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Author Archives: Brian Katz
Todxs cuentan: building community and welcoming humanity from the first day of class
Guest post by Federico Ardila–Mantilla (Note: This paper was written for the upcoming book “Proceedings from a Workshop on Professional Norms in Mathematics” edited by Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier, Pamela Harris, Mike Hill, Dagan Karp, and Emily Riehl.) Abstract. Everyone can have … Continue reading
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Remembering John Lewis, by Karen Saxe
With this post, we are amplifying a tribute to Congressman John Lewis by Karen Saxe of the AMS. https://blogs.ams.org/capitalcurrents/2020/07/23/remembering-john-lewis-african-americans-in-congress/ From Karen Saxe: Karen Saxe is Associate Executive Director at the AMS and heads the Office of Government Relations in Washington, … Continue reading
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A report on a gathering of mathematicians for social justice at JMM 2020
Guest Post by Paige Helms, Ryan Moruzzi, Andrea Arauza Rivera, and Robin Wilson As the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in Denver, CO approached, there was an unusual amount of tension in the mathematics community. The divisive stance taken by … Continue reading
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Everything* is fine
Post by Piper H One of the first significant losses for me during this pandemic was the loss of my laptop in a work from home incident featuring a six year old who “DIDN’T DO IT ON PURPOSE!!!” In the … Continue reading
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Grading as an issue of justice in this time of transition
by Brian Katz and Kate Owens BK: There are multiple, foundational justice and ethics questions involved in HigherEd responses to COVID-19. Personally, I’m pleased how central these issues have been in the discussions I’ve witnessed recently, including questions at faculty … Continue reading
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Interrogating Whiteness in STEM: A Book Discussion
Whiteness structures our society in ways that I, as a white person, am encouraged to ignore, and that invisibility is a powerful mechanism for the slow violence of dehumanization in our society in general as well as in mathematics in … Continue reading
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Round-Up of JMM 2020 Sessions on Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice
Post by Editor Luis Leyva The 2020 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) will be held on January 15-18, 2020 in Denver, CO. As per tradition, this pre-JMM blog post highlights scheduled sessions with talks focused on issues of diversity, equity, and … Continue reading
Let’s Listen
Guest Author: Thomas Goodwillie Last spring I taught a course at Brown University called Race and Gender in the Scientific Community, and I’d like to say some things about what that was like for me. I have the idea that … Continue reading
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Changes for inclusion/exclusion
I am writing this post to announce that I have stepped into the role of Editor-in-Chief of this blog. This might raise some questions, and it’s a good time to write a little about how I see the blog, plus … Continue reading
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AWM Moving Towards Action Workshop
Join AWM at the JMM 2020 in Denver, Colorado for this important event! When members of the mathematics community are made to feel unwelcome in our profession, the success of mathematics as a whole is put into jeopardy. This workshop … Continue reading
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