<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Julie Roberts</strong><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span dir="auto" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:julie.roberts.uvm@gmail.com">julie.roberts.uvm@gmail.com</a>></span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 11:14 AM<br></div><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The American Council of Learned Societies has begun a project promoting diversity and inclusion in the academy. As part of this project, they have invited participation
from the member societies (of which ADS is one) as described below. Specifically, they are inviting 2 grad students or recent PhD’s from each organization to take part, as described below. If you know someone who would be appropriate for and interested in
this, please let me know. All expenses for participation (travel, lodging, etc.) will be paid by ACLS. Unfortunately, the turn-around is tight: We must let them know if we (ADS) want to participate by 11/20. If you have questions, please ask and I’ll try to
answer.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Julie<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">\</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Julie Roberts, Ph.D.
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Professor Emerita, Linguistics, University of Vermont<br>
Executive Director, American Dialect Society<br>
<a href="mailto:Julie.Roberts.uvm@gmail.com" title="mailto:Julie.Roberts.uvm@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">Julie.Roberts.uvm@gmail.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear Julie,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We write to enthusiastically invite you to participate in the 2022 ACLS <i>Intention Foundry</i> or <i>IF, </i>on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism in the Academy! Thanks to a generous </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.acls.org/ACLS-News/ACLS-News/January-2020/ACLS-Awarded-Mellon-Grant-Advancing-Equity-Across-Disciplines" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563c1">$2
million grant</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, over three years (2021, 2022, 2023), IF will equip ACLS to advance equity and diversity through collaboration among<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background:white">our
ecosystem’s triangular network of stakeholders -<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span>scholars of color (with a focus on the emerging generation of recent PhDs) across the humanities and interpretive social sciences; ACLS learned society executive
directors and staff; and thoughtful leaders in higher education<span style="background:white">.</span> </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">I’m pleased to announce that we will convene our second iteration of the Intention Foundry on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-racism<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">in
2022, in our new our two-part, spring and summer format.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">We genuinely hope you will consider joining us in 2022.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Last fall, Dr. Jovonne Bickerstaff, our senior program officer for higher education initiatives at ACLS, took on the role of lead organizer, renaming what were then called the Summer Institutes the
“</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://acls.org/About-ACLS/Intention-Foundry" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563c1">Intention Foundry,</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">” to
capture the dynamic work of hammering out good intentions into action. We see<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IF as an incubator to amplify successful efforts and devise
new coordinated strategies for change, by fostering new partnerships, encouraging creative speculation, and supporting collaborative problem-solving to pilot and implement initiatives that help us achieve a more equitable, inclusive, and just academy.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ACLS is attentive to the challenges and work many of you, our member societies, are grappling with around the futures of societies, membership, as well as around inclusion, diversity, equity
and anti-racism. IF offers an opportunity to integrate these threads by illuminating current efforts, energizing their memberships, and identifying actionable paths forward to recruit, retain and, especially, support historically and systemically disadvantaged
groups, especially Black, Indigenous, Latinx and first-generation scholars.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">C</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">oncrete
take-aways may include: advice on anti-racism-related curriculum change, best practices for mentorship,<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background:white">creating multi-society mentorship networks, mounting campaigns to expand the canon,<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span>or
fact-finding/data analysis projects for ACLS.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are equally attuned to how emerging scholars may not always feel at home within existing society or university structures. A key priority in developing IF was having these scholars, who know better
than anyone the obstacles they face, take a leading role in<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><i>setting</i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>the agenda for advancing anti-racism, equity and justice in their fields and institutions. We hope
that this orientation also strengthens the 40 research universities in our</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.acls.org/Membership/ACLS-Research-University-Consortium" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563c1">Research
University Consortium</span></a></span><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.acls.org/Member-Societies/Society-Profiles.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0563c1">78
academic societies</span></a></span><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">in the humanities and related social sciences
that ACLS works closely with.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Plans for 2022</span></u><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Intention Foundry consists of a series of intensive online and in-person institutes centered on aspirational projects proposed by the next generation of scholars. Hearing their hopes,
concerns, and propositions<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>for change at IF’s outset, not only disrupts the status quo, it positions them to<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><i>set<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></i>the
agenda for changes that will create a more just academy in the 21<sup>st</sup><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>century.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Building on the
success of our inaugural convening,<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IF 2022 will maintain the structure from the inaugural convening, cultivating two groups in a two-part,
spring and summer session format.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Part 1 will bring
together you (society directors) and society scholars (early career scholars from your societies) to identify DEI projects of mutual interest, with facilitation on how</span><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to
engage in more intentional and productive <i>problem setting</i>, the necessary and often under-appreciated precursor to <i>problem-solving</i>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">P<span style="background:white">art 2,
in summer, reconvenes participants from the spring sessions to re</span>fine and expand their<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><i>problem-solving</i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>strategies guided by cultivating a more nuanced examination
of the potential constituencies of their proposed initiatives. It also<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background:white">completes the triangular network by<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span>welcoming university interlocutors
into the conversation<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="background:white"> </span></span><span style="background:white">to<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span>draw on their institutional experience and wisdom to provide participants
personalized feedback on their next steps.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">This winter, prior to the convening, Jovonne will also host a few<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><i>optional</i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>listening
sessions with both society leaders and scholars to get a more nuanced understanding of the concrete concerns and challenges facing societies mounting or hoping to mount DEI efforts.</span><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Information
about the listening session will be forthcoming in a separate message once you have confirmed participation.</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span class="m_3638602641466490962normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Next steps</span></b></span><span class="m_3638602641466490962eop"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span class="m_3638602641466490962normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Our first question is whether you are willing and able to participate this year? You are invited to join one of two iterations of IF 2022</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.
The spring sessions will be held virtually over two days, while the summer sessions will be in person, at the Newberry Library in Chicago and at Rutgers University-Newark, respectively (provided stable public health conditions).<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Each
summer session will begin with a<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reception<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><span style="background:white"> </span></span><span style="background:white">on the
first day and conclude by 2 pm on the last day.</span><span class="m_3638602641466490962normaltextrun"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Group 1</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Spring – virtual:</span></i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thursday
& Friday, March 24<sup>th</sup><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>-25<sup>th</sup>, 11am-3pm EST</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Summer - The Newberry Library in Chicago:</span></i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Wednesday,
June 8 (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reception</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">);<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>Thursday, June 9<sup>th</sup>, 9am-4pm
CST; Friday, June 10<sup>th</sup><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>9am-2pm CST</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Group 2</span></u><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Spring – virtual:</span></i><span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thursday
and Friday, April 7-8<sup>th</sup>,11am -3pm EST</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Summer – Rutgers University-Newark:<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Wednesday, June
15 (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reception</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">); Thursday, June 16, 9am-4pm EST; and Friday, June 17, 9am-2pm EST</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Please let us know if you are able to attend - indicating your preference for Group 1 or Group 2 - by November 13, 2021,<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">and<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">we
will begin to finalize the participant lists.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><span style="background:white">Our<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>hope is to invite the participation of emerging scholars in the society participants’
fields, so your expression of interest is the key first step. Your flexibility is appreciated! </span></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Secondly,<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>if you are available to participate in IF 2022, we also ask that you please<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span><b>identify 2 recent
PhDs or graduate students from your organization to serve as society scholars and send us their names and emails either with your RSVP or by November 20, 2021.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></b>You are best positioned to consider early career
scholars in your membership who are positively challenging and expanding established ways of thinking and doing, distinguishing themselves as agents of change in their home communities or institutions. Specifically, we are looking for participants who are
well informed and passionate about the challenges facing emerging scholars, but also have sufficient patience to sit around a table with deans, provosts, and society directors. The goal is mutual problem-solving.<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b> </b>Once
we have your suggestions, ACLS will handle sending them invitations to IF 2021.<b> </b></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">One final note:<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span>In its envisioning and implementation, the Intention Foundry<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span>seeks to counter<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">propensity
for unfair practices in academia that perpetuate inequities, such as: demanding that members of marginalized groups fix problems they did not create; compelling vulnerable scholars to draw on their, often harrowing, experiences as teaching tools; requesting
that scholars of color and first gen scholars contribute uncompensated labor. ACLS is working to avoid perpetuating existing inequities and to ensure that society scholars’ time, expertise, and labor are duly recognized and rewarded in a few ways:<span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">First,
society scholars will be provided with a $1000 honorarium (disbursed in two parts, $500 for the spring and summer sessions, respectively).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <span class="m_3638602641466490962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Second,
we are asking society scholars to prepare one PowerPoint slide with their dream initiative or intervention – a moonshot, you might say – about what would make their field and/or society feel more inclusive, supportive, and just. want to place the accent on
having them share what kind of changes or resources would tangibly alter and enhance their experience, rather than using those experiences for our instruction. Our spring convening will kick off with a lightning session where scholars will offer a brief presentation
(90 seconds) of their moonshot.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We and our colleagues very much look forward to working with you in IF 2022! </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">With best regards,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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