Just Talk Archive
Just Talk is the Kraemer Family Library's programming series that is designed to promote open and honest dialogue about equity, diversity, and inclusion on the UCCS campus and beyond.
Upcoming Just Talk Events
Just Talk After: An Outrage Film Screening
An Outrage is a documentary film about lynching in the american south. Filmed on-location at lynching sites in six states and bolstered by the memories and perspectives of descendants, activists, and scholars, this unusual historical documentary educates even as it serves as a hub for action to remember a long-hidden past.
Just Talk: The Quest for Prosperit
Join us on Tuesday, April 17, from 2:30 to 4pm in the 3rd floor Library Apse for a discussion about the Quest for Prosperity.
What does it mean to think of prosperity in moral terms? It is the sense that our lives have meaning because we are part of a greater group that informs our identity, that expects us to balance our duties and rights in a way that is virtuous and considerate of others. It is a reasonable lived reality that fosters collaboration among neighbors and an appreciation that our accomplishments owe as much to unknown others as to our own effort. Only with a commitment to collaboration and cooperation and a transformation of notions of scarcity to those of abundance may the sufficient conditions for personal and communal prosperity be sensibly fulfilled.
Just Talk After: Whose Streets Film Screening
An unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising told by the activists who live and breathe this movement for justice. In this film, watch Black Lives Matter in action as empowered parents, artists, and teachers come together as freedom fighters to protest police brutality in the U.S.
Film will start at 7pm in UC 303 and the discussion will take place immediately after the showing.
Learn more about the Just Talk series.
Just Talk: Media & Polarization
Over the last 50 years, our media has shifted from major networks and newspapers to specialized sources with specific audiences. In other words, we can 'shop' for the news that suits us and limit our exposure to news that we don’t like. We often hear that this results in a culture of polarization. But is that actually so? In this conversation we explore the world of how politics has become "not to be discussed", what happens in our relationships with others as a result of having specialized media sources and our lack of common understanding. We also ask for what type of political climate we aspire to...so we can envision it together.
Just Talk After: Marathon for Justice
Marathon for Justice tells the story of past and present environmental inequalities in the United States, and explores some of the ways in which people of color have been disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals and poisonous releases in the air, on the land, and in the water. Come to explore how this issue impacts our community locally. Participants will engage in a meaningful conversation around this important issue.
Hosted by Citizens Project, Global Intercultural Research Center, Sierra Club, Office of Sustainability, and Just Talk.