Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELED -- Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (March 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69540 69540-17357977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

CANCELED: This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2020. Please stay tuned for details.


William Lopez, Emily Fredericks, and Matthew Lassiter discuss Lopez's recent book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid published by John Hopkins University Press in September 2019. This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

There will be an instant-win raffle at the beginning of the event for 5 free copies of the book! Must be present to win!

About the book:

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return—arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.

Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013, as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez combines rigorous research with narrative storytelling. Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:36:40 -0400 2020-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71643 71643-17851292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for future updates.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and has won a number of prestigious honors that range from the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies to serving as an American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow in Washington, D.C. Cooper Owens earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in History and wrote an award-winning dissertation while there. A popular public speaker, she has published articles, essays, book chapters, and think pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences and reproductive justice. Recently, Cooper Owens finished working with Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center on a podcast series about how to teach U.S. slavery and Time Magazine listed her as an “acclaimed expert” on U.S. history in its annual “The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now.” Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history.

Professor Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. She is working on a second book project that examines mental illness during the era of United States slavery and is writing a popular biography of Harriet Tubman that examines her through the lens of disability.

This talk is presented by IRWG's program on Black Feminist Health Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:54:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Deirdre Cooper-Owens
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- Feminist Futures Roundtable (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72735 72735-18068371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details.

On the occasion of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's 25th anniversary, this panel will reflect on the past and look ahead to the next quarter century, envisioning the future of feminist research. Panelists are encouraged to imagine what feminist scholarship will look like in their field: what are the future challenges and opportunities? What themes, methodologies, collaborations, or theoretical frameworks will emerge?

In "lightning round" style, panelists will discuss ideas that they’re most excited about in regards to feminist research. There will be time for a dynamic discussion with each other and the audience.

Refreshments and IRWG swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers) provided!

Participants :
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor, Departments of American Culture and Women's Studies
- LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
- Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; IRWG Founding Director

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion IRWG 25th anniversary logo