Happening @ Michigan

CMENAS Teach-In Town Hall. BDS, Nonviolence, and MLK's Legacy in the Middle East

Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice; David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of...

Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize Winning author and professor of law, Yale University

In his lecture, James Forman, Jr. will discuss some of the questions raised by his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime...

Critical Conversations -- Publics

Anna Watkins Fisher | Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes | Susan Scott Parrish | Gillian White | Peggy McCracken (chair)

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19 organized by the English Department. In each session, a panel of four...

Control and the Carceral State

Roundtable

This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...

DAAS Africa Workshop “Get Along without It”: Contested Domestic Desires in Imperial Sudan

Marie Grace Brown (History, University of Kansas, Sudan)

In recent scholarship and past imperial logic, the colonial marital home has stood as a symbol of civility, stability, and imperial order....

Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Animals and Capture"

Antoine Traisnel / Bénédicte Boisseron / Joseph Trumpey

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...

Author's Forum Presents: "Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question": A conversation with Bénédicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan

Bénédicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan

Bénédicte Boisseron (Afro-American and African studies) and Aliyah Khan (English, Afro-American and African studies) discuss Boisseron's...

Critical Conversations -- Diaspora

Manan Desai | Annette Joseph-Gabriel | Angela Naimou (Clemson) I Supriya Nair I Madhumita Lahiri (chair)

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about...

Africa Workshop 'Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in Colonial West African Newspapers

Stephanie Newell (Literature, Yale)

From the 1880s onward English- and African- language newspapers hosted many different types of literary production: they created...

Critical Conversations -- Dissent

Hadji Bakara | Bénédicte Boisseron | Ingrid Diran | Colin Gunckel | Ruby Tapia (chair)

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...

Community and the Carceral State

Roundtable

This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...

African Women Film Series - L’Arbre sans Fruit (Fruitless Tree) Film Screening

The University of Michigan’s CEW+, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and African Studies Center are pleased to present the...

AMAS Film Screening: "Muslimah's Guide to Marriage"

Professor Amina Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar

Short Synopsis of the Film: Muslimah Muhammad, a twenty-something African-American orthodox Muslim Woman who lives in Inglewood, CA, has...

Critical Conversations -- The Novel

Alicia Christoff | Danny Hack | Akil Kumarasamy | Antoine Traisnel | Gaurav Desai (chair)

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four...

African Women Film Series - Notre Étrangère (The Place in Between) Film Screening

The University of Michigan’s CEW+, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and African Studies Center are pleased to present the...

DAAS Africa Workshop "Rhodes Must Not Rise: Decolonial Thought in Pre-colonial Malawi"

Harri Englund (Anthropology, Cambridge)

In the 1880s, when the future of Malawi was being decided between Cecil Rhodes and the British government, Protestant missionaries from...

Beyond the Carceral State

Roundtable

This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...

Africa Workshop “How to get away with blasphemy: the politics of religious offense in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”.

Zekeriah Ahmed Salem (Political Science, Northwestern)

Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of The Institute for the Study...