Cornell Programs

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Cornell’s Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity, in collaboration with the Department of Organizational Development and Effectiveness and Professor Joseph Margulies, Professor of Law and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted programs on anti-racism. Course content can be downloaded through CULearn.

Why Are People Protesting?

Hosted by Jennifer Fonseca, Sr. Management Consultant, Organizational Development and Effectiveness; and Reginald White, HR Director for the Research Division

This program provides a historical context for the current reaction to recent killings of black people in America. We will look at what institutional racism is, how it manifests and what the impact is on the greater community.

Allyship: How Can I Support My Black Colleagues Right Now?

Hosted by Anthony Sis, Diversity and Inclusion Training Specialist, Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity

This program delves into allyship and what it means to be an ally. We will look at what anti-racism means and how to engage meaningfully in advancing equity in our work and daily lives.

Urban Policing: What's underlying the tension between black communities and police departments?

Hosted by Professor Joseph Margulies, Professor of Law and Government, Cornell College of Arts and Sciences

The relationship between police and urban communities has a long history fraught with hostility and resentment that periodically explodes into episodes of anger and rage. But the best police leaders recognize the impact policing has had on communities of color and are trying to transform that relationship. In this talk, we will try to explain the root of anger and discuss the prospect of change.

Webinars and Lectures

Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.

What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.

Cornell Community Conversation on Race and Labor in America - Discussion of "13th", the documentary. The film is still available for free streaming on Netflix and Youtube 

Video recording of Webinar: Video Recording of Webinar here

The conversation discussed the film along with the following articles:

• Michele Goodwin: The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration​​
• Ifeoma Ajunwa and Angela Onwuachi-Willig: Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated on the Labor Market

Readings

Books for further Reading:

• Race, Labor, and the Future of Work, Ifeoma Ajunwa, (Oxford Handbook for Race and Law)
• Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. - Danielle S. Allen 
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs

Additional Resources mentioned:

• American Civil Liberties Union: Link to website 

Additional Resources

Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

• Resources for Engaging in Conversations About Race and Anti-Racism

Global Cornell

• Silence is Racism - a comprehensive list of resources on anti-racism
• Race and Racism Across Borders - a series of reflections through artistic expression

Religious Based Discrimination

•  Pew Research Center What do Americans Know About Religion

Cornell Resources

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Online Resources

• Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – What is Antisemitism?
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
• US Department of Justice -  Learn About Hate Crimes
• Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe – Addressing Antisemitism Through Education: Teaching Aids

Webinars and Lectures

• What Led to the Current War Between Israel and Hamas February 1, 5:30pm, Statler Hall, Rm 398: Bassem Eid, Jerusalem-based political analyst and human rights pioneer.
• Antisemitism, the Israel-Hamas war, and Distorting the Law of Genocide: A Perfect Storm February 12, 5:00pm, 401 Warren Hall: Menachem Rosensaft, Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School.
• "Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: What’s the relationship?" February 26, 5:00pm, Virtual lecture: Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, Director Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA.
• Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after October 7 March 13, 2024, 5:00pm, Goldwin Smith Hall: Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) and Marc Lynch (George Washington University).
• "Let's Talk About Anti-Zionism" March 26, location TBD: Ethan Katz, Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley.
• Racializing Religion: Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine March 28, 5:00pm, Room G10, Biotech Building: Sahar Aziz, Professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
• Beyond Sympathy and Antisemitism: The International Community and the Creation of the State of Israel, 1947-1949 April 8, 5:00pm, Room G10, Biotech Building: Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History, Harvard University.
• “Villains into Heroes: The Rehabilitation of Fascists and Antisemites in Europe and North America.” April 30, location TBD: Robert Williams, Direct USC Shoah Foundation.
• Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, What’s the Relationship? with Professor Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies, UCLA. 
• Antisemitism, the Israel Hamas-War and Distorting the Law of Genocide, A Perfect Storm with Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School.
• Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
• What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.
• How Can History Help us? The Example of Anti-Semitism (Jewish Studies Lecture: David Nirenberg)
• Cornell Jewish Studies Lecture Archive
• How Can History Help us? The Example of Anti-Semitism (Jewish Studies Lecture: David Nirenberg)
• The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, reviews the intersection of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in history and discuss why and for what purposes the figures of the Jew, the Muslim and the non-white serve as objects of loathing and fear today.

Readings

• Beller, S. (2015) Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction.
• Hübscher, M. and S. von Mering  (2022) Antisemitism on Social Media Routledge
• Lipstad, Deborah E. (2019) Antisemitism Here and Now New York: Schocken
• Nirenberg.  D. (2013), Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Norton

Cornell Resources

Teaching and Learning in a diverse classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference.

Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.

Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project), offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.

Online Resources

• Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
• The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University – What is Islamophobia?
• Challenge Islamophobia: A Project for Teaching for Change
• US department of Justice - Learn About Hate Crimes
• The UC Berkeley HAAS Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society -- “Islamophobia in the United States: A Resource Reading Pack"

Webinar and Lectures

• Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after October 7 March 13, 2024, 5:00pm, Goldwin Smith Hall: Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland) and Marc Lynch (George Washington University).
• Out of Time: On the Rise and Resilience of Anti-Muslim Bigotry Today March 18, 5:00pm, 401 Warren Hall: Moustafa Bayoumi, Journalist and Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
• Racializing Religion: Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine March 28, 5:00pm, Room G10, Biotech Building: Sahar Aziz, Professor of law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University Law School.
• Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
• What’s Jewish About Social Justice? Ruth Messinger, global ambassador and former president of American Jewish World Service, posed the question of how Judaism and social justice movements are connected.
• eCornell: Twenty Years Of War: The Global War on Terror, Security Statecraft, and Racial Justice
• The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, reviews the intersection of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in history.
• The Birth of Modern Europe and the Expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain Tariq Ali, novelist and filmmaker, discusses the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in 1492 coincided with the expulsion of Jews from Catholic Spain, while the Muslims were expelled in 1526.

On Campus Programs

• Cornell Near Eastern Studies
• Cornell Comparative Muslim Societies Program
• Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies

Readings

• Green Todd H. Green (2015), The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West, 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press
• Beydoun, Khaled (2018) American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, Oakland, California: University of California Press
• Awan, Imran (ed) (2016) Islamophobia in Cyberspace: Hate Crimes Go Viral, Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York : Ashgate
• Love, Erik (2017) Islamophobia and Racism in America, New York: New York University Press