October 23, 2023 | In the news
“I want us together to consider the rootedness of desire as an embodied and affective force that sometimes overtly and sometimes subtly directs our thoughts and behaviors,” Dr. D-L Stewart said. “We might consider desire to be a vector... it has direction, it has movement, it takes us somewhere.”
On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Spectrum Center and nearly a dozen campus partners hosted Dr. Stewart for a conversation at UMMA on the politics of desire in higher education. A noted higher ed and DEI expert, he is chair of the Higher Education Department at the University of Denver's Morgridge College of Education. The talk was open to the public, and was also part of an extended engagement with Stewart around Spectrum Center's commitment to racial justice.
"We reached out to Dr. Stewart because our office is doing a year-long scholar in residence with him,” Spectrum Center Associate Director Tristan Morton told The Michigan Daily. “A lot of the work Dr. Stewart does is really aligned with the vision of the Spectrum Center. We always want to be able to uplift amazing scholars in our community.”
The talk was co-sponsored by Trotter Multicultural Center; Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Rackham Graduate School; Center for Campus Involvement; Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA); Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education; National Center for Institutional Diversity; Marsal School of Education DIJE Office; and LSA Women's and Gender Studies.
Read more about the event in a recap article from The Michigan Daily.