Israeli storyteller Noa Baum will present a one-woman performance of Israeli and Palestinian women’s stories called “A Land Twice Promised” at 7:30 pm on Wed., Mar. 10, in the Hamilton Center (James R. Connor University Center). Free and open to the public!
You can see an excerpt on YouTube:
Andersen Library has materials on women in Palestine and Israel. Search the HALCat online catalog to find books such as Women in Israel: A state of their own (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ1728.5 .H35 2004) and Women and the politics of military confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli gendered narratives of dislocation (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ1728.7 .W65 2002).
Search article databases to find articles such as “Challenging injustice: A decision every human can make” (Cross Currents, Summer 2008, vol.58:no.2, pp. 282-301), which discusses using life story to develop understanding between Israeli Jews and Arabs, and “What is your story? The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in recent women’s documentaries” (Third Text, May 2006, vol.20:no.3/4, pp. 475-486).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work:
A Research Companion
By Mustafa Özbilgin
HF5549.5 .M5 E68 2009
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Equality has become a major issue at the forefront of every debate, whether it be health care, education or civil rights. Many people strive to ensure that the voices of everyone are respected and represented, and rightfully so. Our university system has taken to gauging the campus climate at each institution, and we’re currently undergoing that process (and by the way, take the campus climate survey if you haven’t – you have until Thursday!). Of course, the workplace is another venue in which battles can still take place, and this week’s featured title examines the current state of equality in that setting.
Özbilgin, professor of HR management in the UK, has pulled together thirty-one chapters on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI for short) in the office, which cover the sociological and psychological aspects of the topic. The edited volume includes a section on the education of others, such as diversity trainings or seminars and their effectiveness, as well as a part dealing with the role of men in EDI. With scholars contributing from all over the world, the book provides an excellent international perspective to the subject of diversity.
The Difference:
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better
Groups, Firms, Schools & Societies
By Scott Page
HF5549.5 .M5 P34 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor
One of the main buzzwords in society for the past decades: diversity. Having a variety of people from different backgrounds, whether it be tied to race, gender, sexual orientation or other characteristics, has been the goal for everyone – businesses, governments, universities, all organizations. The issue has pretty much gone undisputed (or argued to no avail) and accepted. This week’s featured book delves into the question of why and does it really matter? The short answer: yes.
Page, professor at the University of Michigan and the Sante Fe Institute, tackles the issue of the individual versus the group. He explores how the collective working together will overpower the individual with a superior intellect (and not by use of force). Drawing on his groundbreaking research, the author explains diversity differently and demonstrates just how it generates benefits.
