In addition to Dr. Kendi’s virtual visit to CSUB and the greater community, the Kegley Institute of Ethics will host a rich selection of online events, including several events – in collaboration with the CSUB Black Faculty and Staff Association, CSUB Athletics, CSUB Campus Programming, and the Walter W. Stiern Library – to highlight and celebrate Black History Month.
On Thursday, Feb.11, KIE will host “Ethics in Leadership” with Dr. Thomas Wallace (VP for Student Affairs at CSUB) at 6 p.m. PST. This event series focuses on the influences, formative experiences, and insights of local, impactful leaders in our community (with plenty of time for audience questions).
On Tuesday, Feb. 16, KIE will host a panel discussion as part of The Kaiser Permanente Bioethics and Medical Humanities Speaker Series titled “Race, Gender and Bias in Medicine: Experiences and Insights.” This event will feature the expertise and insight of Dr. Kateena Addae-Konadu, Dr. Keisha Ray and Dr. Sharon Okonkwo-Holmes and will be moderated by KIE Student Fellow, Brittany Johnson.
“Our panelists are African-American medical professionals and ethicists speaking with a wealth of experience about the significance of race, gender and bias in medical practice and education. They will also speak to the still present impacts of bias in medicine and, also, how they have used their talents and professional roles to respond and work against the negative impacts of explicit and implicit bias in the medical field,” said Dr. Burroughs.
Other KIE events throughout the spring will include the Humanities Beyond Bars Event Series, a California Humanities grant-sponsored initiative. This event series focuses on critical engagement with incarceration in California and highlights the voices and experiences of currently and formerly incarcerated persons.
“The Power and the Promise: Education in Prison” will take place on March 3 at 6 p.m. PST and will feature moderated discussion with educators on the impact and import of educational access in prisons. These educators will discuss their own programs offering educational resources for incarcerated students, including an ethics debate program, a creative writing program, and the Inmate Scholars Program based out of Bakersfield College.
On March 18, the Humanities Beyond Bars event series will continue with “The Long History of College-in-Prison: A Field at the Crosswords,” a lecture by Max Kenner.
Kenner is founder and director of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the most well-established and influential prison education programs in the United States. BPI college is spread across six interconnected prisons in New York State, enrolls over 300 incarcerated students, and organizes a host of extracurricular activities to replicate the breadth of college life and inquiry.
Since 2001, BPI has issued roughly 50,000 credits and 550 degrees and offers more than 160 courses per academic year and engages an extraordinary breadth of college faculty. A four-part documentary series, “College Behind Bars,” on the Bard Prison Initiative and incarcerated students enrolled in the program was produced and aired on PBS.
For a complete list of events for spring 2021, visit the KIE website. Links to all public Zoom events can also be found on the KIE site as well as on KIE Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages in advance of each event.
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