Happening @ Michigan

COVID-19: A WeListen Staff Discussion

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once...

Mass Incarceration: A WeListen Staff Discussion

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members, and is part of the 'Just Community: A Reading and Action Program' series...

U-M Health Sciences 2021 MLK Keynote

With Dr. Monique Butler, MD

Bodies represent the sites of socially constructed differences and power relations. As such, the personal is political, and bodies are...

Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation

Webinar / Virtual Event U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event

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Youth Activism: Lessons from Flint and Beyond

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MLK Day Circle of Unity

The Michigan Community Scholars Program will celebrate MLK and his legacy with the community at our 15th Annual Circle of Unity. Join...

LEAD: Anti-Racism Education in Higher Ed

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests...

Black Girl M[issing]: The Erasure and Reimagination of Black Girls’ Activism

RSVP here to receive the Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/black-girl-missing-the-erasure-and-reimagination-of-black-girls-activism...

Community Engaged Research: Reflections on MLK’s Legacy

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Anti-Racist Community Engagement Workshop

This interactive virtual workshop will interrogate the role white supremacy often plays in university community engagement experiences and...

The Digital Underground: Theory+Practice

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98985906314....

King Talks

Rackham students will communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. This year’s...

Conversations on Europe. A Q&A with Sheri Hagen, director of At Second Glance

Sheri Hagen, director

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos,...

Race-Consciousness Understandings and Interventions to Demolish Racism for Black, Indigenous, Graduate Level Students of Color

What do we need to improve the experiences of graduate Black, Indigenous, Students of Color (BISOC)? How do we retain these marginalized and...

Racial Justice & DEI Community Fireside Chat

CSG Civic Engagement Series

Please join us for an engaging dialogue with the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist II, Michigan State Representative Ranjeev...

A Primer for Student Activists

Students of Color Coalition, Twenty Years On

What are the secrets for effective student activism? How do student activists leverage their experiences with activism on campus in their...

The Case, the Space, and the Pace for Leading Inclusively

How many of us try to enter spaces we thought would be open to us that aren’t? How many of us block others from accessing spaces, from...

Rackham North: Assessing Organizational Culture Through a DEI Lens

How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as an applicant? Come learn about how to assess...

Follow the Leader: DEI Through C-Suite Activism

Brett J. Hart, President, United Airlines; Nichole Jordan, Chief Operating Officer, Remix; Mark Kennedy, President, University of Colorado; Brenda Pak, Co-Founder, BackPac Social Activism

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:...

How to Flourish - Occupational Wellness

Joelle Fundaro Randall

Want to know how to choose a career that fulfills you?...

Alumni Against Antiblackness (A3) U-M

We introduce to you Alumni Against Antiblackness (A3) U-M, a multi-generational collective that leverages the experiences and voices of the...

Change It Up! ©

Change It Up!© brings bystander intervention skills to students for the purpose of building supportive and respectful communities. Change...

Digital Methods for Dance History: Finding Arts and Culture Data in Unexpected Places

Register at https://myumi.ch/2DqRA....

The 2021 Sarah Goddard Power Award and Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award Ceremony

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Intro to LGBTQ+ Identities and Inclusive Language

The Spectrum Center will be presenting an introduction to LGBTQ+ language and identities. Gender identity, attractionality, and pronouns...

How to Go Beyond Diversity and Achieve Equity and Inclusion in Academia

Rogério Meireles Pinto, MPhil, MSW, PhD, CEW+ 2020 Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity & Social Change Award Winner

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Constructing Gender: The Origins of the Michigan League and Michigan Union

Nancy Bartlett and Sarah McLusky with Gary Krenz

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this Making Michigan conversation with archivists Nancy Bartlett and Sarah McLusky about the...

Where Are They Now? DEI Certificate Alumni Panel

Where are they now? What are they doing? How have the skills and conversations from the DEI Certificate influenced their work? Come join us...

Douglass Day 2021

You're invited to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. This year, Douglass Day celebrates the life and activism of Mary Church...

Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

New Directions in Research: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in the American Arctic and Siberia

"Big Noses, Angry Babushki, Mixed Messages: Racialized Expectations of Linguistic and Cultural Performance in Asian Russia"...

Power and Oppression in Groups

Deepening consideration of social identity and its influences, participants spend time not only understanding how to mitigate and resolve...

Rackham North: Diversity in STEM

This workshop discusses the impact diversity has on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and the importance of academic...

How to Flourish - Spiritual Wellness

Joshua Thurman and Brennan McBeth

Am I living the life I want be living?...

Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversation

"Leadership and Excellence: Diversifying the Pipeline Through HBCUS" Facilitators: Clarissa Love & Dr. Brandon Lucas

Community Conversations is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase...

That Ain't Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives

Presented by Odest Chadwicke Jenkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Director of the Michigan Robotics Institute

Our nation is poised to invest billions of dollars to remain the leader in artificial intelligence as well as quantum computing. This...

Powering through Uncertainty

Arlyne Simon, PhD

Platform Architect, Intel & Founder, Timouns...

Racial Microaggressions

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

LEAD: Chief Diversity Officers as Anti-Racism Advocates

LEAD, Leading Equity And Diversity, is a series of conversations where attendees have the opportunity to hear from a diverse group of guests...

German Studies Departmental Colloquium

Discussion: Tiffany Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (U of Illinois P, December 2020)

Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

Positive Links Speaker Series

The Person You Mean to Be

Many of us believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion. But how do we stand up for those values in our turbulent world? In this inspiring...

Future of Art Institutions: Repair or Rebuild?

Maurita Poole, Terence Washington, Anya Sirota, Christina Olsen

Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their...

Say Her Name...Too!

Dance Presentation and Discussion

Say Her Name…Too...

Rackham North: We’re Biased. So 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...

How to Flourish - Physical Wellness

Join Trotter Multicultural Center and the LEAD Scholars Program for a session on physical wellness. During this session, we will restore our...

Toxic Equilibrium: Structural Racism and Population Health Inequities

University of Michigan RacismLab Annual Symposium on Race and Racism

February 24, 2021...