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Campus and Community Dialogue on Race

Welcome to the 27th Annual Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR)

Theme: dis/connecting to reconnect – everyday rest, refusal, resistances

📅 October 20–24, 2025
 🔗 Submit a Proposal
 🕛 Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, September 18, 2025 by 12:00 PM
 🛠 Proposal Workshop: Date & Time TBA

Join the Dialogue

The Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) is a week-long series of events that brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore pressing issues of racial justice and systemic inequity. Now in its 27th year, CDOR continues to be a space of reflection, learning, healing, and collective action.

Our inclusive platform serves to affirm cultural identities, uplift historical marginalized voices, and welcome people of all backgrounds into a shared space of growth and transformation. Whether you're attending a session, submitting a proposal, or leading an event, you are part of a community seeking change through connection and care.

About This Year’s Theme

dis/connecting to reconnect: everyday rest, refusal, resistances is a call to action–and a call to pause. It invites us to critically examine the systems and rhythms that shape our lives, and to create space for restoration, healing, and reconnection.

What does this theme mean to us?

A Call to Pause & Reflect

  • Step back from the stress, urgency, and overproduction of modern life.
  • Reclaim intentionality in how we live, work, and relate.

Disconnection as Resistance

  • Refuse toxic productivity, hustle culture, and guilt around rest.
  • Break inherited cycles that equate worth with output.
  • Say no to systems that drain our joy, health, and collective well-being.

Overcoming Overconsumption

  • Step away from digital saturation and constant social validation.
  • Question how trends and consumption habits shape our decisions.
  • Ask: are these practices helping or harming our wellness?

Reconnection as Reclamation

  • Reconnect with family, friends, culture, land, spirit, and joy.
  • Embrace rest, creativity, laughter, movement, and community.
  • Rediscover what heals, grounds, and humanizes us.

Rooted in Experience

  • Reflect on the shared disconnections of the pandemic era.
  • Remember the peace of sitting in the forest or on the beach.
  • Honor small acts of solidarity: sending a postcard, sharing space, telling a story.

The Solidus ( / )

  • In our theme, the solidus—drawn from Asian American Studies—represents duality and tension.
  • Unlike a hyphen, it doesn’t blend or erase. It holds space for both disconnection and reconnection to coexist.
  • It asks: what does it mean to hold space for contradiction, for becoming, for both/and?

Our Vision for CDOR 2025

  • A space to reflect, resist, and reimagine together.
  • A place to rebuild healthier communities rooted in care, purpose, and rest.
  • A reminder that transformation begins when we disconnect from what harms and reconnect to what heals.

Found Poem: A Meditation on Our Theme

  • Disconnecting from stress, urgency, and overproduction.
  • Reconnecting to intentionality in how we live, work, and relate.
  • Disconnecting from toxic productivity, hustle culture, and guilt-based rest.
  • Reconnecting to family, friends, culture, land, spirit, and joy.
  • Disconnecting from inherited cycles that equate personal value with constant output.
  • Reconnecting to rest, laughter, creativity, and community.
  • Disconnecting from media saturation and digital distractions.
  • Reconnecting to nature – sitting in the forest or on the beach – face-to-face connection, movement, and art.
  • Disconnecting from trends and forms of consumption that sabotage our wellness.
  • Reconnecting to everyday acts of courage and solidarity – like sending a postcard of support or sharing space for stories.
  • Disconnecting from systems that drain our health, joy, and collective well-being.

We welcome your presence, your voice, and your ideas. Whether through workshops, panels, performances, creative expressions, or community dialogue–CDOR is a space for all of us.

✨ Submit your proposal by Wednesday, September 18 at 12:00 PM
 📅 Join us October 20–24, 2025
 🛠 Proposal workshop coming soon – stay tuned!

Our inclusive space is intended to serve, support, and affirm cultural identities while remaining open to all cultures.

Schedule of CDOR Events

Please be advised that some of our upcoming Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) events may cover sensitive topics such as grief, loss, and decolonization, which could trigger/activate emotional responses. 

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), will be available at various events to provide support. If you need assistance during or after any of these sessions, please feel free to reach out to them for help. Your well-being is our priority. 

The Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) is an annual event at Cal Poly Humboldt. It invites students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community members to present and attend programs relating to racial justice and its intersections with all forms of oppression and resistance. Our aim is to create spaces and structures for reflection, analysis, dialogue, and positive strategies for change.

Students can earn a unit of credit in Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies "ES 317- Campus & Community Dialogue on Race". You don't need to be a CRGS student to enroll in this class, we welcome everyone! Check out our list of CDOR events below.

Celebrating the 27th year of CDOR, this year's Dialogue will take place from October 20st (Mon) to October 24th (Fri). The vision of the Campus & Community Dialogue on Race is to achieve racial, social, and environmental justice. We're dedicated to promoting and facilitating change by engaging a diverse range of individuals and viewpoints. Our goal is to explore the impact of racism and its intersections with all forms of oppression.

For information on our 27th Annual CDOR 2025, please email us at cdor@humboldt.edu.

Land Recognition

We acknowledge that Cal Poly Humboldt is located on the unceded lands of the Wiyot people, where they have resided from time immemorial. We encourage all to gain a deeper understanding of their history and thriving culture. As an expression of our gratitude we are genuinely committed to developing trusting, reciprocal, and long lasting partnerships with the Wiyot people as well as all of our neighboring tribes.

Please consider supporting the continued development of the Native American Studies Department's Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute (FSL) at Cal Poly Humboldt. You can donate at JustGiving.com.

Labor Acknowledgement

Today we recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our country, state, and institutions are built. Remember that our country is built on the labor of enslaved people who were kidnapped and brought to the US from the African Continent and recognize the continued contribution of their survivors. We acknowledge all immigrant labor, including voluntary, involuntary, and trafficked peoples who continue to serve within our labor force.

CDOR is Sponsored By:

  • Office of the President
  • Vice President for Enrollment Management & Student Success
  • Campus, & Community, Dialogue on Race Committee
  • Project Rebound
  • Creando Conciencia
  • English Department
  • Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (CRGS)
  • DHSI: PromotorX Critical Scholars Project
  • Social Justice, Equity, & Inclusion Center (SJEIC)
  • Office of Student Life (OSL)
  • El Centro Academico Cultural
  • Umoja Center for Pan African Student Excellence
  • Indian teacher and Education Personnel Program (ITEPP)
  • Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (ODEI)
  • Diverse Male Scholars Initiative (DMSI)
  • College of the Redwoods: Multicultural Center and Equity Center (MEC)
  • Asian, Desi, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, North African (ADPI-MENA)
  • University Library