Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 22, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 23, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 24, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
So Cool So Just (September 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75916 75916-19623833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

The So Cool So Just (SCSJ) Organization Fair is hosted by the Community Action and Social Change (CASC) Undergraduate Minor and the Ginsberg Center. Since 2012, the fair has created space for organizations to connect with students seeking opportunities to get involved on campus, build community with other social justice organizations, and share activities and programs related to social change.

This year, we are planning a virtual fair, where registered organizations will host a drop-in informational. Details on how to participate will be provided during the month of August. If you have questions, email scsjplanningteam@umich.edu for information.

If you are interested in tabling or attending this program, visit the RSVP linked in this announcement.

The virtual zoom link will be provided in September, prior to the event.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:04:32 -0400 2020-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Fair / Festival So Cool So Just Organization Fair Flyer
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 25, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 27, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 27, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge (September 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76729 76729-19741035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

The University of Michigan's Ginsberg Center and the United Way of Washtenaw County invite you to participate in a statewide 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge! Join us for this self-guided journey to learn about the history and impacts of racism, and how it has shaped the lives of people across the State and Washtenaw County while inspiring participants with resources and tools to build racial equity in their work and lives. Join people from all over Michigan participating in the Challenge to raise awareness, shift attitudes and change outcomes. The Challenge runs September 8 – 28th, 2020. Sign-up today or learn more at: https://connect2community.umich.edu/need/detail/?need_id=536768

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Other Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:16:06 -0400 2020-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Other Join the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
Webinar: Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement (October 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78133 78133-19965484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Campus Compact’s 2020-2021 national webinar series takes the great and varied work happening on the ground around the country and brings it straight to your desk.

Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service has collaborated with 55 public, private, two- and four-year institutions since 2013 to develop an innovative holistic framework: "Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement." The pathways describe a range of possibilities by which students can contribute to the common good: community-engaged learning/research; community organizing/activism; direct service; philanthropy; policy/governance; and social entrepreneurship/corporate social responsibility. The framework guides students in exploring how the pathways differ from each other in language, practice, and impact, and how pathways might intersect to effect social change.

A free online survey surfaces student predispositions and interests toward the pathways; opens students' eyes to lifelong career, engagement, and leadership opportunities; and assists community engagement practitioners in developing relevant programming. Presenters will share multi-institution research resulting from the survey. Survey data informs practitioners, who can place students in community settings where they have strong pathway inclinations, encourage students to explore pathways they hadn't considered, or ensure they experience all six pathways in multiple placements during college. Each pathway provides students with experience they can use with high-impact practices in curricular and co-curricular settings, and in the workplace and civil society.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:15:54 -0400 2020-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Campus Compact logo
2020 Election Virtual Town Hall (October 22, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78677 78677-20099545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Join staff from the Michigan Department of State to learn about and prep for the 2020 Election!

We'll discuss how to make a plan to vote, what to expect on Election Day and answer your election-related questions.

Sponsored by the Big Ten Voting Challenge and the Michigan Department of State.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:27:10 -0400 2020-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Town Hall Graphic
2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference (October 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78661 78661-20099529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Black Radical Healing Pathways

The 2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference: Beyond Voting is this Saturday, October 24, 2020, from 12 PM to 4:30 PM ET!

Register today at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

With the U.S. general election days away, we’ll have rich conversations all afternoon about how we might reimagine our current democracy. While the theme speaks to a crucial election year where our votes are an explicit argument against white supremacy and anti-blackness, we also know that voting is not the only tool we wield to transform the injustices we are immersed in.

Come! Join in community to learn about what other tools we have. Build relationships, care for ourselves and one another, and dig into how we abolish the systems that bind us to the settler colonial project of white supremacy.

We invite you to visit our website to browse the conference schedule, explore this year’s Beyond Voting theme, and register for the conference at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

Sponsors:
The Carceral State Project
Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee, SSW​
LGBTQ+ Advocates & Speakers Grant, Spectrum Center
Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP)
Rackham Student Government (RSG)
School of Social Work (SSW)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:46:29 -0400 2020-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Black Radical Healing Pathways Conference / Symposium Multicolored text on a yellow background with a black, red, and green raised fist on the far left. Text reads from top to bottom, centered down the page: (in black) Building Power Against White Supremacy 2020, (in kelly green) Beyond Voting!, (in red) Saturday, October 24 at 12 PM - 4:30 PM EDT, (in green) Register + More Info: (in black) https://tinyurl.com/BPAWS20, Keynote Speaker Danielle Atkinson, Founder & Executive Director, Mothering Justice. Danielle’s headshot shows a smiling brown-skinned black woman with locs that reach just past her shoulders. She is wearing a gold necklace with a lattice-chain pattern, with a black shirt underneath white floral sweater featuring large-scale blooming flowers of blood red, cloud white, and blush pink peppering her sweater.
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (October 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78829 78829-20131189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the first class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

The first class will frame the trajectory of our four-week course before moving on to address the impact of the Watts rebellion on state violence. It situates the Watts rebellion as a key turning point that led to increasingly militant Black activism as well as the militarization of police, expanded surveillance, and the promulgation of “copaganda” that built off of growing calls for “law and order” and reinforced and expanded hyper-policing and the criminalization Black urban communities, residents, and politics in the 60s, including in Detroit.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg (Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. His work deals with the intersection of Black labor, urban and social movement history, with a particular focus on Detroit (where he is from). He is currently writing a biography of General Baker and is on the board of the General Baker Institute.)
- Max Felkner-Kantor
- Baba Charles Simmons
- Will McClendon

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:40:08 -0400 2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78832 78832-20131196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the second class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

This class addresses grassroots efforts to organize against police crimes and abuses during the 1970s. In particular, we will examine Detroit’s anti-STRESS movement, the rise of “community policing” during the Young and Bradley administrations in Detroit and L.A., and the relationship between the violence of deindustrialization, austerity, and globalization, community policing, and the rise of the carceral state.

(Speakers TBA - please check our website for further information)

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:46:20 -0400 2020-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78833 78833-20131197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the third class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

This session discusses the War on Drugs, federally funded gang initiatives, and the expansion of the prison-industrial complex. We will explore the cost of the War on Drugs, grassroots efforts against violence in Black communities, and the relationship between police escalation, anti-Blackness, and drug criminalization and the Los Angeles rebellion and the DPD’s murder of Malice Green in 1993.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg
- Yusef Shakur
- Additional speakers TBA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:50:05 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78834 78834-20131198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the last class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

The last session will recap the previous three courses before expanding our definition of state violence and violence beyond formal “policing.” Using local examples, our speakers will address how the elite elide democracy as a means to profit off of Black people while punitively blaming them for conditions externally imposed upon them. These containment and policing schemes endanger Black lives and futures, and force the poorest urban residents to subsidize the cost of welfare capitalism and gentrification.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg
- Claire McClinton (Squeeky)
- Additional speakers TBA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:54:36 -0400 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (February 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81911 81911-20988917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Racism has been declared a public Health emergency, but this has been given little analytic content. "Structural racism and public health: A way forward?" takes up this challenge. Professor Peter Hammer explores the relationship between spatial-structural racism and the social and economic determinants of health. Water shutoffs in Detroit are taken as a case study. Monica Lewis Patrick, Dr. Nadia Gaber and Dr. Emily Kutil lift up the work of the We The People of Detroit Community Research Collaborative. They will discuss the geography of water shutoffs in Detroit, including new research about how shutoffs have shaped the COVID-19 pandemic. Martina Guzman, the Damon J. Keith Civil Rights Center Racial Equity Media Fellow provides a global perspective juxtaposing water shutoffs in Detroit and South Africa.

Suggested reading:

Redlining and Neighborhood Health, https://ncrc.org/holc-health/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:27:41 -0500 2021-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (February 12, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-02-12T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (February 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81921 81921-20990901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:17:27 -0500 2021-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (February 19, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (February 26, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-02-26T10:30:00-05:00 2021-02-26T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Meet N' Eat: Local Leaders & Housing Access and Affordability (February 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82228 82228-21058460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Access to affordable housing is both a local and global issue. Join us from 12-1pm on February 26, 2021 to learn about how local leaders have been responding to the housing crisis in Washtenaw County during the COVID pandemic.

Bring your lunch and questions to engage with the presenters from local nonprofits.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:36:16 -0500 2021-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual flyer with february at the top and event details below on a gray background
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81923 81923-20990903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:34:49 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 5, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-05T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81924 81924-20990904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:35:38 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 12, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-12T10:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 19, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-19T10:30:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic (March 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82046 82046-21012682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:35:10 -0500 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Poverty Doesn't Pause: Housing Insecurity During a Pandemic
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (March 26, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Storytelling, Social Change, and You! (March 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82255 82255-21060455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Are you passionate about positive social change? Come share your story with other students, and hear from others as we learn how to get involved and create a better world. Whether you’re engaged on campus, in your home community, or you’re still exploring ways to get connected, join us! Your stories are important, and can be important points of connection.

*Please not that this event time is in EST*

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:16:35 -0500 2021-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Social / Informal Gathering Connect with others through the power of your own story!
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 31, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81926 81926-20990907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:33:25 -0500 2021-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 2, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-02T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 9, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-09T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
Semester in Detroit Winter 2021 Office Hours (April 16, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81914 81914-20990895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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Reception / Open House Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:27:48 -0500 2021-04-16T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Reception / Open House Background picture with miscellaneous office items including a keyboard, plant, phone and cup of coffee with the words "come to Semester in Detroit's office hours!" over it
PROTEST: Justice for Daunté Wright (April 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83789 83789-21524504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Association of Black Social Work Students

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

Purpose

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

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

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

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

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Rally / Mass Meeting Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:43:49 -0400 2021-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Association of Black Social Work Students Rally / Mass Meeting Justice for Daunté Wright protest flyer
So Cool So Just (September 14, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85198 85198-21625711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 11:00am
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Since 2012, the So Cool So Just involvement fair has created space for students seeking opportunities to get involved on campus, build community, and learn about activities and programs related to social change.

We are planning for an in-person event on Tuesday, September 14th from 11 AM - 1 PM on the Diag. Tablers will also share information virtually. We look forward to seeing you there!

The So Cool So Just (SCSJ) Organization Fair is hosted by the Community Action and Social Change (CASC) Undergraduate Minor and the Ginsberg Center.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 07 Sep 2021 15:31:31 -0400 2021-09-14T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Ginsberg Center Fair / Festival So Cool So Just flier - contact scsjplanningteam@umich.edu for more info