The Institutional As Usual: Diversity, Utility and the University

Sara Ahmed

James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education

In this lecture Sara Ahmed will discuss how understanding how and why diversity is "in use" as a word and concept allows us to explore how universities are shaped by patterns of use that often go unnoticed. She will be drawing on her research into diversity work first discussed in her book On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) as well as her current research on the "uses of use."

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist writer and scholar. She has previously held academic posts at Lancaster University and Goldsmiths. Her most recent books are 
Living a Feminist Life(2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012), The Promise of Happiness(2010) and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others.

 


Read Amber Jamilla Musser’s (WGSS) Human Ties post introducing the work of Sara Ahmed:
“A Seat at the Table: Sara Ahmed and the Politics of Knowledge Production”