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Civility Week 2024

Various locations on campus Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

October 14–18, 2024 The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosts Civility Week, a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of FIT’s civility initiative. The initiative is aimed at engaging our community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning in a higher education environment. FIT encourages our community to […]

‘This Is Strategy’ with Seth Godin

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

The Entrepreneurship Department presents a fireside chat–style conversation with entrepreneur Seth Godin for the FIT community. This event will focus on Godin's new book, This Is Strategy, and concepts. A Q&A will follow the conversation. Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and speaker. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in […]

‘NEGRITA’ Documentary Screening with Q&A

John E. Reeves Great Hall Conference Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

https://youtu.be/nuJve4FMXFQ?si=fOiKI6TxxloF-WT3 NEGRITA, the debut documentary film from director Magdalena Albizu, interrogates the cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro-Latina women in America. Albizu, a self-described negrita, explores an unconscious ideology of anti-Blackness in which both American and Latino cultures perpetuate a false narrative of Black as undesirable otherness. Through family pictures, childhood videos, […]

Civility Week 2024

Various locations on campus Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York City, NY, United States

October 14–18, 2024 The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosts Civility Week, a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of FIT’s civility initiative. The initiative is aimed at engaging our community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning in a higher education environment. FIT encourages our community to […]

Balancing Acts: Diversity and Civility in Media

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

In an unprecedented year of social upheaval and civil unrest, citizens around the country feel challenged by violence, xenophobia, bullying, and threats to our humanity and our democracy. This has been a lightning rod in the center of the 2024 election—and the heart of America. FIT invites renowned journalist Don Lemon to discuss the importance […]