BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T120914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250829T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Disrupting the Information Order in Health Care: Institutions\, Policy Regimes\, and the Value of Data DESCRIPTION:The 21st Century Cures Act API Rule seeks to increase the interoperability of patients’ electronic health information (EHI) – individually identifiable patient information related to medical treatment\, which can enable actors outside the institutional context and special data protections of health care to gain access to private data. We examine stakeholders’ comments during the Notice of Public Rulemaking on the Cures Act API Rule to show not only how institutional context shapes their views\, but also how the change to data flows may also disrupt established institutional meanings and mechanisms. The technical change of the API Rule leads insiders to defend\, while enabling outsiders to disrupt institutions in health care. We show how disruption to existing institutional logics\, relationships\, and the information order challenges professional control of information\, threatens provider-patient relationships\, and upsets the property rights and data protections of private data in ways that may threaten the existing institutional order of health care in the United States. UID:137606-21880461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T100858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250904T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience: Milei's Shock Doctrine and Feminist Resistance in Argentina DESCRIPTION:Argentine sociologist\, researcher\, author\, and member of the feminist collective NiUnaMenos\, Lucía Cavallero explores the intersection of debt\, financial capital\, and gender violence. Join us for a discussion on resisting the Milei government and his supporters in Argentina and beyond.\n\n Presentation will be in Spanish with English translation\n\n\nCo-sponsors:\n Donia Human Rights Center\, Center for Emerging Democracies\, University of Michigan Global Engagement\, Office of the Provost\n\n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n Email: -- lacs.office@umich.edu UID:138062-21881614@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138062 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250819T160905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CSAS Graduate Student Conference | New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W6drV\n\nThis conference will bring together graduate students at the University of Michigan from all disciplines\, featuring panelists discussing papers on the theme of “New Directions\,” rethinking key ideas in scholarship pertaining to South Asia. In the last decade\, South Asia has witnessed the contours of democracy change\, the economic center of gravity shift eastwards\, and an unprecedented influx of climate and political refugees. Reflecting on recent global events\, how can we meaningfully situate South Asia in the world?\n \n OPENING REMARKS (10:00 AM – 10:15 AM)\n \n PANEL 1 (10:15 AM – 11:45 AM): Literary Critique in Context\n Aditya Bhattacharya (doctoral student in Asian Languages and Cultures)\, Sarvadamana Bharata in the *Mahābhārata* and the *Abhijñānaśākuntala*: The Puru Prince in the Changing Politics of Legitimacy\n Shreya Dutta (doctoral student in History)\, Navigating the Unfamiliar? Rethinking Babu Satires in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal\n Gurkirat Singh Sekhon (doctoral student in English and Women's and Gender Studies)\, Is the *Post-* in Postsecularism the *Post-* in Postcritique?\n \n CATERED LUNCH (11:45 AM – 1:00 PM)\n \n PANEL 2 (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM): Networks of Prints and Visual\n Nathan Omprasadham (doctoral student in English Language and Literature)\, The Editor as Nexus: Sri Lankan Literary Networks and the Politics of Patronage in Post-war London\n Srimati Ghosal (doctoral student in Comparative Literature)\, Magazine Manifestoes: The Formation of Third-world Literary Aesthetics through the Magazine Format\n Arighna Gupta (Ph.D. candidate in History)\, Visualizing Rebels and Collectives in Early-colonial Company Paintings\, 1780–1840\n \n COFFEE BREAK 1 (2:30 PM –2:45 PM)\n \n PANEL 3 (2:45 PM – 4:15 PM): Political and Legal Lives of South Asia\n Avina Kohli (doctoral student in Asian Languages and Cultures)\, State Publicity and Pedagogy in Postcolonial India\n Vishesh Chander Guru (doctoral student in Anthropology)\, Troubling Crime: Insanity\, Law\, and Reason in (Post)colonial India\n Saifullah Nasar (Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology)\, title TBA\n \n COFFEE BREAK 2 (4:15 PM – 4:30 PM)\n \n KEYNOTE ADDRESS (4:30 PM – 6:00 PM): Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India\n \n Five decades ago\, the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union launched the Go to Villages Campaign\, in which groups of university students were sent to rural Dalit settlements\, where they were tasked with documenting the conditions of life and labor. In that same decade\, anthropologists and sociologists like Clifford Geertz and Joseph Gusfield fundamentally transformed the social sciences by newly centering attention to writing. This talk asks why Telugu South India similarly saw the emergence of new socio-political writing and documentation practices in the 1970s\, highlighting four examples: the Jana Natya Mandali’s (People’s Theatre Troupe) new documentary song-story compositions\; AP State Harijan Conference reports\; documentation produced by the RSU’s “Go to Villages Campaign”\; and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee’s introduction of regular “fact-finding missions.”\n \n Lisa Mitchell is Professor of anthropology & history in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections* (Duke University Press 2023\; Permanent Black 2023) and *Language\, Emotion\, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue* (Indiana University Press 2009\; Permanent Black 2010)\, which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Wenner-Gren Foundation\, Fulbright\, European Research Council\, American Institute for Indian Studies\, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.\n\n If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137460-21880305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137460 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:sociology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Room 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T074300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:What makes us feel supported? Unpacking work support perceptions DESCRIPTION:For more than fifty years\, research has underscored the central role of social support in fostering employee well-being and organizational effectiveness. Yet\, despite its prominence\, relatively little is known about how employees actually form judgments of how supported they feel at work. This lack of clarity creates persistent challenges for scholars attempting to measure the construct and for practitioners striving to cultivate genuinely supportive workplaces. To address this gap\, I will present findings from two studies designed to clarify the nature of social support and illuminate the processes through which employees develop perceptions of it. UID:137990-21881104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250815T121405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W6drV\n\nFive decades ago\, the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union launched the Go to Villages Campaign\, in which groups of university students were sent to rural Dalit settlements\, where they were tasked with documenting the conditions of life and labor. In that same decade\, anthropologists and sociologists like Clifford Geertz and Joseph Gusfield fundamentally transformed the social sciences by newly centering attention to writing. This talk asks why Telugu South India similarly saw the emergence of new socio-political writing and documentation practices in the 1970s\, highlighting four examples: the Jana Natya Mandali’s (People’s Theatre Troupe) new documentary song-story compositions\; AP State Harijan Conference reports\; documentation produced by the RSU’s “Go to Villages Campaign”\; and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee’s introduction of regular “fact-finding missions.”\n \n Lisa Mitchell is professor of anthropology & history in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections* (Duke University Press 2023\; Permanent Black 2023) and *Language\, Emotion\, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue* (Indiana University Press 2009\; Permanent Black 2010)\, which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Wenner-Gren Foundation\, Fulbright\, European Research Council\, American Institute for Indian Studies\, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.\n \n This lecture is the keynote address of the CSAS 2025 Graduate Student Conference “New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics.”\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137607-21880462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137607 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Room 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T091222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Rising Wealth Concentration and Disparities in Social Outcomes Across the United States\" DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Manuel Schechtl\, Assistant Professor of Public Policy\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and 2025-2026 Visiting Fellow. Dr. Schechtl is a social demographer studying the creation\, persistence\, and reproduction of inequality\, poverty\, and mobility\, with substantive interests in wealth and its intersection with public policy. His research encompasses the quantitative analysis of survey data\, administrative records\, and experimental data. Currently\, Manuel is focusing on multiple facets of wealth inequality and accumulation\, with a particular focus on the impact of inheritances and inheritance taxes.\n\nAbstract: “Wealth inequality in the United States has reached heights not seen since the Gilded Age\, renewing concerns that skyrocketing disparities in economic power may challenge the basic social functioning of society. Yet empirical research linking rising wealth inequality to changes in social outcomes\, be it democratic erosion\, collapsing communities\, or increasing social immobility\, remains scarce. Beyond data limitations\, trying to study wealth inequality as a determinant rather than an outcome comes with substantive challenges for establishing causality. The talk outlines this broader research agenda\, including the development of a shift-share instrument for wealth inequality.” UID:136970-21879382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136970 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250903T160500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Where Granularity Matters: Calibrating Subdomain Inference for Binary Outcomes DESCRIPTION:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series\nMPSDS M3 Series\n\nSeptember 3\, 2025\n12:00 - 1:00 pm EST\n\nIn person\, room 1070\, Institute for Social Research and via Zoom.\nThe Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation.\n\nWhere Granularity Matters: Calibrating Subdomain Inference for Binary Outcomes\nSmall area estimation (SAE) helps us make accurate estimates for local communities or groups\, such as counties\, neighborhoods\, or demographic subgroups\, when there are not enough data for each area. This is important for targeting local resources and policies\, especially when national-level or large-area data mask variation at a more granular level. Researchers often fit hierarchical Bayesian models to stabilize estimates when data are sparse. Ideally\, Bayesian procedures also exhibit good frequentist properties\, as demonstrated by calibrated Bayes techniques. However\, hierarchical Bayesian models tend to shrink subdomain estimates toward the overall mean and may produce credible intervals that do not maintain nominal coverage. Hoff et al. developed the Frequentist\, but Assisted by Bayes (FAB) intervals for subgroup estimates with normally distributed outcomes. However\, non-normally distributed data present new challenges\, and multiple types of intervals have been proposed for estimating proportions. We examine subdomain inference with binary outcomes and extend FAB intervals to improve nominal coverage and estimation efficiency. We describe how to numerically compute FAB intervals in the binary case and demonstrate their improvement through repeated simulation studies. Finally\, we apply the proposed methods to estimate COVID-19 infection rates in subgroups\, based on geography and demographic characteristics. This is joint work with Rayleigh Lei.\n\nYajuan Si is a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Yajuan’s research lies in cutting-edge methodology development in streams of Bayesian statistics\, linking design- and model-based approaches to survey inference\, data integration\, missing data analysis\, confidentiality protection involving the creation and analysis of synthetic datasets\, and causal inference with observational data. She regularly teaches courses on statistics and sampling in the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. UID:138682-21883610@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250827T093620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statements of Value vs. Statements of Action: Exploring Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Race in 2020 DESCRIPTION:Drawing on a content analysis of statements from Fortune 500 companies\, US News and World Report’s top 100 universities\, and Forbes’ top 100 nonprofits\, this project captures and analyzes organizational responses to COVID and issues of racial inequality in the US. Both issues were central in US life in 2020. We explore two questions: How did organizations talk about COVID and race-related issues in 2020? Relatedly\, was there any variation in the presence and content of organizational statements about these two issues? Based on their statements\, COVID pushed organizations to produce tangible responses grounded in actions aimed at reducing the impact of the pandemic\, while race-related issues generated condemnations of racism attached to abstract reflections on the implication of racial inequality or calls for further discussion of the issue. As ubiquitous as both issues were in the US\, any talk of a “national conversation” around these topics misleadingly obscures important variation in how organizations talked about these concurrent social issues. Across organizational type\, the contrast in how companies talked about both issues suggests that robust organizational engagement with broader social issues can happen\, but organizations are selective in choosing which issues garner deep\, action-oriented engagement. UID:138230-21882635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138230 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250916T101927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250916T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Jake Grumbach\, an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.\n\nAbstract: “Compared to those of other countries\, politicians in the United States are among the oldest. We investigate the role of money in politics in maintaining age inequality in political influence and office-holding. Using record linkage\, we create a novel dataset that combines administrative data on the age of voters\, donors\, and candidates. Descriptively\, we find that the median dollar in the U.S. campaign finance system comes from a 66-year-old donor—significantly older than the median voter\, candidate\, or elected official—and that older donors are much more ideologically conservative than younger donors. We then investigate whether candidate age matters to donors. Results from within-district and within-donor analyses suggest that individuals are more likely to donate and donate more to candidates closer to their age. We conclude with a discussion of how various campaign finance policies might affect the age distribution of money in politics.” UID:136545-21878813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250917T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250828T075555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250919T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From Purity to Ambidexterity: The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Beyond DESCRIPTION:“Why do you work?” It’s one of the most familiar questions we face\, posed by employers\, friends\, and sometimes even by ourselves. My dissertation shows that work motivation is more than just a reason for working\; it also carries moral weight. People often view intrinsic motivation—working for the inherent satisfaction of the task—as a marker of moral worth\, using it to judge others and to signal their own values. In contrast\, external rewards such as money or recognition are frequently viewed with suspicion and distaste. Yet despite the common belief that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are opposites\, most of us are driven by both. If mixed motivation is common\, an important question is how people manage the coexistence of multiple motives. My current research explores this through the concept of motivational ambidexterity. Defined as the capacity to balance different types of motivation\, I theorize about where motivational ambidexterity comes from and how it influences employees’ pursuit of meaningful and effective work. UID:138321-21882770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138321 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T102228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Perceptions of Sex Discrimination by Gender and Race at U.S. Universities\, 1994 – 2014” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Vida Maralani\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Cornell University. Dr. Maralani is a sociologist and demographer who studies social inequality and how it comes about. She has topical expertise in gender\, education\, work outcomes\, child investment\, and health disparities.\n\nAbstract: “Perceptions of discrimination based on social categories such as gender and race are an important part of understanding inequality and social stratification. This study asks two questions: (1) What types of experiences do individuals perceive as discriminatory in federal Title IX claims filed against universities\, and how do these vary by gender and race? (2) Why do people perceive these experiences or interactions as discriminatory? We answer these questions using an original dataset constructed from 1\,363 Title IX claims filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) between 1994 and 2014. Findings highlight how individuals interpret and contest experiences and interactions in university settings\, and show how routine parts of academic life\, when situated in specific contexts\, can activate perceptions of discrimination in postsecondary environments.” UID:139507-21885651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250808T120654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250923T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/9py49\n\nChina’s “zero-COVID policy” (“qingling zhengce”) has provoked global debates\, but the existing social scientific literature on the COVID crisis has paid more attention to the implementation of the policy than the “elephant in the room”\, the policy itself\, including its origin\, evolvement\, and underlying political logic. Dr. Xu adopts the “performative approach” to address this gap in a study as part of his ongoing book project about disaster politics in China. Xu argues that the “zero-COVID” policy was not an exception but a case that represented China’s public policy paradigm\, especially its strong state image and its general goal to eliminate social problems—hence\, “zero”. The zero goal was intensified rather than altered in various state actors’ reactions to changing situations during the pandemic period\, but it was eventually botched due to its high economic\, political\, and social costs. This analysis provides a new approach to public policies and crisis responses in China and beyond by emphasizing the performative aspect\, that is\, as symbolic and expressive actions to project the state’s self-images in front of various audiences.\n \n Bin Xu is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests are the intersection between politics and culture\, including civil society\, collective memory\, symbolic politics\, and disaster. He is the author of *The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (Polity 2022)\, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China* (Cambridge 2021)\, and *The Politics of Compassion: the Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China* (Stanford 2017). His articles have appeared in leading journals in sociology and China studies. He is currently working on two book projects: one is about mourning and memorialization of the COVID pandemic\, and the other is about disaster politics in China. UID:137321-21880140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137321 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T132327 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together DESCRIPTION:From Intersections to Action: Creating Equitable Climate Solutions Together\nWawa Gatheru | Founder and Executive Director of Black Girl Environmentalist\nMonday\, September 29\, 10:30 a.m. at the Michigan Union in the Pendleton Room (2nd Floor)\nPlease RSVP for this talk: https://forms.gle/59U25HpR7GT2P5k66\n\nWawa Gatheru delves into the interconnectedness of climate and social justice\, unpacking how systemic failures across education\, housing\, and labor perpetuate poverty and environmental risk. Drawing upon the energy and vision of youth activism\, she urges the climate leaders of tomorrow to pursue intersectional\, systems-level approaches. Her message\, rooted in the values of justice and solidarity\, reflects U-M Climate Week’s momentum-building message: “Together for Tomorrow.”\n\nThis event is a part of U-M Climate Week 2025: Together for Tomorrow\, cosponsored by the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Office of Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action.\n\n#UMCW25\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together. UID:138512-21883154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T143853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250929T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Fall 2025 Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:What is Michigan in Washington?\nMIW gives 20–25 students from any major the chance to spend a semester in Washington\, D.C.\, blending coursework (12-13 credits) with an internship tailored to their interests. While in D.C.\, you’ll:\nWork four days a week at your internship.\n\nAttend evening and Friday morning classes to deepen your academic and professional understanding.\n\nExplore the vibrant city of Washington\, D.C.\, on weekends!\n\nAs part of the program\, you’ll take a professional development course the semester before heading to D.C. You do not need to register for this course in advance. This class provides tools for:\n\nFinding and securing internships related to your interests.\n\nCrafting standout resumes and cover letters.\n\nBuilding confidence for networking and interviews.\n\nInternship Opportunities\nYou can choose internships based on your passions and career goals. Here’s just a sample of what past students have pursued:\n\nSPH: Alliance for Health Policy\, National Sleep Foundation\, Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security\, American Hearth Association\n\nSociology: National Women's Law Center\, Center for American Progress\, DC Public Schools\n\nRoss: GAO\, International Franchise Association\, Community Wealth Ventures\, House Committees\, CFPB\n\nFord: White House Hispanic Initiative\, Forbes Tate\, Brookings\, Partnership for Public Service\n\nEngineering: Department of Education\, DHHS\, Capitol Hill\n\nPolitical Science: House Judiciary Committee\, Department of Justice\, Capitol Hill\; Women’s Congressional Policy Institute\, Wilson Center\n\nPsychology: Children’s Defense Fund\, Atlantic Council\, American Psychological Association\n\nEnvironmental Science (PitE): Environment America\, Environmental Law Institute\, Environmental Protection Agency\n\nCommunications & Media: CNN\, C-SPAN\, ABC News\, DNC\, FCC\, CBS News\n\nEconomics: Federal Trade Commission\, Brookings Institute\, Treasury Department\n\nPICS: U.S. Trade Representative\, USGLC\, Truman Center\, National Defense University\, Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, \n\nWhether you’re majoring in Women and Gender Studies\, Afro-American and African Studies\, Anthropology\, or any other field\, there’s an internship for you in D.C.!\n\nWho Should Apply?\nIf you’re a 3rd or 4th-year undergraduate ready to learn outside a traditional classroom\, MIW could be perfect for you. We’re looking for motivated students eager to explore the real-world applications of their academic skills while immersing themselves in the dynamic culture of Washington\, D.C.\n\nFunding Opportunities\nEvery admitted student receives a $1\,500 scholarship. Additional funding is available based on financial need—no separate scholarship application is required!\n\nFunding is available for this living and learning program. Every student admitted to Michigan in Washington receives a $1500 scholarship. Funding above this amount is based on financial need. UID:137143-21879810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250924T145503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Balancing Theory with Practice: How to Develop Successful Industry Research Practitioners DESCRIPTION:MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series\nMPSDS M3 Series\n\nIn person\, room 1070\, Institute for Social Research and via Zoom.\nThe Zoom call will be locked 10 minutes after the start of the presentation. \n\nWhile industry researchers need practical skills\, survey training often involves a balance of theory and practice. Training that focuses too heavily on practical applications may skip over foundational concepts\, such as sampling theory\, error reduction\, or bias minimization. Without these foundations\, researchers might design surveys that overlook important methodological considerations\, potentially compromising data quality in ways that negatively affect insights and decision-making. At the same time\, strong training programs often teach sophisticated survey methods (e.g.\, stratified sampling\, regression analysis\, psychometric scaling) that are used in academic or governmental research\, but are impractical or overly complex in most industry contexts without adaptation to the time and cost constraints often present. A middle ground of training is often missing--one that trains researchers on how to adapt or simplify these more complex methodologies for practical use in the real world and how to make them accessible without sacrificing quality. The presenter will discuss the holes often seen in hiring trained survey researchers and the complimentary development that is necessary to bring them up to speed to be successful industry practitioners.\n\nCurtiss Cobb is a Vice President of Research at Meta where he leads the Demography and Survey Science Team\, a quantitative focused research team that works across Meta to identify and share best practices and methodological innovations in demographic and survey research. His team oversees the collection of millions of survey responses a day from around the world using mobile\, web\, face-to-face and other methods. Prior to Meta\, Curtiss was a senior director of survey methodology at GfK and has independently served on advisory panels or consulted for the U.S. State Department\, CDC\, Associated Press\, World Health Organization\, OECD and various academic studies. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. UID:139374-21885347@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139374 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 1070, Institute for Social Research CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T113311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251002T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:London School of Economics Summer School Info Session DESCRIPTION:LSE Summer School is the largest of its kind in Europe. It offers an exciting range of courses across the wide spectrum of LSE’s world-class teaching\, taught by leading scholars in their fields. You can choose to study for three\, six\, or nine weeks in one of the most well-renowned institutions in the world\, in one of the greatest cities in the world. Subject areas include Accounting\, Business and Management\, Economics\, Finance\, International Relations\, Government and Society\, Law\, and Research Methods - Data Science and Mathematics.\n\nLearn more about this incredible opportunity for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 directly from LSE representatives and program alum on Thursday\, October 2nd from 12-1pm in the School of Dentistry\, Room G378. UID:139328-21885301@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139328 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250915T094816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251003T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Despite being a violation of social norms\, practices of deception are prevalent in organizations and markets. While existing research has focused on cases of clear-cut fraud\, this article studies occupations that operate in a gray zone of deception: they DESCRIPTION:Despite being a violation of social norms\, practices of deception are prevalent in organizations and markets. While existing research has focused on cases of clear-cut fraud\, this article studies occupations that operate in a gray zone of deception: they cannot be simply defined as fraudulent\, but the potential for deceit casts a shadow of suspicion across their practices. We ask: how and when do members of emerging occupations navigate a shadow of suspicion about their work? Drawing on comparative ethnographic data\, we examine the tactics enacted by members of two emerging occupations—career coaches and technology platform evangelists—in their attempts at navigating suspicions of deception. We find that members of both occupations employ a set of tactics that reveal surprising similarities and meaningful differences in how they navigate this shadow of suspicion. Together\, we refer to these tactics as moral offense: rather than defending their own probity\, they accuse relevant others—social systems\, the [audience’s] self\, their doubters—of moral failings as a means of normalizing their practices. Their primary tool in moral offense is a symbolic binary between the “old” and the “new” economy. Occupational members leverage this binary to stir up the anxious uncertainty experienced by their audiences\, leading them through a process of disorientation and reorientation that they in turn use to construct their moral authority as guides to the unknown. In doing so\, these occupational members implicitly reframe structural problems of precarity and uncertainty in the new economy into a call for individual moral awakening and updating of moral orientations. Findings contribute to organizational and sociological theories of deception\, occupations\, and morality in economic life. UID:139325-21885285@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139325 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251003T210520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T071500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251008T204500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Maternity at Work: Bosses\, Babies\, & Benefits DESCRIPTION:Join BMEC for Maternity at Work! 💙 We will talk about the relationship between maternity and employment\, how to maintain a work-life balance\, and ways your employer can serve YOU!\n\nBlack Maternal Equity Collective's mission is to advocate for Black birthing people through public health\, outreach\, policy work\, doula/midwifery labor support\, and service. There are no requirements -- we welcome anyone who is interested in maternal equity and protecting the lives of black birth givers and children! UID:140300-21886894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Trotter Large Meeting Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T152221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251009T160000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:CGIS Study Abroad Fair DESCRIPTION:Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M? Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you! No matter who you are\, where you come from\, or what you’re studying\, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.\n\nGet your questions answered! Come chat with: \n- CGIS Program Advisors\n- Recent U-M study abroad students\n- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office\n- Newnan Academic Advisors\n- Other on-campus offices\n\nWith over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year\, there are many options to choose from.If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad\, how to afford study abroad\, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip\, or want to know what to expect\, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!\n\nCGIS is part of the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA)\, but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs. UID:134969-21875891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134969 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251001T103434 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251010T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement DESCRIPTION:Detroit’s Rapid Rehousing Program Designed by Youth\, For Youth: A Panel on Meaningful Youth Engagement\nCourtney Smith\, Founder and CEO of Detroit Phoenix Center\nCaylene Rudd & Bobbi Simmons\, Detroit Phoenix Center Youth Action Board members\nFriday\, October 10\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nThe Detroit Phoenix Center provides critical resources\, wraparound support\, and a safe\, nurturing environment to youth. They partner with young people to break the generational cycle of homelessness and poverty.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138513-21883153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251010T140444 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251015T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251015T160000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Open House DESCRIPTION:Explore what we’ve been up to at the Stone Center\, meet the team\, and learn more about the research we are doing at CID at our annual open house. Appetizers and refreshments will be served and you will have a chance to win new CID swag. UID:140474-21887337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 2030 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T133748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251017T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The High Cost of Mass Deportation DESCRIPTION:The High Cost of Mass Deportation\nWilliam D. Lopez\, Clinical Associate Professor\, University of Michigan School of Public Health\nFriday\, October 17\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nIn this talk\, William D. Lopez will discuss his latest book\, \"Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance\,\" and the research behind it. The book chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids—and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.\n\nAcross the United States\, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These worksite raids fracture families\, devastate local economies\, and spread fear and trauma that lingers for years. Yet in the wake of these devastating raids\, immigrant communities exhibit resistance\, resilience\, creativity\, and an extraordinary determination to rebuild.\n\nIn this powerful follow-up to his best-seller \"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid\,\" Lopez brings us into the heart of communities targeted by large-scale ICE enforcement under the Trump administration. These are places where immigrant workers\, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades\, are suddenly torn from their families and livelihoods. Based on extensive fieldwork\, this book highlights the voices of those who have endured these raids: the teachers left to comfort traumatized children\, the faith leaders who opened their doors to families in crisis\, the organizers who mobilized relief efforts overnight\, and the workers and their families who fought for their right to remain.\n\nAs raids continue to increase across the country\, this book is an urgent and deeply human portrait of what these raids leave behind—and the fierce\, often unexpected ways communities come together across class\, race\, and immigration status in their aftermath.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138514-21883155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138514 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251022T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250805T124011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251023T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Transnational Yiddish Press: A Roundtable Discussion DESCRIPTION:A scholarly discussion of \"East End Jews: Sketches from the London Yiddish Press\"\, specifically focused on Yiddish print media\, with 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellows Ayelet Brinn\, Julian Levinson\, and Shachar Pinsker.\n\nDr. Vivi Lachs is a social and cultural historian and a Yiddish performer and translator. Her books include \"Whitechapel Noise\" and \"London Yiddishtown\" (both Wayne State University Press). Lachs records with the band Klezmer Klub\, leads tours of the Jewish East End\, and runs London's Great Yiddish Parade.\n\nThe University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science and the Arts greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable full participation in this event. Please contact js-event-coord@umich.edu to request disability accommodations or with any questions/concerns. Please provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet requested accommodations. UID:137086-21879529@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137086 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251009T141910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Fairness and (In)Equality: U-M Anthropology Four Field Symposium 2025 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology will host its annual Four Field Symposium on Friday\, Oct. 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Michigan Union Pendleton Room (second floor). Titled “Fairness and (In)Equality\,” the symposium will gather the department’s four subfields for guest speaker presentations and discussion.\n\nIn a global context where concerns about “fairness” and “(in)equality” are heightened\, these concepts are simultaneously being challenged\, as the principles and values they embody are becoming subjects of explicit contestation. How can a four-field anthropological approach provide a deeper understanding and grounding of these material concerns and their accompanying debates? By bringing together insights from archaeology\, biological anthropology\, linguistic anthropology\, and sociocultural anthropology\, this symposium seeks to bring attention to the intricate ways in which fairness and (in)equality come to matter across scales and times and through human and nonhuman divides. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public\; please register to attend.\n\nSPEAKERS\n\nArchaeology: Anna Agbe-Davies\, UNC-Chapel Hill\nBiological Anthropology: Katherine McAuliffe\, Boston College\nLinguistic Anthropology: Justin Richland\, UC Irvine\nSociocultural Anthropology: Anastasia Piliavsky\, King’s College London\n\nIf you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu. UID:135599-21876982@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135599 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room (second floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T140610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251024T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Is the Gender Revolution Really Stalled? DESCRIPTION:Progress toward gender equality in the U.S. labor market is often described as a \"stalled revolution\,\" with rapid progress in the 1980s and 1990s followed by slower change thereafter. This characterization emerges from period-based analyses. We introduce a new approach to studying occupational sex segregation\, distinguishing cohort and life-cycle changes in men’s\, women’s\, and labor-market patterns. We find that few cohorts of women stalled in entering male-dominated occupations relative to their predecessors\, and indeed the youngest cohorts show faster integration. Men’s cohort change is slower but still substantial. The combined effect is a monotonic inter-cohort decline in occupational segregation\, as measured by the index of dissimilarity. Over the life cycle\, women’s likelihood of entering male-dominated occupations increases steadily\, while men’s follows an inverted U-pattern. Cohort and life-cycle patterns vary by parental status and education. Our findings caution against a broad “stalled revolution” narrative and highlight the need for gender inequality theories to attend to the different “clocks” underpinning social change. UID:138888-21884189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251002T181753 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Creating an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan with ICPSR DESCRIPTION:Are you preparing a renewal\, resubmission\, or upcoming NIH grant application? Join ICPSR for a practical virtual workshop designed to help you navigate the requirements of the NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy. \n\nThis interactive session will guide you through the essential components of creating an effective DMS Plan and highlight the value of transparent data sharing. You’ll gain insights into the NIH’s data sharing policies\, learn how to de-identify and prepare both restricted- and public-use datafiles\, and discover ICPSR’s many resources to support your research\, whether you work with qualitative or quantitative data.\n\nBy participating\, you will: \n-Understand NIH data sharing policies and the benefits of making data available \n-Learn what information must be included in each of the NIH DMS Plan elements \n-Explore best practices for de-identifying data and preparing datasets for sharing \n-Learn how ICPSR can help you meet NIH data sharing requirements UID:140245-21886813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250829T135634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lessons from the Water Warrior on Community Coalition Building for Water Justice DESCRIPTION:Lessons from the Water Warrior on Community Coalition Building for Water Justice\nMonica Lewis-Patrick\, Founder and CEO of We The People of Detroit\nFriday\, October 31\, noon ET\nSSW ECC 1840\n\nAs a community-based grassroots organization\, WPD aims to inform\, educate\, and empower Detroit residents on imperative issues surrounding civil rights\, land\, water\, education\, and the democratic process. In collaboration with community activists\, academics\, researchers\, and designers\, the WPD Community Research Collective (CRC) utilizes research in order to serve the sustainability of the Detroit community. The WPD CRC uses data to visually show the socio-economic consequences of austerity policies in Detroit\, which have worked toward the dismantling of Black and Brown Detroit neighborhoods. By presenting a critical counter narrative\, WPD CRC uses knowledge as a tool to empower Detroit citizens as they fight for an equitable and beloved community. WPD CRC's most recent project addresses the public health crisis in Detroit as a result of unsafe and inaccessible water services.\n\nThe Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series introduces key issues regarding the causes and consequences of poverty through an in-person and virtual lecture series featuring experts in policy and practice from across the nation. Our goal is to help build a broad community of learners to engage in these issues together.\n\nThis series is free and open to the public as well as being a one-credit course for U-M students (SWK 503\, Course #25751). In-person talks include coffee\, cookies\, and the chance to ask the speakers questions or watch the livestream on YouTube. UID:138517-21883157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - ECC 1840 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250922T143257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Hiring to Displace: How Employers Use Legal Status to Reshape Workplace Power DESCRIPTION:Legal status is not just context\, and its relevance is not confined to ethnic niches. It functions as a managerial instrument of workplace governance within large and complex organizations. I develop the concept of orchestrated racialized displacement to specify how organizations transform legal status vulnerability into managerial control under a race-neutral compliance veneer. Based on a multiyear ethnography of Southern manufacturing\, nearly 300 interviews\, and archival research\, I trace four interlocking levers: (1) staffing agency partnerships\, (2) selective verification\, (3) performance metrics that reward speed and compliance\, and (4) job redesign. Together\, these practices are deployed to recruit and retain Latino immigrant workers without federal work authorization and establish a credible threat regime that reallocates tasks\, shifts\, and promotions\; discipline U.S.-born workers\; and narrow mobility ladders\, with disproportionate effects on Black workers. By linking shopfloor routines to organizational partnerships and local labor markets\, the analysis clarifies why standard accounts (network effects\, “race-neutral” HR\, or shifts in demand) are incomplete. The framework identifies the organizational levers\, rather than just the outcomes\, through which firms remake internal labor markets. It also formalizes a meso-level account connecting managerial practice to durable segmentation. UID:139702-21885930@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139702 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881022@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251017T113953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251105T220000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:An Army of Women Movie Screening DESCRIPTION:We would love for members of your organization to join University Students Against Rape and STARS on Wednesday\, November 5th from 7-9:30pm for a screening of An Army of Women - A documentary about sexual violence survivors taking on the DA office and police department of the city of Austin\, Texas for not prosecuting their perpetrators. Immediately following the movie\, we will have a panel discussion with Attorneys Kimberly Kuhn and Lauren Kuhn and Activist Brianna Michelle. \n\n\nThe movie will start at 7 pm in the Rackham Amphitheater and a panel will follow in the conference room starting about 8:30 pm - refreshments will be provided.\n\nTickets are free. After the movie\, we will hold a discussion session where refreshments will be provided. Due to the limited seating we are asking attendees to pre-register at: https://tbtnannarbor.org/an-army-of-women-screening/ UID:140812-21887682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140812 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T163901 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251106T203000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Society of Fellows: 55th Anniversary Symposium DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with Us\nThe Michigan Society of Fellows’ 55th Anniversary Symposium will take place on November 6 to 7\, 2025\, at the historic Rackham Graduate School on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. This landmark gathering celebrates more than 55 years of interdisciplinary scholarship and artistic innovation and the vibrant community that has flourished through the society.\n\nAbout the Symposium\nThe program features 16 fellowship alumni in interdisciplinary panel dialogues exploring urgent and enduring questions across the sciences\, humanities\, and arts. The symposium also includes a recital of chamber music from the Haitian Revolution\, recovered by a recent fellow.\n\nTogether\, these panels and performances highlight the society’s ongoing contributions to scholarship\, public discourse\, and creative expression. The symposium offers a rare opportunity for intellectual exchange\, community building\, and collective reflection on the past\, present\, and future of the Michigan Society of Fellows.\n\nRegistration\nRegistration is open to the public. For more details and to register\, please visit the Michigan Society of Fellows website: https://societyoffellows.umich.edu/anniversary-symposium/ UID:139423-21885464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T150527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Roadblocks to Organizational Change: Managing Knowing and the Production of Ignorance in Organizations DESCRIPTION:Raising awareness and closing information gaps are seen as critical for organizational change. However\, this process is far from straightforward. Research on denial and ignorance has begun to highlight the tactics and everyday practices that enable distancing\, ignoring\, and evasion\, uncovering the ways fields\, organizations\, and individuals continually – and often creatively – arrive at not-knowing. Despite being pervasive and socially consequential\, ignorance is understudied. Leveraging in-depth interviews and observations of participants in a women’s leadership development program at a large non-profit organization over a three-year period\, we outline a new theoretical approach for understanding how not-knowing is produced and sustained. In this talk\, we share insights into ‘managing knowing\,’ or how relevant but unwelcome\, uncomfortable\, or problematic information is not attended to\, actively ignored\, and kept out of mind. Through the framework of ‘managing knowing\,’ we illuminate a hard-to-see barrier that can prevent organizational members from seeing and responding to difficult issues and stymies organizational change. UID:139864-21886182@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251103T145840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Navigating Academic Publishing as a Graduate Student DESCRIPTION:The Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH) journal is pleased to invite you to an Informational Session on Academic Publishing in peer-reviewed journals on Friday\, November 7\, 2025\, from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.\, in 411 West Hall. \n\nProfessor Jatin Dua (CSSH editor)\, Dr. David Akin (former CSSH managing editor for 25 years)\, and Professor Alyssa Paredes (recent CSSH author) will lead the session and share advice on how to successfully publish your research in academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. The session will introduce graduate students to the publication process from submission to acceptance\, and provide an overview of how to plan your journal article\, what gets published and why\, and common mistakes that get an article rejected. \n\nWe invite students to submit questions in advance about the publishing process\, and will also leave time for Q&A during the session. You may submit your questions through the Google form by November 6. \n\nAbout CSSH: \n\nComparative Studies in Society and History is an international forum for new research on problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and in the contemporary world. We feature the work of specialists in all branches of the social sciences and humanities\, bringing together multidisciplinary research\, cultural and area studies\, and innovative ventures in theory and method. We are committed to building connections and shared languages of comparison across the core fields of our readership: history\, anthropology\, political science\, and sociology. Along with articles and review essays\, CSSH publishes interviews with our contributors\, commentaries\, resources for teaching\, and discussions of emerging trends in the practice and politics of comparison. UID:141463-21888829@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250918T163901 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251107T203000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Society of Fellows: 55th Anniversary Symposium DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with Us\nThe Michigan Society of Fellows’ 55th Anniversary Symposium will take place on November 6 to 7\, 2025\, at the historic Rackham Graduate School on the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. This landmark gathering celebrates more than 55 years of interdisciplinary scholarship and artistic innovation and the vibrant community that has flourished through the society.\n\nAbout the Symposium\nThe program features 16 fellowship alumni in interdisciplinary panel dialogues exploring urgent and enduring questions across the sciences\, humanities\, and arts. The symposium also includes a recital of chamber music from the Haitian Revolution\, recovered by a recent fellow.\n\nTogether\, these panels and performances highlight the society’s ongoing contributions to scholarship\, public discourse\, and creative expression. The symposium offers a rare opportunity for intellectual exchange\, community building\, and collective reflection on the past\, present\, and future of the Michigan Society of Fellows.\n\nRegistration\nRegistration is open to the public. For more details and to register\, please visit the Michigan Society of Fellows website: https://societyoffellows.umich.edu/anniversary-symposium/ UID:139423-21885465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251028T115727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Cumulative Impact of Federal Place-Based Policies on Neighborhood Inequality\, 1990-2019 DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Laura Tach\, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology in the Brooks School of Public Policy\, Cornell University. Professor Tach will present\, \"The Cumulative Impact of Federal Place-Based Policies on Neighborhood Inequality\, 1990-2019.\"\n\nAbstract: “Concentrated neighborhood disadvantage remains a defining feature of the U.S. landscape\, sustained by legacies of racial exclusion and public disinvestment. In recent decades\, the federal government has increasingly invested in high-poverty neighborhoods via place-based policies—spatially targeted interventions designed to improve economic opportunity\, housing\, and local infrastructure. Although prior research has examined the effects of specific place-based programs\, we know less about the collective and cumulative impact of the place-based policy field as a whole. This study develops a novel framework for assessing policy impact at the field level to evaluate how an array of federal place-based housing and economic development initiatives have jointly reshaped disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using longitudinal data that link federal funding streams to specific neighborhoods from 1990 to 2019\, we find that federal economic development programs significantly improved local economic and housing indicators but also induced racialized patterns of residential displacement. By contrast\, place-based federal housing programs increased property values while preserving rental affordability and demographic stability. We assess the ecological significance of these changes and find that they were substantial enough to alter durable patterns of neighborhood stratification within metropolitan areas. This analysis highlights how examining the collective and cumulative influence of policy fields—rather than discrete interventions—illuminates the state’s evolving role in producing and potentially transforming urban inequality.” UID:141228-21888427@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141228 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250805T125056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251111T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Media of Holocaust Memory DESCRIPTION:How do we remember the Holocaust in 2025? \"The Media of Holocaust Memory\" brings together two leading Holocaust scholars to discuss the role of \"high tech\" computer algorithms and AI and \"low tech\" monuments and material artifacts as technologies for memorializing. In conversation with each other and the audience\, Levitt and Presner will discuss how the ethical possibilities and challenges Holocaust memory have and will continue to evolve in the twenty-first century.\n\nTodd Presner is Chair of UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and serves as Special Advisor to Vice Chancellor Roger Wakimoto in the Office for Research and Creative Activities (2018-present). His research focuses on European intellectual and cultural history\, Holocaust studies\, visual culture\, and digital humanities. Presner’s newest book is with Princeton University Press: \"Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory\" ( Fall 2024). \n\nLaura Levitt is Professor of Religion\, Jewish Studies\, and Gender at Temple University and the author \"The Objects that Remain\" (2020)\, \"American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust\" (2007)\, and \"Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home\" (1997). UID:137088-21879530@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137088 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251103T154715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251113T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Vietnam War Veteran Panel DESCRIPTION:This is a chance to hear Vietnam veterans talk about their experiences during that controversial war and how they were treated when they returned home. Their remarkable stories of service\, sacrifice\, and perseverance will change how you look at the Vietnam War and the men and women who served there. UID:45826-21832246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45826 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Kuenzel CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251104T090252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/E8D82\n\nChallenging conventional wisdom crediting domestic factors with shaping health institutions\, this talk demonstrates how foreign organizations\, government agencies\, and grassroots activists collectively transformed China’s epidemic governance. Under pressure from international norms and donors (especially from the U.S. and U.K.)\, Chinese officials selectively absorbed Western epidemiology and liberal practices such as community participation\, human rights discourse\, and NGO engagement to enhance China’s global standing. Rather than promoting political liberalization\, these engagements enabled the state to build a professionalized yet stratified disease surveillance system that laid the groundwork for its COVID-19 responses. This hybrid system empowered certain groups such as urban gay men to gain state recognition and resources\, while making other marginalized populations invisible. This talk corrects a core misconception—that liberal diffusion and authoritarian expansion are opposite—by revealing their mutual constitution in biomedical politics. \n\n Yan Long is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a political and organizational sociologist whose research explores the interplay between globalization and authoritarian politics\, with a focus on public health\, civic action\, and urban development. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the American Journal of Sociology\, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory\, and Social Science & Medicine\, earning her over ten national awards. She is currently investigating how digital technology shapes urban governance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. UID:137822-21880809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137822 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250825T094757 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251118T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Overlapping Jurisdictions: How Islamic Courts Upheld Jewish Law in Colonial Egypt DESCRIPTION:This special lecture by Samy Ayoub and moderated by Aaron Rock-Singer will argue that legal pluralism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt was sustained by institutional structures\, procedural norms\, and Islamic legal practice under Khedival rule. Far from resisting pluralism\, Ottoman-era Islamic legal practice facilitated the incorporation of other legal traditions\, including the adjudication of Jewish communities’ affairs\, making them integral to the functioning of the legal order. This coexistence\, however\, was destabilized with the establishment of the secular national courts in 1883\, which progressively asserted universal jurisdiction and ultimately subsumed the entire legal sphere.\n\nDr. Samy Ayoub\, an Associate Professor of Law and Middle East Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas School of Law\, specializes in Islamic law\, modern Middle East law\, and law and religion in contemporary Muslim societies. He focuses on issues concerning the interaction between religion and law\, and the role of religion in contemporary legal and socio-political systems within a global comparative perspective. This talk is part of a new project\, Making Islamic Law Relevant\, which explores state regulation of legal practice in Egypt from 1800-1950. UID:137767-21880727@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251111T125155 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:How State Context Shapes the Long Arm of Childhood DESCRIPTION:What is the role of state contextual factors in shaping the well-documented relationship between childhood SES and health in later life? Join the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as they host\, Emily Dore\, postdoctoral research fellow at the Social Policies for Health Equity Research (SPHERE) Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Please RSVP by November 14 to receive lunch. \n\nAbstract: \"Research has repeatedly shown that individual-level measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES)\, such as parental income and education\, are associated with health in later life. Less explored is the role of state contextual factors in shaping this relationship between childhood SES and adult health. Illuminating structural and political determinants of health along the life span can improve interventions by broadening their reach to the population level\, complimenting interventions that concentrate on individual behavioral changes. In this presentation\, Dr. Dore will present findings from two projects that explore these questions using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The first investigates how the relationship between childhood SES and health in adulthood varies across states\, and which state contexts may be driving observed differences. The second examines a specific policy intervention\, welfare reform in the mid-1990s\, to understand how exposure to different types of welfare programming in childhood shapes health years later.\" UID:141761-21889334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1450 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251119T142556 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251120T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Revel Coffee/Cider/Donut Break DESCRIPTION:We will be serving free coffee\, cider\, and donuts from 9am until 12pm (or until supplies last)! UID:142043-21889939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Portico and Plaza CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251014T100524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251121T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets DESCRIPTION:In 2015\, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy\, uncovering the mechanics behind the invisible\, mundane networks of lawyers\, accountants\, company secretaries\, and fixers who facilitate the illicit movement of wealth across borders and around the globe. Kimberly Kay Hoang traveled more than 350\,000 miles and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with private wealth managers\, fund managers\, entrepreneurs\, C-suite executives\, bankers\, auditors\, and other financial professionals. She traces the flow of capital from offshore funds in places like the Cayman Islands\, Samoa\, and Panama to special-purpose vehicles and holding companies in Singapore and Hong Kong\, and how it finds its way into risky markets onshore in Vietnam and Myanmar. Hoang reveals the strategies behind spiderweb capitalism and examines the moral dilemmas of making money in legal\, financial\, and political gray zones. Spiderweb Capitalism sheds critical light on how global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets\, and deepens our understanding of the paradoxical ways in which global economic growth is sustained through states where the line separating the legal from the corrupt is not always clear. UID:140681-21887492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251203T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881023@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T112842 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251204T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/jJNP2\n \n Japan is often called a “relationless society” (*muenshakai*). No longer tethered to the “thick bonds” of workplace\, village\, and home\, Japanese are losing forms of connectedness (en) that once ensured social reproduction as well. In these post-growth times\, alongside a high-aging population and declining marital and childbirth rates\, singlehood is on the rise as are aging seniors “without anyone to depend upon” (*miyori ga nai*). In the face of spiraling all-aloneness\, there is deep-seated distress over the state of “Japanese sociality” in an era “lacking family” (*naki jidai*). But emerging as well is an avalanche of new designs and relational proxies\, stand-ins or replacements for what once constituted human bonds: virtual characters\, techno-companions\, rental spouses\, care robots\, and pets. The talk essay considers such relational stand-ins not for the living but for the dead. Targeting social singles at risk of dying lonely deaths and remaining dislocated souls (*muenbotoke*) after that\, a wealth of new products\, services\, and apparati promises “relationality” post-death. What kind of sociality is envisioned here\; is it modeled upon or transgressive of the familial form\, and (how) do these new notions of self/other-hood portend a future for Japan/ese?\n \n Anne Allison is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her research on contemporary issues in Japan spans nightlife\, popular culture\, Pokémon\, sexuality\, gender\, precarity\, and death. She is the author of *Nightwork\, Millennial Monsters\, Precarious Japan\,* and\, most recently\, *Being Dead Otherwise*—the winner of the John Whitney Hall Book Award for 2025.\n \n This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:138168-21882451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138168 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251124T114738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Publish with the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs: Info Session DESCRIPTION:**For graduate and professional students plus post-graduate researchers/fellows only. This will be an in-person and virtual event.**\n\nThe Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (MJPA) is hosting an information session event for graduate and professional students interested in submitting to Volume 22 of its annual spring journal. MJPA accepts original and rigorously researched academic papers and articles on contemporary domestic and international public policy-related issues\; submissions are sought from a range of disciplines including\, but not limited to\, economics\, social and political sciences\, law\, international development\, business\, the applied sciences\, and more. The 2026 journal theme is Public Power and the Public Good\, which explores how governance\, institutions\, and communities can advance shared prosperity\, trust\, and democratic values\, particularly amid polarized political environments and eroding public institutions.\n\nThis info session is designed to learn more about the MJPA and our submission process ahead of the Saturday\, January 10th\, 2026 deadline. Broadly\, submissions should be no longer than 6\,000 words and feature thorough analysis and timely policy recommendations. We invite graduate and professional students\, academics\, and professionals working in policy-related fields to send their submissions to fsppmjpa@umich.edu. Full contribution guidelines can be found at mjpa.umich.edu/contribute/\n\nThe information session take place on Friday\, December 5 at noon in the Earl Lewis Room at Rackham. Please RSVP via Maize Pages. Enjoy light refreshments and networking after the presentation! UID:142142-21890068@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - The Earl Lewis Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251103T104724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251205T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Accounting for Socialization: Professional Education and Quantitative Governance DESCRIPTION:“Accountability” has become an increasingly prominent form of governance across the globe. However\, we know little about how the people who craft and implement such policies learn the rationale of accountability. How do future policy professionals learn accountability? That is\, how is accountability\, as a form of governance\, taught and learned? These questions pertain to professional socialization and are key to understanding the spread and implementation of accountability policies across organizations. To answer these questions\, we draw from a 2-year ethnography of a cohort of students at a highly regarded Masters of Public Affairs (MPA) program. Utilizing an inhabited institutional approach\, we find that the students learn accountability indirectly through an emphasis on the quantitative techniques that facilitate accountability. Instead of directly debating forms of governance such as accountability\, the students become versed in quantitative “language” and “tools\,” which in different ways support or actively promote forms of accountability in their careers. As an institutional rationale and form of governance\, accountability is inhabited by policy professionals who have been socialized into quantitative language and tools. UID:141402-21888762@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141402 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251121T102009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251209T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Theorizing Success in an Unfair Job Market DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Maggie Frye\, Associate Professor of Sociology at U-M. Frye uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how shared cultural ideals and expectations shape outcomes during young adulthood\, with a particular focus on family formation and schooling. Most of Frye’s research has focused on sub-Saharan Africa\, with several projects in Malawi and Uganda as well as a number of studies that use data from dozens of African countries to learn about how unequally distributed educational opportunities shape cultural norms and behaviors. Frye recently completed a longitudinal data collection project in Kampala\, Uganda\, examining changing understandings of status resulting from Uganda’s simultaneous expansion of university education and contraction of formal employment opportunities. UID:142103-21890009@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142103 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251121T113309 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251216T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251216T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Housing Production and the Structural Transformation of China’s Real Estate Development Industry DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Lan Deng\, professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. She has been studying housing and real estate development in both China and the U.S. Her research examines the different types of interventions the two countries have developed to provide decent housing and quality neighborhoods for their residents. Professor Deng is the North American editor for the international journal Housing Studies. She is also a co-founder of the Collective for Equitable Housing initiative at the University of Michigan. Professor Deng holds a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s and bachelor’s of science from Peking University\, China.\n\nAbstract: “Housing is a major source of inequality. While extensive research exists on housing market outcomes like affordability and wealth disparities\, studies on how housing is produced are limited. Much of the existing work focuses on regulatory barriers to development. Few have examined the role of the homebuilding industry in shaping housing market outcomes. This gap largely stems from a long-held assumption in housing economics: that homebuilding is a highly competitive sector that\, if left alone\, will produce whatever the market demands. As a result\, the industry is often viewed as a passive actor in urban development process.\n\nThis study challenges this assumption. We argue that the structure and behaviors of the real estate development industry play important roles in shaping housing market outcomes. This is especially salient in China\, where the industry has become highly concentrated\, with major developers controlling an increasing share of national housing production. Using mixed methods\, this study examines the dynamics driving these structural changes in the Chinese real estate development industry\, with a particular focus on how these changes have affected local housing production. Our findings reveal the changing nature of real estate development\, how it has amplified risks in Chinese housing markets and contributed to the widening of regional inequality.” UID:142107-21890014@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142107 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260112T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T120843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260113T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Housing Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host John Voorheis\, principal economist in the Center for Economic Studies\, U.S. Census Bureau as he presents\, “Housing Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States\,” jointly with Ariel Binder (Census) and Max Risch (Carnegie Mellon).\n\nRSVP to save your seat at: https://inequality.umich.edu/john-voorheis/.\n\nAbstract: “Housing represents the most important capital asset for most U.S. families. Despite substantial analysis of the intergenerational mobility of income\, large gaps in our knowledge of the distribution of housing assets and their transmission over time remain\, as housing is generally not reflected by income flows. Using novel linked data that combines survey responses with administrative tax data and information on ownership and valuation from property tax records for over 3.4 million families\, we provide new evidence on the intergenerational transmission of housing capital. We find that housing capital is more persistent across generations than labor income. We document important disparities between average housing outcomes for White and Black children. These differences persist even conditional on parent rank in the distribution of housing assets\, with the gap growing throughout the parental housing capital distribution. A decomposition shows that average differences in children’s labor market outcomes associated with parental assets explain about half of the observed intergenerational persistence (a “labor income channel”)\, and that there is also a substantial “direct channel” — conditional on children having the same earnings\, children of parents with more housing assets have more assets themselves on average. The direct channel is also important for explaining the intergenerational gap in outcomes of Black and White children. Finally\, we present quasi-experimental evidence that local housing supply constraints help explain spatial differences in intergenerational persistence across US counties. Our results establish the importance of housing markets\, both independently from and jointly with labor markets\, in shaping the intergenerational persistence of economic resources.” UID:143180-21892408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143180 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894977@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260105T150249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260114T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“The Tax Treatment of Housing as a Source of Racial Inequality” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host our own faculty member Joe LaBriola as he presents\, “The Tax Treatment of Housing as a Source of Racial Inequality.”\n\nAbstract: “In this talk\, I argue that the state contributes to cumulative advantage processes in United States housing markets through the tax treatment of homeownership\, which fuels house price growth and provides greater economic benefits to groups with high homeownership rates. I focus in particular on the effect of the mortgage interest deduction\, a federal tax expenditure that transfers tens of billions of dollars to homeowners each year\, on economic inequality between White and Black households. I document wide White-Black inequality in mortgage interest deduction benefits\, caused in large part by White-Black gaps in homeownership\, and demonstrate how the mortgage interest deduction has contributed to growth of the White-Black wealth gap in recent decades. However\, I also show that White-Black gaps in mortgage interest deduction benefits have narrowed over time\, due to falling mortgage interest rates and increases in the size of the standard deduction. These findings highlight how the effects of racialized tax policies depend on how institutional and macroeconomic conditions interact with racial gaps in factors that affect tax liabilities.”\n\nJoe LaBriola is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center\, where he is Faculty at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. His research examines the roots of social stratification in the contemporary United States\, with his current research focusing on the role of housing and housing policy in exacerbating racial and socioeconomic inequalities. Methodologically\, he uses econometric methods and microsimulation modeling to analyze survey and administrative data. His work has been published in leading sociology journals including the American Sociological Review\, Social Forces\, and Social Problems.\n\nLunch will be provided to all in-person attendees. Please RSVP to save your seat. UID:143220-21892508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143220 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 6050 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260115T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251111T102735 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260116T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Determinants of Norm Compliance: Moral Similarity and Group Identification DESCRIPTION:What determines whether someone complies with a social norm? The social identity approach offers a mechanism for norm compliance: a person who feels similar to a group identifies more with that group and\, in turn\, complies with the group’s norms. Using an experiment\, we test whether similarity in values increases identification and adherence to a group rule. To do so\, we varied the similarity/dissimilarity between the values of an individual and members of a social group and measured group identification and rule compliance. We find that similarity in values increased group identification\, and group identification increased rule compliance. We show that this behavior change was due to increased group norm sensitivity rather than changes in norms to follow rules when they come from similar or dissimilar groups. We advance the study of social identity by establishing a causal pathway between group identification and behavior change. We also contribute to the management literature by showing that aligning organizational values with those of the workforce is a viable and implementable mechanism for increasing policy and guideline adherence. UID:141747-21889255@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141747 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251210T113622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260118T235900 SUMMARY:Meeting:APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 18TH: Up to $30\,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $30\,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant office hours\, email\, or check out our webpage to learn more!\n\nLINK TO APPLY: https://forms.gle/k7ChrFbqbjkAnNjt8 UID:117733-21891124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260119T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260120T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260121T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T104733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260122T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Why Place Matters: The “Publicness” of the Lost Landscape DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/P3Z9P.\n \n This lecture is based on Dr. Horikawa’s 41 years of intensive fieldwork\, chronicling a major movement that shaped preservation policy in Japan. It tries to provide a clear answer to the century-old question: why does place matter? Dr. Horikawa illustrates how the movement to preserve the Otaru Canal in Otaru\, Japan\, was neither conservative nor an obstacle\, demonstrating that preservation can allow for and even promote change.\n \n Saburo Horikawa is a professor of urban & environmental sociology at Hosei University in Tokyo\, and he received his Ph.D. from Keio University. He has won three major academic awards\, including one from the discipline of city planning\, for his book published by the University of Tokyo Press. The English edition of the book\, *Why Place Matters: A Sociological Study of the Historic Preservation Movement in Otaru\, Japan\, 1965–2017\,* was published by Springer and was reviewed in the *Journal of the American Planning Association.*\n \n Photo credit: The Rikisha in front of Old Mitsui Bank in Otaru\, Hokkaido\n Copyright © 2015 by Saburo Horikawa. All rights reserved.\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:142575-21891173@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142575 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894986@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T102724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260123T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Specialization\, the Division of Labor\, and Explorations in Property Distribution DESCRIPTION:Specialization is a process where individuals\, groups\, or organizations focus on one task or area of knowledge. It drives economic development\, organizational growth\, and increases in social complexity\, capacity\, and heterogeneity. Discussions of specialization in the social sciences contain an undocumented but significant ambiguity. The term specialization is used to refer to both the division of labor\, in which tasks are divided into complementary processes or components\, and differentiation\, in which units choose tasks that are different from each other. Despite a long history in which the two types of coordination are used interchangeably under the term ‘specialization\,’ we demonstrate that the division of labor and differentiation thrive in opposite social conditions. Using computational models\, we found that variation in basic social conditions had opposite effects for the two different coordination processes: increasing social density encouraged the division of labor and inhibited differentiation and increasing the number of specializations encouraged differentiation and inhibited the division of labor. Since specialization is central to economic development\, there is value in understanding the conditions that foster it. We show that encouraging specialization requires disambiguating the two distinct types of coordination. UID:142378-21890773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142378 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894989@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251202T083220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260126T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Seminar Series on Social Connection: Anastaskia Makhanova DESCRIPTION:Anastasia Makhanova\nUniversity of Arkansas\nJan. 26\, 2026\n\nABOUT THE SERIES\n\nThe Winter 2026 RCGD Seminar Series: The Ties that Bond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Connection\n\nThis seminar series brings together senior and early-career scholars to explore fundamental questions about how we connect\, protect\, and care. Talks will highlight lifespan and comparative approaches to understanding social connection\, physiological implications of social and race-related stressors\, and diverse conceptualizations of what it means to belong—from romantic and parent–child relationships to group and societal dynamics to technology-mediated interactions.\n\nRobin Edelstein\, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and an affiliate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics\, has organized this series. She will introduce the series at this kick-off event that doubles as a faculty meeting.\n\nThe first seminar in the series will be Jan. 26. Join us on Mondays to learn about the biological\, social\, and developmental pathways that shape human connection.\n\nThese events are held Mondays from 3:30 to 5.\nIn person: ISR Thompson 1430\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Robin Edelstein\nAs permissions allow\, seminars are later posted to our YouTube playlist. UID:142304-21890442@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894991@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260116T163249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260128T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Privacy for Populations at Risk: Supporting Journalists Facing Attacks in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Celebrating International Data Privacy Day!\n\nElodie Vialle\, an international journalist and human rights activist\, will discuss how journalists—particularly women journalists and journalists from marginalized communities—are increasingly targeted in online spaces\, from coordinated harassment to surveillance and AI-amplified attacks. Drawing on real-world cases\, the session will explore practical responses to mitigate harm while safeguarding journalistic work and freedom of expression.\n\nLynette Clemetson\, Charles R. Eisendrath Director of Wallace House\, will facilitate Q&A time after the keynote presentation.\n\nJoin us on Zoom on the day of the event: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97875254127\n\nAdd this event to your Google calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MmtxZHR1aW5raGw4bGZkOWg0N3E5NGNoamYgdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc UID:143915-21894254@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143915 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260129T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T104637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260130T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Hopesick: Care and Community in America’s Opioid Crisis” DESCRIPTION:“For many Christians\, the belief that God can and does act directly in the world can be a tremendous source of hope. Against seemingly insurmountable challenges\, there is a sense that the miraculous may truly be possible. And yet\, things don’t always work out. In this talk\, I explore these dynamics of hope and disappointment through the life of a young woman living with opioid use disorder in Central Appalachia. Drawing on five years of collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in non-denominational churches and clinics providing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)\, this talk considers the theological and interpersonal stakes of hope and despair in Appalachian communities living through the on-going opioid crisis. In it\, I explore the vernacular use of the term ‘hopesick’ as a possible alternative to concepts of co-dependent resentment\, compassion fatigue\, and abandonment. Moving beyond moments of hopesick rage and grief\, the later sections of the talk explore what we might learn from recovering ‘hopefiends’ who have found less risky ways to engage with the euphoric highs of hope so that they may continue on with greater compassion for themselves and others.”\n\nChina Scherz is the Kristin Yudt Collegiate Professor of Global Affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to arriving at Notre Dame\, Scherz was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. She earned a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the Universities of California at San Francisco and Berkeley and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. Scherz’s work examines how health and well-being are fostered through care\, connection\, and community. Across a series of projects\, she has also explored how people decide who they should care for and how they ought to care for them and the ways in which spiritual experiences intersect with processes of ethical transformation. UID:143772-21893993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260202T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894996@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260116T164924 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260203T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring Digital Privacy from a Child’s Perspective DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Privacy@Michigan Event.\n\nConversations about children’s digital privacy are frequent\, and with good reason: ad revenue to tech companies from child viewers topped 11 billion dollars in 2023. These conversations include policymakers\, educators\, researchers\, and parents\, but children themselves are rarely included. The purpose of this talk will therefore be to explore what we know about children’s own perspectives on their digital privacy\, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence. We’ll cover what they notice\, care about\, and understand as it relates to online privacy and data security\, and what researchers can explore next to continue child-centered conversations about how best to keep children safe online.\n\nDr. Lauren N. Girouard is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Michigan and Harvard University\, where she works with Drs. Susan Gelman\, Ying Xu\, and Jenny Radesky on projects examining children’s beliefs about AI chatbots and how those beliefs translate into digital literacy in home and classroom environments. She graduated with her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Louisville in May 2024. Her work broadly examines how 4- to 17-year-old children think about\, trust\, and learn from emerging technologies and AI. \n\nAdd this event to your Google calendar.\nhttps://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MnRpdnA0Z3JpYzRhMWM2Y241NXMwNmdzYzYgdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc UID:144046-21894585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144046 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260204T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894998@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260205T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21894999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895000@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T103027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Realizing the potential of community-led\, science-driven participatory modeling: A case in green infrastructure planning DESCRIPTION:Participatory modeling (PM) is particularly well-suited to address complex socio-environmental problems like climate hazards and their implications on sustainable resource management and landscape planning. Despite its potential to inform planning and policy\, particularly in conflictive contexts\, PM has yet to become a mainstream practice for decision-making. While most of the PM research and development has focused on modeling tools and engagement techniques\, multiple other dimensions must be recognized and articulated for impactful planning support. I present a PM platform\, Fora.ai\, that is supportive of the iterative steps in PM: problem definition and goal setting\, preference elicitation\, collaborative scenario-building\, simulation\, tradeoff deliberation\, and solution-building. I demonstrate the platform’s effectiveness when embedded in a stakeholder-led process that integrates diverse knowledge\, data sources\, and values in pursuit of impactful green infrastructure (GI) planning to address flooding. I show how the combination of specific facilitation practices and platform features leveraged the power of data\, computational modeling\, and social complexity to contribute to collaborative learning\, creative and convergent solution-building for urban sustainability and climate resilience. UID:141748-21889269@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260209T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260120T112210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Solving the Biggest Problems: Problem-Solving Sociology and American Populism” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Monica Prasad\, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economic and Political Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Monica will present\, “Solving the Biggest Problems: Problem-Solving Sociology and American Populism.”\n\nAbstract: “Recently several groups of scholars have independently argued that sociology should attempt to solve problems\, from the community around “problem-solving sociology\,” to “solution oriented sociology\,” to scholars arguing that sociologists should attempt to solve inequality\, to the “positive turn” in economic sociology. But many of the biggest problems that sociologists examine cannot be solved in the course of a scholarly career. This talk discusses the sociology of knowledge questions raised by trying to solve the biggest problems\, and then tries to solve one of the biggest problems: American populism and its protectionist turn\, which is unusual in comparative perspective. I show that even when problems cannot be solved\, trying to solve them is worthwhile for the insights it generates.”\n\nMonica Prasad’s areas of interest are economic sociology\, comparative historical sociology\, and political sociology. Her books The Politics of Free Markets\, The Land of Too Much\, and Starving the Beast examine American political economy in comparative perspective\, and argue that progressive policies are most effective when they are embedded in a broader political economy that is favorable to business interests. UID:144179-21894792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144179 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260210T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895004@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260211T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895005@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260125T161253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260212T203000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Stretch Your Connections DESCRIPTION:Join USAR (the organization that runs Take Back the Night Ann Arbor) for an evening of trauma-informed yoga followed by a brief conversation about healthy relationships. This event is free and open to the public\, however\, donations to SafeHouse are encouraged. Please bring your own yoga mat or towel. Everyone is invited. Bring friends\, partners\, coworkers\, or anyone else in your lives! This event will take place on February 12th from 7-8:30PM in the Vandenburg room of the League. UID:144443-21895362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144443 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenburg CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T103007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260213T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AI as Self-Discovery: How Large Language Models Reveal the Essence of the Human Mind\, and Why It Matters DESCRIPTION:Most discussions of artificial intelligence center on its instrumental role—how it will transform industries and economies. But it may do something even more radical: reveal who we are. As artificial minds become more capable\, they will expose the deep principles underlying human thought—how reasoning\, agency\, and creativity actually work. AI thus offers not just a technological revolution but a humanistic one. This new self-understanding\, I argue\, will force us to rethink core ideas about mind\, agency\, and the basis of praise and blame. UID:141750-21889311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141750 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260216T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260126T121934 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Ségal Le Guern Herry\, Assistant Professor at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and senior economist at the EU Tax Observatory. He is a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley during Spring 2026. Ségal will present\, “Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation.”\n\nAbstract: “Should governments tax different assets at different rates? The answer depends crucially on the cross-elasticities between asset classes\, of which few estimates exist. This paper estimates the cross-elasticity between the two main components of household wealth: financial and real estate assets. In 2017\, France transformed its wealth tax into a real estate tax\, thereby eliminating wealth taxation on financial assets. Using comprehensive linked administrative income and wealth data from France\, I study the effect of this unique reform by contrasting the responses of French residents to non-residents\, who remained subject to the wealth tax but were unaffected by the reform. Five years after the reform\, French taxpayers have reallocated on average 5% of their real estate holdings toward financial assets. These responses translate into a quite modest cross-elasticity: a one percentage point differential increase in the tax rate on real estate causes taxpayers to reallocate 4.7% of their real estate assets to financial assets. This reallocation is driven by reduced ownership in investment properties rather than owner-occupied housing\, and coincides with a surge in dividend incomes. Overall\, I estimate that behavioral responses account for approximately 7% of the revenue loss due the reform\, indicating that the mechanical impact dominates. These findings have two key implications. First\, from an equity perspective\, exempting financial assets from wealth taxation primarily served as a tax cut for wealthy households in France. Second\, the efficiency cost of taxing real estate more heavily than other assets appears limited.” UID:144504-21895435@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144504 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260217T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260218T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895013@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260220T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895014@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260216T222520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260221T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260221T153000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Volunteer with a Local Farm! DESCRIPTION:Join BLUElab Metro for a volunteer event supporting a local community farm in Ypsilanti! We are partnered with T.C. Collins\, the founder of Willow Run Acres\, a non-profit whose mission is to promote food sovereignty\, sustainable agriculture\, and seed saving in the surrounding community. \n\nVolunteers will engage in discussion on underrepresented communities and the importance of sovereign\, sustainable food systems\, and help make seed biscuits and package seeds. These seeds will be used to raise funds for the farm and as educational resources for young students. Come lend a hand\, learn something new\, spend time with friends\, and meet new people while supporting a meaningful local cause! \n\nMetro will provide transportation and snacks\, just sign up! Hope to see you there :) UID:145574-21897559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145574 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895017@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T113813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260223T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress DESCRIPTION:Former Center for Racial Justice visiting fellow\, legal scholar\, and sociologist Atinuke O. Adediran discusses her new book Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress. Drawing from social science research and legal analysis\, Disclosureland uncovers the power structures and institutional practices that determine how companies respond to calls for change. Critical\, insightful\, and forward-thinking\, Disclosureland challenges readers to look beyond public rhetoric to understand how corporate narratives shape our collective pursuit of fairness\, equity\, and shared responsibility. Adediran will be joined in conversation by Mark S. Mizruchi\, U-M professor of sociology.\n\nThis event is open to U-M students\, faculty\, staff\, alumni\, and community members and is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Sociology\, Michigan Business Law\, and the Black Law Students Association. \n\nLunch from Jerusalem Garden provided.\n\nAccessibility note\n\nSpeakers will use microphones. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed. UID:145363-21897191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145363 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895018@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T144954 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Privacy@Michigan: Interrogating the Quiet Escalation of Tech Billionaire Influence on Detroit’s Future DESCRIPTION:Join Chris Gilliard\, privacy researcher\, and Tawana Petty\, artist and organizer\, as they discuss the impact of big tech on the future of Detroit.\n\nAn eleven-foot Robocop statue stands prominently in Eastern Market. A defense contractor headquarters is moving to the riverfront. A drone conference is scheduled to take place on land\, in the air\, and on the water. A large billboard and an annual conference signal Palantir’s investment into Detroit as “America’s Future\,” a billion-dollar renovated “train” station and technology campus is building a drone highway\, and the World Economic Forum has its eyes on the city as a potential location for its global Davos summit.\n\nWhat does this trajectory mean for the future of a predominantly Black city that has led the country in misidentification cases by law enforcement using facial recognition\, has had a median household income hovering under $40\,000\, and has more than 50% of its youth living in poverty?\n\nDr. Chris Gilliard and Tawana Petty will interrogate these questions and more. UID:145440-21897360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145440 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251201T103828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260224T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Jewish Journalism in Dark Times DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion exploring the transformation of Jewish journalism during the interwar years (1918–1939) and World War II\, an era of profound upheaval. Panelists will analyze how Jewish newspapers and journals became vital platforms for political\, literary\, and cultural engagement. The discussion will highlight dramatic shifts in journalistic practices\, including evolving editorial strategies\, reporting methods\, and technological innovations in format and distribution and the transnational and transcultural elements that come to the fore during that time. Panelists will also examine the economic pressures and opportunities that shaped the Jewish press\, and consider the influence and role of Jews as journalists within the broader media landscape.\n\nGilad Halpern\, journalist and media historian\, draws on recent doctoral research on The Palestine Post amid imperial decline and rising nationalism\, bridging professional and scholarly perspectives. Naomi Brenner explores entertainment fiction in the Hebrew and Yiddish press\, focusing on the aesthetics and politics of the roman-feuilleton as a transnational literary form.\nMatthew Handelman investigates the cultural politics of German Jewish intellectuals and the primacy of culture in political discourse from the Weimar Republic onward.\n\nCentral to the conversation is the role of Jewish periodicals as spaces for cultural expression\, literary experimentation\, and political debate. These publications not only documented Jewish life\, but actively shaped identities\, fostered transnational dialogue\, and provided forums for writers\, artists\, and intellectuals grappling with questions of survival and belonging. This roundtable offers timely insights into journalism during a time of crisis\, illuminating enduring questions about Jews and media. UID:142275-21890347@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142275 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895019@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260206T161202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260225T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:An Operatic Reimagining of The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender\, Power\, and Reproductive Justice DESCRIPTION:In 1985\, Margaret Atwood\, The Handmaid’s Tale\, envisioned a theocratic regime that systematically stripped women and gender-diverse people of their reproductive freedom. Although Atwood’s narrative is fiction\, the realities of forced reproduction and restricted bodily autonomy have long impacted women of color\, low-income women\, disabled women\, and people of diverse gender identities\, making this story compelling and profoundly relevant today. The novel’s evolution into a television show and now\, an opera reflects its sustained cultural and political resonance. This event\, co-hosted by the Detroit Opera and the University of Michigan’s Center for History\, Humanities\, Arts\, Social Sciences\, and Ethics in Medicine\, will feature a free\, moderated discussion about the operatic adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. Together\, we will explore how artistic representations can stimulate important conversations about reproductive justice\, structural power\, and the ongoing struggles faced by women and people of marginalized genders. Through centering the role of art in social critique and activism\, this event aims to deepen understanding of gender and sexuality in the context of contemporary debates surrounding reproductive rights. UID:145187-21896776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145187 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260226T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260211T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260227T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Engage Detroit Grant Live ($15\,000) DESCRIPTION:Interested parties should apply through the website: https://engaged.umich.edu/engagement-detroit/detroit-workshops/\n\nOur Engaged Learning team is seeking proposals for the 2026 Engage Detroit Workshop grant program\, which supports small groups of U-M faculty and staff members organizing a workshop or a speaker series in Detroit. Please consider sharing this information with your faculty and staff who are interested in pursuing projects in Detroit. \n\nContinuing our commitment to partnerships with Detroit\, this grant provides up to $15\,000 in funding for workshops or speaker series that foster meaningful relationships and connections on a topic connecting faculty and staff at the University of Michigan with Detroit communities. The program has awarded 27 projects since its inception in 2022.\n\nIn collaboration with the Dearborn and Flint Provosts\, for 2026\, we are planning to support up to six proposals aimed at organizing a workshop or speaker series on a topic that is both relevant to Detroit communities and brings together multiple initiatives/projects led by UM faculty/staff. \n \nSubmissions are due by March 1\, 2026\; an overview of the program is available here. You can read more about the program in Monday’s Record article\, or at the Engaged Michigan website. You can also review active work by U-M faculty and staff in Detroit\, as reported in our 2025 census map.\n\nPlease direct any questions you may have about the program or application process to engagedmichigan@umich.edu. UID:144249-21895021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144249 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T152232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260303T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260303T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SRC Seminar Series Presents: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice DESCRIPTION:Meeting ID: 955 9165 1787\nPasscode: 812926\n\nAbstract\nCurrent frameworks around caregiving for older adults have an implicit assumption that caregivers actively chose their role. Yet\, choice may be complicated\, ambivalent\, or non-existent. Moreover\, choice may be influenced by the context of the care situation\, family relationships\, norms and values\, and lack of alternatives. When asked\, over half of caregivers in the U.S. report feeling they had no choice in their current caregiving responsibly\, and lacking choice is associated with greater emotional stress\, loneliness\, strain\, and negative mental and physical health outcomes for caregivers. Given that the population of family and other unpaid caregivers (e.g.\, friends) to older adults grew from 18 million in 2011 to 24 million in 2022 in the U.S. and is expected to continue to grow\, feelings of choice has the potential to impact millions of Americans. This lecture will explore choice as a critical aspect of the caregiving process and reasons related to feelings of choice. \n\nBiography\nSarah Patterson is a Demographer and Sociologist. Dr. Patterson’s research addresses whether and how social norms and family composition influence caregiving behaviors and wellbeing for family members. She has also studied the role of complex families and kinlessness in the lives of older adults. UID:145276-21896978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T091801 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260310T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260310T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth\, Status\, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Shay O'Brien\, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center Postdoctoral Associate at the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. Shay will present\, “Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth\, Status\, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence.”\n\nTuesday\, March 10\n10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon\nISR 1430 BD (426 Thompson St.) \nAbstract: “How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology\, political sociology\, and stratification\, I propose a new concept for the study of multigenerational persistence at the top of a stratified society: kinship interlocks. Kinship interlocks are portions of a kinship network that closely combine great wealth\, status\, and power. Just as board interlocks connect corporate elites through overlapping board memberships\, kinship interlocks connect economic\, social\, and political elites through family ties. Using a mixed-methods analysis\, I find that the intimate exchange of resources in kinship interlocks generates upper-class persistence via two primary mechanisms: it protects kin from economic\, legal\, and social risk\, and it propels kin into higher strata. Processes of kin formation and intimate exchange are co-constitutive with systems of gender\, sexuality\, and race\, such that the most durable portions of an upper class are especially heteronormative and racially dominant. The analysis is based on a unique dataset consisting of the full upper class and all economic\, political\, and social elites in the first 125 years of Dallas history\, along with all mutual family ties.”\n\nAn economic and historical sociologist broadly focused on inequality\, Shay studies the kinship networks that weave elites together. Her mixed-methods research tracks the capture and circulation of resources through upper-class populations over time\, with a particular focus on women\, whiteness\, and wealth. Formerly\, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution\, Inequality\, and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and her BA in Anthropology from Brown University. Learn more. UID:145978-21898205@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145978 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260121T122547 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260313T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Incentives and the Social Fabric of Organizations DESCRIPTION:When do incentives work\, and when and why do they backfire? How do incentives interact with the social context of organizations in which the incentives are used? This talk presents evidence from a series of field experiments\, and it draws on relational incentives theory to reconcile seemingly divergent findings. In the first experiment\, social recognition incentives had positive and enduring effects on volunteer retention at Wikipedia. In contrast\, a second field experiment in healthcare reveals how social recognition incentives backfired\, undermining physicians’ well-being at work. A third study\, conducted in the same healthcare setting\, shows that a form of participation incentive—a co-creation initiative with physicians—enhanced physician motivation and organizational citizenship behaviors. This research program dissects the reciprocal influences of incentives and social relationships to study how they jointly shape motivation\, behavior\, and well-being\, with implications for designing more effective incentive systems. UID:144251-21895031@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144251 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260314T095507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Inequality or Incompetence? Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Spatial Politics of Blame” DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Mo Torres\, Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Mo will present\, “Inequality or Incompetence? Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Spatial Politics of Blame.”\n\nAbstract: “The United States is no stranger to urban fiscal crisis. In the 1970s\, cities from New York City and Philadelphia to Cleveland and St. Louis\, on the brink of crisis or bankruptcy or worse\, shocked the world\, revealing the precarious position of cities in the U.S. political economy. But why did cities face such severe economic challenges? Why did the problem in the 1970s suddenly seem so widespread? And what\, or who\, was to blame?\n\nAs early as 1972\, two explanations for urban fiscal crisis were in circulation. Was the culprit inequality\, as rapidly growing suburbs hoarded property taxes\, withholding crucial resources from central city governments and their residents? Was it incompetence\, poor management\, lack of technical expertise\, or outright corruption by elected municipal leaders? While not mutually exclusive\, by the end of the 1970s only the latter story survived. The result was policy prescriptions to correct mismanagement at the local level\, leaving underlying structural inequalities at the metropolitan level unaddressed.\n\nFocusing on Michigan\, this paper builds on the sociology of blame to show how policy elites came to narrate cities as undeserving places run by incompetent\, corrupt leaders beholden to special interests like civil rights groups and labor unions. The result amounts to refusal: neglecting to solve a problem by ultimately ignoring its fundamental causes.” UID:146598-21899335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146598 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T102942 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260320T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Building Social Capital by Balancing Voices in School Governance DESCRIPTION:We propose that schools can build social capital through an explicit school governance framework called Balancing Voices that concerns decisions about implementing and evaluating new schoolwide policies or practices\, engaging community members\, and evaluating teachers and administrators. In an RCT of role play simulations\, those assigned to a Balancing Voices approach versus business-as-usual reported higher levels of key precursors of social capital — procedural fairness and legitimacy of authority figures. The estimated effects are especially positive for those who played roles other than administrator. Accordingly\, schools that more explicitly and formally balance the interests of different stakeholders in their decision making may be able to cultivate greater flows of social capital to improve instructional practices and student outcomes\, including equity. UID:141751-21889312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T124527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260323T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Institutional Global Health Summit DESCRIPTION:You're invited to the Institutional Global Health Summit\, an afternoon showcasing cutting-edge research\, dynamic debate\, and global perspectives on health for all.\n\nHosted by the Center for Global Health Equity\, this event brings together U-M faculty\, staff\, trainees\, students\, and global health leaders to showcase innovations addressing health for all through the dynamic exchange of ideas between local and international contexts.\n\n📅 Monday\, March 23\, 2026 | 1:00-6:00 PM\n📍 Rackham Amphitheatre\, University of Michigan\n🎟 Registration required (limited to members of the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine community)\n\nEvent Highlights\n🔬 Research Lightning Talks | 1:15-3:05 PM\nFast-paced presentations from CGHE-supported Impact Scholars\, students\, and faculty across career stages \n \n🤖 Debate: The Role of AI in Global Equity | 3:15-4:15 PM\nFarhana Alarakhiya (Chief Data Innovation Officer\, Aga Khan University) and Bilal Butt\, PhD (Professor\, SEAS\; Senior Advisor\, CGHE) examine whether AI advances or undermines health equity\, moderated by Lou Edje\, MD \n \n🌍 Panel: Global Health in Transition | 4:15-5:00 PM\nMembers of CGHE's External Advisory Board share insights on navigating funding landscapes\, building partnerships\, and career pathways \n \n🎨 Poster Reception | 5:00-6:00 PM\nEngage with fellow researchers\, explore innovative projects\, and network with colleagues \n \nView the full program at https://myumi.ch/y15d4 UID:145260-21896960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145260 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T134038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"The Family Office: Wealth Elite and their Family Management\" DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center as we host Doron Shiffer-Sebba \, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University\, on Tuesday\, March 24\, as he presents\, \"The Family Office: Wealth Elite and their Family Management.\" \n\nPlease RSVP to save your seat. \n\nAbstract: Today’s richest Americans have amassed fortunes rivaled only by estates like Rockefeller and Carnegie\, with some arguing that the United States has reached a “New Gilded Age”. Accordingly\, scholars have studied the social and legal mechanisms through which individuals accumulate large fortunes. Yet we know little about how elites maintain their economic resources as families\, passing their wealth across generations. Using six months of ethnographic observation at a wealth manager that caters to top 0.1% wealthy families in the United States\, I argue that the legal system\, which focuses on nuclear families but largely ignores extended family ties\, incentivizes using tools\, like trusts and corporations\, that disperse wealth across family members. These tools then augment the role of family members and professionals in elite wealth management. They preserve elite wealth but\, paradoxically\, also limit their control. Dynamics within elite families and between families and professionals have far-reaching consequences for the distribution of elite wealth and subsequent patterns of inequality.\n\nDoron Shiffer-Sebba researches the intersection of extended families and economic inequality. He focuses on 1) elite wealthy families and how they organize their wealth\; 2) the role of extended families in economic inequality in the broader U.S. population\; and 3) developing novel computational methods to analyze how people use their bodies in social interaction. In doing so\, Doron employs a wide array of methodological perspectives -- ethnographic\, quantitative\, and computational. Doron is currently working on an ethnographic book manuscript that exposes the structural forces that keep economic elites wealthy and thus sustaining inequality. Before joining Northwestern's sociology department\, Doron completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern. UID:146575-21899304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146575 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260323T082306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MICDE State of AI & the Future of Institutions DESCRIPTION:The State of AI & the Future of Institutions event is hosted by the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE). We bring together scholars and institutional leaders to explore the current state and future trajectory of AI\; how it may reshape institutions and how we can be better prepared for its disruptive impact. This event aims to move beyond abstract debate and towards actionable insights and assess how institutions can more actively shape a more resilient and responsible future. We anticipate this event to recur every semester. UID:146034-21898298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146034 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260325T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260317T130011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Souls of Organizations: Learning\, Grief\, and Why Higher Education Boards Change Without Changing DESCRIPTION:How do governing boards make decisions about diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) in contentious times\, and why does organizational learning at the governance level so often stall before producing lasting change? Drawing on a multi-year participatory action research collaboration with a governing board\, this talk traces how board members moved through cycles of intuiting\, interpreting\, and integrating as they developed a decision-making rubric for DEI\, yet never institutionalized it. The empirical case reveals a pattern this talk names as \"changing without changing\": boards can build tools\, develop shared language\, and demonstrate genuine learning while avoiding the deeper losses and possibilities that institutional transformation demands. Taking cues from the Du Boisian tradition of rendering visible the interiority that dominant frameworks suppress\, the talk explores what it might mean to take seriously the existential dimensions of institutional life that governance routinely flattens into strategic plans and performance metrics. When boards cannot name or grieve what is ending\, learning may circulate without landing. The talk opens a conversation about whether grief work belongs not at the margins of governance but at its foundation\, and whether attending to what organizations are losing is a precondition for organizational learning that actually transforms. UID:146691-21899469@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146691 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260210T163732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260327T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Seeking Shade in Sunny Mozambique: Comfort\, Care\, and Colorism” DESCRIPTION:“In Mozambique\, shade is a precious resource secured through a mix of foresight and improvisation. Shade is also a special topic of conversation. Attending to the material culture of shade and to embodied ways of engaging built and natural environments\, I explore how thermal desires and expectations shape social relations in the Mozambican city of Inhambane\, while locating shade-seeking practices within hierarchies of care and labor\, or what I call the cultural politics of sweat. Thinking with scholars of thermal colonialism\, I show how narratives around thermal dis/comfort also reveal\, and sometimes obscure\, entrenched forms of colorism rooted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics and settler intimacies that continue to produce privilege and exclusion in Mozambique today. Shade-seeking\, then\, is not simply about keeping cool\, though it certainly is about that too.”\n\nDr. Archambault is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University and co-editor of AFRICA: Journal of the International Institute. Her work is based on ethnographic research in southern Mozambique and focuses on themes of intimacy\, suburbanization\, affect\, and embodiment. Cutting across much of her research is an interest in how materiality and temporality intersect in the crafting of lives worth living. She is the author of “Mobile Secrets: Youth\, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique” (2017)\, and her recent work has been published in American Ethnologist\, Journal of Southern African Studies\, Critique of Anthropology\, and City & Society. She is currently working on a book project on well-being and the cultural politics of sweat in Mozambique. UID:144853-21896023@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144853 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260208T151708 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260402T220000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:Take Back the Night Rally and March 2026 DESCRIPTION:TBTN Ann Arbor is our main event and though part of its focus is bringing awareness to the issue of sexual violence to campus and the community\, its primary focus is to support survivors by providing a safe space of healing and empowerment and providing an avenue for organizations to share their resources. \n\nIt will be held on Thursday\, April 2nd\, 2026\, in the Michigan Union Ballroom on the 2nd floor. Doors will open at 6:30 pm and the rally will start at about 7 pm. It runs approximately 90 minutes. The march will be immediately following through the streets of campus and Ann Arbor. The event is open to the public and free of charge. This year’s theme is Your Story Matters. \n\nWe are very excited to announce our feature speaker will be Jena-Lisa Jones. Jena-Lisa is an Epstein survivor and co-founder of the non-profit The Survivor which is a national organization dedicated to helping sexual assault victims by offering resource services and support. UID:145216-21896812@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145216 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260330T145737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:If Bones Could Talk: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade\, Colonial Aphasia\, and Racial Capitalism in Early Modern Europe DESCRIPTION:Talk (open to all) by visiting scholar Dr. Karida L. Brown\, Professor of Sociology\, Emory University. Visit funded by Rackham Graduate School Faculty Ally & Student Ally Program. UID:147235-21900568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147235 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:LSA Building - 4154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250904T085750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260408T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Faculty Forum DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of creating stronger departmental connections\, DAAS is presenting a faculty forum in honor of DAAS's 55th anniversary. Members of the DAAS faculty will discuss their projects\, research\, and/or publications to share more about their work and interests. The DAAS Faculty Forum will be held monthly on Wednesdays at noon.\n\nSeptember 17 - Stephen Ward\, Associate Director of the Residential College\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor in the Residential College\n\nOctober 22 - Magdalena Zaborowska\, Chair and Professor of American Culture\, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nNovember 5 - Jessica Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Assistant Professor of American Culture\n\nDecember 3 - Al Young Jr.\, Associate Director of Center for Social Solutions\; Arthur F Thurnau Professor\; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology\; Professor of Afroamerican and African studies\; Professor of Public Policy\n\nJanuary 21- Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center\, International Institute\; Associate Professor of English\; Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nFebruary 18 - Scott Ellsworth\, Teaching Professor in Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nMarch 25 - Saraellen Strongman\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\n\nApril 8 - David Doris\, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\; Associate Professor of African Art and Visual Culture UID:137882-21881027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T152528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Miller-Converse Lecture: States of Distrust: Science and Politics in America DESCRIPTION:The relationship between science and politics is inevitably fraught. This is particularly the case in the United States in the 21st century: partisans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. James Druckman identifies the origins and consequences of that polarization. Polarized scientific trust disincentivizes partisans from compromising with one another and prompts them to politicize science. It also generates massive discoordination between states\, with severe consequences for public goods provision (particularly with regard to public health). Druckman offers a path forward\, for building trust in scientists with the goal of reducing polarization and de-politicizing science.\n\nJames N. Druckman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He previously was the Payson S. Wild Professor and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. Druckman has published approximately 200 articles and book chapters in political science\, communication\, economics\, science\, and psychology journals. He has authored\, co-authored\, or co-edited seven books. His recent books include Partisan Hostility and American Democracy: Explaining Political Divides (University of Chicago Press\, 2024)\, Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, and Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments (Cambridge University Press\, 2022).\n\nThe Miller-Converse Lecture is the University of Michigan’s preeminent lecture series on American Electoral Politics. The Series honors the legacy of CPS Founder Warren Miller and former CPS and ISR Director Philip Converse.\n\nThis event will take place live at ISR Thompson Street Room 1430\, any may also be live-streamed on Zoom:\n\nThis lecture will also be streamed on Zoom:\n\nTime: Apr 9\, 2026 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/96954959124\n\nMeeting ID: 969 5495 9124\nPasscode: 825206 UID:139760-21886026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T131614 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T150000 SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:Lunch and Learn on Women's Huron Valley Prison DESCRIPTION:The event will educate attendees about the current harmful conditions of Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility and will feature the story of Krystal Clark. We will raise awareness\, foster informed dialogue\, and encourage collective action around conditions of confinement and justice system accountability. We hope to draw attention to persistent problems at Women’s Huron Valley\, including inadequate living conditions\, lack of transparency\, and the ways incarcerated women\, particularly those who are marginalized\, are disproportionately harmed by these systems. UID:147358-21900896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Central Campus Classroom Building - 0420 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T160249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260410T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Challenging the Gender Equality Paradox: Evidence from 50 States\, 17 Years\, and 21 Million Individuals DESCRIPTION:How does societal gender equality influence gender gaps at the individual level? Contradictory theoretical perspectives exist on this seemingly intuitive question. While social role theory and the theory of circumscription and compromise suggest that greater parity in society leads to smaller psychological differences between genders\, gender-essentialist perspectives suggest the opposite. Over the last decade\, a stream of cross-cultural studies supported the latter with paradoxical findings that greater societal gender equality is associated with larger\, not smaller\, gender differences in preferences\, attitudes\, and behavioral patterns at the individual level. In this talk\, I discuss key limitations in previous studies and challenge the so-called “gender equality paradox” by presenting findings from multilevel modeling with data on the career interests of 21 million U.S. individuals across 50 states over a 17-year time span. I demonstrate divergence in the cross-level effects at the within- and between-state levels\, with different gender equality indicators\, and across various interest dimensions. This work helps reconcile conflicting theories and empirical findings and offer new and more nuanced insights into policies and interventions aiming at closing gender gaps. UID:141758-21889317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T133317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Explaining the Sexual Empowerment of Married Women in China DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/pV41e\n\nThe transition of Chinese marriage from a patriarchal to a more egalitarian model is well known\, but the rise of women’s sexual empowerment within marriage is less so. Using survey data from the 1980s and 90s\, this talk examines a key aspect of a woman’s conjugal power\, her ability to decline to have sex with her husband.\n \n Bill Lavely is Professor Emeritus of international studies and sociology at the University of Washington. Trained at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center\, he is a social demographer who has written on Chinese fertility\, marriage\, mortality\, sex ratios\, and historical demography. UID:143832-21894102@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143832 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260402T103846 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Imagining and Building a Better World for Black Families DESCRIPTION:This conversation with Dorothy Roberts and Joyce McMillan centers the lived experiences of families impacted by welfare systems and considers possibilities for building new systems of care. Moderated by social work educator and practitioner\, Rick Barinbaum\, attendees from a range of educational backgrounds (e.g.\, social work\, sociology\, law\, public policy\, medicine) will deepen their understandings and discover new perspectives—all while laughing together and learning from these incredible scholars\, educators\, and advocates.\n\nNo reservations necessary! UID:147086-21900367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147086 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260319T155748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AI and Detroit’s Census Challenge DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis talk explores how artificial intelligence (AI) and geospatial data can support cities to better understand housing conditions and improve population estimates. In collaboration with the City of Detroit\, researchers at the University of Michigan are developing new tools that combine street-level imagery\, remote sensing data\, and AI models capable of interpreting visual information about buildings and neighborhoods. These tools can identify indicators such as roof damage\, structural decay\, or vegetation encroachment—signals that may suggest vacancy\, or blight.\n\nImportantly\, the goal is not simply to automate housing assessments. Instead\, the project adopts an approach in which municipal staff and communities guide\, interpret\, and validate AI-generated insights. By integrating technical innovation with existing city workflows\, the collaboration aims to support Detroit’s efforts to maintain accurate address records for the U.S. Census and improve housing data used for planning and investment decisions.\n\nThis work supports city efforts to improve housing and population data\, while also helping strengthen communities. When residents are undercounted\, cities risk losing tax revenue\, federal funding\, and even political representation. At the same time\, urban blight and rapidly changing housing conditions make it difficult to maintain accurate records of which homes are occupied. In cities with large numbers of vacant\, abandoned\, or deteriorating structures\, some inhabited homes may be mistakenly classified as vacant\, leading to inaccurate population estimates and challenges for housing policy and neighborhood revitalization efforts. More broadly\, this work highlights how partnerships between universities and local governments can support cities adopting AI tools responsibly while strengthening data-driven decision-making\n\nBiography:\nDr. Van Berkel is an assistant professor at The University of Michigan\, School for Environment and Sustainability. His research focuses on understanding land change at diverse scales\; the physical and psychological benefit of exposure to natural environments\; and how digital visualization of data can add new place-based knowledge in science and community decision-making. He has expertise in spatial statistics\, data science\, big data\, and machine learning. Van Berkel is currently a Co-PI on an NSF grant examining how online webtools can enable the public to co-create landscape designs for novel solutions to climate-change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas. He is also part of the NOAA funded GLISA project developing land change models to support knowledge discovery in municipalities throughout the Great Lake States. His work in AI focuses on deciphering complex sentiment from multimodal content\, such as understanding image content and analyzing captions and tags posted by users\, at scale. This research aims to provide objective measures of behavior and attitude for modeling diverse values and benefits of nature globally.\n\nJeffrey D. Morenoff is a professor of sociology\, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR)\, and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. He is also director of the ISR Population Studies Center. Professor Morenoff’s research interests include neighborhood environments\, inequality\, crime and criminal justice\, the social determinants of health\, racial/ethnic/immigrant disparities in health and antisocial behavior\, and methods for analyzing multilevel and spatial data. UID:145245-21896923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Dana Building - 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260119T102915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Two Steps Forward\, One Step Back: How Progress Steadiness Affects Motivation DESCRIPTION:Rarely is the path to goal accomplishment perfectly smooth. Making progress on everyday goals is often unsteady\, in that each unit of effort or time spent generates unequal results. In this research\, we examine how progress steadiness affects motivation. Although unsteady goal progress is common in both work and personal pursuits\, we suggest that goal pursuers find it discouraging. We hypothesize that even when goal progress is equal in amount and speed\, unsteady (vs. steady) progress decreases people’s sense of accomplishment and motivation to continue\, and increases quitting. Across a variety of goal domains\, findings from vignette experiments\, recall studies\, and real-time achievement tasks support these hypotheses. We also explore the mediating psychological variables and identify how manipulations targeting expectations about progress steadiness and encouraging a more abstract view of progress can reduce the negative effects of unsteady progress. UID:141752-21889313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sociology LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR