Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Gallery DAAS exhibit opening: Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget: Memorializing Slavery in Detroit and Martinique (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66697 66697-16770221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Using photographs of memorials to slavery as a story visual, “Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget” is a multi-media exhibit that explores the little-known history of slavery in the city of Detroit and its unexpected connection to the French island of Martinique.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:12:52 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
Gallery DAAS exhibit opening: Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget: Memorializing Slavery in Detroit and Martinique (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66698 66698-16770222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Using photographs of memorials to slavery as a story visual, “Il faut se souvenir, we must not forget” is a multi-media exhibit that explores the little-known history of slavery in the city of Detroit and its unexpected connection to the French island of Martinique.

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Exhibition Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:20:50 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Exhibition Haven Hall
DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture with Gloria House (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66700 66700-16770286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Gloria House is a poet, educator, activist and 2019's Kresge Eminent Artist, an award reserved for those who've made distinguished contributions to the arts and the community and one of the biggdest arts honors bestowed on Detroiters for a lifetime of work..

Dr, House's many accomplishments include her four collections of poetry (her most recent, "Medicine," was published in 2017 and written under her chosen African name, Aneb Kgositsile), her career as a professor at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and her wide impact on social justice movements in Detroit and beyond.

Reception to Follow

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:40:15 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Diasporic Dialogues with E. Patrick Johnson (Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and Performance Studies, Northwestern University) (January 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70998 70998-17766498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

with reception and book signing by Literati
Cosponsored with the Women’s Studies Department and the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies and the Curator for Black Arts in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University. He has additional appointments in the Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies programs. A scholar/artist, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality and performance. Johnson is a prolific performer and scholar, and an inspiring teacher, whose research and artistry has greatly impacted African American studies, Performance studies, and Gender and Sexuality studies. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of several award-winning books, including his most recent two: Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and, Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (Duke UP, 2019).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:33:32 -0500 2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T19:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Lessons from Toni Morrison: A Conversation (January 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71646 71646-17853464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

On August 5, 2019, the world lost a giant. Toni Morrison was not
only an author and essayist, she was an icon who changed the literary
and cultural world through her writing and editing. From confronting
our personal and collective past to imagining a new future, Morrison's
teachings go far beyond the words she wrote. On this MLK Day, we
discuss her legacy.

What did Toni Morrison teach you? Please join us (with your favorite
Morrison book in hand!) as we discuss her writing, her legacy, the
"canon", the state of Black - and American - literature, and the work
that is still left to be done.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:19:00 -0500 2020-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Toni Morrison MLK event 2020
The 1619 Podcast: Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started (January 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71000 71000-17766500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s first federal health care programs. On today’s episode: Jeneen Interlandi, a member of The New York Times’s editorial board and a writer for The Times Magazine, and Yaa Gyasi, the author of “Homegoing.”


“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:34:10 -0500 2020-01-21T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The 1619 Project: Episode 5, part 1 and 2: The Land of our Fathers (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71001 71001-17766501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Part 1: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession. June and Angie Provost, who trace their family line to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this story well.

On today’s episode: The Provosts spoke with Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619.”
Part 2: The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold of that land, June Provost and his wife, Angie, didn’t know why — and then a phone call changed their understanding of everything. In the finale of “1619,” we hear the rest of June and Angie’s story, and its echoes in a past case that led to the largest civil rights settlement in American history.


On today’s episode: June and Angie Provost; Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619”; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University and the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness.”

“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:31:33 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72567 72567-18018160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr, editors of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2Ato, will discuss historical and current relations between Brazilian and American black presses. By discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, Luciane and Nabor will propose the black arts as a fundamental channel of critical engagement in contexts of social and political cleavage.

Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:18:37 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism
Black Excellence Gala (February 25, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73215 73215-18175239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The Black Excellence celebration aims to honor the diversity of blackness within the UM campus and community. This event intends to have different black cultural organizations across campus come and showcase their cultural pride through art, performance, or any form of creative expression. The event will also include a buffet of food from different aspects of the African diaspora, such as soul food, different African dishes, and even dishes from Afro-Latino/Caribbean backgrounds.

At this event, participants and student groups will have an opportunity to celebrate and showcase their artistic talents in many ways, including spoken word, dance, singing, etc. We'll also have local Black vendors at the event.

We are also looking for black art, photographs, and creative pieces to showcase in an art gallery during this event that will take place at the very beginning. There will be an entire section of the union ballroom dedicated to displaying all sorts of black art, Afrocentric collective pieces for anyone who chooses to have art displayed.

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Performance Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:20:37 -0500 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Performance Black Excellence Gala
Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil” (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72569 72569-18018161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine *O Menelick 2 Ato* and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors, Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty.

Followed by the opening of a digital and print exhibit of selected magazine covers by Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic artists.

The exhibit will be on display until March 11th at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery.

Light reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Exhibition Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:19:01 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Launch of O Menelick 2 Ato #21 and Opening of “O Menelick 2Ato. Making Black Press in 21st Century Brazil”
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Note: The webinar has a Q&A format. We welcome your questions before via email (eihswebinar@umich.edu) and during the webinar via Zoom Q&A. This event will be recorded and available for future viewing online.

***Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVR5E3VGRG2x_xJ4AK47AA

The killing of George Floyd, in the wake of the horrific and obscene history of the killings of unarmed black people by the police, has focused attention like never before on the systemic anti-black racism of the criminal-legal system in the United States. To be sure, the massive expansion and militarization of policing and incarceration are in some ways of comparatively recent origin. Yet they also have a much deeper origin in, and are inextricably connected to, a longer history of the judicial and extra-judicial violence against black people in the continent. The racist inequities of the criminal-legal system, indeed, are not a bug, but a feature.

Our panel of experts, scholars of the United States at the University of Michigan, will help us explore, beyond the headlines, the reach of the long arm of the carceral state in society as well as the challenges and opportunities that have been thrown up by the contemporary protests against the systemic violence of the state. The stakes for understanding the working of the carceral state are documented by the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project of the University of Michigan’s Carceral State Project. However, the momentous protests against anti-Black racism as well as the broad public support they have received both within the United States and across the world—the clamor heard round the world—have also created a novel opportunity for implementing and imagining futures beyond a blatantly rigged carceral framework.

Panelists:
• Melissa Burch, Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History, University of Michigan
• Matthew Lassiter, History, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
• William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)