Difficult Dialogues: Airing of Grievances

Door time: 5:30 PM Event time: 6:00 PM Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation Airing of grievances: What are you mad as hell about and not going to stand for anymore? Come and share your top concerns about our national and/or community challenges. We’ll identify two or three topics from our conversation and focus on ways we can work on resolving these social and/or political concerns through individual or community action. Moderators: Jennifer Ho The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022), the editor of four essay collections, most recently Global Anti-Asian Racism (Columbia UP 2024), the author of three scholarly monographs, including Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers UP 2015), which won the best monograph award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in 2017, and a number of essays and articles, both research-oriented and public-facing (a sampling of which is also on this webpage). In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality. Burke Hilsabeck, Director of Faculty Relations and Community in the Office of Faculty Affairs at CU Boulder Burke Hilsabeck is Director of Faculty Relations and Community in the Office of Faculty Affairs. Burke helps faculty members and academic administrators to develop and maintain positive and productive working relationships across campus.  His responsibilities include advising faculty and academic leaders on allegations of unprofessional behavior and making recommendations for administrative action as well as administering faculty development programming and providing coaching and training to academic administrators.  Burke is motivated by a desire to improve the lives of faculty by providing support around relationships, opportunities for professional development, and connection with the CU Boulder community. Burke is a former tenured faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, where he directed the Film Studies program and served as Chair of the Department of English. He holds a B.A. in English from Kenyon College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Slapstick Camera: Hollywood and the Comedy of Self-Reference (SUNY, 2020).   The Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) mission is to promote arts and humanities by being a dynamic hub on the CU Boulder campus and by creating connections within the Boulder community. Our purpose is to hold dialogues on topics considered difficult, provocative, or controversial, among constituents that may have st...