Welcome to Shepard Symposium on Social Justice
Mark your calendar for our 2024 symposium
October 14 - 20, 2024
We are looking for presenters
If you are interested in sharing a presentation, event or interactive roundtable on Thursday, October 17 please submit a proposal! We want to hear from a wide variety of people.
Submissions are due Wednesday, September 18
Finding Common Ground: Shepard Symposium on Social JUstice 2024
This year’s theme - Finding Common Ground: Shepard Symposium on Social Justice 2024 - urges us to consider the ways in which individuals---here on our campus, in the town of Laramie, around the state of Wyoming, in the Rocky Mountain West, and in our world promote acts of social justice in small, medium, and perhaps even large ways. In the midst of societal change and intensely challenging times, how might we continue to do the hard work of coming back to common ground, again and again---and again?
To go a step further, we'll tell the ways in which these acts of social justice help to create common ground in our community, in our state, on our campus. In other words, we want to hear how people have pushed against social or environmental injustices--to create a more enlightened society. In what ways have we created more common ground on which we can all reside? We’d like to hear stories and research around how we can serve as humane bridges between seemingly intractable shores. |
Thank You to Last Year's Community & Campus Partners:
Community Sponsors & Partners:
- University of Wyoming Office of Diversity Equity & Inclusion
- Wyoming Equality
- University of Wyoming Multicultural Affairs
- Laramie Pridefest
- PFLAG Laramie
- United Multicultural Council (UMC)
- Associated Students of the University of Wyoming Student Government (ASUW)
- Relative Theatrics
- WYOpen Stages
- University Art Museum