Save the date: Meet the Diversity Office 

At this meeting with coffee, tea, snacks, and stories, we'd love to talk with you about the ways the Humanities faculty can be an inclusive, open, and respectful environment. The meeting lasts from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. and will take place at VOX-POP. You will meet with representatives from the Diversity Office and the Faculty Student Council.

The program will focus on the theme 'Welcome'. A word that stands for the inclusive, open, respectful environment that the Faculty Diversity Office of FGw strives for, both for students and employees. The Diversity Office, like the UvA itself, is committed to policies that help reduce inequality, remove the barriers to success in education and create equal opportunities for all.

In doing so, we focus on diversity and the equality and inclusion of people of diverse social and cultural backgrounds, genders, beliefs, sexual orientations and abilities. We have made progress, but there is still much we can do, and are doing, to ensure that everyone who is part of our Humanities community feels welcome here. What this will take, is something that we would be very happy to discuss with you!

Programme

• Short presentation by the Diversity Office of the Faculty of Humanities 
• Group conversation about wishes and principles around diversity on the faculty, moderated by Angelina Senchi
• Poetry performance by Mia You

Contributors

This programma is moderated by Angelina Senchi. Angelina completed her bachelor's degree in Italian Studies and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Book Studies, where her thesis focuses on the visual representation of marginalized identities. She is also president of the Faculty Student Council and works as a student assistant at the Allard Pierson on the Suriname Project. 

Mia You is author of the poetry collection I, Too, Dislike It (1913 Press, 2016) and the chapbooks Objective Practice (Achiote Press, 2007) and Rouse the Ruse and the Rush (Nion Editions, 2023). Her next full-length poetry collection, Festival, will be published in 2024 by Belladonna (US) and Uitgeverij Chaos (Netherlands). Her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, the Boston Review, nY, De Gids, Nioques and the PEN Poetry Series. Other writing has appeared in Artforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the European Review of Books, as well as ELH  and Textual Practice. Currently she teaches Anglophone literature at the Universiteit Utrecht and in the Critical Studies program at the Sandberg Institute.

Practical Information

The meeting lasts from 16.00 to 17.30 and will take place at VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, 1012 ZA, Amsterdam. There is no need to register in advance.