Happening @ Michigan

Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow

Tria Blu Wakpa

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and...

BLI Speaker Series: Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive, and Mindful Society

Mirabai Bush

Globally, nationally, locally—it is not hard to see that the world needs more compassionate leadership. But how do we do it? We are all...

Social Justice and the Power of Oppression

In this workshop, participants will be prompted in high levels of thinking about their own identities, communicating across identities,...

So We’re Biased. Now What?: Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias

Many of us are committed to DEI, and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that...

Public-Facing Scholarship on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Multimedia and Digital Approaches

Rachel Willis

This lecture and Q&A session will offer an overview LSA Alum Rachel Willis' public-facing humanities project, a multi-media DAAS...

Rachel Rosen DEI Workshop

Rachel Rosen joins us to explore our progress. Rosen will help us learn to act with intentionality, discover how unconscious biases and...

Black Excellence Gala

The Black Excellence celebration aims to honor the diversity of blackness within the UM campus and community. This event intends to have...

Building an Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism

Presented by the Survey Research Center and RacismLab

Interdisciplinary Science on Cultural & Structural Racism...

Home Sweet Home: Aging in Place with Shared Housing

What is shared housing?

Shared housing programs are making a re-emergence amidst the rapid aging of our nation’s population. This is due in part to the desire of...

SUSTAINABLE FUNDING

Engage Directly With Foundations

We are excited to invite you to our next CEO Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement - Sustainable Funding: Engaging Directly with...

Rackham North: Racial Microaggressions

Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often times find ourselves skirting around this subset of...

Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy

Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author,...

Unconscious Bias - Open to Michigan Medicine Only

LaTonya Berryhill - Operations Manager at Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research

The unconscious mind is a powerful and intrinsic force in helping to shape our overall behavior in our everyday lives. This interactive...

Freedom Writings: Black Abolitionists and the Struggle Against "Race Hatred" in Brazil - 1870-1890

Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto

How do you think about the experiences of freedom among black people in Brazil before the end of slavery in 1888? Interested in this...

L.E.A.D.: Leading Equity and Diversity Initiatives Workshop

Throughout this series of panel discussions, participants will have the opportunity to hear from and interact with a diverse group of people...

Meals with Faculty

The Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School, and the Division of Student Life invites any and all LGBTQ+ graduate students to our new Meals...

Where Your Student Leadership Will Take You

“Where your Student Leadership will Take you?” is an intergenerational panel of UM alumni on student leadership....

U-M Museum Studies Program Presents Listening to Object Witnesses: Decolonizing Research in Museum Collections

How do Indigenous objects in museum collections speak to those who collect, curate, observe, and claim them?  The observable materials and...

Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington

The Cognitive Costs of Environmental Racism: Myth, Science and Myopia

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind...

Food Grown by Students for Students: Trip to Campus Farm

The University of Michigan Campus Farm at Matthaei Botanical Gardens is an authentic living-learning laboratory available to all students at...

Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Enabling Hybrid Thin Films for Optoelectronics

Dr. Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University

Abstract...

CANCELLED: Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing

Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED....

Story of My Holiday

Dr. Katrina Foo

To increase our understanding and appreciation of each other, OHEI invites you to come and share how you celebrate one of your holidays -...

Cancelled: Demystifying the Postdoc Experience

This event has been cancelled....

POSTPONED: South Meets North

Indian classical Violin concert by Prof. Purnapragna Bangere

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE....

Atreh Nowruzi (Fragrance of Spring)

22nd Annual Persian Student Association Cultural Show

Join the Persian Student Association in celebrating the Persian New Year and the start of Spring at our 22nd Annual Cultural Show,...

CANCELLED!!! Bystander Intervention-Open to Michigan Medicine Only

Dr. Devika Dibya Choudhuri

Dibya is experienced in facilitating effective change in individuals and groups for over 14 years. Her expertise focuses on professional...

CANCELLED - Parenting for Prison: Time for One is Time for All

Keynote Speaker: Cindy Shank

This semester, Prison Birth Project is hosting its second annual symposium, Parenting from Prison: Time for One is Time for All....

CANCELLED: Opening Reception: 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners

Celebrate the opening day of the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Gallery opens at 10:00 AM. Sales begin at 6:00 PM....

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We Care Office Hours w/ DEI Director

Prof. Sara Pozzi

The Colleg of Engineering and DEI Director, Prof. Sara Pozzi, are pleased to offer DEI We Care Office Hours for students, faculty, and staff...

Online: Rackham North—Writing a Diversity Statement for the Faculty Job Search

In light of COVID-19 and in alignment with university policy, Rackham is delivering our professional and academic programming when possible...

CANCELED: Whose Freedom of Speech?: Reflections on Power and Voice on the American College Campus

Elizabeth Cole

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED....

CANCELLED!!! The Story of My Name

Dr. Preeti Malani & Dr. Gary Freed

Everyone has a name, and there is a story behind every name. Come and share the story of your name or just learn about the stories of...

Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversations

OHEI DEI Team Will Facilitate

We felt that it was important to carve out space for dialogue. We know that we are all trying to do our part and it looks different for each...

CANCELED/POSTPONED -- The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field

Deirdre Cooper Owens (Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine & Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for future updates....

CANCELED “Online Harassment and the Threat to Democracy”

The Eisendrath Symposium with journalists Elodie Vialle, Rana Ayyub & Jason Reich

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED....

CANCELLED: Crisis and Solidarity: Celebrating 25 years of the Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners

Keynote: Janie Paul, Senior Curator

Walgreen Drama Center...

Online: Healing Identity-Based Trauma

In light of COVID-19 and in alignment with university policy, Rackham is delivering our professional and academic programming when possible...

Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game

Grand Marshal: Brigadier General (ret.) Carol Ann Fausone & Guest Speaker: Rich Luterman, Chief Meteorologist, Fox 2 Detroit

Celebrating 15 years of spirited competition, the University of Michigan Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game returns to Crisler Center...

Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game

Join the fun! Come see a classic clash at Crisler as Army takes on Navy in wheelchair hoops. This event honors military veterans and...

Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation

OHEI DEI Team Will Facilitate - Michael Herrington

We felt that it was important to carve out space for dialogue. We know that we are all trying to do our part and it looks different for each...

Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation

Self-Care: Tips for Navigating Social Isolation and Building Community - Clarissa Love & Stacey Nguyen

We felt that it was important to carve out space for dialogue. We know that we are all trying to do our part and it looks different for each...

CANCELLED: The Sisters Free

Celebrating 30 years of the Sisters Within

Facilitated by the Prison Creative Arts Project, the Sisters Within is the longest-running women’s theater troupe in a Michigan prison....

Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversations

“What Can You Do? We Will Share and Discuss Opportunities That Exist to Volunteer Within Michigan Medicine and Beyond.” - Clarissa Love and Stacey Nguyen

OHEI is now offering a re-formatted Community Conversations approach that is virtual. We feel that it is important to carve out space for...