SBE / SIM Joint Keynote Address and Reception
Speaker: Shawn Wong, Professor of English and the Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington
Title: How to teach an entire city, a university, or a company how to talk about race in only 50 years
Abstract: The title of the keynote speech is, of course, a joke, but it is a response to the world of DEI consultants, PowerPoint presentations, and mandatory diversity training workshops, that never seems to make anyone comfortable when talking about race and identity. Author and University of Washington professor Shawn Wong was given an assignment by the opinion page editors of The Seattle Times to write an op-ed essay for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and their only request was to make it “original.” How would you approach an assignment like that? What questions needed to be answered? Who would be the audience?
SIMians are welcome to continue the long tradition of the SBE/SIM Joint Keynote Address and Reception, co-sponsored by SIM! Attendees wearing AoM conference badges may attend both the Address and the Reception.