Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join Musa al-Gharbi for a small-group discussion on the challenges facing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in our current moment and how we can think about DEI frameworks from cultural, intellectual, and policy perspectives. If you attended al-Gharbi’s lecture the previous evening, this “Breakfast Book Talk” is an opportunity to connect in a more intimate, informal setting. We’ll dive deeper into pre-circulated selections from al-Gharbi’s book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, and discuss genuine beliefs, social justice, and the words, ideas, images, and data that we identify with in both personal and professional settings.
Light refreshments will be provided, and seats are limited. To join, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, or affiliation.
Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and the social life of scholarly and journalistic outputs. He is a columnist for The Guardian, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. al-Gharbi’s first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, was published by Princeton University Press in October 2024.