Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

This will be a discussion moderated by Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler and Professor Lawrence M. Jackson about the spaces that lie between Dance and Social Activism. This event will feature a screen dance viewing of Dance artist Lawrence M. Jackson’s work, “Say Her Name…Too." A short screen dance, this work will combine cinematic elements with choreography and explores the lives of 5 Black women who died at the hands of law enforcement. The goal of this work is to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence. Black women have been killed by the police at alarming rates, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence. To lift up their stories, and illuminate police violence against Black women, we need to know who they are, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police…this film aims to do just that…

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
Global Connections: William Head on Stage; “Prison Theatre in Canada” (February 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81377 81377-20889801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A conversation with Kate Rubin, Theatre Director at William Head on Stage and Professor Ashley Lucas.

Kate will summarize the 40 year history of William Head on Stage and the different kinds of theatre productions and projects done with WHoS inmates at William Head Federal Institution in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She will specifically focus on the combination of script and collaborative devising work over the past 15 years she has been involved with as a teaching artist, performer and director.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T17:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Let's Talk About Institutional Change: UM's Past, Present, and Future (February 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81704 81704-20943458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Register Here - https://tinyurl.com/mesarsg

Join us for a conversation with Rackham Assistant Dean Ethriam Brammer, Askari Rushing of the Rackham Professional Development DEI Certificate Program, and Chief DEI Officer Dr. David Humphrey of the School of Education to discuss UM’s history and approach to anti-racist policies and national movements in historically Black-underrepresented fields to address combating stigma and building a more diverse environment.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:48:35 -0500 2021-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Workshop / Seminar A maize, block font "M" is outlined in a thin blue line. It sits on the right side of blue-ish white columns. There are four columns equally spaced. On top of the columns is a triangle. On the bottom of the columns are two rectangles stacked on top of each other with the smaller rectangle between the columns and the larger rectangle.
Pivoting During a Pandemic: How Nonprofit Organizations Are Innovating and Adapting Through a Time of Crisis (February 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82018 82018-21006754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Each year, the University of Michigan Board Fellowship Program hosts a public forum in the form of a panel discussion with representatives from local nonprofit organizations. This year, the theme of the forum is “Pivoting During a Pandemic: How Nonprofit Organizations Have Innovated and Adapted During a Time of Crisis.” The COVID-19 pandemic has created new realities and challenges while deepening and exposing existing inequities. Within the nonprofit sector these impacts have been felt widely and profoundly. Join us as our panelists discuss questions such as: How has the pandemic impacted their organizations, and how has the board of directors pivoted to adapt to this crisis? What challenges and opportunities have organizations encountered and how did they approach them? How has the organization’s funding model and operational model transformed? How have staff and board members' duties and responsibilities changed since the onset of the pandemic? What has been their most successful pivot? How have funders pivoted to meet community needs and develop new models of collaboration?

The following panelists will participate in the discussion:

Pam Smith, President & CEO of the United Way of Washtenaw County
Darryl L. Johnson, Executive Director of Mentor2Youth
Ebon Wilkins, Board Member for North Star Reach
Tim Carter, Board Member for Ten Thousand Villages of Huron Valley

Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOygrDotGdKkWEaSNUde_Ru51oa3uSva

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:27:32 -0500 2021-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Pivoting
Crucial Conversations: Health Disparities and Social Inequities (February 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82221 82221-21058452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Public Engagement & Impact

For nearly a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the United States. Black communities have found themselves disproportionately impacted by the virus and the unintended consequences of mitigation strategies.

This live discussion will bring together U-M experts and community members to engage in transparent and authentic dialogue on the realities of COVID-19, health disparities, and social inequities that Black communities face, and what can be done at U-M, and more broadly on a national scale, to address these issues.

Join via Zoom: myumi.ch/pdWgm
Watch Live: YouTube.com/UM

Moderator:
Dr. Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Urology
Interim Director, Services for Students with Disabilities
Director, Adaptive Sports & Fitness

Panelists:
Dr. Matthew Wixson, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Chair of Diversity, Department of Anesthesiology
Michigan Medicine

Dr. Jade Burns, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC
Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
School of Nursing

Kennedy Dubose
Community & Global Health Student, U-M School of Public Health ‘21

Arrice Bryant
MD/MPH Student, U-M Medical School ‘21
Michigan Medicine

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:55:46 -0500 2021-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Public Engagement & Impact Livestream / Virtual Crucial Conversations: Health Disparities & Social Inequities Live Panel Discussion on Feb. 24 at 12pm. Panelists: Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami, MD; Matthew Wixson, MD; Jade Burns, PhD; Kennedy Dubose; Arrice Bryant
Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation (February 25, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81639 81639-20935525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

*Zoom registration required: https://myumi.ch/E3jjK*

*We think it’s time to take up an abolitionist approach to the university. We can’t do it without you.*

Abolition, we believe, offers the occasion for thinking about the university in ways that the institution itself might otherwise render impossible. And in doing so it may provide an opportunity to trouble the institution as we know and inhabit it—and as it inhabits us. Inspired by radical scholars and organizers in and outside of universities, we embrace abolition as a generative rather than merely negative project. We aim to build relations that steal the sheen from the university’s romanticized history and to repurpose its resources, capacities, and function of reproducing sociality with and for other ways of being, other ways of living. In coming together, we take up the question, What would an abolitionist approach to the university say yes to?

These conversations belong to a larger set of recent efforts to theorize and historicize the dense and manifold linkages of universities with the infrastructure of settler colonial power, U.S. militarism, and racial capitalism. These efforts have sought not only to introduce new vocabularies and critical frames for how we understand universities and their conditions of possibility; they have also revealed some of the limits of the methodological tools heretofore available to think the university. From the well-intentioned methodological nationalism that tends to disappear the constitutive militarism of the Cold War university to the unrecognized settler imagination that valorizes as democratic the postbellum “public” land-grant institutions, to periodizations of the modern research university that hold its proximity to slavery at bay, the production of the university as an object of love and an occasion for rescue has often been reproduced in efforts to study it.

Abolitionist university studies, an emerging set of conversations about knowledge, power, and its institutional organizations has sought to offer a broad frame and a set of coordinates to study the university on different terms. It has, furthermore, insisted on regarding knowledge production not as a set of disembodied ideas or logics, but as organizational forms. Such a frame calls for methodological creativity. What kinds of pedagogical strategies does it open onto? What kind of historical frames get brought into courses, and how to bring abolitionist approaches into classrooms not nominally focused on the topic? How can abolitionist modes of organizing within universities open onto or remake existing political collectivities?

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:58:40 -0500 2021-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Livestream / Virtual Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation
2020 Reflections: Stories of Democracy (February 25, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82189 82189-21052522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

In honor of Black History Month, the MLK symposium theme: Where Do We Go From Here, and the University of Michigan's Democracy and Debate theme, the William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center brings you, 2020 Reflections: Stories of Democracy.

Join activists and community leaders: Riana Anderson, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health; Lauren Bealore, Democracy Director for State Innovation Exchange; Caleb Boswell, Student Advisor at Washtenaw Community College; and Brandon Stuart, Founder and Chief Creative Artist of ideaLogic, LLC this Thursday, February 25, 2021 for a discussion on democracy, elections, and political activism.

Our panelists come to the space from different fields and experiences and will reflect on what the year 2020 has revealed about the stories of democracy. Our discussion will explore what it has meant for them personally, professionally, and for their community and as individuals living at the intersection of several identities. We hope that you join us for a discussion grounded in community, inspiration, and introspection.

Join us Thursday, February 25, 2021, 3:30-5:00pm by registering for the event: myumi.ch/ZQevm

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:20:53 -0500 2021-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Livestream / Virtual Image of flyer
RUMBA con ZUMBA: Dance/Movement as Activism and Radical Self-care (February 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81585 81585-20927573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Learn the AfroCuban Rumba and explore how descendants of the enslaved folks resisted by preserving their rhythms, music, and dance as a medium for social change, self-care, community care, and spiritual care. Experience joy and practice self-care by moving your body for health and wellness with instructor-led movements to Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean rhythms in a dance-fitness format.

This is an embodied experience and not just a sit-down lecture! Please wear clothing you can easily move in and athletic shoes/sneakers for the dance fitness segment. Come prepared to dance and have a fabulous time!

This event is free and open to the public via Zoom. Pre-registration is highly encouraged.

For non-UM students or non-Rec Sports members, please create an account with us first at https://webstore.recsports.umich.edu/Account/Register

For information on how to register, visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/19I4qVjshiiZvmgUw8C3ou4D5r0-6RVaiwNqAgs0iU9Y/edit?usp=sharing

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:12:30 -0500 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Rumba con Zumba Dance/Movement as Activism + Radical Self-care
You Deserve Care (February 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82128 82128-21036723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Centering the needs of QTBIPOC therapy-seekers, this workshop aims to help you to learn more about accessing and navigating therapy, the green and red flags of a therapist, and how to ask the right questions to find the right fit for you.

Our workshop presenter will be Kulky Nakai Psy.D. LP (they/them/theirs), a therapist practicing with Integrative Empowerment Group PLLC. In their work, they bring a creative, synergistic, and vibrant energy to the therapy room. They earned their doctorate in clinical psychology at Adler University in Chicago, IL and their masters in counseling psychology at Argosy University in San Diego, CA. Identifying as a fat and tattooed queer femme of color, Kulky has also experienced marginalization, discrimination, and oppression for these intersecting identities throughout their life. They understand the deep impact that prejudice and stigma has on one’s mental health and wellbeing, and they are committed to socio-political and cultural change in efforts towards social justice and equality. After years of professional training and personal exploration, they are not only fulfilling their calling but are also building their legacy. Accordingly, Kulky is intentional about helping to cultivate meaningful, healing, and transformative therapeutic relationships so that their clients may become their own compassionate caregiver and agent of change to live an authentic, value-guided, and worthwhile life.

Read their full bio at https://www.integrativeempowerment.com/kulky

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:14:00 -0500 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Time / date information, event description, plus logos for LGBTQ Health and Wellness Season, Spectrum Center, and Integrative Empowerment Group PLLC logos alongside a photo of Kulky. Kulky is a medium-skinned South Asian individual with shoulder-length black hair and clear-framed classes. They are smiling at the camera and are in a forest of some kind.
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (February 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82079 82079-21020928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby is the local chapter of a national organization advocating for federal legislation to tackle climate change. Would you like to know more about our work and how you can get involved? Join our casual drop-in session to meet a few members of our chapter, learn about our group, and ask questions. All are welcome and able to contribute to our efforts - you don't need to be an expert!

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkc-qtqTotHtFYnOWIF4kLw6rZ5IkmsXKL

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:23:12 -0500 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (February 26, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-02-26T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Conversations on Europe. Mobilizing Black Germany (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80866 80866-20815017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

This lecture is being presented by the Center for European Studies and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures as the Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies.

Florvil's new book, *Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement*, with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. As such, it examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. She and Kira Thurman will exchange ideas about *Mobilizing Black Germany* and other Black internationalist themes in German Studies.

Tiffany N. Florvil is an associate professor of 20th-century European women’s and gender history at the University of New Mexico. Florvil coedited the volume, *Rethinking Black German Studies*, and has published chapters in *Gendering Post-1945 German History* and *To Turn this Whole World Over*. Her recent manuscript, *Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement*, with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. She is a board member of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH), an advisory board member for the Black German Heritage and Research Association, and an editorial board member for Central European History. She is also an editor of the Imagining Black Europe book series at Peter Lang Press.

Kira Thurman is an assistant professor of history and German studies at the University of Michigan. A winner of the Berlin Prize among other awards and fellowships, she is the author of several award-winning articles on music, the Black diaspora, and German-speaking Europe. Her book, *Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms*, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (Fall 2021).

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/1pBo3

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:19:47 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Mobilizing Black Germany
Queer Trivia Night (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82345 82345-21068627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Bored on a Friday night? Looking to flex your knowledge on queer history, artists, and media? Look no further! The Spectrum Center Programming Board is hosting "Queer Trivia Night," on February 26th at 7pm. Two rounds will be played, one centering Black queer trivia and the other on general facts and people of the community! Get ready for a night full of fun facts, friends, and if you're lucky, prizes! Please register using the link above. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Recreational / Games Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:35:24 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Recreational / Games The Spectrum Center Programming Board presents Queer Trivia Night. All information contained in event description.
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

MESA is proud to present Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN. Join us for a thrilling event where Janaya Khan will discuss “The Future within the Black Lives Matter Movement and The Intersections of being a Black, Queer, and Gender-Nonconforming Activist" This event is sponsored by The Spectrum Center and Central Student Government, and will be co-moderated by students Adrian King (they/them), PhD candidate in American Culture, and Jolyna Chiangong, who will be joined by Vice President Of Student Life Dr. Martino Harmon.

With a timely message about the transformational power of protest, Janaya Khan is a leading activist who engages their community in a profound discussion about social justice and equality. Known as ‘Future’ within the Black Lives Matter movement, Janaya is a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist (pronouns: they, them, theirs), staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator who presents an enlightening point of view on police brutality and systemic racism.

“Throughout the political tumult of 2020, one of the most prominent voices to become a source of healing and hope was Janaya Future Khan, whose rapidly-growing audience across social media now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. But while the activist’s weekly Sunday Sermons on Instagram provided a necessary forum for those looking to reflect and regroup during the pandemic and the instances of police brutality that sparked a renewal of energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement, Khan’s activism extends much further back—all the way to their childhood, spent between Toronto and Florida, and their subsequent years as a competitive boxer.

Galvanized by the 2014 killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Jermaine Carby in Toronto at the hands of police officers, Khan has had a longstanding involvement in Black Lives Matter—even launching its first international chapter in Canada—and became a necessary and informed voice for those seeking direction last summer. And like many around the world, Khan found themselves dismayed and angered by the scenes that unfolded on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building, where riots led by Trump supporters sieged the building to disrupt the final counting of the Electoral College ballots in favor of Joe Biden’s Presidential win, resulting in five deaths.” BY LIAM HESS January 10, 2021

MESA and the Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81923 81923-20990903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:34:49 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
39th Annual WCTF Career Conference (March 4, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81641 81641-20935527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) will host its 39th annual career conference virtually on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5. All U-M staff, faculty, students, and the public, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are invited to register to attend this inclusive professional development event.

The conference is free this year; however, pre-registration is required to attend the workshops and keynote sessions. Conference information, including the 2-day event schedule, speaker details, and workshop descriptions, is available online at myumi.ch/VPwAE. The deadline to register for the conference is February 26, 2021.

On Thursday, March 4, the opening keynote program will feature U-M alumnae Corie Pauling, senior vice president, chief inclusion and diversity officer, and head of corporate social responsibility for TIAA, discussing strategies for creating inclusive anti-racist workspaces. Following her remarks, a nationally renowned panel of healthcare experts will respond to questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it works to develop immunity.

The closing keynote program on Friday, March 5, will feature a legislative panel comprised of US State representatives: the Honorable Debbie Dingell, MI-12, and the Honorable Rashida Tlaib, MI-13. Moderated by U-M alumnae, state representative, and Davenport University vice president for strategic partnerships, Lisa Howze, the discussion will focus on the role of women in the state’s economic recovery strategy.

Event sponsors include CEW+, the U-M Office of the Provost, University Human Resources, and Michigan Medicine Human Resources. TIAA will be the Platinum Plus corporate sponsor for the eighth year.

Click here to register: myumi.ch/VPwAE

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:09:59 -0500 2021-03-04T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium Women at the 2020 WCTF Career Conference
The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82043 82043-21012679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

From the fight for a fair wage, to business closures during a pandemic, to a historic lack of job opportunities for Black individuals, race-based mechanisms of economic and social suppression have been systemically and strategically created in Detroit.
This virtual discussion focuses on the work of Detroit activists and leaders who have dedicated their lives to creating a more economically just and mobile city.

Special guests include Eboni Taylor, Michigan Executive Director of Mothering Justice; DeWayne Wells, Executive Director of the Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan; and Dr. Alicia Farris, Chief Operations Officer of the Restaurant Opportunities Center.

RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W207

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:22:04 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion The Movement for Economic Equity in Detroit
Man Made Film Screening (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82655 82655-21153696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
Please note the list of trigger warnings after the event description.

Join the Spectrum Center and UM Libraries in our screening of "Man Made," a feature-length documentary tracing the varied lives of four transgender men, as they prepare to step on stage at the only all-trans bodybuilding competition in the world. Learn more about the film at http://manmadedoc.com.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

Trigger Warnings:

Shown
Footage of someone undergoing a masectomy / top surgery in the operating room, including open wounds
Injections
Scars from top surgery
Religiously-motivated transphobic / homophobic protest

Discussed
Suicidal ideation and attempt
Transphobia [internalized, misgendering, exclusion, outing, rejection from family, religiously-motivated, violence up to and including death]
Homophobic violence
Restricted eating / dieting

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Film Screening Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:00:28 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Film Screening Event information beside a cropped version of the documentary poster, featuring one of the contestants, a Black trans masculine person with top surgery scars and chest tattoos, shirtless and looking up off of the image.
39th Annual WCTF Career Conference (March 5, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81641 81641-20935528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) will host its 39th annual career conference virtually on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5. All U-M staff, faculty, students, and the public, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are invited to register to attend this inclusive professional development event.

The conference is free this year; however, pre-registration is required to attend the workshops and keynote sessions. Conference information, including the 2-day event schedule, speaker details, and workshop descriptions, is available online at myumi.ch/VPwAE. The deadline to register for the conference is February 26, 2021.

On Thursday, March 4, the opening keynote program will feature U-M alumnae Corie Pauling, senior vice president, chief inclusion and diversity officer, and head of corporate social responsibility for TIAA, discussing strategies for creating inclusive anti-racist workspaces. Following her remarks, a nationally renowned panel of healthcare experts will respond to questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it works to develop immunity.

The closing keynote program on Friday, March 5, will feature a legislative panel comprised of US State representatives: the Honorable Debbie Dingell, MI-12, and the Honorable Rashida Tlaib, MI-13. Moderated by U-M alumnae, state representative, and Davenport University vice president for strategic partnerships, Lisa Howze, the discussion will focus on the role of women in the state’s economic recovery strategy.

Event sponsors include CEW+, the U-M Office of the Provost, University Human Resources, and Michigan Medicine Human Resources. TIAA will be the Platinum Plus corporate sponsor for the eighth year.

Click here to register: myumi.ch/VPwAE

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:09:59 -0500 2021-03-05T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium Women at the 2020 WCTF Career Conference
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 5, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-05T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Community Meet Up: Leading a Sustainable Zero-Waste Lifestyle (March 5, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81325 81325-20885833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

In this session, we hope to introduce the concept of sustainable and zero-waste living to interested students! We will be sharing easy tips we can all implement in our student lifestyles in reducing waste and being eco-friendly using inexpensive, accessible resources. We also want to provide space to talk about larger systemic issues impacting our environment and marginalized communities, such as environmental racism and large-scale corporate environmental destruction, and actions we can all take against these issues. Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8010

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:44:49 -0500 2021-03-05T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location First Year Experience Programs Social / Informal Gathering Green square with blue text that reads: Community Meet Up's: shared interests, new connections. Surrounding the text are images related to hobbies including a person doing yoga, a park, a book, movie ticket stubs, and a mixing bowl and whisk.
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (March 6, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82080 82080-21020929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby is the local chapter of a national organization advocating for federal legislation to tackle climate change. Would you like to know more about our work and how you can get involved? Join our casual drop-in session to meet a few members of our chapter, learn about our group, and ask questions. All are welcome and able to contribute - you don't need to be an expert!

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuigqTsrEteN-dQAGvU-g1Bm2iwM04AJ

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:23:49 -0500 2021-03-06T11:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Worthy Bodies (March 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82717 82717-21163655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

All trans people are beautiful, and that sentiment is not always expressed. In times of isolation and disconnect from community, transgender and nonbinary individuals can lose sight of self-love and body positivity.

In Part 1, we will explore the topic of body positivity through the lens of the wellbeing model. The workshop will focus on collectively building a more trans-inclusive idea of body positivity based on our experiences and identities. By incorporating other transgender and non-binary voices in the workshop, the space will also explore what self-love looks like and how you can build a body-positive self-image.

In Part 2, we will continue diving into how to cultivate a body-positive self-image. Through personal reflection and group conversations, we will explore our own body origin stories and how body policing manifests within transgender and non-binary communities. With a focus on narratives and experiences, the workshop will provide participants with strategies to reframe and cultivate body positivity for ourselves, our relationships and our communities.

Attendance for Part 1 isn't required for Part 2, nor is it a commitment to attend Part 2. For both workshops, participants are encouraged to wear an article of clothing, accessory, or outfit that validates your identity and expression.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:16:20 -0500 2021-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being Event information for both Part 1 and Part 2 of Worthy Bodies. Next to the text is an illustration of an individual from the neck down holding a transgender flag draped over their shoulders and wearing a skirt in the nonbinary flag colors. A spotlight shines down on them.
Conversation with Socially Conscious Tech Companies: Truepic (March 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82734 82734-21169593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

Come to Tech for Social Good’s first conversation with a socially conscious tech company: Truepic. Truepic is a company focused on rebuilding trust in photos and videos in a world of photo manipulation and deep fakes by utilizing blockchains. We will be talking with them about what their platform does, what it means for social justice efforts like citizen journalism, and how they balance their company’s mission and values with their business model. One of the speakers will be a UM alum as well! 💙💛 Please RSVP at this link: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the first 20 people who rsvp will get reimbursed for food!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:48:31 -0500 2021-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Livestream / Virtual The image is the poster for the event which includes the date: Wednesday, March 10th at 6 PM, the form to rsvp: tinyurl.com/truepic-new-rsvp, the form to ask questions tinyurl.com/truepic-questions and the zoom link: tinyurl.com/t4sgxtruepic
18th Peter M. Wege Lecture (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80414 80414-20719668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Join us for a casual conversation with Naomi Klein that will touch upon the pivotal moment we are in as we work to address the climate crisis, fight for climate justice, and examine the detrimental impacts that colonialism and capitalism have had on our planet and society. What needs to happen to bring about transformative, systemic change at this critical time? Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, as well as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:50:27 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Wege lecture
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81924 81924-20990904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:35:38 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Seminar coordinator: Marlon James Sales (U-M Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies)

Although Filipino migration has historically converged in other places across the US, it is in the Midwest, particularly at the University of Michigan, where some of the most extensive archival sources on this Southeast Asian nation can be found. These sources are generally used to examine US imperialism in Asia-Pacific, often glossing over the fact that the American period in the Philippines also led to the flourishing of Filipino literature in Spanish as a nationalist response. In this second installment of our Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminars, we shall analyze the archive as a site of translation and historical memory as a multilingual construct, focusing specifically on Hispanofilipino texts in the libraries of the University of Michigan and the broader Midwest. Translation here means two things. Since Spanish has never been spoken widely in the Philippines despite three centuries of colonial rule, translation may refer to the rendering of texts in another language supposedly understood by a majority of local readers. But given the limitations in how archival data is stored in the Philippines, translation may also refer to the movement of the archival sources themselves, whether physically or digitally, thus reclaiming them as objects of cultural memory. How has translation contributed to a monolingualized commemoration of multilingual pasts? What are the stakes of reconstructing a nation’s history through texts written in colonial languages? In which ways can translation help in recuperating a peripheral literary tradition in Spanish?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 12, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-12T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L50hQhumR_GoQ45jVwQPtA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
A Congressional Update from U.S. Senator Peters and U.S. Senator Stabenow of Michigan (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82656 82656-21155670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join us the afternoon of March 12 at 4:00 PM for two congressional updates and Q&A sessions with U.S. Senator Gary C. Peters and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.

During this virtual event, Senator Peters will provide an update on his priorities for Michigan, including his work to address this pandemic and his role as the Chairman of Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. Following Senator Peters’ update, students will have an opportunity to ask questions to Senator Peters.

Afterward, Senator Stabenow will offer a legislative update in her work as U.S. Senator and Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Later, students will have an opportunity to ask questions to Senator Stabenow.

Registration required to attend the virtual event. Please register at https://linktr.ee/umichcsg.

Speaker Bio: U.S. Senator Gary C. Peters
Senator Gary Peters has been honored to represent the State of Michigan in the U.S. Senate since 2015. He has focused on uniting our communities by fighting for the things we all agree on — a stronger economy, good-paying jobs, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and an opportunity for everyone to succeed. In the 117th Congress, Gary is the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Department of Homeland Security and is the Senate’s top oversight committee. He also serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

Speaker Bio: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow made history in 2000 when she became the first woman from Michigan elected to the United States Senate. She is known for her ability to build coalitions to get things done for Michigan and our nation. As Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Budget Committee, and a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, she has a powerful and unique role to play in shaping our nation’s health care, manufacturing, infrastructure, environment, and agriculture policies. Senator Stabenow is laser-focused on standing up for Michigan families, expanding affordable health care and lowering the costs of prescription drugs, helping Michigan businesses create good jobs here at home, and protecting our Great Lakes and outdoor heritage. She is a true champion for Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:10:02 -0500 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Livestream / Virtual Senator Event
T4SG Anti-Capitalist Computing talk with Nel Escher (March 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82930 82930-21225227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tech for Social Good

Come to Tech for Social Good’s upcoming conversation with Nel Escher, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science & engineering at the university of Michigan, whose research is under Computational Law and STS (Science, Technology, and Society).

We will be discussing anti-capitalist computing- how technology could dismantle harmful systems of exploitation and imagine ways to empower those who have been abused by them. Join the event (with dinner) on Monday Mar 15th, 6 pm EST. Please RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/t4sg-computing-rsvp. We’re serving food for the first 20 people that sign up!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:51:00 -0500 2021-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tech for Social Good Livestream / Virtual The image is the poster for the event which includes the date: Monday, March 15th at 6 PM, the form to rsvp and to ask questions http://tinyurl.com/t4sg-computing-rsvp. the zoom link can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/t4sg-computing-nel
Embracing Our Artistic Selves: Navigating Times of Crisis and Addressing Inequity (March 16, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80488 80488-20728307@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here to receive the Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/embracing-our-artistic-selves-navigating-times-of-crisis-and-addressing-inequity


As a scholar focused on addressing equity within arts education, Dr. Fitzpatrick draws upon her formative experiences as a white teacher of students of color to examine systemic injustice within educational spaces. Within this workshop, she will encourage attendees to first connect with their own artistic selves, considering the ways that the arts are woven within their own life’s story. Following a journey to reconsider their positionality with regard to the arts, attendees will examine the ways that human beings use the arts to address injustice, particularly at moments of crisis such as those we are experiencing today. Equity in arts education will be examined from this broader perspective, with each participant reflecting on their own journey within educational spaces as it relates to identity and marginalization.

An integral part of the Inspire initiative is pairing advocacy, social change, and activism with skills that enhance a sense of wellbeing and focus. A short guided Mindfulness Meditation practice will be incorporated into the program.

Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish, PhD is Associate Professor of Music Education for the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan. Before coming to U-M in the fall of 2008, Fitzpatrick served as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Louisville. Fitzpatrick is an active and prolific researcher, focusing on the experiences of those who have been historically marginalized in music education. Her research has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Contributions to Music Education, Southwestern Musician, the Music Educators Journal, and the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, in addition to numerous book chapters. Her book, Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers, was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. Fitzpatrick has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and is a member of the Music Education Advisory Board for the Save the Music Foundation. She is the past national elected chair of the Social Sciences Special Research Interest Group for the National Association of Music Education, and also serves as a frequent clinician and guest conductor with bands across the United States. An avid supporter of public school music programs, she is the former director of instrumental music at Northland High School in Columbus, Ohio, where she directed the district’s largest band and orchestra program and was awarded the Brass Band of Columbus’ 2003 God and Country Award, recognizing her “outstanding, sensitive leadership of young people.”

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:34:36 -0500 2021-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
TSCA @ 5 Years: Opportunities to Act with Foresight (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82485 82485-21108121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The University of Michigan M-LEEaD Center is co-sponsoring an event to mark the 5-year anniversary of the bipartisan legislation called the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. This reform law was designed to modernize U.S. industrial chemical policy to promote health, but has it lived up to its promise?

Public understanding is limited regarding how exposures to toxic chemicals affect health and how they might be regulated. Unlike pharmaceuticals, industrial and commercial chemicals are rarely tested for safety before they reach the U.S. market. The 1976 TSCA has been widely acknowledged to be a weak and ineffective law, and widespread exposures and harms continue. In the U.S., everyone is exposed to industrial and toxic chemicals, dozens and probably hundreds – well before birth. The amount of chemicals manufactured and imported continues to grow – it is trillions of pounds – and these chemicals remain largely unregulated. At the same time, we have seen an increase in chronic diseases, such as diabetes, autism, and infertility. Not everyone is equally at risk, and a higher burden of disease falls on low wealth communities and communities of color. These health disparities in exposures and health effects are illustrated and exacerbated by COVID.

The amended TSCA gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency new requirements and authorities. The public health impact points to the need for the U.S. EPA to fully use its new powers to evaluate all risks from hazardous chemicals and set policies which protect health and are accountable to high-risk communities. Preventive actions are urgently needed.

Watch “THE FOREVER CHEMICALS” documentary (2019, 26 min) at Great Lakes Now then join the March 16 forum. https://www.greatlakesnow.org/fc
“The Forever Chemicals” is an Emmy-winning examination of the impact of PFAS contamination in west Michigan
communities.

LEARN MORE AT OUR LIVE VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION (registration required) on March 16 with Sandra Svoboda, “The Forever Chemicals” co-producer and Great Lakes Now Program Director; Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, University of CA-San Francisco; and Justin Onwenu, Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club. Moderated by Patricia Koman, MPP, PhD, Research Investigator, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan with Welcoming remarks from Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD, the Harold T Shapiro Distinguished University Professor of Medicine (also Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics; Internal Medicine; Human Genetics; and Public Health, Univ of Mich).

REGISTER HERE https://bit.ly/37I2JaU

SPONSORED BY the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) • U-M Environmental Health Sciences • Detroit Public Television • Wayne State CURES Center • U-M Sustainable Living Experience • UROP (U-M Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) • UMIHSA (U-M Industrial Hygiene Students Association) • EHSA (Environmental Health Student Association) • American Chemical Society Outreach Organization • U-M Health Policy Student Association • Ecology Center • Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition • UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment • UCSF EaRTH Center

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:57:09 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium March 16 Panel Discussion: TSCA @ 5 Years
Food Literacy for All (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82937 82937-21225231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. To kickoff the series, join us for a conversation with Raj Patel and Ricardo Salvador, moderated by UM faculty Andy Jones on Wednesday March 17 at 12 pm EST.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:19:48 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual Session 1 Graphic
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Opening Ceremony (March 17, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82835 82835-21185522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

To launch this year's Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) Heritage Month, the Opening Ceremony will feature the hosts of the Continental Shifts Podcast, Gabriel Tanglao and Estella Owoimaha-Church! Gabriel and Estella describe themselves as “dope educators wayfinding the past, present, and future,” and their podcast centers around how AA&PI communities can organize, educate, and support one another as we learn from our cultures and work through current issues. Dinner will be available for pick up for those on/near campus who register for this event (you will receive a separate email with meal sign up options).

This event is a part of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-March to mid-April at the University of Michigan. All events this year will be held *virtually.* A full list events will be coming soon to the MESA website!

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:19:16 -0500 2021-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual AA&PI HM Opening Ceremony
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 18, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Faith & Coming Out (March 18, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82714 82714-21163652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Spectrum Center is proud to present Faith & Coming out: a student & parent panel on family, community, and loving yourself. Many individuals in the LGBTQ+ community have questions, fears, and hopes about how their queerness interacts with their faith, but it's not a subject often talked about. In an effort to help our students understand themselves better, we have brought together five people to share their stories about coming out or being come out to. There isn't one method to create a perfect harmony between an individual's religion and LGBTQ+ identity, but highlighting more narratives can help reflect the many possible paths and make the journey just a little less uncertain.

This event's panelists come from the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Catholicism.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:06:09 -0500 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event information against a multicolored background reminicent of stained glass.
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 19, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-19T10:30:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Symposium: Where Is Social Reproduction Theory Now? (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79658 79658-20438377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

There has been an explosion in recent years of scholarship on social reproduction theory (SRT), which builds on a long tradition of critique within Marxist feminist scholarship that has focused on the labor required to produce workers and society as a whole. While it arose out of the need to explain the continued oppression of women under capitalism, the SRT framework has been extended to understanding racism and other sources of division between workers. SRT offers a perspective on the link between the oppressive logics of “race,” sexuality, ability, gender, and more, with the development and actualization of labor powers. In short, a renewed SRT provides a historical materialist theory of multiple oppressions within capitalist society. This body of scholarship, varied in its political and theoretical orientations, takes as its subject precisely the continuous and daily reproduction of capitalism as a system. Our round table discussion consists of a conversation with Tithi Bhattacharya, one of the foremost proponents of social reproduction theory, on some of the recent developments in SRT and their relevance in our current conjuncture.

Registrants will receive a link to a pre-circulated paper by Professor Bhattacharya.

For a brief video explaining social reproduction theory, please visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uur-pMk7XjY

Panelists:
Tithi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, History, Purdue University
Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan
Emily A. Peterson, Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor; English Language and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies; University of Michigan
Rosario Ceballo (moderator), Professor; Women's and Gender Studies, Psychology; University of Michigan

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. Presented in partnership with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:04:15 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium
March Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering (March 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83027 83027-21257025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Those who are close to UM's campus can choose to pick up a free meal the day of the event!

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event’s host will be Askari Rushing (he/him/his). Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Askari graduated from Auburn University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Accountancy. Upon graduating, he taught K-8 Spanish in the DC Public School System for one year. After realizing that teaching was not his passion, he attended Middlebury College and received his Master of Arts in Spanish in 2017. Directly following this, he returned to his alma mater and received his Master of Accountancy in 2018. While studying for his MAcc, he realized that he had a passion for academic advising and decided to pursue a Master of Arts in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. He graduated in 2020 and accepted a job with Mississippi State University working in their Athletic Academics department as a Tutor Coordinator. After 6 months, he returned to the University of Michigan where he currently works as an Academic Program Specialist on the Rackham Professional Development DEI Certificate Program.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:25:57 -0400 2021-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Time and date details along with the description of Askari available in event text. Pictured is Askari, a Black individual with short-shaved hair, beard, and mustache. He is wearing glasses and a jacket and is smiling at the camera.
Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82828 82828-21179596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Please join us for the last event in our series addressing the theme: "Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment."

This event will consist of a panel featuring scholars and medical, mental health, and fitness experts discussing movement, and physical and mental wellness/well-being as ways of combatting the body politics of racism. The event will include panelists’ demonstrations and audience participation.

If you'd like to join along with the Afrobeats dance demonstration (and we hope you do), please wear comfortable clothes and use a space where you have room to move. All ages and abilities are welcome; no experience needed!

--Abigail Eiler, LMSW, MSW, QMHP: Clinical Assistant Professor, U-M School of Social Work; Director, Athletics Counseling, U-M Athletics; Chair, Mental Health & Wellness Cabinet, Big Ten Conference

--Chiamaka Ukachukwu, MS: PhD Candidate (Specializing in Cardiovascular Electrophysiology), U-M Department of Pharmacology; Afrobeats Dance Instructor, U-M Recreational Sports

--Dr. Kamaria Washington, DPT: Physical Therapist (Specializing in Pelvic Floor Concerns), Therapeutic Associates Bethany Physical Therapy (Portland, OR)

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Well-being Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:58:46 -0400 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Well-being U-M Health Sciences - Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment
Inside The Cartel Project: The Power of Collaborative Investigative Journalism (March 24, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82579 82579-21124020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

In 2012 Mexican journalist Regina Martinez was murdered in her home. She had been reporting on the links between drug cartels, public officials and thousands of individuals who had mysteriously disappeared. Eight years later, her investigations were published simultaneously around the world as The Cartel Project.

Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit newsroom created by Laurent Richard during his year as a Knight- Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, organized the project, secretly bringing together an international network of journalists dedicated to continue the work of Martinez. Sixty reporters from 18 countries, followed her leads to expose a global network of Mexican drug cartels and their political connections around the world.

Join journalists Laurent Richard of Forbidden Stories, Dana Priest of The Washington Post and Jorge Carrasco of Proceso with moderator, Lynette Clemetson, for a behind the scenes look at the global investigation and learn how collaborative journalism can keep alive the work of reporters who are silenced by threats, censorship or death.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:22:40 -0500 2021-03-24T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wallace House Center for Journalists Livestream / Virtual 2021 Eisendrath Symposium
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Rooting for Change: UMSFP Student Food Summit (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81827 81827-20967183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP)

UM Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) connects food, environmental, and social justice-oriented clubs on campus to create a network of empowered students working to better our food system both on-campus and in the surrounding community.

From 5-8PM on Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25, we are inviting you to attend Rooting for Change: Student Food Summit! The two-day summit will consist of Zoom webinars and learn-shops, as well as an optional networking happy hour after Wednesday's session. While learn-shop sessions and the happy hour are specifically for students, anyone is welcome to attend the Tiny Talks and Keynote Zoom webinars.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 06 Feb 2021 12:31:13 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Livestream / Virtual Rooting for Change! 5-8pm Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 2021
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81925 81925-20990906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:36:06 -0500 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82046 82046-21012682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Homelessness and housing insecurity have become an epidemic in our country, especially in communities of color. During a pandemic, these individuals end up being our most vulnerable. Join us for this virtual discussion featuring panelists working on the front lines of Detroit’s housing insecurity crisis, who will discuss how the pandemic has exacerbated housing issues. Featured panelists include LaTonia Walker, mobility coach of Creating Opportunities to Succeed (COTS); Amber Elliott, project manager and community improvement advisor for Built for Zero Nationals; Courtney Smith, executive director of Detroit Phoenix Center; and Candace Montgomery, systems transformation advisor of Detroit’s Built for Zero, Community Solutions.
RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W208

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:35:10 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Drop In and Get to Know CCL (March 25, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82081 82081-21020930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby is the local chapter of a national organization advocating for federal legislation to tackle climate change. Would you like to know more about our work and how you can get involved? Join our casual drop-in session to meet a few members of our chapter, learn about our group, and ask questions. All are welcome and able to contribute - you don't need to be an expert!

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsc-6oqj8oGtApi6u6PkbngoX-3DMVIzuo

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:24:28 -0500 2021-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 26, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Entrepreneurship (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82917 82917-21219294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: Noon- 1:15 p.m. EDT

OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Over the past five years, less than 3% of venture capital funding went to Black and Latinx founders. What are the barriers to entrepreneurship for minorities and how can venture capital become more inclusive to entrepreneurs? What steps should be taken by operators and financiers to ensure that sufficient funding is accessible to businesses in these communities? Join moderator Rashmi Menon, entrepreneurship lecturer at Michigan Ross, for a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about how they are working to expand equity in this space.

MODERATOR // RASHMI MENON // MICHIGAN ROSS
Entrepreneurship Lecturer

VASCO BRIDGES // NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL
Chief of Staff, Distribution

LATRESHA (LC) HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder

MARC HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder & CEO

HARLYN PACHECO // MICROSOFT VIVA
BD & Strategy

MARLO RENCHER // TECHTOWN DETROIT
Director, Technology-Based Programs

Business and Society web page:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:28:12 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
Women and Activism: Centering Women's Leadership in Social Movements (March 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82701 82701-21161635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Women have led every major social movement in United States history. And yet women's voices are largely absent from the stories of bold activism and social change that each generation passes on to the next. Women in Student Movements will provide women activists with the opportunity to write our own histories, and map out our futures as well. Join us as a diverse panel of women, both current students and alumna, describe their experiences as student leaders and discuss how women across social groups can work together for change. Dr. Quenette Walton ('99) will moderate the panel, and a recording of the panel will be donated to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection at Michigan, one of the oldest collections of radical materials in the world.

Moderator: Dr. Quenette Walton, University of Houston

Alumnx panelists: Michelle Lin, Rupal Patel, Malika Pryor, Ixta Rosa

Student panelists: Julianna Collado, Cydney Gardner-Brown, Anooshka Gupta

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:39:19 -0400 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Lecture / Discussion Photo of seven women holding a banner that reads "March for Black Women"
​Ayoinmotion = Music to move you! (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82756 82756-21173592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

register here.

Wind down your week with the funky afrobeats of Ayoinmotion and chat about his music, his time at U-M, and his activism on important issues like #BLM and #EndSARS.

Pulsating  Afrobeats, hip-hop, spoken-word, a hard-driving band, and dancers make Ayoinmotion in concert a captivating experience. Essence magazine said the Nigeria-born performer and U-M alumni creates “unforgettable music that leaves a lasting impression on any audience.” He has made his name opening for such superstars as Davido, Teni The Entertainer and Talib Kweli, electrifying audiences at the Apollo Theater, collaborating with Apple, headlining Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts and was recently spotlighted by the GRAMMYs. A powerful artist passionately committed to social justice & activism, Ayoinmotion reflects his inspiring life story into a unique, adventurous, and vibrant sound. 

Live Q&A with Ayoinmotion at 4:30 p.m. followed by his performance.

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. If you would like to receive a reminder, please register here.

This program is organized and presented by the African Graduate Student Association and UMMA with support from the African Studies Center.

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Performance Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (March 30, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81956 81956-20996857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/510wy

In this virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. For this session, Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert will discuss the ways she applies performance studies scholarship to social activism, especially through the lens of literature and historical research.

Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Interim Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where she is also the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts.

She has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.

She is also an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Colbert is the author of *Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry *(forthcoming April 2021), *Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and The African American Theatrical Body*. Colbert co-edited *Race and Performance After Repetition* and *The Psychic Hold of Slavery*. Most recently, she served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, *shadow/land*. Her research interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:30:10 -0500 2021-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Soyica Diggs Colbert
Worthy Bodies (March 30, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82717 82717-21163656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

All trans people are beautiful, and that sentiment is not always expressed. In times of isolation and disconnect from community, transgender and nonbinary individuals can lose sight of self-love and body positivity.

In Part 1, we will explore the topic of body positivity through the lens of the wellbeing model. The workshop will focus on collectively building a more trans-inclusive idea of body positivity based on our experiences and identities. By incorporating other transgender and non-binary voices in the workshop, the space will also explore what self-love looks like and how you can build a body-positive self-image.

In Part 2, we will continue diving into how to cultivate a body-positive self-image. Through personal reflection and group conversations, we will explore our own body origin stories and how body policing manifests within transgender and non-binary communities. With a focus on narratives and experiences, the workshop will provide participants with strategies to reframe and cultivate body positivity for ourselves, our relationships and our communities.

Attendance for Part 1 isn't required for Part 2, nor is it a commitment to attend Part 2. For both workshops, participants are encouraged to wear an article of clothing, accessory, or outfit that validates your identity and expression.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Well-being Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:16:20 -0500 2021-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being Event information for both Part 1 and Part 2 of Worthy Bodies. Next to the text is an illustration of an individual from the neck down holding a transgender flag draped over their shoulders and wearing a skirt in the nonbinary flag colors. A spotlight shines down on them.
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
COVID-19: Reflections and vision for the future (March 31, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82941 82941-21227210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This March marks the one year after the pandemic.

Join the Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series as we host social demographer, professor of Public Policy & Health Management and Policy, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Dr. Paula Lantz for COVID-19: Reflections and vision for the future. Award-winning science journalist and author, Nicholas St. Fleur, will be moderating and guiding us through a discussion that reflects on the impacts of the pandemic on local community health and policy, and explores what comes next.

Trotter Multicultural Center looks forward to seeing you on March 31st from 5:30-7 PM. Register at: myumi.ch/9obEl

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:38:11 -0400 2021-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
Name Change Clinic (March 31, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83211 83211-21314501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

We're so excited for this year's Name Change Clinic, brought to you in partnership with the OUTreach program at the Jim Toy Community Center and OutLaws student group. This workshop will cover the basics of legal name changes, gender marker corrections, and current legal issues regarding transgender rights.

PLEASE NOTE:
This workshop will center on the process in Michigan. Every state's process to change your name and legal gender marker is different, and can vary within a state by county. Our presenters will be doing their best to answer any questions regarding the process broadly, but please keep this in mind as you attend.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:35:38 -0400 2021-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar The Name Change Clinic will be held on Wednesday, March 31st starting at 5:30 PM EST. Image shows the Spectrum Center, Jim Toy Community Center, and OutLaws logos.
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 31, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81926 81926-20990907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:33:25 -0500 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82047 82047-21012684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Immigrants have made great contributions to this state--economically, politically, and socially. The fabric of American society has been woven by the contributions of diverse immigrants. And yet, as a nation, we continue to suppress and demonize these immigrants. This session explores the story of immigrants in Michigan, a story that we, as social workers, are obligated to know.

Special guests include Fayrouz Saad, executive director of the Office of Global Michigan; Wojciech Zolnowski, executive director of the International Institute; Fatou Seydi-Sarr, executive director and founder of the African Bureau for Immigrant and Social Affairs; and Laura Sanders, lecturer at the School of Social Work and founder of the Washtenaw Immigration Rights Coalition.

RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W209

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:41:29 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story
#FunnyAsHAIL Wellness Evening with Magician Eric Jones (April 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83408 83408-21371764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Get ready for this #FunnyAsHAIL wellness break with The Magic of Eric Jones. Take a study and work break and prepare to be amazed as he shares his life-changing pandemic story and takes us on an exciting journey navigating this year's racial political challenges as a showman in today’s climate. This wellness break is free and open to all UM students, staff and faculty. Register: https://myumi.ch/2DbVG

From his start performing simple coin tricks on the streets of Philly, to America’s Got Talent (Semi-Finalist), Penn and Teller (he beat them), and Masters of Illusion, Eric did it all with a few coins and these brilliantly crafted routines. Eric teaches methods, nuances and theory for creating magic that resonates deeply with the people watching it. He gives you coin magic that, for the first time ever, translates as well on stage as it does in person. Whether it’s an audience of 1 person or 1 million, he teaches the skills required to take your coin magic to a level you never thought.

#FunnyAsHAIL is sponsored by the student organizations Here Earning a Destiny (H.E.A.D.S) and Support for Incoming Black Students (S.I.B.S.) along with U-M Library and in partnership with the My Brothers Empowerment Series.

*This event will not be recorded.

For the best experience please be sure to;
1. Have the latest version of Zoom installed on their device.
2. Feel free to turn your cameras on so you can interact with Eric and participate in the show/ conversation.
3. Be sure to watch in speaker view.
4. Eric will teach a magic trick with a regular deck of cards. If you want to follow along, be sure to have a deck near you. It doesn't have to be a full/complete deck.
5. Try to watch from a laptop or desktop. It is preferred over mobile devices for a magic show so you don't miss a THING!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:13:00 -0400 2021-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The Magic Of Eric Jones
Opening Night - rEVOLUTION: Transformation (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83219 83219-21314488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Please join SAPAC's SEAS (Survivor Empowerment and Ally Support) Program for the opening night of the 16th annual art show rEVOLUTION: Transformation on Thursday, April 1st from 7-8:30 pm via Zoom, featuring themes of gender, sexism, sexualized violence, empowerment, healing, and growth!

The event will include featured artists as well as a discussion of the project and a detailed description of how to navigate the virtual website.

Register here: tinyurl.com/rEVRegistration

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Well-being Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:43:34 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being Text reading "Revolution: Transformation" next to a butterfly emerging from a cocoon
Reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83156 83156-21282858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

The Arab & Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan (AMAS), Hikayat, the Spectrum Center, and Arab Heritage Month (AHM) are partnering to host a reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar! Zeyn will be reading from his new book Thirty Names of Night & answering your questions!

Visit http://www.zeynjoukhadar.com to learn more about Zeyn's work.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:37:31 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS, HIKAYAT & ANAM PRESENT
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 2, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-02T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury (April 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82620 82620-21147746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, Anthony Mora, Associate Professor of History and Interim Director of Latina/o Studies, will consider the decisions that Disney producers made during the production of the widely popular 1950s television show Zorro. As had been the case with the iconic character since his creation in 1919, setting the action in Southern California inevitably raised questions about prevailing racial assumptions and the meaning of the United States' Mexican past. Widely popular among children, Zorro concealed more secrets than just his identity.

Register here: tinyurl.com/ZorroLatinxSuperhero

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:17:44 -0500 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury
Lecture & Panel: Deanna Van Buren, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS) (April 6, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82205 82205-21052540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Deanna Van Buren is the Executive Director, Design Director, and Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit building infrastructure to end mass incarceration. As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the U.S, Deanna is committed to racial equity in the built environment and is a national thought leader in advocating for alternative spaces for justice, including restorative justice centers and mobile resource villages. Van Buren’s most recent notable projects with her team include Restore Oakland, a campus for restorative justice and restorative economics in Oakland, California, and the reimagining of the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity. Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.

Following her lecture, Deanna will join for a short panel discussion around racist structures embedded in the nonprofit sector and how they are impacted by community infrastructure:

Matthew Countryman, U-M Department of Afroamerican & African Studies
Yodit Mesfin Johnson, NEW Center
Jessica Letaw, Building Matters Ann Arbor
Moderated by Anya Sirota, U-M Taubman College

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:00:23 -0500 2021-04-06T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion DJDS Event
Animal Rights: A WeListen Staff Discussion (April 6, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82956 82956-21227225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members across the political spectrum.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLApril21

We will discuss the history of animal rights in the U.S., and animals as food sources and the impact on climate change. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:13:59 -0500 2021-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen April 2021
Anti-Asian Violence and the LGBTQ+ Community (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83275 83275-21330360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This panel will consist of Queer Asian individuals who will talk about the more visible increase in anti-Asian violence. It is important for the LGBTQ community to dialogue about and to take actions addressing in-community racism and anti-racism efforts in the broader society. With the rise anti-Asian violence highlighted in the media, this panel will discuss their personal experiences being Asians in the LGBTQ+ community and calls to action supporting Asian communities experiencing harm.

The panelists are:
Arielle Chen, B.A. (she/her) from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
K. Ian Shin, PhD. (he/him) from the Asian / Pacific Islander American Studies program
Grace Sekulidis, MSW (she/her), an alumnx from UM
Anooshka Gupta (she/her), an LSA student

The moderator will be Mark Chung Kwan Fan, M.A. (he/him), from the Spectrum Center.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:29:16 -0400 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event information alongside headshots of the four panelists and moderator.
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82975 82975-21233240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/E30vd

In this virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. For this session, Dr. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera will discuss his recent research in Puerto Rico, including an innovative outreach initiative to assist Puerto Rican artists in the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma. Participants can learn about this research ahead of the session by visiting the Mellon Foundation blog: https://mellon.org/shared-experiences-blog/after-storm/

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is chair of the Department of Performance Studies and the Department of Theatre in the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and was recently appointed as the next dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on 20th and 21st Century performance in North America and the Caribbean with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are negotiated across national borders through migratory circuits of circulation and exchange. His work documents a wide array of performance practices ranging from theatre and concert dance to social dance, popular music, fashion, and speech.

He is author of *Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics* (University of Michigan Press, 2012), a study of the role performance played in the development of Latina/o queer publics in the United States from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.

He is currently completing a book manuscript, *Reggaetón’s Queer Turn: Sexuality, Abstraction, and Contemporary Art in the Circum-Caribbean*, which pursues feminist and queer uptakes of the popular music and dance cultures of reggaetón in circum-Caribbean contemporary art to theorize the role of black aesthetics in the sexual cultural politics of the Spanish speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. He is also conducting fieldwork and archival research towards two other projects: *Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museum Cultures, and the Live Event*, which looks at the ways race has been collected and exhibited in North America and the Caribbean since the mid-1990s and *Choreographing the Latina/o Post-Modern: Puerto Rican Moves in the New York Dance Avant-Garde*, a cultural history of Puerto Rican participation in the New York City experimental dance scene since the 1980s.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:09:33 -0500 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Rivera-Servera Headshot
Social Justice Changemaker Lecture: Creating Social Change Through Film and Music: Do the Right Thing! (April 7, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83225 83225-21314504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

As part of the centennial celebration, Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard will headline the new Social Justice Changemaker Lecture Series. Stories have the power to stimulate conversation, change opinion and inspire people to action. Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard will share how to introduce new audiences to social justice through film, music and art.

Spike Lee is an award-winning writer, director, actor, producer and author who revolutionized the role of Black talent in cinema. Widely regarded as a premiere filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the “do it yourself” school of independent film. Lee received an honorary degree from U-M in 2011.

Terence Blanchard is a jazz trumpeter, composer and music educator. He is a frequent collaborator with Spike Lee. He is nominated for a 2021 Academy Award for the score from “Da 5 Bloods.” Blanchard holds an endowed chair with the Detroit Symphony.

“You get to a certain age when you ask, ‘Who’s going to stand up and speak out for us?’ Then you look around and realize that the James Baldwins, Muhammad Alis and Dr. Kings are no longer here...and begin to understand that it falls on you. I’m not trying to say I’m here to try to correct the whole thing, I’m just trying to speak the truth,” says Blanchard.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:06:26 -0400 2021-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 8, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-08T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Storytelling for Social Justice (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82050 82050-21012685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Storytelling — listening to the stories of others and sharing one’s own stories — builds a foundation for human interaction. Telling others how we got here and why we care about an issue builds connection, allows us to share our values, and creates meaning. The art of public narrative is used in all aspects of social work practice — from helping our clients rewrite the stories they tell themselves, to helping communities and groups galvanize social change, to helping policy makers and politicians tell a “story of self” while creating a “story of us.” Join us for a discussion featuring Aaron Foley, former chief storyteller for the City of Detroit and current professor of journalism at New York University; Eric Thomas, current chief storyteller for the City of Detroit; and Jessica Care Moore, Detroit poet, activist and author.
RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W210

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:47:23 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Storytelling for Social Justice
Pathways for Bipartisanship with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell & Fred Upton (April 8, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83464 83464-21383599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join us the afternoon of April 8th at 3:00 PM for two congressional updates and Q&A sessions with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI 12th District) and Fred Upton (R-MI 6th District).

During this virtual event, Representative Upton will provide an update on his priorities for Michigan, including his work in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Representative Dingell will also provide an update on her concurrent work on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Natural Resources. In this joint panel, both representatives will discuss present opportunities to work across the aisle in bipartisan decision-making among the current political vitriol and economic climate. Students will be given the opportunity to ask questions to both speakers on issues of bipartisanship, their joint efforts in the House, their commitment to their constituents in Michigan, and future opportunities for collaboration and compromise.

This event will be held virtually on April 8th at 3:00pm ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the zoom link and information will be sent to your email. Please contact msolom@umich.edu if you have any additional questions.

Register at: https://linktr.ee/umichcsg

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell, U.S. House of Representatives
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell represents the 12th District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before being elected to Congress, Debbie was the Chair of the Wayne State University (WSU) Board of Governors. An active civic and community leader, she is a recognized national advocate for women and children. For more than 30 years Debbie served one of Michigan’s largest employers, the General Motors (GM) Corporation, where she was President of the GM Foundation and a senior executive responsible for public affairs. In her commitment to job creation, Debbie led the effort to bring the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a $20 million partnership designed to help create jobs and economic growth, to southeast Michigan. She is a past chair of the Manufacturing Initiative at the American Automotive Policy Council. Debbie resides in Dearborn. She holds both a B.S.F.S. in Foreign Services and an M.S. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University.

Speaker Bio:
U.S. Representative Fred Upton, U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman Fred Upton is proud to represent the common-sense values of Southwest Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District. A diverse section of the state that stretches from the shores of Lake Michigan, the Sixth District is home to key industries that range from agriculture to auto parts manufacturing to high-tech biomedical innovation centers. It includes all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren counties, and most of Allegan County. Prior to his election to Congress, Fred worked for President Ronald Reagan in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). While at OMB, he learned from President Reagan’s example that it does not matter who gets the credit, as long as the job gets done. That has been Fred’s approach since he was first elected to Congress in 1986 and continues today. Fred holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. He and his wife, Amey, have two adult children.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:10:29 -0400 2021-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Livestream / Virtual
Launching Your Ship (April 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80485 80485-20728303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP online here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/launching-your-ship

In this workshop, Woods will share experiences in creatively tackling problems and experiencing the joys of coalition building. Participants will be encouraged to think about how they approach situations where the ship they are in seems to be stuck in a port and is not going anywhere. Stuck in racism? Stuck in sexism? Stuck in certain social classes? What do you need to make your ship sail? Will a new captain do it? Or, should you be the “Captain of your own fate?” Do you need a new destination? Are you bored with the direction you have been going? Are you going in circles? Do you need new perspectives, new shipmates? Have you outgrown the mundane, xenophobic habits of those in your circle? How can you develop healthy habits to move your life and community forward? Short, interactive activities will assist each participant in using the ship metaphor to move forward in their life.

An integral part of the Inspire initiative is pairing advocacy, social change, and activism with skills that enhance a sense of wellbeing, focus, and interconnectedness. A short guided Mindfulness Meditation practice will be incorporated into the program.

Wendy Ann Woods served the citizens of Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2007 as City Councilwoman. She is a strong advocate for affordable housing, a vibrant downtown, a balanced budget, a living wage ordinance, and corporate social responsibility. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry Management and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Policy and Management at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Woods is the associate director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP), a nationally recognized living-learning program at the U-M that focuses on social justice, community service, diversity, and civic engagement. She also teaches a seminar for the students in MCSP, is a member of the Association of Black Professionals, Faculty, Administrators, and Staff at U-M, and serves on the advisory board for the University Outreach Council.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:27:43 -0500 2021-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 9, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-09T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 9, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-09T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Loving Our Planet Like We Should Love Each Other (April 9, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82372 82372-21084380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab

A student-organized symposium to help our community learn about how climate change impacts people with disabilities

Featuring:
Sarah Young Bear-Brown (Meskwaki Nation)
Izzy Laderman (Disability Awareness Around Climate Change)
Rafi Darrow (Sins Invalid)
Teddy Dorsette III (Detroit Disability Power)

Production Team:
Def Lens Media

This event is being organized by first year students in Linguistics 102 Deafness & Disability v. Climate, Contagion, and Capital.

ASL-English interpreting and CART captions will be provided. Please contact Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) if you have any additional access needs.

Registration: tinyurl.com/DisabilityClimateCrisis

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:19:42 -0400 2021-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab Conference / Symposium Event flyer - screen reader-friendly PDF available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pRGzh-k3qma1MFjvkMlqmEyCcyabEQXK/view?usp=sharing
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 10, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-10T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 11, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-11T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 12, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
The Rainbow Coat Panel (April 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83616 83616-21438454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Please join the Spectrum Center for the first of a hopefully annual event, The Rainbow Coat Panel! This event is meant to open a community-wide intersectional discussion regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. The panelists include:

Trevor Bechtel, Student Engagement Coordinator at Poverty Solutions (he/him);
Jessie Fullenkamp, UM Alumna and Education and Evaluation Director at the Ruth Ellis Center (she/her);
Jay Hash, former Spectrum Center Student Staff Member (they/them);
Samuel Ramirez-Morales, a current undergraduate student in LSA (he/him)

A huge thank you to our collaborators for this event from Poverty Solutions at UM and the Ruth Ellis Center. You can learn more about these organizations and their work at https://poverty.umich.edu and https://ruthelliscenter.org respectively.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:12:04 -0400 2021-04-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion This event aims to open an intersectional dialogue regarding first-generation and low-income queer and trans* students' experiences. Co-sponsored by the Spectrum Center, Poverty Solutions at UM, and the Ruth Ellis Center.
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 13, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83622 83622-21440409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Featuring Donele Wilkins (CEO, Green Door Initiative, Detroit) and Kathryn Savoie (Detroit Community Health Director, Ecology Center) with welcome and introductions by Amy Schulz (Professor HBHE, UM SPH). https://umich.zoom.us/j/91685410400

Final in this Series: April 20 "Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit".

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:05:04 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Environmental Racism & Environmental Justice
The Gender Consciousness Project presents the 6th Annual Gender Consciousness Symposium (April 13, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83738 83738-21485465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

April 17 and April 18
9-11 a.m.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:26:42 -0400 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T14:00:00-04:00 Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Flyer for GCP event
Bystander Intervention Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events (April 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83577 83577-21430604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC's BICE (Bystander Intervention & Community Engagement) Program in learning more this Sexual Assault Awareness Month!


April 13, 2021, 7:30pm: A talk with Nicole Bedera on Bystander Intervention.

Nicole is interested in gender and sexuality with an emphasis on college sexual violence. Her dissertation, "Settling for Less: How Organizations Shape the Experience of Sexual Assault," is an organizational ethnography of one university's management of sexual violence, including observation and interviews of survivors, perpetrators, and university administrators. She has also studied queer women's experiences of sexual assault, undergraduate men's attitudes toward campus sexual violence prevention, and gendering of university sexual violence prevention materials.


April 14, 2021, 8pm: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, A Screening and Discussion

This film follows lawyer Anita Hill who testifies against Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination, exposing the problem of sexual harassment around the world. It also follows Hill after the testimony as she continues to raise awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace.


Register for one or both events here: tinyurl.com/BICESAAM

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Well-being Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:22:34 -0400 2021-04-13T19:30:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being BICE Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 14, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-14T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Food Literacy for All Session #2 (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83143 83143-21280851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. In this second session in the series we will be joined by Mónica Ramírez and Navina Khanna who will discuss how we can "Organize" for a more equitable, sustainable food system.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:10:57 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual flyer
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network.

She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement. http://gracelee.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
Bystander Intervention Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events (April 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83577 83577-21430605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC's BICE (Bystander Intervention & Community Engagement) Program in learning more this Sexual Assault Awareness Month!


April 13, 2021, 7:30pm: A talk with Nicole Bedera on Bystander Intervention.

Nicole is interested in gender and sexuality with an emphasis on college sexual violence. Her dissertation, "Settling for Less: How Organizations Shape the Experience of Sexual Assault," is an organizational ethnography of one university's management of sexual violence, including observation and interviews of survivors, perpetrators, and university administrators. She has also studied queer women's experiences of sexual assault, undergraduate men's attitudes toward campus sexual violence prevention, and gendering of university sexual violence prevention materials.


April 14, 2021, 8pm: Anita: Speaking Truth to Power, A Screening and Discussion

This film follows lawyer Anita Hill who testifies against Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination, exposing the problem of sexual harassment around the world. It also follows Hill after the testimony as she continues to raise awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace.


Register for one or both events here: tinyurl.com/BICESAAM

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Well-being Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:22:34 -0400 2021-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being BICE Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Coded Bias "At the Movies" Panel Discussion (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83580 83580-21430624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

Join a panel of U-M experts over Zoom for an "At the Movies" style discussion of the film Coded Bias. The panelists will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society. Panelists include:
- Nazanin Andalibi, assistant professor of information, School of Information; assistant professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
- Mingyan Liu, Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Nicholson Price, professor of law, Law School
- Grace Trinidad (moderator), Ethics, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Health

AVAILABLE PRIOR TO THE DISCUSSION
To be better informed prior to the Coded Bias panel discussion, be sure to take time to watch a free screening of the film between April 8 and April 14. More information is available at https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

Add the panel discussion to your Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MWZjMnFtNmw0MzN2MDk0cmRyaHQ4b3VpMTggdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:13 -0400 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Panel Discussion on the film Coded Bias
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 16, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about your application? Want to talk to a SiD alum about their experience in the program? Looking for more information on SiD in Covid? Stop by our office hours to chat with Prospective Students Coordinator Natalie Suh! Office hours are weekly from 10:30-11:30am. If you cannot make it during that time, email Natalie at nhsuh@umich.edu to set up another time to talk.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-16T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
The Gender Consciousness Project presents the 6th Annual Gender Consciousness Symposium (April 17, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83738 83738-21485463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

April 17 and April 18
9-11 a.m.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:26:42 -0400 2021-04-17T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-17T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Flyer for GCP event
The Gender Consciousness Project presents the 6th Annual Gender Consciousness Symposium (April 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83738 83738-21485464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

April 17 and April 18
9-11 a.m.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:26:42 -0400 2021-04-18T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Flyer for GCP event
Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality & Health in Detroit (April 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83634 83634-21446267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Join us on Zoom as we discuss 'Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments: Research to Improve Air Quality and Health in Detroit' featuring Angela Reyes (Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation), Stuart Batterman (Environmental Health Sciences, UM SPH), and Amy Schulz (Health Behavior & Health Education, UM SPH). (Rescheduled from Feb 9.)

https://umich.zoom.us/j/96155698295

Webinar series organized by the Community Engagement Core and the Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD). Co-sponsored by the DEI Committee of Health Behavior & Health Education and the DEI Committee of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:08:12 -0400 2021-04-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T12:50:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments in Detroit
One Thousand & One Journeys: The Arab Americans - Discussion with filmmaker (April 20, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83806 83806-21534271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) Social Connectivity & Community Engagement for a free virtual screening  of "ONE THOUSAND & ONE JOURNEYS: THE ARAB AMERICANS" and dialogue on Activism, Advocacy and Allyship with film director Abe Kasbo. A zoom watch party and discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m. with the film's executive producer and director who will share the untold story of almost 200 years of the contributions of those who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf have made to the American fabric. A zoom link for the discussion after registration in a separate email. Access only available for U-M students, staff, and faculty.

ABOUT THE FILM

“Arab-Americans have proudly ventured beyond their ethnicity, language and religion to make noteworthy contributions to both the immigrant experience and ultimately the American experience. They served this nation with significant contributions throughout the spectrum of society – as politicians and public servants, entertainers, physicians, business leaders, and educators. It is this extraordinary and uniquely American story of people and places that must be told.” Abe Kasbo, filmmaker.A Thousand And One Journeys: The film vividly paints a portrait of the Arab-American immigrant experience through the stories of people who, like all Americans, immigrated in pursuit of the American Dream, including Senator George Mitchell, Jamie Farr, General John Abizaid, Anthony Shadid, Helen Thomas and more. With historical immigration patterns as background, the film explores the personal stories of Arab-Americans and how they have contributed to the collective American experience. At a time when the media tends to paint Arab peoples and culture with the broad brush of terrorism, it is increasingly important to present a positive image of the many people of Middle Eastern, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula who have made America their home, and highlight their American journey as an important part of the larger American Experience.As the Arab-American community increasingly finds itself in the media and public spotlight, now is the time to present a positive image of Arab-Americans and the diversity of their contributions, experiences, backgrounds and faith.

ABOUT THE FILM SERIES

“Activism is inherently a creative endeavor. It takes a radical imagination to be an activist, to envision a world that is not there. It takes imagination and that’s not far from art.” - Ava DuVernayMESA’s social connectivity and CCI hope to generate thought provoking discussion, engagement around advocacy, activism and allyship this semester by presenting a series of films huddled around these topics, areas that we believe require critical and intentional reflection year round. Each film presentation will conclude with a discussion from students, professionals, and artists familiar with the themes presented throughout the series and in the film. Each film and discussion will be available virtually and will take place the third Tuesday each month at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are available through MUTO for each film. (2/16 - Just Mercy, 3/16 - Hidden Figures, 4/20 - One Thousand Journeys: The Arab-Americans).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:58:50 -0400 2021-04-20T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual
Earth Day: Get to Know Ann Arbor CCL (April 22, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83787 83787-21516705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

For #EarthDay, take action to help #RestoreOurEarth!

Join our Get to Know Ann Arbor CCL session to learn about the work Citizens' Climate Lobby does to avert the climate crisis and find out how to get involved.

This is an informal, no pressure session to meet a few of our active volunteers, ask any questions you have, and explore opportunities for getting involved.

Register in advance to receive the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvde2vqjsvEtBDEMbIN-0HwvJ45JJjK7G5

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:02:15 -0400 2021-04-22T19:30:00-04:00 2021-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual graphic with leaves, CCL logo, and title, date and time of event
PROTEST: Justice for Daunté Wright (April 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83789 83789-21524504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Association of Black Social Work Students

The University of Michigan has ignored police brutality and systemic racism for too long! Join the protest to hold them accountable. We will be creating shirts on-site, please bring a shirt to participate. We will be meeting in the Diag then the march will continue throughout campus.

Purpose

The unjust and unnecessary death of Daunté Wright is one of the most recent examples of how systemic racism has claimed the life of yet another Black person. We, the School of Social Work Community, are responding to this national, pervasive problem by saying “enough is enough,” and we need to make system-level change in our own sphere of influence. The University of Michigan must urgently move towards system-level changes by promoting more anti-racist practices and policies in our community. The University of Michigan, with its abundance of resources, should also be taking concrete actions to support the family and loved ones of Daunté Wright and the countless others who have lost someone to police brutality.

Justice for Daunté Wright looks like supporting his family as they deal with this traumatic loss; it looks like respecting his life enough to call his death a murder, not an accident. Justice for Daunté Wright looks like holding the police officer who murdered him fully accountable, and, more broadly, it looks like working to dismantle the systemic problems that lead to police brutality. While it is easy to point to implicit bias or a lack of training, the root cause of police terrorism and other systems that disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations is hatred in the form of racism. Unfortunately, higher education is a system steeped in racism as well. Many BIPOC students are harmed while pursuing their education, and many White students move through their educational experience without learning how they are perpetuating oppression. These problems impact students, faculty, and staff.

As students in the School of Social Work, we have identified many ways that our school harms our BIPOC community members, and we know similar problems exist throughout the University. Similarly, we have identified many missed opportunities to prepare students to exit the University with the skills and knowledge to be anti-racist and disrupt cycles of harm. These are the ways systemic racism continues, and this is part of the reason we fail to make meaningful progress on complex issues like police brutality.

We demand that the University of Michigan uses its power as a leading university to take immediate action to support Daunté Wright’s family. We demand that the School of Social Work take direct action to dismantle systemic racism in our community. We demand the University broadly considers how the issues that exist in the microcosm of the School of Social Work exist University-wide. We demand that the University of Michigan and School of Social Work adopt intentional practices to counteract the harm imposed on the BIPOC Community. Enough is enough!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:43:49 -0400 2021-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Association of Black Social Work Students Rally / Mass Meeting Justice for Daunté Wright protest flyer
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Promoting Gender Equity in the Professions: What Can We Learn from Academic Medicine? (May 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80490 80490-20730263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP to receive Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/cewinspire-workshop-promoting-gender-equity-in-the-professions-what-can-we-learn-from-academic-medicine

Presenter: Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, CEW+ 2020 Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity & Social Change Award Winner

This session will provide an overview of the presenter’s journey to study the promotion of gender equity in medicine. Dr. Reshma Jagsi will discuss in detail the evidence that her research team and others have gathered to demonstrate the impact of the differential challenges that women in medicine face (unconscious biases, gendered expectations of society, and overt discrimination and harassment) and their evidence-based recommendations regarding: 

- how advocacy can lead both to the development of beneficial pipeline programs and policies governing work-life integration;
- the cultural transformation efforts of national organizations (like AAMC, NIH, the National Academies, and TIME'S UP Healthcare) to promote gender equity and discourage sexual harassment; and
- using social media to build communities where individuals might once have been isolated as "the only" one of their demographic characteristics before.

Following this, Dr. Jagsi will moderate a panel of four esteemed colleagues from the medical school, Dr. Dana Telem, Dr. Eve Kerr, Dr. Jack Iwashyna, and Dr. Timothy Johnson. They will have an interactive discussion of insights that can be applied from their experiences in medicine to inform efforts to promote equity in the professions more generally.

Format:

An important starting point within this workshop will be an examination of our own culture and identity journey, utilizing Milner’s (2010) Culture of Power framework to engage participants in small group discussion before larger themes are brought back to the larger group – issues related to educational disparities that originate within society when students are young, yet lead into many of the inequities that are still highly visible within higher education.

In addition, an integral part of the Inspire initiative is pairing advocacy, social change, and activism with skills that enhance a sense of wellbeing, focus and interconnectedness. A short guided Mindfulness Meditation practice will be incorporated into the program.

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil., is the Newman Family Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. An internationally recognized clinical trialist and health services researcher in the field of breast cancer, Dr. Jagsi has co-authored over 300 publications. She has also devoted a substantial portion of her service to the institution and her scholarly effort to promoting gender equity in academic medicine. She is a frequently invited lecturer on this subject, having delivered keynote or plenary talks at the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Medical Association, and for dozens of other institutions and medical specialty organizations in the US and abroad. Her investigations of women’s under-representation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity have been funded by an NIH R01 grant and grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, AMA, and other philanthropic funders. Active in organized medicine, she has served on the Steering Committee of the AAMC’s Group on Women in Medicine in Science, which recently recognized her with its Leadership Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:10:09 -0500 2021-05-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Anote's Ark - Film Screening and Panel Discussion (May 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83540 83540-21409116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), in partnership with the CCL Asian Pacific Action Team, are pleased to host a virtual screening of the award-winning films, Anote’s Ark and Love Note to an Island. We invite you to view the films in the comfort of your home, then participate in an online panel discussion with filmmaker, Lulu DeBoer, and returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Kiribati, Brady Fergusson and Dr. Michael Roman.

For complete details on viewing the film and joining the panel discussion, click on the Eventbrite Registration link.

Optional: we invite our attendees to help support the people of Kiribati by making a donation to the Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN) through our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-submerging-island

About the films:

Anote’s Ark: The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s former President Anote Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many Kiribati are already seeking safe harbor overseas. Set against the backdrop of international climate and human rights negotiations, Anote’s struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the fate of Tiemeri, a young mother who fights to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake is the survival of Tiemeri’s family, the Kiribati people, and 4,000 years of Kiribati culture.
Love Note to an Island: This moving short film by Lulu DeBoer shows her visiting her home island of Kiribati for the first time in over 20 years, only to find that climate change will soon wash it away. But instead of despair, the love and hope of the country spurs her on to find solutions to adapt

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Film Screening Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:12:22 -0400 2021-05-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-23T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening photo of the island nation of Kiribati
George Floyd Remembrance and Reflection for Victims of Law Enforcement Violence (May 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84103 84103-21620249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

- Opening Remarks by Robert M. Sellers, Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer
- Soon Ah Will Be Done performed on the carillon by Tiffany Ng, Assistant Professor, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
- Denne Lawton, Program Coordinator for Children on Campus at the University of Michigan
- Photo/video montage as part of a nine-minute and 29 second moment of silence and reflection

Watch: https://myumi.ch/bvgy5

Sponsored by: The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Women of Color Task Force, LSA Center for Social Solutions, Organizational Learning, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, and Black Medical Association.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 May 2021 14:43:07 -0400 2021-05-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Livestream / Virtual candle
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84044 84044-21619676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Student-athletes represent a distinguished population of resilient and high-performing individuals. However, for student-athletes of color, winning often requires them to also defeat the mighty foe of racism.

In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, this Community Conversation will include a panel of mental health experts who work with student-athletes as they center racism as a mental health crisis, address the impact of racial trauma on the mental and physical well-being of student-athletes of color, and offer recommendations for healing and supporting this unique population of students.

Please join us for this conversation to learn how you may be a ‘player' in this game! Open to student-athletes of color and all who support them.

Moderator:
Ketra L. Armstrong, PhD
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (C-RAES)

Panelists:
-- Caroline Brackette, PhD, Counselor, Assistant Dean, Associate Professor, Mercer University
-- Abigail Eiler, LMSW, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan Athletics, Chair, Big Ten Mental Health Cabinet
-- Wilsa Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, Sports Psychiatrist, Registrant US Olympic, and Paralympic Committee Mental Health Registry
-- Kweku Ramel Smith, PhD, LP, Senior Clinical and Sport Psychologist
University of Wisconsin
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This event is free. Register at https://bit.ly/StudentAthleteMentalHealth
Event flyer: https://myumi.ch/O4wdE
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Part of the Steve Fund Community Conversations (https://stevefund.org/community-conversations/)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport (https://kines.umich.edu/C-RAES)

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 13 May 2021 14:03:45 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Livestream / Virtual ‘Minding’ My Body: Race, Mental Health and Student-Athletes of Color
Race - The Power of an Illusion (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Gallery Talk: Muslim Feminist Futures (June 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84101 84101-21620247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This webinar/​virtual gallery talk will explore the work of Mus­lim women at the fore of feminism’s future. Arts & Cul­ture Orga­nizer Piper Carter, U.S. Attor­ney for the East­ern Dis­trict of Michi­gan Saima Mohsin, and Con­gress­woman Rashida Tlaib will sit down for a con­ver­sa­tion, mod­er­ated by Halal Metrop­o­lis cura­tor Sally How­ell, on emerg­ing lead­er­ship in the Mus­lim com­mu­nity of South­east Michigan.

This event is in conjunction with Halal Metrop­o­lis, an exhi­bi­tion on view for MCard-holders only at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.), May 28-July 17, 2021.

Organized by artist and Stamps School of Art & Design professor Osman Khan, pho­tog­ra­pher Razi Jafri, and his­to­rian Sally How­ell, explores the facts, fic­tions, and imag­i­nar­ies of the Mus­lim population(s) in Detroit and South­east Michi­gan as viewed through his­tor­i­cal research, doc­u­men­ta­tion of cur­rent con­di­tions, and explo­rations of future desires.

Stamps events are free and open to the pub­lic, and we are com­mit­ted to mak­ing them acces­si­ble to all atten­dees. This event will be online using the Zoom plat­form with an auto-gen­er­ated Live Tran­script avail­able. Ques­tions may be asked using the Q&A fea­ture on Zoom. If you antic­i­pate need­ing any addi­tional accom­mo­da­tions to par­tic­i­pate, please email asbaban@​umich.​edu at least one week in advance of the sched­uled event so we can arrange for your accom­mo­da­tion or an effec­tive alter­na­tive. After receiv­ing your request, our team will fol­low up with you directly. This event can also be live streamed on the Halal Metrop­o­lis and Stamps School of Art & Design Face­book pages.

Halal Metropolis is pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan-Dearborn’s Cen­ter for Arab Amer­i­can Stud­ies (CAAS), with sup­port from the Knight Foun­da­tion, the Doris Duke Foun­da­tion, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the El-Hibri Foun­da­tion, the Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion of SE Michi­gan, and the Michi­gan Human­i­ties Council.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:06:43 -0400 2021-06-03T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion A mural on the side of Sheeba restaurant shows a woman wearing hijab, with the logo for Halal Metropolis superimposed on the image.
Crucial Conversations for Societal Change: Reflection, Research & Resolve (June 4, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84131 84131-21620332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Public Engagement & Impact

U-M leadership, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students will gather on June 4 to explore and reflect on the progress that has been made and the many problems that still plague the world today related to racism, violence, and inequality, since the original Conversation for Societal Change dialogue nearly one year ago.

Moderated by Katrina Wade-Golden, deputy chief diversity officer, panelists President Mark Schlissel; Eddie Washington, Jr., Executive Director of the Division of Public Safety and Security; Earl Lewis, University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy, director of the Center for Social Solutions, and co-chair of the Advancing Public Safety at the University of Michigan Task Force; and Rebecca Cunningham, Vice President for Research will also be joined by representatives from the U-M graduate and undergraduate communities.

Join this constructive and crucial conversation about race, law enforcement, protest and reform at 1pm on June 4 via Zoom or YouTube.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:25:42 -0400 2021-06-04T13:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Public Engagement & Impact Livestream / Virtual Crucial Conversations for Societal Change: Year 2: Reflection, Research & Resolve
Gallery Talk: Campus Campaigns (June 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84186 84186-21620710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This webinar/​virtual gallery talk will focus on the work of Mus­lim stu­dent activists at the Uni­veristy of Michi­gan-Ann Arbor. Anis Rah­man, Jumanah Saadeh, and Zeina Reda will sit down for a con­ver­sa­tion, mod­er­ated by Halal Metrop­o­lis Project Man­ager Asma Baban, on the power of stu­dent activism within the uni­ver­sity sys­tem, the role of stu­dent lead­ers, and the spe­cific cam­paigns that ani­mate their col­lab­o­ra­tions on campus.

The Halal Metrop­o­lis exhi­bi­tion, by artist Osman Khan, pho­tog­ra­pher Razi Jafri, and his­to­rian Sally How­ell, explores the facts, fic­tions, and imag­i­nar­ies of the Mus­lim population(s) in Detroit and South­east Michi­gan as viewed through his­tor­i­cal research, doc­u­men­ta­tion of cur­rent con­di­tions, and explo­rations of future desires. The Halal Metrop­o­lis is one where Mus­lims prac­tice their faith freely and con­tribute to soci­ety with all of their tal­ents and com­mit­ments. It is cre­ated dia­log­i­cally and requires Mus­lims to be vis­i­ble to one another and to non-Mus­lims. It encour­ages Mus­lims to orga­nize and speak as believ­ers, cit­i­zens, and artists.

Stamps events are free and open to the pub­lic, and we are com­mit­ted to mak­ing them acces­si­ble to all atten­dees. This event will be online using the Zoom plat­form with an auto-gen­er­ated Live Tran­script avail­able. Ques­tions may be asked using the Q&A fea­ture on Zoom. If you antic­i­pate need­ing any addi­tional accom­mo­da­tions to par­tic­i­pate, please email asbaban@​umich.​edu at least one week in advance of the sched­uled event so we can arrange for your accom­mo­da­tion or an effec­tive alter­na­tive. After receiv­ing your request, our team will fol­low up with you directly. This event can also be live streamed on Halal Metrop­o­lis and Stamps Gallery’s Face­book pages, @halalmetropolis and @umstamps.

This exhi­bi­tion is pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan-Dearborn’s Cen­ter for Arab Amer­i­can Stud­ies (CAAS), with sup­port from the Knight Foun­da­tion, the Doris Duke Foun­da­tion, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the El-Hibri Foun­da­tion, the Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion of SE Michi­gan, and the Michi­gan Human­i­ties Council.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:10:28 -0400 2021-06-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion Halal Metropolis mural
Get to Know Ann Arbor CCL (June 24, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83788 83788-21623320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

Ann Arbor Citizens' Climate Lobby is the local chapter of a national organization advocating for federal legislation to tackle climate change. Would you like to know more about our work and how you can get involved? Join our casual drop-in session to meet a few members of our chapter, learn about our group, and ask questions. All are welcome and able to contribute - you don't need to be an expert!

Sign up here to get the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-qprj0tH9KSaA4ZrxlTf2UR9L9pvUpL

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Livestream / Virtual Sun, 20 Jun 2021 10:11:18 -0400 2021-06-24T19:30:00-04:00 2021-06-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Livestream / Virtual photo of coffee cup and computer with zoom meeting