Power and Privilege Past Events
2019 Symposium
The 4th Annual UAS Power & Privilege Symposium is a one day conference-style event designed to give members of the UAS & Southeast Alaska communities an opportunity to explore dynamic and pressing societal changes through difficult, thoughtful, and honest conversations about the complex and increasingly diverse society in which we live.
The Symposium helps advance the University’s role in pursuing truth, advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge in a setting supportive of free inquiry and discussion. Topics in recent symposia include ways social hierarchies and identities manifest themselves in our communities and discussions about the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion, body size, ability, mental illness, and class.
Topics for the Symposium may be proposed by any member of the UAS community and are selected with a goal of sharing diverse perspectives and experiences. The one-day Symposium is scheduled as a regular part of the University’s fall calendar; most classes do not meet on the scheduled day to allow broad participation by students, faculty, staff, and community members.
While the Symposium will be held on the UAS Juneau campus, keynote speeches and a selection of breakout sessions will be available live via distance.
Keynotes and Recorded Sessions
Select keynotes as well as select breakout sessions are available for viewing online through the UAS YouTube Channel: 2019 UAS Power & Privilege Symposium.
2018 Symposium
The Symposium Program for 2018, includes the schedule, keynote speakers, and breakout session details is available for download.
Keynotes and Recorded Sessions
All keynotes as well as select breakout sessions are available for viewing online through the UAS YouTube Channel. See the program for a full description.
Sponsors
We would like to thank our event sponsors of the 2018 event:
- UAS First Year Experience
- UAS Student Activities
- UAS Student Government
2017 Symposium
The Symmposium Program for 2017, which includes the schedule, keynote speakers, and breakout session details is available for download.
Keynotes and Recorded Sessions
All keynotes as well as select breakout sessions are available for viewing online. See the program (above) for a full descriptions.
Event Welcome and Opening Keynote
Afternoon and Evening Keynotes
Breakout Sessions in the Egan Lecture Hall
Breakout Sessions in the Glacier View Room
Sponsors
We would like to thank our generous event sponsors of the 2017 event:
- UAS First Year Experience
- UAS Student Activities
- UAS Student Government
2016 Symposium
The program, which includes the schedule, keynote speakers, and breakout session details, is available for download.
Keynotes and Recorded Sessions
All keynotes as well as select breakout sessions are available for viewing online. A list of available videos:
- Áakʼw Ḵwáan Welcome with Marie Olson & Liana Wallace
- Opening Keynote - Manic Depression in America with Andrew James Archer, MSW, LCSW
- Session 1 - Stereotyping and its Effects in Evaluative and Performance Domains with Amanda Sesko, Ph.D; Assistant Professor of Psychology, UAS
- Session 2 - Rape Culture: Hiding in Plain Sight with Mandy O'Neal Cole, Deputy Director, AWARE Afternoon Keynote - Dancing Soverenignty: Reclaiming the Grease Trail Through Movement and Song with Mique'l Dangeli
- Session 3 - How Anthologies Empower Communities by Weaving Literature with Politics with Martha Amore, Professor, UAA
- Session 4 - Examining Climate Change through a Lens of Power & Privilege with a panel of UAS faculty, staff, and student representatives
- Session 5 - The Act of Dreaming: Undocumented Students in the United States with Christina Gómez, Professor of Liberal Arts and Director of Diversity and Inclusion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Evening Keynote - Gender Transition: A Personal Change for One or a Paradigm Shift for Everyone? with Aidan Key
Sponsors
We would like to thank our generous event sponsors of the 2016 event:
- UAS First Year Experience
- UAS Student Activities
- UAS Native & Rural Student Center
- UAS Counseling
- SEAGLA
- NAMI
2020 Power & Privilege Symposium Committee Members
- Juliette Alldredge
- Committee Chair & Student Activities Coordinator
- Brandy Mulbury
- Student Government President
- Christian English
- Student Government Representative
- CJ Harrell
- Student Government Representative
- Tina Ryman
- Transitions Advisor/STEPS Program Coordinator
- Ele Ruchti
- Student Activities Board Representative
- Forest Wagner
- Assistant Professor of Outdoor Studies
- Kolene James
- Coordinator, Native and Rural Student Center
- Lora Vess
- Department Chair, Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences
- Lilli Bannerman
- Student Government Representative
- Margie Thomson
- Coordinator for Disability and Counseling Services
- Nathan Bodenstadt
- Housing and Residence Life Director
- Peter Sommers
- Associate Registrar
- Tatiana Topping
- Student Information Specialist
- Robin Gilcrist
- Associate Professor of Construction Technology
- Richard Simpson
- Assistant Professor of Humanities
- Robin Waltz
- Professor of History
- Sean McCarthy
- First Year Experience Coordinator