This will be the third year in a row that UAS has shut down classes at its Juneau campus for this conference, where students discuss issues such as "race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion, body size, ability, mental illness, class, and their intersectionalities."

According to the university, most UAS Juneau classes "will be cancelled to allow students and faculty the opportunity to attend and/or present at the Symposium." Students are encouraged to check their class syllabi and talk with their professors to confirm that their classes will be cancelled.

"The 3rd Annual UAS Power & Privilege Symposium is a one day conference-style teach-in designed to give members of the UAS & Southeast Alaska communities an opportunity to come together and engage in difficult, thoughtful, and honest conversation about the ways social hierarchies and identities manifest themselves in our communities," the university explains. 

"While the Symposium will be held on the UAS Juneau campus," it adds, "keynote speeches and a selection of breakout sessions will be available live via distance."

Although the school is certain that classes will be cancelled November 6 to make way for the event, the agenda for the symposium is far from being finalized. Not one keynote speaker has been announced, and organizers of the symposium have not yet even begun to accept proposals for breakout sessions, saying that "proposals will be accepted early Fall 2018."