Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3187/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. ASC Research Colloquium Series Winter 2024 (March 28, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119867 119867-21843693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This series features the winter 2024 U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

*Friday, March 15, (3- 6 PM) – Sequentialism, Pentecostalism, Judicial Practices, and Photochemical Analysis in Africa*

Makai Daniel (Nigeria). “Pentecostalism and the Contest for Public Space in Northern Nigeria”

Hanna Gebregziabher (Ethiopia). “Comparative Study on Sequential Use of Trans-Cervical Catheter with Misoprostol vs Misoprostol Alone for Second-Trimester Pregnancy Termination”

Muthumuni Managa (South Africa). “Photochemistry of Porphyrins Conjugated to Nanostructured Materials and their Potential Applications”

Nixon Wamamela (Uganda). “Ethical Dilemmas in the Judicial Electoral Petitions in Uganda”

*Thursday, March 28 (3-6 PM) – Design Optimization, Women Secessionists and Mental Health Practices in Africa*

Benyin Akande (Nigeria). “Women in Secessionist Movements in Africa: A Focus on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Movement in South-East Nigeria”

Allan Omondi (Kenya). “Application of Design Optimization in the Welfare Economics of Rural Agricultural-Based Communities: A Case Study of Siaya County, Kenya”

Victoria Tintswalo Nesengani (South Africa). “Interventions to Support Children Affected by Grief due to Loss of a Significant Other through Death in South Africa: A Scoping Review”

*Thursday, April 4 (1-4 PM) – Regression Models, Ecofeminism, Maternal Health and Energy Access in Africa*

Jean de Dieu Niyigena (Rwanda). “Quadratic Classifier for Repeated Measurements Using Bilinear Regression Model”

Chinasa Abonyi (Nigeria). “Reclaiming the Land and Waters: Nostalgia and Ecofeminist Belonging in Igbo Festival Narrative”

Ayalnesh Yalew (Ethiopia). “Effect of Unintended Pregnancy on Maternal Antenatal Care Service Utilization in Ethiopia: Analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey Data”

Sisty Basil (Tanzania). “Empowering the Forgotten: Addressing Last-Mile Energy Access Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Tanzania”

Register here: https://forms.gle/VjiZBBwjXvadKNjy6

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:47:32 -0500 2024-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 2024-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium UMAPS Research Colloquium Series Winter 2024
How an E-Bike Startup is Looking to Change the Way Africa Moves (April 3, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120111 120111-21844077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

4 PM | April 3 | Blau Colloquium, 5th floor of the Blau Building at the Ross School of Business

wahu! is the first Ghanaian brand to produce electric vehicles domestically. The electric bike (e-bike) startup brings together local talent and experienced automotive engineers and designers from global automakers, including Audi and BMW.

In the talk, “How an E-Bike Startup is Looking to Change the Way Africa Moves,” Valerie Labi, co-founder and CEO of wahu! Mobility Ltd. will discuss how the business is unlocking new possibilities in low-emission mobility solutions, particularly in urban markets. By locally designing and manufacturing connected EVs for Africa and the wider world, wahu!’s value proposition includes ease of transport, a path to vehicle ownership and a gateway to sustainable employment through mobility services.

Labi is an entrepreneur who also served as Ghana country director for nonprofit iDE, International Development Enterprises, which focuses on market-based solutions in agriculture and water/sanitation. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Southampton and her Masters of Studies from the University of Cambridge in Sustainability Leadership.

This event is open to the public and sponsored by the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) in partnership with the African Studies Center at U-M’s School of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

This event is open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to register and submit questions in advance. Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:08:42 -0400 2024-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional image for speaker Valerie Labi at 4 pm on April 3
ASC Research Colloquium Series Winter 2024 (April 4, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119867 119867-21843694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This series features the winter 2024 U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

*Friday, March 15, (3- 6 PM) – Sequentialism, Pentecostalism, Judicial Practices, and Photochemical Analysis in Africa*

Makai Daniel (Nigeria). “Pentecostalism and the Contest for Public Space in Northern Nigeria”

Hanna Gebregziabher (Ethiopia). “Comparative Study on Sequential Use of Trans-Cervical Catheter with Misoprostol vs Misoprostol Alone for Second-Trimester Pregnancy Termination”

Muthumuni Managa (South Africa). “Photochemistry of Porphyrins Conjugated to Nanostructured Materials and their Potential Applications”

Nixon Wamamela (Uganda). “Ethical Dilemmas in the Judicial Electoral Petitions in Uganda”

*Thursday, March 28 (3-6 PM) – Design Optimization, Women Secessionists and Mental Health Practices in Africa*

Benyin Akande (Nigeria). “Women in Secessionist Movements in Africa: A Focus on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Movement in South-East Nigeria”

Allan Omondi (Kenya). “Application of Design Optimization in the Welfare Economics of Rural Agricultural-Based Communities: A Case Study of Siaya County, Kenya”

Victoria Tintswalo Nesengani (South Africa). “Interventions to Support Children Affected by Grief due to Loss of a Significant Other through Death in South Africa: A Scoping Review”

*Thursday, April 4 (1-4 PM) – Regression Models, Ecofeminism, Maternal Health and Energy Access in Africa*

Jean de Dieu Niyigena (Rwanda). “Quadratic Classifier for Repeated Measurements Using Bilinear Regression Model”

Chinasa Abonyi (Nigeria). “Reclaiming the Land and Waters: Nostalgia and Ecofeminist Belonging in Igbo Festival Narrative”

Ayalnesh Yalew (Ethiopia). “Effect of Unintended Pregnancy on Maternal Antenatal Care Service Utilization in Ethiopia: Analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey Data”

Sisty Basil (Tanzania). “Empowering the Forgotten: Addressing Last-Mile Energy Access Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Tanzania”

Register here: https://forms.gle/VjiZBBwjXvadKNjy6

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:47:32 -0500 2024-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 2024-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium UMAPS Research Colloquium Series Winter 2024
ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership (April 5, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120233 120233-21844441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and student engagement in Africa.

The event is free and open to the public; registration is requested. Please register at https://myumi.ch/DrGME

~~~ *Friday, April 5, 2024* ~~~

[9:00 am] Opening Remarks by Santa Ono, U-M President, and Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director

[9:15 am] Keynote Remarks by Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs

[10:35-11:35 am] Democratization and its Challenges in Africa

[11:35 am] Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, Mandate Secretary for Health and Environment, Federal Government of Nigeria

[12:15 pm] Fireside Chat with Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe and Dr. Joseph C. Kolars, University of Michigan

[2:00-2:15 pm] Keynote Remarks by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Michigan’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives

[2:15-3:15 pm] Engaging Higher Education in Africa and the United States

[3:15-4:15 pm] Archives, Open Access, and the Politics of Knowledge

[4:15-5:15 pm] Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Possibilities, Progress, and Caveats

[5:15-6:15 pm] UMAPS Alumni meet Faculty Hosts


~~~ *Saturday, April 6, 2024* ~~~

[9:00 am] Keynote Remarks by Sarah Mosoetsa, CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council

[10:00-11:00 am] Innovate Africa: Technologies, Opportunities, and Economic Possibilities

[11:00 am-12:00 pm] Technologies, Climate Change, and Politics of Extraction in Africa

[1:00-2:00 pm] New Frontiers of Data Research & Health in Africa

[2:00-3:00 pm] Climate Change, Conflict, and Social Media in Africa

[3:15-4:15 pm] Decolonizing Ancient History and Archeology in Africa

[4:15 pm] Keynote Remarks by Judd B. Devermont, Kupanda Capital and former Special Assistant to President Joe Biden

[5:15 pm] Closing Address by Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director

*Thank you to the following cosponsors for making the 15th-year conference possible.*

Center for Global Health Equity; Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Department of History; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Global Islamic Studies Center; International Institute; LSA Office of the Dean; LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Office of the Vice President for Research; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Office of the Provost Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Office of the Provost Engaged Learning

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:21:59 -0400 2024-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 2024-04-05T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Banner displays the event information and keynote speakers: ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership (April 6, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120233 120233-21844442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2024 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This two-day conference will feature notable speakers and panelists and explore the future of higher education, academic collaboration, and student engagement in Africa.

The event is free and open to the public; registration is requested. Please register at https://myumi.ch/DrGME

~~~ *Friday, April 5, 2024* ~~~

[9:00 am] Opening Remarks by Santa Ono, U-M President, and Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director

[9:15 am] Keynote Remarks by Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs

[10:35-11:35 am] Democratization and its Challenges in Africa

[11:35 am] Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, Mandate Secretary for Health and Environment, Federal Government of Nigeria

[12:15 pm] Fireside Chat with Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe and Dr. Joseph C. Kolars, University of Michigan

[2:00-2:15 pm] Keynote Remarks by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Michigan’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives

[2:15-3:15 pm] Engaging Higher Education in Africa and the United States

[3:15-4:15 pm] Archives, Open Access, and the Politics of Knowledge

[4:15-5:15 pm] Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Possibilities, Progress, and Caveats

[5:15-6:15 pm] UMAPS Alumni meet Faculty Hosts


~~~ *Saturday, April 6, 2024* ~~~

[9:00 am] Keynote Remarks by Sarah Mosoetsa, CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council

[10:00-11:00 am] Innovate Africa: Technologies, Opportunities, and Economic Possibilities

[11:00 am-12:00 pm] Technologies, Climate Change, and Politics of Extraction in Africa

[1:00-2:00 pm] New Frontiers of Data Research & Health in Africa

[2:00-3:00 pm] Climate Change, Conflict, and Social Media in Africa

[3:15-4:15 pm] Decolonizing Ancient History and Archeology in Africa

[4:15 pm] Keynote Remarks by Judd B. Devermont, Kupanda Capital and former Special Assistant to President Joe Biden

[5:15 pm] Closing Address by Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director

*Thank you to the following cosponsors for making the 15th-year conference possible.*

Center for Global Health Equity; Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Department of History; Department of Anthropology; Department of English; Global Islamic Studies Center; International Institute; LSA Office of the Dean; LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Office of the Vice President for Research; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Office of the Provost Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Office of the Provost Engaged Learning

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:21:59 -0400 2024-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2024-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Banner displays the event information and keynote speakers: ASC 15th Anniversary Conference. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Keys to US-Africa Partnership
DAAS Africa Workshop With Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen’s University, Belfast) (April 9, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120524 120524-21844863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/4637137460?omn=98817366784

Eric Morier-Genoud
Interests
Eric Morier-Genoud is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton (USA), where he completed his PhD on the Politics of the Roman Catholic Church in colonial Mozambique. He joined Queen's University in September 2008, having spent the previous six years as a research and teaching fellow at the Universities of Oxford, Lausanne and Basel (Switzerland).

Research Statement
My main research interests are in the history and politics of Africa, the Portuguese-speaking world, nationalism, religion, Christian missions, war and conflict transformation. I am currently working on the jihadi insurgency in northern Mozambique, on Irish missionaries in the world, and the history of African students at Queen's University Belfast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:20:32 -0400 2024-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Oblique Histories: Nigerian Indigenous Architecture With and Against Zbigniew Dmochowski (April 11, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117320 117320-21839167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: African Studies Center

The impulse to decolonize architectural history often leads to a double bind. The critique of colonial epistemologies is accompanied by a revalorization of the colonial archives, methods, and experiences as indispensable sources for the understanding of architectural modernities. This symposium proposes a different approach. It traces the oblique trajectories of actors moving between what usually counts as the “peripheries” of the West. It focuses on the comprehensive study of Indigenous (“traditional”) architecture in Nigeria, carried out between the 1950s and the 1970s by a Nigerian-Polish team led by Zbigniew Dmochowski (1903-82): architect, historian, and the first director of the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture at Jos, Nigeria.

Dmochowski’s surveys were based on research methods which he developed in the context of the interwar “internal colonization” of the Eastern European borderlands. Symposium participants will question his argument about the applicability of these methods for the decolonization of architecture in Nigeria. Speakers will debate how Nigerian educators, architects, and scholars have appropriated Dmochowski’s work against the paradigms of modernist architecture and nation-building that he advocated. In this way, the seminar will foreground differing perspectives on colonialism while undermining the epistemic authority of the former colonial metropoles.

This symposium is supported by the African Heritage and Humanities Initiative (AHHI) Collaborative Faculty Seed Grant from the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan.

PROGRAM
2:00-2:05 pm: Welcome
2:05-2:15 pm: Introduction: Oblique Histories, Łukasz Stanek, University of Michigan
2:15-2:35 pm: Civilization, Colonialism, and the Built Environment in Interwar Poland’s Eastern Borderlands, Kathryn Ciancia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:35-2:55 pm: The Unsaid: Performative Architectural History & the Limits of Certain Methods, Adedoyin Teriba, Dartmouth College
2:55-3:15 pm: Demystifying Dmochowski: Found Knowledge and Indigenous Research Strategies, Warebi Brisibe, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
3:15-4:00 pm: Discussion
PARTICIPANTS
Adedoyin Teriba is an Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary architecture & urbanism at Dartmouth College, specializing in modern and contemporary architecture & urbanism, especially of West Africa and its diasporas. His teaching explores the uncanny nature of architecture, and how it embodies place, and identities. His most significant publications are “Architecture,” in The Interwar World (London: Routledge, 2024) and “Style, Race and Architecture of a Mosque of the Òyìnbó Dúdú (White Black) in Lagos Colony, 1894,” in Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).

Kathryn Ciancia is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020). She has also published articles in the Journal of Modern History and Slavic Review and in several edited volumes. She is currently working on a second book, Sites of Sovereignty: Law, Citizenship, and Lives on the Margins in Poland’s Long World War II, which traces how the Polish government-in-exile used legal mechanisms to maintain the perception of sovereignty in the absence of a territorial state.

Warebi Gabriel Brisibe is a registered Architect, a Researcher and a Professor at the Rivers State University, School of Architecture. He obtained a PhD in Architecture from Newcastle University, United Kingdom in 2011, where he focused on the Dynamics of Change in the vernacular architecture of migrant fishing tribes in Nigeria and Cameroon. His research interests are in African vernacular and heritage buildings, colonial and post-colonial studies and archival studies in architecture. He received grants from the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

Łukasz Stanek is Professor of Architectural History at A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Stanek authored Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (Minnesota, 2011) and Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton, 2020). Stanek taught at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the University of Manchester (UK), and held guest professorships at Harvard University (USA) and the University of Ghana (Ghana).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:56:59 -0400 2024-04-11T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion photo
Interreligious Solidarity in the Struggle Against Apartheid: The Role of the Muslim Community (April 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120276 120276-21844501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

Please join us for a lecture on role of South African Muslims in the anti-Apartheid struggle with Dr. Abdul Rashied Omar.
Learn more about our speaker here: https://keough.nd.edu/people/rashied-omar/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:31:53 -0400 2024-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception (May 3, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118776 118776-21841589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with: International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

2:30 PM: Check-In
3:00 PM: Ceremony
4:00 PM: Reception with light refreshments

To all 2023-2024 MIRS & Center Graduates: Please confirm your attendance and RSVP at http://myumi.ch/n77rk

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ii.graduation@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:05:28 -0500 2024-05-03T15:00:00-04:00 2024-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Ceremony / Service International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception