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SUMMARY:Presentation:Tropical precarity
DESCRIPTION:The Latina/o Studies and the Contemporary Performance in Puerto Rico Working Group\, in partnership with the Department of American Culture\, invites you to Tropical Precarity: Drag and Visual Arts in Puerto Rico\, a special performance and panel discussion.   \n\nThis event features an in-depth conversation with acclaimed Puerto Rican artists Freddie Mercado Velázquez and Mickey Negrón\, exploring the intersections of performance\, visual art\, gender expression\, and cultural resistance. \n\nDate & Location: \nDate: Thursday\, November 12\, 2026   \nTime: 4:30 PM   \nLocation: 3512 Haven Hall\, University of Michigan Central Campus   \nFree and open to the public!\nLight refreshments will be served.   \n\nAbout the Featured Artists: \n- Freddie Mercado Velázquez:\nRenowned Puerto Rican performance and visual artist known for elaborate\, transformative costuming and bodily intervention exploring identity\, gender\, and Caribbean culture.\n- Mickey Negrón: \nProminent artist and performer focusing on queer aesthetics\, community engagement\, and contemporary performance art in Puerto Rico.  \n\nSponsorship & Acknowledgments: \n- This event is made possible by the University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research and the Arts Initiative.\n- This project was made possible by a grant from the University of Michigan Arts Initiative.  \n\nContact Information: For questions or accessibility requests\, please contact Professor Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Email: lawrlafo@umich.edu
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154628
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Department Of American Culture,Drag,Latin America,Lecture,LGBT,Puerto Rico,Activism,Alumni,american culture,Arts Initiative,artists,Arts Ambassadors
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 3512
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DTSTAMP:20261112T092101
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A Conversation with Alice Miranda Ollstein\, Moderated by Julie Rovner
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Alice Miranda Ollstein\, POLITICO’s senior health care reporter\, about her new book\, Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone’s Health\, a groundbreaking investigation into how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has transformed American health care far beyond reproductive rights. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting\, Ollstein examines how abortion restrictions have affected patients\, physicians\, and researchers across the country\, creating barriers to medically necessary pregnancy care\, fertility treatments\, contraception\, and other health services. Her reporting also reveals broader consequences for medical research\, hospital staffing\, wait times\, and the treatment of chronic illnesses as health care providers navigate legal uncertainty and the threat of prosecution.Through the experiences of patients and medical professionals\, Side Effects reframes abortion bans as a public health crisis with consequences for people of all ages\, genders\, and geographic locations. Ollstein also explores how patients\, physicians\, pharmacists\, and researchers are challenging these restrictions and working to protect access to care. The conversation will examine what these developments reveal about the intersection of health care\, law\, and politics—and what they mean for the future of American medicine.The conversation will be moderated by Julie Rovner\, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News and host of its What the Health? podcast. An accomplished journalist and author\, Rovner has covered health policy for decades\, reporting previously for National Public Radio\, National Journal\, Congressional Quarterly\, and The Lancet. As Ollstein’s mentor\, Rovner will bring her extensive expertise in health policy and journalism to a discussion of the far-reaching consequences of abortion restrictions and the future of reproductive health care in the United States.Attendees will also have the opportunity to enter a book giveaway for Side Effects.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153735
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre (4th Floor)
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