Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (September 29, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76354 76354-19709152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration: http://myumi.ch/4pNwx

"In times of turmoil and transformation—a locked-down present and an uncertain future—how do artists share wisdom and experience? How do they foster growth? As a vocalist singing in multiples languages, as a composer straddling genres and styles, as a musician playing instruments whose histories span continents and centuries, and as a dancer and writer of compelling grace and power, Jen Shyu transforms wisdom from masters and stories gathered from communities around the world into fresh and original expressions. Her work off the bandstand focuses on fighting inequity and helping create new mentorship networks" (Larry Blumenfeld). During this session, Shyu will also perform new works composed during the lockdown period that are centered around quarantine as well as the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho.

Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Hermitage Artist Retreat, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:33:15 -0400 2020-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 2020-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Livestream / Virtual Jen Shyu, photo credit Steven Schreiber
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (October 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77479 77479-19875774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Registration required: http://myumi.ch/xmX0z

In this session, Cardona Otero will depart from his most recent performance art piece, Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen, to engage in a conversation about his work in the arts and in education. In Cardona’s words: “I’m a work in progress. As well, more and more I am understanding my performative art and pedagogy as works in progress. I am affected by this pandemic racism, this antiblackness, this sexism, and this state of white supremacy; and this infection affects what and how I craft and enact.”

Javier Cardona Otero is a performing artist, critical educator, and facilitator of art experiences as education. His artistic scholarship, which has been presented throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States, seeks to critically investigate sociocultural capitals particularly regarded to issues of race, gender, and the environment. His work is interdisciplinary and intersectional, focusing on art-making as research and embodied artwork as pedagogy. Currently, Javier is a Curriculum and Instruction PhD student in the Arts Education Program at Indiana University-Bloomington.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:24:50 -0400 2020-10-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-10-13T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Livestream / Virtual Javier Otero
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
RESCHEDULED: The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Tommy Orange (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72820 72820-20058231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Department of Native American Studies presents The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: A Conversation with Tommy Orange, award-winning, New York Times Best-selling novelist.

The Berkhofer Lecture is scheduled for Friday, November 6th, 2020, at 7:00 pm on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97486211859

Tommy Orange is the author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever explored – the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best books of the year and won the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemingway Award. There There was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland California.

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.

For more information on this speaker please visit www.prhspeakers.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:28:33 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tommy Orange
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Decolonizing Thanksgiving (November 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78779 78779-20154720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites the campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues through the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

This session will specifically focus on conversations pertaining to decolonizing thanksgiving. Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:03:56 -0400 2020-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
The Arab and Muslim Vote In Focus: How Arab and Muslim Americans Voted and What the Results Mean (December 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79535 79535-20373072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

A conversation on the recent elections with Ali Harb (Middle East Eye), Adbulkader Sinno (Indiana University), Dawud Walid (CAIR) & Fatema Haque (Rising Voices) Moderated by Prof. Khaled Mattawa

December, 4 2020 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Please register in advance for the event.

This event is free and open to the public.
A Q&A will take place after the conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:49:28 -0500 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS
Ethnic Studies Sub-Major Open House (February 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81960 81960-20996860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Are you interested in the intersections of race and ethnicity in American Culture? Come to our info session NEXT THURSDAY from 3pm-4pm to hear more about AC's new Ethnic Studies Sub-Major!

Register here: tinyurl.com/10zx91fk

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Reception / Open House Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:32:42 -0500 2021-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Reception / Open House Ethnic Studies Sub-Major Open House
Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
Watch Party & Discussion: Gabrielle McLeod, Detroit’s ‘Queen of Jit’ (February 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82094 82094-21034703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/DaringDances/Live
On Zoom: https://myumi.ch/VPVw7

Daring Dances and the Center for World Performance Studies team up to premiere two short videos featuring Gabrielle McLeod, Detroit’s ‘Queen of Jit’. The watch party will start with a dance tutorial commissioned by Daring Dances as part of the "Daring Dances for Surviving and Thriving" series. After participants have had the chance to work up a sweat, and work out some footwork, we'll follow with a short video of curator Clare Croft interviewing Queen Gabby, created as part of the CWPS “Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement” series, and have an opportunity for Q&A with Clare Croft and Gabby McLeod, moderated CWPS Graduate Fellow J’Sun Howard.

An acclaimed dancer and choreographer from Detroit, Queen Gabby is an ambassador and tradition-bearer for her hometown dance style. She teaches, performs and competes internationally, and iis known throughout the Midwest for her amazing footwork.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:42:46 -0500 2021-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Gabby McLeod
Alt-Ac Track: Job Searching & Opportunities Outside of and Adjacent to Academe (February 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81961 81961-20996861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This webinar is designed to provide information for humanities graduate students seeking knowledge about different career paths and possibilities for Ph.D. holders.

Friday, February 26th, 2020, 4:00-5:30 PM
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/AdjacenttoAcademe

Hosted by Professor Umayyah Cable and featuring four panelists:

Anne Cong-Huyen is Senior Associate Librarian and Digital Scholarship Strategist at the University of Michigan Library, and faculty in the Digital Studies Institute. She was previously the Digital Scholar and Coordinator of the Digital Liberal Arts Program at Whittier College, and a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a co-founder of #transformDH, serves on the steering committee of HASTAC, the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus, and is a member of the Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM) collective.

Devin O'Hara is Associate Director, Data Engineering for ITHAKA, the parent organization of JSTOR.org. He, his husband, their cat, and a too-large collection of books are recent transplants to Ypsilanti, MI from New York City.

Laura Portwood-Stacer, the founder of ManuscriptWorks.com, is a self-employed developmental editor and publishing consultant for academic authors. She is the author of THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK: A GUIDE FOR SCHOLARLY AUTHORS, forthcoming this year from Princeton University Press.

Emily Raymundo earned her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California in 2017. She has held research fellowships at Dartmouth College and the University of Manchester (UK). She is currently an instructor in English at a private boarding high school in MA.

Sponsored by the Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:46:51 -0500 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Alt-Ac Track: Job Searching & Opportunities Outside of and Adjacent to Academe
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

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

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

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
Reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83156 83156-21282858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:37:31 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS, HIKAYAT & ANAM PRESENT
Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury (April 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82620 82620-21147746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

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

Register here: tinyurl.com/ZorroLatinxSuperhero

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:17:44 -0500 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
The Beauty of Your Face (April 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82538 82538-21116089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Novelist Sahar Mustafa to read from and discuss her novel The Beauty of Your Face, W. W. Norton, 2020. The novel has been assigned in some AMAS courses and will be the April selection for the Muslim Student Association book club.
The workshop will be open to the public.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:19:30 -0500 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion The Beauty of Your Face
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
Ziibimijwang Farm: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty (April 14, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83685 83685-21454208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Guest Speaker: Joe Van Alstine - Chair of the Board of Directors, Ziibimijwang, Inc.

Discussants (from the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum):
David Michener - Curator
Jeremy Moghtadar - Campus Farm Program Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DFmTFvx2S62udpTJsgDvqA

Ziibimijwang Farm is helping restore food sovereignty for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and other communities throughout the northern Great Lakes region.

What opportunities and benefits are there for Native American Tribes and Communities in operating a sustainable, community-based farm? What are the challenges associated with this approach and how can they be successfully managed? How can collaboration with tribal and non-tribal institutions, such as the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, help promote Ziibimijwang’s mission?

Please join us as Joe Van Alstine will discuss ways in which Ziibimijwang is working to provide a reliable food source for tribal community members independent of the larger food system, encourage healthy eating, and enhance people’s knowledge of how to raise their own food.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum
UM Office of Research
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
UM Office of Government Relations
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:16:20 -0400 2021-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Nji Kchi-Nshinaabe’baniik Gdish-Chigemi Wi (We Do This for the Ancestors): The Basics of NAGPRA (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83684 83684-21454206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Panelists:
William Johnson - Ziibiwing Center of Anishinaabe Culture & Lifeways, Interim Director
Veronica Pasfield - Bay Mills Indian Community NAGPRA Designee
Amadeaus Scott - UMMAA NAGPRA Collections Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_agbr9WzoQaGnCxSfAc_YQQ

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) created a federal legal process for the return of Native American human remains and cultural items to Native American Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. However, the work that museums and tribes complete together can also be used as an opportunity to create good and lasting relationships that extend beyond NAGPRA.

How can museum best practices and traditional tribal knowledge work together in mutually beneficial ways? How can transparency and mutual respect forge productive relationships between tribes and museums? How can future collaborations emerge as a result of the personal and professional relationships that are developed?

The panelists will provide a basic overview of NAGPRA compliance through a consideration of both the tribal and museum sides of the process. They will also draw from practical experience to show how indigenous knowledge and teachings can help inform and improve professional methods of care and an understanding of the best practices of museums.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Office of Government Relations
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Office of Research
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:43:24 -0400 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster