Events on Friday, March 21st, 2025
- Climate & Diversity
- Diversity Forum Fridays: The Islamophobia Sniff Test
- Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Place: in Chamberlin 5310 & Zoom
- Abstract: For over 20 years, UW–Madison has hosted the annual Diversity Forum for participants to engage in discourse and education on contemporary issues related to creating equitable and inclusive learning and working environments.
2024 Theme: Threads of Belonging: Navigating Differences and Building Community
Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are deeply rooted prejudices that target Muslims and individuals perceived as Muslim, such as Arab Christians and non-Muslim South Asians. They fuel hate speech, hostility, hate crimes, and intolerance, often manifesting as discrimination, harassment, abuse, and intimidation. In the United States, Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism have been used to justify concerning policies, including mass surveillance, guilt by association, and collective punishment of members of the Muslim community. And on campuses, inequitable policies have also led to harassment and bigotry that allows for unsafe conditions for Muslim and Arab students. During this session, UW Muslim and Muslim-Allied Faculty and Staff will share research on the origins of Islamophobia in the US, societal repercussions that has led to inequities for Muslim and Arabs, research on how it has manifested at UW-Madison, and ways the campus community can foster inclusion and belonging so everyone can thrive. - Host: Rachel Zizmann
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Telescope Array and the Dawn Goddess of the North
- Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Place: 2241 CH
- Speaker: Doug Bergman, University of Utah
- Abstract: I will begin by presenting the highest energy cosmic ray event to be seen in the last 30 years: Amaterasu. I will attempt to relay the intellectual satisfaction to be felt in analyzing great data from a great instrument. I will then move on to discuss evidence for the ultra high energy cosmic ray spectrum being different in the North than it is in the South. This may explain why the highest energy cosmic rays have been observed in Utah.
- Host: Justin Vandenbroucke