The founder of Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), Diya Abdo, is set to give a virtual talk from 1-2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15. The talk is titled, “Re-envisioning Campuses as Refuge.”
Faculty, staff and administrators are all invited to attend the free talk.
The talk will address key points and invite you to re-envision campuses as a culture of refuge and an element of change and involvement with communities in need. Topics will include:
- Inspiration and the need for continuation of this work
- Logistics such as financial expenses, federal approvals, MOUs, certificates, educational courses, student involvement, duration, approval process
- Proposed training sessions, certificates, and funding opportunities to consider for transitioning campuses into refuge — it would be wonderful to know the purpose met with each training, certificate, and funding that we might consider.
Abdo is the Lincoln Financial professor of English in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Guilford College. A second-generation Palestinian refugee born and raised in Jordan, Abdo’s teaching, research and scholarship focuses on Arab women writers and Arab and Islamic feminisms. She has also published poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Her first book, American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience, was published in 2022 by Steerforth Press.
With any questions, please contact Assistant Professor of Chemistry Marwa Abdel Latif at abdellmk@udmercy.edu.