Happening @ Michigan

Anti-Racist Community Engagement

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

Navigating Difficult Conversations: Communicating Across Difference

In this interactive session, Rackham experts in conflict resolution will discuss the ways in which conflict can manifest in our academic and...

Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series

Civic Engagement

This month we host "Setting Change in Motion: The Power in Communities and Storytelling" where we explore the power of communities...

2021 Michigan Pre-College & Youth Outreach Conference

New Horizons: The Innovation, Resilience, and Perseverance of K-12 Students

Join us on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 for the Michigan Pre-College & Youth Outreach Conference, "New Horizons: The Innovation,...

Anti-Racism in an Abroad Context

Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural,...

CSEAS Lecture Series. The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Activism in Singapore: A Roundtable on Pink Dot

Alfian Sa’at, Michelle Lazar, Robert Phillips, Pavan Mano, Adi Saleem Bharat

Free and open to the public. Register at: http://myumi.ch/0W3r9...

Change it Up!©

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

2021 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit DEI at 5 Years: A 360° View

TOWN HALL with Q&A

Reflecting on the accomplishments of the first five years of the...

Let’s Brainstorm In-Person Programs: Successful Visitors on Campus

October UOC Event

Join us on October 27th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM (EST) for "Let's Brainstorm In-Person Programs: Successful Visitors on Campus,"...

A Conversation on Critical Race Theory: Its Meaning, Controversies, and Influence

Faculty Forum

October 28, 3:00 to 4:00 PM (EST)...

On the Peripheries of the Subaltern: Privilege, Marginalization, and Intersectional Identities

Grounded in theoretical frameworks of “otherness,” such as Spivak’s “subaltern” and Canagarajah’s “periphery,” this workshop...

You Don’t Belong Here: The Stories Our Systems Tell (and Why We Have to Disrupt Them)

Many universities message extensively around their commitments about diversity, equity, and inclusion. These institutional assertions are...

Imperial Pasts in the Present: Affect, Indigeneity, and Memory

Part of the series Intersectionality in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Moderator: Aslı Iğsız, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, New York University. Presenters: Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex...

Writing a Diversity Statement

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and...

AMAS Backpacking & Community Building

Looking for classes or student organizations? Need internships on your resume? Want a chance to connect with professors and graduate...

Mentorship, Finance, and Legacy Building

Cheh Kim, Sr. Information Specialist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) & Nick Khouri, former Michigan State Treasurer (2015-2018), Josh Thurman (moderator)

TDLS: Finance and Mentoring - Cheh Kim, Sr. Information Specialist for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) & Nick...

Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind: From sharp shooters to earthmovers, roaming dogs, helicopters in the sky, quarantines and men that fly

Virginia Grise, Theatre Artist

Latina/o Studies welcomes you for a conversation with Virginia Grise where she will discuss the developmental process of adapting Helena...

Native American Heritage Month: Opening Ceremony

Dr. Adrienne Keene

Join us for the opening ceremony kicking off Native American Heritage Month in partnership with the office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs....

An electrical engineer’s guide to research and development at Corning Incorporated

Dr. Donnell Walton, Director, Corning Technology Center—Silicon Valley

Dr. Donnell Walton is the 2021 ECE Willie Hobbs Moore Alumni Lectureship recipient....

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...

Bystander Intervention: What to Do When You May Not Know What to Do

This workshop will give a basic introduction to Bystander Intervention. In this workshop, participants will learn about what causes...

MESA Anti-Racism Teach In

Racial justice begins with anti-racism. Anti-racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems,...

Veterans Week: Graduate Student Panel

Graduate Student Veterans are a significant and vital population on the University of Michigan Campus. This panel will feature Graduate...

Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples

Inclusive Research Matters Series

Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples...

Dismantling White Supremacy

Culture reflects a set of agreed-upon expectations and norms in a social community. Culture includes values, beliefs, perceptions, and...

Corrective Care: Institutionalizing Children in the Territory of Hawaiʻi

Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Utah

This talk analyzes how social scientific knowledge structured practices of the institutionalization of Native Hawaiian children and other...

Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation

Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm...

Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community

Please save the date for a one-day symposium on Friday, November 12, 2021, exploring how various modes of translation contribute to the...

DEIxTechnology: Promoting a Sense of Belonging in Virtual Spaces

November UOC Event

Join us for the University Outreach Council's (UOC) November event, "DEIxTechnology: Promoting a Sense of Belonging in Virtual...

Minority Serving Institutions Coffee Chat: Fostering Belonging Through Equity-Minded, Anti-Racist Course Design

The coffee chat series will serve as a space for scholars and practitioners to share ideas, best practices, and other resources related to...

November Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering

with Leslie Tetteh!

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events...

A/PIA Opportunity Fair

In-person or through Zoom...

EnginTalks: Embodying Equity-Centered Engineering

Did you know, a woman driver who is wearing a seatbelt, is 17% more likely than a man to be killed when a crash takes place (NHTSA) because...

She’s Gone Missing (The Epidemic You Don’t Hear About): Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Heather Bruegl

She’s Gone Missing (The Epidemic You Don’t Hear About): Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women...

Trans Visibility Passport Day

Register: https://ssw.umich.edu/r/TVPD...

Change It Up! © Anti-Black Racism

Change It Up! © Anti-Black Racism is an interactive session where participants will learn about ways their identities can influence how...

In-Person w/ Idris Robinson: Revolutionary Horizons after the George Floyd Rebellion

Idris Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico

Join us for this in-person conversation with philosopher/ activist Idris Robinson on social movements, resistance, and the George Floyd...

UOC Restorative Time

December UOC Event

We are in the final stretch of the semester, and the CEO team has created a networking space and restorative time for our UOC members to...

Rackham Minority Serving Institutions Initiative Coffee Chat Series: Using Strategic Partnerships to Scale Change

Traditional partnerships are often happenstance in nature—forming when collaborators are required for grant funding and ending quickly...

Anti-Racism Is Never Not Intersectional

Panelists:...

Welcome to the Indigenous Future

A Digital Studies Institute panel discussion, co-presented by the University of Michigan and the Consulate General of Canada...

From Theory to Practice: Conversations for Wellness—Graduate and Professional Student Mental Health

While there is often stigma around seeking mental health services, most people struggle with maintaining mental well-being at some point in...

CANCELED: Omission as the Modern Form of Bias Against Indigenous People

Dr. Stephanie Fryberg, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date. We sincerely apologize for any...

Brain Juices: An Evening of Trivia and Juiceophilia

Come savour free juices!

Join us for an evening of juices—literal and mental—while competing in a game of trivia or two. In addition to good juice, there may be...

CBSSM Seminar "Gender Equity in Medical Physics: What happens when a physicist tries to learn qualitative research techniques."

Kelly Paradis, PhD

Medical physics, like many other fields within science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM), is male-dominated. In this...

UJIMA: Collective Work and Responsibility Exhibit Discussion

GalleryDAAS at the University of Michigan

Please join us for a very special discussion between the curators of the UJIMA exhibit currently...