Hello everyone!
A long, long time ago, Isabel Metz and I gathered your follow-up questions for our panelists from the 2014 PDW on "Let's Talk about Gender and Diversity." We are finally ready and very excited to share with you, our panelists' responses to your questions (in Q&A format) on the Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee (D&ITC) Website:
http://group.aom.org/ditc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70.
We are especially grateful to our panelists – Myrtle Bell, Stella Nkomo, Edwina Pio, Michälle Mor Barak, and Claartje Vinkenburg – for sharing their expertise and experiences with us. They have been thoughtful and also generous with their time, and I am fully responsible for the delay in sharing their responses with you.
Laura Traavik (Norwegian Business School) and Kate Bezrukova (Santa Clara University) also shared with us some wonderful resources, which we thought we would pass along:
1. Chimamanda Adichie - http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story. This Ted Talk highlights the importance of not defining others by one dimension (single story). She uses her own experience - both in terms of how others see her and how she see others. Her style and story telling is excellent. She is a Nigerian writer (good books too).
2. JR - https://www.ted.com/talks/jr_one_year_of_turning_the_world_inside_out. This Ted Talk shows the power of seeing the other and also examples of meeting oneself and the other. I do not use this directly in lectures but have it on my learning platform to inspire the students. On the learning platform I also have updates from the news, pictures, news stories etc. Often students send me great links.
3 50 shades of Gay. https://www.ted.com/talks/io_tillett_wright_fifty_shades_of_gay. This is an area I want to develop in my teaching --related to fluidity and the dangers of the categories we use in teaching . I hope to focus more on this --no just on multiple identities but the fluidity of identities.
4. "you cannot judge the book by looking at its cover" which describes cultural, religious, etc stereotypes. http://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/bezrukova/You%20Cannot%20Judge%20A%20Book%20By%20Lookin%20At%20The%20Cover.wmv
We hope you find them to be a useful resource. Please feel free to share far and wide.
Isabel and I look forward to seeing you again in Vancouver.
Very warmly,
Isabel Metz and Ed Ng
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Ed Ng, PhD
F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business
Associate Professor, Management
Dalhousie University
*Apologies for cross-postings*
Hello everyone!
We are writing to follow-up on a recent PDW session on "Let's Talk About Gender and Diversity, Let's Talk About You and Me" you may have attended at AOM Conference in Philly, on Friday, Aug 2, 10am-12pm.
A description of the session can be found here: http://program.aom.org/2014/submission.asp?mode=ShowSession&SessionID=174
As we ran out of time, Isabel and I (your organizers) agreed to reach out to the attendees post-session for follow-up questions and sharing of resources. If you have a question you would like to pose to our panel, please send it to myself at edng@dal.ca or Isabel at i.metz@mbs.edu. We will compile your questions and send them to our panelists (Myrtle Bell, Martin Davidson, Michalle Mor Barak, Lisa Niishi, Stella Nkomo, and Edwina Pio). Likewise, if you have a resource (YouTube Clips, Ted Talks, Readings, Cases, In-class Exercises) you would like to share, please send them to us. Don't forget to tell us (one sentence) why you like or use them.
If you did not attend the session, but have a question related to the PDW topic, you are also welcome to email us.
We will also post all the questions and responses received, and compile a list of resources on the D&ITC website, and we will notify you when they become available (with the link, of course!).
Cordially,
Ed and Isabel
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Ed Ng, PhD
F.C. Manning Chair in Economics and Business
Associate Professor, Management
Dalhousie University