Happening @ Michigan

Failing Flint: Lessons from the Water Crisis

Michigan Horizons (LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester)

This discussion takes place at the Flint Public Library (1026 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48503) and features panelists:...

Lecture: "Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M's LGBTQ Past"

Tim Retzloff (Michigan State University)

Tim Retzloff received his BA with highest honors in history from the University of Michigan in 2006 and earned his PhD in history from Yale...

Lecture: "The Lavender Scare: Federal Anti-Gay Purges during the Cold War"

David K. Johnson (University of South Florida)

David K. Johnson (Ph.D. Northwestern) is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of South Florida. His first...

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Alumni Lecture Series

Dr. Robert Kail, Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University

“Tales from West Quad, the Perry Building, and ISR: An Unbuttoned History of Psychology at Michigan.”...

Horizons of the Movement: Discussing the Future of Racial Justice Organizing at Michigan with Black Activists from BAM I to S4J

Horizons of the Movement will bring together multiple generations of Black activists who attended the University of Michigan and fought for...

The Road to Graduate Success

Multidisciplinary Panel

Graduate school can be daunting. It’s often an extended exercise in not being told about the things you’d better know. The path to...

Social Class Voices: Student Stories from the University of Michigan Bicentennial

Join us as students read essays from the book!...

And You Will See Wonders: Magic, Fraud, and Deceit in Late Medieval Venice

Mike Ryan

Michael A. RYAN is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of...

The Future of the Military and Civilians in War

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...

Technologies and Instruments of War

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...

Technologies and Instruments of Peace

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: The Future of War and Peace

Panel discussion featuring the following presenters and topics:...

Michigan Urban Futures: Envisioning and Engaging Cities in U-M's Third Century

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Urban Futures

Speakers:...

2017 CEW Spectrum of Advocacy & Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice

CEW is leading a one-day Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism Symposium: Finding Your Voice focused on advocacy and activism training. This...

CEW at U-M Presents: LAVERNE COX

This event is free and open to the public, however, tickets are required. A limited amount of tickets are available at the Michigan Union...

Author's Forum Presents: The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

A Conversation with Howard Markel and Michael Schoenfeldt

Howard Markel reads from his new book, followed by a conversation with Michael Schoenfeldt, audience Q & A, and book signing and sales....

Comics as a Social Justice Medium

Nate Powell, graphic artist

Nate Powell is the artist behind MARCH, the National Book Award-winning graphic novel trilogy co-authored with Congressman John Lewis and...

Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell: MARCH

Co-Presented by the International Institute’s Conflict and Peace Initiative, the King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Professorship Program, and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

John Lewis is a civil rights leader and an American politician, serving Georgia’s 5th district since 1987. A member of the Democratic...

Author's Forum Presents: The Book of Wonders

A Conversation with Douglas Trevor and Peter Ho Davies

A lonely female accountant falls for a man who seems to have stepped out of a Greek myth; a scholar uncovers a lost Shakespearean couplet...

Laura Kasischke, Allan Seager Collegiate Professorship in English Language and Literature, Inaugural Lecture

Public Lecture and Reception

Futures of Law and Political Inclusion

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...

Futures of Free Speech, Safe Space, and Political Expression

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...

Futures of Democratic Social Movements

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...

Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy

Panelists and description forthcoming....

Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professorship in Anthropology, Inaugural Lecture

TRAVELING HEAVY: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SEARCH FOR HOME

Public Lecture and Reception

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Lecture: Fugitive Democracy Revisited

LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Symposium: Crisis Democracy

Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on, interpret, and imagine the...

The Other America: Still Separate. Still Unequal.

This interdisciplinary, day-long event will focus on issues of inequality as they manifest in relation to black lives in the United States....