Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Unearthing Tulsa: 100 Years Later, a conversation with Brent Staples, Fred Conrad, and Scott Ellsworth (May 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83757 83757-21493279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Maybe you’ve heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre. It was one of the most horrific examples of white supremacist terrorism in the history of the United States and knowledge of the event was actively suppressed for over fifty years. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, the Massacre saw the murder of hundreds of Black residents of the Greenwood neighborhood—a bustling and vibrant community known then as Black Wall Street—and more than one-thousand homes and businesses burned to the ground.

As we approach the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we invite you to revisit a moment in 1999 when the New York Times Magazine published Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Brent Staples' article "Unearthing a Riot," which was the most significant national media coverage of the event at the time. Portraits of survivors made by renowned photojournalist and U-M alumnus Fred Conrad accompanied this important essay. In this program, Staples and Conrad will be joined by U-M professor, best-selling author, and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of newly published book The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, who will facilitate a conversation that will expand our understanding of what has been involved in making the history of Tulsa more visible and, by extension, illuminating the ever-present reality of racial terror and the resiliency of Black communities in our country.

Also featuring an introduction by Matthew Countryman, chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and a Q&A facilitated by Jennifer Friess, UMMA associate curator of photography.

This program will be livestreamed on YouTube at 4 p.m. on May 17. No registration required.   Brent Staples, an editorial writer for The New York Times, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He is the author of the memoir Parallel Time and holds a Phd in Psychology from The University of Chicago.

Fred Conrad is a photographer specializing in photojournalism and portraiture. He holds his BFA in Photography from the University of Michigan and has made photographs for prestigious and far reaching news organizations such as Sygma, Time Magazine, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine and The New York Times. 

Born and raised in Tulsa, Scott Ellsworth has been writing about the Tulsa race massacre for forty-five years. His forthcoming book, The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, will be published on May 18, 2021. Ellsworth teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

The Ground Breaking: an American City and its Search for Justice​ will be available for sale through the UMMA Shop (please call 734-647-0521), Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, and Blackstone Bookstore in Ypsilanti. It will also be available through the Ann Arbor District Library. 

For more information, visit umma.umich.edu/unearthing-tulsa.

This program is presented by UMMA as part of our ongoing commitment to anti-racist action, and organized in collaboration with the Museum’s longtime partner professor Scott Ellsworth and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies with support from Wallace House, the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ann Arbor District Library, Blackstone Bookstore, and Literati Bookstore.

Visit Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism for a current exhibition that also takes up untold stories of the historical erasure of Black Americans and explores photography’s role in making visible people and histories that have been actively suppressed. 

 

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Other Mon, 17 May 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-17T17:20:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Curator’s Choice: Provenance Research and Repatriation to African Communities (May 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84092 84092-21619989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/provenance-research-and-repatriation-to-african-communities-tickets-152584595633.

Repatriation, provenance, and collaboration with community partners are among the pressing issues facing museums with collections of African objects. These conversations have entered public discourse through discussions of the objects looted from Benin City in 1897. Yet, questions of African collections extend beyond the Benin case. Each collection has its own specific histories and presents unique challenges for museum professionals. 

Join this program organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA that features curators from the Fowler, New Orleans Museum of Art, and University of Michigan Museum of Art for presentations and a panel discussion about current approaches and examples of work happening in museums today. The program will be moderated by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie.

This program is generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. De Becker has been working for many years with a team to reinstall UMMA’s permanent African collection, which will double the footprint of the African gallery and has prompted a separate project grappling with issues of restitution entitled, Wish You Were Here. 

Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba is the Francois Billion Richardson curator of African art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He received his doctorate in Art History from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and specializes in the visual cultures of shrines, having contributed articles and book chapters on the topic to various publications. He also writes on the museum and the politics of acquisition. 

Carlee S. Forbes is the Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Fowler Museum, where she researches the African objects donated by the Wellcome Trust in 1965. Forbes received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Ackland Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Her research focuses on art produced during the colonial period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, museum and collecting histories, and issues of provenance. 

Erica P. Jones is Curator of African Arts at the Fowler Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. Since joining the Fowler Museum in 2015, Jones has organized several exhibitions. In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition of Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, and authored the accompanying publication. Her 2019 exhibition, On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925, directly relates to the research conducted by the Fowler’s Mellon team. 

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on modern and contemporary African art, cultural informatics, and the arts and cultural patrimony of Africa and the African diaspora in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of An African Modernist (2008), Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art (2011), and founder-editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. 

 

This program is organized and presented by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 May 2021 18:15:14 -0400 2021-05-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T15:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
U-M 2021 Juneteenth Symposium: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in University of Michigan Museum of Arts’s Collections with Ozi Uduma (June 16, 2021 10:25am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84254 84254-21620818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:25am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://rackham.umich.edu/juneteenth-symposium/.

Join Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of global contemporary art at UMMA, for this special virtual tour on the occasion of U-M’s inaugural campus-wide Juneteenth Symposium. The Symposium will explore the theme of “Celebrating Black Joy, Hope, and Healing.” A partnership between U-M and the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, this Juneteenth observance aims to celebrate and recognize the liberation of all Black people from slavery, made official by the emancipation on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is celebrated throughout the nation and as a state holiday in Michigan. It is also officially observed in Ann Arbor.

Ozi Uduma is the assistant curator of global contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Uduma is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She was born and raised in Detroit and is of Nigerian descent. Uduma is the curator of the exhibition Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (opening fall 2021) and the co-curator of We Write to You About Africa (opening fall 2021). Uduma’s art interest mostly focuses on modern and contemporary Black artists.

The 2021 U-M Juneteenth Symposium will run June 14-18. For more information, click here. 

The U-M Juneteenth Symposium is organized by Rackham’s Strategic Action Lead Team, the NAACP Ann Arbor Branch, Association of Black Social Work Students, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Center for Social Solutions, in collaboration with Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the CEW+ Women of Color Task Force.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:15:21 -0400 2021-06-16T10:25:00-04:00 2021-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Mary Sibande (July 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84306 84306-21623059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Sophie/Elsie is part of a series in which South African artist Mary Sibande (b. 1982) explores her family’s history. Three generations of Sibande women were employed as domestic workers in Apartheid South Africa, which Sibande references through Sophie’s blue and white uniform—a dress synonymous with the profession there. Though not quite part of the born-free generation (the name given to children born after the start of Nelson Mandela’s presidency in 1994), Sibande was able to dream of life choices that were inaccessible to her ancestors. These dreams are acted out by her alter-ego Sophie, a life-size fiberglass figure cast in the artist’s own likeness. Sibande created Sophie/Elsie in 2009 in honor of her great-grandmother, who was given the Western name Elsie because her masters couldn’t be bothered to learn her African name. While closing her eyes, Sophie imagines herself as an orchestra conductor, as a superhero, as a businesswoman. Here, her maid’s uniform transforms into the dress of a Victorian queen, complete with billowing cape and dramatic train. 

At a time when indoor visits are limited, UMMA is proud to be able to share Sophie/Elsie with our community. Eventually, she will take center stage in a reinstallation of the permanent African galleries, opening in fall 2021. The reinstallation will feature UMMA’s historical collection of African art, as well as recent acquisitions of contemporary artworks from artists based in Africa and in the diaspora. 

This museum purchase was made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen. 

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Exhibition Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:25 -0400 2021-07-18T09:00:00-04:00 2021-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_201130_004.jpg
HAALSI - Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (September 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85067 85067-21625537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

HAALSI is a longitudinal, population-based survey implemented by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, and is funded by the National Institutes on Aging.

HAALSI aims to examine and characterize a cohort of 5,059 men and women ≥ 40 years of age in rural South Africa with respect to health, physical and cognitive function, aging, and well-being, and is designed to be harmonized with other international HRS sister studies.

This webinar will feature the HAALSI research team: Dr. Julia Rohr – Research Scientist/Project Director; Dr. Elyse Jennings - Research Scientist; David Kapaon – Research Assistant.

During this webinar, we will:
Provide an overview of the HAALSI project
Describe the importance of the data that have been collected.
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:23:00 -0400 2021-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for Health and Aging in Africa HAALSI webinar at ICPSR
Bringing Equity to the Forefront in Global Health (September 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86029 86029-21631135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

What do we mean by ‘equity’ in global health? Where and how can academic institutions redefine their roles in advancing global health equity? Join us for a virtual conversation about new approaches and perspectives from communities who are directly impacted by this work. Featuring Ethiopia Minister of Health Lia Tadesse Gebremedhin, and Abebe Bekele, Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Global Health, Rwanda.

Center Director Joseph C. Kolars and Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Ella August will facilitate the discussion with our esteemed international colleagues.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:26:58 -0400 2021-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Livestream / Virtual Featured Speakers
Africa Workshop (October 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87777 87777-21645940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The #EndSARS movement rocked Nigeria and the world in October 2020. To many, it was unexpected, an aberration, and a possible spark for a new rise in youth activism in the troubled Nigerian state. Young people came out in their thousands across the country and the world to signal to the Nigerian government an end to their tolerance for state sponsored violence. However, this came to an abrupt end with the Lekki massacre on October 20th. How do we understand the youth uprisings of 2020? Were they an anomaly, a moment, or the start of a long term rebellion? The #EndSARS movement is significant in understanding the deep generational divide, historical consciousness and the loss of social movement history, class warfare and the ebb and flow of social movements in the deeply divided country. It speaks also, to the global impact of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the summer rebellions of 2020 in the wake of George Floyd and the re-emergence of Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism in new and interesting ways

R. Nanre Nafziger

Nanre Nafziger holds a PhD in Education Theory and Policy and Comparative and international Education from the Pennsylvania State University. Nanre’s research agenda has three areas of focus 1) decolonizing history education in the African/Black diaspora, 2) critical studies of political education within Black student and social movements, and 3) youth engagement in education policy and practice through Youth Participatory Action research. As an engaged and committed Black scholar and activist, she brings interdisciplinary research and teaching expertise and experiences building social equity and justice in formal, informal, and community education contexts in Nigeria, the United States, and England. Nanre’s research contributes to debates on critical education policy studies, decolonial approaches to education, anti-racist pedagogy, critical race theory, critical youth studies, and Black social movements.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:13:20 -0400 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Africa Workshop photo
From Gloria Marshall to Yeye Olokun-Igbadero: Niara Sudarkasa - Activism, Anthropology, Africa and its Diaspora (October 8, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85759 85759-21628704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Anthropology and the African Studies Center are proud to honor ​Niara Sudarkasa​,​ one of the founding faculty of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and its first female Director​,​​​ ​for​ her many contributions to ​the fields of Africana Studies and Anthropology​, her deep commitment to upholding academic excellence and her unwavering support of students.
Pioneering cultural anthropologist Niara Sudarkasa traveled to twenty-seven African countries and conducted research in West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Her research interests included West African trade and migration, anthropology and development, the roles of African women, African and Caribbean immigration to the United States, African and African American family organization, race and ethnicity, and diversity, equity, and excellence in higher education.​ ​She was the first African American woman to teach anthropology at the University of Michigan. In her twenty years at the University of Michigan, she was the first African American woman to earn tenure in the arts and sciences, become full professor, head an academic center, and become the associate vice president for academic affairs.

Born in 1938 as Gloria Marshall in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, she adopted the name Niara—an adaptation of a Swahili word meaning “woman of high purpose.” Over the course of her
career, she earned nearly twenty fellowships, grants, and awards, more than seventy-five civic and professional awards, and honorary degrees from a dozen colleges and universities.​ ​Sudarkasa has long been recognized for her many “firsts.”
​This​ virtual symposium ​ will consist ​of 4 panels (with a moderator and 3-4 speakers) exploring four areas of Dr. Sudarkasa's professional contributions around the themes of a) activism – starting with her role during the first Black Action Movement at U of M which led to solidification of the Center of Afroamerican and African Studies along with other DEI related units across campus, b) the field of anthropology – connecting African culture to the new world experiences, customs and familial structures found in Caribbean and African-American communities, c) the promotion of the study of African-American and African history, culture and contribution in academia, and d) academic excellence and leadership in higher education as a thought leader, mentor and later, a university President.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:34:35 -0400 2021-10-08T09:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Conference / Symposium Save the date
Wicked problems in vaccine equity: Exploring challenges & opportunities for impact (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88014 88014-21648531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

-Joseph Matthew, MD, Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
-Matthew Boulton, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health; Professor of Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine. U-M
-Diane Harper, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-Pascale Leroueil, PhD, Vice President of the Healthcare Sector, William Davidson Institute. U-M
-Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD, Professor of Public Policy; Director, Science Technology, and Public Policy program; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-John Ayanian, MD (Moderator) Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Health Management and Policy; Professor of Public Policy. U-M

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:53:30 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
Abrahamic Vernaculars Fall Symposium in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87177 87177-21639247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join Dr. Richard Newton of The University of Alabama, speaking on “'Myths ‘that the Dark Past Has Taught Us’: Beyond Liberation in Black Religion" and Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler of Xavier University discussing “The Return of Prairie Dress: YouTube as Site for Interreligious Dialogue and Mainstream Modest Fashion Trends” for a conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of The University of Michigan. This symposium is part of the Abrahamic Vernaculars series.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:19:31 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Abrahamic Vernaculars
Ethiopian Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography (October 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87178 87178-21639309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Frankel Center for a symposium on "Ethiopean Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography." Efrat Yerday, PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University, will examine the political struggle of Ethiopian Jewish activists for naturalization in Israel from 1955 up to 1975. Dr. Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh will be discussing the changing relations between ethnic culture and skin color among Ethiopian Israelis, from the early years of migration to today. He will focus on how categories of difference and group formation are linked to particular social spaces, networks, opportunities, and policing, as well as the social and political consequences of the changing classification structure. The talks will be in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of the University of Michigan.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/xmYNE

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:52:47 -0400 2021-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Ethiopian Jews Symposium
Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88052 88052-21648952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This talk examines the impact of mobile phone access on the containment of an epidemic. Speaker Elisa Maffioli et al. study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia. They found that having access to cell phone coverage leads to a 10.8 percentage point reduction in the likelihood that a village has an EVD case. Results from this novel survey collected following the epidemic suggest that this is mostly explained by cellphone access facilitating emergency care provision rather than improving access to outbreak-related information.

Dr. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research is in development economics, health economics and political economy, with a focus on infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and nutrition in lower income countries. She is currently working in Liberia, Myanmar, Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria, and has also conducted research in Lesotho, Kenya and India.


Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:02:51 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
DAAS Africa Workshop: "Alternative Histories of Global Sovereignty: Retheorizing African Coups d'Etat " (November 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88420 88420-21653867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In the mid 20th century, the coup d’etat became a seemingly common form of political action around the world. Theorists on both the left and the right argued about how to defend the state from as well as instigate various types of coups. While purportedly illegitimate, the coup was central to state craft and of international relations. It had a recognizable ritual order and aesthetic. With end of the Cold War and the growing hegemony of a global neoliberal capitalist order, the coup d’etat seemingly became a relic of an older political-economic order. But recently there has been a new wave of coups both failed and successful from Washington to Conakry. I ask why the coup has returned to prominence as a form of political discourse. Its return as a mode of legitimate action reveals the imperialist origins of the modern nation-state and the growing recent pressure on national borders and techniques of rule. I argue that while the coup d’etat is signified as an outdated nightmare and relic of state disfunction it is, in fact, the apotheosis of the nation-state. Its organization and violence mimic and invert the order and bureaucracy of state rule, legitimated violence that maintain it, and even its networks of communication.

I focus on a largely forgotten radical period in Ghanaian history beginning with a successful coup 1979 and ending with a failed coup in 1983. For a brief period, radical soldiers and intellectuals ruled, seeking to tear down society and rebuild it anew. But they were divided, seduced, and killed as their government embraced a free-market oriented security state. The sudden rise and fall of revolutionary Ghana—and its erasure from historical discourse—reveals both the possibility of alternative modes of political power in Africa and how these forms have been contained through both violence and representational practices. Indeed, if we think historically and geographically through a coup d’etat in 1979 Accra—rather than 1968 Paris for example—it reorients our understanding of sovereignty and revolution in the 20thcentury by showing how young revolutionaries sought an African-grounded independent sovereignty, a future now forgotten. Excavating Ghana’s lost revolution—and numerous other radical movements around Africa in that moment—changes how we calibrate historical change, geographic continuities and gaps, and the flow of power. The return of the coup d’etat as a technique of statecraft raises renewed questions about the relationship of the radical left and right and the viability of the nation-state as a sustainable political form.



Jesse Weaver Shipley is a writer, ethnographer, and artist whose work explores the links between aesthetics and politics. He focuses on how performance genres are shaped by political-economic regimes while at the same time providing tools for people to create new relationships to power. His first book Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music explores the rise of African hip-hop and its political-economic significance. His second book Trickster Theatre: Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africaexamines how modern pan-African theatre is crucial to the struggle for decolonization and independence. His films and multimedia art works experiment with forms of storytelling, portraiture, and theory to tie mundane details and spectacular events to broader principles of power, aesthetics, desire, and trauma.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:20:44 -0400 2021-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Africa Workshop
Fall 2021 MEMS Lecture. Revealed Sciences: Religion, Science, and the Occult in Early Modern Morocco (November 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88352 88352-21653431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In this talk, I will argue for the vibrancy of an early modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco and will discuss the relationship between religious thought and these sciences in early modern Morocco in the light of the narratives of decline of post-formative Islamic thought established by nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars. By using close readings of medical, astronomical, and alchemical works and a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the early modern Maghreb, we can consider non-teleological possibilities for understanding early modern Moroccan scholars' persistent engagement with these sciences.

Justin Stearns is associate professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). His book on the social status of the natural sciences in early modern Morocco, Revealed Sciences: The Natural Sciences in Islam in Early Modern Morocco (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2021, and the first volume of his edition and translation of al-Yusi’s (d. 1102/1691) Discourses appeared with the Library of Arabic Literature in 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:32:59 -0400 2021-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Mirghiti, Ibtal al-Sihr (BnF)
Public Talk: Sir David Adjaye + Chika Okeke-Agulu: Homeward (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86425 86425-21634284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

The debate about restitution and the ethics of Western museums’ owning African artworks collected during the era of colonization has never been more in the public eye. Most well-known, perhaps, are the “Benin bronzes,” artistic and royal heirlooms made since the 13th century by highly specialized metalworkers in the Kingdom of Benin (now southern Nigeria). In 1897, British forces sacked the capital of this prosperous kingdom. They tore sculptures and plaques from the palace walls, and took them back to Europe, where the looted treasures were sold to museums and private collectors. The royal court of Benin, Nigerian officials, and high-profile scholars such as Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (Princeton) have been demanding their return for decades. Over the last decade, some museums based in the Global North have been listening to these calls for repatriation, and some have pledged to return works from their collections. To provide a new home for the repatriated works, plans for a new Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), are currently in development with world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye leading the building design project. 

On the occasion of Wish You Were Here: African Art & Restitution, a public investigation into our own collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Sir David Adjaye and Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu will discuss their current and recent projects that address   how works of art may re-enter the societies they were torn away from. Laura De Becker, Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at UMMA, will introduce the event.   Sir David Adjaye OBE is an award winning Ghanaian-British architect known to infuse his artistic sensibilities and ethos for community-driven projects. His ingenious use of materials, bespoke designs and visionary sensibilities have set him apart as one of the leading architects of his generation. In 2000, David founded his own practice, Adjaye Associates, which today operates globally, with studios in Accra, London, and New York taking on projects that span the globe. The firm’s work ranges from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. His largest project to date, The National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by The New York Times.

In 2017, Adjaye was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME Magazine. Most recently, Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Gold Medal is considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contribution to the field internationally. Sir Adjaye is also the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s 27th Annual Crystal Award, which recognizes his “leadership in serving communities, cities and the environment.”

Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is director of the Program in African Studies and professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. His books include Yusuf Grillo: Painting. Lagos. Life (Skira, 2020); Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Skira, 2016); Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (2015); and (with Okwui Enwezor), Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2010). He recently co-organized, with Okwui Enwezor, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019). He is co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, has written for The New York Times and Huffington Post, and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.

His many awards include The Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English during the preceding year (African Studies Association, 2016); and Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (College Art Association, 2016).Okeke-Agulu serves on the advisory boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Bët-bi/Le Korsa Museum Project, Senegal. He is also on the advisory council of Mpala Research Center, Nanyuki, Kenya; serves on the executive board of Princeton in Africa, and on the editorial boards of African Studies Review and Journal of Visual Culture. 

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. After many years of working with a team to research to envision a new installation of UMMA’s African art collection, De Becker’s , a project that doubled the footprint of the African galleries at UMMA, opened in September 2021. De Becker’s work on the reinstallation led to , a separate project grappling with issues of restitution, also on view at UMMA for the 2021-22 academic year.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:15:54 -0500 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Preserving James Baldwin's Legacy in the Digital Now: Final Project Symposium with AAS 498-in action course students (December 7, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89515 89515-21663465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

The first iteration of DAAS 498-"in action" seminar, “Reconstructing James Baldwin’s Legacy in the Digital Now,” presents a final project symposium! On Tuesday, December 7th from 2:30pm-4pm students will feature original work with a commentary by Baldwin scholar, Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, Ernest Gibson III of Auburn University.

This event brings the creativity and complexity of Baldwin's thought into the 21-st century. The course and presentations are based on the new University of Michigan Library digital collection that documents the famous Black queer writer's beloved house in St. Paul-de-Vence, France, "Chez Baldwin." The "Chez Baldwin" digital collection is the brainchild of Professor Magdalena J. Zaborowska of the Department of Afro-American Studies and American Culture and was created in collaboration with University of Michigan students, colleagues, and staff.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:46:51 -0500 2021-12-07T14:30:00-05:00 2021-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Conference / Symposium AAS 498
DAAS Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration of the African Diaspora (December 10, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89828 89828-21665911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join us in-person and/or virtually as we bid farewell to the semester and year and prepare for the bounties of Kwanzaa and the new year!



This hybrid event is comprised of two parts:


Part I: In-Person: 1-3 p.m.:

4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)

Karibu (Welcome) Chanelle Davis, DAAS; new Student Services Coordinator

Enjoy our Kwanzaa display, Holiday music, Kwanzaa Care Packages, and a DAAS Raffle!


Part II: Virtual: 3-4 p.m.:

Asante and Amani (Thank you and peace) to 2021 and to our beloved Professor Nyambura Mpesha



Join Zoom Meeting

https://umich.zoom.us/j/98815014383



Meeting ID: 988 1501 4383

Passcode: 732882

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Reception / Open House Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:33:57 -0500 2021-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Reception / Open House DAAS Kwanzaa Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Guest Lecture: Gone to the Village Q&A w/ Dr. Kwasi Ampene (January 21, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91126 91126-21678348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Dr. Ampene will engage in a Q&A discussion with audience members, on the subject of his documentary Gone to the Village, and its relationship with this year’s theme for Black History Month: Black Joy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:04:44 -0500 2022-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2022-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ampene smiling in strip shirt and blazer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Musical Repatriation (January 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90471 90471-21671100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pZZV5

This virtual panel, hosted by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies, seeks to explore issues surrounding musical repatriation, primarily of recordings from archive, to the communities from which they were initially recorded or collected. Drawing on their diverse experiences as ethnographers, curators and archivists, panelists will discuss ethical considerations of “return,” and strategies for providing reconnection and Indigenous control and access to cultural materials. The conversation will highlight questions of ownership of and access to musical heritage, and issues involving memory, identity, history, power, agency, research, scholarship, preservation, performance, distribution, legitimacy, commodification, curation, decoloniality, and sustainability.

Dr. Robin R.R. Gray (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015) is Ts’msyen and Mikisew Cree, and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Prior to joining our faculty, Dr. Gray held a 2-year University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research centers primarily on the politics of Indigeneity in settler colonial contexts such as Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia. As a socio-cultural anthropologist and Indigenous studies scholar, Dr. Gray employs critical ethnographic, community-based, Indigenous and intersectional methodologies in the study and presentation of knowledge, power, culture and society.

Dr. Frank Gunderson is Professor of Musicology at Florida State University. He received the B.A. degree from Evergreen State College (WA), and the M.A. in World Music and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (CT). Gunderson’s research and teaching interests include musical intersections with Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and sonic repatriation, African history, Islam, musical labor, veterans’ issues, biographical approaches, refugee communities, and documentary film. Gunderson is currently General Editor (2018-2022) of the SEM academic journal *Ethnomusicology* and is co-founder and co-Editor-in-Chief (together with Benjamin Harbert) of the new SEM Journal of *Audiovisual Ethnomusicology*. He co-edited with Robert Lancefield and Bret Woods *The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation* (OUP 2018).

Dr. Noel Lobley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia. He is a sound curator, ethnomusicologist, and artist. At the core of his creative practice, he is committed to developing new and ethical ways to exhibit sound. His installations have been presented across South Africa, Europe, and the U.S. in spaces ranging from art galleries and festivals to rainforests, in schools and on the streets. In addition to his careers as a curator and academic, he also has worked as a DJ, in radio, and in the music industry for twenty years. Noel’s first monograph *Sound Fragments: from field recording to African Electronic Stories* is forthcoming (Wesleyan, Spring 2022).

Dr. Kelly Askew is Chair of Anthropology and the Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. She has worked for over three decades in Tanzania and Kenya. Her current research and documentary film projects span: poetic and performing arts, postsocialist politics, pastoralism and indigenous communities, energy access and property rights. She is the author of *Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania* (Chicago, 2002) and co-editor of *African Postsocialisms* (with M. Pitcher, Edinburgh, 2006) and The Anthropology of Media (with R. Wilk, Blackwell, 2002), among numerous publications. She co-leads the “Music Time in Africa” project, working to digitize the Leo Sarkisian collection, and make it publicly accessible.

*If you require accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777 or cwps.information@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 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:27:06 -0500 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Co-Designing for Impact (February 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91618 91618-21681037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Building equitable partnerships can provide a strong foundation for impactful research in health equity.

Join us for a conversation on the developing partnership between Aga Khan University and the University of Michigan’s Center for Global Health Equity, who have been collaborating in Kenya on themes related to data science, maternal and child health, climate, and mental health.

Participants will have an opportunity to share their own areas of interest and explore ways to connect across our institutions.

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Presentation Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:12:04 -0500 2022-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Presentation Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya-University Hospital
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Film Screening: Gone to the Village (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91125 91125-21676752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

“Gone to the Village is a unique and powerful documentary, beautifully filmed, of the elaborate funerary rites for the Queen Mother of the Asante in Ghana. Leading Asante scholar Kwasi Ampene directs and narrates with the authority, gaze and sensitivity of a true insider, with stunning footage of the rich cultural traditions of the Asante people. Filmed on location in Kumase during the funeral, we witness traditions that have stubbornly and proudly resisted the onslaught of colonial rule and globalization. Through the film, we learn about the history of the Asante as well as the central role of women in this matriarchal society. The scenes of dance, song, drumming, proverbs, and dress code are of exceptional and exquisite beauty, unprecedented in the African continent.”

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Film Screening Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:11:52 -0500 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Film Screening Photo of Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, seated, with a pensive look on her face
Global Health Film Series: "Stop Filming Us" (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90154 90154-21668488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

Sponsored by:
U-M African Studies Center
U-M Center for Global Health Equity
U-M School of Nursing Office of Global Affairs/WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center
U-M Taubman Health Sciences Library

Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, Stop Filming Us investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power. Stop Filming Us creates a cinematic dialogue between Western perceptions and the Congolese experience of reality. While the Congolese perspective becomes increasingly clearer in the film, questions arise about the perspective of the film itself; is a white director able to make a film about the new Congolese image or is it primarily a story created by his own Western perspective? Virtual viewing followed by a panel.

Register at: https://forms.gle/p91kAjsX6RLGPEYE9

Panelists
Alain Mukwege: Alain Mukwege is a Congolese born physician and a human right activist. His work was inspired by his father’s, Denis Mukwege, the2018 Nobel Peace prize recipient for his advocacy against sexual violence in conflicts. Alain Mukwege is a consultant for the Panzi Foundation, a non-profit organization working to provide interventions to improve the quality of care and life for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also member of the advisory board of the International Center for Advanced Research and Training, a research center born from a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Panzi Hospital. He holds a Master a Clinical Research and Translational Science and his research interests lie in the development of mechanisms to improve women’s health in developing countries and to prevent gender-based violence. Presently living in Ann Arbor Michigan to prepare for a training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, His work also involves building partnerships between Western institutions and Panzi Hospital to help develop local Congolese capacities to address local problems. This drove collaborations notably with the University of Michigan and with World without Genocide. He believes that the cessation of violence against women would be indispensable in the advancement of healthy communities and that violence against women in addition to be a violation of basic human rights is also a global health hazard. Despite these challenges, he hopes to see and contribute in the advent of a fair, peaceful and prosperous society in Congo.

Mbala Nkanga: Dieudonné Christophe Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan. He is native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and came to U-M with extensive experience as a teacher, director, and scholar.
He specializes in theatre history, performance theories, and world drama. His research interests include: politics and poetics of language in performance and popular arts in Central Africa, intercultural
ism and the performance of memory in world theatre and performance; the study of Jean Genet’s aesthetics of profanation and its relation with black theatre (object of a manuscript in progress); and the Mvett epic and its performance (book in preparation: Mvett: Performance, Cultural Memory, Identity Among the Fang). He is preparing the upcoming publication of his Performance, Rumor, and Audience: The Theatre of Resistance in Central Africa, 1990-2000 (Palgrave), African Theatre and Performance: History, Memory, and Forgetfulness (Francis and Taylor, upcoming in 2022) and an anthology of francophone African plays in translation.

Daniel Rivkin: Daniel Rivkin is a recovering journalist who has spent most of his career working around the world, in some 70+ countries. He was Reuters TV bureau chief in Brussels and Paris, eventually managing a global product line. Since leaving Reuters, he has been a strategic communications creator and consultant for NGOs, governments, corporations and international organizations. He has covered the news and worked with a number of entities in African countries for 30 years, including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, AMREF Health Africa, Standard Chartered, A24 Media, and most recently with the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) at the University of Michigan. He is currently Senior Media and Outreach Strategist at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Co-Moderated by: Kevin McCawley, UMMS and Fiyinfoluwa Morenikeji, UMSN

Register at: https://forms.gle/p91kAjsX6RLGPEYE9

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Film Screening Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:14:02 -0500 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Film Screening Stop Filming Us Global Health Film Series Panel
Guest Lecture: Gone to the Village Q&A w/ Dr. Kwasi Ampene (February 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91126 91126-21676753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Dr. Ampene will engage in a Q&A discussion with audience members, on the subject of his documentary Gone to the Village, and its relationship with this year’s theme for Black History Month: Black Joy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:04:44 -0500 2022-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ampene smiling in strip shirt and blazer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Subject Matters: Art in Nature - This Art Is Too Big (And Too Small) To Be Made By Humans (February 22, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91865 91865-21683674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ej15ppprf3a0b193.

Spirals, dendrites, fractals. Take a deep dive through art into the micro and macro worlds of nature along with UMMA Curator for University Learning and Programs David Choberka and U-M faculty and artist Cathy Barry (Stamps School of Art and Design; Program in the Environment). Along the way we’ll make some art together, and we’ll consider just how freaked out 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal was about the infinite bigness and smallness of the universe.

Participants will be asked to do a teensie-weensie little assignment before the session. Don’t worry. It’ll be fun!

Subject Matters is offered in collaboration with the U-M faculty who worked with UMMA to curate installations in Curriculum / Collection for use by their university classes. Together, we are bringing the UMMA classroom experience to you. You’ll learn about the subject matter, about art, and you’ll have loads of fun doing it. We hope to see you there.

This is an in-person event, held at UMMA. Free. Registration Required. Register Here. 

We’d love to see you at all the Subject Matters sessions! Upcoming events are: March 8 - 6:00pm Subject Matter: Seeing Empires How Pictures of Animals Helped Build Empires  Guest faculty: Benedicte Boisseron (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies)

March 22 - 6:00pm Subject Matter: Materials Science and Engineering What is This Made Of? Materials / Making / Meaning  Guest faculty: Tim Chambers (Materials Science and Engineering)  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund.

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Other Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:16:29 -0500 2022-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Subject Matters: Seeing Empires - How Pictures of Animals Helped Build Empires (March 8, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91866 91866-21683675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ej15pprg879c25fc.

How did paintings of dogs, cats, and horses help build European empires? Consider this question along with UMMA Curator for University Learning and Programs and U-M faculty Bénédicte Boisseron (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies). Boisseron and Choberka will take you on a journey to explore how empires see the world and how representations of animals and actual animals themselves have been deployed in the building and unmaking of empires.

This is an in-person event, held at UMMA. Free. Registration Required. 

Participants will be asked to do a teensie-weensie little assignment before the session. Don’t worry. It’ll be fun!

Subject Matters is offered in collaboration with the UM faculty who worked with UMMA to curate installations in Curriculum / Collection for use by their university classes. Together, we are bringing the UMMA classroom experience to you. You’ll learn about the subject matter, about art, and you’ll have loads of fun doing it. We hope to see you there.

We’d love to see you at all the Subject Matters sessions! Upcoming events are: March 22 - 6:00pm Subject Matter: Materials Science and Engineering What is This Made Of? Materials / Making / Meaning  Guest faculty: Tim Chambers (Materials Science and Engineering)

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund.

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:16:24 -0500 2022-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
West African Dance and Drum: Community, Identity, Storytelling (March 10, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92932 92932-21698086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Where does a dance come from? Who makes a dance? One person? Many? These may seem like simple questions, but they’re portals to bigger conversations in the world of West African dance and drumming, where questions of politics, ownership, innovation, tradition, and identity intersect.

Join Daring Dances artist-in-residence, T. Ayo Alston –founder and director of Chicago-based Ayodele Drum and Dance– with guest speakers from the Detroit West African community (Ajara Alghali and Crettia Hunter), as well as University of Pennsylvania dance scholar Dr. Jasmine Johnson, as the group discusses what it means to make dance from a West African perspective while also centering the voices and experiences of women.

This event is part of the Daring Dances program, and precedes a live performance by Ayodele Drum and Dance on Saturday, March 12, at the Keene Theatre in East Quad at 7 pm. More details on that event here: https://events.umich.edu/event/92805 (Please note the Keene Theatre requires proof of vaccination for all.)

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. For more details on safety protocols, directions, and parking, visit https://umma.umich.edu/plan-your-visit

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:26:39 -0500 2022-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 2022-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Poster for Event
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Feel Good Fridays at UMMA (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92372 92372-21690458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Feel Good Friday is a gathering of art and humans.    Join us on the second Friday of each month at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Looking for a reason to feel good? Let art, music, and culture lift you up. Reconnect and recharge each month at Feel Good Friday.    Free and open to the public. No advance registration required.   March is Feel Good Voices: An evening of spoken word, poetry, music, and drumming to celebrate creative expressions of the African diaspora and the legacy of Michigan artist, educator, and activist Jon Onye Lockard. Visit , UMMA’s newly reinstalled galleries of African art, and meet the powerful work of Jon Onye Lockard alongside Mary Sibande, Jacob Lawrence, Qes Adamu Tesfaw, and more. In partnership and celebration of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum exhibition and the 50th anniversary of the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, this Feel Good Friday is about coming together during challenging times to lift our voices and honor the people who shape us as individuals and as a community. 

Featuring spoken word artists Debby Covington, Elizabeth James, Will Jones, Myron H. Michael, B. Ward, and Jacob Ward; with Tariq Gardner on drum.

About Jon Onye Lockard: Born in Detroit, Lockard was a powerful and awe-inspiring artist, muralist, master painter, educator, historian and storyteller. His works may be found in many collections nationally and internationally and some of his murals and portraits are at Wayne State University, University of Michigan, Central State University and the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. He was a professor emeritus from Washtenaw Community College where he taught life drawing and portraiture for over 40 years. He was also a lecturer and founding faculty member of the Department of African American & African Studies at the U-M.

Created in collaboration with the African American Culture and History Museum, the Jon Onye Lockard Foundation, and the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

SAVE THE DATE: future Feel Good Fridays on April 8, and the second Friday of every month.

Health & Safety Requirements

HEALTH SCREENING The ResponsiBLUE health screening will be required for all visitors and involves answering a few, quick questions about your health and recent COVID-19 exposure risk. Your check-in host will walk you through the process, it will take less than one minute.  You can pre-complete the health screening up to 24-hours in advance of your visit: https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in

VACCINATION OR NEGATIVE TEST REQUIRED All guests and staff ages 12 and older will be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid test taken within 72 hours of the event.  If you haven't already done so, take a photo of your vaccine card and save it to your phone.

MASKS REQUIRED Masks are currently required for anyone entering the Museum regardless of vaccination status in accordance with University of Michigan policies. Thank you for helping us keep UMMA open and visitors safe.  UMMA has disposable masks available should you need one.

If you are not feeling well on the day of the event, please stay home.  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.

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Performance Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:16:26 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Guinea Sweet Suite (March 12, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92805 92805-21695823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 12, 2022 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

T. Ayo Alston comes to Ann Arbor for a week of guest teaching, panel conversations and performance. While in residence, Alston will build upon a past work, Femme DeLa Force: Herstory to Tell (2014) and HerStory II Tell: Inside her Eyes (2020), using West African dance styles to tell the story of women warriors who have successfully and/or powerfully challenged systems, governments and male dominated conquerors to maintain their land, integrity or their people. Learn more about the residency here: https://www.daringdances.org/tayoalston

T. Ayo Alston will conclude her Daring Dances residency with a culminating performance featuring Ayodele Drum and Dance at the Keene Theater. This event is FREE and open to the public. Proof of vaccination, Photo ID, Face Covering and a fast ResponsiBLUE Health Questionnaire are required for entry to the Keene Theater. A post-show discussion will take place after the performance.

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Performance Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:01:43 -0500 2022-03-12T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Department of American Culture Performance Poster for performance at Keene Theater
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21704489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Sarafina! Movie Night (March 18, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92541 92541-21692147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us Friday, March 18 for *Sarafina!* in the Sankofa Lounge at Trotter Multicultural Center ahead of South African Human Rights Day (Monday, March 21). There will be snacks and drinks, we encourage you to bring your own blanket and get cozy! Following the showing, there will be an opportunity for conversation about the movie and South African Human Rights Day. This event is hosted by Institute for the Humanities Public Humanities Interns, The Black Student Union, and The African Student Association.

*Sarafina! *is a 1992 movie based on Mbongeni Ngema's 1987 musical of the same name, which tells the story of students and their families involved in the 1976 Soweto Uprising against the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The film stars Leleti Khumalo, Miriam Makeba, John Kani, Ngema, and Whoopi Goldberg; Khumalo reprises her role from the stage performance.

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Film Screening Fri, 18 Feb 2022 10:29:37 -0500 2022-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Sarafina! Movie Poster
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
DAAS Africa Workshop with Fatoumata Seck, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone studies, Stanford University (March 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91308 91308-21677933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This talk explores the transformation of economic imaginaries in Senegal following the implementation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank’s structural adjustment programs. It examines Senegal’s most famous comic strip, Goorgoorlou, created in 1987 by Alphonse Mendy (alias T.T.Fons), and follows the life of the satirical cartoon across different media and languages to illustrate how the cartoonist uses popular culture to give shape to a changing imaginary of work, thereby offering insights on the inner workings of social change. By showing how those who work with words and images leave their mark on society, this talk highlights how the spontaneous and unplanned fabrication of imaginaries occurs.

Fatoumata Seck is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone studies at Stanford University, affiliated with the Center for African Studies. She holds a joint appointment at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a courtesy appointment in the department of Comparative Literature. Before coming to Stanford, Seck was an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island (CUNY/CSI). She received a PhD in French with an Anthropology minor and a certificate in African Studies from Stanford University. Her scholarship has appeared in The Journal of African Cultural Studies, The Journal of Haitian Studies, Etudes Littéraires Africaines, Le Monde Afrique and is forthcoming in The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:03:39 -0500 2022-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Approach Matters: Community-Driven Research as a Path to Health Equity (March 24, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93202 93202-21701528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Across the spectrum of research approaches that seek to involve communities, not all are alike. When researchers incorporate broad community participation—especially when they emphasize conversation and community voices—they often find their projects are not only more equitable but more successful. Community members offer critical insight into approaches and interventions that will work best in local contexts.

Join us Thursday, March 24 from 9-10am for a conversation that centers the voices of our community partners and their University of Michigan partners as they describe co-design and co-creation processes.

Register for the Seminar: umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3TCqnC9qTMC9JjMGSVA7kg

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Presentation Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:26:55 -0500 2022-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Presentation Community partners in Kenya working on public health interventions
Listen In: Big(ger) Ideas in Co-Curation and Equitable Engagement of Cultural Heritage Through Art with Dr. Tonya M. Matthews (March 24, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89311 89311-21661916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://umma.umich.edu/plan-your-visit.

A public keynote presentation from Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask curators and other listeners to grapple with an increasing call for bolder conversations in the curation of African American cultural heritage. 

Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask us to grapple with increasing expectation for bolder conversations in curation of African American cultural heritage – particularly in considerations of descendants and living history. Is centering stewardship of enslaved African Americans’ craftwork at predominantly white institutions cultural appropriation or long-overdue acknowledgement? What are potential triggers of curating a community’s culture from outside of that geography? Is there any cross-learning in working with donors and working with descendants? Matthews will share learnings and current conversation surrounding the creation of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina as context for being on the frontlines of grappling with the intersection of historical and living history.

The event is free and open to the public. It will also be available via livestream.

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This talk is presented in preparation for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, an upcoming traveling exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After debuting in New York City, the exhibition will travel to Boston, followed by UMMA in Fall 2023, before the fourth and final venue, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Dr. Tonya M. Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of the International African American Museum (IAAM) at the historically sacred site of Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, SC. As a champion of authentic, empathetic storytelling of American history, IAAM is one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism as America continues the walk toward “a more perfect union.”  A thought-leader in inclusive frameworks, social entrepreneurship, and education, Matthews has written articles and book chapters across these varied subjects. She is founder of The STEMinista Project, a movement to engage girls in their future with STEM careers. Matthews is also a poet and is included in 100 Best African-American Poems (2010) edited by Nikki Giovanni. Matthews received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her B.S.E. in engineering from Duke University, alongside a certificate in African/African-American Studies. 

About the exhibition: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 9, 2022 – February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 6, 2023 – July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (August 26, 2023 – January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16, 2024 – May 12, 2024)

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is an exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition is a groundbreaking presentation of approximately 60 ceramic objects from Edgefield, South Carolina, a center of ceramic production in the decades before the Civil War. Considered through the lens of recent scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, diaspora, material culture, and African American studies, these 19th-century wares testify to the artistic ambitions, lived experiences, and material knowledge of enslaved peoples and the realities of slavery in the industrial context.  

Hear Me Now offers a novel view of an underrepresented aspect of American enslavement, foregrounding objects made by enslaved potters and bringing this important history to larger audiences. Additionally, it aspires to link past to present, in part by including the work of leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to the Edgefield story, such as Simone Leigh and Woody De Othello, among others.

Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing at The Met, Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas at the MFA, and Jason Young, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan are co-curating this project. They are advised and supported by a national board of artists and scholars who offer invaluable input and perspectives, throughout both the planning and development process.  

This program is organized in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the U-M Department of History with support from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the U-M Arts Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:16:17 -0400 2022-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2022-03-24T19:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa (April 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92265 92265-21688755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

April 7 and 8, 2022.

Please note that registration is mandatory for both in-person and online attendance. For registration details, a daily schedule, and a list of confirmed speakers, please see here: https://myumi.ch/9PqVX

The University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on social media influencers at the University of Michigan, 2435 North Quad, on April 7-8, 2022, and will be available for remote participation for registered attendees. The event features a number of social media influencers, and those who study them, from two regions with the fastest growing social media user populations -- Continental Africa and South Asia.

The workshop brings together a range of professionals and scholars - dissidents, bureaucrats, artists, movie-stars, comedians, commentators, and industry professionals to explore the ways in which social media influencing is changing social, political, and cultural engagements.

The event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Center for South Asian Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the School of Information, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:05 -0400 2022-04-07T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 (April 7, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93796 93796-21708129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

In the wake of postcolonial African independence, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. Art Historian and curator Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. An expert on restitution and cultural heritage, Savoy reconstructs a story of missed opportunity and defeat that still resonates in today’s repatriation discourse.

Details here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/africas-struggle-for-its-art-history-of-a-postcolonial-defeat/

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Presentation Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:30:23 -0400 2022-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Africa’s Struggle for its Art
Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa (April 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92265 92265-21688756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

April 7 and 8, 2022.

Please note that registration is mandatory for both in-person and online attendance. For registration details, a daily schedule, and a list of confirmed speakers, please see here: https://myumi.ch/9PqVX

The University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on social media influencers at the University of Michigan, 2435 North Quad, on April 7-8, 2022, and will be available for remote participation for registered attendees. The event features a number of social media influencers, and those who study them, from two regions with the fastest growing social media user populations -- Continental Africa and South Asia.

The workshop brings together a range of professionals and scholars - dissidents, bureaucrats, artists, movie-stars, comedians, commentators, and industry professionals to explore the ways in which social media influencing is changing social, political, and cultural engagements.

The event is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Center for South Asian Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the School of Information, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:05 -0400 2022-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
Artist Talk with Masimba Hwati Ngoromera: Everyday Rituals of Resistance 2022 Doris Sloan Memorial Program (April 8, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92958 92958-21698548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Masimba Hwati works across sculpture, sound, performance, video, and text. His recent sound sculpture, Ngoromera, is featured in the new installation of UMMA’s African Art collection, We Write to You About Africa. In this talk, Hwati will reflect on the ways in which the socio-political conditions he encounters shape his creative process with stories from Harare, Detroit, South Carolina, Florida, Weimar, and Vienna. He will also explore the connections that intersect sculpture, sound, performance and ritual in his work and how these connections develop and inform each other.

Masimba Hwati is interested in the places where sculpture, sound, and performance meet. His interdisciplinary artistic practice explores various forms and rituals of cultural resistance. Born in Harare, a restless place of precarity and constant flux, Hwati describes his practice as an exploration of the nature of sound and its connection to power negotiation and resistance narratives in post-colonial contexts. 

Following his talk, please join Hwati in the gallery for a performance of Ngoromera during Feel Good Friday at UMMA. 

Masimba Hwati holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a Ph.D. in Art practice, candidate at the Academy of Fine Art Vienna. He is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumn class of 2019. He studied and taught sculpture at Harare Polytechnic Art school. Collections Include Manchester Contemporary, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Iziko South African National Gallery, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, Jorge M Perez Collection Miami Florida, George R. Nnamdi Collection, Detroit Michigan. National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Gervanne & Matthias Leridon Collection. In 2021 he showed and performed at the British textile Biennale in Blackburn, United Kingdom. In 2015 he showed at the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 56th edition. He is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University  Fine Arts Department in Grahamstown, SA. Solo, and group shows include Belgium. Zimbabwe, South Africa, Berlin, Weimar, United States, France, and Canada.  

Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, the annual Doris Sloan Memorial Program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent.  Presented with the support of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

The exhibition We Write to You About Africa was developed in consultation with many partners, including the U-M African Studies Center, the African Students Association, the African Graduate Student Association.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:16:00 -0400 2022-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Watermarks and the Ordinary (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89842 89842-21665956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Watermarks and the Ordinary
Sarah Vaughn, U.C. Berkeley

Monday, Apr. 11, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
Join us via Zoom.

Abstract:
This talk considers the social worlds of watermarks. I propose the theme of watermarks as a way to get after the often subtle but deliberate attempts to manage daily life—and related pursuits—in the midst of the ongoing climate crisis. This theme became apparent to me while doing ethnographic fieldwork in the flood-prone, low-lying, and coastal South American country Guyana. By reading watermarks, people in Guyana reconsider how floods have the capacity to destabilize claims to identity, biopolitical capital/labor, and human hubris. In this respect, watermarks are performative. They shape and reveal the social relations of infrastructures within a given place that at times flourish, and at other times, can simply fail to shape plausible futures for their users. Building on the insights of anthropological scholarship on the ordinary and fakery, watermarks offer us less a theory of power than a creative medium for learning to live with dignity through the climate crisis.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:18:42 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-13T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EIHS Lecture: Little Ice Age and the Oyo Empire: An Unfinished Process of Recovery in West Africa, ca. 1420-1840 (April 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85520 85520-21626808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Presented with support from the African Studies Center.

This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/M9JPR).

This lecture highlights the crisis and aftermath of the Little Ice Age in West Africa, with emphasis on the ramifications it had for (1) the emergence and decline of the Oyo Empire and (2) the entanglement of the empire and the Bight of Benin in the early modern commercial revolution. The entire history of the Oyo Empire was shaped by the quest to cope with the erratic climatic regime of the Little Ice Age. What were the opportunities and limitations of these coping strategies, what Professor Ogundiran calls the unfinished process of recovery?

Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Professor Ogundiran’s scholarship has focused primarily on the deep-time cultural history of the Yoruba world, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. His research has been supported by the National Geographic Society, American Institute of Archaeology, and American Philosophical Society, among others. He is also a past fellow of the National Humanities Center. Professor Ogundiran's latest book is The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020).

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:57:17 -0400 2022-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Akinwumi Ogundiran
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Darkness to Light: 100 Years of Mental Health in Kenya (April 27, 2022 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94383 94383-21736332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:30am
Location:
Organized By: Department of Psychiatry

Lukoye Atwoli, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Dean, Medical College, East Africa

Dr. Atwoli will explore the recent history of mental health in Kenya, and discuss existing opportunities for innovation and collaboration.

Click on 'event page' for more information and the webinar link.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:46:38 -0400 2022-04-27T10:30:00-04:00 2022-04-27T12:00:00-04:00 Department of Psychiatry Lecture / Discussion Dr. Atwoli talk
Africa-US Collaborations in Health: Observations from Kenya (April 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93873 93873-21709208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Dr. Lukoye Atwoli, professor of psychiatry at Aga Khan University and a leader of health initiatives around the globe, will share his reflections on collaborations between African and US partners that have advanced health in recent decades. Dr. Atwoli will share lessons he and others learned from their engagement with a range of projects, including the AMPATH research network.

This in-person discussion with a global health leader is a unique opportunity, especially for anyone interested in health sciences research and other collaborations in Africa.

Light refreshments will be served. RSVP at myumi.ch/pZd4y.

Co-Sponsored by the African Studies Center and the Center for Global Health Equity

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Presentation Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:32:59 -0400 2022-04-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-28T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global Health Equity Presentation Dr. Lukoye Atwoli addresses AKU and U-M colleagues in Nairobi, Kenya
Pan-African Pulp: A Commission by Meleko Mokgosi (May 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64426 64426-16348358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Pan-African Pulp, Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. His Vertical Gallery installation, which inaugurates a new biennial commission program at UMMA, features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements from around the world, including those founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. Pan-African Pulp vividly connects to Detroit’s deep history of activism, where organizations such as Black Nation of Islam, The Republic of New Afrika, Shrine of the Black Madonna (Black Christian Nationalism), Pan-African Congress, and United Negro Improvement Association were founded. The renewed urgency for diversity and civil rights in Detroit, and the country as a whole, heightens the relevance of Mokgosi’s project and reveals the deep connections between these historical movements and those developing today.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
 

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Exhibition Sun, 01 May 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-05-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Meleko Mokgosi, Pan-African Pulp, 2019. Courtesy the artist. © Meleko Mokgosi. Photography: Patrick Young and Jeri Hollister