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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ELI Course Info Session + Pizza Party!
DESCRIPTION:Want to build your confidence and fluency using English in class discussions\, written assignments\, and in conversations on campus?\nCome meet ELI’s faculty to learn about ELI’s Academic English Mini-Courses and enjoy some free pizza!\nThis is a casual\, drop-in style event. There is no formal presentation. Come anytime during the session!\n
UID:141705-21889215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141705
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:955 Weiser Hall
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Honors Pre-Professional Development 2025-2026
DESCRIPTION:The road to medical/health professional or law school programs involves academic success\, skill-building\, and community service\, but the path can differ for each individual. What kinds of academic experiences help you grow and learn at the level you need to be competitive? Where can you find volunteering\, shadowing\, and professional opportunities to help you fully explore your interest? How can you develop a timeline for applying to programs? Our Honors workshops are an outstanding way to gather information. There are several dates and topics to choose from based on where you are in your pre-professional journey. We look forward to seeing you there!\nSpace is limited so please drop your registration if you find that you are unable to attend.If you require accommodations to attend a pre-professional event\, please email ask.honors@umich.edu  Thank you!
UID:136812-21880616@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136812
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1330 (Honors Program Lounge)
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DTSTAMP:20250925T093124
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Learn to Practice Self-Compassion: 8-Week Group Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Are you often your own harshest critic? Do you struggle with self-criticism\, anxiety\, or depression? If so\, self-compassion can be a transformative skill for your well-being. The Mary A. Rackham Institute (MARI)’s Psychological Clinic is offering an 8-week\, in-person Self-Compassion Group this fall\, designed to help adults enhance emotional health by learning to treat themselves with kindness.\n\nWhat Is Self-Compassion Therapy?\nSelf-compassion is the practice of treating yourself with the same kindness and care you’d offer to a good friend. For those facing intense self-criticism or mental health challenges like anxiety and depression\, self-compassion can improve resilience and overall emotional well-being. This group will guide you through practical strategies\, psycho-education\, and experiential exercises to help manage difficult emotions and life’s challenges.\n\nAbout the Self-Compassion Group:\n- Mix of psycho-education\, group discussions\, and experiential exercises\n- A supportive\, nonjudgmental environment led by licensed mental health clinicians\n- Techniques rooted in the latest research on self-care and emotional healing\n\nGroup Details:\n- When: Wednesdays\, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. (8 weeks)\n- Fall 2025 Dates: October 1 – November 19\, 2025\n- Where: In-person at our mental health clinic in downtown Ann Arbor (210 S. 5th Ave.)\n- Cost: $45 per weekly session\; some insurances are accepted
UID:139866-21886199@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139866
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Well-being,Undergraduate,Staff,Health & Wellness,Group Therapy,Graduate Students,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251117T092053
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Qahwah & Authors. Borícua Muslims with Ken Chitwood
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: https://myumi.ch/z9y1R\n   Date: November 19\, 2025 at 5:00 PM\n   Location: UMMA Multipurpose Room\n   \nJoin us on November 19\, 2025 at 5:00 PM at UMMA Multipurpose Room for a conversation with Ken Chitwood on his new book *Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam*.\n   \n   Drawing on years of ethnographic research and more than a hundred interviews conducted in Puerto Rico\, New York\, Florida\, Texas\, New Jersey\, and online\, Ken Chitwood tells the story of Puerto Rican Muslims as they construct a shared sense of peoplehood through everyday practices and historical reimaginings that complicate ideas about race\, ethnicity\, and religion in the Americas. Expanding the geography of global Islam and recasting the relationship between religion and Puerto Rican culture\, “Borícua Muslims” reckons with the many entanglements of Latinx and Muslim identities amid late-modern globalization.\n   \n   \n   Joining us in conversation with Ken Chitwood will be University of Michigan Professors Sara Awartani\, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes\, and Aliyah Khan (moderator).\n   \n   \n   Meet the speakers:\n   \n   \nKen Chitwood is a postdoctoral researcher pursuing Habilitation with the Department for the Study of Religion at Universität Bayreuth. He is also an Affiliate Researcher with the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture. His first monograph\, *The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean* (2021) won the Religion News Association’s Best Nonfiction Book Award. His second book\, *Borícua Muslims: The Everyday Lives of Puerto Rican Converts to Islam* is out now with the University of Texas Press (2025)\; and his third book\, the edited anthology *Engaged Spirituality: Stories of Religious Inspiration\, Resilience\, and Work for the Common Good* is due out with Bloomsbury (2026). Chitwood’s academic work focuses on Islam and religion in the Americas\, Latinx Muslims\, Christian-Muslim relations\, global Christianity\, Muslim minorities\, and ethnographic methods and manifestations of religion-beyond-religion in a global and digital age. He is also a working journalist\; an editor of ReligionLink\, a premier resource for journalists reporting on religion\; and the current president of the Religion News Association (RNA).\n   \n   \nSara Awartani is an interdisciplinary historian at the University of Michigan whose research\, publications\, and teaching focus on twentieth-century U.S. social movements\, interracial solidarities\, policing\, and American global power\, with special attention to Latinx and Arab American histories. Her first book project\, *Solidarities of Liberation\, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico\, Palestine\, and American Global Power* (under contract)\, chronicles a globally expansive story of Palestine liberation\, Puerto Rican radicalism\, and the United States' efforts to weaponize and police those freedom dreams. Awartani's research appears in a variety of peer-reviewed and public-facing forums\, including Radical History Review\; Kalfou: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Journal\; Society & Space\; Middle East Report\; and” Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader.” Her research has received support across subfields\, including the Puerto Rican Studies Association and the Arab American National Museum\, with additional recognition by the Ford Foundation and the Latin American Studies Association.\n   \n   \nLawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture\, Romance Languages and Literatures\, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He is author of *Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora* (2009) and *Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance* (2021). His books of fiction include *Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails* (2005) and *Abolición del pato* (2015). He appears as Lola von Miramar in the YouTube series *Cooking with Drag Queens*.\n\nAliyah Khan (moderator) is Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC)\, and Associate Professor of English\, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She specializes academically in postcolonial Caribbean and Muslim literatures\, and she has also published creative nonfiction in *Guernica* and various anthologies. Khan’s award-winning book *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (2020) is the first scholarly monograph on the comparative history\, literature\, and music of enslaved African Muslims and indentured Indian Muslims in Guyana\, Trinidad\, and Jamaica. Her interviews have appeared in and on *NPR*\, the *Washington Post*\, *Times of India*\, *Sky TV (UK)*\, *NCN Guyana Broadcasting*\, *Bayt al Fann*\, and other venues.\n   \nThis event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored at U-M by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)\, the Islamophobia Working Group (IWG)\, the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Program in American Culture\, the Latina/o Studies Program in American Culture\, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL).\n   \nFor more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan\, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies\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.    Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
UID:141179-21888305@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141179
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Muslim,Global Islamic Studies,Discussion,Latin America,Book
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Multipurpose Room
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DTSTAMP:20251024T104843
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Zine and Print-Making at West Quad
DESCRIPTION:Join the West Quad Diversity Peer Educators for a zine and print-making crafts night\, while enjoying free snacks!
UID:141085-21888116@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141085
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:West Quad,Free Food,Crafts,Community Engagement,Community Building
LOCATION:West Quadrangle - Asubuhi Multicultural Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20251111T124629
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251119T173000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:BLI Community Meetings - Acts of Gratitude
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next BLI Community Meeting — an opportunity to practice gratitude while giving back to the Ann Arbor community!\n\nAt the BLI\, we practice a set of mindful habits that strengthen leadership\, creativity\, and adaptability. This meeting will focus on practicing gratitude through giving\, by creating items that bring warmth and comfort to others. We are partnering with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Ann Arbor to make no-sew fleece blankets for families staying at the House and patients in the hospital.\n\nWe’ll also share upcoming opportunities at BLI and connect with peers over a light dinner. All BLI members and anyone curious about joining our community are welcome!
UID:141766-21889333@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141766
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Barger Leadership Institute,Bli,Community Service
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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