Diversity Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 1st 2025

8:30-9:30 am: Registration (2nd floor lobby) and Breakfast (Function Room, 3rd Floor)

9:30 am: Welcome to the Conference (Function Room, 3rd floor)

9:45-10:30 am: Keynote: Ezra P. Scott Jr., MBA, M.Ed. (Function Room, 3rd floor)

10:45-11:45 am: Educational Session #1

Panel: Africa to Reflect America? (Room 209)
- Highlighting Unequal Treatment Across Place and Over Time: Case Studies in Human Geography
- Our America and Their Africa: People, Places and Change
Panel: Rivers of Thought: Teaching Diversity and Philosophy through "We Are Water Protectors" (Fireplace Lounge)
- Reflections by Sophia’s Garden Teaching Assistants
Panel: Creating Community Through Art (Exhibition Lounge)
- Art Behind Bars: Mapping and Archiving the Resistance of the Golden Venture Detainees
- Play, Perform, Persist: Creating Change Together
- Unity Day at Onondaga Community College: A Campus-wide Event Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Workshop: Rivers of Language: Family Language Policy, Identity, and Belonging (Rm 303)
Makers’ Space/Art Room (Room 207)

11:45 am -12:50 pm: Lunch (Function Room, 3rd floor)

Check out our student clubs, campus offices, and local organizations that are tabling. Raffle announcements will be made!

12:50 pm: Cultural Performance by Tashine Fenelon

1:00-1:30 pm: Student Keynote Sean Platt ‘26 (Function Room, 3rd floor)

1:45-2:45 pm: Educational Session #2

Panel: Humanities Pedagogies (Exhibition Lounge)
- Building Bridges: Ethnic Studies, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and Radical Integrated Pedagogy
- Shaping Education: Civics, Activism, and Their Place in Modern Day Schooling
- Language Death and Linguistic Colonization: Examining Indigenous Language Immersion Schools

Panel: Beyond the Binary (Room 209)
- Decolonizing Gender in South Asian Society: Interrogating Colonial Legacies and Reclaiming Indigenous Identities
- Exploration into Gender: Beyond the Binary

Presentation: How to Participate, How to Advocate, How to Truly Speak (Room 303)
Poster Presentations: Fireplace Lounge
- Queer Codes: Language, Secrecy, and Survival in LGBTQ+ Communities
- Colgate's Center for Women's Studies: Feminism in Practice
- "Ithaca is Children” Children's Book

3:00-4:00pm: Educational Session #3

Panel: Consider the Museum (Exhibition Lounge)
- Museums and Active Approaches to Community Outreach
- Native American Data Sovereignty in Archives & Museums
- Fighting For the Right to Fight: The African American Experiences In WWII

Panel: Representation in Academia (Fireplace Lounge)
- The Importance of Diversity in STEM
- Reclaiming the Narrative: Queer, Neurodivergent, and Creating Space for Others

4:10-4:30 pm: Conference Farewell

Remarks by Lorraine Lopez-Janove, River Vooris, and Kyrstin White (Function Room, 3rd floor)