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DIVERSITY CALENDAR 2017 - 2018
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SEPTEMBER 2017
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21
UN InternationalDay of Peace
22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
SEPTEMBER 2017
1-4 EidUlAdha(FestivalofSacrifice)* (Islam)
8 Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)
10 Hajj(Pilgrimage)* (Islam)
20-22 Rosh Hashanah (no work permitted - begins sunset of Wednesday, ends nightfallofFriday)(Jewish)
21-30 Navaratri (Hinduism)
21 Muharram-NewYear*(Islam)
24 Fast of Gedaliah (Judaism)
29-30 Yom Kippur (Judaism) (no work is permitted - begins sunset of Friday, endsnightfallofSaturday)
Image above: A Jewish man blows shofar for Rosh Hashanah
Rosh HashanahRosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G-d as king.
Find out more:www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4644/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah.htm
OCTOBER 2017
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
October marks Black History Month1
2Dyslexia Awareness Week
3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10World Mental Health Awareness Day
Ada Lovelace Day
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
OCTOBER 2017
Image above: UCL students at Black History Month event
1 Ashura*(Islam)
4-11 Sukkot(Judaism)(beginssunseto Wednesday, ends nightfall of Wednesday11Oct-noworkpermitted5-6)
11-13 SheminiAtzeret*&SimchatTorah (Judaism) (work not permitted)
17-23 Sukkot* (Judaism) (work not permitted on 17-18 Oct)
19 Diwali (Hindu, Sikh, Jain)
20 Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth (Sikhism)
31 All Hallow’s Eve (Christian)
Black History Month“Black History Month is an international annual month, celebrating, recognising and valuing the inspirational individuals and events from within the BME communities. During Black History Month, we remember and celebrate the important people from the past and also who contribute to and help our society today. First celebrated in the UK in 1987, Black History Month in the UK is marked annually during the month of October.”
Find out more:www.officialblackhistorymonthuk.co.uk/www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/
NOVEMBER 2017
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1
National Stress Awareness Day
2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12Interfaith Week, 12-19
Remembrance Sunday
13 14 15 16 17 18 19International Men’s Day
20Transgender Day of Remembrance
21 22UK Disability History Month begins
23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
NOVEMBER 2017
Image above: UCL Engineering Summer School students standing with the wheelchairs they developed
1 All Saints Day (Christian)
2 All Souls’ Day (Christian)
24 GuruTeghBahadurMartyrdom (Sikhism)
30 St Andrew’s Day (Christian)
UK Disability History Month“UKDHM is an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of Disabled People’s struggle for equality and human rights.”
Find out more: http://ukdhm.org/what-is-ukdhm/
Join Enable@UCL, UCL’s social network for Disabled Staff:www.mailinglists.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/enable
DECEMBER 2017
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1 2
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3International Day of Persons with Disabilities
4 5 6 7 8 9 10International Human Rights Day
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24Christmas Eve
25Christmas Day
26Boxing Day
27 28 29 30 31New Year’s Eve
DECEMBER 2017
Image above: Christmas tree under the main Portico at UCL
1 MawlidanNabi*(Islam)
12-20 Chanukah*(Judaism)
21 Solstice (Wicca/Pagan, Christian)
25 Christmas Day (Christian)
28 FastoftheTevet10(Judaism)
Christmas Day“Christmas is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus, the son of God.”
Find out more: www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/christmas_1.shtml
JANUARY 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1
New Year’s Day
2 3 4World Braille Day
5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21World Religion Day
22 23 24 25 26 27National Holocaust Memorial Day
28
29 30 31
JANUARY 2018
Image above: Abstract image of a person reading Braille
6 Epiphany (Christian)
8 FastofTevet10 (Judaism)
13 Maghi (Sikhism)
22 VasantPaanchami**(Hinduism)
31 15 Shevat (Judaism)
World Braille Day“World Braille Day celebrates the birth of Louis Braille, inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by visually impaired people.”
Read more:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille
FEBRUARY 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SundayFebraury marks LGBT History Month 1 2 3 4
5 6International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female GenitalMutilation
7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28
FEBRUARY 2018
Image above: UCL Staff and Students at Pride 2017
13 ShroveTuesday (Christian)
14 St Valentine’s Day (Christian) MahaShivratri** (Hinduism) Ash Wednesday - Lent begins (Christian)
16 Chinese New Year
28 Purim (Judaism) (begins sunset of Wednesday, ends nightfall of thursday 1 March-workshouldbeavoided)
LGBT History Month“LGBTHistoryMonthiscelebratedinFebruaryin the UK but work to challenge homophobia, biphobia and transphobia continues throughout the year.”
Find out more: lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/
Keep up-to-date with UCL’s programme of events: www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/lgbt/events.php
Join out@UCL, a social network for UCL staff, here: www.mailinglists.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lgbt-staff-group
Become a Friend of Out@UCL here:www.mailinglists.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/friends_of_out
MARCH 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8International Women’s Day
9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17St Patrick’s Day
18
19 20International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 22 23 24 25
26World Autism Awareness Week
27 28 29 30Good Friday
31
MARCH 2018
Image above: UCL Hindu Society students celebrating Holi
1 St David’s Day (Christian)
3 Holi**(Hinduism) 26 Ramanavmi**(Hinduism)
29 MaundyThursday(Christian)
30 Pesach(Passover)*(Judaism) (work is not permitted on 31 Mar - 1 Apr and 6-7 April)
31 HanumanJayanti**(Hinduism)
Holi“Holi was originally a spring festival of fertility and harvest. Now it also marks some Hindu legends, which provide some of the ingredients for the celebrations.
Holi is an ancient festival which is referred to in the 7th century Sanskrit drama, Ratnaval.”
Find out more: www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/holi_1.shtml
APRIL 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1
Easter Sunday
2World Autism Awareness Day
Easter Monday
3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
APRIL 2018
Image above: Sikh gurus at a Vaisakhi festival
13 LailatalMiraj*(Islam)
14 Vaisakhi**(Sikhism)
23 St. George’s Day (Christian) YomHaShoah* (Judaism)
29 Second Passover (Judaism)
Vaisakhi“Vaisakhi(alsospelledBaisakhi)isthefestivalwhich celebrates the founding of the Sikh community known as the Khalsa. It is celebrated on April 14 each year. On Vaisakhi day in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh summoned Sikhs from all over India to the city of Anandpur Sahib. At this gathering, the Guru called upon Sikhs to uphold their faith and preserve the Sikh religion.”
Read more about Vaisakhi here:www.sikhismguide.org/vaisakhi.aspx
MAY 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6
7Mental Health Awareness Week, 8-14
May Day Bank Holiday
8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17International DayAgainst Homophobia
18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28May Spring Bank Holiday
29 30 31
MAY 2018
Image above: Abstract image of worship in a Church
1 LailatalBara’ah**(Islam)
3 LagB’Omer* (Judaism)
16 Ramadanbegins*(Islam)
19-21 Shavout*(Judaism) (work is not permitted)
20 Pentecost (Christian)
Pentecost“Pentecost is the festival when Christians celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. It is celebrated on the Sunday 50 days after Easter (the name comesfromtheGreekpentekoste,“fiftieth”).
It is also called Whitsun, but does not necessarily coincide with the Whitsun Bank Holiday in the UK.
Pentecost is regarded as the birthday of the Christian church, and the start of the church’s mission to the world.”
Find out more:www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/pentecost.shtml
JUNE 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22National Women in Engineering Day
23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
JUNE 2018
Image above: UCL Engineering celebrating National Women in Engineering Day
11 LaylatalKadr*(Islam)
15-17 EidalFitr*(Islam) 16 Guru Arjan martyrdom (Sikhism)
20 WaqfalArafa-HajjDay* (Islam)
21 Summer Solstice (Wicca/Pagan)
National Women in Engineering Day is a day dedicatedtoraisingtheprofileandcelebratingtheachievements of women in engineering.
UCL Women is a network for academic staff (postdocandabove)inscience,technology,engineeringandmathematics(STEM).
For more information and to join the network visit: uclwomen.org/
JULY 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
JULY 2018
Image above: Sugamo Bon Odori Festival, Japan
1-22 TheThreeWeeks (Judaism)
13-15 Obon ** (Buddhist)
25 St James the Great Day (Christian)
27 Dharma Day (Buddhist) The15thofAv(Judaism)
ObonObon is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor thespiritsofone’sancestors.ThisBuddhist-Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors’ graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars. It has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon-Odori.
Read more:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Festival
AUGUST 2018
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27Late Summer Bank Holiday
28 29 30 31
AUGUST 2018
Image above: Prayer at Jama Masjid, Old Delhi
22-25 Eid-ul-Adha*(Islam)
29 Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Christian) RakshaBandhan**(Hinduism)
Eid-ul-AdhaEid-ul-Adha(‘festivalofSacrifice’),alsoknownas the Greater Eid, is the second most important festival in the Muslim calendar.
ThefestivalrememberstheprophetIbrahim’swillingnesstosacrificehissonwhenGodorderedhim to.
Find out more here:www.bbc.co.uk/schools/religion/islam/eid_haj.shtml
At UCL it has been agreed that student requests to be absent due to religious commitments should be dealt with sympathetically by departments. Students should not be registered as ‘absent’ without good cause’ if they are absent due to religious commitments, provided this has been discussed and agreed with their tutor.
Staff wishing to observe religious festivals and holy days should negotiate with their managers in advance. Managers in turn are encouraged to consider sympathetically requests for annual leave or flexible work schedules from staff wishing to participate in religious festivals and to be prepared to make reasonable adjustments to working arrangements as long as they don’t cause undue disruption. Each academic year, a calendar of the main religious holidays is available so these can be taken into account by Departments with reference to drafting teaching timetables, coursework deadlines and field trips etc.
Please note that the effect of these festivals will vary from person to person, and they will not necessarily impact on staff or students time whilst at university (for example they are celebrated in the evening or at weekends).
The above dates are not intended to be a prescriptive list. Staff, students, parents or members of the public are welcome to contact the equalities team ([email protected]) to suggest other noteworthy dates.
Sarah GuiseHead of Equality, Diversity & InclusionTel: 020 3108 8889Email: [email protected]
Sonal BharadvaEquality, Diversity &
Inclusion AdvisorTel: 020 3108 8890
Email: [email protected]
Mike Higgins Equality, Diversity & Inclusion ManagerTel: 020 3108 8877Email: [email protected]
Fiona McClementEquality, Diversity &
Inclusion ManagerTel: 020 3108 8888
Email: [email protected]
Teresa WilliamsEquality, Diversity & Inclusion ManagerTel: 020 3108 8860Email: [email protected]
For general enquiries email: [email protected]
Website: www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities
* Holy days usually begin at sundown the day before this date.** Local or regional customs may use a variation of this date.
Useful Links:Religion & Belief: guidance for UCL managerswww.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/belief/religion_belief_guidance_for_managers.pdf
Religion & Belief Equality Policy for Studentswww.ucl.ac.uk/academic-manual/part-5/religion-belief-equality
Supporting Muslim staff during Ramadanwww.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/belief/ramadan.php
Interfaith Calendarwww.interfaith-calendar.org/
Jewish holidays and festivalswww.chabad.org/holidays/default_cdo/jewish/holidays.htm
Thank you to UCL Faculty of Engineering, UCL Hindu Society and Out@UCL for the use of images.
