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:20250303T063126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T182000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Evolve: Professional Communication Basics DESCRIPTION:📢 Communication is key—whether it’s with professors\, recruiters\, or future employers. In this quick session we'll dive into crafting messages that are both authentic and professional across platforms like email\, LinkedIn\, Zoom\, and in person. In just 15 minutes\, you’ll get actionable tips to help you communicate confidently and make a great impression\, followed by a quick Q&\;A. \;Let’ssharpen your skills for every conversation that counts! \;Questions about this event? Feel free to message event organizer Sarah Jones! UID:128412-21860793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250203T144329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:GISC Panel. Qahwah & Authors: Poetry & Visual Arts DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 25\, 2025 | 6:00 PM | 27th Letter Books\, 3546 Michigan Ave\, Detroit\n \n RSVP: http://bit.ly/Qahwah25 | Add this event to your calendar!\n \n Join the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at 27th Letter Books in Detroit at 6PM on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 for a panel discussion on new and exciting poetry and visual art & analysis from Muslim and Arab American authors & editors. Find out what Muslim readers are talking about! Coffee\, tea\, & pastries will be served.\n \n Featuring:\n Aline Batarseh (Visualizing Palestine)\n Esra Mirze Santesso (Muslim Comics & Warscape Witnessing)\n Mouna Ammar (Zmagria: Poems)\n Noor Hindi (Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. )\n \n Speaker bios:\n \n Aline is a Palestinian from Jerusalem. She lived most of her life in Palestine and moved to the U.S. with her family in 2015. Aline joined the Visualizing Palestine team as Executive Director in 2021. She has more than 20 years of experience working with several Palestinian and international nonprofits at the intersections of gender equality\, reproductive justice\, children’s rights\, mental health\, and social justice.\n \n \n Esra Mirze Santesso is a Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing (Ohio State UP\, 2023) which received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies at the MLA. She is the also the co-editor of Islam and Postcolonial Literature (Routledge\, 2017)\, and Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction (Manchester UP\, forthcoming). Her essays have appeared in a variety of journals\, including the Journal of Religion and Literature\, Critical Muslim\, Postcolonial Interventions\, Recherche LittĂ©raire / Literary Research\, The Comparatist\, and Postcolonial Text. Her interview with Orhan Pamuk\, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2006 came out in PMLA. She teaches courses on postcolonial theory\, human rights narratives\, and immigrant literature.\n \n \n Mouna Ammar is a mother\, writer\, researcher\, independent scholar\, postpartum doula\, educational linguist\, and wayward chef living in Ann Arbor by way of Los Angeles and Algiers. Her favorite themes are love of land\, strength\, self-discovery\, and sustaining traditions. She has been writing since she was a teen and\, as an author of Algerian origin\, she brings a fresh voice to the expansive body of literature by Arab Americans. Her inspirations are as eclectic as Aja Monet and Mahmoud Darwish\, Sonia Sanchez and Agha Shahid Ali. Mouna's debut collection of poems entitled \"Zmagria\" offers an invitation to others to seek a reflection of themselves in her words. She can be found on her Instagram page @frommouna_ammar\n \n \n Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian-American poet. Her debut collection of poems\, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow (Haymarket Books 2022)\, was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award. She is currently editing a Palestinian poetry anthology with George Abraham (Haymarket Books\, 2025). Noor Hindi is calling on you to join the global fight for the survival and liberation of Palestinians and all oppressed people. Anywhere and everywhere you are\, you can disrupt\, advocate\, speak out and refuse in small and big ways. Revolution until freedom. Follow her on Instagram @NoorKHindi.\n \n \n For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies\n \n If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact islamicstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132251-21870663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132251 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Global Islamic Studies,Middle East Studies,Poetry,Presentation LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T102002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250225T194500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Monthly Craft Corner: Welcome to Camp Half-Blood DESCRIPTION:Calling all demigods! The Public Humanities Interns are hosting a Percy Jackson-themed craft night for the second installment of our Monthly Craft Corner. Come make friendship bracelets and talk about all things Camp Half-Blood. We will also include a presentation about the effect of the Percy Jackson books on Classical studies scholarship. Food will be provided. 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