The MCLA Day of Dialogue is a campus-wide alternative day of education, with suspended day classes to ensure full campus participation by students, faculty, and staff.
The MCLA Day of Dialogue is a campus-wide alternative day of education, with suspended day classes to ensure
full campus participation by students, faculty, and staff. This year’s event, held
on Wednesday, October 23, will be in a hybrid format with remote and in-person sessions to allow for the greatest
participation.
This year's theme is Erasure. Erasure is defined as “...the practice of collective indifference that renders certain
people and groups invisible...it alludes to the tendency of ideologies to dismiss
inconvenient facts and is increasingly used to describe how inconvenient people are
dismissed, their history, pain and achievements blotted out.” (NY Times, 2016). There
are many forms of erasure, including, but not limited to:
Cultural Erasure- the intentional abandonment, and/or forgetting, of cultural practices.
Historical Erasure- The (un)intentional suppression, or neglect of certain historical events, i.e. rewriting
history.
Self-Erasure- The process of hiding, and/or diminishing, one’s own identity for physical and psychological
safety.
We invite participants to explore the concept of erasure in its various forms. In examining what has been omitted, silenced, or forgotten, we aim to reclaim lost narratives that shape our understanding of the past and present. This exploration moves us toward truth and reconciliation, fostering critical discussions on how erasure impacts identity, memory, and society, encouraging a reimagining of inclusive narratives.
