Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The 6th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90218 90218-21692643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan invites you to the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

The past five Berkhofer Lectures, featuring Tommy Orange, author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, were grand affairs, with some 300 people in attendance each year. These audiences consisted of students and faculty from U-M, interested residents of Ann Arbor, Native Americans from the Metro-Detroit area, and with the event now online, audiences worldwide. In asking Robin Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment we seek to shift the focus of the Berkhofer lecture to highlight emerging indigenous literary talent.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kreg1LmxTCuWxF61YyGEJg

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:29:02 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Robin Kimmerer
Captioning the Archives: A Conversation with Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Photographer Lester Sloan (March 15, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92378 92378-21690683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this webinar, RC Lecturer and photographer Isaac Wingfield will interview Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and her father, photographer Lester Sloan, about the making of their latest co-authored book and how the visual and creative arts, history, and family ties guided their project.

Photographer and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths notes, “In this rich meditation with [Lester Sloan’s] gifted daughter, author Aisha Sabatini Sloan, we find ourselves in a narrative of discovery and revelation. Sloan’s photographs are necessary instruments of history, as is the palpable sensation of love between himself and his daughter.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:15:05 -0500 2022-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Webinar Flyer
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD AND SUPREME LITERACY (October 19, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99874 99874-21798818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy situates the Nation of Islam
leader within academic discourse by exploring his teachings on "Knowledge of Self" as a definition of literacy in its broadest applications.

Dr. Muhammad is a teacher, lecturer and columnist whose research interests include urban and cultural literacies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:36:55 -0400 2022-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster