics ranged from “Broaching: Confronting the Uncomfortable Conversations in Systemic Racism” and “Examining Residential Segregation: Where You Live Determines Your Health and Quality of Life” to “Talking Back to Dad: Developing Pedagogies to Discussing Hard Questions in the Classroom and Community” and “Cultivating Inclusive Friendships: Real Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Starts in Our Social Circles.” Session leaders included current students and faculty as well as alumnae/i and guest activists and experts from the community at large.
Resources
The following resources have been curated by the Wyndham Robertson Library staff:
- The Antiracist Bookshelf: based on a list created at William & Mary, this is a guide for material to learn more about anti-racism.
- A collection of 57 books on EDI issues, all available full text online and allowing unlimited use (titles range widely, and include Analyzing Inequalities; Gender and Race in Sports; and The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture).
- African Americans and Reconstruction: Hope and Struggle, 1865-1883: Crucial documents covering the lives of African Americans in the years following the Civil War
- African Americans and Jim Crow: Repression and Protest, 1883-1922: Crucial documents covering the lives of African Americans during the rise of segregation and Jim Crow
- Indigenous Peoples of North America: Primary Sources to increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.